will be buying this
― markers, Thursday, 14 October 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
supposedly that Merle Haggard story is supposed to be the end-all-be-all of music writing in 2010 and I'm kind of psyched to sit down with it
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
If it's the same story RS ran last summer, yes, it's very good.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
CHRISTOPHER R. WEINGARTEN * Twitter & The Death of Rock Criticism * The 140 Characters Conference, New York City,June 17, 2009
who dat
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
NITSUH ABEBE * The Decade in Indie * Pitchfork
This was good, but wish they'd publish The Decade in Noise alongside it...
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
wait nabisco's name isn't blocked anymore?
― some dude, Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, an era has gone by
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gifs/01622.gif
― am0n, Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Who's editing it this year? Congrats to those selected this year.
― musicfanatic, Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
It used to creep me out when Nitsuh's name was automatically replaced. It must be what the internet is like in China.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd understand why shitty posters would want their name google-bleeped, but never understood how anything bad could befall people knowing that nitsuh abebe is remarkably otm with everything he says
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― markers, Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
that's because you weren't there when Ethan was attempting to googlebomb his name with really gross shit
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
that's crazy talk, Dan Perry
http://static-wtb.cheshirecat.net/images/house_centipede_vegetarian.jpg
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that a vegetarian centipede??
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda miss when I was writing long-form pieces and sometimes getting a "read also" at the end of these books
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd understand why shitty posters would want their name google-bleeped,
rly cool cause one time I saw p@rts & lab0r and to be honest it wasn't that great a show and you were mean to me at the merch table. ok well not mean but it was pretty obvious after I'd been talking to you for fifteen minutes that you were brushing me off. then you guys broke up but do you have an extra track for a tape-only comp I'm putting out? I can't pay anything and won't send you a copy and will smear your name if you so much as suggest I've been anything but awesome to you, but you should send me a track. you guys were awesome! anyway what I was wanting to tell you was I read your twitter thing, and I RTd a lot of your posts but you never even RTd mine, what's that about? when I was following you from like early on? can't even believe that shit man. what comes around goes around. hey I'm dj'ing a party next weekend though and you should come. my number's 917555WICH, I tried to get 917WTCHOUS but they said no numbers with WTC. double tee eff more like, right? Ha. You gotta go to the bathroom? Cool, me too. Seriously though, were these the only P&L releases: [lists, accurately, entire P&L discography; removes penis from pants, urinates into urinal while continuing monologue) Yeah I have all those. Well I "have" 'em, hah, I think the only one I actually own is the R1se, R1se, R1se split on N@rnack. I used to know the guy who runs N@nack, what a cool dude! He gave me that R1se, R1se, R1se split. At this party we were both at. Cool guy, right? Well I mean you'd know, you worked with him. Man! I saw you at Brownie's. Do you play cross-stick? I tried for a while but I think I'd probably be better on keyboards. Buncha good keyboard-based bands around here lately. you wanna spin at my party? we have ten dj's already, mostly friends, but it's going to be awesome.
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
no Pitchfork Reviews Reviews no credibility
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
cool post, ilxor
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
idgi
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
can't speak for him, but i'm pretty sure that both nitsuh and myself can safely take a leak in public without "rock critic Stan" badgering us
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc nabisco had his name changed because he was getting hate mail
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean if you don't actively have haters on yr dick then you a) are richly, richly blessed or b) have lucked out so far
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm a nitsuh dorkI even got the underground shit that you did for 'ForkI got a browser full of your bookmarks and your tumblrs manI like the shit you did with The Guardian too, that shit was fat
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
or c) do not have a dick
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, no, that quality doesn't really slow down that particular phenomenon
― maura, Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooooool
― markers, Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
ERIKA VILLANI * On “Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys—Empire State of Mind * The Singles Jukebox
It's kind of great that this wasn't even a featured blurb on the Jukebox but a comment underneath.
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Ann Powers was guest ed., btw. Looks really good, will sit down with as soon as I can (lots of work reading to do).
― slow a cat sample down 800 percent (Matos W.K.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
if I remember correctly, the name-replacement thing went like this
- ethan & folks goofing around googlebombing it- ilx moves up search rankings for years- my mom googles me- I make the mistake of saying "could someone un-index this particular thread?"- obviously this acts as a cue for people to resume google-bombing- a moderator (TOMBOT?) attempts to clean up the google-bombing, not for my sake but just because it's wasting space- this only encourages it- finally that moderator is just like "fine, I'll turn on the pre-existing LJ name-replace function, how you like THAT"
anyway I am really excited to read all of this! the thing of mine in there was sort of dorky, so I almost hope some of the more "general" readership just takes a pass on it
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
mom-googling has ruined more than one ILXor
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
moogling
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
btw can I just say WOO HOO for having a very common name
kind of mad tho that imgoogling me pulls up a pic of Violent J tho
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.wendycarlos.com/photos/moog77.jpg
moog ^^
http://www.musicgadgets.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/minimoog_voyager_os.jpg
moogling ^^
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't know that was the deal with the nabisco name substitution. Weird. I sometimes regret using my own name as my display name. It was a point of principle initially but I'm just sick of seeing it up there on the screen now.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
so great that erika's non-blurb got in!! i submitted that, i think (or at least meant to) (not as if i was the only one to, though).
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I have to resist the urge to just read all this online today -- always much better to do it with a book in hand
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the last one of these I bought was 2007's, primarily so I could have a hard copy of Erik Davis's fantastic Joanna Newsom piece and "Imperfect Sound Forever"
― markers, Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, nitsuh and nabisco are the same person? How o how did I never realise this before?! Love both of your work, guys!
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
my mom used to altavista me u_u
― maura, Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's the Leitko Orange Line Revolution piece which is about now-gone Arlington, Virginia (near DC) punk/indie group homes.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/38231/the-orange-line-revolution-the-year-that-punk-rock-left
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Tate's a great writer and the Jackson piece is impressive but I'm not crazy about his 'it's not like it was in the past' meme re great African-American music in that article, even though he explains it.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-01/news/michael-jackson-the-man-in-our-mirror/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 October 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
imo this is still the best MJ piece i readhttp://ernesthardy.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-bless-his-soul.html
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Saturday, 16 October 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
stopped reading the Tate at "maybe the next humbling god of the kulcha will be a starchitect or a superstring theorist"
― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Saturday, 16 October 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Saturday, 16 October 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
that ernest hardy piece is such great writing
TAVIA NYONG’O * Adam’s Return * Bully Bloggers
^great piece, going to actually listen Glambert's album because of it
― s&m: sex and masturbating (The Brainwasher), Monday, 8 November 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
that appears to be a blog post, in which the first paragraph's errors include "your" instead of "you're" and "is" instead of "its."
― lil bow bow (some dude), Monday, 8 November 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah but he raises some good points
besides calling Mika the "vanguard of queer pop" or whatever
― s&m: sex and masturbating (The Brainwasher), Monday, 8 November 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i do like the 2 paragraphs in the second half where he talks about the music on the album (although they do anything but make me want to listen to it). but i'm gonna go ahead and be a snob about an error-riddled blog post more about sexual politics than anything else making it into a "best music writing" anthology.
― some dude, Monday, 8 November 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Why were the errors preserved? For verisimilitude? Or was it just bleary-eyed editorial fucking up?
― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 8 November 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe they cleaned it up for the book, i'm just going off googling the title and reading the original blog posting
― some dude, Monday, 8 November 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Saturday, October 16, 2010 4:37 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
still lollin @ this
― holy lolson (deej), Monday, 8 November 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
xgau:
http://www.najp.org/articles/2010/11/best-music-writing-2010-is.html
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 20 November 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
the internet will be awfully quiet if whiney and nabisco are BOTH gonna be reading in public on the same day. might as well shut it down for the night.
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 November 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
southpaw otm
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 20 November 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
southpaw kind of a chillwave name
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 November 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
awww making me kind of nostalgic for the time i met all these ilxors at housing works like nabisco and sang freud. good times...
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 November 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i should really write something again. its the only time i ever get to see the country a little
do it! nyc <3 skot.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 20 November 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link