The indie corner of the Internet went nuts Monday after WaPo's David Malitz published a piece about the recent rediscovery of a rare Elliott Smith recording. The story went that a former WMUC DJ Ben Weisholtz found a copy of a 1996 live radio session—"Misery Let Me Down"—in an old MiniDisc player he sold on [...]
Afternoon, y'all! I keep forgetting how self-righteous music critics can be when it comes to the term "indie," which was coined as shorthand for "independent music," or music that is made and released independently of the Big 4.
But as with other words–"gay" no longer means thrilled to be alive, and "damn" will no longer send [...]
In the last half of the 20th Century, the national television news anchor played a deific role in American life: benevolent, yet possessing of an aloof omniscience that suggested divinity (and, by implication, infallibility). Behind the heroically concerned brow and dispassionate baritone there seemed to lie a great wisdom: unrevealed, and therefore perfect–the archetype being [...]
This Saturday, hipsters nationwide will saddle up their fixie riders and head down to their local vinyl outlet for Record Store Day. The holiday, created two years ago by a coalition of well-connected romantics (presumably while smoking a peach hookah and watching Empire Records), celebrates the culture of indie record emporia in the face of [...]
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Journalists–even music journalists–are supposed to write somewhat objectively about their interview subjects; I suck at this. I don't pitch softballs, but I almost always come across as curious rather than skeptical, and by the end of the interview, I'm practically rooting for my subject's success. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn't. I'd like to [...]
