February 2012
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“There should be so much more
Not of orange, of words
Of how terrible orange...”
– O’Hara, Why I’m Not a Painter
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Real World Thoughts #23
“Don’t stifle your creative urges, Jenn! You should start a band.”
Someone just wrote this sentence in an email to me and the extent to which I am frustrated by it is probably a bit dramatic. But, real talk, I find that offensive. I really hate when people approach music writing as a sort of back-up plan, because you did not want to or could not become a musician. Could not be...
“The enemy is not allowed to make mistakes because his whole existence is a...”
– Black Panthers founder Huey Newton, from a speech on the women’s and gay liberation movements, given August 15, 1970. Via historyisaweapon.com — my new favorite website.
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“The future of rock belongs to women”
– Kurt Cobain
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“As a child I feared the day the world would be taken over by robots; these days...”
– Lindsay Zoladz on Visions by Grimes: best album review 2k12.
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“She is a self-described “post-internet” musician, and this track...”
– That’s a sentence I wrote about Grimes in our year-end list that I think holds true of Visions in its entirety
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“All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a...”
– Joan Didion, NYT, 1976
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“I’ve been remembering what it felt like as a young man to live in the same...”
– E.B. White
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“Forget women. Forget black or Latin stars or those of any other ethnic...”
– Tried to explain this to my parents after the show aired (via NYT)
“Bon Iver was named best new artist, and Justin Vernon, the creative force behind...”
– Definitely, but aren’t ‘indie ethics’ just ‘indie ethics’? Why is an embrace of them necessarily nostalgic? They have their origins in the 1980s, sure, but they also exist today in a way that feels pretty here/now, at least to me (via NYT)
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Sadcore #4
I dreamt an imagined encounter at Death by Audio. I woke up, and felt sorry.
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“At 19 a small indie label signed her as Lizzy Grant for $10,000. “It was...”
– There is a short and very strange piece on LDR in the upcoming T Style magazine, but this part was interesting. I wondered what she studied at Fordham, and whether or not she was involved with community service/etc, which is an integral part of attending Fordham.
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Sadcore #3
Sunrise. A friend suggests the possibility of issuing a cassette tape collection of Lana Del Rey demos.
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Sadcore #2
It is late at night. I am sitting with a group of friends.
One, to my right, gazes at his mobile device. “Have you heard the latest,” he asks, casually and monotone, “on Lana Del Rey?”
“Yes,” I reply, and pause. “I wrote that today.”
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Sadcore
I meet a friend for dinner. He asks, “How do you feel about Lana Del Rey?”
I am wakened by a ping at 2 a.m. A friend asks, in a text message, “LDR?”
I go to work: LDR.
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“We all like a good fall-and-redemption tale, especially when it’s true. But it...”
– Incredible piece on Sharon Van Etten in the NYT mag this weekend
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Watch[Heavy D on “Soul Train”]
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Watch[Aretha on “Soul Train”]
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“It’s a pretty emo record – very personal. People who’ve heard it...”
– So stoked for the next Best Coast album (via Rolling Stone)
January 2012
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The two full-lengths from Wisconsin-to-California duo Peaking Lights make the band alumni of both the Night-People and Not Not Fun labels. If you find that part of their biography a bit incomprehensible, you may also be unaware that their 2011 full-length, 936, was something of a triumph among the subset of grassroots music fans who still buy cassettes. Peaking Lights are currently at the...
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WatchThis is the trailer for Keep the Lights On, a new documentary scored posthumously by Arthur Russell. My roommate Pier, who works in film, told me it premiered at Sundance last week. The trailer features a familiar clip from World of Echo, but according to this website Hollywood Reporter, the director “collaborated with Russell’s estate to compile the score from much of the...
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“The club is the mediator or frame through which the music is communicated. The...”
– Kim Gordon, Artforum, 1983
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“What was important then was this sense, this supposition, that sixties...”
– One of my favorite moments in Lucking Out. (via zachbaron)
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“Back in 1983 Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon wrote an essay for Art Forum that...”
– Maura’s piece on SOTC today reminded me how much I love the end of M. Perpetua’s tUnE-yArDs review
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“When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the...”
– FIONA FOREVER
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I have had a Google Alert for “Fiona Apple...
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“More than once I stayed up all night to meet a deadline and slept curled up on...”
– James Wolcott, Lucking Out
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