(via Video: ‘Breaking the Yearling’ | Rolling Stone)
My beautiful friends, staggeringly gorgeous.
I had a dream like this once.
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"We wanted to play our music, but we were told that we couldn’t play. We had to do a collaboration with someone else. And we just felt like it was such a large stage. We’re getting nominated for this record that we made… and all of a sudden we were being asked to play music that had nothing to do with that. We kind of said ‘fuck you’ a little bit and they sort of acted like they wanted us to play, but I don’t think they wanted us to play."
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Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on why his band is not performing at the Grammys. (via pitchfork)
Jesus fucking Christ, Justin Vernon. “My music is precious and special, like meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”
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WAHHH, I ONLY GOT IN THE POSTER, WAHHHHHHHH
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OMG YOU GUYS, I’ve been meaning to post a picture of the giant Grammy ad starring Bon Iver that’s on the back of the JFK/LaGuardia/Newark airport shuttle busses that pick up near my office. I’m totally snapping one next week for posterity. To reiterate: JUSTIN VERNON’S GIANT FACE ON THE BACK OF A BUS!
(Source: billboard.biz, via maura)
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vibrate // rufus wainwright
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I believe I’d forgotten how great this track is. Silly of me! From Want One (2003). (Thanks, Matthew!)
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By Mistake Or Design?
The voice. Lana has three. First, a mannered, coquettish soprano, the musical equivalent of squinching her voice into the cadences of a four-year-old to sound sexy. (That’s a line from a Class Actress review; you could criticize her the same way, but somehow nobody is.) Second, sorority-girl rap, which sounds exactly like it always does. Third, a boozy, dull alto; to borrow another Jukebox line, specifically Michaela Drapes’ description of Zola Jesus’ voice, it’s a cross between a bored lounge singer and “that annoying girl who spends lunch hours in the junior high choir room bleating along tunelessly to Tori Amos, headphones stuffed in her ears, oblivious to the world around her.” None of these three voices are bad; technically, they’re all pretty good. They merely beg the trolled listeners to deploy three very gendered insults: simpering, ditziness and moaning. And Lana has a trick of deploying each of these just when you think anything could be worse than the one currently in use.
The description in that quote is gonna haunt me forever.
Related, still don’t like ZJ, she’s not growing on me — her voice still pains me. I think the Lana Del Rey album is great — but I don’t really have more to throw into this particular fray at present.
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Gretchen Ryan’s BIG GIRL 2 at casa de Courtney Love.
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Zebra Katz - Ima Read feat. Njena Reddd Foxxx
More, please. Weekend plans: choreographing the household voguing routine to this track. Lookout, world.
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Shearwater — You As You Were
(Can’t wait. Can’t wait.)
In case you were wondering how I voted …
EXCITING!!!
(Source: pitchfork)
AIR FT. VICTORIA LEGRAND - SEVEN STARS
[5.55]
Tonaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiight…[…]
Michaela Drapes: Cinema is my first love, even over music and I have a very sentimental attachment to Méliès’ Le Voyage Dans La Lune (I mean, I go out of my way to walk past this NYC landmark as often as I can.) And, naturally, I also can’t help but think of the Smashing Pumpkins’ riff on the same material, which one can hear occasional tiny echoes of here (the smoothly dry and even rhythm bits, easily). It also makes sense to have a guest vocal by Legrand, given her familial connection to one of the greatest soundtrack composers of our time; Air certainly aspires to those lofty heights here, too. This odd mélange of references, which could have crumbled in lesser hands, is certainly potent and successful. Though I’d like to think that I’m too sophisticated to have my head turned by such blatantly tasteful and baroque pop, I’m secretly happy to know that’s not actually true.
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I am really happy with how this blurb came out, y’all.
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Chris Bell: I Am The Cosmos (rec. mid-70s) - from I Am The Cosmos, 1992
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Roxy Music — LOVE IS THE DRUG (TODD TERJE DISCO DUB)
Literally speechless in wonder and amazement.
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