The Zender Agenda

Live Music, New Releases: Cleveland, OH

May 20, 2013 10:50 pm
May 15, 2013 10:34 pm

Great Sin Fang piece.

May 12, 2013 3:02 pm

ezrafurman:

First song I ever released on an album. First song I ever played in a practice space with a band (the Harpoons). For the nth time: this song has nothing to do with my mom. It was written on this auspicious day of mothers, in high school, nine years ago I think. Call your mom.

How about I just text her?

May 8, 2013 2:38 pm
imwithkanye: The Making Of Macklemore | OUT How a straight white rapper from Seattle wrote hip-hop’s first gay anthem. “Each night is different — you never know,” Macklemore says [of “Same Love”]. “To see 6,500 people put their hands up in support of equality is a beautiful thing. It’s honestly been the highlight of touring.”

imwithkanye:

The Making Of Macklemore | OUT

How a straight white rapper from Seattle wrote hip-hop’s first gay anthem.

“Each night is different — you never know,” Macklemore says [of “Same Love”]. “To see 6,500 people put their hands up in support of equality is a beautiful thing. It’s honestly been the highlight of touring.”

May 5, 2013 8:40 pm
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April 26, 2013 1:44 pm
"The early days of MTV were all about epic narratives and the dazzle of rapid fire cuts, but the more my life and average workday starts to look like something out of Minority Report— constant clicks from browser tab to browser tab; imploring IMs and Gchats and email prompts— I have noticed a shift in what I consider to be a good music video. I still want to escape, but escaping looks different now. Maybe this is why a lot of my favorite videos from the past couple of years— Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”, Grimes’ “Oblivion”, Tyler the Creator’s “Yonkers”, Zebra Katz’ “Ima Read”, Beach House’s “Wishes”, Kanye West’s “Power”, Jessie Ware’s “Wildest Moments”, and of course Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies”— feel either suspended in slow motion or brazenly low-concept. Slow and simple becomes rebellious in a world that’s anything but."

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Lindsay Zoladz considers the past, present, and future of the music video in her latest Ordinary Machines column. (via pitchfork)

@recordneedle

1:43 pm
#recordshow this Sunday!

#recordshow this Sunday!

April 25, 2013 8:56 am
jimray: Twitter’s music app is beautiful, in that now-tiresome way apps from...

Insightful take.

jimray:

The Popular pane is useless to anyone over the age of 17. Emerging seems to simply be the inverse of Popular and is therefore equally hopeless. Swipe over to Suggested and we’re finally getting somewhere, save for the fact that the secret sauce of what makes an artist “suggested” is completely opaque. I have no idea what I should do to improve the algorithmic guidance or what the fuck @beth_orton is doing in there.

Tellingly, you can’t get to a musician’s tweets from within the app to decide whether you want to follow them based on the content of their stream, you’re just supposed to follow all of your favorite musicians and be in awe of their celebrity, I guess.

Thanks Daring Fireball

April 17, 2013 3:16 pm