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

wasn't sure whether to put this in the nat'l review thread or here, but it's a real gem

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/why-is-lin-manuel-miranda-throwing-away-his-shot/

oh lord that url

u_u

i was gonna excelsior that pure omar parody ('glassine gasps of Pink Floyd') until i noticed it was real

thanks to the how to dress well dude for endorsing this piece of shit https://medium.com/@matdryhurst/protocols-duty-despair-and-decentralisation-transcript-69acac62c8ea

please do say more about this "club music"

My assumption is also that whichever streaming platform wins (as all roads lead to monopoly in this current paradigm)

Why would this be the case?

Oh I think we have a winner here.

a few years ago, a boy sent this to me to demonstrate his galaxy brain and i think about it constantly pic.twitter.com/VsPbCBY6F8

— isobel mohyeddin (@isobelmohyeddin) March 7, 2019

keep in mind that this was the intro paragraph to a FULL LENGTH PAPER

— isobel mohyeddin (@isobelmohyeddin) March 7, 2019

A full ten page paper, she says elsewhere.

Often, I have found,

Are we sure this wasn't an ILXor

Damn, I wanna read that whole paper...!

i think he raises some salient points

not notably distinct from plenty of OPINIONS 4 U comments on this very site a scant decade ago

I had to put this somewhere

https://tmz.com/2019/03/10/nicki-minaj-concert-canceled-france-fans-angry-chant-cardi-b/

“France loves starting wars, and might have one with Nicki Minaj now after some angry fans turned on her in the most savage way possible.

...

“As for the Cardi chanters -- we're guessing Nicki ain't sweatin' them too much.

“It's not like the French do well in wars.”

trenchant zing

what else are you going to do with your history degree

My cousin used to stay, "The French are the only people who haven't marched under their own Arc de Triomphe nyuk nyuk nyuk"

this is from bandcamp, and is as much blurb as "review", but i just am not sure this attempt to cast the new weregoat album as some kind of sex-positive feminist statement is wholly successful:

Its cover art might depict three bound, naked women in risqué poses, awaiting their grisly demise at the cloven claws of a hideous goat beast, but make no mistake: The latest effort from Portland blackened-thrash crew Weregoat is actually a celebration of sex positivity, with a sinister twist. Which is to say, these eight songs are mostly devoted to capital-F fucking — blasphemed unions between succubi and killer women with “nuclear cunts” (now that’s what I call pussy power!), gore-stained orgies and nocturnal hunts. The incendiary, Bathory-esque riff onslaughts and howled, lycanthropic vocals on standouts like “Invoke the Black Oblivion” and “By the Light of the Moon” similarly bely their staunch devotion to the id, wasting no time to get to the down and dirty. Light the candelabras, bust out the flogs, pour you and your sweetie two tall glasses of blood, and get cozy.

I like that they rhymed "nuclear cunts" with "nocturnal hunts"

Amused by this set-up/tear-down the strawman take:

We’re now living through a moment when it seems as if we might one day, you know, be pulling Led Zeppelin tracks from streaming sites because of the scandalous nature of the group’s offstage bacchanals. Yet I somehow doubt it.

Feature or press release?: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-wallows-interview-20190322-story.html

https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/07/13/qa-dos-kira-on-the-physicality-of-bass-playing-her-definition-of-punk-and-why-duos-should-stay-duos/

Every mention of Mike Watt made me slightly angrier.

Fugazi was effectively a startup from which valuable lessons in governance, business and sustainability might be inferred about the way an O’Rourke administration will approach the American economy.

Fugazi capitalism would be inclusive, consumer-friendly and ethical.

https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/cox-betonomics-would-have-certain-punk-rock-edge

oh sweet jesus no

And anyone left on the right worrying about spending might like a MacKaye-like, bare-bones approach to big government, too.

It's DIY government!

the right would prefer an SSTocracy

a blast first, ask questions later government

ask me about my Gangrene New Deal

SLASH government spending!

form a NEW ALLIANCE!

godspeed to everyone who actually read that; just looking at the URL is giving me hives

it's even worse than you'd expect!

AMREPresentative democracy in action!

When I saw Beto speak it was like 50 Skidillion Watts of energy shot up leg.

My

so you’re saying he made your calves cramp?

can't believe the editor unearthed one of beto's since-now-undiscovered textfiles before the textfiles guy did

Beto won't win the election but everyone who sees him speak will run for President in the future.

Fugazi capitalism would be inclusive, consumer-friendly and ethical.

http://i63.tinypic.com/bim98z.jpg

My neighborhood 7-11 is upstairs from Dischord btw

Ftr I could find no entry for Fugazi in the RIAA's gold and platinum database.

In that respect, Tame Impala did more than enough to fill that void by drenching the crowd with their LSD-drenched visuals and even a little more crowd work than usual. (During one of their final songs, Parker crept onto the festival’s projectors with five eyeballs.)

sounds trippy

read that three times, still can't parse

where have all the editors gone?

so the projector had ... or wait, Parker had.... hang on now

Team Drench

I drenched my body with flavor drenched gatorade because I was working my body more than usual.

got me a movie oh ho ho ho
crept on five eyeballs oh ho ho ho

also whut

editors the profession are pretty much like editors the band, they're still around but nobody gives a shit about them

The editor is dead, long live the involuntary poet!

editors the profession are pretty much like editors the band, they're still around but nobody gives a shit about them

― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Monday, April 15, 2019 1:55 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hm