January 2011
35 posts
Swan Fungus » The Top 100 Albums Of 2010 →
I found a lot of great things on Swan Fungus’ best of 09 list last year, so I’m bookmarking this for listening later.
Brighton Rock | Coming Distractions | The A.V.... →
Being a obsessive nerd for all things Graham Greene, I’ll have to see this as soon as it comes out. Pinky Brown is one of the most despicable characters ever to be written.
December 2010
30 posts
Tangerine Dream: Ultima Thule pt. 1 (from Alpha...
You either love Sofia Coppola or hate her. Here's... →
I fall into the “love” category. Somewhere is a fantastic movie. I’m ambivalent to the idea that it’s about Hollywood, or about wealth. I just loved how quiet the film was, and how quiet all of Coppola’s movies are. People get too hooked on Coppola’s wealth, and whether her movies are just the works of a spoiled girl complaining (how insulting!). I’m not...
“Cooper: Probably my two favorite songs I heard this year are Cat Stevens’...”
– An Imaginary Conversation with My Son on the Best Songs of 2010 - Pretty Goes with Pretty
A (Re)Statement of Purpose - Pretty Goes with... →
Fingers crossed, activity at Pretty Goes with Pretty is finally going to pick back up in 2011. Just to back this up, I’ve even got a couple posts in the bag. And none of them are about the 90s!
grimmertown:
Slowdive “Catch The Breeze” (from...
onehorsetown:
The Beau Brummels - 9 Pound...
Phonica's Top 100 of 2010 →
I’ve never heard of Phonica before, but I’m bookmarking this list because I only know a handful of the records on here, and those I know I really like (discounting that horrific Ariel Pink album). Should I ever have a day or night free for youtubing, I’ll start checking out everything on this list.
100) Guido - Anidea 99) Arp - The Soft Wave 98) Julian Lynch - Mare 97) Moritz...
britticisms:
“Wilhelms Scream” by James Blake
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Anonymous asked: Hello chap, didn't know that a 33 1/3 was out about Spiderland but shall pick it up as soon as I can! I have two questions:
1) In a game of 'what if': what do you think a third Slint LP with PJ Harvey on board would have sounded like? Her first couple of albums have a deeply intimate, scuzzed out thing going on, with a very different end product but, to my ears, a similar...
1) In a game of 'what if': what do you think a third Slint LP with PJ Harvey on board would have sounded like? Her first couple of albums have a deeply intimate, scuzzed out thing going on, with a very different end product but, to my ears, a similar...
“As someone who was profligately and ill-advisedly creative during his teenage...”
– Just North of Something Important - The drama years
Michael Barthel’s post on teenagers—and more specifically the teenagers who were in Slint and the teenagers who populate Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go—is a worthy read. Having not read Ishiguro’s novel, but having written the...
The Delmore Brothers: I’m Lonesome Without...
Anonymous asked: Heya. I received your Spiderland book as a gift last week and read it in roughly 24 hours. What a great read. I'm a Louisville native from the generation just after Slint (my band and my friends' bands were playing out in the mid-to-lake 90s), and this book really gave me a narrative for the band, which I'd never really had. I always knew people who knew the guys, and I've...
BOOK REVIEW: Slint's Spiderland, by Scott Tennent... →
boatzone3:
Another important context Tennent creates is a social one; instead of leaving Slint floating alone in a wasteland of bands that sound nothing like them, as they are usually depicted, Tennent describes the vibrant musical community, mostly centered in Louisville and Chicago, that nurtured and encouraged Slint’s creative endeavors as they worked their way up to the achievements they...
“What a great year for music 2010 was! From Kanye West to Metallica, 2010 was one...”
– www.mnftiu.cc » Blog Archive » Best Of 2010: ALBUMS (via bwall05)
LEO Music ’Cast: Scott Tennent –... →
I had the pleasure of talking to Mat Heron of the Leo Weekly, Louisville’s alternative weekly paper, for a podcast they do on their website. If you’ve got 15 or 20 minutes to spare, have a listen. If you’re able, shut out the world and turn the volume up for “Washer.”
Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches: Math? Rock!: A... →
A wide-ranging survey of math rock - actually a way more interesting playlist (with tons of commentary) then “math rock” might denote. Best thing on the internet today.
Arp: Pastoral Symphony (from The Soft Wave)
This...
andrewtsks asked: I admit I'm not high on that Arp song you posted enough to go track down the album right now this instant, but it was pretty decent. Thing I kept thinking while listening to it: "BOY does this sound like Neu." Do you agree? Because that's what it reminds me of, in a big way.
Arp: High Life (from The Soft Wave)
Yay, I am in The Awl today, in the 100 People's... →
therichgirlsareweeping:
(Thx Maura, for asking me to contribute!) I am not one of the people who picked Kanye’s magnum opus, surprise, surprise!
Me too! I feel like I’m the only person in the world who listened to Arp’s The Soft Wave, or at least who listened to it more than once. That record is a revelation and all you folks championing Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never (no...
