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― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
i'm sick of the bad stuff. i know all about the bad stuff. everything is bad. i get that. but uh just in case you read something not bad...
i'll read it probably.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
i'll start. i LOVED this. so totally fascinating and sad and not sad and just filled with great tidbits that you didn't know about.
http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/07/nightclubbing-the-saint
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
actually, Barry Walters wins the year of music writing. this is likewise essential:
http://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/9708-as-much-as-i-can-as-black-as-i-am-the-queer-history-of-grace-jones/
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
i should really just keep a bookmarks folder of pieces i love, i forget everything really easily. one non-internet piece i really enjoyed is mike powell's essay about the klf in the pitchfork review. i'd also like to shout out scott's column in the same publication
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
katherine's post about the carly rae jepsen album is something i've returned to often this year http://katherinestasaph.tumblr.com/post/126906365038/carly-rae-jepsens-emotion-in-facts-and-theories
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
This blog entry by Hank Shteamer (formerly of Time Out New York, currently of Rolling Stone) is great. It links to something I wrote, but I'd like it even if it didn't. Hank is a better writer than I am.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 11:58 (eight years ago) link
Aaron Coultate re: Honest Jon's:http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2076
― Rad Macca (Craig D.), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
This long article about Frank Sinatra was published in July, but I just read it. It's a very good combination of history, biography and psychology and has some great bits of musical analysis and close-listening.
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 5 December 2015 08:12 (eight years ago) link
wow.
"Our numbers stretched across the centuries. Our congregation is vast. It hears nothing. The audience for this performance, reckoned at its conclusion, will consist mainly of the dead."
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/there-are-other-forces-at-work/?single=1
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/12/jason-gross-best-music-journalism-2015
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
i put together a list of my favorite pieces i read this year, a lot of them are music writing https://medium.com/@unbornwhiskey/2015-a-year-in-writing-636eed80b1ed#.2jt1zqoi0
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
actually looking over it now there is less music writing on that list than i thought. oh well
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
red bull thing looks p comprehensive!
was thinking it'd be nice to have a rolling really good reviews thread
― niels, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
great idea
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
no point in starting a new thread. nobody cares here. but this is great. BW seriously doing the best work right now. for me.
http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/05/walter-gibbons-the-first-dj-s-dj
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
BW has been writing about dance music for quite awhile. He can go deep there for Red Bull Music Academy
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
that article about The Saint is fantastic!
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
it really is.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link