January 2011
22 posts
“All you ugly rappers need to go home and comb your face.”
– “Lo Fi Funk”, Blueprint ft. Aesop Rock
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever...
“But what most men don’t realize is that all women in our society are on the...”
– Charlie Glickman, The Most Important Thing That Men Who Have Sex With Women Need to Know (via kittyradio)
Vinyl Sales Increase Despite Industry Slump →
perpetua:
I wrote this item based on this big packet of data from Nielsen SoundScan. I really geeked out over that stuff, let me tell you. Here is the specific data for top vinyl sales in 2010, for your information.
Top Ten Vinyl Albums, 1/4/2010 - 1/2/2011 1. The Beatles Abbey Road (35,000) 2. Arcade Fire The Suburbs (18,800) 3. Black Keys Brothers (18,400) 4. Vampire Weekend Contra (15,000)...
On Dudes
You really can’t tell with dudes. The ones who are total dorks at twenty-five can turn into stone-cold foxes at forty. But some stay dorks, and just get saggy. It’s a crapshoot. Best to marry the wickedly funny ones with awesome taste in music.
“Like Prometheus chained to his rock, so that the eagle can eat his liver each...”
– Nick Cave on Love Songs, 1999.
I always dither about voting in the Triple J...
My Shortlist:
Band Of Skulls - Fires
Beach House - Norway
Bear In Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers
Caribou - Odessa
Cloud Control - Meditation Song #2 (Why, Oh Why)
Dan Kelly - Hold On, I’m Coming On
Delta Spirit, The - Bushwick Blues
Fyfe Dangerfield - When You Walk In The Room
Gayngs - The Gaudy Side Of Town
Guineafowl - In Our Circles
Janelle Monae - Tightrope {Ft. Big Boi}
...
I wrote about Sleigh Bells for The Brag
Sleigh Bells create a sound that bypasses the intellect and goes straight to your lizard brain, thudding in your skull and sending blood rushing to places long numbed by endless standing and nodding. “What is this?” cried the Internet last year, clutching their collective ears as the red-raw demo of ‘Crown On The Ground’ scythed its way through the chillwaved blogosphere like an...
Hooray! →
Cameras are amazing. Vinyl is rad. Manimal like both these things. I like Manimal.
