December 2010
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Pink (58) My Chemical Romance (52) Robyn (26) Rihanna (25) Echo & The Bunnymen (20) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Wait just a minute, Internet.
How come none of you told me that the opening track on R. Kelly’s Love Letter (er, “Love Letter Prelude”) is a honkin’ MADRIGAL?!? Like, straight outta A Midsummer Night’s Dream motherfuckng MADRIGAL?!
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“The hardest thing to do in music is create your own sound, innovate, and still...”
– Andy McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark on why Robyn is “the best music artist in the world right now” in Pitchfork’s Guest List: Best of 2010. That’s just an excerpt, he says much more! (via perpetua) TRUTH.
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Hooves on the Turf: tUne-YaRds // FIYA (by Ray Concepcion) Prompted by Matthew’s pull quote from Mark Richardson’s discussion of Tune-Yards’ ‘Fiya” and Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”, I decided that maybe it was time to finally listen to Tune-Yards. From the beginning, I thought Merrill Garbus’ nom de guerre was so STUPID and juvenile that I...
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bmichael: Seeing Sleigh Bells live, it was really clear they only have these songs. They have no other songs. And I don’t know that they can do more with this sound. In this way, they’re like Ratatat (but better. They’re the Hegelian supersession of Ratatat and pop music, basically).2 So this album will really be a one-off document of the moment when noise pop fucked the mainstream. And it’s a...
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“Dear Sugar, In column #32 you said: “Stop asking yourself what you want, what...”
– (via DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #60: The World Lit By Other People. - The Rumpus.net) BEST. ADVICE. EVER.
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“I do think there are men who would see a girl wearing this stuff and think, ‘She...”
– Blogger’s Fashion Triumph - Deflecting Male Gaze - NYTimes.com God bless the Man Repeller. Dress for yourself, everyone. Wear what makes you happy and makes you feel good about the way you look. That’s my philosophy.
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“A two-page spread in a recent issue of The New Yorker introduced Chrysanthe...”
– Brooklyn, Now the Brand - NYTimes.com … Everything about this article is utterly terrifying. But the pullquote above makes my blood run cold. For reals. (Interesting how this nicely ties into my previous post of one of the census maps of Brooklyn …) Not that I’m against people...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
My Chemical Romance (48) The New Pornographers (27) Pink (27) Daft Punk (22) The Flaming Lips (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz In case it wasn’t clear: YOU GUYS, I REALLY LOVE THE NEW MY CHEM RECORD.
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rocketsandrayguns: hangingfire: New Yorker music critic Alex Ross interviewed by Paul Morley. I would pay good money for a weekly podcast where these two guys review and discuss new pop and classical releases. Hear, hear. (Click the Guardian logo below to watch … for some reason the embed isn’t working. Boo!)
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Yay, I am in The Awl today, in the 100 People's... →
(Thx Maura, for asking me to contribute!) I am not one of the people who picked Kanye’s magnum opus, surprise, surprise! Also, I am on an airplane to Detroit right now, knitting a hat.
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“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen (via muteoilydiscolour)
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