Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Actual Official Rebecca Black Antidote
Thursday, March 24, 2011
OFWGKTA Industry
Monday, March 21, 2011
the industry
first , watch the video, the whole thing, no matter how painful:
then at least start to read this article (or better yet, if you've got the time and willpower, see the complete version here ):
The reason for all the attention is Friday, an inane, illegally catchy ditty sung in an oddly detached monotone (with the help of auto-tune, natch) with lyrics about how Friday comes after Thursday and before Saturday and is, like, totally a really fun day to be hanging out with your friends and stuff. It's accompanied by an equally mind-bogglingly literal video, the highlight of which is a bit involving her (hopefully older) friends deciding which seat to take in the car to school.
The speed with which the song and video went viral is an astonishing snapshot of how things work in the Twitter era. Comedy blog Tosh.O featured the song under the headline "Songwriting Isn't For Everyone" on 11 March, before Gawker got hold of it, calling it the "worst music video ever". From there the video spread across Twitter, with commentators referring to Black as the new Justin Bieber and various news shows quick to label her the latest "pop phenomenon".....
oh and if you are feeling poisoned by all of this, here's the antidote:
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Mutt a Cur
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
James Blake
This new album is so good. I finally got tickets to see him in NY today. He's playing on Monday, but I'm going to see Godspeed. There was another show added that went on sale yesterday, but it sold out instantly and tickets were showing up on Stubhub for ~$200 (Ticketmaster can suck it hard). But they added a show at Le Poisson Rouge, which is a really nice club and they had tickets actual human beings can buy.
Gray - if you're at SXSW he'll be playing there, you should try to make it.
PDX people see here.
Did the Mount Kimbie show in Portland already happen? How was it? When I saw them here it kind of sucked because it was retarded crowded. They're playing here again though at this same club, though, so it should be better.