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Drake, Bieber and the pop riots

June 17, 2010 / 1 Comment

A riot broke out at New York’s South Street Seaport during a free concert Tuesday. And what nefarious musician inspired such a disastrous public event? The newest shock rocker to hit the scene? Some “evil” death metal band? An anarchist cult yelling at the crowds to fight the government conspiracy? Nope. It was Drake, hip-hop and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Altamont, death metal, Drake, Hanson, Hell on Earth, hip-hop, Justin Bieber, MMMBop, music, New York, Ninjasonik, Pop music, riot, South Street Seaport, Thank Me Later, Village Voice, Zach Baron

Kickstart my rock 'n' roll heart: Girlfriends

June 16, 2010 / Leave a Comment

I’m an unabashed fan of Kickstarter, a site where creative types pitch projects for friends, family and complete strangers to help fund. I’ve helped fund a few projects here and there, and the platform Kickstarter has on its hands manifests the same kind of inquisitive state that can lead to spending hours on the site. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Bandcamp, emo, Foals, Girlfriends, Jerry Joiner, Kickstarter, music, Oregon, Pop music, Portland, rock, Social network service, social networking

Songs of Summer: Bodega Girls – 'We Are Losers'

June 14, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Songs of Summer is a guide to the summer’s new tunes that evoke sensations of everyone’s favorite season. Today’s jam is: Bodega Girls – “We Are Losers” Bodega Girls have been toiling away in Boston’s music scene for some time now. Their new single, “We Are Losers,” is a great reflection of their city’s odd … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Bodega Girls, Boston, Dropkick Murphys, Electronic dance music, MGMT, music, Passion Pit, Pop music, RCRD LBL, We Are Losers

Metric at the Vic, May 20

May 21, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Metric is a band made for the big stage. You wouldn’t know it from their background, as a term like “Canadian indie rock group” often equals total obscurity when crossing the border. But, somehow Metric has found success outside their home country. As their set at Chicago’s Vic Theatre on Thursday showed, they can not … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Bear In Heaven, Beastie Boys, Canada, Chicago, Emily Haines, indie rock, Metric, music, Pop music, The Vic, Vic Theatre

Free the Music: Caddywhompus

May 20, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Free the Music is a guide to new albums, EPs and songs that are available for free online. Today’s drop is: Caddywhompus – Remainder. At any one moment in indie music history, there are a number of divergent sounds heating up the national scene. They’ve got their communities, they’ve got their fans and they may or may … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Animal Collective, Caddywhompus, Community Records, Girl Talk, glo-fi, indie, lo-fi, music, No Age, Pitchfork, Pop music, Remainder

Justin Bieber and DIY: What's in a punk?

May 3, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Love Justin Bieber, but afraid to reveal it to your punk rock friends? Do you tell your friends that the music you’re blasting on your iPod is the latest pop sensation when it’s really Black Flag’s Damaged? Wish these two worlds could finally meet? Well, XLR8R and Exclaim! music writer and Grown Ups member Josiah … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Black Flag, Etsy, Hardcore punk, Hearty Magazine, Justin Bieber, Lily Allen, music, Myspace, OK Go, Pop music, punk, SST, Twitter, YouTube

Music and the Media, Part 2: A Rolling Stone gathers no mass

April 20, 2010 / Leave a Comment

On Monday, Rolling Stone debuted it’s online subscription model, as well as a much-needed website facelift. Unfortunately, it may be too little, too late. In the years Rolling Stone wasted their web-space, with nothing to show but a handful of articles hosted on a domain, music blogs and sites have sped past the magazine (and many … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Black Eyed Peas, magazines, music, music magazines, NPR, Parts & Labor, Pink Floyd, Pop music, rock, Rolling Stone, The Beatles, The Police, The Wall Street Journal

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

April 19, 2010 / Leave a Comment

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 and clear: As micro-scenes develop within pockets of our society, our … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Alice in Chains, balkanization, Breaking Benjamin, Cage The Elephant, Chevelle, chillwave, Christopher R. Weingarten, Clear Channel, glo-fi, Godsmack, hip-hop, indie rock, Lady Gaga, Led Zeppelin, Michele Catalano, Mudvayne, Muse, music, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Pop music, radio, rap, Rise Against, rock, Shinedown, Sick Puppies, Slipknot, Stone Temple Pilots

Vampire Weekend is not a 'Contra'-band

January 7, 2010 / Leave a Comment

There’s a famous scene in Good Will Hunting where an arrogant Harvard student berates Ben Affleck’s Chuckie Sullivan with his in-depth historical knowledge. This is done to bully Sullivan and humiliate him in front of a couple of women Sullivan is trying to hit on. Then, in comes Matt Damon’s Will Hunting to save the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Ben Affleck, Contra, Good Will Hunting, I Think Ur A Contra, indie, Ivy League, Ivy League indie, Matt Damon, Movies, music, Pop music, Sandinista, twee-pop, Vampire Weekend

Music In 2009: A Review

December 31, 2009 / 5 Comments

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 of hip-hop heads. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 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
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