June 2011
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“its obscenely easy to make decent sounding recordings these days, but you have...”
– Thee Quasi
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A Missive From Brix
This is what Brix Smith Start tweeted me in response to this post (reblogged from my favorite online Fall resource Fuck Yeah the Fall-uh!) about the weird fashion choices of her past, which I guess she interpreted as a slam against her skills as a stylist for prom-bound teenagers. It wasn’t, and I’ve never even seen the show she refers to in the tweet. I’m sort of at a loss for...
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A New Tourism Concept For Iceland →
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Justin Likes Surf Music, Justin Likes Surf Music,...
Bikini Kill had a song called “Anthem” and it went like this: “Justin likes surf music, Justin likes surf music, Justin likes surf music, it killed my friends, it killed my friends, it killed my friends, it’s happening again.”
According to an essay in Bikini Kill fanzine #1, Tobi Vail wrote the song in response to her experience “sitting on my...
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June 13, 2011: Don't Call Me Baby
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By Mariana Timony
Featured are songs of girl-ish anger, annoyance, frustration, and indifference dedicated to all the men who pissed me off this weekend. You’ve been warned, gentlemen. With tracks from Bratmobile, The Frumpies, Shop Assistants, and other lady bands through the decades… tracklist after the cut.
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CLICK THE LINK: Aonemrson On His Least Favorite... →
Musically, this song is needlessly complex and self-congratulatory. A friend of mine and I learned this song as a surprise for a friend who was volunteering with the U.N. in Sudan. Midway through clunking through the unnecessary I’m-so-clever chord changes for the 100th time, we came to the conclusion that whoever wrote it was a total asshole.
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GET BENT!: Review: Cosmonauts - S/T →
By Mariana Timony
This record confused me. It kicked off promisingly with a series of fantastic up-the-kids psychedelic anthems that had me jumping around my bedroom in anticipation of more to come. And then it turned into a shoegaze record.
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PS. Click-through to Get Bent! to hear my favorite track off this record.
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A Query for Fans of The Fall
So, I think it’s pretty apparent that all I’ve been listening to lately is the Fall. It’s nuts! And fantastic. But there’s been an unintended side effect to this obsessive fixation. Now when I listen to almost any other band, they always sound like the Fall. Doesn’t matter what sub-genre, decade, or persuasion the band in question might be identified with: as long...
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GET BENT!: Review: White Mystery - Blood & Venom →
By Mariana Timony
I lost count of how many times Alex howls about fire in the forest or setting the world on fire or being the King of Fire’s daughter. A fixation on flames isn’t unexpected from a pair of Chicagoan gingers - they were born with an inferno in their fuzz-drenched souls, as they gleefully recount in “1985”. Lyrics are spare to the point of seeming undeveloped, but the riffs are...
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slang-king asked: I've been really enjoying your Fall posts and would also like to say a big thanks for giving fuckyeahthefall your recommendation.
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