July 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
The New Pornographers (143)
Robyn (61)
Stars (43)
Beulah (33)
Rilo Kiley (28)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
June 2010
WatchPulp — Mis-Shapes
Today’s theme song.
“In destroying any hiding place where music may once have loitered, the internet...”
– The Quietus | Features | 2010 A Glass Half Full | Shiver Into Existence: Cold Waves And Minimal Electronics
Rawktumblr: Altered Zones Pros/Cons →
* Genuinely weird music that, importantly, isn’t looking for more promo gets further co-opted by the blogosphere sub-mainstream hive-mind: CON
Um. Does anyone besides me feel truly unsettled by this statement? I mean, I’m sure this will lead to a discussion of poseurs and “trying too hard.” But here’s the thing:
1) Most bands want people to hear their music. Really, I...
The Matador at Twenty-One festival in Las Vegas... →
perpetua:
Best label, best line-up. Hopefully they can get Liz Phair and Interpol on this thing to account for all the big guns, and pull Helium out of retirement for a day.
Is it too much to hope for Pizzicato Five? Bettie Serveert?
I mean, you know me, I hate nostalgia, festivals, and group activities like whoa!, but this is serious business. If I can swing it, I’m gonna be there.
...
WatchRobyn — Hang with Me (Live on CapitalFM)
Just don’t fall recklessly, heedlessly in love with me — cause it’s gonna be all heart break, blissfully painful in insanity, if we agree …
tylercoates:
leoncrawl:
This has to stop! What the hell, everyone? Nostalgia, especially nostalgia for charming products that used to exist, doesn’t become OK just because you can suddenly rent a car or whatever.
It’s one thing for bands like Wavves and Real Estate to be “nostalgic” for the 90s by making actual art that’s inspired by things that happened then, and another to just like, list...
“On a first album an artist often has a lousy job, lives in a lousy building,...”
– Dirty Fun - Band’s Midnight Evolution - NYTimes.com (via perpetua)
I totally wanted to Tumbl this last night, but was too hot to think. Naturally, Mr. Perpetua beat me to it.
As an aside: I went to a lot of shows drunk and unhappy between 1998 and 2006. I have no shame in telling you that I was...
“The opening number, “Populism, Yea, Yea!,” sets the tone just like...”
– ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’: The Best Original Musical of the Theater Season — RollingStone.com
Jeez, who knew that Peter Travers (of all people, PETER TRAVERS?!?!), would FINALLY make this connection? FINALLY. (Seriously, I’ve read every review of this show. Or, okay,...
See You In The Pit -- SXSW 2005 Preview: Voxtrot →
Shannon wrote this. March 4, 2005! It seems like a lifetime ago. I am not by nature a nostalgic person, but I guess I am today.
Voxtrot Singer Ramesh Srivastava Looks Back Before... →
Just another marker for the end of an era.
My favorite Voxtrot show? The Valentine’s Day party in 2006. Magical.
“A burnout, for those who don’t know, is a hot rod trick that involves stepping...”
– In which a warehouse space in Bushwick is revealed to be not all that dissimilar to my high school’s smoking patio.
(via maura & leon)
The fuck? Look, assholes. I don’t mean to be a sour, unfun bitch or anything, didn’t dig the indie rock trenches for ten-plus years so that you...
“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an...”
– Ezra Pound
“For me, loving somebody involves an element of unapproachability.”
– -Ryan Dombal (via seanfennessey)
Love this article. I agree with this quote in context, but as a general principle I feel like— especially in New York, especially in pop music— people waste a lot of effort cultivating the appearance of unapproachability. (via desnoise)
I promise you, the...
WatchSambassadeur — “I can try”
“Given that you are considered as an independent filmmaker what do you think...”
– Interview: Hal Hartley | The Moving Arts Film Journal
Object lesson in how to answer a dumb interview question. Also: this one’s for the indie music kids. I know a lot of you have already internalized this message, but you know … this is me telling you to pay attention to Mr....
Windsor for the Derby — Queen of the Sun [download mp3]
WELL I’M GLAD I FOUND OUT SOMEWHERE THAT WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY HAS A NEW RECORD OUT. I guess I fell off the Secretly Canadian mailing list or something.
don't look at me -- i just work here, man.
pitchforkreviewsreviews:
on the song Blessa by Toro Y Moi, Chaz sings, “i got a job, i do it fine / not what i want, but still i try” — we are a generation taught not to settle for a job we don’t want, taught that anything was possible for us, and a lot of us still believe that (read the new york times magazine piece about it from like two weeks ago, it’s one of the The Way We Live Now columns,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →
The xx (26)
Robyn (22)
Nada Surf (19)
Drake (14)
Emmylou Harris (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
HA! This is extremely accurate. I am oddly obsessed with The xx again.
“I’ve been creative from the word “go.” I never actually thought “when I grow up...”
– Designer Katy Eary, who is probably my favorite up-and-comer. (via JC Report | Katie Eary’s Fan-Funded Womenswear)
I know, it’s cheesy, but seriously, I can’t help but wonder how many other young artists (across many genres) feel this way about Sensation. To say it changed my entire...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
Tracey Thorn (9)
Stars (4)
First Aid Kit (2)
The Antlers (2)
The National (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
That’s what I get for listening to the last.fm radio. I MISS YOU LALA. I AM LOST WITHOUT YOU.