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Emily Dickinson’s Guide to the Act of Self-Promotion

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Looking Back, Part 2: Songs

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arcade Fire, Best of 2010, Broken Bells, Broken Social Scene, Foals, Gorillaz, Grinderman, LCD Soundsystem, Neil Young, Sufjan Stevens, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Black Keys, The National The Fall, The Soft Pack, This Is Me Smiling on January 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

15. “Futile Devices” – Sufjan Stevens 14. “Bury Parts 1 & 3″ – The Fall 13. “We Used To Wait” – Arcade Fire 12. “Anyone’s Ghost” – The National 11. “Love and War” – Neil Young 10. “Losin’ It More” – This Is Me Smiling 9. “Answer To Yourself” – The Soft Pack 8. “Bottled [...]

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Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Afrikaa Bambaataa, avant-garde, Brian Eno, Can, Count Machuki, Crash Course In Science, DJ Kool Herc, Greg Gerke, Impressionism, King Tubby, Klaus Nomi, Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Minimalism, New Wave, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Socialism, Talking Heads, The Alan Parsons Project, Toni Basil, Wendy Carlos on January 2, 2011 | 23 Comments »

[Update: Part 2 is here] Re: Greg’s most recent post on the term “avant-garde”—I’ve already discussed this somewhat here, here and here, but to recap: The term’s early 19th-century Socialist origins have mostly been forgotten. And that’s fine—language changes—but, personally, I find it deliciously perverse that the original Avant-Gardists, the Impressionists, essentially stole the term [...]

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Looking Back, Part 1: Albums

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arcade Fire, Best Albums of 2010, Black Keys, Broken Bells, Broken Social Scene, Foals, Gorillaz, Grinderman, Neil Young, The National, This Is Me Smiling on January 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I’m late to the party–as usual. But let’s talk the best of 2010. First up, the best in music. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Next up will be the best songs of 2010. Stay tuned.

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Memories

Posted in Uncategorized on January 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »

In an essay called ‘TBM and John’, collected in Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, Simon Schama makes a bold assertion: You always remember where it was that you first read the books that changed your life. To which my immediate response is: er, no! I have, for instance, distinct memories of where I was when I first [...]

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