Archive
Favorite Posts
- 5 February 2010: Gaga as gesamtkunstwerk & Fever Ray’s melting face: a short attention span essay on operatic gestures in contemporary pop music
- 15 January 2010: Wonky spiritual reggae: a short attention span essay about Zomby, fractal geometry, dubstep & some adherents and ancestors I can really get behind
- 14 December 2009: You’ve got indie rock in my hip-hop: stray thoughts about a Kid Cudi video & misreadings of the Great Gatsby
- 10 December 2009: Will Oldham and the Community Function
- 1 December 2009: Farewell to the casual music fan?: a short attention span essay on how & why culture is produced
- 2 November 2009: What happened to Robert Hilburn’s rock’n'roll heroes?
- 14 October 2009: Too much, too much, too much: A short attention span essay about Sufjan Stevens & Liberace
- 4 September 2009: Song of the Summer: Das Racist’s “Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell”
- 10 August 2009: Happily Ending Aftermath
- 15 July 2009: I like Girls & some words on music that moves like molasses
- 28 June 2009: MJ salute…in black or white.
- 28 May 2009: Celebrity Crisis: a short attention span essay about famous people.
Photos
- 12 January 2012: I aspire to take photos that have not been taken
- 25 August 2011: Snapshots of Denniston Hill: Work & Place
- 12 August 2011: News from the front lines…
- 13 June 2011: A hotel lobby
- 10 June 2011: Hall in mall
- 27 May 2011: The eternal quest for the perfect sound, pt. 3
- 25 May 2011: Why has Andy Warhol gotten so damn ’spensive!?!
- 20 May 2011: The eternal quest for the perfect sound, pt. 2
- 13 May 2011: The eternal quest for the perfect sound, pt. 1
- 23 March 2011: Towards the end of a sentimental journey
- 14 March 2011: From San Francisco
- 9 February 2011: Ambitious Feline
- 3 February 2011: It’s not worth it
- 19 January 2011: Look up. Don’t look up.
- 8 November 2010: Olaf Breuning’s nobrow visual Rolodex: a snapshot of contemporary visual culture
- 14 October 2010: Pussy Cat
- 15 September 2010: Songbird
- 25 August 2010: Tilt
- 5 July 2010: Since I’ve been gone…
- 17 May 2010: Coachella as seen by Hedi Slimane
- 24 March 2010: Up in the air
- 22 February 2010: “A curiously oppressive brand of love”
- 14 February 2010: Valentimes at All Tomorrow’s Parties
- 4 February 2010: Seven pictures from Los Angeles & a slur against the city’s good name
- 13 January 2010: Deep Thoughts About Security, Obscurity, Etc.
- 8 January 2010: Fun with problems
- 26 December 2009: Black Christmas?
- 5 November 2009: Foreign light, and other things you discover in hotel rooms while traveling.
- 21 October 2009: 500 Servlet Explosion
- 19 October 2009: Epic parties & the morning after
- 27 September 2009: Protected: Tamarichard
- 24 September 2009: Summer in Review: Berlin
- 14 September 2009: Flashback to ATP/NY 2008: My Bloody Valentine
- 9 September 2009: Summer in Review: Barcelona
- 10 August 2009: Happily Ending Aftermath
- 16 July 2009: Red skies & chiaroscuro lights
- 4 May 2009: Strong Animals vs. Smart Animals
- 12 March 2009: Double Mirror, Mirror Double
Videos
- 6 January 2012: The ever more subtle distinction between reality and fiction
- 15 December 2011: Talking secrets
- 24 October 2011: Some thoughts about politics, music and Rough Trade
- 17 August 2011: Off the grid again.
- 25 July 2011: Amy Winehouse at 27: M.I.A. & magical thinking
- 28 June 2011: Sex & death & gale force winds: Beyonce in pre-game mode
- 8 June 2011: A brief history of lipdub
- 3 June 2011: Amon Tobin’s new stage set could fill two Coachellas
- 5 May 2011: Krissy Clark’s awesome narrative geology project is on the Bowery this weekend
- 2 May 2011: A true American
- 7 March 2011: Michael Moore stirs some s**t and all I did was hang out on this hillside for two weeks.
- 17 February 2011: OFWGKTA OMG WTF LOL
- 12 January 2011: Adam Purple’s garden of Eden
- 10 January 2011: Recommended: ProperDiscord.com classical music blog
- 23 December 2010: Two Christmas standards (Sufjan, Ian Axel, Julia Nunes, the Dessner Bros.)
- 20 December 2010: Things are getting better. Demographically speaking.
- 29 November 2010: 2010: The year freak-folk went electric?
- 12 October 2010: Video art post-Gaga: Short attention span snippets on Kanye, Bjork, Bob Dylan, NIN & ICP
- 12 July 2010: That’s me on television aka Nuit Brooklyn @ Les Nuits de Fourvière 2010
- 28 May 2010: Vampire Weekend’s video march to victory
- 17 May 2010: Sam Lipsyte’s America. ALSO, how Woody Allen, Bob Dylan & LCD Soundsystem approach American decadence with a similar sense of humor.
- 12 April 2010: Scott Williams starring in “Nirvana on ice”: a worthy internet meme & some thoughts on web commentary
- 6 April 2010: Quick thoughts on the iPad (from other people)
- 21 January 2010: Aziz Ansari vs. Kanye West
- 4 January 2010: Todd Oldham and the Community Function
- 25 December 2009: The opposite is also true
- 14 December 2009: You’ve got indie rock in my hip-hop: stray thoughts about a Kid Cudi video & misreadings of the Great Gatsby
- 10 December 2009: Will Oldham and the Community Function
- 25 November 2009: Complexity works too
- 21 November 2009: Leonard Cohen: Poet, in a younger prime
- 5 November 2009: Julian Casablancas, before & after
- 25 September 2009: Blackberry Loves U2; U2 Loves Mayor Mike Bloomberg
- 10 September 2009: Gone to All Tomorrow’s Parties for the weekend
- 21 June 2009: Feeling green (for Iran)
- 12 June 2009: If you’re going to Evel Knievel it sometimes you’ll fall into the canyon, aka Living the glamorous life.
- 2 June 2009: Baby baby send me an email (w/ 2 internet poems)
Good Music
- 7 November 2011: Brassland’s Song-A-Day Giveaway
- 12 October 2011: Lana Del Rey: Pros & Cons
- 6 September 2011: Mixtape #4: Beautiful Songs (for Denniston Hill)
- 6 August 2011: Mixtape #3: The “Mixtape” Mixed Tape
- 15 July 2011: Mixtape 2: Funky
- 1 June 2011: Mixtape 1: Songs for the Rapture
- 31 May 2011: New songs by Zomby
- 16 May 2011: Jai Paul’s “BTSTU” still sounds like the future
- 28 April 2011: Invisible Conga People seem to take their name quite literally
- 27 April 2011: White wine wishes and hot tub dreams.
- 2 March 2011: Clogs postscript, a year later
- 22 February 2011: Holcombe Waller’s Into the Dark Unknown
- 8 February 2011: Rodelius’s Selbstportrait
- 21 January 2011: The problem with American religion…
- 17 January 2011: The power of a song, pt. 2
- 7 January 2011: The power of a song
- 21 November 2010: Channeling something weird
- 18 October 2010: Odd Future from Los Angeles
- 30 August 2010: Die Antwoord + Aphex Twin = Next Next Level Shit
- 22 August 2010: Sufjan Stevens’ All Delighted People
- 20 August 2010: Some Weekend “Relief” by R. Kelly, Sam Amidon & Cee Lo Green
- 26 July 2010: Isn’t this even more insane?
- 22 July 2010: Isn’t this insane?
- 3 May 2010: Givers from Louisiana
- 28 April 2010: Mountain Man & a thought on the depth & length of one’s connection to music
- 9 April 2010: A moment of quiet reflection in honor of Diane Cluck…
- 19 February 2010: Die Antwoord transcend & transgress (NSFW): A (particulary) short attention span essay on one strand of South African culture
- 15 January 2010: Wonky spiritual reggae: a short attention span essay about Zomby, fractal geometry, dubstep & some adherents and ancestors I can really get behind
- 1 January 2010: Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard & other longing goodbyes
- 6 December 2009: Hip-hop & male anxiety
- 23 October 2009: Simple is Good
- 20 October 2009: Quoting Morton Feldman
- 28 September 2009: Late night television
- 18 September 2009: Bon Iver covering Sarah Siskind’s “Lovin’s for Fools”
- 8 September 2009: These Are Powers offer no easy answers
- 4 September 2009: Song of the Summer: Das Racist’s “Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell”
- 11 August 2009: Responsibility is my albatross
- 15 July 2009: I like Girls & some words on music that moves like molasses
- 3 July 2009: Every now and again something almost makes me want to like jazz
- 27 May 2009: Here is “Desi Girl,” the best song I discovered on my trip to India
Interview
- 21 January 2012: The unintentional gothic poetry of disgraced New York politician Carl Kruger
- 29 September 2011: Steve Albini on New York City
- 29 April 2011: The royal wedding, a true rant
- 13 December 2010: Brian Eno on “cool/uncool” and the lack thereof
- 10 November 2010: Brief thought on political art: Houellebecq, Bob Dylan, Kaiser Permanente, Shepard Fairey and the possibility of making a difference
- 3 November 2010: A deep thought about election day (after)
- 21 September 2010: Some quick thoughts on the death of the record as object
- 17 August 2010: Crass & Mary Margaret O’Hara de-recluse themselves
- 2 August 2010: Kanye West on the underground, great pain & Renaissance painting
- 3 June 2010: “Art makes nothing happen” aka “It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably everyday/ for lack/ of what is found there”
- 26 April 2010: Joni Mitchell’s anxiety at being an influence: On Antony, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Rufus Wainwright
- 10 February 2010: Nanoculture aka “Douglas Coupland has no Facebook or MySpace page.” (But he does have a Twitter.)
- 22 January 2010: Brian Eno has beef with Steve Reich, enjoys musical seduction
- 11 March 2008: An Interview with Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie)
Essay
- 21 September 2011: Brassland is 10: A short attention span essay on publicity, intimacy & the community behind the label’s anniversary.
- 12 September 2011: September 12th, 2001 to September 12, 2011
- 19 July 2011: The real temple of culture: a short attention span essay on El Sistema, MNMP, art education & art institutions
- 18 May 2011: The things New York makes me care about: A short attention span essay on Janet Malcolm, writing, psychoanalysis and the decline of the Chanel brand, fashion, Western Civilization
- 4 April 2011: A short attention span essay about electric outfits, SXSW, odd futures & punk rock boys
- 3 January 2011: Michael Jackson vs. Kanye West vs. Quincy Jones: a short attention span essay on pop history, real history & their relation to “blood & treasure”
- 29 September 2010: Zigs when others zag: A short attention span esssay on Alex Ross on John Cage on poverty in the arts & why I like Ross better than Sasha Frere-Jones
- 9 September 2010: I published my first review in Bookforum. It’s about Kristin Hersh’s Rat Girl.
- 11 May 2010: Tigers & spiders & dreams, oh my! Some words about The National’s “High Violet”
- 30 April 2010: The energy of a Void: some lessons on hardcore, faith & what not
- 21 April 2010: Antimodernity, M.I.A.’s viral marketing effort, a Wall Street Journal book review & a Spider-Man t-shirt on a kid from Southeast Asia: a short attention span essay on Authenticity aka “I have the pussy, so I make the rules”
- 31 March 2010: Customer value & other virtues one might not expect in an avant-garde(ish) music festival: a particularly short attention span essay about Big Ears Festival & a trip down South I just took
- 16 February 2010: Some thoughts on Black Mountain College & the nature of communities
- 5 February 2010: Gaga as gesamtkunstwerk & Fever Ray’s melting face: a short attention span essay on operatic gestures in contemporary pop music
- 6 January 2010: Aaron Cometbus and the Community Function
- 1 December 2009: Farewell to the casual music fan?: a short attention span essay on how & why culture is produced
- 2 November 2009: What happened to Robert Hilburn’s rock’n'roll heroes?
- 14 October 2009: Too much, too much, too much: A short attention span essay about Sufjan Stevens & Liberace
- 28 June 2009: MJ salute…in black or white.
- 28 May 2009: Celebrity Crisis: a short attention span essay about famous people.
- 11 May 2009: Costume colors & a patterning that defiles the mind with loveliness (aka Bedazzle me now baby)