December 2011
36 posts
3 tags
“[Brownstein] has always felt more defined by her work than by her relationships....”
– From the Carrie Brownstein profile in this week’s New Yorker
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to...”
– Joan Didion
7 tags
1 tag
“[We humans] at our best can only create opportunities”
– Maya Angelou
2 tags
4 tags
Favorite Albums of 2k11
UPDATE: I added more albums UPDATE 2: After much thought as to which 2011 albums actually have most to do with my life, I have updated the order UPDATE 3: It’s funny how irrelevant year-end lists are. Six months later I believemy top five records of 2011 include 1. Zola Jesus, Conatus 2. The Babies, The Babies 3. Iceage, New Brigade 4. Real Estate, Days 5. John Maus, We Must Become the...
“Pretentious” is one of the dozen or so most overused words online, but if...”
– Mark on Maus
4 tags
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
Tracks →
For some reason I made this “Best of 2011” playlist on Spotify despite the fact that a few of my very favorite tracks are not on Spotify. Here are some of my favorites: Zola Jesus, “Vessel”; Grimes, “Vanessa”; Dive, “Sometime”; Friends, “I’m His Girl”; Belong, “Different Heart”; The Babies, “Breakin the Law”;...
“These magazines, man - they tell you what they think you want to hear, you pay...”
– @titus_ndronicus
1 tag
3 tags
2 tags
[Bob Dylan - Tomorrow Is a Long Time] Live at Town...
“Quilt is the East Coast core duo of Anna Fox Rochinski and Shane Butler, two...”
– Emilie Friedlander writes on one of my favorite records of the year for Pitchfork. O and she also mentions the WNYU sxsw showcase we booked, which rules! One of my top five days of 2011.
“I guess what annoys me so much about the “post-sellout” era is that...”
– Patrick Stickles, Titus Andronicus
“I’m very flattered that people like my old stuff so much but really, it was me...”
– Martin Newell of Cleaners From Venus, for Altered Zones, June 2010
2 tags
“‘The guy who recorded an album alone in the woods.’ This line might...”
– You should re-read Mark. R’s review of the Grammy-nominated Bon Iver.
This is How You Write About a Record
Rob Sheffield on Morrissey’s Vauxhall and I, 1994:
I finally got to inhale Morrissey’s sweat in 1992. The man played my local high-school auditorium with his flashy new glam-rockabilly band and, aside from being the most excellent night of my entire life, it was a really good show, eliciting squeals from the gladiola-clutching kids swarming around me. Onstage the guitarists circled...