G5 - Your (Sporadically Posted) EP of Links, September 23, 2010
- I’m a huge gear head in all other aspects of life, so I suppose it’s not a big surprise that I love these Motherboard/Electric Independence videos from VBS.
- One of my dear friends, writing under the moniker Ms. Kurz (on some diva Lauryn Hill shit) made her internet writing debut over at Playtonic Dialogues yesterday on the perils of music in the workplace. My favorite line: “I can feel my ovaries exploding with a pop! pop! sound that is far superior to their so-called music.” It’s a fun read, go check it out.
- Feist is releasing Look at What the Light Did Now, a documentary about the recording process of The Reminder and the tour following the album’s release. These docs are often a let down, but the trailer for this one has me excited. Then again, I was excited for Justice’s A Cross the Universe… shows how much I know about these things.
- Interesting article dug up from the Times 100 years ago, that might as well have been written today on “How popular song factories manufacture a hit”
- Finally, a piece on Kanye’s talents as an internet marketer and how that relates to Kanye the music producer. Noz makes a good point that the Good Fridays one-track-per-week gimmick isn’t all that different from releasing a mixtape in the run up to an album release, but in doing it bit-by-bit “we get the sense that we’re not only witnessing a work in progress, but that this effort is building to something larger and more important.”
