People, I lack music.
My office in Berlin was in a bar, above rehearsal rooms, with an electro-heavy playlist constantly on the stereo. There was enough music around that I didn’t need to find my own. So, aside from the odd medicinal piece for a particular mood, I just soaked up whatever was in the air already.
My current office is more mundane: choose headphones, or choose silence. I can’t just sink into the emotional rhythm of other people’s music, so I need to create my own or let the entire day be identical.
Still, I’m not really asking for music recommendations. I really want to find music journalists. Or music blogers, music essayists, whatever. I may draw the line at twitter. Suggestions?
Ones I already like:
- Simon Reynolds (despite his habit of concealing his articles across a dozen half-forgotten blogs)
- Velvet Coalmine
- K-punk,
Splintering Bone Ashes, and the rest of the hauntology crowd. Though they’re more philosophy than music, and in any case seem mostly to have given up the ghost. - Sasha Frere-Jones (though I wish he were a bit less tastefully even-handed)
- um…there most be some more? Right?