This Warren Ellis piece on Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan, and live recordings is excellent reading, and the song that accompanies it damn well gave me chills.
Tag Archives: Music
Me @ Volume 1- Coming Soon to a Lower East Side Near You*
- Afternoon Bites: Chris Andrews on translation, Hot Lit Mags, James Sturm on Jack Kirby, and more
- Notes on Quentin Rowan, Yeti, and Bits of Spy Novels
- Reviewed: “Sister Stop Breathing” by Chiara Barzini
- Afternoon Bites: William S. Burroughs in pop culture, “Angelmaker” gets a trailer , 90s hardcore and Skrillex, and more
June 23, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Music
Warren Ellis on Van Morrison
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March 27, 2009, Author: , 1 Comment
Tags:: criticism, festivals, Music, SXSW
notes on music festivals and urban renewal
Categories: Culture, MusicTags:: criticism, festivals, Music, SXSW
As promised, some further thoughts on Reihan Salam’s “The Hipster Depression”. The first thing that struck me about the piece was that, despite its initial reference to Ian Svenonius’s “Rock, Real Estate, and Alan Greenspan”, Salam’s piece also works as an irreverent companion to Richard Florida’s recent Atlantic cover story on the recession’s effects on … Continue reading
March 26, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Music, Thursday Agitation
The Thursday Agitation: Tracy Wilson
Categories: Music, NYC, The Thursday AgitationTags:: Music, Thursday Agitation
One of the highlights, for me, of my zine-editor days came when I found myself in the basement of Brownies circa 2000, moderating a conversation between Tracy Wilson and Caithlin De Marrais. At the time, De Marrais was making music as one-third of Rainer Maria, while Wilson’s band Souvenir had begun playing shows around New … Continue reading
March 16, 2009, Author: , 2 Comments
Tags:: Drag City, Music
recommended music writing: 16 march 2009
Categories: MusicTags:: Drag City, Music
In the Times: Mike Rubin on the band Death, whose work was recently reissued by Drag City. It’s the kind of story — young Michigan band essentially invents punk in a vacuum in the early 70s, before geographically relocating to Vermont and musically relocating to gospel and reggae — that would seem unbelievable in any … Continue reading
March 9, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Anthony Braxton, Music, theory, Warren Ellis
recommended music writing: 9 march 2009
Categories: MusicTags:: Anthony Braxton, Music, theory, Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis on Anthony Braxton. Which, among other things, makes some fine points about what artists in one discipline can learn from the theories of another.
February 27, 2009, Author: , 7 Comments
Tags:: Internet, leaks, Music
notes on press coverage + leaks
Categories: Music, NYCTags:: Internet, leaks, Music
Following today’s earlier J.T. Ramsay shout-out, I’m once again linking his site, this time regarding his most recent post on release dates and press coverage, in which he argues for coverage more centered around an album’s leak date. More specifically, I’m responding to this section: Even Pitchfork holds fast to release dates, which just seems … Continue reading
February 23, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Music, Touch + Go
touch + go fallout
Categories: Culture, MusicTags:: Music, Touch + Go
It’s a frustrating period in culture right now, where the closure of Touch & Go Distribution seems to hover much of what I encounter in art. Example: today’s Lit Mob update brings with it a short piece on what the guys from The End of the World are reading. Understandable enough — especially given that … Continue reading
December 31, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Music, Top 10
music new and reissued: 2008
Categories: 2008, MusicTags:: Music, Top 10
Top 10 of ’08, except for the first in no particular order: Frightened Rabbit: The Midnight Organ Fight Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The Dutchess & The Duke: She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago The Tallest Man on Earth: Shallow Grave Sam Amidon: All Is Well Fennesz: Black Sea Shearwater: Rook … Continue reading
December 19, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Music, Music: Criticism
music + 2008
Categories: MusicTags:: Music, Music: Criticism
Slate’s “Year in Music” feature — in which Jody Rosen, Ann Powers, and Robert Christgau debate, well, what you’d expect — is now up and in progress, beginning here. Among the topics discussed so far: auto-tune, the monoculture, and the ubiquity of Bon Iver.
December 15, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Books, Links, Music
a trio of lists for your december reading and listening pleasure
Categories: Books, MusicTags:: Books, Links, Music
Lately, I’ve been wrapped up in second-draft work and working on an EMP Pop Conference proposal; hence, the slowness around here. With that in mind, links to three lists of recommended media, two in retrospect and one anticipating 2009: One: The Eugene Weekly‘s Winter Reading issue. Two: What to Wear During an Orange Alert’s holiday … Continue reading
November 25, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: animal collective, grizzly bear, Music, web sheriff
Evidently, having already covered the hope and panic memes, 2008 is just going for full-on surrealism now.
Categories: MusicTags:: animal collective, grizzly bear, Music, web sheriff
I think I tend to be a little more conservative on music file-sharing than a lot of my peers. That said, the news, via Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan, of the band Grizzly Bear being accosted by an entity called “Web Sheriff” for posting a link to a song from the forthcoming Animal Collective album. That … Continue reading