January 2012
35 posts
We the American working population
Hate the fact that eight hours a day
Is...
– Aesop Rock ‘9-5ers Anthem’
Neither of the bills are close to being passed - they need further revision -...
– BBC News: Megaupload file-sharing site shut down, founder charged
SOPA EMERGENCY LIST. →
curlylacey:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 ...
Del Rey, after all, isn’t the first to take more than one shot at finding...
– Tom Ewing nails it about LDR in his essay for the Pazz and Jop polls. I didn’t want to like ‘Video Games’, and it really is likely to be the best thing on her album, but regardless of context, it’s a song that I’m glad exists.
My Band T-Shirt: 88. Denim, Back in Denim (made... →
mybandtshirt:
Barely any of my friends really understand my obsession with Lawrence, the reclusive obsessive genius behind Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart. Somewhat unsurprisingly, my fixation on this surnameless recluse began at an early age, simply by reading anecdotes. Did he really disown his father for…
So I wrote this for the wonderful blog My Band T-Shirt - some of my first...
December 2011
38 posts
Oh, and as for songs of the year...
British Sea Power ‘Who’s in Control?’ Danananaykroyd ‘Muscle Memory’ Elbow ’Lippy Kids’ Mick Harvey ‘The Bells Never Rang’ The Horrors ‘Still Life’ Jeffrey Lewis ‘So What If I Couldn’t Take It’ Low ‘Nothing But Heart’ Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks ‘Senator’ The Pains of Being Pure at Heart...
A belated end of year list...
So, much like any other boring person in the world, my favourite album of the year was Let England Shake. Unlike my last few EOY favourites (Titus Andronicus in 2010, The Horrors in 2009), this was an album that really felt like One For The Ages, something to be kept in libraries and time capsules when people as what 2011 was like.
My other favourite album of the year was Last of the Country...
One last time for the nocturnal crew and my... →
sleepssundays:
The full EP download comes with lyrics, notes and alternate cover art. I’m really proud of this thing and I hope you like it. Contains songs about drinking, dancing, self destruction, drinking, self determination and drinking.
This is my boy right here.