January 2011
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December 2010
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“Most really great albums take time to soak in. We’ve all had the...”
– Long Winters front man John Roderick, critiquing the practice of year-end list-making, in the Seattle Weekly. (It will not take you much time to realize the Long Winters’ “Pushover” is awesome.)
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Best of Bootie 2010 →
Lots of fun stuff here for the mash-up inclined. The most unexpected fun I had here was with DJ Topcat’s “Folsom Prison Gangstaz” — which, questionable spelling aside, offers a pretty great mix of Eazy-E and Johnny Cash.
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“I has struggled with poor English skills since I come with America in late 1970...”
– Gary Shteyngart’s New Year’s Resolution, in the Times.
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The year's best music writing →
A helpful guide from Australia’s The Vine; I particularly recommend Steven Hyden’s epic What Ever Happened to Alternative Nation and Vanessa Grigoriadis’ revealing “Growing Up Gaga”.
Some suggested additions:
Mark Richardson on making year-end lists
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews at the Forever 21 flagship store launch party
Mark Greif’s What was the hipster?
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“As a musician, Timberlake was in a privileged position to bring sexy back. His...”
– Nathan Rabin’s Then That’s What They Called Music! continues to dazzle.
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“Look, of course it is sad when someone is injured, but this is the price you...”
– The comments on this NYT piece about yet another Spider-Man actor being brutally injured during a performance are the best thing on the Internet today.
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Songs for Next Year 2010
When I listen to new music, the quality I’m searching for the most is timelessness: I want to find the songs that, years or decades from now, will still hold up. It’s a fool’s errand trying to guess which ones will continue sounding great, of course, but that’s half the fun. With that in mind, here are 20 songs from 2010 that I know I’ll be listening to next year and...
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Songs for Next Year 2010
When I listen to new music, the quality I’m searching for the most is timelessness: I want to find the songs that, years or decades from now, will still hold up. It’s a fool’s errand trying to guess which ones will continue sounding great, of course, but that’s half the fun. With that in mind, here are 20 songs from 2010 that I know I’ll be listening to next year and...
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“It’s a second chance to hear an album you never heard from a band you barely...”
– The A.V. Club, on a remix album of Marcy Playground’s latest, in their hilarious Least Essential Albums of 2010.
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thedanimal:
Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,”...
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Top 10 Dance Pop Tracks of 2010
10. “Time Machine,” Robyn.
9. “Hang With Me,” Robyn.
8. “Indestructible,” Robyn.
7. “Don’t F——— Tell Me What to Do,” Robyn.
6. “In My Eyes,” Robyn.
5. “Call Your Girlfriend,” Robyn.
4. “Cry When You Get Older,” Robyn.
3. “Fembot,” Robyn.
2. “In My Eyes,”...
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lewisandhisblog asked: raaaaaaaad blog!
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“Well-meaning people always manage to tell me something really insulting, like...”
– Liz Phair, in something called OMG.
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There is so much goodness in the year-end Said the... →
This is pretty much the one time a year I click on random MP3s from bands I’ve never heard of. And I never regret it. Go on, get to clicking. (Start with “Bully in Disguise,” or “Sara.”)
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“If you can’t be total crap and sell a million records, you might as well...”
– Eric Harvey, of Spoon, on what it’s like to be incredibly popular with critics (and not so much with the record-buying audience at large).
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“Zombies are like the Internet and the media and every conversation we don’t want...”
– Chuck Klosterman is not wrong about zombies. (via 1000xpm)
spiritof68:
25 DAYS OF SOUL - A CHRISTMAS...
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