james toth
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How cool was Dr. Nina Simone? Cool enough to make even Nick Cave look a bit dorky in her presence
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Bandcamp gutted; dwindling engagement on social media platforms; Spotify, Live Nation, AI continue to dominate. Print media and the Humanities in peril. Half my friends are probably walking around with Eras Tour ticket stubs still in their pockets. Something's gotta give, yall
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"we don't need music journalism"
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one thing I miss about the 90s is bands populated by people who looked like members of your high school chess club who would have a song with a title like “Benadryl” or something and it’d be like the heaviest thing you ever heard
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Remember way back in 2024 when you guys all went bananas over Cindy Lee for like three days
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In conclusion: Let the pop stars have their vinyls; the CD can be the format of the PEOPLE. All you have to do is simply acknowledge that you were wrong about CDs, and we can usher in a new golden age for artists and fans alike. Thank you for your time. [4/4]
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artists who do not have the energy, the stomach, or the self-loathing required to attempt to "game the algorithm" to promote music, secure work, or amass enough followers on social media to be in contention for 9pt font festival slots that pay $200, unite
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When someone of this stature dies, I’m reluctant to express public grief unless that person was a friend. Anything I might write will be said more eloquently in the coming days. I will say this: our lives as listeners would be a lot different--and poorer--if not for Steve Albini.
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Me: “Oh, cool, an ECM artist I like just announced tour dates!”
The dates:
9.3 Haasauhaagenhaachen, Lbjewskwaana
10.3 Jhusaauuii, Aaraakkuuiii-Meurhdëm
11.3 Tónlistarklúbbur, Uppinköpingaahhkk
12.3 Kærlighed Suvræn, GorkeulhzenhtGreifenesse
13.3 Ylin Rakkaus, Lyväskyläpeenranta
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remember when you just assumed that bands appearing on split 7"s were, like, best buds that hung out all the time?
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20s: let's try snorting it
40s: are you sure this is decaf
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No one ever talks about my favorite (and also the best) Springsteen record
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@MisterLies
Streaming is what buried us, the pandemic merely put nails in the coffin. Maybe this sounds harsh, but I'd wager that most of the fans wringing their hands over these posts by Animal Collective, Santigold, Arooj Aftab et al are more complicit than they would like to believe
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Happy birthday to my favorite sister, The Boo: true outsider artist and one of my earliest and most fearless musical collaborators. I can hardly believe this little herb is 35 years old today!
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In case any of you were worried that my days of living a reckless, dangerous rock and roll lifestyle were behind me, I just removed the 9v battery from our smoke detector to power my Big Muff
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PSA: We could solve all this tomorrow if only artists and fans would mutually agree that 1) the only good vinyl is old vinyl and 2) CDs are now the best and most practical format for physical media. [1/4]
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Making music to upload to Bandcamp to have Paypal funds to buy music on Bandcamp
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“How about a little outrage, music fans? We need your help, because we artists and labels at the low end of the scale have absolutely no negotiating power with Spotify, which dominates music streaming in much the same way that Amazon dominates online retail.”
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13: let’s take mescaline and jump off that big rock
43: the music's too loud in this Walgreens, I’m gonna go wait in the car
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gonna write a dis track about all the artists featured on What's In My Bag who went all the way to Amoeba just to recommend Nirvana and Pink Floyd albums
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Best news!!
"I was informed Thursday, March 14, 2024, that all the charges against me were dismissed. I want to thank you all for the part you played in this outcome. I'll try writing again once this news sinks in a little bit."
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If the credits say “no-input mixer, prepared ride cymbal, and Juno 106, recorded live to a Fostex 240” but the album cover is like a sepia-toned photo of a decrepit solitary barn in some big ass cornfield, I’m buying that record every time
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What’s your favorite part of the music documentary?
--when they just threw out the rulebook, man
--when they knew right away, from the first chord
--when everyone in that small club just looked at each other and knew they had experienced something magical
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today's possibly controversial opinion: no one needs to see live music and eat a meal at the same time
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Big announcement: Ben Chasny, Donovan Quinn and I have been working in secret for nearly two years on a print zine called HEAD VOICE. The first issue (pictured here) will finally be available this
@bandcamp
Friday. More details soon. Watch this space!
@dragcityrecords
@6organs
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This isn't what I meant
R.I.P., Sister Sinead
xoxo
I’m happy 2022 was Kate Bush’s year but let’s make 2023 all about Sinead
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it's a rather astonishing feat to commit three factual errors in a single sentence
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my kink: people who still own at least one device capable of playing DVDs and CDs
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you guys realize you can literally listen to anything you want, right? Like anything in the world
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I hate tweeting stuff like this, but in the PAST YEAR ALONE alone, my wife and I have lost a shocking and incomprehensible FIVE friends to suicide.
I know everything is fucked for everyone right now, but please remember to check in on your irl friends.
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my contribution to the "perfect album that came out when you were 16" discourse
btw--it still rules. I've also yet to hear an album with a better opening lyric than
"Your eyes like crashing jets
Fixed in stained glass but not religious"
your *EYES* like *CRASHING JETS*!!
perfect album that came out when you were 16
i feel like i could dig for some more obscure cut but i don’t think anything can top this little number
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Some people are reacting to this as if I’m throwing shade at this record. I’m not—I haven’t heard it (yet?), but people I respect love it. I was merely commenting on the 15-second lifecycle of hype in the so-called attention economy and the fact that we've all become hummingbirds
Remember way back in 2024 when you guys all went bananas over Cindy Lee for like three days
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The thing the Terminator movies got wrong is that they didn't account for a worrying number of humans rooting for Skynet
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songwriters: what's stopping you from taking a cue from sitcom theme songs of the 70s and 80s and cramming four key changes into a 30 second piece of catchy and memorable music
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Found some old photos of my late friend Jack Rose while going through old boxes recently. 11 years gone today. Few people have left a bigger impression on me and I still think about--and quote!--him very often. A giant with a giant heart gone way too soon.
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Old enough to remember when no one asked or expected you to remove the LP from its sleeve before shipping a record
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“criminally underrated” = won’t recoup costs
“perennially overlooked” = will bankrupt your venue / label
“cult figure” = see: potter’s field
“a ‘songwriter’s songwriter’” = plasma for sale
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every spiritual jazz reissue:
3 minutes in: oh, this is incredible, I simply must locate an original copy at any cost, AT ANY COST you understand, I wonder how much I can get for some of my plasma
7 minutes in (vocals begin): no no no no no no
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Taking nothing away from artists still performing and recording into their 90s, I’m increasingly more impressed by artists who are still in the game throughout their 40s and 50s. It’s a long and often lonely half-century wilderness between “next big thing” and “venerated legend”
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@Komaniecki_R
so-called poptimism was an overcorrection that has ultimately set music criticism back 100 years
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Between November and May everyone in Wisconsin dresses like they’ve at some point been a touring member of Built To Spill
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I liked Peter Brotzmann’s music the first time I heard it, but watching him perform live forced me to recognize the degree to which I had been misunderstanding it. 1/2
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Proud to have contributed to this cover story for the August 2020 issue of
@thewiremagazine
, and even prouder to have written about one of my favorite living guitarists and personal heroes, my friend Marisa Anderson. On sale now!
@Marisamusic
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This is BY FAR the best and most surprising birthday gift I've ever received. I am moved, stunned, and overwhelmed. Speechless, actually (a first!). Thank you to
@6organs
,
@threelobed
,
@thescrvnr
,
@aquadrunkard
, and everyone who contributed. You are all just wonderful.
On the occasion of
@jimmyjacktoth
’s birthday, our first Lagniappe SuperSession, featuring 33 incredible artists setting controls for the heart of the Toth Zone. |
@3lobed
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hey just one man's opinion but I'd rather listen to an asmr recording of Donald Fagen slurping soup and making involuntary old man nose-and-mouth noises than anything Albini has ever released
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Not to brag, but I *may* have heard some of this upcoming
@6organs
record, and I highly recommend you add it to the very top of your want list, because it will very likely be your favorite album of 2024
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If I’m going to spend money to travel I’m taking my wife to New Orleans to eat divinity and get drunk on a balcony, I’m not gonna cram into a rented Ford 350 with five unwashed dudes to play for the door in Ft Worth on a Tuesday and hope someone will pay for merch in adderall
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My sister, The Boo, is learning to play the drums. Yesterday she invited me to a private concert, via zoom, to show off her progress. I love the way her expression in these screenshots oscillates between total concentration and pure joy.
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I have nothing to say about the Pitchfork thing that others here haven't already said, but however you feel about the site, know that this is a terrible blow to (all) music journalism and the artists that rely on it for support. SOLIDARITY
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making music = easy
summoning the energy to drag out all the cables, batteries, (correct) adaptors, pedals, mic stands, and instruments = very difficult
envious of those of you with dedicated home studios large enough to have everything at the ready at all times
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I’ll write a proper response via a [public] Patreon post next week, and shout out everyone individually via posts on what will probably be a very long Twitter thread, once I have time to listen and process the sheer magnitude of this thing. But seriously, omg. Best day.
On the occasion of
@jimmyjacktoth
’s birthday, our first Lagniappe SuperSession, featuring 33 incredible artists setting controls for the heart of the Toth Zone. |
@3lobed
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@bobbker
Yes. Communities have also moved online, which is nice and all but a poor substitute for a healthy and supportive local scene
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The fictional character I wanted to be as a child, vs. the one I turned out to be.
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I think I have a few too many followers, so I'm just gonna come out and proclaim that I think Les Rallizes Denudes are just sorta ok
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2023 means knowing that no PR company in the world could ever secure more press coverage for my record than if I simply logged in here on release day and challenged Kozelek to a knife fight
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I recommend revisiting music that was ubiquitous enough to ignore or at least take for granted in your youth. Example: I'd been hearing Jerry Lee Lewis and Sade songs my entire life but when I decided several years ago to really *listen,* as if for the first time, holy hell, yall
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Some heavy Dark Magus / Agharta / Pangaea vibes on this new live Can thing
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My self-help book will simply be titled “Listen To More B-52’s” and will be a hollowed out bible with a Wild Planet-loaded Walkman inside
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If psych folk dis tracks ever become a thing I'm gonna body some of you motherfuckers
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Happy "Trick a Krautrock Snob Into Liking A Dollar Bin Mike Oldfield or Steve Hillage Record By Telling Him It's Manuel Gottsching" Day
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Welcome to 2023, where every single storefront that used to house a cool book store, video store, record store, thrift store, comic shop, or skate shop now appears to exclusively exist to sell cellphones and cellphone accessories for some reason
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"Sorry, young punk band, but we couldn't possibly have your LPs ready in time for your tour because we've been working round the clock to press Jim Gaffigan's 'Jokes About Pop Tarts Vol. IV' 3xLP box set in time for RSD"
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Next year, in addition to the new
@oneelevenheavy
LP (our best yet), I’ll be releasing my first solo album since 2017. Album features 3 former WW alums (none of whom ever played in WW at the same time!). It's a good one. Mixing now. Stay tuned!
#hello2022
#jamesandthegiants
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welcome to the Rothko discourse, music twitter edition. As if the people who decided two months ago they like jazz wouldn't be GOATing and AOTYing all over the place if these were saxophones instead of guitars
this sounds like complete shit. absolutely terrible to hear these awful noises
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“Hall of Mirrors,” the first single from the upcoming James & The Giants album on
@killrockstars
, is now live! Produced by Jarvis Taveniere (Woods, Purple Mountains). Watch the Ryan Weibush-directed video for “Hall of Mirrors” & pre-order the album here:
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OK, fess up. WHO DID THIS
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Reductive takes concerning the man’s savagely uncompromising and BIG BIG BIG approach to music and art tend to obscure the fact that he was just as capable of communicating, with great nuance, some astonishing beauty. R.I.P. to a real one. 2/2
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I miss weird things about touring, like pumping gas at sunset at some random interstate Shell or BP or Exxon and then looking at the receipt to see if this remote place we have briefly visited and will probably never visit again even has a name
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I mean it would have been nice if certain influential legacy acts had been speaking out all along against Spotify spending 114 million to fund war machines and completely decimating working artists’ ability to make a living, but hey, rising tide / all boats, whatever
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I can tell my tolerance for alcohol has decreased because it now requires only two margaritas to activate my room-clearing rant about how the popular 80s teen dramas of John Hughes endorse and celebrate conformity
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Maybe you’ve been kicked out of a band before, but at least you’ve never been kicked out of a band by ICE COLD ASS EGO DESTROYER EDGAR FROESE
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Proposal: going forward, maybe we can have a dedicated annual Taylor Swift Day and a separate
@recordstoreday
for people who just want to buy Chet Baker and Porcupine Tree releases. Just an idea
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Always talk to strangers. I had a nice chat this morning with an elderly Green Bay woman wearing pajama pants who informed me she is flying to Ireland tomorrow to marry Barry Gibb.
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Same, consistently: 4-10 songs released on any given
@Bandcamp
Friday (also "name your price") invariably nets more than I have *ever* made from streaming services *in total* since streaming became a thing, and this is likely an experience shared by 99.9% of artists on Bandcamp
Folks put your music on
@Bandcamp
. I made more money in one day on a FREE album download ( pay if you want ) than I did from Spotify ever . Spotify is robbing independent artists , songwriters and producers. The Bandcamp community is full of supportive music lovers.
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Sad to hear about the passing of the brilliant composer Carla Bley. Though she appears on many records I love, this tune, written for then-husband Paul Bley and his trio, is simply perfect in every way, right down to its title.
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Confessions of a Poser: I always enjoyed reading Thrasher, listening to fIREHOSE, and watching Bones Brigade videos more than I ever enjoyed actually skating
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Heartened to see so many friends on this list. This week I will be auctioning off a special test pressing, with handmade cover art, of the record Neil and I made together for
@3lobed
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I'll never get over the fact that Tony Williams was only 19 years old when he played on this record
we have wasted our lives
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ARTISTS! Imagine finishing your album in April and having a big box on your porch in June. Imagine no rejected test pressings. Imagine having copies to sell on tour as opposed to becoming eligible for AARP membership before you ever see the fruits of your labor. [2/4]
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Being married to a snobby music person means when your wife says "I don't like your tone, man," there is a 99.9% chance she is talking about the guitar sound you have been laboriously working at for over a quarter century
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This morning I woke up thinking about Miles and felt the need to write something. I've barely had time to spellcheck it but I wanted to get it down. Made the post public so it's accessible to anyone who'd like to read it. May edit it later. xo
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Trouble brewin' on the Hoffman forums: Blue Note Tone Poet people trying to kick the ECM Luminessence people out of the thread. Please bury me in my Jan Garbarek battle jacket if shit gets really real
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I’m convinced that my neighbors rely on me to know what day the recycling goes out. Their neighbors, in turn, look to them to know. If I make a mistake, it could cause a chain reaction that stretches for blocks. This is too much pressure.
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I’m happy 2022 was Kate Bush’s year but let’s make 2023 all about Sinead
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