June 2010
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wrote this last night on my blackberry at the...
i am at the launch party for the 90,000 square foot flagship Forever 21 store that’s opening in times square, the store has 121 dressing rooms and probably like 6 floors and i am in the basement with about 400 fashion industry people and there is a woman who apparently used to be engaged to terry richardson DJing, she is playing Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. almost all the...
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pitchfork reviews reviews attends record label...
hey so last night me and joe and angelica went to a modular records label showcase at this bar/venue in greenpoint, me and joe biked there and it was like 999 degrees and humid so by the time we got there my face was glistening with sweat, like beads of sweat were dripping off my nose and my hair was stuck to my forehead, and honestly it couldn’t have come at a worse time because the first...
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what the Pitchfork office party was like
so i walked into the pitchfork party last night and honestly all of my darkest suspicions about pitchfork were like immediately confirmed. the first thing i noticed was the walls and floors and ceiling were made of stone, the office looked just like a medieval castle or the clubhouse of an ancient secret society. there were no conventional lights but the walls were lined with flaming torches. i...
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why you should be paying attention to the labels...
i talk to a bunch of people who are really into music and really knowledgeable about it, but who never really got into following which labels put out which artists’ records. that’s a shame because i’ve always found the label that an artist is on can really explain a lot about the records they put out. when i read about an artist i first try to find out their release history, then...
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what it might mean when you are hearing music as...
last night me angelica and anna were sitting in a bar and the bar was playing only Pavement and the song 5-4=Unity came on and i’ve always hated that song because i thought it just really fucked up Crooked Rain’s momentum and was just stuck in there to indicate that they’re “just fucking around” or “just don’t give a fuck” or something. i mean...