28.Jan.2012 Nobody Loves Me: On Lana Del Rey and How She Broke the Wrong Way
Even as the term indie rock has lost much of its meaning in the 21st century, some of its ethos remain. Number one is be real. Number two, if you want to gain admission to our exclusive club, you better be real and wear our clothes, speak our lingo, and work our shitty jobs. Number [...]
02.Oct.2009 …And the Best Album of the 2000s (According to the Staff of Pitchfork) Is…
Radiohead’s Kid A, and it’s not necessarily the album I would have picked as the decade’s best, but, reading Mark Richardson’s rationale made me think twice about my initial reaction. Radiohead were not only among the first bands to figure out how to use the Internet, but to make their music sound like it, and [...]
21.Aug.2009 …And the Best Song of the Decade Is…
“B.O.B” by Outkast, according to the writers and editors at Pitchfork who’ve just published the last piece of their exhaustive top 500 tracks of the decade list, that is. With a Top 20 packed with Pitchfork darlings like LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, and Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Daft Punk, and M.I.A. the pick of Outkast’s misappropriated [...]
06.Mar.2009 Things That Make You Go Hmm…: Bill Wyman Checks out Metacritic’s Music and Movie Reviews and Doesn’t Like the Pattern He Sees
Today, Bill Wyman published a post on Hitsville, pointing out a disturbing pattern on Metacritic. Namely, the nation’s music critics are a bunch of softies compared to movie critics. It’s interesting. You wouldn’t say film critics are a particularly daring group these days. Newspapers and magazines are losing readers and, rightly or wrongly, a lot [...]
01.Nov.2007 The Arrival of Niggy Tardust
The game is changing. Radiohead may not have invented alternative distribution and pricing, but they sure brought the notion of doing it yourself in the internet age to the forefront of many discussions on the future of the music industry. In many ways, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust by Saul Williams, is [...]
19.Oct.2007 In Rainbows Redux Part 3
This is the third part in a multi-part series looking back at Radiohead’s landmark release, In Rainbows. In Rainbows Redux Part 1: Pre-release buzz, piracy, pricing, and bit rates.In Rainbows Redux Part 2: Radiohead morning, management missteps, and reading the early numbers.In Rainbows Redux Part 3: ConclusionsIn Rainbows Redux Part 4: In Rainbows Reviewed As [...]
18.Oct.2007 In Rainbows Redux Part 2
This is the second part of a multi-part series looking back at Radiohead’s In Rainbows.In Rainbows Redux Part 1: Pre-release buzz, piracy, pricing, and bit rates.In Rainbows Redux Part 2: Radiohead morning, management missteps, and reading the early numbers.In Rainbows Redux Part 3: ConclusionsIn Rainbows Redux Part 4: In Rainbows Reviewed It Was Like a [...]
17.Oct.2007 In Rainbows Redux Part 1
Now that no one is talking Radiohead any more, I figured it would be a good time to look back on the wild two weeks during which Radiohead announced and released In Rainbows directly to the people. This multi-part series will cover the following subjects:In Rainbows Redux Part 1: Pre-release buzz, piracy, pricing, and bit [...]
