hell yeah

[caardamoom]

i cracked the code

[disease]

STEPHEN SHORE / “LOU REED” / 1965-67

[zegalba]

SONY WALKMAN portable media player showcase (1979-2010)

[caardamoom]

recycling after rainstorm

[nobrashfestivity]

Shigeko Kubota Flux Napkins1967

[pawgliacci]

Noise Laboratories: Recombinant Visual Design and Presentation

check out this website last updated before a lot tumblr users were born

[beggars-opera]

One very important note on the immense value of the Internet Archive that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

It crawls major newspapers like the New York Times multiple times per day.

For anything other than one of those scrolling updates breaking news pages, you can access it from the Archive usually within an hour or two of it being published. No paywall. You want international news? You got it. Opinion? That too. Recipes? It's all here. Page not yet archived? There's a button for that and now you got it.

There are various paywall-evading extensions and tricks out there, but they don't always work. This does.

Go forth and read the newspaper.

[caardamoom]

Actually stupid how hard this goes. One of the best tracks I've seen come from the slowcore revivalists, and I have listened to a fucking lot of them. Those quick kick drums (almost breakbeat vibes) and deep-fried guitars help avoid the duster/alex g copycat realm (purgatory for any gen-z slowcore act). Menacing and sad and wonderful — very very good and cool.

The rest of the album kicks ass too. Shoutout to Unrecovery.

[caardamoom]

New oldstar absolutely rips. lo fi slow core fuzzy grainy depressing songs.

ffo: songs ohia / mj lenderman.

[vintageeveryday]

In Goldfield, Nevada there is a grave for an unknown man who died eating library paste in 1908. Read more of the story here...

[doppelgender]

pitchfork 7.1 review: he reinvents the genre with a fresh new collection of fun and exciting tracks

pitchfork 6.9 review: he probably should have died instead of releasing this

[gr1mmweeper]

cats smoking cigarettes

[matrixonvhsanddvd]

i like when a band is just a bunch of teenagers being stupid on bandcamp

[caardamoom]

excellent genre of music

[caardamoom]

pro tip: establish dominance at the record store by asking them where they keep the cassettes.

[caardamoom]

just a solitary man dining in a mid-tier asian fusion restaurant in prague.

[gnetophyte]

i miss when you could make political art without placing personal identity (and the self) at the center of everything

[gnetophyte]

this piece (“artist bio” by anna daliza) sort of perfectly sums it up. the emphasis on identity politics and tokenization in art/music/performance spaces feels reductive and exploitative- like it offers a sort of racial tourism for the wealthy white patrons. none of what im saying are original thoughts btw go see White by james ijames

[nobrashfestivity]

Lots of people arguing about this but I would say that while background and history can add interest and context to art, one also has to ask if you like a work of art, what does it matter if you know anything about the artist? 

This is very modern conceit and it absolutely does influence galleries and patrons while saying nothing about the quality of the art itself. I don’t feel it is against anyone or their identity to point out that the identity is not the art itself.

Mark Rothko was over this by 1950, when he was asked to write two self-statements and said,  “I have nothing to say in words which I would stand for. I am heartily ashamed of the things I have written in the past. This self-statement business has become a fad this season.” 

In his case, Rothko trusted the communication between the art and the observer to do the job and worked hard to make sure there were no preconceived notions about the work at all, which is why he did not title his paintings.

I don’t generally reblog anything but I think whatever you think of this art itself, it’s good to ask question about what’s influencing you to like to dislike it.

[caardamoom]

Stalker #5

A 90’s zine entirely dedicated to directing hatred towards Chicago AOR lame-o’s Urge Overkill.