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Tumblr Music, Spring '13

ATTN: Audiophiles!

You can now post SoundCloud sets to your blog! Just share to Tumblr from SoundCloud or paste the set URL into the “external URL field” when creating a new audio post.

To celebrate, we put together a super rad 15-song playlist featuring some of our favorite bands on Tumblr.

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“Even the word 'blog' sounds a little grandma-y now. This whole concept of buzz feels so dated. It’s really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.”

—Ezra Koenig tells it like it is in our new Vampire Weekend feature story by Carrie Battan.

15 Trends That Need To Die in 2013

Hey, remember 2012? What a crazy year, huh? Lots of cool stuff happened in the world of music like that new Propagandhi album and the Beatles playing on the Ed Sullivan Show[citation needed]. But lots of not cool stuff happened too. Below are a few awful trends that need to die right now before they follow us into 2013 like a clingy ex: 

Punk parody shirts

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We’ve officially hit our quota on these. We get it. Milo is Heisenberg. The Crimson Ghost is Justin Bieber. The Black Flag bars are photos of John Stamos or whatever. Pretty sure you can just wear a regular ol’ Misfits shirt and be done with it. It won’t be as “ironic,” but you know…people won’t want to punch you in the junk as much.

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Exclusive Early Look At Pitchfork's Best of 2012 List

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Every year, the tastemakers at the popular music website, Pitchfork, grace the Internet with their much-anticipated Top 50 Albums Of The Year list. This year, we were lucky enough to get an exclusive early look at their list for 2012:

  1. “A Very Kreayshawn Christmas”
  2. SIRI responding to existential questions
  3. NYC Police Scanner - August 21, 2012, 10:53 p.m. - 11:48 p.m.
  4. Neil Young’s autobiography’s book proposal
  5. “Animal Collective Reads The New Yorker in Pig Latin” (Remixed by Steve Aoki)
  6. M.I.A.’s DVD commentary of The Wire, season 2
  7. The creaking pipes in a Pitchfork writer’s studio apartment
  8. “Forrest Gump: Original Movie Soundtrack” reissue
  9. A five-year-old’s school play about the four food groups
  10. Joy Division - ironic shirt (Japanese import)
  11. Phil Collins’ remastered colonoscopy results
  12. Dudes Who “Went to School” At Rhode Island School of Design  - Laughing Blowfish 7”
  13. Cat Power - “Farts on a Piano”
  14. Lou Reed & Limp Bizkit - “Hip Hop Banana”
  15. Crazy guy with a spoon - complete discography
  16. R. Kelly - “Goodnight Moon” (audiobook)
  17. Diplo’s “Selected Voicemails” (Asian Chicks Edition)
  18. A hammer
  19. “Hip Hop for White People: Volume 3”
  20. Busker on the Nassau Ave G stop (Queens Plaza bound side)
  21. Photoshopped nudes of Lana Del Ray
  22. Half a cigarette found on the floor of LCD Soundsystem’s last show
  23. A metal album
  24. Lena Dunham’s cupcake farts
  25. “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2: Official Movie Soundtrack”
  26. An 8” x 10” photo of Jeff Magnum
  27. Beck ordering pizza through the Bane voice changer app
  28. The Bruno Mars episode of SNL 
  29. Valencia (Instagram filter)
  30. DJ Hurricane Sandy - Remix
  31. Stephen Malkmus’ laundry bill
  32. “The History of Netflix” (VHS)
  33. Skrillex’s fax transmissions album
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  35. Bruce Springsteen - “A Concert to Benefit White People” Live DVD
  36. Wes Anderson messing around with a thumb piano at Pier 1
  37. The Occupy Wall Street Drum Circle Band
  38. Big Boi - grocery list
  39. Pitchfork’s Various Nautical-Themed Artists Playlist featuring Best Coast, Beach House, Wavves, Frank Ocean
  40. The scene in “Blue Valentine” where Ryan Gosling plays a ukelele
  41. Grizzly Bear
  42. A grizzly bear
  43. Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein making shadowpuppets that look like Sonic Youth for 30 minutes
  44. Pitchfork.com - “Best of 2009” list
  45. The Weeknd, MGMT, Dntel - “Vwls Are Cmplt Bllsht”
  46. Bone Iver - Bon Iver’s “Blood Bank EP” as reinterpreted by canines
  47. Pitchfork.com - “Best of 2017” list
  48. PJ Harvey - sex tape
  49. M83 - Like, the album with all the lasers on it and stuff and it sounds like an album full of laser music, that one.
  50. One Direction - “Take Me Home” (cassette)

Honorable mentions:

  • Boat shoes
  • “How To Listen To (And Review Positively!) Black Metal: A Beginner’s Guide” (audiobook)
  • “Mom-bahton Massive: Moombahton Lullabies for Infants”
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