January 2012
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Because I am a white demon I sometimes superficially conflate racism and sexism, most recently in thinking about what’s worse: overt/’loud’ discrimination or insidious/’quiet’ discrimination? On the train up to see Das Racist I wrote down a little thing about the three most interesting acts at the festival I went to the day before (OFWGKTA, Das Racist, Kanye - ALL IN...
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“I don’t sit around thinking about the album all day, although I do sometimes. My...”
– B Michael Payne
Something that’s sort of cool to me but probably nobody else is that a) Kanye was my gateway into hip-hop after Graduation came out and these days I consider him the greatest contemporary artist in popular culture, and b) B was the first writer on Tumblr I really liked and...
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thepriest replied to your photo: Damn. This seems like a good alternative.
Kanye stopped All of The Lights, gave everyone in the crowd permission to say the word and then restarted the song so everyone could sing along. It was… different.
That’s fucking ridiculous. Seeing him tomorrow night, wonder if he’ll do it again. Hope he is enabling racists down the whole coast.
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WatchJames Murphy is in a movie with Tim Heidecker and even though he only has one line in this clip, it’s the best line. I choose to believe that after that scene he runs back and gives the guy a tip and then apologises for his friends’ behaviour before looking at the camera and saying “Hey kids, don’t give in to peer pressure.” and then he winks.
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gifparty:
There’s this Uncanny Valley thing with the new Sleigh Bells video where it straddles a disconcerting line between overtly contrived and genuinely bad acting. “Excellent pantomime is supposed to look idiotic,” Wesley Snipes once astutely observed. From the studded leather gesturing copied from the playbook of Karen O to the Edenic garden scenes where Derek Miller...
Anonymous asked: Every once in a while, you blow my freaking head apart and I despise you for the tremendous gift you have been given (please don't make a dick joke). This "Triple J Top 100" piece is something you ought to submit when you're whoring yourself for writing jobs. Or maybe you already whored yourself impressively enough to score a writing gig the likes of us have never seen. Either...
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Triple J's Hottest 100
Every year in the lead up to Australia Day, Australians vote on the best songs played in the preceding year. Much like political elections, participation is mandatory and non-voters face life imprisonment, so voters spend hours researching their choices and weighing them up against objective metrics and qualitative analysis as well as consulting oracles like their local streetpress and erasers...
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Craig Finn - “New Friend Jesus”
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Sometimes I’ll have a nap around 3 and wake up two hours later to an email from Daniel timestamped 3:07 with some exciting news and I’ll feel bad for not immediately replying before counting my pennies and thinking “Well, I’m not doing anything in the mid-year break, am I?” but maybe I’d like more than three weeks in the most revoltingly overhyped city in the...
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A thing about sincerity and sometimes saying things that feel right but also come off as cheesy when you read them back: the other day I was thinking about how “There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and girls in America, they have such a sad time together,” is a line that I would be self-conscious in writing because referencing Kerouac seems to have been...
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likeapairofbottlerockets replied to your post: Reviewing Pitchfork Reviews: Total Control - Henge Beat by Martin Douglas
this is like the 4th PRR parody i’ve seen at this point
Yeah but at least this one was by request.
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Reviewing Pitchfork Reviews: Total Control - Henge...
This is a guest post by my cousin Johnno. Sorry about the formatting.
oi so me cousin tells me this fuckin martin douglas fella wants his pitchfork reviews reviewed. well i don’t know much about pitchfork ay cept when i use one on me dad’s farm but i’d rather ride the tractor cos i was named after it. my dad’s real proud of his john deere, reckons it’s the best...
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At about 4am we’re all pretty wiped, so everyone is sitting around the room sort of staring into space. Daft Punk’s “One More Time” comes on and the entire atmosphere changes. People start murmuring the words and moving just slightly, not out of self-consciousness, just fatigue. The breakdown hits. I point at Luke: “Celebration. Tonight.” He looks back:...
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About half way through last year I was talking to some people from Triple R about Everett True, because Collapse Board had been running a series of articles about women and music criticism, and one of them said “Oh, he’s still going on about introducing Kurt and Courtney, is he?” and I thought Haha, yeah he does go on about that a bit, doesn’t he?
Then I was reading this...
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Sit Down, SPIN.
This is not a perfect rebuttal but there are some very salient points:
So he leapt to the same conclusion as everyone else: no one is interested in reading folk like him writing about music anymore, because everyone has the same access to music – critic and reader alike. It’s a spurious argument, and one that is based on a single model of music criticism: that of Rock Criticism as a Consumer...
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“The @SPINreviews Twitter feed is a massive undertaking, aiming to be an...”
– Good lord. Not even a hat-tip to Christgau? (via)
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“To quote the late, great John “Bloody” Legend on this...”
– Polaroids of Androids: Rick Ross - Rich Forever
I’m thinking of taking up sculpting so I can make a papier mache simulacrum of Jonny from Polaroids of Androids from printed excerpts of his reviews. They’re that good.
“Let’s start a genre called Enya-wave. Can we make that happen?”
“I’d really like to put Enya to some House beats.”
“You’ve just invented chillwave.”
“Fuck.”
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“Well, it’s a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a...”
– Yeah, nice one Caroline from Chairlift. I mean, with electro-pop you just show up and press a bunch of buttons right? Dee da dee dee doop done, isn’t it?
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“Really, when are you coming to Melbourne?”
“OMG fucking NEVER!”
“Then I’ll just have to come and get you.”
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“then i left, called my girlfriend on the way to the subway, told her about the...”
– David Shapiro, if you’re reading this, you seem like a really nice and polite guy and you’re way good-looking even though the glasses you wear are ridiculously too big and I once asked a girl I liked who she thought was better looking and she said you. I hope she was just negging me but...
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Being "Shapiro."
From “Yeah Yeah Yeahs Get the Last Laugh at Their 10th Anniversary Show”:
“when you are not yet successful and you play at shitholes and make no money, what you want to do is make money and have millions of people love you because it is not fun to toil in obscurity forever, and then once millions of people love you and you make a lot of money it must bother you that no matter...
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Someone fill me in on School of Seven Bells.
In three sentences, what’s the critical backstory on these kids?
"Jesus Fever," Kurt Vile. 132 plays. One weekend... →
marathonpacks:
Pay it forward!
Royal Headache’s “Girls” followed by Fucked Up’s “Queen of Hearts”. I thought I’d be more surprised. The full top ten here:
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Our Abusive Relationship.
“Oh man, I feel bad for not getting into Gang Gang Dance earlier.”
“Meh.”
“Oh shut up, Skrillex boy. Go write something for Thought Catalog about how pretty LMFAO sounds.”
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An image of Skrillex about to let go of a fish with the caption “Check out this sick bass drop.”
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