Tag Archives: music

Kids These Days (Condescending Blog)

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

I haven’t blogged here in a while, so I’m going to take this opportunity to WAIL on a couple of “self proclaimed music critics” or “bloggers” as it were (see below). Now, it is obvious to me that these are … Continue reading →

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Me Party

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

I spent the latter half of 2011 with my head out of the music industry cloud. I’ve been luxuriating in a stress-free world of science fiction and artificial intelligence. I’ve been reading and writing more than anything else. But then … Continue reading →

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Musical Mnemonics 3: Squeeze

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

While shopping for back to school clothes for by kid, I found myself in the beige-est of retailers, Old Navy. Usually when I do normal, mall-related things, the music stores play perplexes me. I can’t not listen to it. I … Continue reading →

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Do I ♥ Hype Machine?

Posted on February 26, 2010 by

When I first got into the Hype Machine, I thought it was genius. An aggregator of music blogs that generates a “Top Ten” list every week. Decentralised, not dependent on skewed radio air play or impossible record sales. I discovered … Continue reading →

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Small Records (7 inch)

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

I am currently watching a few items, like this one, on eBay: I’ve been going to the Value Village lately, looking for, well, old stuff. I used to go ALL the time, usually for clothes, but I think somewhere around … Continue reading →

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Science of Music vs. Martin Amis

Posted on February 9, 2010 by

During a moment spent not freaking out about Facebook removing my civil e-liberties, or analyzing the weird dreams I had last night about ordering an Americano coffee in NYC, I read a compelling book review in the Economist. The last … Continue reading →

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What I Learned from Pop Montreal Bios

Posted on August 13, 2009 by

I think I just finished writing this year’s round of bios for the Pop Montreal programme. I always go into it with an open mind, and while this year I felt like I wasn’t seeing or hearing anything “new,” I … Continue reading →

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Morally Reprehensible

Posted on December 3, 2008 by

The other day, after I dropped Neptune off at preschool, I decided to go grocery shopping. I learned that 9:30AM is a very strange time to go grocery shopping, and nobody really goes shopping that early in the morning. I … Continue reading →

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Anthropology or “What you Readin’ For?”

Posted on September 6, 2008 by

In this week’s Economist I read a piece on the discovery of a cluster of 9th century, super organised (and now defunct) cities embedded deep in a part of the Amazon rainforest that was previously thought of as uninhabited by … Continue reading →

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That New, Mellow Sound

Posted on July 15, 2008 by

“The latest musical climate — perhaps a sonic reply to the sluggish, humid global warming trend — is rootsy, VU folk-pop à la Beach Boys.” I wrote that nearly a month ago, after the hype surrounding the new Fleet Foxes … Continue reading →

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