May 2013
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apcalvin:
Yo, Julia Brown and all the bands last night were incredible. It was great to meet a bunch of new cool people. Daniel and Jake and all them were just great to hang out with.
MY BOYYYYYYY
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faganchelsea:
[massive snip]
all that to say, get over it. or go to another website, maybe one that uses a holier-than-thou kickstarter (and fails miserably) to fund its content because it wants to pretend like the idea of taking money for ads and paying a decent wage — something media has been doing pretty much since its inception — is a slap in the face to creativity.
ugh.
I can’t...
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deadgirlfriends:
Shout outs to Jake Cleland, secretly James Brooks’s favourite interviewer of all time.
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New Oz Music: Midnight Juggernauts, East Link, You... →
New Australian music from all around.
This week’s column includes mild words about New York and half-hearted cynicism about the homogenisation of Australian indie rock.
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The Music Writer's Code
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If, when casually speaking with someone, you state an idea about a new record that your conversation partner might also be reviewing, you realize that this person might steal your idea for his/her review. If you are worried about your idea being stolen, you don’t share it in private conversation but rather write it down somewhere in public view first, so the fact that it is “your...
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squeela:
Remember Gawker relationship columnist Tionna Smalls? She’s gonna be doing her thing on an MTV show - and yes, it is called “Girl, Get Your Mind Right!”
Jeremy we gotta watch this. #girlcode
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People I Saw in the Pitchfork Office Today
jamiesoncox:
markrichardson:
http://printedinternet.tumblr.com/
http://jamiesoncox.tumblr.com/
http://theremixbaby.tumblr.com/
http://jakec.tumblr.com/
http://airgordon.tumblr.com/
http://contrarybritt.tumblr.com/
Day 1 of From URL to IRL: Internetpalooza.
The reblog is coming from inside the Blog House.
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There’s a scene in Studio 60 in which Harriet Hayes attempts to tell a joke but physically can’t. That is how I am with (verbally) telling stories. I can’t do it. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t. I will think of a good and relevant story to tell you, which you will find so fascinating, and then I will forget all of the names of the people, locations, and events and...
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“And yet Sams apparently doesn’t realise that the outmoded rockist bent of...”
– Had some choice words for people still asking about women in rock and roll.
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April 2013
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“A girl once told me the most intimate thing you can do with another person is...”
– I wrote about a band called Client Liaison and dancing in dark rooms in front of other people and why the default mode of out-guessing a performance is not always in one’s best interest.
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“The band simply doesn’t possess the energy or conviction to qualify their...”
– Sylvester wasn’t the only one to call out Razorlight for their limp impression of The Strokes but I wonder if he’s seen the Mighty Boosh episode where Razorlight are out in the desert searching for their “new sound.”
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Nick Sylvester is as well known for his vicious lack of mercy as he is for his incomparable (literary) style, but this review of Insterstella 5555, which he apparently likes more than anything else Daft Punk have ever done, really nails it. Most of what I’ve read (and loved) of Sylvester’s has been overwhelmingly negative (his review of Daft Club is a vitriolic masterpiece) but I think...
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“I dunno why it seems suddenly trendy to conceptualize “punk” in 2013 as if it...”
– No kidding.
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Hey if any of you in New York are going Record Store Day Shopping and you happen to see Titus Andronicus’s new 12” single and you buy it for me, not only will I pay you back in person in about two and a half weeks, I will give you a kiss (location of your choice; must be above the clavicle).
(Probably you should tumblr message me if yr doing so because as much as I love TA I...
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I reviewed the new Fall Out Boy record! It was good in some parts and less good in other parts.
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Sometimes, in a particular mood, a certain thought will strike me - not one of real importance or brilliance or even relevance for anyone other than myself - and I will become fixated on this thought trying to determine whether it’s worth putting into a tweet. At this point I can’t move on from the thought because I’m experiencing the paralysis of indecision, I lose focus on...
