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June 4th, 2010 - 2:36 am § in True/Slant

Music and the Media, Part 4: 'The Man' vs. The Music

A massive argument amongst indie music bloggers spilled over Twitter on Thursday. Or, in real terms, a blip on Twitter’s scanner brought up some pretty big concepts about how new music is transmitted dispersed online, and right from the keyboards of a few “big” name indie bloggers.[...]

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May 6th, 2010 - 2:52 am § in True/Slant

Sampled Reviews: Broken Social Scene

Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, an intelligent and humorous site that critiques album reviews by the popular alt-music site Pitchfork, uploaded a keen little video the other day. The video is a review of a song by Francis and the Lights, and the on-screen action is a written review that follows the pace [...]

Tags: @1000TimesYes, album review, Broken Social Scene, Christopher R. Weingarten, Forgiveness Rock Record, Francis and the Lights, music, Pitchfork Media, Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, Sampled Reviews, Twitter, YouTube No Comments

April 19th, 2010 - 2:46 am § in True/Slant

Music and the Media, Part 1: Everything killed the radio star

The past few years, one word has come up constantly in conversation about today’s pop music: Balkanization. Be it another teeny-indie scene given the tag “glo-fi,” or another subset of Brooklyn bands revisiting the aural atmosphere of ’60s garage pop, the message remains loud[...]

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December 31st, 2009 - 2:55 am § in True/Slant

Music In 2009: A Review

It’s hard to sum up an entire year of pop music in one concise “best of” list. Instead, here’s a tidy little look at some of the highs and lows in pop music over the past year: Hip-Huh?: The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones declared that hip-hop was dead and upset a lot o[...]

Tags: 2009, American Idol, American Music Awards, Animal Collective, Barack Obama, Billboard, Boston, Boston Red Sox, Breathe Carolina, Brokencyde, Christian Bale, Christopher R. Weingarten, crunk, crunkcore, David Rowell, DJ Earworm, Eminem, emo, Faith No More, Freaxxx, glo-fi, grindcore, heavy metal, hip-hop, I'm On A Boat, Idolator, Jane's Addiction, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Killing in the Name, Kingdom Come, Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Live Nation, Maura Johnston, Michael Bay, Michael Jackson, Millionaires, MTV, MTV VMAs, music, Neon Indian, New England Patriots, No Line On The Horizon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II, Pavement, Pig Destroyer, Pop music, R U Professional? (4 Xtian), Raekwon, Rage Against The Machine, Relapse, Sasha Frere-Jones, screamo, scrunk, Simon Cowell, Susan Boyle, Taylor Swift, Terminator, Tha Carter III, The Black Album, The Blueprint 2, The Blueprint 3, The Lonely Islands, The Mae Shi, The Marshall Mathers LP, The New Yorker, The Van Pelt, The Washington Post Magazine, Ticketmaster, Toro Y Moi, Transformers, U2, United States of Pop, Veckatimest, Warped Tour, Washed Out, X Factor, year in review, Yellow House No Comments

October 17th, 2009 - 9:00 pm § in True/Slant

Overlooked in the Aughts: Parts & Labor – Mapmaker

Overlooked in the Aughts is an ongoing feature focusing on some of the best albums from the 2000s that haven’t quite received the attention they deserved. Today’s post: Parts & Labor’s Mapmaker. Back in June, music writer Christopher R. Weingarten extolled the pains that have befallen m[...]

Tags: art-punk, Battles, Brooklyn, Christopher R. Weingarten, Deerhoof, Do It Yourself, Hardcore punk, Mapmaker, music, NPR, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Parts & Labor, Receivers, Rolling Stone, TV On The Radio No Comments

December 31st, 2008 - 4:05 pm § in Perfect Lines

9 Things To Look Forward To in 2009

2008 is almost gone as the New Year will arrive in a matter of hours (or it may have already arrived depending on when you read this). So, in anticipation for the number of times I’ll forget to put “2009″ on whatever documents need a proper year, here’s a little listing of 9 [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Christopher R. Weingarten’

Music and the Media, Part 1: Everything killed the radio star

Music In 2009: A Review

Overlooked in the Aughts: Parts & Labor – Mapmaker

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