Wednesday, December 23, 2009
If the 80s and 90s saw music fragmenting into hundreds of tiny subcultures the 00s offered a way out – in part by destroying the very music industry machinery that encouraged such fragmentation. File sharing may have killed music but it also saved it by letting people hear thousands of songs they never would have [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The decade that’s ending has the ignominy of following the 1990’s, an era that will be looked back on as a creative peak rivaling the 1970’s for cinema. This is not to say the 00’s sucked as there were some great films and wonderful talents that emerged all over the world.
Pixar proved that the Toy [...]
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Thursday, December 23, 1999
25.Black Francis – Bluefinger
Reviving the Pixies seemed to re-spark a hunger for Black Francis (aka Frank Black) so much so that he reverted to his previous moniker and dropped a blazing solo record that was the equal of his best work solo or otherwise. This is no Pixies self-imitation though – Black uses all the [...]
Thursday, December 23, 1999
50. Girls – Album
Girls marvelous debut album is reminiscent of Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted in how it transmutes standard indie sounds into something irresistibly their own through sheer talent and force of will.
49. Outkast – Stankonia
Outkast spent much of the decade bidding to be the new Prince, or at least Andre 3000 did. They nearly [...]
Thursday, December 23, 1999
75. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Working with Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann initially tagged these Brooklyn dwellers with a junior vibe to the venerable Oklahoma City band. The slow-building success of this album and the audaciousness of the songs inside though proved that MGMT were doing their own thang – from the 80s pop sounds of [...]
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