A New Music and a New Criticism: Dissent in the Age of the Internet
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
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
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
finally a thinkpiece about punk
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
with all due respect, science
― j., Friday, 17 July 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
a sentence worthy of David Brooks.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
i beg to differ, science
― j., Friday, 17 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 July 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
if there's a rock'n'roll thinkpiece heaven, they must have an ok band
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Friday, 17 July 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
LOL i want to see that lab w scientists in lab coats handling The Ramones first album.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 July 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
https://hollywoodrevue.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/rock-and-roll-mouse.png
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 17 July 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
What is that from? It looks familiar.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 July 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
rock n roll high school
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 July 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Freshman profundity. Something tells me we're going to see a lot more Cuepoint in this thread from now on.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 18 July 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
http://whyideletedyourpromoemail.tumblr.com/
pretty lolzy
― davey, Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
^not as good as ned's fbook feed
― D-30 (gr8080), Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
i thought ned was just moonlighting
― j., Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
After we broke up, I started record- ing new songs on my own. Filtering them through Crass, the Oblivians, and classic guitar riff-rock like Ted Nugent’s ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ and Foreigner’s ‘Juke Box Hero,’ they took on a similar feel to what I was after.
based on that description I'd prolly give this a shot
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
It's the one coherent bit in the whole feed. (And no, not my tumblr -- but it IS a friend of an ILXor.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/all-74-led-zeppelin-songs-ranked.html
i no doubt committed some of the same sins as a callow young rockwriter but holy shit, this just may be the worst piece of music writing ever. led zep song by song with more ad hominem attacks, sneering self-righteous moral judgements, cloth-eared musical analysis, wooden prose, unsupported assertions and just plain rong opinions. sure "counterintuitive" arguments are a big part of the clickbait strategy these days but a lot of this just feels contrary and calculated. written like a stunted clone of christgau & derogatis. ugh.
― got the club going UP on a tuesday (m coleman), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Looks like the Stones get off tour and dude has too much time on his hands
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Off topic slightly, but "Hots On For Nowhere" (#72 out of 74) is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs I actively like. Meanwhile, "Hot Dog" is #28. Was this randomly generated?
― mike a, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
uh, as I'm sure that both Whiney and MC know, that guy has been around forever and does seem to be possessed of particular variety of midwestern, Dero-reminiscent smug jackassery, but he hacks it out more baldfaced-ly than dero. It takes a lot for me to side with albini, who reps a a lot of midwestern quasi-puritanism himself, but his putdown of Wyman was really funny.
whiney: do you like Jidenna "Classic Man"? do you like "whip/nae nae""?
― veronica moser, Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
on first glance I didn't think the Zep list was that terrible other than the remarks about Bonham (who cares) and Plant's lyrics (deserved but who cares).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
Love "Classic Man"
Whip/Nae Nae just seems like kind of a formless jumble of existing dances. Weirdly generic compared to even like "Chicken Noodle Soup"
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
Do the keyword, do the hashtag
now drop and do the google trend
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link
i love watch me! it's a fun dumb song and it's perfectly calibrated and a good throwback to mashed potato / shangalang / camelwalk type shout-em-out-and-do-em songs.i predict a long and fruitful career for the singer j/k that is the most one hit wonder i have ever heard
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 July 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
eh i took the bait on the zep thing. it happens. otherwise we're cool for the summer.
― got the club going UP on a tuesday (m coleman), Friday, 31 July 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
This SPIN "cover story" is really something else:
http://www.spin.com/featured/vince-staples-summertime-06-interview-cover-story/
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
dog bites man girlfriend
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
I keep getting up from the table to call my girlfriend, who is, understandably, pissed at the dog for biting her, and pissed at me for not being with her. Staples, who is in person as genial as he is pragmatic and frank on record, offers to reschedule. He gets it. “Dogs try you, bro,” Staples offers. “Maybe your dog had a bad day.”
Lydia Davis level
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
nu-SPIN has this weird SJW slant in everything they cover (ie, the quasi-paedo pandering in teenpop writing, calling out Shamir for fat-shaming) but then is like totally tone-deaf when it comes to running racist reviews by stalkers or this "can't my girlfriend respect that a man is working" rant
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
no way i'm progressing beyond that byline
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
Gah, this is all your fault Klosterman.
It’s tempting to read too deep into this story, twist it into some hackneyed metaphor for how Staples sees no such thing as absolute good or absolute bad in the world. And from what I can tell, both from music and in conversation, he definitely does sort of believe those things. But he’s not trying to make a greater statement about the world here, he’s just trying to help me out. (Both the dog and my girlfriend are fine, by the way.)
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
that is a shall we say interesting way to put a hook on that interview
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
finally a longread from the ryan schreiber of millenial rap writing
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
Actually if you cut that pointless, alienating "cool story bro" first section the rest of the profile's OK.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
Actually if you cut that pointless, alienating "cool story bro" first section the rest of the profile's OK.― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, July 31, 2015 11:44 AM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, July 31, 2015 11:44 AM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
When it’s time to order our food, Staples orders like a quarterback calling a play. “We’re going chicken sandwich, cole slaw on the side, right?” he begins. “And I want the mac and cheese served as the side. OK and also, we need two smoked beef links. Is there a type of bread we can get to go along with that? Let’s get a sandwich roll on the side. What is buttermilk pie? We’ll talk about that in a minute. It sounds live.”
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
summertime '14
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
lol
we'll talk about that in a minute
― j., Friday, 31 July 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
He’s only 21, but to borrow a phrase from Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, his mind is old.
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
xp Why is that so terrible? It tells you something about how Staples talks and behaves. I don't love this guy's writing, I'm not going to print this piece out and frame it, but the intro's so noxious that I was pleasantly surprised to find the rest was solid.
This is when print can be better for you than online. The intro would have been cut for space reasons in a heartbeat. Editors who save you from yourself are also helpful.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
OK, I'm dialling back that faint praise after reading "his body is a repository of small, inconsequential motions that add up to a flurry of activity."
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
yeesh
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5EnGwXV_Pg
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
OK and also, we need two smoked beef links. Is there a type of bread we can get to go along with that? Let’s get a sandwich roll on the side.
paging vince staples to the 'a hot dog is' thread, sounds like he may have some valuable points to make
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
America’s the cause. Vince Staples is the effect.
Huh?
― geoffreyess, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
that wyman zep thing is so random and funny
― da croupier, Friday, 31 July 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
why the hell did vulture belch out some old school rolling stone dude going "BAH!" 74 times
i hope they have him do another for sabbath: the ozzy years
― da croupier, Friday, 31 July 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link