antimeria » music http://antimeria.com/blog a complete impediment to understanding Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Linkwad. http://antimeria.com/blog/music/linkwad-141 http://antimeria.com/blog/music/linkwad-141#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:55 +0000 martin http://antimeria.com/blog/?p=3756 More potentially-related posts:
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]]> Honeymoon photos coming soon! Promise.

  • I don’t know if I buy the “Internet is killing serendipity” argument, but this essay makes the case as well as any I’ve read.
  • The history of the reeeeemiiiiiix.
  • Just FYI: “Everyone else is just as bad” isn’t really a good defense, Internet commentariat.
  • Obviously, the answer to “Why do we need SOPA?” is, “We don’t.”
  • Pitchfork’s impact and history. For you lazy-ass TL;DR types: “A Pitchfork review may ignore history, aesthetics, or the basic technical aspects of tonal music, but it will almost never fail to include a detailed taxonomy of the current hype cycle and media environment. This is a small, petty way of thinking about a large art.”

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See you in a few weeks. Photos will be posted intermittently on the tweet machine.

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  • Growing pot has a huge carbon footprint.
  • Saw Jeff Mangum on Monday night. Thoughts soon, but here’s the Awl’s report. Also, opener The Music Tapes were really intriguing.
  • All about Kindle’s new $200 Fire tablet.

    • Here’s “Minister of Longitude.”

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    ]]>     http://antimeria.com/blog/music/linkwad-131/feed 0     The ones you try to forget. http://antimeria.com/blog/music/the-ones-you-try-to-forget http://antimeria.com/blog/music/the-ones-you-try-to-forget#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:37:10 +0000 martin http://antimeria.com/blog/?p=3637 More potentially-related posts:
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    ]]>     Double Dagger, one of Baltimore’s better punk bands, is calling it quits after nine years. If you’re in Chicago1, DC, NYC, or Baltimore2, you should check out one of their last shows.

    Update: I totally should have called this post “Our history has no future.” Oh well.

    1. The Oct. 14 show is with Call Me Lightning, another excellent and underappreciated band. ↩
    2. That covers about 90% of the people who read this blog. ↩

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  • The AT&T-Mo deal looks like it just got shot down. Good news.
  • What is even happening with music this year? Jack White and ICP? Doing Mozart?
  • To get that out of your head, I recommend either M83′s new “Intro,” ft. Zola Jesus, or the Dresden Dolls’ cover of “Dance Me to the End of Love.”

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    ]]>     http://antimeria.com/blog/music/linkwad-126/feed 0     Riveting whirlwinds gripping the world. http://antimeria.com/blog/music/riveting-whirlwinds-gripping-the-world http://antimeria.com/blog/music/riveting-whirlwinds-gripping-the-world#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:33:04 +0000 martin http://antimeria.com/blog/?p=3600 More potentially-related posts:
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    ]]>     It just occurred to me that Irene is an ideal time for Latyrx’s “Storm Warning,” off the mostly-forgotten Quannum Spectrum:

    It also gives me an excuse to post the Lyrics Born earworm “I Changed My Mind.”

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  • I missed the news the first time around, but Breaking Bad got picked up for a final season. So we have at least a year before the inevitable Scarface/Soprano ending.
  • Best of the Jay-Z and Outkast discographies, in tournament form.
  • The best hip-hop-related drink ads. Stuff like this is more compelling than anything Grantland’s headlining writers have come up with (see also: Katie Baker, who earned huge points with me for coining the phrase “asymptotes of insanity“). Bonus: have you seen the best thing on the Internet yet?
  • Also, thanks to Scott, I have been enjoying the adultolescent train wreck that is Thought Catalog. I suggest you do the same.

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    ]]>     Via @AnnieLowrey, an awesome year-by-year infographic showing “how the download killed the CD that killed the cassette that killed the LP.”

    As a nerd, it’s amazing to me that CD sales still accounted for almost 50% of 2010 music purchases.

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    ]]>     http://antimeria.com/blog/music/round-and-round/feed 0     “Unique to say the least.” http://antimeria.com/blog/music/unique-to-say-the-least http://antimeria.com/blog/music/unique-to-say-the-least#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:27:44 +0000 martin http://antimeria.com/blog/?p=3531 More potentially-related posts:
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    ]]>     That’s the verdict on A. Samuels, “55-year-old casino executive” mastermind who’s “Livin De Life”1:

    Via Chris, who also “has a respectable amount of self esteem.”

    1. If he’s legit. I was also unable to find any evidence of his existence. ↩

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    ]]>     http://antimeria.com/blog/music/unique-to-say-the-least/feed 0     Brooklyn zoo. http://antimeria.com/blog/music/brooklyn-zoo http://antimeria.com/blog/music/brooklyn-zoo#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:06:35 +0000 martin http://antimeria.com/blog/?p=3483 More potentially-related posts:
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    ]]>     With any luck, Republicans won’t destroy the country the economy won’t implode while I’m in New York with Emily, Scott, Eamonn and other college friends this weekend:

    Unrelatedly, I retooled the blog, and it’s quite handsome! If you’ve been reading the RSS feed, check it out.

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