January 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
The Softies (48)
Cee Lo Green (24)
Death Cab for Cutie (20)
Amadou & Mariam (19)
Abel Korzeniowski (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Himanshu Suri of Das Racist Explains The Mixtape →
gq:
Moderator: “What’s a mixtape?” Suri: “Well, we all liked the same girl, so we made a tape with all our favorite songs on it, and we gave it to her with a note that had Himanshu, Victor, and Ashok and three boxes and ‘who do you like?’ And she put in a fourth box and checked ‘Arcade Fire’.”
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The Farmers' Museum →
The Farmers’ Museum cultivates an understanding of the rural heritage that has shaped our land, communities and American culture.
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Salem, and Why It’s Never Been About Authenticity →
Notice, that despite Salem’s “authentic” pedigree (ex-junkies and troubled youths, from the birthplace of at least some of their sounds, etc.) the group’s defenders rarely take the “authenticity” approach to justify the group’s music. Instead, they play the “post-authenticity” game, which steps around “there’s some racially problematic stuff about these kids” altogether. It says: none of that...
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Anonymous asked: are yall dedicated to doing shitty live performances?
i probably shouldn’t entertain this troll ass shit but fuck it, i can’t sleep. obviously we aim to entertain. no band or rapper or dude wants to put on a bad show. no one sits in a van all day or on a plane all morning, running around the country, to go up on a stage in front of hundreds of people and suck. all the...
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“Unfortunately, middle-class life is perhaps of necessity a nervous condition...”
– Smarter Than the Average Bear? « Easily Distracted
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
The Radio Dept. (26)
Stars (19)
Janelle Monáe (18)
The Magnetic Fields (15)
Kings of Convenience (8)
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“MTV’s marketing campaign for Skins promised lots of teenagers behaving badly,...”
– Why No One Liked Skins « Thought Catalog
Dispatches from the Air Sex World Championships |... →
You surely know the basics. Air sex has received a huge amount of media attention, and perhaps the joke is getting stale. Except that, to many of the competitors, it’s not a joke whatsoever. A winning performance, Shanker’s improvisation notwithstanding, typically requires hours upon hours of practice.
The Most Emailed 'New York Times' Article Ever |... →
It’s a week before the biggest day of her life, and Anna Williams is multitasking. While waiting to hear back from the Ivy League colleges she’s hoping to attend, the seventeen-year-old senior at one of Manhattan’s most exclusive private schools is doing research for a paper about organic farming in the West Bank, whipping up a batch of vegan brownies, and, like an increasing number of American...
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Watchno te llores. I Am A Craft Brewer
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“It is hard enough on these people, having to live in Philadelphia. Must they be...”
– Philadelphia Rocked By Possible Loss Of Snack Cakes | The Awl
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“I like the beats on Kanye West’s new album. I love the inversion of that...”
– On White She-Devils - Ta-Nehisi Coates
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TO MY HUSBAND →
Via The Awl
“The book’s photographs suggest the countless strange and sad narratives...”
– Detroit in ruins: the photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre | The Observer
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“While it might be fair to argue that Fey has profited from a feminist embrace,...”
– The Tina Fey backlash - Broadsheet - Salon.com
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“Two decades ago, the gay left wanted to smash the bourgeois prisons of monogamy,...”
– Gays, military, don’t ask, don’t tell: The rise of the gay bourgeoisie
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Watchdream hampton speaks on collaborating with jay-Z on Decoded. Via Rap Radar.
“I Will No Longer Keep Things “Because My Future Daughter Might Want...”
– Dress Code: New Year’s Sartorial Resolutions