December 2009
The Decade in Music Genre Hype →
standardgrey:
’00s MICROTREND GRAVEYARD
Ghettotech, microhouse, folktronica, New Weird America, schaffel, crunk, trap-rap, post-metal, screw, baile, Baltimore club, snap, nu-balearic, moan-wave, grindie, deathcore, nu-rave, juke, wonky, skweee, dubstep, kuduro, jerk, hypnagogic pop, crabcore.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Lost tapes of the Dr... →
immlass:
Be sure to listen to the 50-second experimental dance track by Derbyshire.
Yes, we are anxiously awaiting some sort of official release of this found material.
Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales
perpetua:
1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k 2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k 3. the xx xx 35k 4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 75k (estimate) 5. Raekwon Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II 141k 6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 132k 7. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 36k 8. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 205k 9. Fever Ray Fever Ray 23k 10. Girls Album 19k
Sales figures are from Soundscan...
Billboard's Top 100 songs of the 00s →
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tomewing:
I find this list - especially the top 40 or so - really fascinating, and not simply because I like about 2/3 of the records in it and adore a good half-dozen.
It’s interesting to me because of the idea - repeated so often I’ve come to lazily accept it without really thinking - that this decade has been particularly fragmented in terms of pop, the music people listen to,...
Circle Stereo
This is the guy who I’ve entrusted with the repair/restoration of my thirty year old Luxman turntable and Apt Holman preamp.
Passionate stuff like this and this on his website give me a good feeling, but I am going to be without a proper stereo for a while.
metamatica:
““I hate it when people go on about the ’80s revival and us being a cutesy little synthpop duo,” moans McCluskey. “We always thought there was more to us than that.””
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OMD – Repeat of an initial success - The Star
First, there’s nothing wrong with being a cutesy synthpop duo, provided you are good at it. Second, yes, OMD were more than that. Even Crush, which is fairly...
All you need to know about why Apple wins
“Our goal is very simple: We want to have the best platform for applications that there has ever been on any product.”
—Phil Schiller, Apple
“There will be more services and new ways to monetize and more consumption. Growth is a given; it’s just a question of who is going to innovate in the right way to drive that value proposition to capture that growth.”
— Jim...
A patch of ice! Oh my God, we're all going to die!
Patch of ice reported on Travis County bridge
Friday, December 4, 2009, 07:30 AM
Travis County sheriff’s deputies said this morning that a patch of ice has been reported on a bridge on Texas 71 near Bee Creek Road. A motorist this morning reported skidding on ice, but did not crash.
“Genre patriots often seem like people locked in bad marriages, hoping things...”
– Simon Reynolds
“Once people begin to buy their first adult permanent furniture, that’s when...”
– Douglas Coupland
Mickey Rourke’s Groove Salad →
lizlet:
This has too much profanity to reblog for NewTeeVee. But man, Randy the Ram can lay down some tight tracks.
I am not following this link because I am uncomfortable with the term, “groove salad.”