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Save The Date
August 11-14. Watch this handy infomercial and have your mind blown. If you’re at work you may take the rest of the day off.
Got To Be Real
Look, I don’t care what you want to name your stupid song but there should come a time in the cycle of writing, recording, releasing and video-making where someone says, “Hey, wait, this title is way too iconic and automatically … Continue reading
Glastonbury ’72 or ‘Palooza ’11?
TopShop is trying to sell this hideously gross “festival wear” but the kids in America won’t go for this, will they? We know THE MAN can’t bust our music! Oh, wait, nevermind…
No More Sweating the Big Stuff
I always spend too much time thinking about what I want to do instead of actually trying several things until I find what I’m looking for. I’ll spend weeks thinking of pieces to finish and post here but many (hell, … Continue reading
A Nice Thin Light
A ridiculous amount of music from Sweden has made its way to these pages over the years. I’ve really got to start paying more deliberate attention to what’s happening over there instead of just stumbling across things. For example, how … Continue reading
Gimme An Hour
I had big plans this week (ok, small plans) to “recap” or “report” or whatever on SXSW but the truth is I did a lot of that already here, here, here and here and I don’t feel like going back … Continue reading
And I Won’t Take It Back
I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time. Actually, I started to do so before the beginning of the year, even, but I kept putting it off because I didn’t know which direction I wanted the narrative to … Continue reading
Well?
“And here he was ruined. The frantic praise of the impotent meant recognition—actual somewhereness–to the hipster. He got what he wanted; he stopped protesting, reacting. He began to bureaucratize jive as a machinery for securing the actual–really the false–somewhereness. Jive, … Continue reading
Throw Something This Way
I’ve been singing the praises of Atlanta’s Neon Christ for what seems like (well, it is, actually) about 25 years. A whole bunch of footage was shot during what was supposed to be the band’s final show back in February … Continue reading
You May Ask Yourself, Well, “How Did I Get Here?”
Traffic has always been steady, if not really overwhelming, here at 24hourpartypooper.com. I found out a couple of days ago that throughout the whole of last year there were 17,000 unique visitors here. Sure, that’s … Continue reading