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Macha & Bedhead covering Cher...

findesiecle:

Believe - Macha & Bedhead

Macha & Bedhead covering Cher, which somehow I’d never heard before. The autotune is so hilarious I can’t handle it and I think how incongruous (and thereby kind of awesome) it seems here (on a sleepy ‘indietronica’/’slowcore’ track circa Y2K) points out just how accustomed + oblivious we’ve gotten to hearing that on female vocals and more upbeat dance/hip hop tracks.

I remember Bedhead crashing on my floor after an Empty Bottle show. This EP came out after that so I never got a chance to tell them in person how awesome I thought it was … but I do, think it’s awesome.

posted 2 hours ago

More thoughts on the Monitor Mix Roundtable

chainofknives:

Just got around to reading Carrie Brownstein’s Monitor Mix major indie label roundtable already discussed here (I got this quote via The L), and this really stuck with me:

Carrie Brownstein: Aside from putting out good music, what’s the single most effective thing a label can do to get people to buy their music?
Matador: Not sure what the single most efficient thing would be (other than, you know, the Pitchfork 9.1), but getting people excited is never easy to quantify or predict.
Carrie Brownstein: Does a Pitchfork 9.1 help?
Kill Rock Stars: Absolutely.
Matador: Sadly, yes. A Pitchfork 9.1 is more influential to the audience and the retailers than a Rolling Stone or New York Times review.
Carrie Brownstein: What does a Pitchfork 4.5 do?
Kill Rock Stars: A 4.5 can kill a record. Unfortunately.
Merge: Agree on the Pitchfork thing, though I do think that a 9.1 helps more than an average number hurts.
Saddle Creek: I’d be inclined to say a high Pitchfork number helps; a low Pitchfork number is irrelevant.
Matador: There remain great things that aren’t even on the Pitchfork radar.
Merge: Impossible!
Matador: The Beatles.
Secretly Canadian: Cold War Kids were killed on their debut and did quite well.
Matador: Just having a number next to a review discourages anyone from reading.
Merge: Yes, and often the review will be enthusiastic and then the number is like “6.9” and you’re like, “Thanks for nothing.”
Kill Rock Stars: There’s a difference between getting an average/decent review and being a band who is loved by Pitchfork. We have two bands who are doing well despite being basically ignored by Pitchfork right now.
Secretly Canadian: Anything under a 7.6 or 7.7 is a non-review.

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posted 4 days ago