Music Geek-Out #9: Pixies “Monkey Gone to Heaven”
Again, there are many reasons why I chose this song for the philoSOPHIA dinner playlist at Miami. As I mentioned, I was doing a little “awesome female bassist” subsection of the set. AND, at a school an hour away from…
Music Geek-Out #8: Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”
Not only is this song a classic in the Modern Rock canon, it also has some specific significance in my grad school experience, and it plays nicely off one of the first songs in the “dance party” portion of the…
Music Geek-Out #7
Next is XTC’s “Making Plans for Nigel”. This track was always on 97X’s Modern Rock 500 (a countdown of the 500 best modern rock songs, held the same weekend as the Indy 500, which was about a two hour drive…
Music Geek-Out #5
Sorry for the hiatus–the end-of-term hustle gobbled up my life for the past few weeks. So, back to the philoSOPHIA/WOXY dinner playlist: Next is another Ohio band, Cleveland’s Pere Ubu. Keeping with the post-industrial theme, I chose their “Final Solution.”…
Music Geek-Out #10: The Breeders “Cannonball”
When I was a teenage girl growing up in John Boehner’s congressional district halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton, OH, Kim Deal was the ish. She was from where I was from, but she managed to escape post-Mapplethorpe crazy Republican land…
Shady and Coercive Pro NC Amendment 1 Practices at the Church That Is Also My Polling Place
So, I just got back from voting in North Carolina’s primaries today. As a registered Democrat, the only really interesting primary is for the NC governor’s race. However, as readers of this blog are probably well aware, the big issue…
Hipster Racism
After Jezebel’s recent post on Hipster Racism, the topic is newly hot in the feminist/race blogosphere. And that’s great! We really need to be talking about the ways racism and white supremacy inform the everyday practices of “good, white liberal”…
Hologram If You Hear Me: Putting the Aura Back In Digitally Reproduced Performances
After holographic Tupac crashed Coachella 2012, the buzz about holographic performances by dead musicians has breached the music blogosphere and hit the mainstream. Even Jezebel, which isn’t really a music blog, had a featured article about the topic. Sure, the…
Music Geek-Out #6
The next track on my dinner playlist is one of my favorite songs in this group. It’s the Afghan Whigs “Rebirth of the Cool”. This was a remix of their song “Milez is Ded” (and the title thus a play…
Music Geek-Out #4
[This is a series on my setlist from philoSOPHIA 2012.] From “My City Was Gone” to Siouxie’s “Cities in Dust”. In a way, these are both about rust belts–Hynde is talking about the US Midwest, and Siouxie is referring to…
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