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Scott Tennent
Los Angeles
Scott Tennent is the author of the 33 1/3 book on Slint's Spiderland, and by day works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Long Live Pretty Goes with Pretty
In an act of consolidation that has been many years overdue, I'll now be doing all of my primary blogging through my tumblr account, which as of now has just been renamed Pretty Goes with Pretty—so bookmark the new url... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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This Week's Soundtrack
Posted Feb 5, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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In Search Of...
...something new...went to NPR to listen to the new Sharon Van Etten but it did not feel like the right record for me at that moment, so I clicked off after a few songs...switched to Heartless Bastards' Arrow, since it... Continue reading
Posted Feb 1, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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January Mix
I didn't hear a lot of new albums this month, but I did keep up pretty well with hearing new tracks via PR and my favorite blogs. Here's a mix of favorite finds, old and new, that I haven't already... Continue reading
Posted Feb 1, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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January Soundtrack
Posted Jan 31, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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My Listening Hours: January
Posted Jan 31, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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This Week's Soundtrack
Posted Jan 28, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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This Week's Soundtrack
Posted Jan 21, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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I Want to Be with You So Bad
Posted Jan 19, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Monkey Song aka Cattle Call
A couple of vintage Eddy Arnold tracks appear on the playlist my wife and I have devised for Cooper (i.e. mostly oldies that may as well be made for kids). He hadn't really acknowledged them before, until last week when... Continue reading
Posted Jan 18, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Sing to Me Without Opening Your Mouth All That Much
Posted Jan 17, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Train Your Ears in This Direction
There are a lot of reasons to like the Dirty Three—the evocative mood their songs call up, the grandeur of their crescendos, Warren Ellis's rustic and beautiful violin. I like them for all those reasons too; those are the things... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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This Week's Soundtrack
Posted Jan 14, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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I Thought It Was Called "Similar Song" but It's "Simple Song"
Posted Jan 13, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Song in the Form of a Cloud
"Marienbad," from Julia Holter's upcoming album Ekstasis, picks up where "Goddess Eyes," from 2011's Tragedy, left off. On Tragedy, "Goddess Eyes" is an accessible oasis on an otherwise pretty abstract record. "Marienbad" employs a similar accessibility—Holter's voice is the anchor... Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Seriously, the War on Drugs are Only a Few Hooks Shy, If They Want It
It's easy to hear some immediate surface similarties between War on Drugs singer Adam Granduciel's voice and that of Tom Petty or Bob Dylan, but for me that resonance has since evolved into a weird personal nostalgia for Dire Straits.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 10, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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In This Analogy Chocolate is Good Songwriting and Peanut Butter is Droning Synths
Posted Jan 9, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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This Week's Soundtrack
Posted Jan 7, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Favorite Songs of 2011
By now you've made your way through all the end-of-year lists you can stomach, I'm sure. But wait! There's more: my favorite songs of 2011. I've made a mix of my 24 favorite tracks, excluding anything from my favorite albums... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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2011 Soundtrack
Posted Jan 2, 2012 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Favorite Downloads: December
I found a lot of great music this month, more than I can (or wish to) fit on this playlist. I purposefully ignored everything I featured in this post, also all discovered this month and highly recommended (and ps, some... Continue reading
Posted Dec 28, 2011 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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My Listening Hours: December
Posted Dec 27, 2011 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Nicolas Jaar and George Kranz's Drugs of Choice
I was listening to Nicolas Jaar's Space is Only Noise when "Keep Me There" came on. The song opens with two low, kinda dopey voices harmonizing on a simple melody, "duh, duh, duh-nuh-dee-duh." The thought passed through my mind that... Continue reading
Posted Dec 26, 2011 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Oh No It's Winter and I Haven't Been Listening to the Walkmen
Imagine: it's 3 am on New Year's Eve, and a drunk Rod Stewart is in a closed-down bar but refuses to leave the stage. He's vibing on "Auld Lang Syne" and nursing a heartache. Wait, no: it's the Walkmen. No... Continue reading
Posted Dec 24, 2011 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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This Week's Soundtrack
Posted Dec 24, 2011 at Pretty Goes with Pretty
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