Culture Club - 7.28.09
An FYI: Culture Club posts will now be primarily music links, with only a link or two to the most interesting non-music content I’ve come across. I pass along all sorts of other good stuff on Twitter. Follow me here. To the links!
-Sasha Frere-Jones is writing a short MJ book
-Funny series over at Chicago Public Radio: helping bands fix their Wikipedia entries
-Judging from the trailer, Tron looks exactly like the sort of thing Daft Punk would be involved with
-Wire has a solid interview with Madlib in this month’s issue
-Slates Jonah Weiner on the dying music magazine genre
-The Guardian on the dearth of female A&R people
-On NPR’s All Songs Considered: Bob Boilen discusses the Pitchfork Festival with Jacob Ganz and the readers pick their favorite songs of the first half of 2009
-The top 10 songs brought back by social media and the web
-The AV Club’s Hater on Chris Brown’s apology
-The Fader talks with Stricken City
-The LA Times profiles Elly Jackson of La Roux
-At Rawk Blog: the most anticipated releases still to come in 2009
-Pop Justice talks with Swedish uber-producer Max Martin (of Britney and Backstreet fame) about the band, Carolina Liar, he’s been working with. With any luck, I’ll see Carolina Liar next weekend at All Points West and will be able to report back on Martin’s work
Non-Music Links: Finally, legendary New York artist Dash Snow passed away a few weeks back; Ryan McGinley eulogized Snow at Vice and Tiny Vices has a large collection of his work
