Entries Tagged as 'link'

Fugazi close to finishing complete concert archive

July 20th, 2010

I like to think of myself as a pretty big Fugazi fan, having seen them live five or six times over the years, but the news of the band’s upcoming massive live archive website isn’t as exciting to me as it seems to be for everyone else. With literally hundreds of shows being digitized and […]

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Unknown Chocolate Pleasures

July 19th, 2010

Via Logan Via Dangerous Minds

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eMusic interview with Teenbeat’s Mark Robinson

July 15th, 2010

Former Idolator honcho Maura Johnston interviews one of my heroes, Mark Robinson (of Teenbeat, Unrest, and Cotton Candy fame), in a cool, informative, and laid back Q&A session over at eMusic. In it Robinson discusses the nostalgic personal touch of home-dubbing cassettes, Unrest’s reunion tour, his proclivity for patterns in numbering, and his favorite designers. […]

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Sting is an insufferable twat

July 15th, 2010

I doubt it’s news to anyone that Sting is an insufferable twat, but Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times had the point hammered home in a recent interview that The Guardian has snarkily whittled down to its most abhorrently pretentious bits, which I am more than happy to share with you now: “Ask Sting […]

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Is Prince right about the Internet?

July 8th, 2010

An amusing, if slightly rant-ish, response to the response Prince received for his social-media-baiting “the Internet is completely over” line. I must admit I reacted with the same dismissive scorn as everyone else did to Prince’s seemingly clueless quip, but I’m not wholly convinced that Prince is as astute about the internet as this author […]

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Stereotyping people by their favorite indie bands (part 2)

June 16th, 2010

Part one was amazingly accurate, and part two, well, more of the same. For the local SC kids: Toro Y Moi Deceptively straight males who think “riding the chillwave” is a national pastime.

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Refused’s Dennis Lyxzén on reunions

June 15th, 2010

Refused’s The Shape of Punk to Come sounds as unbelievably raucous and intense as it did 12 years ago. This climactic swansong obviously aped all of Refused’s hardcore and punk idols with practically every idea showcased, but the execution was perfect, which makes it all completely justified and, well, a moot point. The fact that […]

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