January 2012
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Jan 20th
“Just heard (half of) the new Bruce song as I entered the parking lot—“we take...”
– My mother is (still) a better music critic than I am. (via zachbaron) Closer to folk, in the old-fashioned Woody Guthrie populist sense, than country, to my ears. I totally hear the song as being about the same idea of freedom as in Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues,” as in Jonathan Franzen’s...
Jan 19th
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December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Best New Ren Faire
maura: If your takeaway from Mumford and Sons was “decent, but needs more yelling by packs of drunk-sounding bros,” you’re gonna love Wu Lyf. this is what i like about them though: everything about WU LYF is hyper-masculine to the point of camp. from the lit-up logo they position behind themselves on stage, to their propensity for shirtlessness, to the near incomprehensible grunting vocals,...
Dec 18th
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“Actually, it sounds like a puzzle she could have written into one of her songs:...”
– 2011: Favorite 50 Albums of 2011 | Staff Feature | Tiny Mix Tapes | Page 4 Isn’t this kind of what “You Yes You” is about?
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You: The Protester
marathonpacks: I was ready to go H.A.M. on Time for copping out and condescending to American audiences, mushing together the brutal visceral reality that is war and political dissent into one puffy word-clouded (neutralized) “protester”—the “You” of 2011—until a quick Google set me straight. Seems that this sort of thing happens every 5-7 years. 1950: The American Fighting Man 1956: The...
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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My 4 Favorite Albums of 2011 (with a bonus 5th)
tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l The album with the highest percentage of vital tracks this year. If I had to pick a favorite, I’d pick five (at least). Merrill Garbus not only builds killer grooves, but always dares to go there lyrically, on what may be the most political record of the year.   St. Vincent - Strange Mercy   Another album full of great songs. One through six are impeccable,...
Dec 13th
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Listenvintagecleveland: Hot Tin Roof - “Black...
Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
Don't Stop Beliebing
thenewinquiry: A dialogue on pop music’s prefiguration of the Occupy protests By Max Fox and Malcolm Harris … The only feeling left for the music industry to sell back to us is crisis, and it makes for really great dance music. You see this play out in the tastes on the radical left: The last explicitly anarchist party I went to promised “plenty of Ke$ha” on the Facebook invite...
Dec 7th
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Reilly Brennan: A Brief History of Kongs →
reillybrennan: The enormous, frighteningly friendly King Kong balloons on the roofs of your louder car dealerships and apartment complexes are in trouble. They’re already banned in many cities in Texas as well as St. Louis, after city councils deemed them an eyesore and a distraction to drivers. When …
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Nov 29th
Screen Name: The Morality of Debt →
screen-name: Via the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities: This interview, done by Kevin Depew over at Minyanville, is your read for this Thanksgiving weekend.. In the Minyanville interview, Graeber says: And one of the things that really fascinated me was the moral power of the idea of debt….
Nov 26th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
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New Idea for a Site
catbird: It’s like Hot or Not, but it’s just pictures of breasts, and it’s called “Grade Us Tits” (say it out loud). I still think of this whenever I think of “greatest hits”.
Nov 16th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 12th
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October 2011
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Oct 30th
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Oct 27th
Animals In Places They Shouldn't Be Halloween...
animalsinplacestheyshouldntbe: Animals In Places They Shouldn’t Be would definitely be interested in featuring pictures of your Animals In Places They Shouldn’t Be inspired Halloween costumes! Just dressing as an animal won’t quite cut it however, you’ll need to go a little beyond that to really get to the spirit of the site (a bear eating pizza, perhaps??). Please SUBMIT your photos here, and...
Oct 24th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 14th
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“YOU KNOW WHAT? We want to come play in your American town. Can you help us do...”
– SKELETONS TV™: We are going on tour in Europe again. Who will be my hero and book Skeletons a show in Columbus?  
Oct 5th
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September 2011
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Sep 30th
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