April 2008
Preacher and the Knife →
Watch out, we’re mad for Preacher and the Knife after finally seeing them play on Saturday. Just warning you now. Check out their website for fantastic tracks that will kill you d-e-a-d. And really, you must see them play immediately. Or, well, as soon as humanly possible.
S/FJ: IF IT MAKES YOU WANNA MOVE, THEN MOVE →
Sasha Frere Jones makes Muxtapes. Hilarity ensues.
This morning on the C train, a guy got on at 14th Street who looked a lot like Tim Harrington. He was reading Cinefantastique!
Studio B Adds Rooftop Bar; Neighbors Already... →
Hah! I find this mildly hysterical. Studio B already reminded me of Austin’s east side hinterland bars…only bigger. Great. Palm trees and razorwire…only without a taco truck. It kind of sucks that you’ve got to go back to Metropolitan for 3am tamales, doesn’t it?
How to sing like a planet: Scientists say the... →
Other Music Digital: The Mekons Story →
The Mekons Story is back in print; downloadable version is available from the Other Music digital store. Awesome.
“Except the Long Blondes had something Elastica didn’t: frontwoman Kate...”
– village voice > blogs > Status Ain’t Hood > The New Long Blondes Album Kind of Sucks Jeez, you’d think that like, professional music critics would do enough research to know that one of the dudes in the band, Dorian Cox, writes most of the lyrics. The entry continues apace,...
Joe Feeney, ‘Lawrence Welk Show’ Singer, Dies at... →
“Q: You’re critical of the Beatles. Do you really hate them?
A: I don’t want to...”
– John Waters in DETAILS
“In a study of pop songs, sociologists from the University of Colorado concluded...”
– Free Will Astrology : Gemini Horoscope I love it when my horrorscope from Rob Brezny is both relevant and irrelevant at the same time.
Dolly Parton Wants You to Wear Her Mascara! →
Because we would so wear Dolly Parton’s mascara. “Too much make-up, too much hair, the big boobs…” This scenario sounds kind of familiar.
And Then Some Bows in Boerum Hill →
Menswear! But did you the see the sofa? It’s like the original version of Cindy’s Hunting Season handbag.
Loan crisis hurts Brooklyn renters, too →
A slice of real life. We live in Bed-Stuy, in the prime area of Brooklyn’s “brownstone belt” (god, I hate realtorese). Every day, we watch the “for sale” signs go up, and I read foreclosure and pre-forclosure notices out of some misguided fantasy that I could ever afford to mortgage a home like the one we rent half of. For the past few months, we’ve been...
Miss Badu, can I be in your club even though I'm a...
“I’m late all the time. I have no perception of time. Time is for white people. It doesn’t work with me.” — Erykah Badu.
a boy's life →
How can you not love Pete Wentz’s blog?
Sewing machines are back in fashion - Telegraph →
I’ll belive it when I see it. I already live in mortal fear of every slattern hipster girl deciding that she can be a “fashion designer” because she owns a sewing machine and knows how to use it (badly). We’ll not talk about the fact that I own an Elna and have issues concerning vintage patterns that rival my issues with yarn. Additionally, this article mentions...
One for the potential band name file: 40 Barrels... →
Interpol + The National, together at last →
Interpol, The National, and The Kissaway Trail (Bella Union) play the Miles Davis Hall on Mercredi (Wednesday) 16 juillet at the Montreux Jazz Festival. This is fucking awesome. Show starts at 20h30. Pity we can’t be there. Technically, this bill should be illegal. Bring some Kleenex. Demande d’info: cliquez ici!
“I love love love small record stores, spent way too much of my youth in them,...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones
“Musicians have always had to struggle and make sacrifices for their art. In...”
– Frank Furedi on the UK’s Music Manifesto, a truly bizzare government and corporate-sponsored cultural initiative that seems to only exist to make everyone involved feel better about themselves, and not actually serve any truly pressing need. The truth about music | spiked
I’m not sure what’s up with Janet Maslin’s review of Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon — and the Journey of a Generation. It seems like she’s saying, “I know what you’re thinking — this book sounds embarassing and painfully trite! And it is! But it’s okay, because there’s an astute observations...
Girls Aloud's Nicola Roberts schills foundation... →
“For as long as she could remember, Nicola has had to cover herself in colours that were a shade darker than her super-fair skin.” Well duh. Even though this is souffle foundation, something’s telling me it ain’t MAC. It looks like Benefit masquerading as the Fafi line.
The Virgins in Vogue Hommes International... →
This would approach hotness if it…well…if it worked. Musically, the Virgins are merely OK. The kind of stuff that the industry would have filtered out on our behalf in the era before music blogs. However, here, they come off as self-conscious C-list rent boys from Wilde as photographed by Merlin Bronques. Yeah, yeah, barf, barf. The sad thing is that Terry Richardson did these...
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“You can’t roll a joint on an iPod - buy vinyl!” — Shelby...”
– RECORD STORE DAY Check out Record Store Day activities in yr. town. Highlights in NYC include rockstar djs at Other Music and up-and-comers at Soundfix. [Related, this NYT article on NYC’s remaining record shops, including the belovedly odd Downtown Music Gallery.] Austinites, swing by End of...
Prepping Children for the 9 to 5 - New York Times →
“This generation has been spoon-fed self-esteem cereal for the past 22 years,” he said. “They’ve been told it’s all about them — what they want, what they are passionate about, what they find fulfilling.” Yay. A too-short explanation of the culture clash of the work place. A job is a job. Do the thing you do so that you can afford to do the thing you love. I am so over people’s jobs...
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snowden — anti anti (treasure fingers rmx) ...
“My scientists told me that the perfect song length had to be closer to three...”
– Two Minutes and 42 Seconds in Heaven by Joshua Allen - The Morning News
