February 2009
106 posts
Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer
Show...
Alela Diane - White as Diamonds
Looking forward...
The Bad Plus - Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
One...
“We are taking a handful of friends up on their offers to loan us some mics,...”
– Gabriel Roth of Daptone Records
So you may recall that Daptone was robbed a little over a week ago. This is part of a note included in an email they sent today (an email that was primarily tour updates for several Daptone performers, incidentally).
Have I mentioned how awesome Daptone is?
Have I...
Sharing Setlists From Concerts Has Never Been... →
Setlist.fm is not an entirely new service, but it seems to have flown under the radar of most major blogs. It lets anyone create a setlist (a list of songs played by a band at a concert) and share it with the world.
Setlists, while not that important to the casual listener, are bread and butter for the concert-going crowd; they’re thoroughly discussed, dissected and analyzed. However, to find...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
Karen O and the boys are...
“If you’re totally solvent, why are you taking my tax dollars? If you’re not...”
– Maureen Dowd to Northern Trust (New York Times) (via soupsoup)
Awesome.
I just learned about the differences between liquidity and solvency crises. Look out — I know almost enough about finance to be dangerous these days.
Francis and the Lights - Striking
The vision for...
The Books - Take Time
The Books speak to me like...
Please enable comments [Redux]
Have I mentioned lately that if you ask open-ended questions on your tumblog, and you actually want people to respond, you should enable comments? ‘Cause, otherwise, it’s hard to talk to you.
i just signed up for last.fm
lee:
not really sure what to think of it yet.
http://www.last.fm/user/LeeRubenstein
help? what do i do with it?
I’m with Whit. I use last.fm to track what I’m listening to and that’s about it. I don’t use the website for music discovery at all. If I didn’t have Tumblr, Hype Machine, and Blip.fm in addition to the huge number of music blogs and podcasts I like,...
My Disqus comments appear to have fixed themselves overnight! Yay! Here’s to ignoring the problem and hoping for the best. (JK, JK…)
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De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Morrissey (25)
Tim Fite (22)
The Walkmen (17)
The Avalanches (17)
School of Seven Bells (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“We are careening toward a paucity of experience and a paucity of means with...”
– Carrie Brownstein
Andy pointed to this post earlier today. Great read.
Disqus comments are broken on my tumblog right now. I’m sure it has something to do with my domain name change, but I can’t figure out how to fix it and I’m super frustrated. I hope they just magically start working again. Blah.
M Ward - Big Boat
A highlight of the M Ward show...
New Burial! →
Hyperdub founder and dubstep luminary Kode9 played an hour-long “hyperdub label showcase” on BBC Radio late last night/early this morning. In addition to spinning some super tight unreleased new stuff coming soon on the label, dude inconspicuously dropped the world premiere of a couple new untitled and unfinished Burial tunes into his set. According to Kode9, they’ll appear on Burial’s...
“Privileged upper class white kids love to fight capitalism by making life...”
– Commenter on When media pirates are dicks regarding those “Available online for free” stickers that internet nerds are printing, sticking on CDs and DVDs in retail stores, and bragging about. (via marco)
whitneymcn: BoH I love you, but you're bringing me...
Whit wrote the following response to my post on Band of Horses this morning. He’s absolutely right: there are a bunch of bands engaging with fans on Twitter and other platforms in awesome ways. Gabriel’s list of artists on Twitter is a great roundup. (See the Pitchfork story here, by the way.)
I hope bands like BoH that are just wading into social media will take the time to figure...
whitneymcn:
Devendra Banhart - Fistful of Love...
Band of Horses - The Funeral
Per my last post,...
BoH I love you, but you're bringing me down
I awoke this morning to the message: Band of Horses is now following you on Twitter! Woo! I love Band of Horses and didn’t even know the band was on Twitter. I clicked through to the profile page to discover a single tweet, posted yesterday.
SWEET. They’re tweeting music. How awesome will it be to have surprise BoH tracks appear in my twitterstream? Return follow.
Only, after...
“if it doesn’t come bursting out of you, in spite of everything, don’t do it.”
– Charles Bukowski
Hype Machine - How We Pick Blogs (via betaworks)
francis and the lights – lime (via mareen)
Song...
Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother F*cking Asshole
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Want to see some music tonight?
Philly Tumblrs: I have an extra ticket to School of Seven Bells with Fujiya & Miyagi tonight at The Troc. Free to a good home. Hit me up at jen at jenrobinson dot fm.
UPDATE: LinearA gets it!
“I am the program director of my radio station, so where’s my payola?”
– Seth Godin
“There’s a new place in Philly called Kung Fu Necktie. It’s got a...”
– Pitchfork Guest List: Diplo
Street Art Locator
Awesome! I tried this out and posted a couple of my recent Philly sightings here and here.
I love the idea, but I wish it were a Flickr mashup. I already post all my street art sightings to Flickr — it would be cool if this tool allowed me to grab all my photos tagged with “street art” (or similar), add a description + geocoding if necessary, and drop them on the map.
Hope to...