Internship: Days Five + Six
This week was ridiculously slow, but here a few interesting tidbits: 1) just like everyone else, RS be lovin’ the Arctic Monkeys. Am I the only one who is not jumping on that bandwagon? I haven’t heard the album in its entirety, but what I have heard has utterly failed to blow me away. 2)...
New music from other music.
Ghost Wars Those of you from Seattle (and possibly from elsewhere) may remember a band named Juno. Juno was filled with talent (Death Cab fans may remember that Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr lent their talents to Juno, and I believe Nate Mendel did, as well?) – but frontman former pro-snowboarder Arlie Carstens was often...
Project Runway At Fashion Week
Not music related, but I just can’t help myself – I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pretty much obsessed with Project Runway. None of the designers from this season have me as excited as I was about Jay McCarroll last year (who I liked since day one, thank you!), but it’s...
Internship: Days Two – Four
Again, not ignoring you – just distracted/busy! The internship has been going pretty well – like most internships, there’s lots of busy work to be done, and most of it isn’t remotely glamorous. I’ve spent most of my time putting together packets of some sort – gossip packets (all the major gossip columns in newspapers)...
The “Girl With No Eyes” will “Never Be Alone.”
It’s A Beautiful Day When I listen to the radio, I tend to listen to “classic rock” stations, because there’s a better shot that they’ll play things I both recognize and enjoy (of course, when I’m in Seattle, KEXP takes over a sizable portion of the air time in my car). Recently, I was listening...
Internship: Day One
Yesterday was my first day of my internship with Rolling Stone. The day’s events and observations are as follows: I spent the first half of the day learning about media packets and meeting people, and the second half standing in the wall of covers – a hallway with the covers of every issue of Rolling...
Why me? Why now?
I know what you’re thinking. “Taylor, the last thing the internet needs is yet another MP3 blog.” And you’re right – partly. With MP3 blogs like Jefitoblog, Stereogum, Fluxblog and Gorilla vs. Bear, what more could I possibly hope to contribute? There are a handful of reasons for the existence of this blog. Firstly, I’m...
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