November 2011
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October 2011
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"Kitteh vs. Chikin: What We Share vs. What We...
Here’s my deck from this year’s most excellent Monktoberfest. It’s a look into the difference between what we SHARE (stuff that makes us look smart) and what we CLICK (stuff that makes us look dumb).
Major thanks, as always, to Hilary Mason for finding the awesome data around which I built this presentation.
I’ll be presenting an even more meme-laden deck this coming...
September 2011
2 posts
Independent Record Labels Are Still Important
During one of many teenage after-school trips to the Tower Records near Lincoln Center, I made a pact with myself: “all I want from the rest of my life is to put out an album that people can buy at a record store like this. If that happens, I will be happy.”
Five years later, I found myself at Jackpot Records in Portland, staring down a wall of my band Get Him Eat Him’s debut CD...
August 2011
5 posts
The Green Pajamas - “Deep Blue...
“My interest in girls and my interest in indie rock developed largely in tandem,...”
– I wrote a long and very personal piece about a record that is very dear to me for the ever-excellent Australian lit magazine The Lifted Brow.
July 2011
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So, it was recently brought to my attention that...
June 2011
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May 2011
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The Butterflies of Love - “Wild”
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April 2011
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My Top 10 Destroyer Songs
Based on yet another conversation about Destroyer with David Malitz, here are my all-time top 10 Destroyer songs, presented in alphabetical order. You can find David’s list at yeahgates.com.
“Bay of Pigs” (12” single, 2009) “Crystal Country” (from This Night, 2002) “Death On The Festival Circuit” (from Thief, 2000) “English Music” (from...
March 2011
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Game Theory - “Make Any Vows”
This...
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The Definitive Guide to Eating and Enjoying...
This is very, very important.
1. USE BURRITOEATER.COM Burritoeater.com is your friend. It will not lead you astray. Look for places that have been reviewed recently and often.
2. ALWAYS GO “SUPER” Or “Supremo,” if that’s how your chosen taqueria rolls. Guac, cheese and sour cream are the magical glue of Mission-style burritos.
3. IF YOUR BURRITO COMES WITH SALAD,...
February 2011
3 posts
The Green Pajamas - “I’ve Got a Crush...
January 2011
3 posts
November 2010
2 posts
bit.ly blog: Introducing bit.ly Bundles! →
I generally don’t Tumbl about my day job, but this is pretty exciting, and I have the feeling that some of the folks who follow me here could do really cool things with it. Also, incredibly stoked that the one and only Mr. Jon Wurster contributed an example bundle that made it to TechCrunch!
bitly:
We are thrilled to announce the launch of bit.ly bundles, a new way of sharing multiple...
October 2010
3 posts
“The conflict we are grappling with is not between art and commerce — it is...”
– In which I discuss what it means to relate to music as art, what it means to relate to music as content, and why it matters.
This was a hard article to write; “art,” “content,” and “selling out” are very slippery terms!
A Barely-Coherent Rant About CMJ
Playing at CMJ Is Generally Not Fun For Bands (Based on several more-or-less true stories)
Here we are in New York City!! ZOMG I can’t believe we’re playing the CMJ Music Marathon! It’s where Archers of Loaf got discovered, man! This is gonna RULE!
…. but first we have to pick up those artist badges. Where’s the pickup place again? Lincoln Center? The Puck...
Game Theory - “Erica’s Word”
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September 2010
2 posts
RIP Amie Street
I was saddened by today’s news that Amie Street has been acquired (and effectively shut down) by Amazon. My former band Get Him Eat Him released our final EP as an Amie Street digital exclusive, and they were an absolute pleasure to work with — I can honestly say that we would not have sold half as many digital copies of the release without their help and support.
Though I had the...
August 2010
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The fact that J Mascis wound up producing...
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RIP Google Wave
So last week, while we were working on some graphic mock-ups for FluidDB (which, by the way, is amazing and will change the world forever), Jason remarked via gchat, “you know, this would actually be a perfect situation for using Google Wave.”
He was right, too. Google Wave had tremendous potential as a productivity tool — a unique and robust mid-point between GMail and Google...
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In the summer of 2007, my band played at Southgate...
July 2010
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The Capstan Shafts - "Quiet Wars" at Brooklyn... →
Debut MP3 from the record I produced. So far, Brooklyn Vegan commenters have been disappointingly tame….
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"Super Famous"
So, two nights ago I attended a book reading/informal chat between Chuck Klosterman and Rob Sheffield at Coco66. In response to an audience question about Twitter and social identities, Klosterman addressed how, now that we are all able to see exactly how many people we don’t know are interested in reading about our lives, we tend to assume that we ourselves must be at least a little bit...
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A Comparative Study of New York's Major Newspapers
New York Times headline:
Man Stabs Four People in Chelsea, Police Say
New York Post headline:
Chaos in Chelsea as ‘crazy’ man knifes 4
New York Daily News headline:
Wild-eyed lunatic goes on stabbing spree wounding four in Chelsea before police subdue nut case
… at least the Post put ‘crazy’ in scare quotes.
Liz Phair's 2003 Self-Titled Album Is Still... →
Inspired by Mike’s candid and eminently reasonable reassessment of Liz Phair’s recent output (and the e-mails that he and I exchanged when my review of Liz Phair ran in 2003), and Liz Phair’s critic-chastising new web-only release.
In retrospect, yes, I could have done a much better job with this review. But I still don’t think it’s fair to say that those of us who...
“do you want to know something
I think Destroyer’s Trouble in Dreams
was an...”
– -John Darnielle
Last Plane to Jakarta
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ALBUM ART 2010: HOW TO
We would have also accepted “Trapper Keeper Circa 1994”
catbird:
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WatchMy third more-or-less-obliquely KGW-related Tumbl of the day.
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Nitsuh, you are my sunshine.
agrammar:
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