December 2009
33 posts
“Hands down, end of discussion, no contest, the single shittiest phrase of the...”
– Michaelangelo Matos, A Regrettable Decade in Music
One thousand times yes. (via maura)
I respectfully disagree. Because no ’00s word makes me want to punch its utterer in the face quite like “webinar.”
“Blog House: Electronic bands that sounded like rock bands—a/k/a stuff an earnest...”
– New York Music - The Decade in Music Genre Hype - page 2
I love Whiney G for writing pieces like this.
“But the age of online video is still far off: the average American watches just...”
– Are these numbers right? They seem sort of crazy.
FT.com / Lex / Technology, media & telecoms - Internet TV (via heyitsnoah)
That actually sounds about right to me… which number seems off to you, Noah— is it the 2 mins. of online or the 6 hrs of TV? (or “both,” I guess,...
Can - Silent Night
fight! fight!
maura johnston: i'm just sick of teenage girls being the people who are "ruining music"
maura johnston: as a former teenage girl i think old white guys are MUCH WORSE
“The amount of fun you’re having at a party is inversely proportional to the...”
– Behold Kincaid’s Law. My Law. (via heyitsnoah)
Predict Pitchfork's Top 10 →
I think this is in fact true, because I can also, generally speaking, predict what numerical score an album will be given within about 0.8 or so.
rachelandthecity:
Actually, for Ryan to be this close just means he reads way too much Pitchfork. There’s a lot of great music out there that never makes it on to Pitchfork’s radar.
Predict Pitchfork's Top 10 →
It was pointed out to me almost as soon as I put up my list that (a.) I omitted the Lips at my own peril and (b.) my “token” metal inclusion was a waaaaay looonngshot. Still, I’m satisfied, even if I didn’t get the placements all that right.
maura:
And now, a look at how catbird’s predictions fared:
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You missed the Lips (4), Ryan. And...
Predict Pitchfork's Top 10
Pitchfork is posting their “Best Of” 2009 lists this week (“Songs” = done, “Albums” = coming up). So let’s all try* to predict the Top 10— reblog with your guesses! Mine are below *Most accurate list wins $1,000,000,000 (in invisible, fake money).
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Raekwon - Only...
“The sensei (the master teacher) was not charging the group for the training. The...”
– Predictably Irrational (via marco)
Congrats to my friend Rich for getting included in the new Whitney Biennial!
An "Inside Baseball" Music Blog Nerd Post
An observation: if you are a music site that ostensibly posts only “legal, cleared” tracks, then you probably shouldn’t be be posting links to tracks on sites that don’t follow the “everything is legal, cleared” standard.
I’m not sure what sort of bizarre justification you have going on in your head, but it’s like vowing that you’d never...
I JUST got the joke with the band Small Black’s name, now, like 2 months after first hearing of them.
I think I would’ve gotten it quicker if they’d chosen “Little Black” instead, but then again, maybe not. I once worked on a project called “Tech Knowledge” for about 6 months before I all-of-a-sudden “got” that one.
“America is now a one-party state. The one party is the Establishment party,...”
– O = W (via azspot) (via marco)
“Here’s what I’d do: run a series of national innovation awesomeness...”
– Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Advertising Age: Cheil Acquires Majority Stake in... →
benjaminpalmer:
news! we have a new global business partner and we’re going to grow and do new exciting things and it will be totally great.
Cheers to that— Barbarian is hands-down the most kickass agency out there, so good on them!
