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

I am deeply suspicious of poetry professors who own albums by Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/magazine/streaming-music-has-left-me-adrift.html?referrer=

it's little pink houses, plural, for you and me (yeah), how could that be a sign of individuality?

let's just skip that one, please

That article is shit

I am stunned that the opening sentence "It’s hard to imagine now, but there once was a time when you could not play any song ever recorded, instantly, from your phone" appeared on an editor's desk and did not immediately cause the piece to be spiked.

To be fair it could have been worded that way to be a joke.

could we really just not do this

It's not that hard to imagine a time like that

A lot of discussion of this article already on the Millennials Ask Old-Timers thread

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/15/playlist-world-eek-islam-chipsy-souad-abdullah-maurice-louca-faycal-azizi
(The first blurb)

?

Really it was just this line:

The tightly syncopated rhythmical assault is in a lot of ways analogous to carnival or marching musical forms such as soca, New Orleans second-line drumming, dancehall and calypso.

otherwise the writing is fine

so it may not be the worst piece of music writing in the history of the world is what you're saying

Is that a terrible line?

Seems like a very useful article.

IDK it seemed pretty o_O to me -- like what does it have in common with those styles of music other than being syncopated and not by white people?

they all use a marching-style pattern

YES! I've arrived…

http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/feature-5-reasons-logic-s-under-pressure-is-the-best-debut-of-2014/11247386

resonances??

pretty sure resonances is 100% not a word

i mean i'm not sure what we should be expecting from like, artistdirect, but even so woooooooooowwwww.

He must have meant 'resonations'. A literal symphony of them.

And I had no idea artistdirect was still a thing

resonances is definitely a word

checked, it is indeed, but it still sounds mad ridiculous in plural form and is unnecessary in the context of that review

I agree. It is a widely used word in my field, so it doesn't sound weird anymore. 'A symphony of resonances' is terribly lol, though, and I plan to use it if I ever come across some bad glass.

Hahahahahahahaha!

I mean credit to the New York Times there -- after the Dan Brooks thing, they realized that if you're going to troll, leave it to a total fucking pro.

a gathering of bare-armed, bare-legged lovers of song and smokers of pot

Frank Bruni received money to write this.

While recording devices have liberated many of us from commercials on television, the rest of our lives are awash in ads. They’re now nestled among the trailers at movies. They flicker on the screens in taxis.

Cause, meet effect!

They’re woven so thoroughly into sporting events, from Nascar races to basketball games, that it’s hard to imagine an era when they weren’t omnipresent. But in a story earlier this year on the website Consumerist, Chris Moran reported that 20 years ago, only one of the major-league baseball stadiums had a corporate moniker, Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

"Hi dere, I have never heard of Wrigley Field (built in 1914)!"

He's a talented man.

maybe he only watches the World Series?

“Keep Austin Weird” is the Texas capital’s unofficial slogan, a clue to its proudly subversive soul.

can we talk about how Austin is really not weird, like, at all?

i feel like it got some rep because it was in texas and slightly more "quirky" than dallas

Keep (X) Weird

I'm a super dilettante when it comes to Texas but for what it's worth, I found Houston to be a LOT weirder than Austin. Or a lot more bohemian, arty and exciting at least.

Austin is weird gone mainstream, so isn't actually that weird anymore. From my experience the past few years Houston and Dallas weird are still out on the fringes so lack that homogenizing factor.

austin has livenationed up, totes

Keep Austin Weird, brought to you by Doritos.

Performing “Summertime Sadness,” Lana Del Rey told a lover to “kiss me hard before you go.” Would she be texting him later with a Samsung Galaxy, the smartphone for which the stage on which she appeared was visibly named?

What hope do antisystemic movements have if LDR has deserted us?

Thanks for this dumb link, Ted Giola.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/smart-people-listen-to-radiohead-and-dumb-people-listen-to-beyonce-according-to-new-study/

oops I mean Gioia

enraging

this is a much better candidate than most stuff that gets posted in here

Soca

Reggaeton

Soca

poor meghan trainor

http://virgil.gr/

this isn't even a new study, this shit resurfaces every year or so

If they're so smart why do they listen to radiohead

*clink*

wordsandideasthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr

that chart was worthwhile for me just for making it clear that jazz is dumb

http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/musicdetails.php?music=Beethoven

i think what this suggests is that students at elite schools are cornball conformists just like every other batch of students, they just have learned to say the name of THE MOST FAVED COMPOSER IN ALL OF CLASSICAL MUSIC alongside their otherwise typically normal tastes as a way of signalling their aspirations to appreciate, or belong to, some kind of more refined coterie than the one they actually live in, which mostly listens to… U2, jack johnson, and the beatles lol

any study that says "dumb people listen to jazz, smart people listen to red hot chili peppers'....man idk