Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
After last week’s brouhaha about bloggers as reviewers, Matthew Shaer has an excellent article over at Slate about music review site Pitchfork subtitled “The indie music site that everyone loves to hate”. A Music Slut editor quoted in the article outlines Pitchfork’s review policy thus:
“Pitchfork purposely waits to review an album […]
If you do one thing…
Tonight: Go and see Juana Molina in Crawdaddy tonight. Her album Son is one of my favourites of the year (it made my mid-year ‘Best of’ list. The best way to sum it up is “like imagining Astrid ‘Girl From Ipanema’ Gilberto tinkering about with keyboards and samplers” and you can […]
Speaking of web reviewers, Pitchfork reviewer Mark Hogan doesn’t like Damien Rice’s new album. (1.9 is one of the lowest scores I’ve ever seen on the site in all the time I’ve been reading it). Rice and his work are mentioned in the same sentences as OJ Simpson, The Passion of the Christ and […]
The Guardian book blog has revealed this riveting literary weirdness spawned by Sunday Telegraph critic John Sutherland’s criticism of online reviewers.
Round 1: Back and forth hair-pulling on Amazon about Victoria Glendinning’s biography of Leonard Woolf.
Round 2: Sutherland writing in the Telegraph about how Amazon reviewers and bloggers only review for freebies and because […]
A couple of weeks ago, Damien asked people to write something about 10 minutes of their life they’d like to relive again. Time was a factor for me, but when I thought about it, wouldn’t most of those moments be too personal? Putting the personal stuff aside, what could you focus on? Meeting Nick Cave […]
According to Pitchfork, The Sugarcubes played their first gig for 14 years in ReykjavÃk last Friday. All proceeds went to Smekkleysa, a quirky non-profit record label that also publishes poetry and cards.
I wouldn’t have believed it myself where it not for those luminous photos by Leo Stefansson.
Just as countless Sugarcubes fans (me […]
Didn’t have time to blog last week but one discussion - this old chestnut did catch my eye. After Damien suggested collating a list of “expert bloggers” (a blogger database type of thing) should the fourth estate require any of them to offer their two cents on a given topic, Eireprenuer took it upon himself […]
Want to hear the new Jarvis album? Well you can. And ALL of it, if you head over to Mr. Cocker’s myspace page. It’s streaming non-stop so you’ll have to either find an hour to sit back and enjoy it or do the sensible, impatient thing and just buy it.
… in bullet points (I’m time poor, honest)
*Neil hannon is a genius - why don’t more people like him? Ok, lots of people do, but very few people I know do. Ah fickle youth; too busy off listening to CSS and Spankrock…
*I went with my bro who tells me that Neil Hannon seems to mix […]
Various reasons for this post include:
a) Canadian band Metric play Spirit tonight. Rather liked their second album Live it Out which was released over the summer. Emily Haines has an amazing voice and chips in occasional vocals to Broken Social Scene, finding time to release a very fine solo album, Knives Don’t Have Your […]
Last month at the Leonard Cohen ‘Came So Far For Beauty’ gig, the crowd’s response to Mary Margaret O’Hara was somewhere between bewilderment and hostility. Sure, she’s not everyone’s bag of apples but it was a surprise to hear Damien dub her a “fucking screeching zombie”. I didn’t agree with his assessment, but it’s […]
Further to yesterday’s post about writing and blogging, The Guardian book blog shares its 30-point guide on “How not to Write a Novel”. Some of the points might just prove my displacement theory: “Watch some music videos, nay, watch every single music video in Yahoo!’s online music library (approximately 5000)” and “Install broadband on your […]