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

it's those damn 23 year olds!

to be fair sometimes they're as old as 29

don't trust anyone under 30

there's another "ooh spooky algorithms" piece by Rhett Miller in the outline (admittedly it touches on other subjects)

Didn't see it up there, does it have a bafflingly incongruous title or something?

can't link rn but it's actually in The Baffler, sorry

i think it’s in the baffler

can't link rn but it's actually in The Baffler, sorry

― Simon H., Friday, January 5, 2018 8:21 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

goddamn you for making me try to find a story on the outline

lmao sorry

anyway it's not really bad enough for this thread I don't think but man if I were a white rock musician in my 40s I'd think long and hard before writing dismissively about "SoundCloud rappers"

I like a lot about The Outline, but they do make it hard to find what you want.

the outline had a decent piece on this a few months back, albeit not about music: https://theoutline.com/post/2362/the-algorithm-is-innocent

anyway it's not really bad enough for this thread I don't think but man if I were a white rock musician in my 40s I'd think long and hard before writing dismissively about "SoundCloud rappers"

No one in their 40s should be thinking about SoundCloud rappers at all. Accept that not everything is for you, and that that's a good thing, and move on.

wait up there hoss - some of that soundcloud stuff you're dismissing is just fine for the over 40 crowd, maybe not for you tho'

As a 40 year old, I'm cool with soundcloud rappers. I also recognize that what I might have to say about them isn't notable or relevant to them (or anyone much, really)

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/MpA2HVftSFntl9HhmhlQA3MEjIU=/0x0:1409x785/1200x800/filters:focal(622x252:846x476)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/55701647/Screen_Shot_2017_07_13_at_1.09.20_PM.0.png

A thread where white people old enough to remember the Challenger Explosion debate whether "I took a white bitch to starbucks/That lil' bitch got her throat fucked" is for them

That's not really what's happening but whatever gramps

Ageism goes both ways.

whiney if u aint' down with the kids how can u be down with the clown?

also NB: your immediate access to xxx bars is very suspect, i daresay you may be a greyhair turncoat

does anyone under the age of 40 use that Buscemi meme anymore, is my question

this piece is seriously called “cut the c-rap”

https://www.city-journal.org/html/cut-c-rap-15692.html

when does the pmrc reform

City Journal is the nation’s premier urban-policy magazine, “the Bible of the new urbanism,” as London’s Daily Telegraph puts it. During the Giuliani Administration, the magazine served as an idea factory as the then-mayor revivified New York City, quickly becoming, in the words of the New York Post, “the place where Rudy gets his ideas.”

lord help us

The guy looks like an Isaac Asimov cosplayer

http://myronmagnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/MyronMagnetAlexanderHamilton-x400.jpg

Peggy Noonan is on their publication committee.

i love that he quoted the skit from reasonable doubt as jay-z lyrics

Fuckin' Magnets, how do they work?

not so much music writing as racist concern trolling tbf

lmao "myron magnet"

from the creative team that brought you "geir hongro"

the corruption and oppression of their kleptocratic governments that keep the proles in poverty, ignorance, and fear; their religions that teach violence or passive resignation; and their cultures that oppress women, devalue learning, promote superstition

but enough about america,

👌

that photo is perfect not-alt right "I am upholding civilization against the barbarian darkness" fantasy

Looks like Chris Cantwell's attorney

to whom do i write a sharply worded letter about rescinding mr magnet's national humanities medal

Too late, it'll be pretty firmly stuck to him

shoulda checked the couch before he sat down

the only magnet we acknowledge here is penelope magnet

some of these ageing aesthetes are better off just staying safely inside their posh wanking pits, and refraining from saying anything until the death. Then we all win.

posh wanking pits

wait are these bad now?

nowt wrong with 'em!

But people like Sir Roger Scrotum should stay inside them.

someone on twitter said he looks like Dr Snuggles & now I cant unsee it

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-7_WRSEwuk0/hqdefault.jpg

t/s friend of the animal world vs white supremacist who uses big words

This kind of thing not too unusual these days but published by the CBC, who have done tons of reporting on the story, possibly even breaking it in the first place?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/hedley-opinion-1.4586160

o_O

I've never heard of that band. I guess I should be glad to hear that there are bands I've never heard of that people are tattoo-level devoted to. There are more bands than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.

can con

come on this guy seems supercool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Dmilr2T10