@Discographies about.me discographiesontwitter@gmail.com Jam.Medallion.insert({"username":"Discographies"});Tumblr (3.0; @discographies)http://discographies.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/18d4d8d72a84dcd6fa038be90e440b24/tumblr_mklcy1enXz1qd3pbdo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><strong>While attempting to avoid getting any writing done today, I discovered that there are 125 one-star reviews of “Trout Mask Replica” on Amazon. (And then I read them.)</strong></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/46870293794http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/46870293794Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:47:41 -0400“12:45 A.M.: My Twitter feed right now consists entirely of dispatches from otherwise sensible friends who have come all the way to Austin to attend heavily hyped “secret gigs” by aging A-listers who are shamelessly utilizing SXSW as their own personal bottle of Grecian Formula. Look—I love Prince. I like Justin Timberlake. I tolerate Billy Corgan. But at this moment, in this place, these people are parasites and I refuse to enable them. They are draining audience members and media attention away from thousands of artists here who desperately need both. I find many aspects of SXSW absurd, but I want it to thrive, and the ever-increasing presence of established superstars is a serious threat to its biodiversity. End of sermon.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>— <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/sxsw-diary-part-four.html?mobify=0">The legendary @Discographies vents as part of said person’s SXSW coverage.</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/">nedraggett</a>)</p> <p><strong>Some sets @discographies also attended: (tried to see but missed set time for) Kendrick Lamar, Nick Cave, a Warner Bros. showcase, a Paul Oakenfold d.j. set. </strong></p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://etc.jessicasuarez.com/">jessicasuarez</a>)</p> <p>Jessica,</p> <p>I never said: “don’t go to showcases by artists who record for major labels.” I merely stated—rather clearly, I thought—that the accelerating trend of superstars using SXSW as a promo tool takes audiences and potential media exposure away from the non-superstars that the festival was designed to showcase in the first place. </p> <p>Since you, an MTV employee, appear to believe that my having attended a Paul Oakenfold DJ set, a Warner showcase and a Nick Cave Q&A has compromised my ability to speak on these issues, perhaps some context is in order. Here is a list of every act I saw at SXSW from Tuesday afternoon through Saturday evening:</p> <div> <ul><li>Action Bronson</li> <li>Angel Haze</li> <li>Austra</li> <li>Autre Ne Veut</li> <li>Autosalvage</li> <li>Bajofondo</li> <li>Devendra Banhart</li> <li>The Besnard Lakes</li> <li>The Blank Tapes</li> <li>Blue Hawaii</li> <li>Boy + Kite</li> <li>Brooke Candy</li> <li>The Bug</li> <li>Charli XCX</li> <li>Chelsea Light Moving</li> <li>CHVRCHES</li> <li>Dawes</li> <li>Delorean</li> <li>Mac Demarco</li> <li>Disclosure</li> <li>DIIV</li> <li>Ducktails</li> <li>Mary Epworth </li> <li>Follakzoid</li> <li>Foxygen</li> <li>Free Energy</li> <li>Jacco Gardner</li> <li>The Geeks</li> <li>Lisa Germano</li> <li>Robyn Hitchcock</li> <li>Kelly Hogan</li> <li>The Holydrug Couple</li> <li>Kitty (Kitty Pryde)</li> <li>IO Echo</li> <li>Zebra Katz</li> <li>Elle King</li> <li>Jim Lauderdale & Buddy Miller</li> <li>The Legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section</li> <li>Linus Pauling Quartet</li> <li>No Ceremony///</li> <li>The Orwells</li> <li>Palma Violets</li> <li>Paul Oakenfold</li> <li>Parenthetical Girls</li> <li>Pictureplane</li> <li>Ratking</li> <li>RDGLDGRN</li> <li>RiFF RaFF</li> <li>Savages</li> <li>Shit and Shine</li> <li>Sirah</li> <li>Smoke DZA</li> <li>Marnie Stern</li> <li>Survive</li> <li>Syd Arthur</li> <li>Harry Taussig</li> <li>Tha Kid Dakota</li> <li>The Thermals</li> <li>Thee Oh Sees</li> <li>Shonna Tucker</li> <li>Warm Soda</li> <li>Wheeler Brothers</li> <li>White Lung</li> <li>Widowspeak</li> <li>William Tyler</li> <li>Xeno & Oaklander</li> <li>Youngblood Hawke</li> </ul></div> <div></div> <p>There might be half a dozen artists on that list who are signed to major labels in 2013. </p> <p>I saw nine performances on Saturday night.  If I had attended the Justin Timberlake gig, I would have seen…Justin Timberlake.  That’s a serious opportunity cost.  Which is kind of my point.</p></em>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/45845791932http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/45845791932Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:00:02 -0400“12:45 A.M.: My Twitter feed right now consists entirely of dispatches from otherwise sensible friends who have come all the way to Austin to attend heavily hyped “secret gigs” by aging A-listers who are shamelessly utilizing SXSW as their own personal bottle of Grecian Formula. Look—I love Prince. I like Justin Timberlake. I tolerate Billy Corgan. But at this moment, in this place, these people are parasites and I refuse to enable them. They are draining audience members and media attention away from thousands of artists here who desperately need both. I find many aspects of SXSW absurd, but I want it to thrive, and the ever-increasing presence of established superstars is a serious threat to its biodiversity. End of sermon.”<br/><br/> - <em> <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/sxsw-diary-part-four.html?mobify=0">The legendary @Discographies vents as part of said person’s SXSW coverage.</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/">nedraggett</a>)</em>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/45674489296http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/45674489296Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:56:41 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7c1746bbed8128ad634892f6be2ea942/tumblr_mjto2jXhDd1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>So I went to SXSW…</strong></p> <p>…and I wrote this diary:</p> <p><strong><br/></strong><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/sxsw-diary.html">Part One</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/sxsw-diary-part-two.html">Part Two</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/sxsw-diary-part-three.html">Part Three</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/sxsw-diary-part-four.html">Part Four</a></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/45614290643http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/45614290643Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:43:27 -0400sxswexhaustionaching feetBilly Corgan<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/04245cb264a94eff91c170663e27cfba/tumblr_mjd016NyTM1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Yes, I’m going back to SXSW.</strong></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/44879888995http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/44879888995Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:40:17 -0500“Why are we letting geek-defined Darwinism (and the destructive hypercapitalism that comes with it) take over every goddamn aspect of culture?”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://maura.tumblr.com/post/35768813801/six-reasons-why-if-you-want-to-get-paid-for-music-you">@maura</a>, of course.</em>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/35856166474http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/35856166474Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:06:42 -0500sentences I wish I had written<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbld5jShrz1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Excerpt from work in progress.</b></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/33181478123http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/33181478123Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:36:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mao0mn0O3s1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Excerpt from work in progress.</strong></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/31937621480http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/31937621480Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:24:08 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maj2osUPNg1qd3pbdo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/31779850377http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/31779850377Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:20:26 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma96nlSe841qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Excerpt from work in progress.</strong></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/31413981232http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/31413981232Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:10:18 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma56joq8ke1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Excerpt from work in progress.</strong></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/31279004718http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/31279004718Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:10:57 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ufbknhqJ1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Excerpt from work in progress. </strong></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/30887574941http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/30887574941Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:55:06 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9srtyDi4R1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Dunno about you, but my favorite color has always been “zowie.”</b></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/30873243519http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/30873243519Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:04:09 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9jib9KHJS1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Excerpt from work in progress.</strong></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/30536782375http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/30536782375Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:12:43 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8rda0nW6n1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tumblr.oystermag.com/">Oyster Magazine</a> asked me to contribute something involving the word “dream” to their <a href="http://oystermag.com/oyster-100-on-sale-tomorrow">100th issue</a>. This is what I sent them.</p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/29492217387http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/29492217387Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:19:52 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3aqhnaNe91qf5y35o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <p><strong>15%  Arcane, dandified Wes Andersonian quaintness</strong></p> <p><strong>[“I think I have too many interests. I mean, people will come to my house and say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you collected scissors, Jack.’”]</strong></p> <p><strong>13% Non-Hawaiian-shirted caucasian blues-rock revisionism</strong></p> <p><strong>13% Colonial Williamsburg-ish living-history-museum docentism</strong></p> <p><strong>11% <a href="http://bit.ly/Kh8vvk">Theda Bara</a></strong></p> <p><strong>10% Authentic inauthenticity</strong></p> <p><strong>[“The quote unquote ‘Real Jack White’ has always been there, only if the viewer, the listener, can get past all the stuff that shouldn’t bother them to begin with.”]</strong></p> <p><strong>10% Unreliable narration</strong></p> <p><strong>[“Art is the biggest fabrication…I mean, I don’t want to see a regular guy walk out on stage. Fuck that! Imagine how disappointed you’d be if Michelangelo was just a normal guy. I don’t want to know that. Do you?”]</strong></p> <p><strong>10% Evasive dissembling</strong></p> <p><strong>[“Nobody knows, I don’t know, the band doesn’t know, the fans don’t know, the press don’t know, nobody knows what’s going to happen.”]</strong></p> <p><strong>7% <a href="http://bit.ly/IeLyuR">Wonka-esque glow-in-the-dark, liquid-filled, laser-etched, peach-scented and balloon-delivered records</a></strong></p> <p><strong>[“What some people call a gimmick, others will call art.”]</strong></p> <p><strong>5% Hyphephilia</strong></p> <p><strong>[We did a record with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and I asked her about the settee she always sits on — that famous couch. I said, “Man, I’d really, really love to upholster that thing for you.”]</strong></p> <p><strong>3% Jay-Z envy</strong></p> <p><strong>[“I’m jealous of things that Jay-Z can say that I can’t say…Jay-Z can go on record and say what a great rapper he is. If I go on record and say what a great guitar player I am…come on!”]</strong></p> <p><strong>2% “Setting Limits With Your Strong-Willed Child” by Robert J. Mackenzie</strong></p> <p><strong>[“’[Sixteen] Saltines’ came from my daughter. I was working on a song and she asked me for a snack. I said, ‘What do you want’ and she said, ‘I think I’ll have 16 saltine crackers. I said, ‘I think you’ll have three!’”]</strong></p> <p><strong>1%  Cyan, magenta, yellow and black</strong></p> </div> </div>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/22134991247http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/22134991247Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:03:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0xwnjfyNS1qd3pbdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/discographies-sxsw-diary-day-one-20120315">My SXSW 2012 Diary, Part One:</a> “Fuck you, Miike Snow.”  (via <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com">Rolling Stone</a>)</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/discographies-sxsw-diary-day-two-20120316">My SXSW 2012 Diary, Part Two</a>: “We’ve put our delicious wine into a convenient pouch!”</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/discographies-sxsw-diary-day-three-20120317">My SXSW 2012 Diary, Part Three</a>: “A guy with a rat on his head juggling hacky-sack balls”</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/discographies-sxsw-diary-day-four-20120318">My SXSW 2012 Diary, Part Four</a>: “It’s like the third act of a Michael Bay movie out here.”</strong></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/19353185538http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/19353185538Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:02:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s9celH0I1qf5y35o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span"><strong>17%  Nuanced depictions of America destined to be <a href="http://depletedcranium.com/CeaseDesist.gif">misused by right-wing politicians</a></strong><br/><br/><strong>17%  Nostalgic evocations of pre-Snooki Jersey Shore pride</strong><br/><br/><strong>15%  Folk anthems, murder ballads and rousing sea shanties coated in thick, Spectorian goo</strong><br/><br/><strong><a href="http://bit.ly/z47uIq">13%  Lengthy, Cialis-y performances</a></strong><br/><br/><strong>11%  Semi-simulated working class heroism</strong><br/><em>“At night when I’m sleeping in my big house, it’s killing me. It’s a rough life, it’s a brutal life! The rock music business: brutal, brutal, brutal.”</em><br/><br/><strong>9%  That one dude who used to sit in back of biology class drawing hot rods</strong><br/><br/><strong>7%  <a href="http://cdn1.ticketsinventory.com/images/last_photos/concert/B/bruce-springsteen/bruce-springsteen_show_2011_1705.png">Facial contortions connoting earnestness and/or sciatica</a></strong><br/><br/><strong>5%  Oprah-esque ability to reduce middle-aged men to tears</strong><br/><br/><strong>3%  Sweat-soaked bandannas</strong><br/><br/><strong>2%  Occasional curiosity about who this Skrillex guy is</strong><br/><br/><strong>1%  Knowing who’s really Boss</strong><br/><em>“Obama can sing. Did you see that? [Sings falsetto:] ‘Let’s stay together.’ I can’t do it. He’s better than me!”</em></span></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/19221576033http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/19221576033Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:05:45 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0fbhaTa2b1qf5y35o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span"><strong>15%  <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22552128/xtina.png">Chuck Yeager-ish four-octave loop-de-loops, Immelmans and whifferdills</a></strong><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22552128/xtina.png"><br/></a><br/><strong>14%  Ululating, energy-inefficient, no-oh-oh-o-o-</strong><br/><br/><strong>14%  -o-o-o-OHH-o-o-WHOA-o-o-o-OHH-o-o-o-te-bending vocalese</strong><br/><br/><strong>12%  Blind items, rumors and disgruntled former employees</strong><br/><a href="http://hollywoodite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Christina-Aguilera-Drunk-Star-Magazine-Photo-1.jpg"><em>“At this point, you could throw anything at me, and it’s not going to stick.”</em></a><br/><br/><strong>12%  Foul-ups, bleeps and blunders</strong><br/><em>“I just made myself a Trivial Pursuit question: ‘In 2011, what female singer flubbed the lyrics [to ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’]?’ ”</em><br/><br/><strong>8%  Carroty, Kardashian-y spray tan</strong><br/><br/><strong>7%  Repressed showbiz-kid trauma</strong><br/><em>“Do we even remember who I lost to [on ‘Star Search’]?”</em><br/><br/><strong>5% <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22552128/xtinabutton.png">Button-pushing</a></strong><br/><br/><strong>5%  Pushing buttons</strong><br/><em>“If she busts my balls, I’ll bust hers.” – Adam Levine</em><br/><br/><strong>4%  A copy of “Call Her Miss Ross” by J. Randy Taraborrelli</strong><br/><em>“Hello?  Do you know who you’re talking to? I’m a female, I’m very assertive … and I’m known for being sort of a powerhouse vocalist — and I’m sorry, but a great vocalist in my time — so you do get pigeonholed and titled ‘diva.’ ”</em><br/><br/><strong>3%  Development deal for<a href="http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Posters/W/Poster%E2%80%93Whatever%20Happened%20to%20Baby%20Jane_08.jpg"> “What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?”</a> remake with Kelly Osbourne</strong><br/><em>“She called me fat for so many f***ing years. So you know what? F*** you! You’re fat, too.” – Kelly Osbourne</em><br/><br/><strong>1%  Awareness that genies are not the only things that come in bottles</strong></span></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/18798398510http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/18798398510Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:44:08 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzp7klqYnX1qf5y35o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span><strong>17% Tanned-rested-and-ready neo-Nixonian comeback strategy</strong><br/><em>“It’s sort of a thankless job sometimes.”</em><br/><br/><strong>16%  Gyroscopically-stabilized avoidance of boat-rocking</strong><br/>“He’s not controversial. Most comics would try and do something shocking, but he knows what it’s all about … he wouldn’t do something that would embarrass the academy. Eddie, Whoopi — they’d have been edgier.” <em>– Paul Rodriguez</em><br/><br/><strong>15%  Hammy, <em>hey-look-at-me-everybody!</em> camera mugging</strong><br/><em>“Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.”</em><br/><br/><strong>14%  Telecast-bloating set pieces featuring Uggie the dog, pantomime horses, fake tattoos, Berle-esque cross-dressing and the allegedly-comical mispronunciation of French people’s names</strong><br/><em>“You know, there’s that traditional medley with all the names of the nominated pictures all put into one kinda crummy kinda song.”</em><br/><br/><strong>12%  Erroneous belief than audiences crave Sammy Davis Jr impersonations</strong><br/><em>“I’m comfortable being old … being black … being Jewish.”</em><br/><br/><strong>9%  <a href="http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/Slides/AlJolsonStatue.JPG">Jolson-y genuflection</a></strong><br/><br/><strong>7%  <a href="http://991.com/newGallery/Billy-Crystal-You-Look-Marvelou-524011.jpg">Callbacks to old “SNL” sketches</a></strong><br/><br/><strong>5%  Hush-hush plans for Pixar-driven Jack Palance exhumation</strong><br/><br/><strong>4%  A 1954 George Jessel speech to the Rotary Club of Winnetka, Ill.</strong><br/><br/><strong>1%  Creeping fear that rhyming “Rooney” and “George Clooney” may not live up to 2004 “brisket”/“Seabiscuit” triumph</strong><br/></span></p>http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/17971896067http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/17971896067Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:27:00 -0500