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February 10, 2012
Let's Stay Together: The Messages Of Barack Obama's Re-Election Playlist
Yesterday, President Barack Obama's team released a Spotify playlist for his 2012 re-election campaign, announcing it via every form of social media imaginable. According to an announcement that accompanied the more traditional means of releasing political information—a leak—the playlist ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories
The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
The 10 Biggest Music Stories of 2010
Ah M.I.A., it just wasn't your year, was it? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In 2010, Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire both had #1 records. LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, MGMT, the National, M.I.A, and Sufjan Stevens all had albums debut in the top ten. Kanye West joined Twitter. Drake started a riot in New ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
Is It Possible to Sell Out in 2010?
Today's New York Times brings a startling bit of news: the sneaker company Converse is opening a recording studio in the heart of Williamsburg, to be called Converse Rubber Tracks, where bands "deemed dedicated and needy enough" will be able to record for free. Artists selected to use the spa ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Take on Amazon, Bootleggers, And You, Maybe
Perhaps you've heard that Brooklyn troubadour Sufjan Stevens has a new album. It comes out October 12th, and has a poetically appropriate name, The Age of Adz, though for some reason he wants to you pronounce that last word as "odds." You can preorder it now, on CD, LP, or MP3, and get a digi ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Merge Thinks Your Whole Infatuation With This Arcade Fire Going #1 Thing Is "Kind of Like Sports"
This accordian kills fascists. Photo by Kim Erlandsen.Though some of us here at SOTC may be somewhere between "agnostic" and "hater" when it comes to the all important subject of the Arcade Fire, there is one thing we can all agree on: it's been a hell of a week for the band's label, the vene ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on the Drake Riot: "We Want to Learn From This"
Don't do this again. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneBy now we know that things got so out of hand at the South Street Seaport during Tuesday's free Drake show that the police commissioner himself, Ray Kelly, was called to the scene. Given the fact that by that point, hordes of people were chucking fl ... More >>
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June 4, 2010
Why Chuck Schumer Saved the Jelly Pool Parties
The crowd at the last Pool Party of the summer, 2009. Photo by Sam HorineSo why did one of the most powerful senators in the United States intervene to save a free concert series in Brooklyn? Writes Ben Sisario in the New York Times:
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November 9, 2009
Today in Way Too Much News About Jay-Z
Jay-Z has a priority list, which lists his priorities, according to the NYDN. One of those priorities is putting a baby inside Beyonce: Her song "Single Ladies" is an Internet hit among dancing babies and now, Beyonce's working on a tot of her own. That's according to--get this--Jay-Z, B's ... More >>
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October 23, 2009
Why Does CMJ Exist, Exactly?
Let me tell you about a great band I saw last night, called Beach Fossils. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.And who is it for? A question we've been asked a bunch this week. Once, we wrote an essay asking essentially the same thing. (The condensed answer being, basically, that's it not for either the ... More >>
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October 13, 2009
Paul Anka, First Casualty of the Michael Jackson Cash In
Those (presumably few) who doubt the rampant cynicism of the post-MJ death blitz would do well to read Ben Sisario's piece in the Times today, which spells out the haste with which the Jackson camp brought "This Is It" to market. The song, it emerges, is not only 16-years-old, but not entirel ... More >>

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Let's Stay Together: The Messages Of Barack Obama's Re-Election Playlist

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Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

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The 10 Biggest Music Stories of 2010

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Is It Possible to Sell Out in 2010?

Blogs

Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Take on Amazon, Bootleggers, And You, Maybe

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Merge Thinks Your Whole Infatuation With This Arcade Fire Going #1 Thing Is "Kind of Like Sports"

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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on the Drake Riot: "We Want to Learn From This"

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Why Chuck Schumer Saved the Jelly Pool Parties

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Today in Way Too Much News About Jay-Z

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Why Does CMJ Exist, Exactly?

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Paul Anka, First Casualty of the Michael Jackson Cash In

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