Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Jeff Bridges from the promo for his new album, Sleeping Tapes. If cult actor and sometime country musician Jeff Bridges’ new album, Sleeping Tapes, is aimed at anyone, it is people like me. I have, on numerous occasions when Radio 3 is getting a bit severe, typed into YouTube “drowsy music drones” or “guaranteed to…
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Prince YouTube Screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Year after year, the Grammys prove that it doesn’t matter how talented you are when it comes to music. And every year, there’s always that one person who perfectly captures what the world is thinking when you’re sitting at home asking yourself, “How did Beyoncé just lose to Beck?” and…
Kevin Winter/Getty Images Iggy Azalea went after Papa John’s on Twitter on Sunday after a delivery man from the pizza chain passed out the singer’s phone number to his family and friends. Papa John’s sort-of apologized, tweeting this light-hearted response quoting Azalea’s lyrics, and never actually saying the word “sorry.”: Azalea did not find the…
10 Years of Eisley byRoland Li A decade ago, when I was a teenager, the music industry hadn’t been completely pulverized by the Internet, and I bought CDs, with jewel cases and thin paper inserts. I began with rather angsty staples – Linkin Park, Staind – and later moved to poppier groups like Blink-182 and…
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis easily swept the 2014 Grammy Awards, racking up wins in multiple rap categories at a ceremony that has historically been blind to the cultural impact of many revered hip-hop artists.Critics argued that even in 2014, it still took a white rapper like Macklemore to achieve this, while Kendrick Lamar left without…
Before he was voted Hipster of the Decade, before he was coining musical subgenres and helping the New York Times understand “alt” culture, Carles was another mid-00s music blogger who just wanted to get his site listed on Hype Machine. The music discovery engine uses an algorithm to pull the “most-blogged about” songs from the…
Anthony D’Amato sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter: His songs sound friendly musically, but they also tackle the difficult and the twisted. Like those great songwriters, D’Amato’s work is universal without devolving into moping. There’s also a spirit to these songs, as it’s easy to imagine a crowd spontaneously…
The British singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss, self-dubbed Emmy the Great, established herself as a master of the breakup song on her first two albums, First Love and Virtue. The lyrics were devastating in one line, and comforting in the next. Emmy’s latest EP, S (out January 27 on Bella Union), is a little different. Despite changes…
The man at the opera tells me I’m disgusting, but in a lot of ways, he’s lucky. There is no moisture in the air. I slept the night before in braids. It’s a matinee, so I’m holding a very strong day vibe: more Tracee Ellis-Ross in Black-ish than Diana Ross’s 1983 Central Park performance. My…