Casual is king in modern American culture, from text-friendly jargon (LOL!) to our dress-down-Friday work wardrobe. Boston...

Morphine : Honey White [ purchase ] Morphine is another band that emerged after I graduated from college. Although I listened to music after college (obviously), I can’t say that I was particularly aware of them until the song “Cure for Pain” appeared on a Rykodisc sampler CD that I got with my subscription to the classic music snob magazine Mojo. (Long articles about defunct and/or little known bands? Check. Almost obsessive articles about The Beatles and other classic bands? Check. Reviews filled with jargon and references to obscure mini-genres and bands? Check. Features about bizarre vinyl? Check. From England? Double ...

Barry... Barry, Barry, Barry... I remember back in the day when you used to represent HOPE. That was your THING. You got the young people excited. But now it feels like you're trying a little bit too hard to pander to the young people. Now you're going on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ? That guys' worse than Ellen. She'll enslave any toddler who went viral, forcing them to go viral over and over again. I miss the old days, when the President was an old, stiff honky. He didn't want to sing, dance, or go on ...

"Some Place" MP3 from the album Time's All Gone 2012 iTunes BY REBECCA EDWARDS | Jonk Music Apparently, we just can't get over the '60s. It seems as if everywhere we go nowadays the piercing gaze of Don Draper, the inexplicable sex appeal of skinny ties, and an eerily reminiscent women's rights movement follows us. Keeping closely in line with the trend of flashback culture comes Huntington Beach native Nick Waterhouse, whose Buddy Holly-esque rhythm and blues tunes make you wonder why the era ever had to end. To throw in some of my favorite jargon of the ...

By Jspicer on Apr 02 2012 We’ve all found ourselves afloat in a body of water, readily accepting the hand dealt to us by fate, God, Satan, the man — it’s life. But in this moment, with the cool water lifting our relaxed body, it doesn’t matter. The good, the bad — it all washes away. It is beyond the physical world; we have entered the metaphysical. Apparitions Just Outside the View is the sound embodiment of the -ness. What makes us who were are, what makes the world what it is. It’s jargon for poets and philosophers ...

I’ve always found it difficult to describe my tastes in electronic music. Mainstream sources often lean to either extremes of heavy bass or mellowed ambient. Leaving my fondness for subtle distortions, varying rhythms, unusual samples, and intricate layers as jargon phrases to the average listener. I’ve tried highlighting popular musicians (in my mind) to explain elements like Flying Lotus’s layering, [...]

Jargon Watch: Last week I happened to watch an episode of CSI (the “original” series). Titled “Trends with Benefits” it was a foray into the interpersonal impact of surveillance culture, and into the perceived — perhaps the best word is “purported” — generational technological gaps. The key episode-specific character, the dead body around which the [...]

goldenadj : …my mother. the working title for my thesis for the past seven months has merely been “FARMERS MARKETS OM NOM NOM.” now that my draft deadline quickly approaches, i am faced with the problem of giving it an “academic” title, complete with a colon and a few big words that i probably made up. i solicited some help in crafting an appropriately “reed” title from my parents and my brother. my mother, well-versed in the nuances of jargon, provided me with this title: Racial, gender, and economic bias in Portland’s farmers market subculture: A sociological analysis of the ...

The warm weather has been peering it's head out of the forecast and we can finally break out all the bright colors we have been hoarding since they hit the stores a couple of months ago. STORY: HOW HIGH: Sneaker Companies Give Ladies A Lift The sun is shining, and spring officially kicks off tomorrow, so don't be caught out there in drab winter gear when the temperature starts to rise. From the Spring 2012 runways, recent editorial shoots and the wardrobes of your favorite celebrities, we have chosen the seven spring trends that you absolutely need to ...

Gold Panda took to his Soundcloud to post a new track recently, the midtempo “Thailand Chord Droner.” Not much other info is given, outside of some drum machine jargon (“tr606/tr808/mpc2000xl fuk about,” the Panda bestows). Check it out below. This isn’t on any sort of scheduled official release, but presumably, we’ll be hearing something soon.

It seems as though BUZZ BANDS have FINALLY made it into the American lexicon of jargon dictionary cultural awareness zeitgeist mass media crossover into the mainstream. Or there is just 'some indie bro' who works there, and he sees dumb categories 'go viral'. There is also potentially 'some genuine indie fan girl' who works there and she 'genuinely' used the word buzzbands. Other ppl think that there might be a 'cool dad' who just wanted to buzz some bands, get some pictures of TV screens 'going viral' as if any1 gives a damn abt Jeopardy as a culturally relevant institution ...

That's some old sailor jargon, from what my dad tells me. Tonegents = edutainment at it's finest! We return once again to the L.A. beat scene today, this time with Mr. Ras G , one of the more out-there producers of the whole deal. This dude is on some Sun Ra shit in case you couldn't guess from the title of the record. It's a very weird listen, this record... but it makes more sense with some huge bowls of super sticky dank bud small, controlled doses medical marijuana legally procured to treat a valid physical ailment ...

The five seasons of HBO crime drama The Wire were a game-changer. The harsh look into the world of Baltimore cops and drug dealers was filled with insider jargon so dense and uncompromising it made... Click on the headline to read the rest of the story.

It takes a true talent to really understand an artists vision and making sure it comes to fruition the proper way. It’s a confusing time, especially when terms like “authenticity” and “organic” have ironically become standard marketing jargon within the music industry. How do you strategize being real? Well it automatically translates from simply not [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com

HOUSE OF LIES  premieres Sunday, January 8 on Showtime. The series stars Marty Kaan (Don Cheadle), Jeanie Van Der Hooven (Kristen Bell), Clyde Oberholt (Ben Schwartz), Doug Guggenheim (Josh Lawson), Monica Talbot (Dawn Olivieri), Roscoe Kaan (Donis Leonard Jr.) and Jeremia Kaan (Glynn Turman). In the series, Marty Kaan and his team of MBA-toting management consultants are playing America's one percent for everything they've got. They put the con in consulting as they charm smug, unsuspecting corporate fat cats into closing huge deals, and spending a fortune for their services. Twisting the facts, spinning the numbers, and spouting ...