xpost: is that a generally accepted definition of "one-off"?
honestly, that LAWeekly is publishing stuff like Keyes posted is super sad. guess i should pitch in on that thing Jeff Weiss (and others, I'm sure) has been pushing on Twitter.
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:58 (five years ago) link
speaking of la weekly
Discovered tonight that a critic who was "dragged" a few years ago for writing a sexist column has rebranded as an explicitly conservative writer (but not MAGA, of course) -- amazing to witness a grift hatch in real-time— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) November 27, 2018
― maura, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
I don't want to bag on the LA Weekly writer I quoted by name because I assume she's a struggling young person who has to produce these pieces by the dozen in 25 minutes each in order to scrape together a living wage. But there is some kind of special off-ness to the way those are written that goes beyond just "this was done in a hurry," I think, and I can't quite place it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
it reads like a copy of a copy of someone else’s marketing copy
― maura, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
editors would help
they'd help drive up costs you mean!!!
― j., Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
it reads like a copy of a copy of someone else’s marketing copyYeah, I was gonna say — it reads like a bad high school or college newspaper piece, Google-translated to another language and then back to English.
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
the naked careerism of some of the longtime L.A. Weekly folks who were deigned worthy enough to stick around is pretty off-putting, but those weren't the writers i used to like there.
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't have ever put Falling James and 'naked careerism' in the same sentence.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
Via the Belle and Sebastian thread (and Wikipedia), I discovered this now-deleted OG Pitchfork gem:https://web.archive.org/web/20030604193859/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/belle-and-sebastian/boy-with-the-arab-strap.shtml
whatever an Arab Strap is, it should be used to batten down the crap song hatch
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
That's an awesome review that doesn't deserve to be mentioned in this thread. J@son Jos3ph3s is still active on twitter, btw.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
"awesome" is pushing it, "lazy" and "by the numbers" is a better description
but yes, it doesn't belong on this thread
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
I give the review a 5.9
― Evan, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
I give it a... 0.8
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
They always used to slag off popular albums. Their policy in those days was pretty much “If you’ve heard of it, it must not be very good.” I guess it helped get clicks though.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
Their policy in those days was pretty much “If you’ve heard of it, it must not be very good.”
What webcomic do you write for with this idea?
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
Hologram Concerts Don't Suck, You're Just a Hater
professional troll Eve Peyser goes to a show where a video recording of a Roy Orbison impersonator with a CGI Roy Orbison face stuck on him is projected in front of an orchestra, just like the real Orbison played with
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
but is there holographic clingfilm
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
holografanfic
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
she really capitalized on that bari weiss kissyfest huh
― maura, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
she's having quite a year
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
very excited to not know who this is, thank you for not linking sic
― rob, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Twitter things you def need to care about for 5 seconds
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2025587/vox-lux-review-natalie-portman-death-of-poptimism/franchises/sounding-board/
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 17 December 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 17 December 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
But at what cost? Maybe poptimism’s fatal flaw is placing too much of our hopes and ideologies on an art form that cannot support or sustain them. Or maybe it doesn’t matter
if you peer deeply into the clause "or maybe it doesn't matter" you will see the phrase "i really regret pitching this dumbass idea" slowly clarifying itself in the dimness
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
lol
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
how many times does somebody need to rewrite the "we've gone too far, time to reinstate cultural hierarchies" handwringer?
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
I mean apart from on ILM
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
alright everybody start writing Car Seat Headrest clickbait
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
“Every generation gets the rock star they deserve. An icon that both contextualises the surrounded cultural landscape and redefines it. Looking back on this bewildering decade, no star will better epitomise our fractured, hyper-sexed identities and fiscal insecurity than the swaggy nihilism of Post Malone. The world is literally on fire and 13-year-old YouTubers are covering entire Ferraris in Louis Vuitton x Supreme wraps. Posty reigns.”
― maura, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
ban fashion magazines from covering music imo
― maura, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
lol I had to read the whole thing. marilyn manson is def fondly remembered as stylish
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 29 December 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
“If you've ever seen a photo of Miles Davis, Dwight Yoakam, Debbie Harry, or OutKast, you know that writing about music and writing about style are basically the same thing”
https://www.gq.com/story/whole-new-era-at-gq-ed-letter
wow dude really excited for your cutting edge magazine where your music issue features, uh, SoundCloud rap, John Mayer, and Vampire Weekend? You do know that music evolved since you left Fader right
― maura, Thursday, 10 January 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
.... ah
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 January 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
People who wear their shoes untied on purpose are insane
― Evan, Thursday, 10 January 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
pitching GQ as an way-out-there magazine when it comes to anything is wild
like it's literally for 30 somethings who have an interest in owning more than one suit and want to read about things they've already heard of
― mh, Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.spin.com/2019/01/deerhunter-why-hasnt-everything-already-disappeared-review/
I'm probably being unfair, but this unedited+unreadable wordcloud (at one point referring to the "ponderous basso continuo" of a track, presumably to mean "it has harpsichord") turned up in my feed on the same day many of the best writers I know got canned, and I went for the state of "content" as I have not wept since Pitchfork Reviews Reviews was a thing
― The depressed somebody from the popular David Bowie song, (bernard snowy), Saturday, 26 January 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
*first "went" should be "wept" obv, but thanks to autocorrect for trying to make me appear happier than I am
― The depressed somebody from the popular David Bowie song, (bernard snowy), Saturday, 26 January 2019 11:59 (five years ago) link
he shd have cut straight to "boffo continuo"
― mark s, Saturday, 26 January 2019 12:06 (five years ago) link
eh, dense screed apparently written by a megafan who is too close to gauge the interest to others of everything being said
united spiritual conduit tho
― j., Saturday, 26 January 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
jesus christ dale
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 26 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
'Ponderous basso continuo' is perfectly fine imho. As for the rest, it's not exactly good but it isn't bland either.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
PONDEROUS, MAN, FUCKIN PONDEROUS
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
“Nothing Ever Happened,” a short-but-sweet number that leads to one of the most-inspiring guitar riffs in modern indie rock history
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 26 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
I'd be hard-pressed to name one riff from modern indie rock besides maybe "A-Punk" which is just a busier version of Minutemen's "My Heart And The Real World"
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
I'm struggling to articulate precisely why, but (for reasons undisclosed) really rubs me the wrong way. It just seems so uh... presumptuous? Idk
― The depressed somebody from the popular David Bowie song, (bernard snowy), Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
I recall Vedder saying he wished he'd written the guitar line from the dismemberment plan's "secret curse"
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
I dunno what “most-inspiring” means (so I’ll bracket that); but when I think of great/iconic indie rock riffs, I guess I think immediately of — “Freed Pig,” “Hot & Cold Skulls,” “Trigger Cut” (which was swiped from VU), “Coming Hot and Proud”... (all from the ‘90s)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
What VU is the "Trigger Cut" riff swiped from?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link