Macha & Bedhead covering Cher...

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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

Packing sucks.

And my girlfriend hates me. Happy Friday!

posted 2 days ago

(via boycott-love)

posted 3 days ago

How Big Star let me down.

Look, here’s my number one pet peeve in the restaurant business: you do not close your kitchen early. Ever.

I’ve worked in the service industry. I managed a restaurant that was one off the few late night eating destinations in Chicago at the time. Yes, on a slow night the kitchen would start closing up and cleaning everything early, but if we closed at 2 a.m., and someone walked in at 1:59 a.m., they were seated, the kitchen was dirtied„ and they got…

posted 4 days ago

Will Everyone Please Stop Freaking Out Over Ayn Rand?!? - Reason Magazine

Heh.

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posted 4 days 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

I was so blissfully clueless until now.

GalPal and I were talking the other night and she noted how funny it was that I was so well informed when it came to some thing, and so clueless when it came to others. I’m well rounded when it comes to current events and a reasonably solid worldview, and of course I’m pretty much a walking encyclopedia of music … so what else could there possibly be? What is it I could be so clueless about?

Well, I got a rude awakening last night — kind…

posted 4 days ago

irockitumblr:

scout:

indieandyy:

NPH cmuNik8s!

his twitter is hilarious, i’m so happy it exists.

irockitumblr:

scout:

indieandyy:

NPH cmuNik8s!

his twitter is hilarious, i’m so happy it exists.

posted 5 days ago

Yes, another Lady GaGa post from someone that is not a seventeen-year-old nor an actor nor an art major (but was all of those things at one point).

I swear to you this site has not turned into some Lady GaGa fansite. Especially since the Fame Monster EP shows “Bad Romance” to be an interesting hiccup instead of the harbinger of a bold new direction. (Sonically the EP hews incredibly closely to the more straightforward pop of her debut than the interesting tics and treats I was hoping…

posted 6 days ago

wearethedigitalkids:

“It has been widely reported that my drawings are now made on an iPhone… Considering all the sketches and watercolors and photographs I have done in the USA for the past twenty years, my output in the Brushes app since I bought a G3 last February is still rather small…In the process, something has changed in my drawings. I discovered a brushstroke looseness I could have embraced ages ago, were I not busy with my precise watercolors. It all came from tailoring one’s approach to better suit the tool. Sharp line work and controlled coloring are not that easy when you’re drawing with your finger on a surface smaller than a credit card. But loose smudges, and bright layered colors, are naturals. So I simply embraced the language suggested by the equipment.”

wearethedigitalkids:

“It has been widely reported that my drawings are now made on an iPhone… Considering all the sketches and watercolors and photographs I have done in the USA for the past twenty years, my output in the Brushes app since I bought a G3 last February is still rather small…In the process, something has changed in my drawings. I discovered a brushstroke looseness I could have embraced ages ago, were I not busy with my precise watercolors. It all came from tailoring one’s approach to better suit the tool. Sharp line work and controlled coloring are not that easy when you’re drawing with your finger on a surface smaller than a credit card. But loose smudges, and bright layered colors, are naturals. So I simply embraced the language suggested by the equipment.”

posted 6 days ago