July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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“The extension of advertising to the domain of private chatter undermines the...”
– n+1: The Intellectual Situation
Long piece, still haven’t read it all, but some interesting ideas here. Via anythingcouldhappen.
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April 2010
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They’re Running in the Street Among Us All!
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33 1/3 Odyssey: You Have Three Friends, Right? And... →
A nice review of Zaireeka by Chris Estey for Seattle’s KEXP.
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If I were going to compare it to anything in the...
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“And that kind of provocation, that spur to further discourse, is all criticism...”
– Arts and Leisure Preview - Is There a Future for Arts Criticism? - NYTimes.com
I’m sure every critic posted a quote from this today, but…yeah.
March 2010
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I like the first Crosby, Stills and Nash album a...
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Школа музыкальной журналистики: Pitchfork / Статьи... →
A blog from the Ukraine interviewed me about Pitchfork. You probably won’t get much from this unless you can read Cyrillic. Looks like my name is spelled Марк Ричардсон.
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Zaireeka in The Stranger →
Always been a big fan of The Stranger. I lived in Seattle in the mid-90s, pre-Internet days, and used to look forward to it every week. In those days it sort of split the difference between a proper weekly and The Onion, throwing in surreal jokes in unexpected places.
Anyway, very nice mention of Zaireeka by Paul Constant that also brings up my favorite book in the 33 1/3 series, Carl...
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“Matthew Perpetua: There’s definitely a way of listening to music that is...”
– Fluxblog » Blog Archive » Fluxblog Interview With Mark Richardson!
A little late posting this, but Matthew Perpetua at Fluxblog interviewed me about Zaireeka last week, it’s up over there now. It was a lot of fun and I think it turned out pretty well.
From talking to him elsewhere...
February 2010
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Scratch My Back →
A review of the new Peter Gabriel covers record. He was definitely one of the five or so most important figures in my formative music years. One of a handful who, when I first started listening to music, made me think for the first time about music as art and not just something that came out of the radio. Which is not to say that music should be thought of that way, or that “art...
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Zaireeka Is
Another piece from 2002. This was published on Pitchfork, but through several migrations/CMS changes, etc., it’s no longer in the archive and hasn’t been for some time. Which is just as well— it’s not very good. But I’m posting it because it was the germ of the idea for my Zaireeka book, and a few people have found it over the years. It’s even mentioned on...
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Nuno Canavarro: Plux Quba
A piece I wrote for Sound Collector Audio Review in 2002.
Nuno Canavarro: Plux Quba Original issue: Ama Romanta (1988) Reissue: Moikai (1998)
In the age of the Internet, arcane information is only a few clicks away. Arguments over which character actor appeared in a movie, arguments that years ago would have raged for months and involved someone writing in to Parade Magazine for a definitive...
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Zaireeka! (Or, Why We Need Art) →
Nice review here from the Okie Reads blog.