The process of recreation and reappropriation is always fascinating within artistic realms. Rather than didacticize and get ‘meta’ on your ass, I’m going to drop a pair of my recent favorites on you. Here is Amanda‘s fave new diva Mr. Little Jeans with her gorgeous, synth-dirge take on Arcade Fire‘s “The Suburbs”, and Joywave constructing “Betelgeuse” out [Read Full Post...]
In sweeping generalization, music appreciators break down into two commonly recognized groups: Album People and Song People. I am unabashedly a Song Person, hence my ritualized fascination with the mix CD. Within my clan, there is another important distinction – Repeator or Non-Repeator. I admit to being the former. We Repeators are little roving needles in [Read Full Post...]
Okay, here’s how it works: We each prepped a list of the 32 best songs of the year, and seeded them into a December Delirium Tournament Bracket We wrote a short descriptor of each track (we are limiting ourselves to 140 characters, in honor of the Tweet’s natural brevity) and will attach a copy of each track [Read Full Post...]
Okay, here’s how it works: We each prepped a list of the 32 best songs of the year, and seeded them into a December Delirium Tournament Bracket We wrote a short descriptor of each track (we are limiting ourselves to 140 characters, in honor of the Tweet’s natural brevity) and will attach a copy of each [Read Full Post...]
Okay, here’s how it works: We each prepped a list of the 32 best songs of the year, and seeded them into a 64-track Tournament Bracket. We wrote a short descriptor of each track (we are limiting ourselves to 140 characters, in honor of the Tweet’s natural brevity) and will attach a copy of each track to the [Read Full Post...]
Amanda and I have each prepped our lists of the 32 best songs of the year, as defined by our impeccable tastes. Instead of blathering on and on and forcing you to come back each day to see the subsequent portions of the list, we are taking the best annual contest currently in existence (NCAA [Read Full Post...]
Amanda and I have each prepped our lists of the 32 best songs of the year, as defined by our impeccable tastes. Instead of blathering on and on and forcing you to come back each day to see the subsequent portions of the list, we are taking the best annual contest currently in existence (NCAA [Read Full Post...]
Hello Internet, After an autumn dominated by work and school and an arduous recovery from a near-fatal iTunes directory crash, I am proud to be typing in front of you today. Despite adversity, Amanda and I are prepared to bring you our very own, (hopefully) very different take on the traditional music-writer year-end countdown. Amanda [Read Full Post...]
#2 All My Friends – LCD Soundsystem Album: Sound of Silver Year: 2007 I asked my mother once, shortly after George Harrison passed away, if it made her feel old that the her adolescent icons were starting to die off. She answered, somewhat circuitously, that to her, getting old wasn’t as simple as just being [Read Full Post...]
#4 LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great Album: Sound of Silver Year: 2007 The inception of this track actually comes a full year before Sound of Silver, from eight masterful minutes also known as section “(Iii)” of LCD Soundsystem‘s 45:33. A 2006 continuous mix commissioned by Nike as part of their Original Run Series, 45:33 ebbed and flowed [Read Full Post...]
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