July 2009
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Spare Some Change?
Counter culture has been bringing the masses together in the most obscene fashions lately. A bunch of nose-in-the-air artsy-types celebrated the work of Shepard Fairey in Boston recently, an artist that, up until this year, would have been written off as just another criminal street artist. Starbucks-the epitome of the buttoned-up polo shirt, duck-shoe wearing modern day beatniks-has embraced...
June 2009
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audreyhepburncomplex:
Passion Pit-Little Secrets
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"Love is Watching Someone Die"
They say there is music for all occasions. Jazz musicians in New Orleans back in the day seemed to have it all backwards-like their emotions and the style of music they played were the complete opposites. On the way to a funeral, they played somber, hallowing marches. On the way back from the funeral, they dropped a beat and played joints like “When the Saints go Marching In.” I have...
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“i dont know what feels stranger: day after realizing your hero is gone. or the...”
– questlove
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Reasons to get rid of the Major Record Labels →
Downhill Battle makes their case for how getting rid of the majors will better the industry. Ironically, they are proposing taking away all the venture capital that runs the industry, however they make a pretty decent claim.
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“I like MGMT. I’d like to work on some more dancey stuff with MGMT. But it...”
– Paul McCartney on MGMT, who is opening McCartney’s 2 show run on 85-8/6 at Fenway Park in Boston. YUP. Too bad Blink’s on the 6th.
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All I Need is One More Chance
I have been privelaged to grow up in a house where music came second only to eating and breathing. This is why it’s weird for me to think that Michael Jackson was kind of an after thought to me when I think about what music influenced me the most. A bit of a retrospective on Jacko’s influence on me:
He was always one of those larger-than-life icons to me. I never struggled with liking...
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“Is there nothing you Phish fans can’t make out of hemp? I mean, besides...”
– Triumph The Insult Comic Dog @ Bonnaroo
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forthebooks:
Grizzly Bear - Foreground
(via...
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Too Good For Words
I heard someone say once that classical music and techno music were the two most closely related styles of music. I immediately wrote it off as drunk yammer, but then when it was explained to me it made so much sense. He said that classical and techno music are “absolute music.” That is, the music contains no words-just sounds. Unless the DJ or composer uses a vocal sample or dialogue,...
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"What Kind of Music do you Most Dislike?"
It’s a funny thing; musical taste. I was at a staff training event for my summer job and one of our ice breaker exercises was to tell our partners what kind of music we liked the least. My answer-which echoed just about everyone else’s answer-was country music. I’m not here today to preach to you about why I dislike country. I have neither the time nor the patience to wax...
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It's better to Burn out Than Fade Away
I don’t understand “Rock” musicians anymore. It seems like everyone’s intentions are always the same when their career begins to jump off. You’ve heard it before, how “it’s not about the money.” I wish I owned a time machine that would take me back to Liverpool, Haight Ashbury, L.A., New York City and Hawthorne California to tell all of these old...
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“If you think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age...”
– Dennis Hope (Almost Famous)
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“I’m a supporter of mixtape culture and intend to get to the bottom of it.”
– Santigold in response to her recent mixtape controversy
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It's On
When a band licenses their song to be used in a commercial (i.e. Matt & Kim’s “Daylight” in a Bacardi commercial) does it change your opinion of the band and their music?
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"Oh Man. That band sucks dude!"
I feel like I have hated on music in this blog more than I have glorified it, but this topic is something that I can not let lie. I’ve done it countless times. I’ll be the first to admit it. However, when I hear other people do it, it makes my blood boil? Am I better than other music fans? I would say better than just about 86% of them. However, when I hear other people say it, it...
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Go Back to South Africa and Grab Some Rogaine on...
To start off on the right foot, I am not bashing Dave Matthews for dedicating his band’s latest effort “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King” to their late sax player LeRoi Moore. Actually, this fact alone makes it hard for me to write this post, as I feel like I’m metaphorically severely anally discharging all over this artistic tribute. However, here’s where you wet...