polaroids :: Beach House + Washed Out | Dallas, TX

she's getting hella (yes hella) skinny…

i want get it on with both of them

great show! beach house gets better each time i see them

I post about the bands I like

Don't change a fucking thing.

anonymous: you are a consumer feeding a system that devalues music. anyone with a brain in their head prefers 10 posts about 2 great artists than 10 shitty ones.

@ everybody. I guess it comes back to what you think a music blog is all about, which for me is discovering new music. Beach House is great, and this blog may have supported them from early on, but because they put out a (halfway) decent album this year doesn't mean that other bands have not. Which is the argument that you are making, withabrain (which does not make a lot of sense).

I think Chris has great taste in music, and we are on the same page with a lot of things, but I also think I could make suggestions of ten different albums he would also think are really great from this year.

can't anyone read?
this show was "GvB Presents" — all the more reason to report. And yet hardly a conventional "show report" or back-patting account; rather, intimate and situated glimpse, perspective I quite value.

the reactionary bandwagoneers against Anon. don't 'get' it any more than he did(n't?). look at the SRS-XMU playlist posted just prior (everyone, especially Anon.): "breaking / debut" (this week?), relatively new, choice tracks, standards. precisely why I periodically check the Satellite bloggers' rotations, gauge which I appreciate, Chris. of course, the track to criticize for "lazy" or stale rotation is "Beauty" — staple since 2005! (ha, maybe "Roscoe" to really prove this point?)

Back then, some "readers" would send bloggers tracks when they openly asked; participation means more than registering "Dis/Like Button," folks. Some blogs like this serve multiple functions, with respective values. One year I'll get to SxSW, personally thank a half-dozen facilitators of "indie music infrastructure" (?).

The most irrelevant comments on this thread, probably, are the ones talking about wanting to 'get it on' with Victoria, and how good-looking she is. It would be cool if these sections opened up an area for discourse, but all too often it is the reactionary middle finger waving back and forth, like when somebody nearly crashes into you with their car (which is an apt comparison, because the comments' section offers about the same level of anonymity as your car, while still enabling you to make conceptually rude gestures to girls in passing cars, apparently).

Which, I think, gets to something (sub) culturally larger, but which is probably too complex to talk about here. Because what does it mean when we're shouting at each other louder and louder?

If Chris wanted to open up some kind of forum for discussion of new music that people are into, G., I think that would be a cool idea. But I am also sure that he gets more than a fair share of submissions from bands, and it would probably also be limited to more of the same, near misses and finger waving. Or worse.

I love your blog. Don't listen to someone who anonymously comments and obviously reads your blog regularly. They are so "inoffensive"? really? realllly? I laughed out loud reading that. Reminds me of the music snob scene from "High Fidelity". I love Ernest Greene and Beach House are wicked. If you like something…you like it. It's simple.