September 2011
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August 2011
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May 2011
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Day 1 on One Week / One Band - Ted Leo / Rx's The... →
If you were busy on Memorial Day (and if the weather was like it was around here, I don’t blame you), you may have missed the first day of posts I wrote for One Week / One Band on Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (my intro at that site is here, as well as an explanation of the site here). Clicking on the link at the top of this post will bring you through all of yesterday’s posts on the...
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SSC on One Week / One Band This Week! →
I am incredibly excited for the opportunity to contribute to One Week / One Band, one of the best music sites around. I’m just as excited that I get the week to focus on Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, one of my favorite bands. A million thanks to Hendrik for the opportunity!
The introductory post is already up here, so go check it out and please follow OW/OB on Tumblr and on Twitter...
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April 2011
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The Music Diary Project →
You may have seen others post about this already (and if not, follow the link above and feel free to join in yourself), and it’s a terrific idea. I thought I’d do this as well!
So each day for the next week, I’ll put a list of the things I listened to as I can best record/remember them. I’m going to make a particular effort to record the circumstances - If I chose the...
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March 2011
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One Week One Band →
tomewing:
If by some mischance you’re not following this blog then you should! You’ve already missed awesome instalments by Andrew TSKS, Brad Nelson, Jonathan Bogart and more, and this week it’s a super-passionate Paramore fan.
And next week it’s… ME!
I was going to try an experiment surrounding “getting into a band”, but decided that should be for the normal blog, it was too much about me to...
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"You Were There: The Complete LCD Soundsystem" →
Things have been quiet around here, but if you’re looking for some good song-by-song thoughts Pitchfork has a massive, catalog-spanning writeup on LCD Soundsystem. I’m looking forward to working my way through it this week.
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Some thoughts about R.E.M.'s Collapse Into Now &... →
Linked above is a post I wrote elsewhere in response to a good article in the Onion’s A.V. club. It’s generally about R.E.M.’s new album and the band’s output the past fifteen years, but generalizes a little more about fandom. As my post history shows, I’m a pretty big R.E.M. fan, and this post probably has some fanboy leanings and certainly rambles a little bit....
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January 2011
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Riot Girl: still relevant 20 years on →
(via barthel)
A great piece in The Guardian on the legacy of Riot Grrl, with a particular focus on Marissa Paternoster from Screaming Females, Annie Clark (St. Vincent), and the Girls Rock music camps. A great read!
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December 2010
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November 2010
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September 2010
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"You Can Never Quarantine the Past" - A Personal...
First, I owe all of you an apology for generally disappearing since June. Just when I thought I’d have more time to write, I subconsciously decided that I needed to stop for a little while. After a year and a half of writing just about every day, I needed to take some space. I needed time to myself, I needed to listen to music again without an agenda, and most importantly I needed to miss...
August 2010
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“Emily responded with a story about her life. She stated that she’d been confused...”
– Amy Andronicus: Tour Diary Day Four: Rock and Roll is Dead
Vital reading from Titus Andronicus’ guitar/violin player Amy Klein. This is only an excerpt - click through and read the whole thing!
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Talking Heads :: The CBS Demos, 1975 →
(via Aquarium Drunkard).
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SSC Redesigned (And Soon: Returning!)
Hi everyone,
I’ve made a cosmetic change to the site by installing a modified version of the Solaris Theme for Tumblr. Click through and check it out! I think I’ve updated all of my minor tweaks, but if something is broken or looks weird, give me a heads up.
Also, while I’m writing to you, I’m happy to say that my “summer vacation” from SSC is ending and soon...
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“Motorcycle Emptiness” – Manic Street Preachers ...
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Sporadic Summer / Lollapalooza
Hi folks,
You probably noticed the sporadic nature to my posts the past two months or so. The time felt right to slow down a little bit; summer brings travel and reasons to travel. It’s also been nice to “refresh” my ideas about songs and write when I feel moved to write. Thus, August will probably continue with a couple posts a week and some kind of regular (read: more...
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“We Dance” – Pavement (Words/music: Pavement,...
July 2010
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“Carnival of Sorts (Boxcar)” – The Feelies ...
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“Deceptacon” – Le Tigre (Words/music: Sadie...
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“If I Could Talk I’d Tell You” – The Lemonheads ...
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“And She Was” – Talking Heads (Words/music: David...
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“Darklands” – The Jesus and Mary Chain ...
June 2010
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“Game Theory” – The Roots f/ Malik B. ...
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“The Comeback” – Shout Out Louds (Words: Adam...
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“Sleep All Summer” – The National and St. Vincent ...
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“Rappaport’s Testament: I Never Gave Up” – Ted Leo...