'Wii Music' elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is - as 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' do - to suggesting what it could be. Yet I'm still left wondering: Couldn't it be more?
There's some horrible connotations in the word 'reunion.'
A lot of music for me was about - I mean, aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.
With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like ThunderAnt than have somebody's film on my shoulders.
My father wasn't just taciturn - it was like he didn't want to be heard.
Kissing is kind of scary.
I'm a huge Quasi fan.
Sleater-Kinney is a band that we hold close to our hearts as well; it's not something that we're cynical or jaded about. We only feel gratefulness and appreciation for other people's enthusiasm about it. We would never be annoyed by that.
When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have waited for me to die?' I knew then that I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.
One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.
My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza with a side of breadsticks and wash it down with soda. I never dieted or denied myself food.
My father was hard to know and gave little indication that there was much to know. He claimed he remembered almost nothing about his childhood.
I've always felt unclaimed.
My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.
The 'New York Times' is my homepage because it forces me to go right into the news.
I get mad at myself when I get news from Twitter before I get it from a regular news source. Then I'm off to a bad start: getting the second-hand, filtered experience all day long.
In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The 'Pirate Prude' EP and 'Pat's Trick' played on repeat at nearly every gathering I attended. And we didn't just listen to these records - we discussed them, the worlds they opened, novelistic and strange.
There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.
