Tunabunny in the UK, part three
I have to be at work in less than 12 hours. Throughout the day people will keep asking me if I had fun in England. I don’t even know how to begin to answer that question.
Tunabunny in the UK, part two
The Shoebox is packed. It’s hot and sweaty to the point where I would have trimmed my eyebrows before I left if I’d known they were going to be this soaked and heavy.
Princess Stomper | Eleven more records to be embarrassed about liking
You can’t please everyone, and taste is subjective
Pussy Riot | This band fucking rules more than any band has ruled in years
Pussy Riot must be “burning Putin’s glamour” pretty fucking hard for the state to threaten them like this.
Eleven records I’m embarrassed about liking
I can only put my liking for this down to some kind of sadomasochistic sexual attraction towards Dolores; her personality and her voice. I really can’t account for it otherwise
Song of the day – 444: Stag (something wonderful from the 10s)
Brisbane. It’s scrappy. It’s hot. Our idea of entertainment is to have our photograph taken with Santa in the local shopping mall. Yet it’s home.
Space Punk: The Online Video Years – “Group Pussy Riot burns Putin’s glamor”
This would be refreshing just as regular punk rock performed on a stage in a club, but Pussy Riot only play unsanctioned shows in public spaces.
PhD research: Simon Reynolds on how taste is formed in web 2.0 environments
Web culture is driven by the impulse to differentiate oneself, so there is a lot less cultural capital to be generated from agreeing than there is from disagreeing.
a mini-rant about a Stereogum ‘news’ story about Grimes
Some of the most impressively bad writing about Grimes the internet has yet produced.
Grimes – Visions (Arbutus Records/4AD)
Visions seduces me a little more, yet at the same time, I know I will never truly love it
