Favourite Pieces Of Music Writing

link to blog here, als.

http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/our-men-in-havana/

Nice.

The photos of Cuba in the NY Times piece were gorgeous.

^^^ yes

As long as we're talking Cuba -- and this has to do with music too!

http://gawker.com/5943543/the-punks-on-g-street-tracking-cubas-rebellious-youth-50-years-after-the-revolution

http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/38958539772/one-direction-little-things-did-you-know-that

what i love best about this is her mastery of the tone of mingled disgust and desire and delight, of hyperbolic ambivalence, WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN, #everythingisembarrassing: it's a language i've only seen women use, on tumblr (and before that, a little, on livejournal). I've heard it spoken a bit but only by people already familiar with the internet use. That feeling of being personally affronted by your own reactions - whether to a song, a band, a person - of being aghast at yourself and overjoyed by it, of something that requires high-flown and/or extreme description that's simultaneously 100% serious and 100% facetious.

a language in which you can describe a person as wearing "gravely upsetting tank tops"! a language in which it is possible to express the fact that a song that you kind of despise is precisely the song that affects you the most.

yeah isabel's one of my favorite writers, i wish she did it professionally or regularly in some capacity. whenever she tries it's just O_O

this piece on pfork from years ago has turned into something fairly influential on the direction of my music interests ever since, and by proxy my life.

shoutout to nitsuh. i know they used to post here. definitely one of the best pieces i've ever read.