Culture Club - El Primero de Septiembre
Dope ad for Jay-Z’s upcoming The Blueprint 3, in which he recreates all of his previous album covers; also, the album was leaked on purpose, right after it was leaked not on purpose
-Sasha Frere-Jones is going to posting more about the formats we use in listening to music and probably, why vinyl is better to listen to than digital files. If this were 1994, I would reply, “Doy.” But it’s not, so I wont.
-Thom Yorke is putting out a new 12” soon
-P4k caught up with Ernest Greene of Washed Out
-Damon Albarn is working with the Horrors on the next Gorillaz album
-I really enjoyed Liz Colville’s takedown of Charles M. Blow and discussion of Greg Kot’s new book Ripped
-More on Hov: the biggest thing about Grizzly Bear’s set in Brooklyn Sunday, continues to be his appearance IN THE AUDIENCE!? I don’t get it.
-Apparently, Spotify is targeting Summer 2010 for its US launch
-On yesterday’s DayTrotter: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
-Carrie Brownstein (formerly of Sleater-Kinney, currently of NPR’s Monitor Mix) is setting up shop in New York. I, for one, am pretty excited to read her stuff on the scene in “the city.”
-The Guardian is making a a big hullabaloo about all the festivals closing in the UK. Seems pretty simple to me: there’s too many festivals in the UK. It seems like NME has someone live-blogging from a different festival every weekend during the summer. In the US, there’s no more than two big festivals in any of the major cities, no?
-One final DJ AM note: I stumbled across this video today of AM mixing Oasis into MIA. Good stuff.
-Good piece from this Sunday’s New York Times on ticket scalping
-The AV Club interviewed Joe Pernice
-Beck still doesn’t believe in permalinks, but his cover of Velvet Underground’s “Heroin” is here
