January 2009
88 posts
“The second verse is more of the same as the first verse, except a bit more...”
– Cave 17. › The Most Devastating Moment in Pop Music History…
“Tuesday morning, I received the Golden Ticket of journalistic invitations: a...”
– Dear Chumps: I Have the Coolest Job in the World | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times
“I first noticed that my own Zune, which normally sits docked in a charging...”
– hypebot: Microsoft’s 30G Zune Suffers Massive “2K9” Failure
OMG A BLOGGER WHO I READ REGULARLY JUST CASUALLY ADMITTED TO OWNING A ZUNE.
Unsubscribe.
December 2008
76 posts
Creation: “Making Time” (from the...
postpunk:
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like...
the scintillating cultural observations you are...
maura: all those delicate-flower vocal acts that have 'pristine harmonies' need to get laid and listen to mudhoney for like a month
Josh Ritter, “Wildfires”
This is a...
“Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s 21 December 2008 *
(Hanukkah, night 1)*
Oneida...”
– Jesse Jarnow’s Frank and Earthy Blog: ylt, night 1
That encore sounds pretty fantastic.
tumbledore:
Belle & Sebastian - “The State I...
Just want to say about the Casimer Pascal/Jessamine post I put up earlier - I just read it and it’s a really nice post. Reminded me that I really root for Pas/Cal, even though I was disappointed in I Was Raised….
Pas/Cal is operating in the same territory as Fiery Furnaces and Of Montreal - that is, maximalist pop. It’s a really hard thing to pull off, to be dizzying and crammed...
offnotesnotes:
Jessamine: “Ordinary Sleep”
(via...
Hey look, Sam's on a Drive Like Jehu kick →
raptoravatar:
I alluded to it earlier, but this interview is pretty awesome.
reblogged for future reference.
postpunk:
The Ocean Blue - Vanity Fair
One of...
“I’m imagining myself at 17 and what I’d do if HLLYH! Came into my hands, known...”
– My Year In Music Part II: The National + Abe Vigoda + R.E.M. + The Mae Shi
Nice, meandering (in a good way) post from Sam about three records I think are good but not great and one record I’ve not heard. But this is what blogs should be about - entertaining writing even when the subject is a...
offnotesnotes:
postpunk:
Faust - Jennifer
...
offnotesnotes:
Joel Alme: “I Never Said I Was...
Faust: Lauft.. Heisst Das Es Lauft Oder Es Kommt...
Swan Fungus
Are you all checking this blog regularly? It’s a fairly new discovery for me. Last night dude put up the entirety of Faust IV, which I’d yet to hear. One listen today… it far surpasses Faust and Faust So Far, two records I think are pretty fantastic (especially So Far).
This is the same blog that had a pdf of the entire out-of-print Julian Cope book Krautrocksampler, and who...
britticisms:
via alexagray:
“Here Come the Warm...
I’ve been reading pretty much nothing but Graham Greene novels for the last 18 months or so. You can imagine, then, that I might nitpick this review in the NYT today.
“Don’t make your books any shorter, please,” Graham Greene implored his friend Muriel Spark in a 1974 letter, “or you’ll disappear like Beckett.”
Greene himself didn’t want to disappear, even briefly, from anyone’s radar...
because what the internet really needs right now...
piercethenight:
honestly i almost get personally offended when people talk about this year (or any year) being bad for music. there is no such thing as a “bad year” for any type of art. we’re not harvesting a crop here.
postpunk:
Six Finger Satellite - Pulling A...
Jesus Lizard: 7 vs 8
Man, can we talk more about...
Can anyone point me to a good list of upcoming 09...
The list at metacritic seems incomplete and not totally up to date.
The Power of Pitchfork?
Four Tet’s “Ribbons” was among the picks on their list today. I’ve suddenly got all kinds of hits from Hype Machine and Elbo.ws looking for Four Tet mp3. A post of mine from September is getting as much traffic as some of my posts from last week.
““Underneath the Stars”
“Pictures of You”...”
– The Cure conquer the Troubadour in nearly three-hour set | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times
I’d never call myself a huge Cure fan, but if ever I were to see them play, a three-hour set at the Troubador sounds pretty much ideal. I am sure this show was amazing.
So Dr. Evil (How Could You Be) →
rendit:
Great discussion in the offnotesnotes comments on 808s, Vivian Girls, Radiohead, the nature of Pop Music. Ya know, your typical Monday morning quarterback stuff.
I don’t know if it’s because the election is finally behind us or if it’s just a typical slow-down period in everyone’s day jobs, but the caliber of interesting music-related blog posts has gone way up...
Off the Pulse
Just looking at #100-50 on Pfork’s singles list… I’ve heard only five or six of them. Just shows you how good I am keeping up with the new shit. Probably not coincidentally, I’m running my own 50 favorite discoveries series* this week, and I think there are, again, just five or six songs total that come from 2008.
*The only caveat: these are all single downloads that...
Who Killed the Music Business?
postschadenfreude:
offnotesnotes:
When we talk about who killed the music business, I hope people remember to blame TicketMaster before Napster.
I hope people keep the consolidation of the radio industry in mind, too.
I blame music industry executives for being a bunch of assholes and idiots. Another way of saying that is I blame Wal-Mart (part 1, part 2).
britticisms:
Richly layered, it’s not complicated...
Unwound - For Your Entertainment
I haven’t...
This American Life
bmichael:
theengineer:
lovepuppy:
theengineer:
I find it totally unpalatable because it is so, so depressing. I can’t think of a single episode I’ve listened to that hasn’t made me feel ten times worse about the world.
You can’t be serious!?!?
What about:
Notes on Camp
Act V
Who do you Think You Are?
The Ten Commandments
Honestly, even the ones I’ve expected to be upbeat — or have...
Kids in the Hall reuniting for new series →
I just had a heart attack.
My Actual Favorite Record of the Year →
Apropos of all the rampant list-making, horse-racing, navel-gazing, head-scratching, and what-does-music-mean pondering going on right now, I wrote a post on the album that was new to me this year and that I found a real, unbreakable connection with.
Music is meaningful, personal, and essential—something most end-of-year lists can lose sight of in the rush to annoint some new release.