David Riley, the bassist for Big Black, has died at 59. From David Riley’s partner, Rachel Brown:
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Macintosh Plus announces new album, shares 12-minute preview called “Sick & Panic (First Mix)”
That’s right. Vektroid just announced a new Macintosh Plus album. And, thankfully, the first preview of it sounds nothing like Floral Shoppe (which, by the way, made it to #6 on our decade list).
It's not what you think.
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2010s: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade
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“I can hear everything. It’s everything time.”
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2010s: Favorite 100 Songs of the Decade
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Sometimes the most pyrrhic ventures prove the most gratifying. Gleaning a decade’s worth of song in 2019 feels like sifting sand with a hula hoop, the enormity of the ever-accumulating archive sluicing through our woefully inadequate tools, its elusive pith elementally, stubbornly incompatible with the implements of capture at hand.
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2010s: Exercises in Listening Seven meditations to facilitate contemporary listening
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Seven meditations to facilitate contemporary listening
“I don’t think bells ask questions.”
-Mary Ruefle
Introduction
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2010s: In Kanye's Wake A journey to the ends of the pop star
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A journey to the ends of the pop star
I. On November 22, 2010, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy received the distinction of Best New Music with a score of 10 from Pitchfork, an award more elusive to musicians in the 2010s than the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, and the National Medal of Freedom. While artists like Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Kendrick Lamar, and Bob Dylan won honors in the latter categories during that time, Kanye West is the only musician who received a perfect score this decade from the critical website for a new studio album.
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2010s: Favorite Music Releases ♥ Staff Picks
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Mass consensus is a weird phenomenon. It suggests that what people share is more valuable than what each of us keeps close; it’s a Campbellian reflex that we haven’t shaken out of what we do here (primarily, tell you what we like and what we don’t.) Then again, perhaps this tendency, of seeing your joy reflected in some other body’s curled lips or bobbing head or twisting waist, demonstrates a rare kind of empathy that difference has difficulty climbing inside of.
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2010s: Deception Music Demonic listening in diabolical times
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Demonic listening in diabolical times
“…like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.”
– Evagrius
“I want art to stand strong, to display how it manipulates its audience. I want it to take up their expectations, their sense of the world, their predispositions toward the way they think or use their language, and then to use these things perversely, politically, colorfully, ‘expressively.’”
– Tony Conrad, “Dolomite: Having No Trust In Readers,” collected in Writings (Primary Information)
More about: Copeland, DeForrest Brown Jr., die Reihe, Hannah Diamond, Inga Copeland, Jeff Witscher, Lolina, Speaker Music, Total Freedom, Wold
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Very Good Adulthood
Styles: anti-folk, freak folk, jazz, beat
Others: Eyes of Love, Thelma, Joanna Newsom, Frank Zappa, Mega Bog, Sean Cronin
When I was 14, I had a girlfriend. It took us about two years to kiss, because I was so timid and absolutely confused. We kissed eventually, and then we kissed some more. Then, after a while, we broke up. Later on, I had another girlfriend and then another and another girlfriend, some of the sweetest people I know. Now, it seems I’m becoming my own girlfriend. I’m sure I won’t be the first to tell you that being a girlfriend isn’t so easy. It takes a lot of sitting and listening and nodding along. I’m working on it.
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Nazar continues his war story, announces debut full-length Guerilla on Hyperdub
On the one hand, music has the capacity to uplift and therefore distract from negative circumstances.
But on the other, it’s hardly a good thing to go through life with blinders that have the effect of negating certain experiences.
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