Ezra Furman is the kind of artist who comes along every now and then to reduce jaded music hacks to gibbering, simpering wrecks.
mission accomplished
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01112/mission_accomplish_1112950c.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 November 2015 14:21 (eight years ago) link
I know some people who tell stories like that too, where they try to make shrug-worthy things or events sound interesting by applying melodrama. It's either desperate or delusional.
― Evan, Monday, 30 November 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
maura, it was nice to see you write about Palm in RS. they played a great show at my store this year.
― scott seward, Saturday, November 28, 2015 1:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i love this band. weezer back!
― flopson, Monday, 30 November 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
people have been writing music for other people forever. what's the difference this time?
uhhhh...sweden?
dimbulb seabrook interview.
https://recode.net/2015/11/30/adele-owned-last-week-but-a-guy-youve-never-heard-of-owns-pop-music-heres-how-he-did-it/
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
"It’s also interesting that the [song-producing] technology was [initially] not used by the mainstream songwriting people, but it sort of came from the margins — from hip-hop people, that didn’t have access to the studios."
marginal hip-hop basement tech. until the swedes arrived...
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
is he talking drum machines
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
i have no idea.
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
apparently, if i'm reading the interview correctly, pop music was two guys banging away on a piano writing songs until the studio-less hip-hoppers showed the swedes how to do things quicker.
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CwwCbMq320
― how's life, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
so how many times do I have to read about max martin before I've heard of him
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
until an old white guy lets him produce an album, he is only a myth carried on the wind by sylvan messengers
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
he's your little swedish secret that you keep in your pocket when you want money. shhhhhhh.........
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
that sort of thing ain't my bag
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
used to be just 2 people sitting at a piano. now its a rapper and a producer sitting at a keyboard. TOTALLY different.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
gimme a C, a bouncy C!
http://www.abbatimeline.com/media/img/RNfWQH_53305407d910a.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
wake me up when robots are writing our songs please!
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
here gohttp://francoispachet.fr/http://francoispachet.fr/markovconstraints/audio/boulez_blues.mp3
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
It's not really about music. It's barely writing. But.http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/does-jermaine-jackson-have-a-jacket-potato-in-his-trousers-or-something-more-sinister
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Friday, 11 December 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
Still, makes you think, doesn't it?
― niels, Friday, 11 December 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
wtf
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Friday, 11 December 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
Haha. Poor NME.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 11 December 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
how the fuck can you have jermaine jackson and an alleged potato in the same article and yet not ask the question, can you peel it?
― ghosted monk: new gaz in the 'combs (NickB), Friday, 11 December 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
― ghosted monk: new gaz in the 'combs (NickB), Friday, 11 December 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
peel potato and see
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 11 December 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
not know potato
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Friday, 11 December 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
lol stevie
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Friday, 11 December 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
"jacket potato"?
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
I mean first off it's clearly a trouser potato
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Friday, 11 December 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
tell me i'm not dreaming (of an era where pageviews mean nothing)
― maura, Friday, 11 December 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
take off your pants and jacket potato
― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
this is the last one like this forever. promise!
https://www.vice.com/read/hw-the-definitive-guide-to-hipster-music-genres-hipster-week
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
i don't actually think its the worst or whatever. just a whatever nevermind kinda thing.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
i mean it's almost 2016...
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/the-decade-in-music-genre-hype-6393275
― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
our own lil' trailblazer. god bless.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
but also yeah that's what i'm talking about. and also you should get a lawyer! jeez.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
you put dubstep in the microtrend graveyard. who knew?
"Ghettotech, microhouse, folktronica, New Weird America, schaffel, crunk, trap-rap, post-metal, screw, baile, Baltimore club, snap, nu-balearic, moan-wave, grindie, deathcore, nu-rave, juke, wonky, skweee, dubstep, kuduro, jerk, hypnagogic pop, crabcore."
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
microhouse still HUGE at my house by the way. i just never stopped listening. now i want some baile funk crabcore to listen to.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
even mentioning psych horseshit in that vice thing is grounds for a lawsuit. who mentions them in 2015?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:19 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Also trap-rap!
― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
I'm not clicking on Vice unless it's by accident; has anyone linked Whiney's piece in the comments yet?
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
okay i just did.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
I knew I'd read that one before...
― niels, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
i actually liked that Vice piece.
― Gaz Khan (sarahell), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
i feel like they weren't even trying, instead of talking about actual 'hipster' genres they just put 'acceptable' (or some other euphemism for 'hipster') in front of the name of some super broad genre that's existed for decades.
― Shkreli, Martin & Wu (some dude), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
it's more accurate
― Gaz Khan (sarahell), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
it is! but in a way that undermines the point/structure of the piece
― Shkreli, Martin & Wu (some dude), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 01:01 (eight years ago) link
which is?
― Gaz Khan (sarahell), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
ok, you got me!
― Shkreli, Martin & Wu (some dude), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 01:17 (eight years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/istudents/grime-isn-t-just-music-it-s-about-working-class-struggle-and-its-new-middle-class-fans-need-to-a6777256.html
new contender here
― beatgeneration, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link