Matthew Perpetua
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FLUXCAVIAR, my constantly updated Spotify playlist for new music, has been rebooted for 2024 - if you were already subscribed you're still subscribed - jump in, keep up!
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Have never felt a more profound generation gap than in listening to people in their very early 20s describe 2016 as a pinnacle of good vibes, utopian energy, and positivity - like, 2016?????? THAT year??
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I love signs like this at small businesses that imply some complicated behind the scenes drama or power struggle and appeal to a core clientele who may be genuinely hype that Mark's back
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I have close to zero respect for the charts as an accurate measure of popularity and success given all the ways things can be gamed, but I do think "actually this isn't legit because fans PAID FOR THE SINGLE" to be a bizarro world argument
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This cover of Spin from 2003 is so funny to me in so many ways
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There is a huge difference between arenas and stadiums - an arena show is typically around 17K people and a stadium show is typically around 60-80K people, so when you're carelessly conflating the things, it's basically like insisting my two bedroom apartment is a two story house
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I'm begging people to get a new angle on this guy - maybe get into why hyper-stylized live action is so viscerally upsetting to you? maybe try to engage with how he essentially works as a cartoonist but in live action film?
Wes Anderson’s films, even at their best, are affected and embody the sensibilities and values of the elite.
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These were the shows at Madison Square Garden in 1987 - if you could see two (2) of them, which would you choose?
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It is kinda hilarious that a rock move as old and banal as theatrically smashing a guitar can inspire this sort of scoldy pearl-clutching from very young people in the year 2021
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the 4 Billy Joel song categories
"You Think You're Better Than Me??"
"Look At This Asshole/These Assholes"
"Things Used To Be Better"
"Here's Some Advice, Moron"
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A 32-year-old James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem in Vice late 2002
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I think my main feeling from response to this is basically that I'm glad some people were having a great time and also I believe young people will find a way to have a good time regardless of the greater context almost always and that is beautiful
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I should never underestimate this guy
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I just heard an argument that we don't have a "song of the summer" this year because BTS is too popular and their songs sell too many copies and "Butter" has been
#1
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Garbage reviewing late 90s hits in Spin January 1999 and being pretty correct about things
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it's Oneohtrix Point Never, who now produces stuff for The Weeknd, Soccer Mommy, fka Twigs, Charli XCX etc
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The only feelings allowed in popular music now:
• I am (or want to be) rich
• I am stoned
• I am chill but sad
• I am horny but sad
• I hate my ex
• performatively woke
• I am anxious too and it's ok
• if I don't make you horny you should die
• I am a cowboy
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my confusion was not so much that people were having a great time, people are always having a great time tbh, but the assertion that 2016 had anything like POSITIVE VIBES... that's the part I really don't get esp when the great music people cite from 2016 is pretty dark vibes
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I yearn for impossible data, like "what were the songs most frequently burned to CD-R in 1998-2004" and "what random album tracks were so widely put on mixtapes circa early to mid 90s that they would be considered viral today"
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"We Didn't Start the Fire" is the ultimate Boomer song - history didn't exist before them and nothing is their fault
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it's just depressing that people feel compelled to diminish major artists because they cannot conceive of engaging with art outside of the framework of competition - you don't have to live like this
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Let's play the concert budget game, but you're booking a show you get to see after the quarantine ends - with a budget of $100, who is on your bill?
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everyone knows the worst venue in NYC is Terminal 5 - it's to the point that if I see Terminal 5 on a tour itinerary my mind automatically files it as "show I will not see," as if the artist simply is not playing in NYC on this tour
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RIP Vaughan Oliver, one of the greatest album cover designers ever
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@Huntress1293
pop chart people will do ANYTHING to deny that people paying to show up to see a performer is a meaningful measure of real popularity - it's how they've been supporting the "actually no one likes rock music anymore" fallacy for a long time
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What does it mean that two of the most iconic villains of 2010s pop culture exemplify the rarely explored archetype of the DARK NEPHEW?
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so is LCD Soundsystem playing like 12-20 shows in NYC every year actually some kind of community service sentencing thing
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A 61-year-old Jack Nicholson going absolutely hog wild at the club Chaos in Miami, Rolling Stone August 1998
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see the problem here is seeing this as a failure in streaming tv and not what it really was - a successful scam to make Frank Quitely, one of the best comics artists of all time, wealthy
Netflix spent $200 Mil on this show then immediately cancelled it 1 month after release
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I think Midnights is a pretty decent record but if you told me that they made it three or four years ago and then shelved it until now I would 100% believe it
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Will be introducing "did you know that Todd Field, the writer/director of Tár, is also the co-creator of Big League Chew, the gum that's like chewing tobacco" into every conversation I have through the end of the year at least
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Weyes Blood definitely first artist to ever ask an audience at Madison Square Garden "have you all ever heard of Adam Curtis?"
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one of my favorite moments of the Olivia Rodrigo show was scanning around the audience during "Happier" and seeing a girl no older than 9 belting along with a pained expression as though she just got divorced
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Vibing out on the tweets of people taking pictures of people in Prospect Park and other public places and scolding them for not "social distancing" but it's like, OK asshole why are YOU there?
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What’s your favourite album cover that references another album?
This sort of thing
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The main baddie in the Hawkeye show looks like he's dressed up as Paul F Tompkins for Halloween
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imagine being an adult and thinking that a contemporary pop star was basically the first person to ever write relatable lyrics - like, maybe if you're 14 you can believe this but the frame of reference has to open up somewhere right
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People never really got to choose which David Bowie they got the honor of being photographed with
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The Cure selling t-shirts at Madison Square Garden for $25... Robert Smith is really making it happen, a saint
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out of all possible answers to this question, the many MANY viable answers, you went with a totally respectable 90s band??
Which '00s and '10s indie bands have aged the worst? Magnetic Fields comes to mind
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New playlist BLACK BEATLES: R&B COVERS 1963-1972, a selection of major Black artists of the period interpreting the music of the Fab Four
Spotify:
Apple:
here's a preview of the first half...
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What are your favorite opening lines in songs? Ideally, something that just immediately sets up an interesting idea/scenario/feeling, but you do you.
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waving hello to the BTS fans - we talk about the BTS/McDonald's thing a good amount in the new episode of my show! it's fun
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interesting to use an image of yourself looking bored, ambivalent, or full-on dissociating to advertise your solo tour
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what Bridgers should have done at the end of playing her song on live tv is stop everything cold and announce she would be donating her guitar to charity and rattle off all the socials and hashtags
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It's pretty interesting to live in a moment where nearly all the platforms and technology that have driven the culture of the past 15-20 years is collapsing or declining, but it's unclear what's going to replace it or how long we will live in this phase
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Two cultural things from this past week that would've been a much bigger deal some years ago:
• Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood ending a new song with two minutes of grunge guitar catharsis
• Jennifer Lawrence in a movie where she beats up a gang of teenagers while entirely nude
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experienced Killers of the Flower Moon just as Marty would want - in a nice full movie theater with Taylor Swift music bleeding through the walls during the many quiet scenes
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@patrickgipson
yeah but a LOT of this particular argument is that "well, BTS isn't on radio enough" and it's like... we KNOW why this is, it's very much a racist thing and radio is also massively corrupt and is a laughable metric to begin with, but yet this song thrives
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New playlist THIS WAS INDIE SLEAZE 2002-2008, a tighter and far more historically accurate version of someone else's idea
Spotify:
Apple:
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"Baby Gronk got rizzed up by Livvy and now he's the new Drip King" would sound AMAZING sung by Bob Dylan, he'd make a meal out of every syllable of that, I hear it so clearly in my mind
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I think there's a lot of artists from the past 20 years who would benefit from a 90s-style MTV Unplugged special- they always presented artists with a lot of reverence and gravitas, far different from the forced humility of contemporary stuff like NPR's Tiny Desk
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I wrote about being laid off from my role as Director of Quizzes at BuzzFeed after working there for six and a half years.
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Cigarettes After Sex are a slowcore/dream pop band on an indie label and they have crazy high streaming numbers - it feels like a lot of people don't notice they're this big? their top song is no one's idea of commercial but it's closing in on a billion streams on Spotify
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Few things I've encountered in old magazines have hit me in that Proust madeleine way quite like this Mac iBook ad from Rolling Stone September 1999
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When yr 4th album is undeniably great but too many normies are into you to get that BNM
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Here's some young girls playing the White Stripes' "Fell In Love With A Girl" on the street in Park Slope
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my other major takeaway from this is that apparently the people behind Pokemon Go need to get a new game out ASAP to give a lot of people a desperately needed boost of joy
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The Smashing Pumpkins are touring with Stone Temple Pilots right now, an incredible time for both nature kids and elegant bachelors
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@JillKrajewski
honestly would love to see a working class version of Succession about the power struggle to run a south Brooklyn gas station
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Olivia Rodrigo playing Madison Square Garden with The Breeders opening is true alt-rock praxis
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best benefit compilation ever made, one of the most pivotal records of my life
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@ericrennerbrown
it's just... I don't know how you can one hand be like "this is a massively popular act, almost no one has this level of fan engagement" and on the other hand be like "but no one listens to this music, right?"
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out of all the artist couples that exist I am most curious how Joanna Newsom and Andy Samberg have directly influenced each other's work, like specific examples
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@rachelmillman
it's kinda amazing that he had a few jokes about his previous marriage that were so charming and cute that it resulted in people becoming absolutely deranged when that relationship ended, as though no marriage had ever ended before then
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and folks I know you all love Bowie and he's gone now but this is the Glass Spider tour and maybe you should wish to see someone at their peak?
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Would it kill people to fact check stuff like this? For reference, here's Pitchfork's top 20 for 2001, an accurate summary of what most snobby indie guys would be into in 2001 and sure The Strokes got in there but otherwise lol
“Looking back, it is easy to see the 2000s indie rock boom as a brief efflorescence, a reaction to the emo-slacker Gen X ethos of 1990s indie, a back-to-roots movement of a piece with—in a wildly different but simultaneous domain—Salafism.” —
@kmahaj
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I feel like it says so many good things about Harry Styles fans that the response to all this is kind vibe "Harry is just that good, he can give us what we want before we know it" messages and not a swarm of people screaming at me that I'm an idiot for not having known
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Was kinda shocked by how many people in my area left The Cure show last night before the 2nd encore - like, did they not know that's the hit parade? I can't fathom going to a Cure show and skipping this part, but my row and the one behind me were nearly cleared out before Lullaby
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If yr gonna publish a Jack Antonoff hit piece in July 2023 and never mention "A&W," the best and most artistically ambitious thing he's ever worked on, then you simply don't have credibility as a critic - yr conveniently leaving something huge out to make a point from 3 years ago
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the "People pay to see others believe in themselves" essay by Kim Gordon in ArtForum circa 1981
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My main ipod is 160GB & it's full of music NOT on streaming. This argument is for people who don't care about music.
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I love how everyone is giving Chloe a platform to speak her truth lately and even more watching dorks flip out and get defensive when she has really hard opinions because she's a classic NYC Cool Person
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at one point in the Olivia Rodrigo show she asks who came to the gig with their Best Friend and I've been thinking about who'd be the funniest person to earnestly ask that at their show and I think it's Bob Dylan, or maybe Donald Fagen
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This is what Daft Punk looked like in 1997 before the horrible accident that left them mostly bionic for the rest of their lives... de si beaux garçons
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I do realize that making the cartoonist connection depends on having a knowledge of the history of more than one medium, but if that's so hard maybe Writing About The Arts is not your lane
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very few people calling attention to "throwing trash at rock stars" and no one at all questioning why Justin Timberlake is apparently their example of a rock star
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she's not either, she's more like Veruca Salt and that's why she rips
this is supposed to be gen z’s hayley williams/avril lavigne, there’s truly no hope
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39 minutes is probably the
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most common runtime for an album since the 1950s but go off about Tiktok I guess
9) It’s only 39 minutes, a reflection of the ongoing TikTokization of this era of music. The sequencing moves through punk rock and plaintive piano, sometimes blending both so effortlessly…
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more should be said about Wintour's hilarious ineptitude in managing Pitchfork - a one trick pony out of her depth working on a product she does not understand, just terrible at her job aside from the cowardly union busting
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A fun thing I learned from Dan Charnas' J Dilla book is that the clap in the original Linn drum machine that Prince used extensively in the 80s was a recording of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers clapping backstage as a favor to Linn who was struggling with getting a good clap sound
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nice to be reminded of how hard Capitol had to work to make people take Radiohead seriously when promoting The Bends, to shake off one-hit-wonder vibes
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A little reminder of how American publications treated Radiohead prior to OK Computer - here's Chuck Eddy's review of The Bends in Spin May 1995 which is wrong-headed and incredibly lazy
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@ericrennerbrown
I get where Tom is coming from but tbh when I see how people write about K-Pop now it looks exactly like the cringe way people wrote about rap in the 80s magazines I have
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I think very few American songwriters have embodied the character of the place they're from as accurately and unromantically as Billy Joel embodies the character of Long Island
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How can we convince guys like Harry Styles and Timothée Chalamet to level up and start carrying lambs
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I understand the reasons why music is released on Fridays now but Tuesday was better if just because music had a special day and Tuesday otherwise has nothing going for it
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It increasingly seems like everyone involved in Don't Worry Darling is making decisions based entirely on how cool it would be to hear
@KarinaLongworth
talk about them on a future You Must Remember This
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I think a lot of what people hate is that his style is very The New Yorker but without getting the cartoonist aspect the connection to that elite vibe is poorly articulated, just throwing darts wildly at a vague target like this essay
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