February 2012
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“The fact that style has a history makes sense given the drive for the familiar...”
– Adele In The Goldilocks Zone : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
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“Well, it’s just like a fire, the red incandescence, and there’s some...”
– A.P.C. designer Jean Touitou on whether or not rock is dead.
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Holding On For Tomorrow
guardianmusic:
Alex James has revealed - in another ill-considered column for The Sun - that Blur will play five songs when they pick up their Outstanding Contribution To Music gong at Tuesday night’s Brits. Which leaves Blur fans - quite literally! - holding on for tomorrow. (Any excuse to post one of their best and most under-rated songs, really.) CS
Still my favorite Blur song, I think.
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“As a child I feared the day the world would be taken over by robots; these days...”
– Crash course in how to write an interesting lede for an album review by Lindsay Zoladz. (via seanfennessey)
It’s true. Taking notes.
(via markrichardson)
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“I feel like women have the feeling that there is only a finite amount of success...”
– Tennis’s Alaina Moore on the New Album, Working With Her Husband, and the Backlash to the Band — Vulture
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Bonnie Bear on artistic purity with Spin
Maybe what we're actually talking about, though, is purity. You've mentioned before that that's perhaps what made For Emma so magnetic, that that's why you're so protective of it, and that that's why it's been so upsetting to be thrust into a the position where you're trying to communicate things that can't be said in a song. But can Bon Iver remain pure?
I wonder about that. I wonder if there will be another record, if there can be. One of things that I feel happy about is that I have it within me to make the call, to say the show goes on or the show doesn't go on. I won't let Bon Iver fail itself. So far, it's succeeded, so if we never make another record, it's okay with me. I'm still going to do something else. But I'm a romantic, I care about what it is. I care that it came from a pure place.
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“I’ve been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone...”
– James Blake Talks Why American Dubstep Is Not Really For ‘Frat-Boys’ In Advance Of Tibet House Concert
Glad he’s come around on that.
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Hear Perfume Genius' 'Put Your Back N 2 It' |... →
You should probably listen to this. And by probably, I mean definitely.
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“If we’re imagining—pure speculation here, folks—that the awards are not doled...”
– SF-J on Grammy politics.
EDIT: one more. “Woman-beating rage-broccoli Chris Brown lip-synced his single ‘Turn Up The Music’ (without being threatened by Sir Elton John) and danced roughly as well as a third-rate Chicago footwork dancer. He ended his performance by back-flipping off the stage,...
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Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
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“French culture and rock do not go well together. It’s like English wine.”
– Electronic pop vets Air talk to us about why they could never be proper rockers in our latest 5-10-15-20 interview. (via pitchfork)
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