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On a date with cutest boy, higher than a kite

― Binder, Binder & (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, January 6, 2013 2:59 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

Admittedly I haven't tried to stream the YLT record yet, so maybe the "controllable" content is really awesome, but man they are really proud of themselves for catching up to what NPR has been doing for years now.

I was glad to stream the album, and happy to easily see/read the liner notes for the record - something that is missing from the rest of my iTunes library. I don't really knock them for giving it a heavy PR spin, even if the BS is high. What are they supposed to do, not announce that they are streaming full albums?

yeah, seems fine to me.

it's IMMERSIVE

its also a shot against NPR which kinda locked down the ON FIRST LISTEN hits awhile back

the thing about NPR album streams is that they kinda sucked from a user perspective

i mean it was cool that they existed but that was about all

blurbs for today's reviews:

Tall Ships
Everything Touching
By Laura Snapes

Known for their ferocious live show, the Brighton-based post-rock band's long-time-coming debut is equal parts meditative and cathartic.

Various Artists
L.I.E.S. Presents: American Noise
By Andrew Gaerig

Offering an unparalleled collection of fresh talent, the rise of Ron Morelli's Long Island Electrical System is one of the most significant and encouraging developments in American underground electronic music in years. This sprawling 2xCD label compilation is a bewitching collection of underground dance, experimental, and analog ephemera.

Mats Gustafsson / Colin Stetson
Stones
By Brian Howe

Recorded live at the 2011 Vancouver Jazz Festival, Stones doesn't allow Stetson and Gustafsson to complement their respective, opposing traits, but pits them against each other for a furious, abrasive record that bombards the listener into submission.

Wooden Wand
Blood Oaths of the New Blues
By Grayson Currin

During the last decade, James Jackson Toth has used the Wooden Wand handle and variations on it to release a mountain of barely compatible material. His proper debut for British vanguard Fire Records captures the best essences of this career in 41 seamless minutes.

T.I.
Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head
By Ian Cohen

T.I.'s scattershot 70-minute eighth album features guest spots from A$AP Rocky, R. Kelly, André 3000, Pink, Lil Wayne, Cee Lo Green, Meek Mill, and others.

spot the odd man out

only one of those artists posted to ilm??

lol

I was talking about how every blurb manages to give you an idea of what the album is like except for the T.I. blurb, which is just a list of names

haha i thought you were referring to pink

they seriously need to start having the writers pen frontpage blurbs for their own reviews, or have the editor(s) put more thought into the summaries, because the 'randomly cherrypick and recontextualize words from the review' style has gotten so sloppy

or you could read the reviews

You could, but that wouldn't change how half-assed that blurb is or the negative impression it gives the site by being in a prominent spot on the front page.

only one of those artists posted to ilm??

― once & future (Lamp), Tuesday, January 8, 2013

real life lol

I was talking about how every blurb manages to give you an idea of what the album is like except for the T.I. blurb, which is just a list of names

You missed the part where they also called it "scattershot".

and an "album"

ok who the fuck is andy o'connor

next time they need to make a piece of architecture we can all dance around, because considering the elevating demand for shriveling supplies of attention, "ok" is almost worse than "unlistenable."

@andy_oconnor

Dude staying with us requested we put on Yes. My roommate opted for Goblin instead. Very smart move.
12:27am - 7 Jan 13

What a peach, this guy

No Yes for you!

Dave Grohl Enlists Members of Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, More for Sound City Band

this headline really could have been written better. "I wonder which member of Stevie Nicks is participating in this?"

Members of Nirvana is actually the name of Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear's new band

it's not a band, it's a puppet show starring their dicks iirc

da croupier enlists members of some dude for shitty jokes

we'll be here all week, we've been doing this for 10 years already anyway

don't hate on me just because you didn't come up with i-i-it

cut em some slack

Huh huh, "members" of John Fogerty ...

Fogerty named his dong ”Stu Cook”

Brent DiCrescenzo with a Humblebrag

https://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/15974586/%E2%80%9Ci-gave-sonic-youth-a-0-0-rating-on-pitchfork-%E2%80%9D

that's really embarrassing

OK, now I'm seeing the context of the piece and its less embarrassing

https://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/15975711/toc-staffers%E2%80%99-regrets

now i'm thinking about the context of the piece and its pretty funny

our knowingly silly, arbitrary decimal scale

should be the title of an official PF book

i always wonder whose gonna be the legs-mcneil-in-a-keffiyeh whose gonna take the bullet and write the oral history

“I predicted the success of a failed art installation.”

“I predicted the success of a failed art installation.”

DAMN XP

i kind of like that story

that felt less like 'critic makes judgment, changes their mind' than 'journalist interviews artist and excitedly promotes their upcoming work, which ends up not fulfilling potential,' which is a bit different than the theme they were going for

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/features/8989/d00ada75.gif

This isn't dumb, i think it's really awesome.

for real, wish they'd let me make some gifs

although i would probably give people seizures on accident

Fork Fest 2013 headliners are insaaaaane!

R. Kelly, Bjork, and Belle & Sebastian.

R. Kelly!

why is belle and sebastian headlining in 2013 is my immediate reaction

Because it is 2013 and the fest couldn't get them in years past, closer to their popular peak?

I know where I'll be this summer, what a great set of headliners after a crap list in 2012.

i could see belle & sebastian being a big deal for kids that were too young to see them at the height of their career

that is profoundly depressing