I wrote up Liars’ killer WIXIW for the ole Aqua Drunk.
Stop thinking about fun and have it.
December 3, 2012
November 29, 2012
Neil Young :: American Stars 'n Bars
I wrote up Neil’s classic heartbreaker, American Stars ‘n Bars, for the ole Aqua Drunk today. Head on over.
(Image of Neil with Rick Danko stolen from When You Awake.)
November 1, 2012
Parquet Courts :: Light Up Gold (sic)
Despite the missing hyphen in that album title (which seriously gives me the fits), this is likely to be one of my favorite records of the year.
(image ganked from Noisey)
October 29, 2012
Ty Segall's Year of the Dragon
In which I listen to everything Ty Segall’s put out this year (so far) and inexplicably end up comparing him to Cavern Club-era Beatles.
October 2, 2012
Matthew E. White/Levek
In which I profile two of my favorite records of this quickly diminishing year. If you haven’t already, make sure you check out Mr. White’s incredible performance of “Brazos,” from this year’s Hopscotch Fest.
September 27, 2012
CATCH-UP
Whoa, couple of link-posts to do here.
First up, I finally got around to reviewing Avec pas d’casque’s Astronomie for Aquarium Drunkard, which review vous pouvez lire ici.
And earlier this evening, we posted the excellent francophone bluegrass/Cajun/québécois-folk group Canailles’ “Bien-être.”
Be on the lookout soon for a twin post on Matthew E. White and Levek (who has a québécois name himself), as well as (at some point in the future) a rundown of Pop Montreal, which I attended last week with great giddiness.
July 30, 2012
"…fighting about Steely Dan is both how we came to love one another as well as the form that love found for itself, one mode of its enactment, its nurturance, and its renewal. There is nothing unique in this. It is what you do when you are young, but not only (I think) when you are young: you love things (songs, records, books) and in the abundance of that enthusiasm you talk, you measure that love with and against others’. You mix your words and your delight up with those of another person, or of many people, and you feel out what’s provoking, or disquieting, or otherwise pleasing about how those words and enthusiasms rub up against one another. What you forge together is a kind of idiolect, a semiprivate argot of appreciation and critique, ardor and invective. This is one of the things you do when you fall in love: you and your beloved make a language together—with words, theories, your bodies—a language that you refine and refashion over many years, and that eventually comes to carry within it much of your history together."
— Peter Coviello, “The Talk That Does Not Do Nothing,” in The Believer’s 2012 Music Issue
July 3, 2012
Exposition: Loving Something You Can't See
I’ve cobbled together some disparate thoughts on the Expos, loving Montreal, and memory for The Barnstormer. My lovely wife did the artwork. Link above the image.
July 2, 2012
ROB BENVIE: Marriage
I will soon be married. It will be a modest affair, compared to the scale of many mega-weddings, those maelstroms of stress and grandeur. But there will be vows; there will be a ceremony; I bought a new suit. My beloved wife-to-be now wears a ring, and in about a week I will wear one too.
My…
A former classmate gets it right. Damn right.
June 18, 2012
David Lowery's Letter to All Songs Considered intern Emily White
“You have grown up in a time when technological and commercial interests are attempting to change our principles and morality. Rather than using our morality and principles to guide us through technological change, there are those asking us to change our morality and principles to fit the technological change–if a machine can do something, it ought to be done. Although it is the premise of every “machines gone wild” story since Jules Verne or Fritz Lang, this is exactly backwards.”
Lowery makes about thirty or thirty-five excellent points in his open letter to a college student who has by her estimation bought 15 of the CDs in her 11,000 song library. But I’m most interested in the way he views the morality of the thing: he exposes the way that we shape our morality to wrap around and cover what we want to do, and how we then ponder with a sort-of theoretical confusion as if no other answer is possible.
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