September 2012
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“In the land of the contemporary Londonite hipsters, politics is a meaningless...”
– John Calvert goes to see Skrillex.
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“Music criticism may just have outlived its usefulness,” says Helen Razer,...”
– Wrote a bit about my favourite thing ever and how it’s not really the fault of people who hate music criticism that most of it’s shit.
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“Shade played right before Deep Time. They may have been horrible, they may have...”
– Scott Creney
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pitchfork liked your quote: I mean, I feel totally damaged by the TV show…
Pitchfork Tumblr,
You only ever like my posts when they have something to do with Pitchfork,
At what point does it start to feel like masturbating into a mirror?
When will you just love me for me?
“I mean, I feel totally damaged by the TV show “Frasier”, but I...”
– Can someone explain to me why Kathleen Hanna, or anybody, would feel totally damaged by the TV show “Frasier”?
Readers' Polls
tomewing:
This old column about John Peel, his Festive 50 poll, and his frustration with his own listeners seems relevant to the Pitchfork list. I think it’s inevitable that any widely read zine focusing on new music will have an uneasy relationship with its readers’ tastes.
It’s very interesting reading this and comparing it to the contemporary Australian equivalent, triple j’s...
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Massive oversight, world.
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“Because contrary to what you might imagine about growing up in Australia, a...”
– Clem Bastow is writing at One Week / One Band about AC/DC.
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The Time I Interviewed Zac Hanson.
Quotes from this interview originally appeared in The Big Issue #412.
Where in the world are you right now?
Yeah, “Where in the world is Zac Hanson?” Did they have Carmen San Diego in Australia?
Yeah yeah, back in the early 90s.
I was like “This won’t make sense to him at all.” I’m in Oklahoma, actually.
Home in Tulsa?
Yeah!
To start off: in the mid to late 90s...
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Swung by the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth last night to see the Free Pussy Riot rally. It was more like a gathering, really. Weird folks wandering around outside the post office, aimless. A girl in a bedazzled balaclava clumsily read her protest off an A4 sheet while standing behind rows of the inexplicably but obligatorily present candles. When she called for people to gather for a photo most...
neveralovelysoreal asked: What the hell, I'll play-- Hold Steady references to writers, books, and/or movies
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amelodie replied to your post: Hold Steady references to other musicians?
She said Heavenly was cool, I think they were from Oxford / I only had one single, it was a song about a pure and simple love…He wasn’t just the drummer, he was the singer’s younger brother / I still spin that single, but it don’t sound that simple
You mean that line wasn’t about Jet?
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jhermann asked: Hold Steady references to other musicians?
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taoistdrunk replied to your link: Let’s play Twelve Apostles!
LIFTER PULLER top 8 anything. Songs, recordings, outfits, whatever.
Alright alright! LFTR PLLR!
LIFTER PULLER TOP 8 ANYTHING:
1) “Lake Street Is For Lovers”
2) The first 10 seconds of Japanther’s “Leather Wings” where they sample a line from “Lifter Puller vs the End of the Evening”:...
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monsterpussy replied to your post: Places to be alone
siglo is always packed liar!?
Word, but I meant alone in the way of not being around people you know.
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theremixbaby asked: Places to be alone
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contrarybritt asked: I only know of three things from Australia... the didgeridoo and the dingo, and you. I can't even ask a more pointed question so... how about... top eight famous Australians that you wish non-Australians appreciated. OR WHAT ABOUT TOP EIGHT EPISODES OF NEIGHBOURS. That makes four. God I'm sorry.
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markrichardson replied to your photo: IPA. But actually: 1) Carlton Draught. As an…
Please don’t hate me but I love saying “Australian for beer” in my Paul Hogan accent.
The offending campaign:
I think it’s kind of a shame that nobody in Australia actually drinks Fosters. Other than the whole racism thing there aren’t a lot of stereotypes we properly live up to. True...
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Let's play Twelve Apostles! →
Handsome blogger and tank top-enthusiast Jamieson Cox invented a game called Mount Rushmore in which one is asked by their followers to list their four favourite songs from a certain band, e.g. “Mount Rushmore: Broken Social Scene,” although inventive readers have expanded it pretty far out from bands. So to avoid answering the same stuff as everyone else, here’s the tweak: you...
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onemanbandstand asked: It's actually The American University, in Washington, DC! Home of the Eagles! Once an Eagle, always an Eagle! Caw! Caw!
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A Rough Timeline of a Twitter Discussion Regarding...
Mark posits that young writers are less interested in being critics than they are hanging out with bands.
Tom says the main reasons he thought to be a critic were interviews (hanging out) and freebies.
Eric Harvey says that most bands these days are too “knowable”/boring to fit the “distant/celebrity idol” stereotype.
I don’t think it matters because for the kids...
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different-exotic-fishes replied to your photo: I’m not sure what your first point is meant to…
still tagged it, brilliant.
I hate hate-haters.
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Murphy's Law for Music Editors
markrichardson:
1) If a band is described as a “Chicago-based five-piece,” the keyboard player will leave the night before the review runs, and people will email to say “You are fucking idiots, the band is a four-piece.”
2) If somehow the keyboard player lasts through the night, the band will relocate to Brooklyn before the review runs.
3) The longer a band is in existence and the...
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“With lyrics about shoplifting from Coles and being gangsta against the backdrop...”
– The hazard of writing about local music is that inevitably you get people you know going “Hey man, how was the show last night?” and right as you’re about to tell them to read the review, asshole, they say something that implies they’re close friends with the band. The band...
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“The biggest loss here is to the local regions, whose local bands and venues have...”
– Another member of Australia’s street press bites the dust.
At least with regards to discovery, print is a horrible medium for local bands. Where are you reading street press? At a cafe or on a train, most likely. I’ll stretch to a bar. By the time you’ve reached a condition in...
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“Think she’ll break up with her boyfriend now that his band’s been panned by Pitchfork?”
“Yeah probably. Straight into your arms and you’ll drink red wine together forever.”
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“Somebody has broken The Cure. We wait patiently as their appointed 11:15 stage...”
– The Cure vs Radiohead Live.
rawkblog:
jakec replied to your link: Young and Sexy’s “Better”
i’m sorry, “los campewhatevers” [many, many outraged interrobangs here]
I will hate them and the hyper-emotional brand of indie-pop-ruining indie-pop they represent forever
TEAM BELLE & SEBASTIAN
At some point, we’re going to need to ask ourselves how influential Marc Hogan’s mid-’00s taste in twee wound up being on a...
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Silver Jews
It’s always really confused me that on “Random Rules”, Berman sings, ”I asked the painter why the roads are coloured black / He said ‘Steve it’s because people leave and no highway will bring them back.’” Why Steve and not Dave? Is the painter being a dick and talking through Malkmus? Why isn’t there a RapGenius for rock songs?
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“In songs like ‘Holiday’ or ‘OK’, it’s impossible to tell where irony ends and...”
– Scott Creney on Micachu & the Shapes. 