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Matthew Perpetua

6 months

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!

FluxCaviar New Music 2024

FluxCaviar New Music 2024 · Playlist · 229 songs · 3.4K likes

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Matthew Perpetua

@perpetua

2 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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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Matthew Perpetua

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25 days

a thing I find extremely cool about Chappell Roan is that she's blowing up in large part because she built a hot live show full of fun songs built with audience participation in mind, every bit of footage makes more people feel like they NEED to see her - it's so old school!

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@reneesohot

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when the camera zooms out and you realise the amount of fucking people doing the hot to go dance with chappell is actually so fucking crazy. her career has skyrocketed overnight and she deserves it so much. chappell roan you’ve made it

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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

Stereogum

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3 years

BTS and their fan army are rendering the pop charts useless

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

This cover of Spin from 2003 is so funny to me in so many ways

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Matthew Perpetua

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2 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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?

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1 year

Wes Anderson’s films, even at their best, are affected and embody the sensibilities and values of the elite.

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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2 months

Almost every date on the Charli XCX/Troye Sivan US arena tour looks like this, extremely undersold even with mostly $45 tickets - if yr interested in seeing them I suggest buying out sections with a bunch of friends and essentially having private parties at the (non-NYC) shows

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Matthew Perpetua

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2 months

"that's that me espresso" is a perfect pop lyric - weird syntax, a strange way of expressing an already peculiar sentiment, it tickles the brain in a way that makes the hook even catchier - much more musical and interesting than all the thudding literalism of contemporary lyrics

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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2 years

Skrillex now looks like if Jon Snow got a stylist

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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

A 32-year-old James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem in Vice late 2002

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Matthew Perpetua

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2 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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4 years

I should never underestimate this guy

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4 years

@perpetua like this?

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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 for over two months and this somehow means no one listens to that song and it's not part of anyone's life

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

Garbage reviewing late 90s hits in Spin January 1999 and being pretty correct about things

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Matthew Perpetua

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Ethel Cain singing "Bette Davis Eyes," very inspired cover choice that suits her voice and reveals something about her aesthetic

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Matthew Perpetua

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11 months

it's Oneohtrix Point Never, who now produces stuff for The Weeknd, Soccer Mommy, fka Twigs, Charli XCX etc

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Matthew Perpetua

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5 years

I don't know who made this but I love it so much

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Matthew Perpetua

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5 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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2 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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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Matthew Perpetua

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7 years

"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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

sigh

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Matthew Perpetua

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7 months

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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Matthew Perpetua

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4 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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10 months

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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10 months

What’s the worst venue in your city/area?

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Matthew Perpetua

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5 years

RIP Vaughan Oliver, one of the greatest album cover designers ever

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Matthew Perpetua

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6 years

This is what a Kraftwerk show looked like in 1981

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

@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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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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9 months

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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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

A 61-year-old Jack Nicholson going absolutely hog wild at the club Chaos in Miami, Rolling Stone August 1998

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Matthew Perpetua

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4 months

are you thinking about how Pavement was a pretty successful band in 1999 and this is a fairly modest rider

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cannot stop thinking about Pavement's hospitality rider

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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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

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Netflix spent $200 Mil on this show then immediately cancelled it 1 month after release

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Matthew Perpetua

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2 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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2 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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10 months

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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Matthew Perpetua

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3 months

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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Matthew Perpetua

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4 years

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 point of "Losing My Edge" is not that the person is old or boring but rather that they have an anxiety brought on by consumer culture and a version of coolness based on knowledge-based cultural capital

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@hazeldanger

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Watching LCD Soundsystem doing Losing My Edge, telling my wife that I saw him play this to about 30 people in the dance tent at Reading and realising I’m the boring old guy the song’s about. I’m old and I hate myself.

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

The main baddie in the Hawkeye show looks like he's dressed up as Paul F Tompkins for Halloween

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Matthew Perpetua

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2 months

we're living in a world where two rival versions of Sublime are touring simultaneously - yesterday Sublime headlined a festival in Orlando and Sublime With Rome headlined at Red Rocks - my question is, why stop at two Sublimes? Let's get as many Sublimes on the road as possible

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Matthew Perpetua

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6 months

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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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

People never really got to choose which David Bowie they got the honor of being photographed with

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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

The Cure selling t-shirts at Madison Square Garden for $25... Robert Smith is really making it happen, a saint

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 months

out of all possible answers to this question, the many MANY viable answers, you went with a totally respectable 90s band??

Liz Wolfe

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3 months

Which '00s and '10s indie bands have aged the worst? Magnetic Fields comes to mind

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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6 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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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1 year

interesting to use an image of yourself looking bored, ambivalent, or full-on dissociating to advertise your solo tour

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Matthew Perpetua

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5 months

an honest misunderstanding on the r/pavement board

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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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Matthew Perpetua

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9 months

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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Matthew Perpetua

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6 years

They still have not fixed that N

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

@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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Matthew Perpetua

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2 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

"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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Matthew Perpetua

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5 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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4 months

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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1 year

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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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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4 years

When yr 4th album is undeniably great but too many normies are into you to get that BNM

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Matthew Perpetua

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7 years

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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2 years

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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Matthew Perpetua

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11 months

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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

@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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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

We have to make Harry Styles dress EXACTLY like this

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Matthew Perpetua

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17 days

the boys are back in town

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Matthew Perpetua

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2 months

New playlist by popular demand: THE STEVE ALBINI SOUND, selections from his enormous body of work as an engineer that highlight his distinct aesthetic Spotify: Apple (more complete): YouTube (most complete):

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Matthew Perpetua

@perpetua

4 years

I love that Disney, a company famously obsessed with protecting its IP, is like "oh no, nothing we can do about this"

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There's Not Much Marvel Can Do About Cops Using Punisher's Logo

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Matthew Perpetua

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10 months

Olivia Rodrigo playing Madison Square Garden with The Breeders opening is true alt-rock praxis

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Matthew Perpetua

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8 months

best benefit compilation ever made, one of the most pivotal records of my life

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Matthew Perpetua

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2 months

RIP Steve Albini, few people have ever made rock music sound as urgent and forceful and alive

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Matthew Perpetua

@perpetua

2 months

they actually managed to mostly sell out in LA, no big surprise, but added a second night that's as undersold as these

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Matthew Perpetua

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3 years

@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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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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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it's such a sharp contrast with so many technically popular artists with no real reputation for being great live or having songs that would be enhanced by crowd participation expecting to fill arenas - people are willing to pay and show up for true showmanship

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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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Matthew Perpetua

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2 months

@molls well I am encouraging people to buy several tickets with their extended social circles here

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Matthew Perpetua

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4 years

@ninarockert oh my god he's that far ahead of it all

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Matthew Perpetua

@perpetua

3 years

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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@perpetua

10 months

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

The New York Review of Books

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“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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Matthew Perpetua

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4 years

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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1 year

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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1 year

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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6 months

the "People pay to see others believe in themselves" essay by Kim Gordon in ArtForum circa 1981

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7 years

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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5 months

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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spent most of my time at the Neil Young and Crazy Horse show feeling and pondering his guitar tone - often imitated and never duplicated, even better in person

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3 months

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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40 years of Reckoning being a perfect summer album!

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Matthew Perpetua

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1 year

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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I love this so much

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