OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

^ permeating slow-broiling illegitimacy imo

If Tom Watson never makes it here I could try to post more like him, if you like

should I have any idea what that means

lmao freddie deboer's debut dive into the DC media spawning tank and it's THIS

i can't type lololololololol enough

Man "half-aspie" is gross & mean

are you surprised

a 9/10 review of a deserving album but horrifying on pretty much every other level:
http://www.spin.com/2015/06/review-vince-staples-summertime-06/

writer seems like a real charmer too
http://defamer.gawker.com/read-the-insanely-weird-emails-this-music-journalist-se-1413243759

that kind of nonsense is what ILX sometimes sounds like at its worst

i agree, he does kind of write like ljagger

to borrow a phrase of WC’s

that writing is so early 2000s, it's kind of adorable in its just-outta-undergrad righteousness.

that whole "i just blew your mind, can you even stand it???1!!!" tone.

i mean i think people do still write "i'm blowing your mind" pieces (hot takes ahoy), but now they're couched in concern-troll language instead of openly oozing spite.

So ILM is still doing "aspie" in 2015, huh? Maybe we can bring back "cripple" and "spastic" if we work real hard.

Is there, like, a non-ableist word we can use for "aspie"/"autist" that describes when someone attention to detail and weird obsessions move from being cute/passionate to being a little... unhealthy?

Because I would don't want to surrender my right to make fun of posts like this

lol they put pierce after poehler alphabetically

― da croupier, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:32 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was kinda hoping P-Z would be totally out of order after that, which would be a wainish bit of random humor, but no

― da croupier, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:34 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Editor’s note: It has been brought to SPIN’s attention that this review, published last week, includes factual inaccuracies about Staples (such as an implication about drug use) and language that has been interpreted as stereotypical or racially insensitive. We regret these oversights during the editing process, take full responsibility for the error in judgment, and apologize to anyone who was offended.

^ forgot to also apologise for the burdensome writing, protracted metaphors and doleful point-making, but at least it's a start eh?

"It has been brought to SPIN’s attention" jfc

given that the issue likely had much to do with it being rushed into publication without an editor or subeditor looking it at properly, that seems like a fair and candid choice of words

https://twitter.com/kissoutthejams/status/606094147448143872

so the editorial oversight is no one on earth looked at it before hitting publish

editorial is "over" putting their "sight" on what they publish

as sympathetic as I am to editors/copy editors not getting work, I think the more likely scenario is that an editor looked at it and didn't see a thing wrong

oh definitely

(for the record, when I wrote for spin the line edits I got back were quite good; different editor though)

lmao freddie deboer's debut dive into the DC media spawning tank and it's THIS

i can't type lololololololol enough

― goole, Friday, June 26, 2015 1:53 PM (1 week ago

rly starting to hate this dude

are you on twitter j? his last honest working class metalhead scold act was in fine form today

yes that is why the hate can't be left in peace to die naturally

This is a breakup record on a number of levels—the most obvious one being the dissolution of a romantic relationship, but also a split with the guitar as a primary instrument of expression and even the end of the notion that Tame Impala is anything besides Kevin Parker and a touring band of hired guns.

But he’s also somehow the best and most underrated rock bassist of the 21st century, and it’s not even close on either front.

has Ian Cohen always been this fucking idiot? come on ilx and defend yourself, man

The chorus ("I'm a man, woman/ Don't always think before I do") finds him in league with Father John Misty's I Love You, Honeybear and My Morning Jacket's The Waterfall, taking an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance, examining what qualifies as biological instinct and what qualifies as mere rationalization for wanting to fuck around and/or be left alone.

pitchfork will always ride for abysmal sensitive-man-holding-dick privileged nonsense fucking indulgent shit smeared all over our willing faces like this & latterday sun kil moon, they will never change, it's final, let's stop paying them or their idiot music any attention

an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance
an unsparing and often unflattering look at masculinity and romance

pitchfork will always ride for abysmal sensitive-man-holding-dick privileged nonsense fucking indulgent shit smeared all over our willing faces like this & latterday sun kil moon, they will never change, it's final, let's stop paying them or their idiot music any attention

― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:50 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You know, the hot opinion on /mu/ right now (though I don't know how sincere it is) is that p4k only covers and supports black artists anymore

has Ian Cohen always been this fucking idiot? come on ilx and defend yourself, man

― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:47 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically yes

A New Music and a New Criticism: Dissent in the Age of the Internet

Scientists say that punk was not ‘a revolution’ in music, and much as I admire science for its ceaseless exploration of the boundaries of understanding, in this case scientists have got it wrong

finally a thinkpiece about punk

with all due respect, science

a sentence worthy of David Brooks.

i beg to differ, science

Guys. Remember the legendary 'was the drummer for Gay Dad' essay?

Per Mike Daddino on Twitter, turns out the author of this piece was the bassist for Bloc Party.

NOT KIDDING.

if there's a rock'n'roll thinkpiece heaven, they must have an ok band

LOL i want to see that lab w scientists in lab coats handling The Ramones first album.

https://hollywoodrevue.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/rock-and-roll-mouse.png

What is that from? It looks familiar.

rock n roll high school