January 2012
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Hope There’s Someone - Antony & the...
December 2011
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This song is La Ritournelle by Sebastien Tellier.
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DJ Shadow sampled over 70 songs to make Endtroducing. Including James Brown, Isley Bros, Jimi Hendrix and the Beastie Boys.
RJD2 writes on the net about sampling and implies that clearance is bullshit. He says De La Soul & DJ Shadow don’t clear samples, or at least didn’t on their breakthrough albums.
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“my views on this are directly related to the current state of the music industry. namely 2 big things: 1-your average indie record is lucky to recoup expenses. if it generates 10-30k,...
November 2011
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New-millennium instrumental hip hop is still so hot. Look below for my favorite track from each kingpin.
P.S. Caribou is not Hip Hop. I wont let you guys hurt him.
P.P.S. If I had planned better I’d have posted these in the opposite order. I’m trying to tell you the Ratatat track is better than the others, OK?
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August 2011
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“This is someone working on the most radical edge of mainstream culture and...”
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Chuck Klosterman, on Louis CK and the second season of “Louie” (via daniper)
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Listen
July 2011
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James Blake - Limit To Your Love →
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My Spotify profile →
Everyone should be on Spotify.
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Spotify.
Here’s a playlist of 82 awesome songs. Spotify’s selection and sound quality are sick.
If you subscribe to the playlist, you’ll get whatever else I add. And all this shit is free.
Streaming music just got real.
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Snatched from Shoals’ blog.
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Another five-star song:
“Summer...
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Alexandre Desplat is finally the most powerful composer in Hollywood. He can have nearly any film he wants, and his fee is the highest. This is great news because he’s really fucking good.
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WatchCupid’s Arrow dating service
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“My aversion to Conan O’Brien sounds like a generational rant, but it’s really not. The two Jimmys, Kimmel and Fallon, are both younger than Conan (Kimmel by 4 years, Fallon by 11), and though it’s undeniable that their shows are powered by plenty of free-floating delirium and rib-nudging post-Letterman detachment, both of these guys know how to relax – which, to me (sorry to be so...
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“Man’s best friend is a dog and this is my dog and I made my best friend a...”
– Ronnie Dobbs
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Top 5 songs I've heard for the first time in 2011...
1. Sprawl II - Arcade Fire
2. Supercollider - Radiohead
3. Little by Little - Radiohead
June 2011
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The Many Faces of Ron Swanson
azizisbored:
Wow. Well done.
flyingscotsman:
“Sometimes you got it, sometimes you don’t. The Greater Man upstairs know when...”
– -LeBron James
Wait, does he mean to die? He’s young and in good health. You should be good for 40-45 more years, at a minimum. Oh, nevermind. He means a god has preordained that he win an NBA Championship.
My bad.
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May 2011
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End-weekend May 30th
I finished The Wire. Calling it the best show ever is obvious. Is there a better way to put it?
‘Like Spinning Plates’ deserves more notice than it gets. It may be a top-10 Radiohead song. Also, the best backwards song ever.
Basketball is not like jazz. At all. In so many ways, they’re not similar.
‘White Noise’ is my favorite post-rock song in a few years....
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Favorite Wire characters
Marlo Stanfield
Omar Little
Gus
Stringer Bell
Bodie
Clay Davis
In that order