May 2013
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A Good Ol' American Intro for Clairy Browne and... →
I don’t understand plenty about Australia—Vegemite, the platypus’ existence as a non-mythical creature, etc.—but what I truly don’t get is…
Truly a great spin and one of my favorite records of 2013 to date. Go grab Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes’ Baby Caught The Bus as it’s out today on Vanguard Records. If you do and you hit play at...
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NOTE TO SELF:
Keep working. Even if it feels like honest, hard work and tenacity and enthusiasm and creativity aren’t worth anything anymore, even when they’re combined together in a seemingly invincible hybrid. Even if it feels like you are sending resumes to the moon, and that if you go on one more second/third/final interview for a job you could do in your sleep without it resulting in an offer...
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Portugal. the Man and Danger Mouse's Not-So-'Evil'... →
When word started getting around about Portugal. the Man’s next record, singer John Gourley put it out there that they’d…
THIS NEW RECORD IS REALLY SERIOUS AND YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO EEEET. Pumped to catch them tonight at Irving Plaza and later in the week at Boston Calling (which I’ll be covering for Paste.)
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DEEP THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
My perfect man is the Brawny paper towel guy but with glasses and tattoos and he just happens to show up every morning with the paper and my bagel and coffee. And he surprises me with show tickets and trips to Maine on occasion.
(I woke up this morning and literally thought “Today would be better if I had breakfast already. And a man. Who brought my breakfast already.”)
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Kanye West Gets Dark and Political on SNL →
In true finale fashion, Saturday Night Live didn’t mess around with the season’s closing episode—and the musical guest successfully (and…
“Black Skinhead” is now stuck in my head forever and ever and ever.
Also:
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VIVA LA DOLCE MUSTO
When GIFs and lists overtake voices, maybe it’s time to stick to guns/put money where mouths are and actively try to save the written word before none of us are employed ever again? I don’t know. Just a thought.
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Charles Bradley - Apollo Theater - 5/16/13 →
Charles Bradley Apollo Theater 5/16/13 Better Than: A pipe dream come true, and on The Apollo’s storied stage, no less. When Charles…
Charles took us to church last night, and we went to Paris Blues on Adam Clayton Boulevard for High Lifes afterwards. Sat on the makeshift patio on the sidewalk, drank marked-up cheap beer, talked about what we just saw, talked about Austin, talked...
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The Ascension of Mount Peru; record release... →
Photo by Liz Linder Photography âWeâre on a break.â Those words coming out of anybodyâs mouth â a friend, a lover, a bandmate, a manager, Ross,
Super thrilled to be a founding writer over at Vanyaland for the launch of the site. Vanyaland is the brainchild of Michael Marotta, the outgoing Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and it’s a music blog that’ll cover anything and...
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SNL Sound-Off: Vampire Weekend →
I really, really didn’t want to like Vampire Weekend’s Saturday Night Live stint on the eve of their forthcoming record,…
NANTUCKET REDS BRAH. But really, I can’t stand this band, and even I have to admit their SNL set was just fine.
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Making Records Should Be Fun: a Guide to... →
When Michael Benjamin Lerner — aka Telekinesis —started seeding ideas for what would become the songs of his…
Michael and company hit The Bowery Ballroom tonight! Come with me so that I’m not the only person standing at the rock show in galoshes.
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No Future: Savages' Silence Yourself is About the... →
Read up on Savages and you’ll rake in a list of adjectives that peg them as the latest band to…
To say that this record is a refreshing gust of optimistic creativity to the face would be an understatement as I finally feel like someone’s making rock records the way I need to hear them again. I needed Savages Silence Yourself this week: I need something I can angrily tap away to,...
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Hey if Vogue has a punk-themed Met Ball does that...
Please?
Please?
CAN A GIRL WHO WRITES ABOUT MUSIC AND ALSO LOVES FASHION WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT SOMEONE OTHER THAN A TOP 40 DIVA PLZ. A spread in this month’s Vogue featuring a handful of women from different generations in punk (Exene Cervenka! Laura Jane Grace! Kathleen Hanna! Savages! Debbie Harry! Screaming Females!) and their thoughts on the intersection of punk and fashion...
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stopdropandvogue:
i cant watch this anymore. between the lack of knowledge of punk culture, the horrible interviews, and the non-punk clothing. ugh.
I highly doubt anyone on this red carpet had ever stepped foot into CBGBs, let alone know how to spell it.
Or what CBGBs actually stands for. -____-
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Boston Strong: Branding Charity or Branding...
Sophomore year, I took an ethnomusicology class that focused on nationalism in music for a few weeks, and polarizing popular country singles from the months and years following 9/11 came up in conversation a few times. The example the professor used that launched one of these pointed discussions was Darryl Worley’s “Have You Forgotten?”, a ballad penned by a Tennessean about how...
To The Duck
badkidsjokes:
what did the cow say to the duck
he said stop staring at me and the duck said your fat .
April 2013
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Simple Things/Coffee etc.
In Buenos Aires, I was big on going to the coffee shop on the corner of Beruti y Arãoz and making one or two café con leches last a couple hours while I did homework and wrote. I was very, very lonely for the first couple of weeks that I was abroad junior year. I was one kid in a program of 125 and no one else from Sarah Lawrence had opted to go to Argentina that semester, so I felt like the new...
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