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A blurb on the great Atlanta band Lyonnais for MAGNET

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:36:02 -0600

A blurb on the great Atlanta band Lyonnais for MAGNET

On the hardcore band Worker and, well, why my drive to work always throws me back a decade

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:40:18 -0600

On the hardcore band Worker and, well, why my drive to work always throws me back a decade

Retail Therapy (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:02:02 -0600

Retail Therapy (Taken with instagram)

Jon Hamm Interview - Jon Hamm on Mad Men - Esquire

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:59:54 -0600

Jon Hamm Interview - Jon Hamm on Mad Men - Esquire

William Bowers' Hunter S. Thompson-esque Journal of the Paradise Lost Tour is a Really, Really Fun Read

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:38:36 -0600

William Bowers' Hunter S. Thompson-esque Journal of the Paradise Lost Tour is a Really, Really Fun Read:

“My poor adopted state takes so much guff. Some people cling to an ‘idea of Florida,’ that our sidewalks are split between befuddled senior citizens and topless Spring Breakers, that we all wake in the morn, do body shots off each other, feed a tourist to our pet alligators, swing by the painkiller clinic to pick up our groceries, and then ride the public airboat system to our jobs in the thong district.”

The Art of Fact-Checking Posted by Hannah Goldfield,...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:20:00 -0600

The Art of Fact-Checking
Posted by Hannah Goldfield, newyorker.com

Which are more important: true words, or beautiful words?

A college recruitment vendor alerted me to star ’80s...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:24:48 -0600

A college recruitment vendor alerted me to star ’80s baseball player Rick Burleson today. I hope we’re related.

threadinginthechoirs: Yes!New tumblr!Follow! MM has the best...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:00 -0600

threadinginthechoirs:

Yes!
New tumblr!
Follow!

MM has the best taste, per usual.

#nowplaying The Classics (Taken with Instagram at Home)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:02:00 -0600

#nowplaying The Classics (Taken with Instagram at Home)

kennylipscomb: Balmorhea make music that sounds like it was...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:04:06 -0600

kennylipscomb:

Balmorhea make music that sounds like it was made for a different time or place. I doubt I’ve spent half as much time listening to a single band in the last two years as I have listening to Balmorhea. All is Wild, All is Silent and Constellations both see almost daily rotation for me, and deservingly so. This yet-to-be titled track is live, no over-dubs; showcasing the band’s multi-instrumental capacity and dexterity as a live band.

This band.

Favorites (No Order): 2011

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:26:15 -0600

Dustin O’Halloran — Lumiere

Holy Other — With U

James Blake — S/T

Deaf Center — Owl Splinters

Bon Iver — S/T

Radiohead — The King of Limbs

Nils Frahm — Felt

Atlas Sound — Parallax

Panda Bear — Tomboy

The Caretaker — An Empty Bliss Upon This World

Clams Casino — Rainforest

Hammock — Longest Year (Late-2010)

Explosions in the Sky — Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

Jay-Z + Kanye West — Watch the Throne

Jensen Sportag — Pure Wet

Balmorhea — Live at Sint-Elisabethkerk

David Bazan — Strange Negotiations

Washed Out — Within and Without

Balam Acab — Wander / Wonder

The Weeknd — House of Balloons

Big K.R.I.T. — Return of 4Eva

Tim Hecker — Ravedeath, 1972

A Winged Victory for the Sullen — S/T

Justice — Audio, Video, Disco

Came home to a new Daniel Rossen promo. Amen. (Taken with...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:16:45 -0600

Came home to a new Daniel Rossen promo. Amen. (Taken with Instagram at Home)

Trailor for Christina Vantzou’s new film/remix project,...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:40:45 -0600

Trailor for Christina Vantzou’s new film/remix project, all a compliment to the stunning Nº1, released late last year on Kranky.

Bazan + Deerhoof, Limited to 2K (Taken with Instagram at East...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:13:21 -0600

Bazan + Deerhoof, Limited to 2K (Taken with Instagram at East Nashville)

"Indeed, if there’s any movement in music that the Internet and social-media era has ushered in, it’s..."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:16:22 -0600

“Indeed, if there’s any movement in music that the Internet and social-media era has ushered in, it’s actually amateur music-making. As the musicologist Karl Hagstrom Miller has documented, sales of musical instruments actually skyrocketed in the 2000s and home recording proliferated as never before. People gave each other music lessons and collaborated on songs over YouTube, where they also posted endless cover versions of pop songs (which is of course how Justin Bieber was discovered), not to mention their own remixes, videos, Auto-Tuned news, memes set to music and all the other sorts of musical theatre indigenous to the medium. In the mainstream media they had Glee and American Idol and Susan Boyle and all the other musical contests and reality programming to encourage them. Some of these people are of course actually aiming at going pro, but for the majority it’s just a happy, sometimes obsessive avocation, participation in the grand activity that the great musicologist Christopher Small, who died in September, called “musicking.” As movements go this may not be a rupture-in-time event like punk rock, but it’s the real DIY.”

- Carl Wilson, in “Retromania: A Roundtable” (via barthel)

Letter from Nils Frahm to listeners of Felt (Taken with...

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:46:15 -0600

Letter from Nils Frahm to listeners of Felt (Taken with Instagram at East Nashville)

blinkanditsover: 2011 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:14:03 -0500

blinkanditsover:

2011 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (by mindwhisperings)

On The Rapture in The Atlantic

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:58:54 -0500

On The Rapture in The Atlantic:

'Rumspringa'

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:47:00 -0500

On Canon Blue’s excellent new album, Rumspringa, for the Cream.

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:24:29 -0500

A few words on the new project from Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie for MAGNET.