Category: Doing
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One last word on Vampire Weekend.
I think the thing that’s most aggravating about Vampire Weekend’s critical epicycle is that there’s this absolute need to be ‘right’ about the album, and that it’s not simply enough to write it off as clever pop that a listener can take or leave. The comments on that blog post completely suck the fun out…
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File under personal goals, achieved.
Looks like my first and only foray into the SXSW wilderness may be a success. From the way things sound right now, I should be sitting down to talk with my childhood heroes R.E.M. in Austin. This is great because I’m pretty sure it’s the first interview I’ll conduct where I’m genuinely enthused about talking…
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A word about Dave Sitek productions.
I listened to most of the Foals forthcoming album, Antidotes, yesterday. As much as I love the sound that TVOTR achieved with Return to Cookie Mountain, it doesn’t work for everyone. Even if you love Celebration as much as I do, you have to admit that it all starts to sound samey after a brief while.…
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That was glib and unnecessary.
Sorry about that. Alfred’s right after all. It’s just hard to countenance a plea for niche music when most people only care about music-related celebrity on a day-to-day basis, and you’re on the hook for several hundred thousand pageviews every day. The indie music hype bubble [and the traffic it generates] seems insignificant in comparison,…
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This is an industry in decline.
The Grammys are a strange show. The production is outstanding [at least until 9 p.m.] and then, like an M. Night movie, they throw in a pointless plot twist to wreck the mood. Do Grammys voters not even know what Zeitgeist means? Maybe more appropriately: do they know they help create it?