July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
14 posts
Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s Birthday Party: The Greatest...
Last summer, Vol. 1 Brooklyn was created in a Brooklyn coffee shop. I wasn’t exactly sure what we were doing then, and I’m happy to report that a year later, not much has changed.
Since the beginning, people have been incredibly supportive of this site, and we figured that we should say thanks to everybody by throwing this blowout celebration at Bar Matchless on July 22nd. We’ve asked 25 ...
Dear Wife of Steve Albini, who the fuck isn't... →
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I may have called bullshit on Jacket Copy. Or... →
Keith Gessen on dystopian novels. →
“Then things just got weird and bad, and then things got quiet as a new year of...”
– If we all crucified Wavves…
Wish I could Write a Good Bolaño Essay →
Boris + Ian Astbury Together ='s Holy Shit
Boris Collaboration With Ian Astbury Announced Southern Lord proudly announces an incredible collaboration between label artists Boris and Ian Astbury of The Cult and The Doors! This finely-crafted four-song mini release, simply entitled BXI, was tracked and mixed in Tokyo in late April. Asbury’s vocals are a perfect match for Boris’s straightforward, laid-back, but still raw...
May 2010
14 posts
Plugging the Gulf oil leak with the works of Ayn... →
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Music Notes for the Week
1. The question isn’t if Woods have put out the best album of the summer, it’s whether At Echo Lake is the best album to bubble up out of the Brooklyn underground this year. It’s really hard to say, and to be honest, I shouldn’t even make a statement like that — it’s barely June!
2009’s Songs of Shame has stayed on my turntable since I made the proclamation that it was one of the...
Aaron Lefkove talks to Emily Gould
What is it that gives people a license too hide behind some wall of virtual anonymity and really just rip into someone else?
When my boyfriend’s book came out he did this great interview with Young Manhattanite and he said something that I think about a lot, which is that “I know exactly what kind of asshole I am, and it’s a different kind of asshole from the one depicted...
Exile on Main St. never gets old, but I do →
I Like One Thing About Animal Collective... →
Fuck Yeah Aaron Cometbus →
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Black Mountain Review →
“Galaxie 500 made three great records that people bought thousands of copies of,...”
– Mike McGonigal at Pitchfork
April 2010
45 posts
I'm celebrating another year of hating the New...
There are very few bands that make me scratch my head and wonder why the fuck people get so excited about their new records as much as they do.
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Finishing Shteyngart
I’m about to finish my advanced copy of Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. I keep thinking to myself how funny it is that, I start out disliking every book I’ve read by Shteyngar, but then end up loving them in the end.
Real Estate/silkscreening at P.S. 1 tonight →
“The book was written at the height of the second world war, and at a time when...”
– Christopher Hitchens on Animal Farm
New Indian Jewelry track. Going on tour with...
I made J.D. Salinger happy →
Rudyard Kipling’s Interview With Mark Twain →
samchase:
For the Mark Twain Centennial, the Huffington Post put up this handy-dandy embed by Scribd of Mark Twain being interviewed by Rudyard Kipling:
(via…
Author Wars →
I call Jeremy Jay a "dandy" →
I’ll always love you Blur.
Am I Fabulous Enough to Hang out at the Marc... →
Thoughts on The Shondes newest album →
Live Crystal Stilts MP3 →
