December 2009
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how to make a living playing music →
Danny Barnes lays it all out in this post, which is basically an A-Z guide to keeping your head on straight while trying to make music for a living. The advice ranges from the practical to the spiritual and is absolutely worth the read for anyone playing music. i. record labels. they can help or they can drag you down. here’s the scoop. if they expect you to be the primary distributor of...
Dec 31st
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“As of ‘09, bands have an official life span of about nine months dating...”
– Christopher R. Weingarten, Village Voice
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Learned Obsolescence
thecharmingyoungsters: Being the official band of the 22nd century (Yes, that’s us) comes with a lot of responsibility. Most importantly: reminding our youth to not forget the past. Look, I won’t waste any more of your time with the implications of such weighty obligations. We are not happy with Oxford’s recent edits to its Junior Dictionary. I agree that youngsters should be familiar with...
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“The Crying Light is dedicated to the great dancer Kazuo Ohno. In performance I...”
– Antony Hegarty
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“Creativity to me is just like… it’s like a bird, like a friendly bird that...”
– Liz Lemon
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(Excerpt from) Along Some Rivers
Thomas Weski: Of what practical use is landscape photography?
Robert Adams: In a way, none. The place itself is always more remarkable than any picture of it. A picture is just an attempt to acknowledge the sufficiency of the place. But each of us keeps losing track of that sufficiency. Bitterness accrues from what appears to be the triumph of chaos, and that leads to nihilism. Art has traditionally been the intuition, however incomplete, of a larger perspective, one that allows hope.
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WatchWatch
I woke up early without my requisite amount of sleep feeling nostalgic for The Wallflowers’ Bringing Down the Horse. It was one of the first albums I owned so I surfed around to see what the internet thought of it. The overall consensus is that it’s an average album with some above-average songs. Allmusic even gave it a solid 4 and 1/2 out of 5 stars. It’s a sentimental thing...
Dec 18th
“I’m in my prime. It started at 23 and it hasn’t ended yet because I...”
– Corbie Hill, Roam, Buffalo, Roam.
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