I wonder if Noisey's multi-billion dollar parent company followed a PWYC policy when they bought up the space that was functioning DIY venue Death by Audio
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
Also interesting how the idea of paying venue staff union wages never comes up.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
this isn't actually any worse than usual, but man, the adjective abuse in this one.
http://www.avclub.com/review/new-lineup-cleans-heliotropes-act-forgettable-resu-239276
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Friday, 15 July 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
Waow, for a short review, it really gives the reader a lot of opportunities to nod off/check out.
― hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 16 July 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
i kind of want to give it some slack because obviously nobody involved cared at all. mostly i'm just amazed that there's still space in music reviewing for such obviously dgaf writing.
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 July 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
um there are new examples posted in this thread like every day
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 July 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
idk i think most of the stuff in this thread is bad precisely because the people writing it _care deeply_ about the nauseating bullshit they're inflicting on the world. there's a place for that kind of writing, and it's crossover fanfiction.
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
In response to an article about Speedy Ortiz's Forecastle performance: "please, writers & editors, can we do better out of the gate when we write about humans?"https://www.facebook.com/speedyortiz/posts/1225565654123066
― Frozen CD, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
Just read that linked to from elsewhere - I'm assuming that you're saying "girls can rock too" articles are the worst journalism, rather than Sadie's piece? Because I think it's spot on.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
i assume the shot is at the dopey cos piece, sadie otm
― Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony said (contenderizer), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 02:12 (seven years ago) link
> Just read that linked to from elsewhere - I'm assuming that you're saying "girls can rock too" articles are the worst journalism, rather than Sadie's piece? Because I think it's spot on.
Yes -- the "girls can rock too" piece was edited so wanted to point to the original version Sadie screengrabbed.
― Frozen CD, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 03:29 (seven years ago) link
Pitchfork's obit for producer Sandy Pearlman belongs here.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
Heard a radio bit this morning about the band the Struts, and here's sort of the online version: http://www.npr.org/2016/07/27/487480437/dressed-to-dazzle-the-struts-want-to-make-rock-fun-again
I thought it was terrible, partly for lines like "The Struts have become a staple on rock radio, and they're selling out concerts," but mostly for constantly invoking Queen and then describing a band that I imagined was not unlike the Darkness and then constantly following up by playing clips of the group's music, which was unlistenable shit that sounded nothing like Bowie and Queen, let alone the Darkness
Here's essentially a similar variation on the same piece: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-struts-meet-englands-newest-glam-rock-heroes-20160311
Whatever hack is handling these losers deserves a raise.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
yeah that band is fucking garbage yuck
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
You know they're glam 'cause their single has handclaps on it.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
fwiw I am British and have never heard of this band
this line from the NPR piece jumped out as being especially clumsy
While American hip-hop swept England in the 1990s, Spiller, the son of a gospel musician, was getting hooked on glamorous '70s rock.
if this dude is 27 then depending on what year of the 1990s (any of which a case could be made for "American hip-hop sweeping England") they're referring to he was aged somewhere between one and 11
― aromantic cuck (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
538 has really created this terrible brand of feature where a writer presents a ton of shallow "data points" in an overlong story about an incredibly banal topic...like basically dressing up some point that could be covered in 2 paragraphs with infographics etc
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1228-a-brief-history-of-famously-unstreamable-albums-that-ended-up-streaming-anyway/
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Boy that URL just screams not to be clicked
― Have you hugged your timeghoul today? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
but what if there's a kidney stone joke somewhere in there
― map, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Hammer and Kerrang! both hot for the struts' chilli, tbf
― An artsy picture, but you know, she was a model. Really successful. (stevie), Thursday, 28 July 2016 11:00 (seven years ago) link
"As I sit at the counter waiting for her, downing refills of water and skimming a menu full of items that in no way can I afford, I consider how surreal it is that Shirley Manson, who is scheduled to make a national television appearance on Jimmy Kimmel later this evening, would take the time to voluntarily meet with some dumb writer. Music journalism is not a particularly glamorous field. In fact, for the last several years, I’ve had my parents under the impression that their only son is a middle manager at RadioShack. Not that that’s any better or worse of a career choice, but at least they understand what the gig entails. So for the life of me I couldn’t understand why she would want to waste a perfectly good evening hanging out with some word jockey."
here we go again
http://m.noisey.vice.com/blog/a-first-date-with-shirley-manson
― maura, Thursday, 28 July 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
hah, they look like a modern kerrang band, stevie. Not a good thing either :)
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 28 July 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
She instantly feels like someone I’ve known for years and accomplishes the impossible in getting me to drop my Ironic Guy facade for long enough to have a meaningful conversation. We crack into the subject of past relationships and dish about exes. I confess my “feelings” to her about breakups I've been through and she tells me I’m afraid of setting myself up to get hurt, which I realize is fully accurate. Suddenly I find myself telling her things that I’ve never admitted to anyone before, or maybe even admitted to myself. It was like she had been playing her own game of 21 Questions about me this whole time and had deduced enough information to solve the puzzle. I feel myself looking into unexplored corners of my dumb heart. Shirley Manson wields that power—to make a person to feel so comfortable, yet so vulnerable. If she likes them, that is.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 28 July 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
― Have you hugged your timeghoul today? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
spoiler alert: there are some albums that weren't available on streaming services when they first came out but THEN.........they became available on streaming service...
the twist is, stay with me here, is that each of these albums was unavailable on streaming for a certain period of time and you can see infographics that compare how long that period was
also, the article points out that Radiohead's In Rainbow's did NOT come out on streaming services when it was first released....because streaming services did not exist at that time
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 July 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
Dan Ozzi is a completely pedestrian writer with an entirely disagreeable way of putting his personality in his articles. it baffles me that he is getting a co-writing credit for the Laura Jane Grace autobiog as I see no reason why she couldn't do a better job on her own, or at least with a nameless editor
― aromantic cuck (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
http://www.wmagazine.com/story/how-rihanna-became-pop-s-many-faced-goddess
On her single “Work,” Rihanna sounds like Charlie Brown’s teacher or a duck trapped in your neighbor’s apartment. She doesn’t make sense as much as she makes noise, commuting a story not through words, but phonetic shapings that sound something like words left out in the rain, their definition bleeding out into each other until there is nothing but a string of guttural utterances set to a pulsating beat. It’s even more pronounced on other tracks on her album “Anti,” like “Desperado” and “Woo,” where one sound elides into the next and the listener has no idea what Rihanna is talking about. Is she too lazy to enunciate? Too emotionally bereft to elucidate? Or too far out that she’s speaking some sort of alien tongue that she’s making up as she goes along, like Björk or Khaleesi?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Dan Ozzi is a completely pedestrian writer with an entirely disagreeable way of putting his personality in his articles.
o t m
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
guttural utterances
Great name for a punk band.
― Austin, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
ahaha so bret easton ellis' "epic rant" about "sjws" that's going around was a defense of that sky ferreira la weekly piece. which, since i just scrolled down to the bottom of it, namechecks a BEE novel.
― goole, Thursday, 4 August 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
two of them
― goole, Thursday, 4 August 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
that rihanna graf is pretty fucking low
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
"why is this pavarotti guy always yelling? and save the italian for your pizza parties"
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
brian moylan's hands should be cut off
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
Imagine saying a black person was "post-verbal" and was making "guttural utterances" at literally any other job and see if you were still employed the next day
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Presidential nominee?
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
there's a new Britney album coming so this thread will probably be the gold rush for a while
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
christ every time bret easton ellis opens his mouth in 2016 it's like a present-day unironic music cue of "Oh Yeah"
― nomar, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
who is Brian Moylan and why does he get paid to write about stuff he clearly does not understand or know anything about
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
Writer for hire, @GuardianUS TV columnist, @Vulture Real Housewives anthropologist. Proud Mustached American.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
xp to Whiney, you missed "too lazy to enunciate"
should have made that post verbal
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
whoops http://www.nme.com/news/nme/95553
― Frozen CD, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
10 White Things Frank Ocean Made His Own on Blondehttp://www.vulture.com/2016/08/on-oceans-blonde-whites-just-another-color.html
― Frozen CD, Monday, 22 August 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
"With its swinging rhythm and rich melodic bassline, “Pink + White” isn’t all that “white,” culturally speaking. But by choosing such a title for a song (as opposed to, say, the “black and yellow” also mentioned in the song), the artist is sending a signal. The word “white” featured twice on the tracklisting is as close as you’ll get to a clear indicator from Frank that whiteness is a prominent theme on the album — we probably wouldn’t have noticed otherwise."
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 22 August 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
Whether he’s the tragic warrior-hero of pre–Christian Germanic myth, one-half of a gay duo whose Las Vegas stage performances prominently featured white tigers and white lions, or a character who wields a sword as tall as himself in the fighting game series Soulcalibur (which Frank cited on Nostalgia, Ultra), there’s no doubt that Siegfried, as a name, is as white as it gets.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 22 August 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
'that's gotta mean somethin, right? right??'
― j., Monday, 22 August 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
just look at how tall ("white") that sword is
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 22 August 2016 02:06 (seven years ago) link
This is probably just viral advertising for Reductionist Racial Semiotics Bingo, coming soon to Urban Outfitters
― Treeship, Monday, 22 August 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
no time even to actually bullshit anymore -- just grab all the signifiers you can find and sprint to press
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 22 August 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link
Cheating because this is just something I found in the bowels of rateyourmusic, not professional, but
The Stooges - Fun HouseI hate it because I hate men. No, I hate it because I hate white men. No, I hate it because I hate masculinity, period. This record does indeed have balls but when did those ever do anyone any good?
Iggy is so violently HETEROSEXUAL and MANLY he literally makes me sick a bit in the pit of my stomach. I literally am filled with intense loathing every time I see him or hear his cocksure macho man caterwauling. This shit is as bad as the Brainbombs or any power electronics you can name for sheer male supremacist wank fantasy material, I don't even know why I single out the Stooges because rock 'n' roll itself is built upon white male supremacy but the Stooges may actually be rock 'n' roll incarnate and therefore make themselves such a huge target for all of hatred of that shit I have inside. IT SWAGGERS. I can't hear the opening riff without being terrified about someone being beaten or raped: this IS incredibly visceral music, but as someone who knows (second-hand, thank god) the violence and evil inherent in the heart of Man it isn't some fun boozy thrill ride, it's repugnant and soul-hurting and deeply fucked. Maybe I'm projecting my own issues with masculinity (heaven knows I have them!) on this record in order to exorcise my hatred by crucifying it in print, but I guess the point here is, again, everyone praising this record as a monolith of abject misanthropic and implicit violence is totally 100% correct and if they ENJOY it for that reason, then more power to them but it seems a microcosm of everything I hate about literally everything, an unwholesome fascist putrescence that crept from the underbelly of the biggest beast the human race has ever had to face.
I'm a hypocrite of course because I dig the Ol Dirty Bastard but w/e I'll talk about that in a thousand other reviews to come.
― punksishippies, Monday, 22 August 2016 05:31 (seven years ago) link