February 2012
22 posts
Has anyone looked at this list and tried to figure... →
I’m gonna put my money on Bonnie Raitt and Alicia Keys.
It's official.
Just killed my (formerly) main Pretty Goes with Pretty blog. Likewise, just renamed this tumblr Pretty Goes with Pretty. I’m now here 100% of the time, not counting the 50% when I’m on Twitter and the 25% when I’m on Facebook and the 10% when I’m writing about tennis.
Tumblr, I’m with you—I’m all in. I’m all in. Don’t screw it up.
State of My Social Media Feeds, Post-Super Bowl...
Twitter: lots and lots of people riding high horses about possibly fictitious other people who are offended by M.I.A.’s middle finger. No one actually bothered by M.I.A.’s middle finger—a testament to how I curate my twitter feed or an indication of how much of a non-issue this is. One person still tweeting about the game.
Tumblr: one person posting about M.I.A. Everyone else...
“…something new…went to NPR to listen to the new Sharon Van Etten but...”
– In Search Of… - Pretty Goes with Pretty
Help me, I’m bored and want to hear something new.
January Mix - Pretty Goes with Pretty →
Click through for this month’s mix:
Juliana Barwick: Never Change (indie’s Enya, but still good!)
Etta James: Seven Day Fool (RIP)
Disappears: Replicate (Disappears year 3 will clearly be as good or better than years 1 and 2)
Zammuto: F U C-3PO (my first impression was “ELO meets Sung Tongs/Feels-era Animal Collective; PS: Nick Zammuto’s new act has potential to be...
January 2012
35 posts
“For me, it’s some form of intellectually satisfying ecstatic music that I keep...”
– Tim Hecker interview at Resident Advisor
This is really good - he says some very intelligent stuff without sounding too esoteric or bandwagon-jumping; e.g., on Ravedeath
“The record is not about the technology. In some ways it isn’t about anything at all, like an expression of bare composition....
I'm a Librarian
(sitting in a Dallas hotel hallway)
Lady: Are you a librarian?
Me (suspiciously): Yes...
Lady: This is horrible, but I'm going to throw a book away in front of you.
Me: Ok....
Lady: Unless you want it? A guide to Paris?
[lady dumps book into trash can]
Me: You could recycle it!
[lady turns and walks away]
Best Make-a-Wish Ever →
barthel:
“I watch MythBusters and they inspired me to blow a building up,” said the young boy from Fresno, Calif.
Hometown represent.
The best worst real band names of SXSW 2012
rocketsandrayguns:
It’s an annual tradition.
Bubble Puppy
Chet Faker
Dark Dark Dark
E.D.Sedgwick
Fungi Girls
Gay Witch Abortion
Hoodie Allen
Idle Warship
Lana Del Rey
Mord Fustang
Motopony
Not In The Face!!
Owen
Sleepy Vikings
suck piggy
Talking To Turtles
Trampled by Turtles
Uncle Bad Touch
Have to admit Not in the Face!! made me laugh. Possibly the first time ever that a...
rawkblog replied to your post: I Want to Be with You So Bad - Pretty Goes with Pretty
How do you feel about Beulah’s The Coast Is Never Clear?
I haven’t hears that record in a million years. I should revisit.
I Want to Be with You So Bad - Pretty Goes with... →
When I revisited Overcome by Happiness the other day I thought I’d make a “10 best indie pop albums of all time” list, vague as that genre might seem on deeper thought. However, I realized the only reason I wanted to do that was because I wanted to talk about how much I love Overcome by Happiness.
(Okay but what the hell, here’s a list—which I spent three minutes coming up...
“Vile, McCombs, and Granduciel are all part of a traditional songwriters’...”
– Sing to Me Without Opening Your Mouth All That Much - Pretty Goes with Pretty
“Does Harrison have a shot? In a wild, totally unpredictable,...”
– In what is likely a foolhardy move, I’ve restarted my tennis tumblr, Unforced Error.
“He plays as if his fingers refuse to actually stay on the fretboard for more...”
– Train Your Ears in This Direction - Pretty Goes with Pretty
On Mick Turner, the secret weapon of the Dirty Three.
WatchJames Mercer looks like a Mark Eitzel doppleganger.
PS this is the Shins covering Pink Floyd.
PPS I’ve listened to “Simple Song” like eight times today and I have decided that I am really into it, even if it is not much a departure for Mercer.
“The song evolves as it goes, adding counter-melodies, percussion, and more as it...”
– Song in the Form of a Cloud - Pretty Goes with Pretty
And then I almost fell out of my chair
DB: The first Albini record I heard was Songs About Fucking by Big Black when I was 16, so I really haven’t known about him for very long.
It’s this weird sentence where you think it’s gonna end one way, but it actually catches you from the other direction.
Seriously, the War on Drugs are Only a Few Hooks... →
War on Drugs vs Dire Straits
“In this age of washed out indie-ambient acts, it’s a wonder that the band is...”
– In This Analogy Chocolate is Good Songwriting and Peanut Butter is Droning Synths - Pretty Goes with Pretty
Catching up to the War on Drugs.
MIKE SNIPER: An Indie Label in 2012. →
rawkblog:
mikesniper:
I posted a recent Facebook comment regarding our policies with signing artists and found myself getting into a discussion of what the role of an independent label is in 2012, something I’ve oftened been asked about in interviews but have never really been able to elaborate on.
Basically, it started off by requesting that bands don’t send us vinyl LP’s or professionally...