January 2012
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 11th
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“When I was a young piano student I got so caught up in the seriousness of...”
– Eve Barlow’s The Problem With Music Critics is the most salient piece of music writing that you missed in 2011.
Jan 10th
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Jan 4th
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 25th
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Vol. 1 Brooklyn presents: The Greatest 3-Minute... →
perpetua: I will be participating in this event tonight at Brooklyn Based in Greenpoint along with luminaries such as Maura Johnston, Norman Brannon, Jessica Suarez, Daphne Carr and Mark Yarm! Please come out if you can. I’m going on early, so I have plenty of time to ruin anyone’s Internet perceptions of me! Also, while I’m still working on the actual substance, I decided...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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The Death of a Music Writer: A 20-Year Exit...
This essay is longer than most, but it was important for me to write. I. 1991–1993 Three weeks ago I handed in my final music column for Towleroad. In the weeks before that, I contacted anyone who still paid me to write about music and told them I wasn’t accepting any more work. As of today, I have one more invoice to file — for about $800 — and as soon as that check is cut and cashed,...
Dec 9th
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“Imagine you’re in a band, and when you played shows, people were...”
– I could listen to Ian MacKaye all day, forever.
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Nov 24th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 7th
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My Mortifying Month →
I’m blogging this as a link because I’m not sure I’ve ever read a (thoughtful) essay about this topic before. The overarching thesis, then, being: Somehow, amazingly, I had written 1200 words for a magazine, and the only thing I’d managed to clearly convey was the exact thing I didn’t believe, and was making a point of not saying. What makes this especially interesting to me...
Nov 7th
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October 2011
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Oct 31st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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Oct 16th
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“Today, one vision of how America works is that it’s an even game, that anybody...”
– Elizabeth Warren, from a new profile in Vanity Fair well worth reading.
Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 11th
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“We all know the classic scene from cartoons: the cat reaches a precipice, but it...”
– Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street: Where critical theory meets real life.
Oct 11th
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Oct 7th
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JD Samson, Rawkblog, and the 99 Percent.
rawkblog: This JD Samson HuffPo piece: “I’m really surprised I haven’t made very much money by being a modestly popular underground rock musician! Rent is expensive in Brooklyn! I’m being financially persecuted because I’m queer, an undoubtedly true fact but one I will present no evidence in this column to prove or generate sympathy about! Um, Occupy Wall...
Oct 6th
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Oct 6th
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Oct 4th
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“We don’t believe in a small America. We don’t believe in the kind of smallness...”
– Barack Obama: He still gives good speech.
Oct 2nd
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Oct 1st
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September 2011
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Sep 29th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 23rd
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“What had hitherto maintained this practice of torture was not an economy of...”
– Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish. In memory of Troy Davis.
Sep 22nd
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Sep 12th
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Sep 2nd
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August 2011
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WatchWatch
Hurricane Songs #1: “Northern Aggression” It’s almost midnight now and I’ve been alone in my apartment all day since Hurricane Irene began her threat. The hysteria had me convinced there would be a power outage, and I prepared: The battery in my computer is fully charged, a flashlight and candles sit nearby, and my acoustic guitar was designated to be in-darkness...
Aug 28th
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Aug 26th
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Aug 20th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 10th
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Noah Kalina: 50 tumblrs I follow and maybe you... →
It’s always nice to be included on a list. Especially when the list-maker is a talented photographer, fellow Brooklynite, and person whose Tumblr you should probably follow as well.
Aug 3rd
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Aug 3rd
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