January 2011
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“…the populace’s desires can result in an unhealthy diet of information—the...”
– Maura Johnston
via this fantastic piece which dovetails in with what I was saying earlier… “Satire was mostly dead in 2008 and its corpse is still cold today. What do people want in the future? I guess they want tweets.”
“Everybody is becoming like…a Stasi agent, constantly observing himself or...”
– Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hütter
via Any DiSsers Use Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places Or Does Everyone Hate These Sorts Of Things? / Social // Drowned In Sound
“Today’s buzz band is tomorrow’s January archive post that gets two hits a year.”
– via Rawktumblr: Brief thoughts on O.G. Said the Gramophone’s Twitter state of the blogosphere
“In Hillel Schwartz’s book The Culture of the Copy, Gertrude Lintz, whose...”
– Maggoty Lamb wonders if nostalgia might be as good for us today as it’s always been | Music | guardian.co.uk
This reminds me, one of my resolutions for 2011 is to bite my tongue a whole lot less.
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“Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like...”
– Raoul Duke / Hunter S Thompson via Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - Memorable quotes
Saw this again tonight at the Prince Charles Cinema. Utterly amazing on the big screen.
marathonpacks: Numbers. →
Some music service stats. From what I can tell, that Spotify number was released on Dec 8th, wonder if it went up with Xmas gifting? And that obviously is without them being live in the US yet!
When you think how few albums the average person owns or buys (2.7 per year average in ‘07 - anyone got an updated stat?), it’s surprising that there is as much demand to pay for such an...
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No wonder Fanbridge just raised a heap of money
I just unsubscribed for one mailing list and their automated email kindly informed me of the following, and I have no idea what 95% of them are:
For your reference, you are currently still subscribed to the following lists: [09/21/2007 10:03am]: [First Team Music] [06/04/2008 11:17am]: [The Seventh Season] [09/08/2008 2:04pm]: [Satellite Dub] ...
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“The eye-rolls are coming from inside the house. This is the peculiar burden and...”
– Ben Dolnick via Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Conor Oberst! | The Awl
A fantastic piece about Bright Eyes. I wish I had written it myself (and I sort of felt like I had done a Tyler Durden reading it, especially the bit about Face/Off!).
Spent the weekend with the new record and went...
“Sadly the ‘idea’ of goth seems lost; the music in the nineties was largely dire,...”
– Is Goth dead? State of the goth nation 2011 by Martin Old Goth | Louder Than War
Sitting here, all in black, I’m not sure it’s dead but it’s certainly been hugged by hipsters and trounced by emos.
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WatchAre bloggers doing the work of A&R people?
Debate: Bloggers vs. A&R: The Smackdown - Part 1 - Scion Music(less) Music Conference (by Scion A/V)
“This is where you have to understand Wilson’s ‘13-year-cycle theory’ – his...”
– ‘F*** the truth, it’s the legend that counts’ | spiked
As mentioned in my Sunday Times column this week. Also relevant to today’s “Is Rock (Finally) Dead?” debate.
2002 was the year of The Streets, LCD Soundsystem, My Chemical Romance (via Ultragrrrl) and the birth of grime...
Did a post and made a concentration-friendly... →
“1 Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
2 White Hinterland – Icarus
3 Weezer – Trainwrecks...”
– My most played tracks of 2010 via drownedinsound’s Music Profile – Users at Last.fm
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“Radio 1’s commitment to new music is not without its critics. Sean Adams,...”
– …in today’s Guardian - Radio 1’s daytime takeover: liked Tinie? Try this lot | Music | The Guardian
Some interesting feedback on our boards here.
Clive Thompson on How Tweets and Texts Nurture... →
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Digital DIY music platform Bandcamp finds its... →