December 2011
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November 2011
Some days I feel that Alex Balk is the only human... →
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B.O.B FT. LIL WAYNE “STRANGE CLOUDS”
The overriding pop narrative of 2011, if there is one, probably has something to do with dubstep, which (in my mind anyway) has completed its journey from “weird non-pop curiosity” to “exciting pop novelty” to “has its own slot in the standard toolkit of pop.” For proof, see this bit of deliberate underachievment...
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Programming note: I’m going to stick to alphabetical order (with no stricter classification protocol than sort by filename) as the most painless way to get through an unwieldy slab of music. Today, numerals and A.
2NE1 “I AM THE BEST”
After a half-year of listening to and writing about most of the K-pop and J-pop singles the Jukebox has covered (we may be late to the Pacific...
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Anonymous asked: Jonathan, I've been enjoying your "Just One Song More" project immensely. This might be an unnecessarily complicated question, but what is your selection process like when choosing recordings to write about? You mentioned a "mass download." Where do you even find these tracks, many of which seem to be rare and forgotten, let alone significant information about them?
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As Isabel reminded me, today is (was, by the time I’m posting this) the first day of Advent, the first day in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. I’m not much of a practitioner of Catholic ritual anymore, but this year for the first time I’ll be participating in a different ritual, as part of a different community — the year-end ranked list.
I listened to a lot...
Nicholas: also http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query=christmas&queryType=@attr+1=21
Nicholas: (you are familiar with the UCSB Library Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, right?)
me: of course
me: also: http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/search/results?q=christmas
Nicholas: right
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theremixbaby replied to your audio post: Edison Mixed Quartet, “Hark! The Herald Angels…
wow, i love this! for some reason even i don’t understand, i really deeply prefer traditional religious christmas music to 20th century pop christmas tunes. do you have any other old recordings of christmas songs?
I don’t have a lot — like I said, this was part of a bulk download, and I...
Edison Mixed Quartet, “Hark! The Herald...
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JUKEBOX COMPETITION
katherinestasaph:
thesinglesjukebox:
The headline does not lie! We are having a competition!
The winner of this competition will score a copy of the latest Da Capo Best Music Writing and a US$50 (or equivalent) Amazon gift card. You can read some great music writing and then purchase some great music — or, if you prefer, movies, Kindle books or apps.
Read the details on our website, and...
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Part of my job — not a big part, but I do it nearly every day — is going up to teenagers and politely telling them not to “tip in their chairs,” which is what my family called it when you sit in a four-legged chair in such a way that only two of the legs rest on the floor. (I assume most people call it that, but I’ve received enough blank stares to make me cautious.)
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dalatu asked: Your blurb on "212" by Azealia Banks is amazing. Just amazing.
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Oh, by the way, I never actually came right out and said so here, but I’m in Best Music Writing 2011, as are other Tumblrers I follow like Messrs. Abebe and Frere-Jones and Klein.
I nominated five pieces for inclusion, and one of them made it in (Nitsuh’s), and two others are listed in Other Notable Music Writing (look under Doyle and Ewing in your copy), as is the “Like a...
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strictlyalright replied to your post: Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
Just get the Beaton.
Too late.
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
I’m supposed to be saving money. Why did they just release the new John Hodgman, the new Kate Beaton, and the new Pogo?
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“‘As the author discusses each area of his life,’ she wrote,...”
– GPOY
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therichgirlsareweeping asked: MEH
Year-end top-10 lists are the unicorn stickers and... →
katherinestasaph:
alexmacpherson:
tomewing:
therichgirlsareweeping:
Our darling Hot Rod, on the mark, as ever.
(Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with unicorn stickers and glitter pens, mind you.)
“Even the worst album I listened to last year couldn’t be properly described in four long paragraphs.”
You have been very lucky in yr choice of albums mister.
Haha I saw the...
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Ten minutes later, it’s back up. This is not helping my paranoia.
My Internet just went down (in answer to your obvious question, I still have a phone), and part of me is just paranoid enough to try to triangulate between the OWS clampdown and the SOPA in search of a horrifying information blackout, but no, it looks like I may just have a virus. Sigh.
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So the message I’m hearing from across the country is that institutions created by the people, without the backing of the government or corporate interests, are illegitimate. Which we all sort of knew already, but it’s not usually spelled out so clearly.
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Ctrl-X Theater:
I would argue, however, that the primary difference is one of theme. The original Star Wars trilogy is about liberation, both political and psychological; the Cold War-derived Empire and Rebellion, and the pop psychology of the Force with its Light and Dark Sides, are as much products of the 60s and 70s as unstructured blues-rock jamming. In that sense, the Star Wars movies are classically...
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“For much of my adult life, I wanted to hide from doing anything. If you don’t do...”
– Merrill Garbus (via perpetua)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Rye Rye (4)
The Strokes (2)
Don Omar (2)
Skylar Grey (2)
Doug Benson (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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