August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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it’s all lebron and wade on the twitter feed, jkidd and talk of legacy- what do we really leave behind? i’ve always thought about what i do and how it would be like to look back at what i’ve done with some sort of curatorial cap on, a bit of cosmetic retcon on one’s discography.
what does one really want? creating something at par with what inspired said creation, or...
May 2011
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wwjhd
i remember being at the studio while the purplechickens were rehearsing their cover of the lemonheads’ confetti for some lemonheads cover gig. they did a faux-afropop thing with the song, some sort of vampire weekend reimagining. i remember thinking that was pretty uncharacteristic from the guys, pretty upbeat.
this morning i heard the song on shuffle on my ipod while driving down the...
TENDER BAAL / PIOUS KISS OUT NOW
<a href=”http://numberline.bandcamp.com/album/tender-baal-pious-kiss” _mce_href=”http://numberline.bandcamp.com/album/tender-baal-pious-kiss”>Tender Baal / Pious Kiss by Number Line</a>
Bon iver
I’ve gotten from “oh god such a great album” to “to what is this post-folk crap” and back in the span of the first couple and songs and just before the drums come in on holocene. I love albums that make me think and wonder how he pulled off that moment and how the sax campy sounds are just killing on this track and how he could’ve done a lot of things so...
in a recently posted interview on pitchfork, merrill garbus says something really cool about how
“what she loves about seeing other musicians play is when they do impossible things and you have to let yourself go to this place where you do magic”
and in a recently posted article on the new yorker, dan kois poses a really good question like so:
“am I actually moved? Or am I...
April 2011
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Pitchfork: 5-10-15-20: Van Dyke Parks →
markrichardson:
“People who said Pet Sounds was bastardizing classical music led very sheltered childhoods. That’s a bunch of bullshit. Brian Wilson was not imitative, he was inventive; for people who don’t write songs, it’s hard to understand how inventive he really was. A publicist came along by the name of Derek Taylor— he was the Beatles’ publicist and I introduced him to Brian— and I think...
this is a placeholder for how awesome tonight was, will probably write better about it when i’m feeling coherent. MOSCOW OLYMPICS!!!!!!
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“It was not unlike seeing a couple of normal-looking dudes putting some Radio...”
– ian cohen on radio dept’s coachella performance
“Some of [my older songs] I love playing and there are some of them I don’t love...”
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hi (a koan)
i used to be bffs with the internet but we lost touch. also, if a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound?
March 2011
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February 2011
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June 2009
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