December 2010
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Unicorn stickers and glitter pens
rachael-maddux: Seattle Weekly | Top 10 Reasons I Hate Year-End Top-10 Lists by John Roderick
Best bit:
Year-end top-10 lists are the unicorn stickers and glitter pens of music writing.
Maybe it’s the fancy 10% alcohol Belgian ale I drank with dinner speaking, but that’s the most profound insight from anyone about anything that I’ve heard in months! No wonder I don’t...
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Oh look, someone else really, really liked the Sam...
Ben Ratliff at the Times had it at #6! I wish more people would board the Amidon bus. I wrote a paragraph on it, but I doubt that feeble blurb will convert anyone. (I think I’m one of the very few “critics” who almost always understates.) Besides, All Is Well (2008) remains his masterpiece. So if you don’t already own it, you really should. It’s magic. It might even...
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Music blogging's ladies auxillary →
zoya:maura:
“Female blogger: bloggers who write from a different perspective.”
You don’t say.
(HT: J)
Highlighting the proportionally few women in our directory is a way to give prominence to their work. That’s it.
Then say that!
“Bloggers who write from a different perspective,” is all kinds of bullshit and no one here should have to break it down word-by-word to explain...
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“During a rare moment in which he spoke about someone other than himself, Kanye...”
– Michael Cragg at the Guardian
Music writers are always so cranky this time of year.
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