Get Your Damn Pause Off Of Me

Due to technical problems, medical issues, and a backlog of work that I need to complete by the end of the day, Fluxblog is still on hiatus, possibly through the end of the week. I might get back into it tomorrow, but it’s more likely that things will be back to normal on Monday. I’m sorry about the interruption – I take a certain pride in keeping this site daily on weekdays, so this sort of thing probably bugs me a lot more than it does you, who have a choice of, I don’t know, five thousand other music blogs these days. In the meantime, I suggest these posts in particular.

Eppy discusses modern pop’s roots in novelty in this Stylus “The Aesthetics of Pop” podcast.

Marathon Packs has very early Talking Heads demos from 1975.

Green Pea-ness revisits Dexy’s Midnight Runners.

Ghostface meets Eugene Mirman at the Riff Market.

Sasha Frere-Jones offers astrological advice to pop stars, and gets me very worried about that next Walkmen album.