December 2010
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Listicle Without Commentary: 64 from 2010
Arcade Fire “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Round and Round”
Beach House “Walk in the Park”
Benoît Pioulard “RTO”
Big Boi f. T.I., Khujo Goodie “Tangerine”
Big K.R.I.T. “As Small As A Giant”
Broken Bells “The High Road”
Broken Social Scene “All to...
britticisms:
“Return of the Mack” by Mark...
50 Subjective and Mostly-Disconnected Thoughts on...
natepatrin:
So that’s the approach I’m going to take in my year-end roundup here – dialing down the whole Giving a Fuck quotient and dashing off whatever comes to mind, albeit without the 140-character limitation. Just as a warning: this could get kind of stupid. Or frank. Same thing.
And Mostly Sharp and Great and Wow! There’s really 50 of them!
And finally, an XTC holler to all my joycore Xmas...
A shout to all my Holiday Saddoes out there!
One of the ideas that keeps coming to mind as I think more about how musicians coalesce and create music is “what actually comprises a ‘band’?” And/or “how do new, young artists know when they’re in one”? Sounds like a dumb question, certainly academic enough, but there are a lot of ramifications that come from this sort of mundane detail—certainly...
“One need only compare the rape scenes in Rand’s novels to Lester’s seduction of...”
– Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter | Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
Is there anything similar I should be reading in this vein?
(via desnoise)
Between this and Frank, I think you’ve got the broad strokes covered. For a more specific case-study, I highly recommend...
fussyjazz:
Meredith Monk — The Tale (Dolmen...
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Favorite Suspect Names of 2010
crimebrulee:
BONANZA LEATHERMAN, 47
MYSTICA TAPP, 22
FRANCISCO BANGAYAN, 18
HARRY FLUHARTY, 30
TONSUELA JONES, 22
BEAU HASH, 29
VAUGHN EDDY, 31
LETICIA SALAZAR, 27
TAFFANY DUCHARME, 40
ERNEST SINK, 55
JOY FORREST, 25
BRANDI RAE SWANGO, 29
JOSEPH HOOKER, 51
IAN ANDREW COCKSHOTT, 21
Sasha Frere-Jones on his introduction to Beefheart, via Doc at the Radar Station:
“Doc at the Radar Station” was fierce and impossible and transfixing. It was music played by a rock band with two guitarists and a rhythm section but it sounded like it had been written by octopi on empty clam shells, sent off to Japan for transcription, lost, and mistakenly recorded by a bar band recovering...
The Discography: Michaelangelo Matos's Top 100... →
thediscography:
1 Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill - Mom + Pop 2 Rihanna - Rude Boy - Island Def Jam 3 The Bug - Skeng (Autechre Remix) - Ninja Tune 4 The Foreign Exchange - This City Ain’t The Same Without You - Foreign Exchange Music 5 Donaeo - I’m Fly - My-Ish 6 Mark E - You (Full Vocal Mix) - Merc 7 Cee-Lo Green -…
Well isn’t this nice.
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chonkyfire asked: hey so re your Q to somanyshrimp, check out gucci's 2nd "official" album 'the state vs radric davis'. most gucci fans would say it's not as good as his first album, and not as expensive sounding as his third, but i think it's a nice entree into the gucci repertoire given your criteria and you can explore from there. (specifically, check out lemonade, bingo and...
Watch Island Records founder Chris Blackwell start off with a great and accurate reminiscence about the uniqueness of record label identities for himself as a young music fan, and then, seemingly robotically, lapse into that annoyingly prevalent late-2000s neoliberal tech optimism.
I don’t know what record labels there are now that mean what they used to be to me when I was a fan. For...
“What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private...”
– Julian Assange on SNL (via kateoplis)
I asked my first Tumblr question! And was met with a minimum of sneering derision!
For the experts: I like Gucci a lot, but usually hate the tinny tracks and preset drum loops behind him. I know that’s “part of the deal,” but for the sake of dilettantism, what about perhaps recommending some songs for a guy who likes stuff with pricier production tags like...
"I was so angry with him. I never, ever did drugs... →
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Beefheart stubbornly continues what he's doing and... →
At 5:00 a.m. he is woken up (on weekends, he is... →
Heart on a Stick weighs in with (scroll down) a must-read on MBDTF:
It’s a concept that requires bigness — takes some gall to try (as he does on “All of the Lights”) to redefine “overstuffed” — and bald shortcomings (one of many: there’s a moment in the opening track where West, after a whole album of AutoTune and a willingness to use it here, ...
Amongst other 2010 favorites, Carl Wilson on Richard Harrow, easily the most spellbinding character on HBO’s flawed-but-fascinating Boardwalk Empire:
Sniper-turned-hit-man Richard Harrow is a veteran of World War 1 whose face was so maimed in battle so that he wears a painted tin mask in public – a historically accurate representation inspired by this Smithsonian Magazine article. He...
Matthew on Sleigh Bells’ Treats:
To some extent, it’s a meta conceit not unlike the way lo-fi and chillwave artists present their songs with a deliberate patina of age and grit intended evoke the aesthetics of recording and playback devices of the past. The obvious difference is that Treats is not concerned with the past, but rather how we experience music in the present. It plays on...
