Week In Review
[via]Music News
- Hypebot reports the latest study results on teen’s relationship with music and piracy, this time from the UK.
- Ben Hewitt has a chat with FRS hero Peter Hook.
“That was the wonderful thing about Joy Division. From its inception to its demise, we never earned a single penny. We started it broke and finished it broke. There were no arguments about publishing, no arguments about money. It was very straightforward. It was just four kids loving playing, loving music, against the world. I’ve never had such an easy relationship as the one in Joy Division. It was when we started New Order that it got very complicated. ”
-Peter Hook - Imogen Heap understands new media.
- Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth talk with Vish Khanna about various things. I found the discussion on the diminishing advantage to signing with a major label fascinating. Also, want to know why Sonic Youth has been around for so long? They understand the business side.
“That situation has changed so much at this point that a small, home-grown label like Matador can easily compete in distributing hard copies on vinyl or CD and internet downloading, which, I mean anyone can sell record from their bedroom now. So, the whole reason to have gone with a major has changed and made it easy for us to make the decision to go to a home where we felt more connected to the other things they were doing.”
- Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth - I don’t really listen to The Breeders but I thought the Onion AV Club interview with Kim Deal was intriguing, especially when she wonders if The Pixies are really that popular outside of a small group of hardcore music obsessives.
Onion AV Club: Do you still follow The Prodigy? Kim Deal: You know, it’s like, now I root for them since they used a song of mine and stuff. Now I’m like, “You go guys! ” It’s like I’m in the biology club and they’re in the football team, you know?
- Michael Carlson has some thoughts on one of my favorite jazz cats: Thelonious Monk.
[via]Everything Else
- Curt Purcell wonders if something is getting lost in contemporary horror with all this too-cool-for-school jadedness we see in the heroes.
- Amy Argetsinger of the Washington Post attempts to help classification of those who are famous for being famous by introducing the term “famesque.” Also included therein is an interesting explanation for why Sienna Miller began appearing everywhere.
- FRS favorite Cliff Chiang offers a comic-centric tribute to John Hughes.
- I think we all need an Internet Happy Box. Especially after seeing it in action. (John Gabriel figured out how things work online a while back.)
- Speaking of which, does anyone remember a time when everyone didn’t think they had to publicize their every annoyance and inconvenience? I’m getting really sick of all this anti-fat diatribe.
- 30 Ways To Lose Your Job on Twitter. With examples!
- Publisher’s Weekly has some preview pages for the new Richard Sala book Cat Burglar Black
[via]MP3s
- Matt Kanelos & The Smooth Maria – Yellow Rose
[via] - Bestrack – Wishmaker (Worship Remix)
[via][Worship] - Office – Sticky Dew
[via] - Memory Cassette – Asleep At A Party
[via] - Erin McKeown – The Foxes
[via] - Jessica Lea Mayfield – Call Me
[via] - Amy Millan – I Will Follow You Into The Dark (Death Cab For Cutie cover)
[via] - Luxury Wafers offers up a particularly choice collection of Black Sunday tracks. Don’t miss their interview with A Place To Bury Strangers (some great tracks here) and their session with Flowers Forever.
- Songs, By Toad showed us how it’s done, dropping three top tracks in a single post.
- Last thing for the week: I’m not a huge fan of what Scarlett Johansson has put out, but I have to admit I’m digging this song with Pete Yorn:
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All I know is that every dancefloor I’ve ever DJ’d goes nuts for any Pixies song.
Oh, and that Scarlett Johansson’s voice is an aural sedative.