August 2011
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June 2011
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Why Bono didn’t save Spider-Man →
Everything about this makes me want to spit. So, Bono & the Edge are completely blameless; give a (critically acclaimed and award-winning) female director complete artistic freedom and she’ll totally FUCK THINGS UP beyond repair. Because when something goes wrong in a musical, it’s clearly about the direction alone. Who cares about the story, or oh, you know, the score? Sheesh.
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A History of Modern Music: the timeline |... →
Man, this is such a great idea — but the user interface of the timeline is horrible. As someone who grapples with this kind of thing every day, I feel some sympathy for the design team at the Guardian, but oh my! It’s so ugly!
xoxo, michaela
May 2011
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April 2011
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Lester Bangs' Basement: What it means to have all... →
Somewhere in this piece (I think) is a reason as to why, though I am an otherwise wonderful person in a good place spiritually, mentally, and physically, I am currently suffering from the worst case of unending access fatigue of all time.
xoxo, michaela
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March 2011
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February 2011
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save KUSF →
HELP US KEEP COMMUNITY RADIO ALIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO!
I hadn’t heard a thing about this before randomly stumbling across this site a moment ago while looking for something else; is it just me, or is this not getting a lot of press?
xoxo, michaela
Watchbigcrush:
slicingeyeballs:
Iconic Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook — he of the impossibly low-slung four-string — turns 55 today, and to mark the occasion, we present Joy Division’s long-out-of-print VHS concert film “Here Are the Young Men,” released in 1982 and filmed primarily at the Apollo Theatre in Manchester on Oct. 27, 1979. The quality is a bit dark and grainy, and ...
EMI Taken Over by Citigroup, Making a Sale More... →
What an anticlimactic ending to THAT story.
xoxo, michaela
Girls' names in Belle and Sebastian songs (not...
dosomethingprettywhileyoucan:
Lisa
Jo
Jane
Jenny
Chelsea
Judy
Hilary
Mary Jo
Belle
Sukie
Jean
xoxo, michaela
January 2011
6 posts
Two Dozen Classic Album Covers Rendered in MS... →
fivedollarradio:
Reproducing album covers in MS Paint isn’t exactly the world’s most original idea, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. The good folks at Continuum’s 33 1/3 series tipped us off to this particularly extensive collection, the humble beginnings of which lie in message-board user contributions.
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The entire set is here.
xoxo michaela
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December 2010
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“Salem is the type of band who sleeps through their New York Times interview; and...”
– Christopher Weingarten, saying what needs to be said about Salem, this year’s biggest insult to being a working, thinking musician.
—Lucas
November 2010
10 posts
Apple Sells 2 Million Beatles Songs in a Week at... →
Just, you know, FYI.
*sigh*
xoxo, michaela
Wanda Jackson: A Queen Of Rock From The Age Of... →
kperfetto:
Wanda Jackson, originally from Oklahoma City, started out in country music. “I was a little feisty on stage,” she says, and that led Elvis Presley, whom she’d been touring with (and also dating), to push her toward the new genre of rockabilly.
American Songwriter
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Help Make A Movie About The Mekons | The Awl →
It behoves you to donate.
xoxo, michaela
Technics 1200 turntables are being discontinued →
After a lot of speculation, apparently, this really is official. SH-EX1200 Analog Audio Mixer and RP-DH1200 & RP-DJ1200 stereo headphones are being discontinued as well.
xoxo, michaela
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Yep, the first list of bands playing SXSW 2011 has... →
You know, so the internet darling bands that have 3 live shows under their belts can start practicing now so they don’t screw it up at the Fader Fort in March.
xoxo, michaela
ps — this reminds me of how shady companies with something to hide release SEC filings at 5pm the Friday before a 3-day weekend. Who releases news like this on a day with this much noise?
October 2010
5 posts
Observations: Music and speech share a code for... →
Hi Chain of Knives. Long time to see! Is everyone have a fall like mine — namely INSANELY BUSY? Which is to say: I miss you guys; I haven’t forgotten you.
xoxo, michaela
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The Paley Brothers—“Stick With Me,...
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“Police were trying to talk the man, who appeared to be about 25 years old, from...”
– This is a good look for T.I. He appears out of thin air, negotiates with jumpers, and then disappears, presumably heading back to his gun cache. Hey Judge…give him a pass for this one, okay? He did his karmic duty. He appeared atop an Atlantan hotel to save a dude from potential suicide. ...
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Ferry reunites with Eno. →
This can’t be anything but good, right?
Please do not disappoint, fellas, though I suspect Eno’s appearance will probably be some little splash of noise or something.
—Lucas
September 2010
7 posts
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A list of rad Alabamians.
As my friend David puts it in response to Wavves’ idiotic Alabama dissing, “Why must Southerners be judged solely by our hateful white people?” It’s a pretty good question. Listen, I’m a life-long Southerner. We have lots of problems with race and crazy conservatism and all sorts of wacky stuff down here. But we’re not all bad, and we’ve certainly...
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“Racist flavor blunt for Mel Gibson. It would taste like Alabama.”
– From Wavves’ Twitter. It should come as no surprise that the most overrated artist of the last five years is also the least funny. He decided to start tweeting today about different flavored blunts or some such nonsense, and it was about as funny as a stoned 13 year old, which is to say not...
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Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes... →
tomewing:
chainofknives:
I’ve been meaning to say something about Wendy Fonarow’s “Ask the Indie Professor” columns in the Guardian for a while now. Of course, now all I can do is kind of sputter and throw my hands up in defeat. Blegh.
(That being said, the use of a photo of the one and only Carlos D. to illustrate the “Why do bassists want more sex?” column (which wasn’t actually answered?)...
Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes... →
I’ve been meaning to say something about Wendy Fonarow’s “Ask the Indie Professor” columns in the Guardian for a while now. Of course, now all I can do is kind of sputter and throw my hands up in defeat. Blegh.
(That being said, the use of a photo of the one and only Carlos D. to illustrate the “Why do bassists want more sex?” column (which wasn’t...
August 2010
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“I Love Music is, inevitably, the Freaky Trigger discussion forum. It uses a Q...”
– What you see above was originally posted ten years ago and today Tom Ewing rightly remembers what kicked it off and puts ILX as a whole into perspective. It is and remains a near-unique creation, really, a bridge between 90s net culture and the past decade’s that like so many things was the...
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Dying? Press Your Ashes into Vinyl. →
Okay then!
xoxo, michaela
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zibazehdar:
Ned Raggett on Our Digital Future ...