January 2011
31 posts
“I hated the connection between mental illness and art. I couldn’t stand...”
– Kristin Hersh: ‘I let bipolar disorder colour my early songs’ | Pop interview | Music | The Observer
“… and whatever you do, please do not google ‘goatse’.”
– he proposed! look at my ring! - mlkshk … I repeat, please do not google. That’s one ring you definitely don’t wanna see.
“The study found that males raised by alcoholic parents are 40 percent more...”
– Study: Family History Of Alcoholism Raises Risk Of One-Man Show | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“It has been speculated that this effect will reach a maximum sometime toward the...”
– Hyperchronia - tribe.net
“If somebody said I’ll give you a million dollars, but you have to go...”
– The Saturday interview: Patti Smith | From the Guardian | The Guardian
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“The best thing you can do for yourself is abandon the idea that some magical...”
– Seven Rules for Effective Social Networking For Artists - MTT - Music Think Tank … lots of good stuff in this one, it was hard to know what to quote. Chose the above because I took the piss out of this “viral” concept in conversation earlier this week.
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“Wait is not a word in the vocabulary of the current generation. It’s out...”
– Universal and Sony Music plan ‘instant pop’ to beat piracy | Business | The Guardian
“… night swimming is mania, wanting to learn everything and live everywhere...”
– Paradoxical Undressing by Kristin Hersh – review | Music | The Observer
“I grew up in a town where there was little to do and nowhere to go; where the...”
– BBC News - How record shops changed my life
“… rock’n’roll, as a carefully choreographed sequence of...”
– Sweeping The Nation: Filter tips
(A brilliant line. It’s the “carefully choreographed” part that’s the problem, of course.)
“It is the end of the rock era. It’s over, in the same way the jazz era is...”
– RIP rock’n’roll? Professor of pop reads the last rites | Music | The Guardian
“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”
– Ray Bradbury (via arsvitaest)
“Music releases a chemical in the brain that has a key role in setting good...”
– BBC News - Music ‘releases mood-enhancing chemical in the brain’
“We have constructed an intellectual world whose most celebrated institutions...”
– BBC News - A Point of View: Justifying culture
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“The Internet flattens distribution. Everybody can get their stuff out there,...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Procrastination
Yes, Yes and Yes again.
“… and if you have ever watched say a 70s occult-scare movie where one of...”
– The Mountain Goats | News Archive | Paging Jean Noblet
Last night I dreamt I was holding a new Mountain Goats album in my hand (12” vinyl format). This morning, I realised I hadn’t visited their website in quite some time.
“Apart from two rubbish late-period Sex Pistols singles, which I flogged to my...”
– Oh my God! Is that a record player Dad? | Life and style | The Guardian
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“If I had to call it right now, Topspin has the clout and the connections, they...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Bandcamp vs. Topspin
Interesting article. I’ve used Bandcamp in anger and have kept an eye on Topspin. The latter looks like something I “should” be using for its feature set, but when I set up the Bandcamp site in question it felt so...
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“There will be NO free downloads. There will be NO bonus tracks. There will be NO...”
– Portishead’s Geoff Barrow sets out new album rules | News | NME.COM
BBC News - Can HMV learn from global trends? →
CDs: “cultural product” or “technological product”?
Fnac ought to merge with Fopp. Just because.
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Do you still buy CDs? | Open thread | Comment is... →
There is actually a relatively mainstream CD I’d like to buy at the moment, which I’d have to go to a shop like HMV to purchase (i.e. my local supermarket wouldn’t stock it). But I won’t, of course, I’ll do it online.
I used to love browsing in “record shops”, but any time I’ve visited an HMV (or any of its increasingly rare peers) over the past...
“Art is about empathy and connection. If David Bowie is an alien, I don’t...”
– Frank Turner, NME interview, 11 December 2010
