Music videos in 2010: a small case study
Posted by Anupa in Internet, Music, video games on 02. Sep, 2010 | 2 Comments
Screencap from Das Racist’s Who’s That Brown? via Village Voice Back in the day, music video debuts on channels like Much Music or MTV were a big fucking deal. But then Youtube (and OnSmash) came along and that changed everything—but still, the music video didn’t die. In the past couple of years we’ve been exposed [...]
Morning Dump: Wyclef’s bid for Haiti, Arcade Fire on Tube of You, Ice Cube stock plummets, Can Scott Dadich save the magazine industry?
Posted by Simon in Morning Dump on 07. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Vote for Pedro Wyclef Jean! In a barely coherent open letter to the Huffington Post, former Fugees member Jean explains he’s running for the presidency of Haiti because, you know, he loves his daughter. My interpretation of all celebrity decision making is perpetually stuck on skeptical — but even I figure what could really be the [...]
Show & Tell: The Hood Internet – Decalogue (The Hood Internet vs The 2000s)
Posted by Simon in Show & Tell on 24. Mar, 2010 | 1 Comment
Alright, so I’m about a month slow on this but whatever, I haven’t read a lot about it and it’s worth sharing. Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of The Hood Internet, two guys who mashup hip-hop with indie music. Basically, Girl Talk but eschewing the top-40 sensibility for more of the Pitchfork crowd. [...]
The Morning Dump: Arcade Fire’s case for Haiti, the IRL death of @diditleak, The xx’s ability to depress people live, and the New Yorker on Neil Gaiman
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 23. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments
The earthquake in Haiti has surely brought out the generosity in many people, and no small amount of celebrities have pitched in their fair share. What we haven’t seen though is this, a beautifully written article in the U.K.’s Guardian by Régine Chassagne, a Haitian and member of Montreal’s Arcade Fire. She deals with her violent past [...]
