September 2009
“When it came to BBC radio DJ John Peel, taste-making never seemed like a hunt...”
– Pitchfork: Articles: The Decade in News (via desnoise)
This is pretty much why I’ve (gracefully, I hope) exited from the “YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS NOW!” business. Because at the stroke of 2007 (or, that’s when it happened for me), this all became less about thoughtfully...
A very good cause, indeed.
Our very good friend and neighbor, and all around awesome person and badass photographer Aubrey Edwards and music historian Alison Fenerstock are knee-deep in a project archiving the diaspora of New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop musicians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They’d secured a grant to conduct more interviews for the project (which will be exhibited at The Ogden Museum of...
Kronos Quartet — Marquee Moon
I realize I should...
I wish everyone would just STFU about Pavement.
sherry:
Thanks for listening.
totes.
<3 pvb
WatchSally Shapiro — Miracle
Though ephemeral and sweet, Sally Shapiro’s brand of delicate Italodisco never seems to wear thin. This is the second single from their (oft-delayed) second album My Guilty Pleasure, on Paper Bag Records.
xoxo c. hotpoint
Call of the Diner: Florent Rides Again (Sort Of) →
It’s like seeing your sainted aunt tarted up and put out on the corner to earn her keep: Gansevoort 69, the new inhabitant of the venerable old Florent space.
xoxo, c. hotpoint, quietly weeping.
“In our world, there’s a social premium placed on touring. Touring is where...”
– The Long Winters’ John Roderick, on the realities of touring. (via Seattle Weekly)
xoxo c. hotpoint
“In that sense Inglourious Basterds may be the punkest movie I’ve seen in I can’t...”
– Sean T. Collins, excerpted from a brilliant post about Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Nine Inch Nails’ final show in NYC. (via perpetua)
I’ll forgive the fact that Collins had a uh, reading comprehension issue with one of my posts the other day, and reblog this righteous quote....