October 2009
37 posts
Watchpost for all the grandparents who read this blog
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“The important thing is this: Do not be discouraged by this or any other...”
– Howard Junker, Editor of ZYZZYVA, in a rejection letter. read the rest here (at Letters of Note)
colorflip.com →
“War is brewing between [Japan and America]. They cannot live in peace on the...”
– Lenin (1920)
“The study of genre is largely the study of marketing.”
– Victor Vazquez (member of Das Racist in his response to Sasha Frere Jones’s “Wrapping Up,” here )
"The Song Decoders" - Rob Walker for NYTimes →
They moved on to vocals, and Alan Lin, a violinist, ticked off the scores he came up with for things like rhythmic intensity and the relative exoticism of the melody scale. “I actually put exotic at 3.5,” he said. This prompted Sameer Gupta — a percussionist and an expert on Indian music who was weighing in by speakerphone from New York — to lead a brief discussion of how to think about melody and...
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Q & A w/ Longstreth for the Phoenix New Times by... →
UP: Awesome. Anyway, Bitte Orca is becoming one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year. It was really rather a surprise to me when I first heard it because it was unlike your other work. Can you tell me a little about the making of the record?
DL: Um, I think so. I’ll try. It was we recorded in Portland, like last summer pretty much. A lot of the songs had been written while we...
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WatchEmpire State of Mind - Jay-Z feat Alicia Keys @ 2009 VMAs
btw, I am the short woman.
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“Feeling Left Out” by Experimental...
Music Bloggers Roundtable Redux →
John Seroff: So much of what an “mp3 blog” became is just so much file sharing devoid of independent intellectual content or context. Some people (including the other folks taking part in this discussion) still do make an effort to impress some personality and perspective on the music they’re sharing, but it sure has become the exception and not the rule. I’m a little bitter about it; I thought...
