January 2012
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WatchJangly rock yums!
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December 2011
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WatchThe Rhubarbs perform Nina Simone’s “Turn Me On.”
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Since it's that annoying list time of year again
Last December I wrote about why I never compile best of end-of-year lists. The piece was published in the Brooklyn Rail. Here’s a segment:
In the end, these artifacts mostly serve the echo chambers and attempt to quantify the messy splendor that is the world of pop music, allowing for the glorification of a wholly unsatisfying approach to listening and appreciating diverse sounds,...
November 2011
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Albums of Our Lives: Joni Mitchell's _Blue_ →
The link in the last post should work now, but here it is again since I bungled it yesterday.
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I am at once shattered and glowing
I started the Albums of Our Lives series at The Rumpus this summer, but hadn’t written one myself until this past week. The hardest part, besides finding the time, was picking an album, because there are so many that are so damn important to me. But Joni Mitchell’s Blue imposed itself on me. When the trees are mostly naked and suddenly we’re bombarded with all things winter...
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WatchThe Rhubarbs perform “In the Pines.”
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October 2011
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WatchMourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). Olympia Le Tan and Spike Jonze animate felt book cover skeletons that jump off covers at Paris’ Shakespeare and Co. Did I mention there’s a whale?
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September 2011
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WatchFinally, I’m uploading The Rhubarbs first gig! Here’s us performing Townes Van Zandt’s “If You Needed Me” at the September Improved Lighting Reading at Nightbird Books. Rest of the tracks are coming soon.
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I never had a yearning to visit Paris before this →
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Cherry Bomb
This review had me as soon as her take on Lester Bangs.
lareviewofbooks:
SARA MARCUS on Ellen Willis’s escape from the music ghetto. © Nona Willis Aronowitz 2011 Courtesy of University of Minnesota Press Ellen Willis Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music University of Minnesota Press, May 2011. 272 pp. For a universal language, music can feel downright limiting sometimes. When...
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August 2011
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Sóley Stefánsdóttir’s first single,...
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you can call me boots.: when i talk about music i... →
The latest “Albums of Our Lives” is a love story!
ashleybethard:
I wrote an essay for The Rumpus as part of their Albums of Our Lives series. It’s on Shooter Jennings’ “Put the O Back in Country.” I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s sort of about being a pseudo-groupie.*
* I don’t think that “pseudo-groupie” is the most apt term to use,…
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On the parenthood/creativity balance
We Who Are About To Die has a rad new series up in which they ask writerly parents about juggling parenthood and writing. I participated and my spot is up today. When asked about my best piece of advice I said: “If anything motherhood teaches you the urgency to seize the moment when you have it, it gives urgency to your dreams and I find that powerful even if I haven’t successfully...
July 2011
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