Culture Club - 7/9/09
Still catching up on things, but here’s a good batch of longer links from the last week or two.
Music
-Trent Reznor provides an interesting blueprint for up and coming bands
-A video interview with Peanut Butter Wolf
-From Pitchfork TV: Animal Collective’s P4k Festival set from last year and a highly entertaining documentary This is Jim Jones
-Kelefa Sanneh on Michael Jackson
-Sasha Frere-Jones on The Grates
Non-Music
-From New York Magazine: a feature on Bravo’s terrible new reality series NYC Prep and Sheelah Kolhatkar profiles Ruth Madoff
-From Slate: Farhad Manjoo ponders the motivation behind Google’s Chrome OS and Christopher Beam on porn screenwriting
-From Vanity Fair: this week’s MUST READ link is Todd Purdum’s profile of Sarah Palin, Michael Lewis is the best nonfiction writer alive (on AIG) and Michael Wolff writes about Politico’s rise to prominence in Washington
-From the New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell reviews Chris Anderson’s new book and discusses the culture of free content, Ryan Lizza profiles Sheila Barr, head of the FDIC
