March 2012
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February 2012
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Caribou Song Title Categories
I made a spreadsheet listing all of the song titles in the Caribou catalog and categorized them according to trends that I’ve noticed as a long-time fan. I was looking out primarily for girls’ names (old-fashioned ones, typically) and bird species, but a number of other categories make just as strong showings. (See the bottom of the spreadsheet for explanations of the parentheticals.) ...
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January 2012
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Is the Consumption of Free Things Still...
Is there a tendency to not think of the constant and sizable downloading and following and reading about music as ‘consumption’ and therefore not as ‘consumerism’? Does the fact that most music is now essentially free make consuming it seem less of a bad habit than the purchasing of physical objects? I’d be broke in two weeks if I bought the same amount of sneakers...
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What’s Your Most Played Song? →
marathonpacks: “Jesus Fever,” Kurt Vile. 132 plays. One weekend during July counts for about 30 of these, I think. If I were to quantify my love for this song, it “peaked” then. Pay it forward! It’s gotta be ‘Bros.’ And… Last.fm confirms, with 149 plays. iTunes has a different story to tell, likely because of scrobbling inconsistencies: The Books’ ‘None but Shining Hours’, with 193 plays,...
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December 2011
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2011 in Music: Miscellany
This is the last post in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011. Favorite Albums Favorite Songs Last.fm Stats Favorite Sounds Favorite Music Writing My Friends and Myself Miscellany Some things that didn’t fit elsewhere in my lists. This video of the live rendition of James Blake’s ‘CMYK’ is one of my absolute favorite things of the year. The song itself is amazing, a sort of...
Dec 30th
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2011 in Music: My Friends and Myself
This is the penultimate in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011. Favorite Albums Favorite Songs Last.fm Stats Favorite Sounds Favorite Music Writing My Friends and Myself Miscellany I am lucky beyond belief not only to be able to create and play music with my friends and on my own, but to have so many friends doing the same. Here are the highlights of this year of music from...
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2011 in Music: Music Writing
This is the fifth in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011. Favorite Albums Favorite Songs Last.fm Stats Favorite Sounds Favorite Music Writing My Friends and Myself Miscellany My favorite writing about music from this year. There’s a lot of Nitsuh Abebe, Eric Harvey, Mark Richardson, and Tom Ewing here. They are my favorite music writers and I make it a point to read...
Dec 30th
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2011 in Music: Sounds
This is the fourth in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011. Favorite Albums Favorite Songs Last.fm Stats Favorite Sounds Favorite Music Writing My Friends and Myself Miscellany I tend to fixate on sounds and tones in songs and records. These are my favorite sounds from this year. There are two ways to listen! Press play on the blue-and-grey SoundCloud player to hear all...
Dec 29th
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Three Questions for Jamieson
Tired and bored while cleaning my old apartment, I saw Jamieson was taking Tumblr Asks, so I quickly shot him three questions, and he answered them today. Thanks, Jamieson. As a Canadian, do you ever feel confused or unable to relate to certain aspects of music writing (or other cultural criticism) that you read? If so, what in particular or in general? Or is there a ‘North American culture’ that...
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2011 in Music: Last.fm Stats
This is the third in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011. Favorite Albums Favorite Songs Last.fm Stats Favorite Sounds Favorite Music Writing My Friends and Myself Miscellany I was inspired by Best New Music Writer Jamieson Cox for this portion of my year-end wrap-up – he dissected his top-scrobbled albums on Last.fm to see if his picks for albums of the year corresponded to...
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2011 in Music: Songs
Here, with some delay, is part two of seven! Favorite Albums Favorite Songs Last.fm Stats Favorite Sounds Favorite Music Writing My Friends and Myself Miscellany In alphabetical order, here are the 155 songs that meant the most to me this year. There is a Spotify playlist if you’d like to listen along. (If the song can’t be found on Spotify, I’ve linked the song title to SoundCloud or...
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2011 in Music: Albums
These are my favorite albums from this year. I haven’t done this since 2008 (and 2007!) because I get so wrapped up in making sure that I heard everything I should have heard so that I can make The Perfect List and then July rolls around and I think ‘hey it would be neat if I did my year’s list with six months worth of perspective’ and then I just never do it. Not this year! This year I’m...
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“The records also had the sentence ‘To the makers of music — all worlds, all...”
– Concerning the Voyager Golden Record and its contents.
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“Most people are conned by TRICKS, and I mean that in a few ways. They are duped...”
– Pure X’s Nate Grace to Michael McGregor in an Altered Zones interview, June 2011.
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