A.V. Club interview:
Steve "Steinski" Steinalso recently ...
• props in USA Today (photo included in the print version)
>• an amazing "Universal acclaim" score on metacritic
>• review in Popmatters
>• Planet Magazine review (in print)
• Alternative Press featured review (4 stars, in print)
• MOJO short review (in print)
• Time Out New York feature interview (in print))
• New Times Weekly (in print)
• Blurt review (10/10)
>• Exclaim! review
>• 30 music review
>• Minnesota City Pages pop culture picks
>• SLUG review (in print, thank you Dave Madden!)
• OC Weekly review
>• Radio: holding out at #79 on the top 200 and just broke into the hip hop top 5
The Hype Machine has Girl Talk as the "most blogged artist" and "most searched"... and on
elbo.ws he is #1 on their "Hot Artists" chart. this could all change from hour to hour, but to reach that top position seems pretty incredible.
Steinski update:
• Blender review by Robert Christgau (also in print)
>• XLR8R review by Cameron Macdonald (also in print)
>• Earplug review by Patrick Sisson
>• Brooklyn Vegan
>• 3hive
>• Chattanooga Pulse (online version not currently working)
• EAR FARM's Band of the Week
>• Rap Reviews
>• The Needle Drop
>• radio this week: Top 200 #71, Hip Hop #6, RPM #19, Hip Hop Select Albums #14, Hip Hop Select Tracks: “Lesson 2” #50, “The Payoff Mix” #73, “Jazz” #89
• radio last last week: Top 200 #61, Hip Hop #8, RPM #21, Hip Hop Select Albums #16, Hip Hop Select Tracks: “Jazz” #42, “Lesson 2” #58, “The Payoff Mix” #93, earshot! Hip Hop #7
• and more out on the blogs ...
"Plus, it's got a really great cover. Helvetica baby. Fascist minimalism is the new future!" -Carry Like Mariah blog
From Slate in November, Anthony Falzone's article:
Diddy Could Save Sampling
Girl Talk @ Virgin Fest 2007, photo from Brooklyn Vegan
Musicians push for better sound online and on disc (a lot of indie artists have been doing 320 or FLAC, so it's kind of funny that they're making a big deal about Metallica going to 320. still it's a good sign!)
Only hours after I belatedly posted the links yesterday about the Fair Use Project taking on Yoko One Lennon... there is an amazing update:
Court Holds Producers Of Expelled Are Likely To Prevail On Fair Use Defense; Rejects Yoko Ono Lennon's Injunction Request (thanks to C. Scofield for keeping me up to date)