December 2009
12 posts
The Decade in Music Genre Hype →
tomewing:
tumbledore:
Good rundown if you can put up with the disgruntled old person “voice,” which I find to be one of the most unbearable things in the world to read. I get it bro, those darn music bloggers with all their free time and free content and letting people listen to music instead of read about it are almost forcing you to get a real job, sucks.
I just want to be positive for a...
“77 Boadrum was quite special. But then again, the things that I want to do,...”
– BOMB Magazine: Boredoms by Hisham Akira Bharoocha
“The band released the track for free in a blitzkrieg on numerous...”
– The 50 Worst Songs of the ’00s, F2K No. 26: Beastie Boys, “In A World Gone Mad”
So brutal wie witzig wie traurig weil wahr.
“People are wont to invest the traditions and practices of generations past with...”
– Reconsidering the Revival of Cassette Tape Culture < Features | PopMatters
“So wurden etwa am Hof von Franz I. in den 1530er Jahren Künstler damit...”
– kunst - fachdings in eigener sache
Imagine if the internet as we know it now was... →
agrammar:
At some point in the past, many people’s response to the sound of indie/alt music was that it was weird or wrong or incomprehensible or maybe not even really music. This was the response I grew up around, anyway — certainly one you’d have gotten to Daydream Nation — (“what is this? it doesn’t even sound like anything”) — and a dynamic that hasn’t evaporated nearly as much as we like to...