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96 Tiers
I love a lot of bad music. Well maybe not bad, but definitely unspectacular. In the same way that the
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Yancey Strickler is the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and Cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent.
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Taxonomy of a Top Ten
01 The Consensus Pick
The first choice sets the tone for the entire list. A critic can either go for
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File Under: Remember when Republicans didn’t mind Hitler?
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"Baby's on Fire"
Over the past two days I have done nothing but listen to four different versions of a song called “Baby’
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"Under Control," The Strokes
In his current New Yorker article on the Clash, Sasha Frere-Jones perfectly pinpoints a sensation that I often search for
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Rough Guide to the Fall
01 “That Man” (The Legendary Chaos Tape)
02 “Living Too Late” (Bend Sinister)
03 “Janet Vs Johnny” (The Real New
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"The Partisan," Leonard Cohen and "Tezeta," Mahmoud Ahmed
There are pop songs for war and there are pop songs against war, but there are few pop songs about
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Rough Guide to Pavement
A couple of years ago I decided to narrow down the entire Pavement catalogue into my twenty favorites songs, and
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The Wire (Season 3)
Last night the third season of the best show on television, HBO’s The Wire, began. The Wire is a
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Rough Guide to DFA
DFA is a NYC-based production outfit/record label lead by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy. The duo’s first production
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Interview: Clinic
My first big piece of writing for an amazing publication at the time: neumu. This is a long interview and
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The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
My first piece of published writing. It ran on Pitchfork. I sent it to them on spec. It was an
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