May 2012
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August 2011
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best namedropping quote of the year
John Maus during p4k interview:
What I’d really like to do is take a time machine, like Bill and Ted, and bring an iPod. I’d visit Beethoven and— once we got over the initial magic of the device and explained to him where the music was coming from— just play everything. Everything afterwards: Bruckner, Chopin, Wagner, Berlioz, and up to Webern. Then Slayer, Throbbing...
June 2011
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creepingwave:
Plastic HealtH - “Falling (If That’s What You Asked)”
Falling (If That’s What You Asked) by Plastic HealtH
May 2011
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June 2010
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May 2010
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after this, i won’t be surprised to see slayer tees at urban outfitters.
perpetua:
Sleigh Bells “Slayer intro/Tell ‘Em” Live at the Ridgewood Masonic Temple in Brooklyn, 5/11/2010 I like that you can only get glimpses and flashes of the action in this footage. Seems appropriate.
Almost every musician interviewed for this article laid out a similar scenario:...
– The Gig Chill - Washington City Paper
April 2010
11 posts
i got digital cash Hactivism at its best Google Bombing with my Infotainment
– Dear Lord. With this—and many other similarly Palin-esque tweets (“go egosurfing DRINK A SHOT OF TEQUILLA spamouflaged in brandalism” is another prime example)—my entire opinion of MIA has changed in, like, less than a day. This #MIAP4k Pitchfork guest tweeter thing is nothing but an unmitigated...
What is ultimately supposed to distinguish intellectuals from clever journalists...
– Habermas | An Avantgardistic Instinct for Relevances: Intellectuals and their Public | afinidades electivas
Now, I'm all for Gaga etc., but M.I.A. has a...
“None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza disco, you know? She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do!” (via)
March 2010
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HOW does one react to the death of one’s mentor? My mind instantly slammed down...
– Paul Westerberg on Alex Chilton’s death.
New York Times.
(via shoegazer)
going to catch the karen elson show at le poisson rouge.