What is his deal? And why do people keep provoking him? Can’t Thom Yorke talk some sense in to him?

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Taking “Everything in its Right Place” as the basis for a thesis project, a student has created an interactive “breakdown of the technology behind a song from one of music’s sonically obscure albums.” (via)

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Not sure what’s happened to The Faint since the genius of Blank Wave Arcade, but they’ve managed to consistently underwhelm on all subsequent releases.  Sure there are a few good tracks on Danse Macabre and Wet From Birth, but if the new track, “The Geeks Were Right” is any indication, Fasciination isn’t exactly charting unexplored […]

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Cookthink ponders the intersection of Fruit and Music. Does the strawberry catalog (which could also include Sonic Youth’s Sympathy for the Strawberry) trump Stealin’ Apples (Benny Goodman), Red Apples (Cat Power singing a Bill Callahan song), Appletree (Eryka Badu), Apple Honey (Woody Herman), Big Apple (Tommy Dorsey—not Kajagoogoo) and June Apple, a traditional song that […]

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Once you reach a certain level of fame your dignity becomes harder and harder to hold on to. And that goes double for when you’re dead. I’m pretty sure Kurt Cobain would hemorrhage at the thought of Converse making a signature shoe in his honor. Well, actually, publicly he would have made a big stink […]

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The always-well-spoken Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger has a new addition to his Poptimist column in Pitchfork that ponders the psychology behind choosing one’s favorite album. I’ve always answered the same album since I was about seventeen: The Cure’s Pornography. I haven’t even questioned that answer in years (despite The Cure’s self-sabotaging relevance in my […]

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