Kickstarter
24 Hours
There are crazy days and then there are days like yesterday. Kickstarter has experienced some frantic hours but nothing like
Yancey Strickler
Yancey Strickler is the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and Cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent.
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My Pavement fandom gets acknowledged
I made a cameo in The New Yorker this week for being a Pavement fan!
Kickstarter
Why we started Kickstarter
This week, a website that I co-founded opened its doors. It’s called Kickstarter, and it’s an easy, feel-good
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My Musical Life 0 — 20
Age 4 – Gets into the Beatles.
Age 6 – Writes first song, entitled “I’m A Guy Who Likes Potatoes,” a
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Rudy Lawless
The subway near my apartment has elevators to get to the tracks, and as I get in one on Saturday
Scenes
Heat
New York summers are pregnant. The air drips with humidity, the streets applaud the flip-flaps of determined feet, skirts draped
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The Staircase
The last half hour of The Staircase, an eight-hour Sundance documentary about the murder trial of novelist Michael Peterson by
Writing
Finding myself as a writer
Enough with the linking to pieces already, I know, but one more: this one on Queens of the Stone Age,
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"Don't Cha," Tori Alamaze
Thanks to my friend Rich Juzwiak — who really, really needs to start a blog — I’ve now come across my
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Interview: Colleen
In 2003, the Leaf label released Everyone Alive Wants Answers, the debut album by a French musician who performed as
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"Here I Am," Dolly Parton
When Dolly Parton shouts “HERE I AM!” in the song of the same name, a woman emerges from the cocoon
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96 Tiers
I love a lot of bad music. Well maybe not bad, but definitely unspectacular. In the same way that the
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Taxonomy of a Top Ten
01 The Consensus Pick
The first choice sets the tone for the entire list. A critic can either go for
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"The Plot Against America," Philip Roth
File Under: Remember when Republicans didn’t mind Hitler?
Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America documents the creeping American
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"Baby's on Fire"
Over the past two days I have done nothing but listen to four different versions of a song called “Baby’
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"Under Control," The Strokes
In his current New Yorker article on the Clash, Sasha Frere-Jones perfectly pinpoints a sensation that I often search for
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Rough Guide to the Fall
01 “That Man” (The Legendary Chaos Tape)
02 “Living Too Late” (Bend Sinister)
03 “Janet Vs Johnny” (The Real New
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"The Partisan," Leonard Cohen and "Tezeta," Mahmoud Ahmed
There are pop songs for war and there are pop songs against war, but there are few pop songs about
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