January 2012
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EDIE FAKE ON CHICAGO →
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edie fake just did this amazing write up of the chicago comics scene for the comics journal and it includes me and everyone I love and it’s a pleasant reminder that this is the place for me to be right now.
Agreed times a billion.
Bowie's 2002 Predictions Eerily Close →
I remember reading this article back in 2002, when my first spat of “I love David Bowie” was culminating in the bewilderingly exciting fact of Heathen being released. In it, as brief summary, Bowie basically proves he’s Paul Atreides and predicts what the 2012 music industry will be like. Which is fine, except he’s right on the money.
“Music itself is going to become...
40 from 40: 1971: Maria Bethânia →
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I will be forty years old quite soon, so I suppose it’s time for an assessment of sorts, of a life possibly half-lived, of one over three-quarters lived if I were to die at fifty, as my grandfather did.
So throughout 2012, I will try to recall something from each of the forty years that I’ve…
This is extreme. Perhaps the first new ‘must-read/follow’ of 2012?
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I BOUGHT A TURNTABLE I AM LISTENING TO RECKONING RIGHT NOW “HARBOURCOAT” IS PLAYING ON MY TURNTABLE
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December 2011
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“Ashes to Ashes” coming from the empty living room as my parents wrap presents in their bedroom.
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PLANET ENO
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Been listening to Brian Eno a lot lately and thinking about how “Eno” sounds like it could be the name of an alien planet; it’s rather befitting that his name sounds so cosmic because so does much of his music.
In the whale, there is a man without his raincoat.
PLANET ENO TATTOOS!
Not really. But also maybe just to freak out my Mom.
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One Week // One Band: Great opportunity blinks. →
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R.E.M. – Airportman
A deep blue keyboard hum. Flourescent chimes. Blasts of static. A low purr of feedback. A bleary, early A.M. airport. Conveyor belts. Michael Stipe’s voice, deep in the mix, singing of moving sidewalks, sallow-skinned travelers, traveling with enviable efficiency beyond…
Oh gosh I’m quoted in this. I feel the need, though, to clarify that I...
One Week // One Band: Have I missed the big... →
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Next up: 2001’s Reveal.
Reveal is Up’s friendlier, more approachable kid sister. An attempt to marry the band’s recent electronic direction with elements that are more recognizably R.E.M.,Reveal is hit or miss; less ambitious and less sonically unified than its predecessor, it…
No, but seriously I am so excited that someone else actually likes Reveal.
I mean, it might...
One Week // One Band: The concrete broke your... →
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R.E.M. – Why Not Smile
Belying its title and upbeat album art, Up is downcast, a set of songs about depression and trauma that sounds like it was recorded in the aftermath of depression and trauma. Michael often sings from either the point of view of someone in crisis or of someone offering…
This song, this song. Generally, I abhor such things as “switching the...
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“God Only Knows,” Ava Cherry and the...
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One Week // One Band: Coming up: R.E.M. (post-Bill... →
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Thanks a lot to Karin for a fantastic series of posts!
For our last regular week of coverage in this year, we’ll once again turn to the godfathers of indie rock and the biggest break-up of 2011 — R.E.M.
We’ve previously covered the I.R.S.-era of the band’s early years and will (for now) skip…
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