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Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)
Just spent my lunch hour reading this. So good.
"It was common for listeners to call in and complain if the tempo sped up too much."
Eric Harvey goes deep on The Quiet Storm as an aesthetic and apolitical (yet inversely political) force.
One of the best non-fiction pieces I’ve read in a while.
A writer investigates what it would be like if he never got married, had kids, or settled into a stable job. He decides to search for his carefree doppelgänger—a 39-year-old singer-songwriter named Kyle Field:
‘What time can I come by?’ I asked.
‘Oh, anytime. I’ll just be kicking it around the house.’
Kicking it. This is not a concept in our house. I drove out to the scruffy edge of southeastern Portland and pulled up to the place where my doppelgänger was staying, nervous about intruding. The house was everything I’d ever dreamed of—at least when I used to dream of such a life. There was a pile of construction lumber in the front yard, and the porch was covered in beer cans and Goodwill furniture and well-thumbed paperbacks, some of them as warped as giant clams.
The Alien Mystique: Megan Draper and the Upending of the Mad Men Universe
By Andy Greenwald, grantland.comMAD MEN
In 1966, an alien crash-landed on Earth. He was an unlikely figure, even considering his cosmic origins: speaking English (if a little oddly) and draped in the trappings of counterculture. He admired the humans he encounte…
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Horst Faas died on Thursday at the age of 79. But his incredible standard-setting war photography lives on.
Articles: Collecting History: John Peel, J Dilla, and the Record as Artifact | Features | Pitchfork
The act of archiving an extensive record collection, whether it’s one’s own personal set or that of a legend, is founded on the idea that space exists to hold time. A 12” LP record or a 7” single is a delivery mechanism for particular durations of music. Store a bunch of these in the same space, and there are days, possibly months, of music, neatly filed (digitally, of course, this can be quantified down to the second). This is why one of the first questions people ask of collectors is, “When in the world do you have the time to listen to all of this stuff?” For collectors like Dilla and Peel, the act of accumulation— building a library or simply hoarding— is as much a part of the appeal as is actually listening to (or “using”) the music.
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Ryan Scott Burleson
—We People
Download a new mix for Springtime I made last night which features some choice B-sides, Serge and so on. All vinyl and all pulled somewhat randomly while recording, but I think it worked. Just a quiet, oft-moody affair.
Tracklist:
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS ‘The Land of Nod’
THE CARETAKER ‘Increasingly Absorbed in His Own World’
CAITLIN ROSE ‘Faithless Love (J.D. Souther Cover)’
DAMIEN JURADO ‘Diamond Sea’
DAVID BAZAN w/DEERHOOF ‘No One Asked Bazan to Dance’
SERGE GAINSBOURG ‘Valse de Melody’
JAMES BLAKE ‘We Might Feel Unsound’
PORTISHEAD ‘Western Eyes’
ACEYALONE & RJD2 ‘A Beautiful Mine (Theme from Mad Men)’
