January 2010
30 posts
classic country music, courtesy of
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killer ice cube cut, courtesy of
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awesome mid-90s powerpop. courtesy of
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Buckethead (12)
The Gossip (7)
Luna (6)
GZA/Genius (6)
The Notorious B.I.G. (6)
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The Avon Barksdale →
Yes, Virginia, there is a Boston band called The Avon Barksdale. And no, I’m not terribly surprised. But I’m not gonna lie, I’m slightly amused. Bands named after characters from The Wire ftw!
“Altbros are generally dead. They either morphed into relevantmusicbros or...”
– Carles, Hipster Runoff: Whatever happened to popular nightlive electro DJ Steven Aoki?
Well thank fuck for that.
(via Those Geese Were Stupefied)
I think I’m developing pretty much into the former.
(via hardcorefornerds)
Hey guys, remember when I wasn’t tired of...
“Well, Pete Seeger went to Harvard. You could say that folk music is the middle...”
– Stephin Merritt, answering the question “Do you not feel that folk could also be defined by class in many ways?”, in an interview on the Drowned In Sound site. It’s always horrible when cynicism and truth intersect in the Venn diagram of life. (via perpetua)
Well, yeah (at @perpetua), except (if we...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Juliana Hatfield (18)
Buckethead (9)
The Innocence Mission (8)
X-Ray Spex (7)
Guitar Wolf (7)
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skee-lo! courtesy of
thisismyfavoritesong:
“I...
Watchlovely live Lightning Dust set @ NPR (Tiny Desk), courtesy of
nohay-banda:
Lightning Dust: Tiny Desk Concert
thisismyfavoritesong:
“Try a Little Tenderness”...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Asobi Seksu (13)
Nouvelle Vague (11)
Freddie Hubbard (9)
Donald Byrd (9)
Get Well Soon (9)
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Obama: The Musical! (in Germany) →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Mirah (8)
Soft Machine (6)
Mirah with the Black Cat Orchestra (5)
The Rolling Stones (5)
Boris Kovač & Ladaaba Orchest (3)
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hardcorefornerds:
velveteenrabbit:
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ivyatoms:
rock bottom riser -...
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chrisyamashiro:
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“As in the Ramones’ songs, kids and teenagers were oddly conceived: In Sharkey’s...”
– Nicholas Rombes, The Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982: Undertones
just about finished this book, which is less about encyclopaedic knowledge and more about a profound vocabulary. here he is talking about one (well, two actually) of my very favourite original punk bands, and that line which is...