no, not always.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
Hi there, UCI employee here. Known Scott for a while but he left a year or two ago and now lives in Baton Rouge. And yes, the best writer of the current AVC bunch by a mile.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
I like Ignatiy Vishnavetsky a lot too, he's way too good to be writing for AVC, but whatever, I bet they pay better than any other gig he's had, save that time he co-hosted Ebert Presents or whatever it was called.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
As far back as I can remember, at least. Did it have a non-crappy heyday?
― Simon H., Sunday, 26 January 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Admittedly I did like their metal column. 'Till it got axed.
― Simon H., Sunday, 26 January 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
sean o'neal's a treasure and they're lucky to have him
not a huge fan of the stuff i've read from ignatiy, never sure what the hype is about
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Sunday, 26 January 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/macklemore-grammys
this is as bad as you think
― Murgatroid, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
i don't really remember the dates i liked the av club for music. there was a period around 2002-2005 that i read it pretty frequently and treated it as a 'second opinion' after the voice that i tended to trust more than e.g. most glossies, and then i sorta drifted away from paying attention and i couldn't tell you what happened since why. from that period there were a bunch of names that ended up showing up elsewhere/around both online and in print that were all pretty decent too. i think a lotta good ppl probably passed thru there over the years.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
there’s certainly no other major rapper willing to be as overtly pro-LGBT on a record
this is surely false - plz counter, ILX
get the feeling that perp is ignoring a lot of female rappers there for a start
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
"i think a lotta good ppl probably passed thru there over the years."
yeah -- in the current publishing climate, "too good for __________" is a weird thing to say about any writer.
― katherine, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
nicki fucking minaj
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:46 (ten years ago) link
was the article about the importance of pharrell's hat any good?
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:54 (ten years ago) link
av club was early on in taking a catholic approach across genres. wide-ranging coverage, including serious reviews of pop albums, etc. better than most alt-weeklies. i was in chicago at the time and the reader had a good music section but it was sort of specific and featurish. for general reviews and coverage the av club (which i read thru the print edition) was way better than any other weekly i could get my hands on, physically.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
omg are we going to count on him to defend the racist music industry every few weeks now?
― dyl, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 04:14 (ten years ago) link
Just seen this from 2012http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucyjones/100063781/should-paul-simon-have-defied-a-un-boycott-to-make-graceland-in-south-africa-under-apartheid/
"Music-lovers will find it difficult not to take his side, as Philip Glass, Paul McCartney, David Byrne and Oprah do in the film. It is said that he put a “human face on apartheid” and raised awareness about what was happening in South Africa. It is said that without his chutzpah Ladysmith Black Mambazo and other musicians wouldn't have had so much global success. It is even said that without Graceland, there would be no hiphop".
― ۩, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
read that last sentence again
what the
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
it is even said by morons that without Graceland, there would be no hiphop
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
oh wow
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
it is even said that without graceland, there would be no martin luther king
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
now say that in the voice of Herman Cain
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
ok this is like 10x more minor, but it really irks me when people miss the point of this line:
So he took off to the home of Elvis, saw the 'Mississipi Delta shining like a national guitar' and eventually decided to just go with it.
by not capitalizing National. The line is a reference to National brand resophonic guitars, which are very silvery and shiny, and are also used a lot in blues. Yes, there's also a play on words, with the mississippi delta being like a "national" guitar of the united states, but that makes no fucking sense without the reference. Why would a national guitar of the US be shiny?
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
it is said it is shiny
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Clearly, art cannot exist in a vacuum, in some sealed-off Arcadia in the clouds. But then… how I adore Graceland. I remember exactly where I first heard it, sitting on the floor of a friend’s room in my first year of university, drinking cheap red wine. There’s a moment in the film where the drummer breaks into a grin at the riff of You Can Call Me Al. Perhaps we should just be glad it exists – but even more so that apartheid is over.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
The Magic of "Graceland"By Jay NordlingerJanuary 28, 2014 5:32 PM 43 Comments
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
not to put too fine a point on it
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
meanwhile in MN, Meagan Pittelko is writing the most heartfelt thank-you note of her life
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucyjones/100065085/this-gotye-and-call-me-maybe-mash-up-could-be-number-one-for-the-rest-of-the-yeardecadehistory/
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
mon-wed
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― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 06:15 (ten years ago) link
It is even said that without Graceland, there would be no hiphop
<3
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 10:30 (ten years ago) link
"without Graceland, there would be no hiphop"
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― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:03 (ten years ago) link
At av club andy battaglia was great back in the day.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh, apparently the 'no hip hop' argument is made in the Under African Skies documentary, rather than just being something the telegraph blogger invented. So I suppose she is correct that 'it is (even) said'
― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
She didn't bother to take it to task so one can presume she believed it to be true.
― ۩, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
sometimes just reporting the words is enough
― rock nobster (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
Paul Simon time-traveled to the Bronx 1971 and performed Planet Rock at the Under the Sea dance.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
it is believed that "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Grandmaster Paul & Gar-Funkenstein prophetically refers to the Marley Marl/KRS-One beef of the mid-late 80s.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Little known fact but he also paved the way for bands like Operation Ivy and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones with his song Ska-Bro Fare.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:23 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ftw
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
also recorded the early diss track "A Message to Benedict Art" after his group broke up
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
lol @ Ska-Bro Fare
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
I heard he hard-sonned Papoose in a battle last year in disguise, under the moniker "50 Wayz"
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
I Am A Roc Marciano
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
The Only Living B-Boy in New York
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Paul Simon time-traveled to the Bronx 1971 and performed Planet Rock at the Under the Sea dance.― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Afrika! Afrika, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Bambaataa. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
omg lol
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
set...SPIKE!
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/why-is-pop-music-stuck-on-the-same-old-song/article16557019/
why doesn't Beyonce write songs about Robbe-Grillet novels
― struggle blogger (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Thursday, 30 January 2014 08:36 (ten years ago) link
can't believe that the guy who brought us "When it comes to selfies, James Franco could take a lesson from Lady Gaga" and "Can winter socks be both warm and dressy?" could stoop to this
― Squidward Ka-Spel (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 January 2014 08:41 (ten years ago) link
In hip hop, the verses can be chanted rather than sung
*takes notes*
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 30 January 2014 09:40 (ten years ago) link