February 2010
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January 2010
97 posts
Watchcap0ne:
Lil B - I’m God
Best raps of 2009
This is not intended to be comprehensive or touch all rap music bases or to precisely represent the year in rap. I wanted to make something that was fun & musical, that you might actually want to listen to more than once, instead of checking off a list of the artists that best represent your Personal Brand. Lots of artists, including many that blogs are talking covering heavily, are not. This...
“When Walt “Leaves of Grass” Whitman wrote that…”
– Oh that Walt Whitman. (via shwingalokate)
n0z, meet marc hogan. marc hogan, meet n0z
exceptforthisone:
Million Dollar Bill - Whitney...
jessica hopper should be sort of ashamed of...
acrophobicbird:
agrammar:
Do you see what I mean about playing it fast and loose here? She — like everyone else — calls them white, then digs up a quote correcting this misstatement and brushes it aside as some kind of posturing: “bandying around” their ethnicity. If Jessica Hopper wants to call you white, no amount of not-being-white is going to change that. She will match lazy thinking with...
jessica hopper should be sort of ashamed of...
agrammar:
desnoise:
acrophobicbird:[see link]
agrammar: [see link]
I don’t know that I fully agree with any of the sides here, but it does seem unfortunate to start getting into “who’s the less privileged, a white American woman or a Persian-American male who tells Details he has been buying $32 deodorant since his mom started getting it for him.” … I agree, it’s ironic and disappointing...
Reel change
celebraterickysargulesh:
slutsky:
It’s time the film, movie journalism and festival communities took a hard look at a practice that is practically rampant in the cinema world and needs to stop now. I’m taking about the cute homonymic use of the words “real” and “reel.” As a guy who’s written his thousands of movie-related headlines, cover lines and photo captions, I know how easy it is to...
oldtobegin:
turqnayuniverse:
20 Fingers -...
“Or to put it another way: as a rule of thumb, if when you listen to a piece of...”
– Tim F
good advice for thinking critically about music
(via 67752)
“Soulfulness is sorrowful feeling transformed into something beautiful, creative...”
– Zadie Smith (via britticisms)
great quote — i love how specific it is. “soulful” is so frequently used in a myopic manner (especially in music) that it is nice to see a well-articulated attempt to give it something concrete — less a definition than an attempt to give meaning...
sherry:
Loose Joints, Tell You (Today)
Written...
GUCCI MANE: THE STATE vs. RADRIC DAVIS →
alexmacpherson:
As far as hip-hop superstars-in-waiting go, Gucci Mane is at first glance an unlikely fit for the role. T.I. has his Hollywood looks, Lil’ Wayne is a cartoon come to life, but Gucci Mane seems almost too much like a real person to be a hip-hop hero…
Review at Fact Magazine
quote: “Gucci Mane doesn’t so much bounce between images as casually stroll from scene to scene,...
The New Yorker on The xx →
britticisms:
“The xx are, in the purest sense, a modern band: their music could not exist without the machines that make the noises and the machines that record them.”
(via kafka-on-the-shore)
This is a great piece from Sasha. The writing is the kind of honest, evocative articulation that all great writing should aspire to.
i miss how tumblarity let me know how few ppl read...
as a side note --
agrammar:
— all this stuff I’ve been posting about today? Like “indie” in terms of class and race, its connections with other kinds of music, its possible insularity, its embrace by what’s perceived as a privileged/elite group, etc. etc.? These are topics critics talk about a lot, and they’re frequently raised by people who are airing major criticisms of “indie” as a category.* So if you are a...
Watchbrokedownpalace:
I would kill for Norm.
^^^^yessss
a lengthy hack through recent music-crit stuff...
agrammar:
I’m going to attempt to make this edifying even for those who aren’t already neck-deep w/r/t the “Issues in Contemporary Music Criticism” syllabus, though I doubt I’ll succeed. If that’s you, let me catch you up. The central issue is something you may have noticed: if you sit down and take in a certain realm of “music criticism” — in this case, the kind of thoughtful, analytical,...
“Her act is too precise for her to get away with calling her sloppy rhetoric part...”
– By far Pazz & Jop’s best essay is about Lady Gaga, from the always-dependable Rich Juzwiak, one of the best music critics currently writing.
Lone wolf (not She Wolf)
cureforbedbugs:
I was the only person to vote for VV Brown or Crazy Cousinz This Is UK Funky House Vol. 1? All late bandwagoners to UK Funky shamelessly trying to cover their tracks for the Where Were You in [insert year] history books shoulda had that on their ballot!
As for VV Brown — wow. I mean, I’m not just imagining that that album is really good. (Not a question, just saying it.) And I’m...
My pazz & jop critics' poll ballot, 2009 →
I overrated “Pleazure” & probably should have included Electrik Red.
"Just remember that simply because they are louder... →
maura:
A commenter on Wonkette offers up some wisdom that I wish would be turned into a sign hung over the entire Internet.
