January 2010
41 posts
dontforgetthecoffee:
missmeggiemac:
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Pretty Goes with Pretty: Intro to Tennis, Indie... →
You, my dear readers, are all so good at arguing over Pitchfork lists, yet so terrible at discussing tennis. So I’ve helped you by converting the Australian Open into a Pitchforkian Battle of the Bands. Federer is Radiohead. Roddick is Wilco. And the other remaining 14 players you may not be not familiar with are Battles, Dirty Projectors, and so on. Now you have no excuse but to choose your...
Pretty Goes with Pretty: Here's Where the... →
Part three: in which my totally anal side takes over and I start organizing my krautrock obsession so I can better obsess. If you’ve ever wondered how all the myriad krautrock acts relate to each other, this might be a good starting point.
Songs included:
Can: Father Cannot Yell Holger Czukay: Boat-Woman-Song Amon Düül II: Burning Sister Embryo: You Don’t Know What’s Happening...
Pretty Goes with Pretty: Where Did It Go From... →
Part two: in which I develop an appetite for ambient, electronica, and krautrock. Old and new stuff.
Songs included:
Cluster: Soweisoso Raymond Scott: Sleepy Time Silver Apples: Program The Bug: Freak Freak Oneohtrix Point Never: Hyperdawn Emeralds: Up In the Air White Rainbow: Major Spillage
Pretty Goes with Pretty: How Did It Start? →
The posts at Pretty Goes with Pretty this week were meant to be read as a kind of trilogy, though I wasn’t so fast about getting them all up. Here was the first - in which I find myself disgruntled with indie rock and realize I need to look elsewhere.
Songs included:
Bear in Heaven: You Do You The For Carnation: Moonbeams Mountains: Choral
dontforgetthecoffee:
Simon & Garfunkel -...
Confidential to andrewtsks:
The Spider-man/HypnoLoveWheel thing happened in the late 80s. HLW’s bassist Dan Cuddy’s day job was… working for Marvel as an editor for Spider-man.
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 20, 2010 | Lonnie...
“It started with burning out on everyone’s end of year/end of decade lists, which...”
– Pretty Goes with Pretty: How Did It Start?
In which I wrestle with my current state of genre fatigue.
(Thanks to bwall05 for the reblog)
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 18, 2010 | Don...
“I think the two biggest things happening around then that got me going were from...”
– Kieran Hebden (via piercethenight)
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 17 2010 |...
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 16, 2010 | Sam...
dontforgetthecoffee:
unbuttonedrenegade:
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exspectator:inthefade:
At the Drive In - One...
“The novel is an inexhaustible form, and no matter what the pessimists say, it’s...”
– Paul Auster, via @parisreview.
Amen.
(via langer)
I don’t know, he got pretty close to killing it with Brooklyn Follies.
(via distorte)
Seriously hilarious quote coming from a guy who’s made a career of writing the same novel over and over again. What horrific tragedy is your protagonist...
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 15 2010 | Os...
dontforgetthecoffee:
The Remains - Time of Day
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 11, 2010 | Brian...
britticisms:
“Kamera Song” by The Inner Space
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Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 10 | Lefty...
Today’s vinyl haul at the flea market:
Phil Ochs: Tape from California Easybeats Greatest Hits Byrds: Untitled Chad & Jeremy: Distant Shores
Total price: $14
However, I don’t have a functioning turntable. Thus I felt it necessary to make a cd haul at Amoeba:
Harmonia: Deluxe Ash Ra Temple’s first album Wire: Pink Flag
Stoked for all of this.
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 9, 2010 | Cat...
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 8, 2010 | Low:...
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 7, 2010 |...
towerofsleep:
warfordium:
Philip Jeck -...
If it's January of an even-numbered year, we must...
maura:
Already steeling myself for The Great AnCo Debate Of 1/11, you guys.
Seriously. Seems like the sux/rulz debate would be a lot less interesting this time around but thus far people seem game as ever.
I’m having an adverse reaction to indie rock right now. I don’t mean that in a snarky way—I’m truly exhausted by a lot of it and especially by a lot of what/how...
Baby T. Advent Calendar, January 6 2010 |...
Baby T. Advent Calendar: January 5, 2010 | The...
“This blog project - which, like all blog projects, is as likely to fail as...”
– It Took Seconds
It wouldn’t be January if there weren’t new, ambitious blogs (in this case, courtesy the always enjoyable Tom Ewing).