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Bloom

Submitted by adammyerson on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 23:25

I am a huge Galaxie 500 fan, and by extension, a huge fan of Damon & Naomi. Not just a fan of their music, but a fan of them - their art, their philosophy, their relationship as a duo in so many projects. So I was pretty excited to find this in their latest e-newsletter:

Also now online, you can read Damon's article about Brian Eno's iPhone application, Bloom, from the February issue of ArtForum: 

http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=200902&id=21870

I love girl talk but I hate Girl Talk

Submitted by adammyerson on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 14:06

I tend to be skeptical of anything that catches a buzz, but I caught on to this one before the buzz caught on, and hated it immediately anyway. All you kids who like Girl Talk? You're wrong. You're just. Plain. Wrong.

This jackass is NOT a DJ. And while it's true not all DJs need to have actual turntable skills to make good music, this guy does not even make good music. He does not even LIKE music. There was an interview with him recently on NPR that was the last straw for me. He barely owns any CDs, he says. He just looks for beats that mix well together. Are you kidding me?

Still no time to blog

Submitted by adammyerson on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 23:07

But my two months of Hot Animal Machine is underway. Lots of Rollins Band lately, corny as Rollins sometimes may be. He's always comforted me in a way that's different from The Smiths. Morrissey is good when you're not ready to cheer up and are still wallowing in it. Rollins is for when you've had enough of wallowing and are in the angry stage. "Shine" has been the theme song this week:

Shine - Rollins Band

If I listened to everything that they said to me I wouldn`t be here

Best Records of 2008

Submitted by adammyerson on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 19:04

This is the time of year when music magazines come out with their "best of the year" lists. I decided I wanted to make my own. However, the catch here is that it's not going to be the best releases of the year, it's going to be the best records I bought this year. Thank god for iTunes. I went in and sorted everything by when it was added, highlighted everything from 2008, made a new playlist from that selection called "2008," and then sorted it by "album by artist." I copy/pasted that list into excel, kept one row for each album, and thus created my master list. So, here's the first wave; the list of every full album I bought this year. I get a lot of my music through eMusic. It doesn't have everything, but it is great place for backfilling catalogs, particularly for punk or indie releases. You'll notice that I tend to go on a binge one artist at a time, collecting all their releases (or replacing things I have on vinyl or CD), and then only listening to that artist for a week or more. 95 releases here to start. I think I'll try to cut it in half for the first two rounds. Comments are very welcome here. Enjoy. 

Rage against the machine

Submitted by adammyerson on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 08:02

An excerpt from a recent e-mail I wrote, intentionally pretentious but completely serious:

"A sophisticated analysis might suggest that Rage used Sony, the very symbol of the corporate, political, economic machine they were raging against, to get the anti-machine message out to more people. In this sense, it's a guerilla tactic; you steal weapons from the very army you're fighting against, and use that army to defeat itself, enriching yourself in the process.

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