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Carl Wilson

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4 months

@emilynussbaum Such a great category, if the song referred to is neither a real song nor the song itself. Which can be complicated - in "Hold On," when Tom Waits sings "inside your head there's a record playing a song called 'Hold On'" - does he mean *this song or another song called "Hold On"?

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Circulates every couple years, this Gen X nightmare-fantasy combination: Morning TV, getting made fun of there, then they all realize that you're a fucking genius and their lives are comparatively meaningless, but all that and an Oscar nom later, you don't feel any better.

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1 year

This unearthed Elliott Smith appearance on the 1995 FX morning show 'Breakfast Time' is the most surreal thing you'll see today.

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10 months

Seems clear this is why Musk removed headlines from links: so that news and ads would be indistinguishable. Exactly the same unethical idiot move that journalists have spent a century-plus fighting publishers of all kinds over.

Matt Binder

@MattBinder

10 months

Twitter / X is serving users with a new ad format that can't be blocked or reported the ads aren't even actual X posts & aren't connected to any X accounts. they do not disclose that they are ads it appears the ads are connected to clickbait ad networks

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11 months

@Vanessid Rodrigo brought Lily Allen on stage to sing "Fuck You" dedicated to the Supreme Court after Roe was struck down, and says she's planning to campaign in the 2024 election.

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4 years

Oh hell, RIP to Hal Willner, maybe modern music's brightest curatorial mind. His 1985 Kurt Weill covers anthology was a huge influence on my tastes, but more, he modeled a way of *thinking about music that helped lead to what I do now. I wish we had met.

Hal Willner, Music Producer and Longtime ‘SNL’ Music Supervisor, Dead at 64

Hal Willner, the veteran music producer and longtime 'Saturday Night Live staffer, has died at age 64.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

6 months

Taylor announced new three year profit projections, oops, i mean new album, at shareholders meeting, oops, i mean the #GRAMMYs

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@carlzoilus

4 years

It's as if an illusionary landscape just shimmered and vanished, revealing the banal brutal truth. Stagecoach to pumpkin.

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@JonSavage1966

4 years

I’m obsessed with this image. The shoddy, nondescript parking lot where the spell was finally broken. A fitting location for the televised moment that power ebbed away

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Carl Wilson

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3 years

@touchofallright Reinforcing what everyone's saying: BNW, alt-weeklies, the Village Voice (!), zines in the mail & the other 6 to 10 magazines i bought a week - followed by the life choices that now mean I work in a field that no longer really exists.

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@carlzoilus

1 year

Can we listen to #NeutralMilkHotel free of fan fetishizations and myths of the noble martyred outsider artist, a quarter-century after In the Aeroplane Over the Sea? What does it sound like then?

Are We Finally Ready to See One of the ’90s’ Most Acclaimed Bands for What It Really Was?

Why Neutral Milk Hotel’s biggest fans are often those who understand it least.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

10 months

@paranoiacs Exactly why it's my fave Beatles LP. But I think it was less "conscious" than that they couldn't agree which songs were bad, any more than listeners do (e.g., Rev #9 vs. Honey Pie (non-wild)). Its sorcery throws all tastes into question: theirs, other people's, and our own.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

2 years

RIP Michael Snow, ~95, a Toronto artist who meant so much when so much here meant so little, whose legacy was always complex but can't be denied. And it's not to be forgotten that he helped bring free improvised music here with #CCMC + the original Music Gallery.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

6 months

Gosh I wonder why composer William Basinski is so concerned about a website that sold out and only covers pop and never experimental music. (Answer, for those in the back: because none of that was true.)

william basinski

@WilliamBasinski

6 months

don't give up on @pitchfork . fucking number crunchers at @CondeNast need to get a fucking grip. Fire Anna Wintour and pay your writers and editors. She's old news. How much do you pay that old slag? wtf is wrong with you people? you're gonna bring down the whole house.

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Carl Wilson

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3 years

Today in Slate, some tentative thoughts on the paradox that (a) Montero is an excellent album, but (b) it pales next to the rest of Lil Nas X's performance/media art.

Lil Nas X Is a Visionary. That Doesn’t Mean He’s a Great Musician.

His videos and smash hits are unforgettable. The rest of his stuff: Not so much.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

3 years

The way musical-theater people felt the other week when they lost Sondheim - that's what music-criticism people are feeling today with the passing of Mr. Greg Tate. RIP to one of the absolute greats.

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Carl Wilson

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1 year

"We will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis," Lester Bangs once wrote. But in 2023, it's starting to feel like an unusually wide "we" can agree on Joni. And in a pop culture that is not often this kind to elders.

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

@elamin88

1 year

I saw Joni Mitchell on Saturday, and I wept the entire time. I don’t quite have the words to tell you about this profoundly spiritual night at the most beautiful venue I’ve ever been to, so here, watch and listen for yourself.

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6 months

Classic Lefsetz: "I prefer Metacritic to Pitchfork anyway." Yeah, you realize that when all the actual critics are gone, Metacritic won't have anything to cannibalize for content, right? (Also they no longer even put music on their front page.)

mediaor

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6 months

[Lefsetz Letter] The Death Of Pitchfork

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

6 months

It took nearly two hours but someone finally said the words "ceasefire" and "peace" (Annie Lennox)

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

5 years

"Instead of time, there will be lateness/ And let forever be delayed." David Berman ran out of delays today. Feeling decimated and diminished, but sending wild kindness to all of us who heard our own voices in his.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

7 months

@DDDrewDaniel @BeefcakeFactory The backstory seems explicitly anti-Dutch East India Company, so I'm not troubled by that, but the visual representation, at least as seen here, seems incredibly inadequate. You'd be nearly as well off with the wall text (minus the indigenous erasure) and no pictures.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

1 year

I'm not sure if I'm more nerd-excited by the revival of @mountain_goats ' All Hail West Texas characters (along w/Jenny, the new single seems to feature the "Color in Your Cheeks" narrator going thru social-worker burnout) or that Kathy Valentine from the Go-Go's is doing bg vox.

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@TuesdayTabris

1 year

GOOD MORNING ALL THE MOUNTAIN GOATS ARE RELEASING A NEW ALBUM CALLED JENNY FROM THEBES ON OCTOBER 27TH 2023. IT IS AN ALBUM ABOUT JENNY. HOLY SHIT

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

2 years

Each season of @RememberThisPod is great, but the current "Erotic 80s" series feels like a new peak - another level of originality & critical depth. It's like I'm reading a great book, except @KarinaLongworth is conversationally paraphrasing it, and doing funny character voices.

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8 months

Absolutely appalled to learn that @glenn_mcdonald has been let go from Spotify, both for his sake and because of the great value his data had for everyone who follows music closely. Which might in the end be what the company didn't like. Incredible waste.

Every Noise at Once

@EveryNoise

8 months

Sad but happy to be the subject of "The Day Music Neutrality Died (a bit)":

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Carl Wilson

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4 years

Irish poet Eavan Boland died of stroke yesterday at 75. Which is only one of the many reasons to read this remarkable poem right now.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

2 years

You've got to read @LXAbramovich 's great exegesis on the real swearwords we've been hearing in those inspiring clips from Ukraine. "Fuck" doesn't begin to cover it.

Alex Abramovich | Иди Hаxуй

‘You’re occupiers. You are fascists. Why the fuck did you come here with your guns?’ This is the widely shared...

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@carlzoilus

11 months

@thesarahgorman @Vanessid Not claiming she's radical. Just that she's not without politics.

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@carlzoilus

1 year

Especially for us in Canada, terribly sad, tho not unexpected, to have to say farewell to Gordon Lightfoot tonight. Hear his story from the best person to tell it, his biographer @nicojennings .

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian bard, wrote the tune for a nation’s identity

A son of Orillia, Ont., he held fast to his small-town roots while achieving global stardom

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@carlzoilus

1 year

Kris Kristofferson's support of her when so many music dudes were contemptuous speaks volumes of his basic human decency.

Kris Kristofferson - Sister Sinead (2009)

Youtube had blocked my original upload of this great song due to scenes I had used from the Bob Dylan Tribute. So this is shorter, because I left out Kris's ...

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

3 months

Up now on @Slate : Lots of me wishes Taylor Swift would show restraint as a writer and producer and deliver a well-crafted and focused breakup album to stand beside the classics of the form. She's done something much messier and more modern.

The Problem With Taylor Swift’s New Album

The Tortured Poets Department isn’t a great breakup album. It’s something newer and tricksier, for us modern idiots.

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@carlzoilus

3 years

As a fiction filmmaker, Todd Haynes' instinct in his first doc is to simulate how it was to be there as the VU emerged out of the New York scene, not second-guessing what it meant the way most rock docs would. This way, he rescues the band from its legacy.

Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground Documentary Will Change the Way You Think About the Band

The new movie, streaming on Apple TV+, rescues the group from being just a band that inspired other bands.

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@carlzoilus

1 year

Inestimable how much this man did for the heritage of American music, and also for individual artists (from what I can tell, as ethically as he could). RIP.

Arhoolie Foundation

@ArhoolieFdn

1 year

Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie Records Founder July 1, 1931 - May 5, 2023 We celebrate the life of our founder, friend, and great record man Chris Strachwitz. He died peacefully at home in Marin County, CA, surrounded in his last days by dear friends and family.

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7 months

For all your 26th-anniversary-celebrating-slash-holiday-gifting-slash-do-Carl-a-solid needs, @333books decided to remind you of my book today.

33 1/3 Books

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It's been 26 years since the release of Céline Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On'. Despite its success, not everyone was a fan. But why do we hate songs that millions adore? In one of the bestselling books in the series, @carlzoilus investigates what it means to love (and hate!) music.

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3 months

Pleased to see that Let's Talk About Love appears on @TheAtlantic 's 2024 Summer Reading list, and happily bemused that it's counted as a "cult classic," which is how so many of my favourite things have always been described.

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4 years

Little Richard's passing is the Big One we knew was coming. It's hard to think of anyone who forged bridges between worlds so much, and whose noise and heat feels so much like the crucible of the world most of us were born into. Rest in Polymorphously Perverse Piano Power.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

10 months

Wallace Shawn is mainly a writer and for the past 30+ years has written about how the relatively comfortable classes live in daily denial of our deep complicity in world atrocities. So of course he is there, and as a Jewish person declaring, "My Grief Is Not Your Weapon."

Waleed Shahid 🪬

@_waleedshahid

10 months

WALLACE SHAWN is inconceivably here at the White House with @IfNotNowOrg and @JvpAction demanding President Biden fight for a ceasefire and end the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.

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9 months

Today in @Slate : When Taylor Swift or Lorde make something mediocre, fans cope by blaming Jack Antonoff instead. I write about why this demeans everyone including fans themselves, and why "Antonoffication" isn't an actual thing.

Taylor Swift’s Go-To Producer Is a Controversial Figure. Here’s What the Backlash Is Really About.

How Jack Antonoff became every pop music fan’s favorite scapegoat.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

3 months

Shocked + sad about Steve Albini. Despite missteps - ones he reconsidered with great openness recently - he brought an incisively inquiring and principled energy to a field that is often none of those things, and made some extraordinary records too. Gone much too soon. Damn.

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Carl Wilson

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4 years

@scottdagostino @meakoopa You can really skip the actual first season though.

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5 months

I know Laura Snapes isn't on here anymore, but I thank her for sharing my feeling that, while I'm happy if you're happy, gratitude journals and celeb therapy speak aren't what I'm looking for in anybody's songwriting, and definitely not Kacey Musgraves'.

Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well

Read Laura Snapes’ review of the album.

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5 years

I tried to grapple with the impossibility of "canceling" Michael Jackson, and what we do with the notion of human "monsters," drawing on @drjuliashaw 's work on "evil."

Michael Jackson’s Legacy Shouldn’t Survive Leaving Neverland. Here’s Why It Will.

It’s too late to cancel Michael Jackson.

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@carlzoilus

7 years

In time for tonight's return, I go long on the great @CW_CrazyXGF 's parallel ways of deconstructing the rom-com, pop & musical theatre - and destigmatizing mental illness. (Plus I guess its final song.)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Takes Apart How Pop Songs Make Us Nuts

Freudian issues filtered through girl-group music.

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@carlzoilus

6 months

"They shake their heads and say, 'Joni, you've changed'/ Well, something's lost, but something's gained..." - that little move of inserting her name makes it so much about her whole story this century.

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4 years

@qikipedia The first QI fact I don't believe at all.

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1 year

I really hope someone today named their band Steely Albini.

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4 years

Dear 2020, all is forgiven because of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

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2 years

Among many thoughts, grappling with Dallas Good's death: the Sadies stood for an idiosyncratic, exploratory side of Canadian culture, compared to the ignorant insular one in the Ottawa streets. Those sounds might have had nostalgia in them, but never at the expense of the future.

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3 months

If you don't get why so many of us are so upset about an engineer today, Sam's piece explains well. I'd only add: Albini wasn't alone, just one of the sharpest tips of a whole web of people struggling (+ oft failing) to think this seriously about music as process not product.

Sam Adams

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I wrote about Steve Albini, aging gracefully, and the beauty of a drum kit in an empty room.

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1 year

From the #Superstore ppl, American Auto is bold in calling out the predations of corporate America - it's not Succession, but it's on NBC - and has a pretty damn daring-for-network episode on abortion, as @AnaGasteyer points out here:

Ana Gasteyer Has Waited Her Entire Career for American Auto

“You weren’t going to march into a fantastic female protagonist out of SNL in 2002.”

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5 years

Responding to Kanye/Chance collaborator Kirk Franklin's new gospel album, I wrote a personal essay about the difficulties non-believers like me often have approaching contemporary religious music - and why we should get over it.

Why Atheists and Agnostics Should Embrace Today’s Gospel Music

And where to start.

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11 months

Extremely touching personal essay. Of art crossing boundaries of identity and circumstance, remade by each of us into what we need. Of humanity persisting through dehumanizing conditions. Of sleeping so long in a 20-year night, and then seeing daylight.

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11 months

Read a new Weekend Essay by Joe Garcia, on listening to Taylor Swift in prison:

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@MonrovianPrince There had always been a pop middle class until sales of physical records collapsed in the 00s-10s. CRJ was just helping to re-create it.

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10 months

The man who literally wrote the book on JW gives an incisive overview. Not sure I agree Wenner should go interview some women and Black artists, though - why should they suffer through that, for the sake of his belated and unlikely enlightenment?

Joe Hagan

@joehagansays

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My thoughts on Jann Wenner's self-destruction, six years after he stopped talking to me over my biography, "Sticky Fingers."

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I was today years old when I learned that Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" was based on an international European game-show franchise in the 60s and 70s called "Jeux Sans Frontières" - and that the UK version was called "It's A Knockout!"

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6 months

Stop the Oscars, we have here the winner for Best Picture, as well as a lead actor and all supporting roles.

Adrian Ghobrial

@AdrianGhobrial

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Spotted in downtown Toronto! A Beaver right at the foot of York Street and Queens Quay. A stones throw from the @BeaverTails stand! Turn up the volume, the play by play by a group of excited children is the best! #TorontoBeaver #CanadianContent

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He should have had this 30 years ago. But any and every occasion to remember Tate is a good one.

The Pulitzer Prizes

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@hannahdreier @nytimes @stillsarita @NewYorker @sarahanneconway @city_bureau @invinst @Reuters @washingtonpost @katieengelhart @NYTmag @vkaramurza @JustinCChang @latimes @thedeadhandbook @AP @YohanceLacour @propublica @js_kaplan @JustinElliott @BrettMmurphy @Amierjeski @kirstenberg Congratulations to the family, friends, colleagues and fans who bore witness to the inimitable literary/artistic magic of the late Greg Tate. #Pulitzer

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Jeff Melnick style question: Who among under-40 songwriters is in the mold of Stephin Merritt as a witty indie-ish melodic craftsperson with a deep sense of pop history? Nominees very eagerly accepted.

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1 year

Robbie Robertson, a superb musician, probably got more grief than he deserved for his role within The Band. His later embrace of his Mohawk heritage was important to highlighting indigeneity in Canadian pop culture. RIP. And my thoughts are with last man standing Garth Hudson.

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3 years

Music-nerd twitter seems underaware of the Dave Marsh-themed series that's going on, incl this summit of @annkpowers w/ @rxgau , Greg Tate, @GreilMarcusNET and @laurenonkey on rock-crit - starts a little dry, then tea spills! Watch it instead of SNL.

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2 months

Just caught up with Dan Charnas’ @slate piece about the musical sources of “Espresso” and the rebirth of musical segregation in the 1980s: epic, heartfelt, indispensible.

The Song of the Summer Is Actually the Song of 1982

Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is one of several recent hits bringing back the genre that never got a name.

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2 years

@pbump @KevinMKruse We don't even need to burn down the White House ourselves this time -- it's already part of the Republican winning plan.

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2 years

Thinking about how what had just happened with Smith and Rock contributed to Questlove being unable to get through what he wanted to say about Summer of Soul and race in America today.

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6 years

My small contribution to memorializing Aretha: The story of how the Queen reinvented, really re-composed, Otis Redding's "Respect" - and in so doing created the whole pop genre of the female-empowerment anthem.

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5 years

In memory of David Berman, I joined a bevy of @Slate writers in choosing some of our most beloved poems and songs.

Remembering David Berman Through Our Favorite Lyrics and Poems

Slate contributors on their favorite lines from the late singer-songwriter and poet.

slate.com

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7 years

Christgau wearing t-shirt TRUMP KILLED LEONARD COHEN. #PopConference

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11 months

The secret to a long life is chilling out when young people don’t know about what happened when you were young. Lilith was a quarter century ago, folks.

Katie Notopoulos

@katienotopoulos

11 months

There is no trigger warning strong enough for the content I’m about to show you

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3 years

Seeing this popping up off twitter now, so once again: This person is a counter-protester making fun of the anti-vax protesters. The other side of his sign says "I demand my right to be ignarant and selfish."

Andrew Boozary MD

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3 years

this is where we’re at and it hurts.

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7 years

Gord Downie wasn't "my" rock star, but he was ours. And in his final act, esp., he tried so hard to do right. Rest in poetry, GD (goddam).

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6 months

@RollingStone Do not besmirch Joni with that guff.

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6 months

I guess it was too much to want the We Are the World doc to include any analysis at all of whether that mode of charity actually worked for African people or had any other flaws. Trust me, I'm glad to have had the backstage pass, but maybe just a *touch of reflection?

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3 years

(Ducking ... )

St. Vincent’s Newest Record Is Also Her Worst

Maybe the elusive chanteuse should remain a little more elusive.

slate.com

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

4 years

Following up my tweet on @joncaramanica yesterday - solidarity to @jumonsmapes in dealing with harassment. Critics are precarious workers getting peanuts to cover the work of millionaires. @taylorswift13 & other artists, please ask your fans not to mob and threaten us.

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6 years

I am extra-extra sad about Garland now that I find out he was a theater geek.

Mark Jia

@MarkZJia

6 years

apropos of nothing, here is Chief Judge Merrick Garland's high school yearbook entry

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1 year

People often ask me if there is still a place for the truly mean, sarcastic music review. I think with his Måneskin piece in P4K, Jeremy Larson has truly earned that place.

Jeremy D. Larson

@jeremydlarson

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I wrote about some very bad music

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10 years

On the sites the critics come and go Talking of D'Angelo.

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1 year

So apparently everyone attacked Shawn Mendes for using pictures of the wildfire smoke on *a song he just wrote about the wildfire smoke*? All you little cops are the reason managers tell artists not to get into anything political.

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@carlzoilus

4 years

The most relatable thing I've heard on a podcast in ages, @janiehaddad on horses: "I don't like heights, I don't like, um, speed, and I'm kinda afraid of animals... and I'm supposed to, like, control this with my *groin?" @StayFHomekins

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3 years

Finally, a piece about NFTs that is neither credulous nor baffled, explains the tech but gets the art world, doesn't condescend to the digital artists but is rightly snarky to the crypto bros. Of course it's by @pomeranian99

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5 years

Everyone went on about Paul Rudd in the runup to his new Netflix series while leaving out what made me watch: That it co-stars Aisling Bea. @WeeMissBea Watch her own show "This Way Up" (w Sharon Horgan of Catastrophe) also/instead. This was a public service announcement.

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8 months

Shane's songwriting aside, the Pogues are also important because they gave a template for how punk could renew folk traditions that bands around the world took up after them.

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@carlzoilus

2 years

Wilco couldn't have had better timing with an album that declares early on, "I love my country/ Stupid and cruel," and concludes, “It’s hard to watch nothing change."

On Its Timely New Album, Wilco Reclaims “Alt-Country”

The scathing Cruel Country wrestles with a genre—and a nation—that Jeff Tweedy can’t help but love.

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@carlzoilus

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"Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes.” For @Slate today I wrote about what we can learn about his life and art from how the late John Prine wrote about death.

John Prine’s Songs Show How He Wanted to Be Remembered

The life of the late, great songwriter, and how he sang about death.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

2 years

@melnickjeffrey1 "Always (Already) on My Mind."

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8 years

With the poor tools at my disposal, I sputtered out some sentences about the life and art of #LeonardCohen .

Losing Leonard Cohen Right Now Feels Like a Sick Joke—Like One Out of His Songs

He always spoke with a voice forged by the prophets. This fall, doing interviews around his new album You Want It Darker, Leonard Cohen foretold that...

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Carl Wilson

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5 years

Two openly queer rap stars back to back tonight. Unimaginable a decade ago.

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Carl Wilson

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6 months

RIP. Without her, he might never have gotten free of Landy. Sad to think of Brian being alone again. Or perhaps more accurate to say, even more alone again.

Entertainment Weekly

@EW

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The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson has announced the death of his wife, Melinda Ledbetter, at 77: 'She encouraged me to make the music that was closest to my heart.'

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Carl Wilson

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1 year

It's been a good month so far for those of us who've thought Melanie Lynskey was a genius since Heavenly Creatures.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

4 years

Everyone i know has felt the same as Phoebe Bridgers about Clapton for decades. Y'all suddenly getting exercised about it when a woman you think is too young to qualify to have an opinion says it is... not such a great look.

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Carl Wilson

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4 years

Two decades back, High Fidelity was the quintessential moral fable about how artistic taste divided people. Does the new Zoe Kravitz version say anything about taste in 2020, and if not, is it still High Fidelity? I consider the case today in Slate.

Can High Fidelity Survive the End of Taste?

The story of a record-store snob struggles to fit an era defined by shared enthusiasm.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

2 years

Very touched that Questlove just dedicated Summer of Soul's Grammy, in part, to Greg Tate.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

6 months

There have been a lot of bad signs for music journalism lately. P4K being retooled as GQ's music vertical is one of the worst. Sympathies to Puja Patel and others immediately affected.

Max Tani

@maxwelltani

6 months

News: In a note to staff, Condé Nast announces that Pitchfork is being moved under GQ.

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Carl Wilson

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1 year

TIL Paul Westerberg made an album in 2017 with Juliana Hatfield as The I Don't Cares - his last officially released music, and with a couple high points as goddamn high as this:

Hands Together

Provided to YouTube by Redeye DistributionHands Together · The I Don't CaresWild Stab℗ 2015 Dry Wood Music ASCAPReleased on: 2016-01-22Composer: Paul Westerb...

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

8 years

My reflections on His Purpleness #Prince for @Slate , tho I was very close to at a loss for words.

Black or White, Straight or Gay, Rock or R&B—Prince Turned It All to Purple

Prince Rogers Nelson, the artist known as Prince who Thursday became “formerly” with a devastating finality at only 57, was so gifted it barely can be...

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Carl Wilson

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1 year

Can't begrudge Bonnie anything, but it does have me bracing myself a bit for what's to come.

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Carl Wilson

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5 years

Well, hot damn.

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Carl Wilson

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6 months

We got the Grammys at their best last night, except for the lack of good rap and political bravery. We got Taylor Swift, unfortunately, at her worst: "Standing in the center," as Joni Mitchell once sang, "giving to get something."

Taylor Swift Made Grammy History—and One Big Mistake

The self-proclaimed “Anti-Hero” came a little too close to living up to that name.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

1 year

Excited/nervous.

André 3000 is not working on an album, Killer Mike says

During an interview with Sway, Killer Mike said that a solo album from Andre 3000 is in production.

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Carl Wilson

@carlzoilus

6 months

I affirm some and take issue with other parts of @newyorker writer Kyle Chayka's case on taste and recommendation algorithms, w/ particular nods to @glenn_mcdonald , in the jam-packed new issue of @Bookforum .

Algorithm and Blues

Kyle Chayka looks at our supposedly flat new world – Carl Wilson

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Carl Wilson

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9 months

Just going to assume this was all arranged at birth.

CONSEQUENCE

@consequence

9 months

Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and Riley Hawk, son of Tony Hawk and Cindy Dunbar, got married in a ceremony officiated by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe:

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Carl Wilson

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@melnickjeffrey1 It's mostly getting traction for people to rag on it, I think. I love that he keeps acknowledging that many of the lefties are actually totally country/southern in roots, and doesn't know what to do then but yell "collaborationists!"

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Carl Wilson

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7 years

How @celinedion outlasted the haters and became what she's never been before: cool. From me in @macleans :

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Carl Wilson

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4 years

I would find it *really crushing if Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley ever broke up. The intimacy of their love songs feels so brave for two people in a band together.

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