I just got an RSS notification that my Muxtape had been updated. I thought this was strange, since I hadn’t, you know, updated it. So I went to look at it and, lo and behold, my playlist now comprises “Aim (with Stephen Jones) – Good Disease [Babybird does a Prince thing]” eight times in a [...]

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CAN’T TELL HIM NOTHING from kwest on Vimeo.No time to write anything substantive, but this is pretty funny. [Kanye’s Blog]

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Strong contender for the next Stuff White People Like.

(The video might not display in RSS readers—here’s the link.)

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[This post was spurred by this io9 piece about Kanye West and Daft Punk.]

There’s so much wrong about Kanye West’s performance at the Grammys last week. The awkward missing swears. The misogyny. The fact that Kanye essentially appropriates an incredibly awesome sample (Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger,” off of their amazing album, “Discovery”) wholecloth [...]

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First, this:

Then, this:

I love techno viking.

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I just preordered In Rainbows and opted to pay a total of three pounds, forty-five pence (including the sneaky credit card processing fee). I think that means I paid about seven bucks for the album, which I consider to be a fair price. But since I could have legitimately paid nothing for it (context: Radiohead [...]

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If you haven’t already seen this, expect to have it forwarded/linked to you a thousand times in the next week. It’s all pretty good, but the “you’re a little late” part is truly excellent.

[Table of Malcontents]

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I haven’t been listening to much new music lately (i.e., in the last 2 years), but I’m doing my best to turn that around. Mostly by listening to music that was a big deal six months ago, or new releases by artists who were up-and-coming five years ago.

I finally broke down and listened to Lily [...]

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