Horrible thought, what do you take me for. 'Studying maths' indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
my number one piece of advice for aspiring music writers is probably "take calculus, you'll regret not doing so"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
*2gether voice* I know my calculus
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
i feel like all the cultural baggage being dredged up over this piece is secondary to the main lesson, which is that if you write with contempt for your audience and your subject, you're probably gonna get that contempt returned back in your direction by one or the other. if david was naive about anything, it's his weird surprise about this piece causing such a predictable shitstorm.
― Dierks Bentley's Holistic Detective Agency (some dude), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
agreed.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
i think 95% of the racial, generational, musical and critical arguments are all distractions from the basic fact that jessica didn't do her job and now one of her writers is getting eaten alive on the internet
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
yup
― Dierks Bentley's Holistic Detective Agency (some dude), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Pretty funny to watch the writer do the "lol, fuck you old white people" dance on Twitter, meanwhile the editor who threw him to the wolves is a middle-aged white mom.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
Again, those distinctions are all distractions from the actual point tho
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
Well, some of us have been pointing out her incompetence for fucking years.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
the basic fact that jessica didn't do her job
A MUSIC CRITIC IN 2016 LISTENS TO DE LA SOUL’S CLASSIC 1989 DEBUT ALBUM FOR THE FIRST TIME. HE'S REALLY WRONG
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
Well, some of us have been pointing out her incompetence for fucking years. --Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱)
Come on, fam.
Jessica is still hands down one of the best music writers of our generation,I just don't particularly agree with her editing strategy
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
oh wait, we're talking about jessica hopper here? yeah, in that case i'll take whiney's side.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link
the editor who threw him to the wolves is a middle-aged white mom
so what? what does that have to do with anything?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 6 June 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
last week i watched MTV for the first time in years. it was nothing but ghost reality shows.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 6 June 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
I've never liked her writing. I do admire her groundbreaking work on the "I'm a publicist and a journalist!" hustle, which has paid big dividends for a bunch of other folks since.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 6 June 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
Jessica is still hands down one of the best music writers of our generation
ROFL you're joking
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:11 (eight years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, June 6, 2016 5:10 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it would be cool if there were only 2 shows, one about ghost b.c. and one about the japanese prog band
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
listening to ned's atomic dustbin right now, this still sound aight!
so weird when english bands seem american like these guys and swervedriver, so used to the reverse
I'm certain there's nothing technically wrong with this review and it's churlish and mean-spirited of me to post it here, and yet...
http://louderthanwar.com/stone-roses-halifax-live-review/
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
Some have maligned new single All for One, but live it was perfect. As Brown sang, we did indeed join hands and make a wall.
*tear*
― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah yeah.ya bastards.
― mark e, Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
I got some context behind this piece and it doesn't really belong here. Sorry everyone.
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah guys mocking 12 year-olds is not cool
― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/zoe-rahman-a-musical-furnace-in-need-of-a-little-cooling---revie/
With her long hair and delicate frame you’d expect something flowing and lyrical to emerge from under those slender fingers.
― my concern would only be that you don't have serenity. (stevie), Friday, 10 June 2016 08:16 (eight years ago) link
Air’s vast 20-year retrospective will put your head in the clouds
For two decades, the French duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel have been devoted in their focus to suspend focus via series after series of downtempo synths and treated, blissful vocals—so much so that it seems out of character for them to celebrate their legacy with a high-gloss deluxe anthology. It’s damn near ostentatious for Air anyway. It does, however, help knowing that they were the ones to actually construct Twentyears in all of its grandeur. It is certainly fucking grand: First comes a 17-track album of cuts accompanied by 14 more tracks of rarities and unreleased material, all to be followed in late July by an add-on of remixes of David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Beck, Neneh Cherry, and MGMT. Boy, oh boy, that’s a lot of Moog.
"Air have released a best-of with a bonus disc."
― glandular lansbury (sic), Friday, 10 June 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
" have been devoted in their focus to suspend focus" That's an awkward way to state this, though I'm not sure even what they are trying to state.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 10 June 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Good lord
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/flumes-skin-is-the-audio-equivalent-of-ecstasy-a7073486.html
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
o no :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
just came to post that. what... is it
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
To be frank, this is the type of shit that fuels interracial relationships
― Oh baby, if only you knew / Gabnebb hit a hundred-and-two (stevie), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
shit b
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
being cornered at a bar by a half ass hipster runoff carles character who is aggressively gushing about an unspectacular record
― Evan, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
"He’s previously worked as an editor at Ashton Kutcher’s A Plus and as a staff writer at BuzzFeed."
― maura, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
we all said we wanted the Pitchfork '00-style review to make a comeback but I don't think we really thought the implications through
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
exclusive pic of the Independent editors keeping the vessel afloat
http://i.imgur.com/l6fCM96.png
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Oh my god, what the fuck did I just read!?!
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
who said this and how soon can we start rounding them up
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
http://www.monologuedb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Claude-Rains-Captain-Louis-Renault-Casablanca.jpg
― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
lol this feels like it's been written by 17 different writers. all teenagers.
― Ludo, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
I'm telling you, this album is primetime vodka and molly music for summer 2016, my guy. This is not music for the Uber ride home by yourself at 3am, upset because you'll be alone for the rest of your life b. This is the shit you play before you make an ill-advised decision and cheat on the love of your life, or do some freaky shit with the person you forgot to formally break things off with. Essentially this record’s theme is all about embracing imperfections, saying fuck it, and getting down while you can. Okay, I hate myself for that sentence, but I have no idea who Toronto singer Kai is, and she sounds fucking perfect on “Never Be Like You.” Tell her people to hit up my people so we can do this joint interview with Streten on some behind-the-scenes shit. She might be the most slept on artist to date b.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
can we get this guy on ilx pronto plz
oh wait, there's like a half dozen people who do this schtick already
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Did none of you who are upset over this ever read a Vice album review from like 2007 (I'd understand if you didn't, I don't really cherish the time I spent reading those either)
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
this reads like a style parody of big ghost, except without the funny parts
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
xp those at least had the decency to be brief
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
Did none of you who are upset over this ever read a Vice album review from like 2007
no because it was on Vice and fuck Vice forever
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
the "b." sentence enders read like typos that result from him trying to hit the space bar twice and failing
― maura, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there are?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
are there people on ILX who say "my guy" at the end of a sentence? just wondering, my guy.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link