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2010

Tuesday, 8/31/10

When your kids go back to college (as my older son Alex did Saturday and my younger son Luke ten days ago), it’s not just their voices you no longer hear around the house; it’s also the voices they listen to—like this guy, for instance (a Luke favorite).

Mike Posner, “Cooler Than Me,” live, Los Angeles, 2010

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lagniappe

M.I.A.—the new Sun Ra?

So where would she [M.I.A.] live if visas and tour plans weren’t a factor? She pauses for a moment, then says, “Space. I’m over Earth.” She laughs. “Earth is so 2000-and-fucking-9.”

—M.I.A. (Rolling Stone, 8/5/10)

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2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

We still have this song . . .

—my 19-year-old son Luke, at the end of a long, hard day—one full of setbacks—as he played this (again) on the car CD player

Mike Posner, “You Don’t Have To Leave” (2009)

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2009

Monday, 11/9/09

My 18-year-old son Luke, who was home from college over the weekend, played me this track yesterday—something by another college guy, 21 years old and a senior at Duke, who leaves campus every weekend to do shows all over the country. We were driving into the city and Luke, who’d burned this on a CD, slid the disc into the dashboard player. “I love this song,” he said. “It makes me feel good inside. It’s the beat. And his voice is so good.”

Mike Posner (with Big Sean), “Speed of Sound” (2009)

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lagniappe

The most difficult part of the [music] business today is deciding whether I should commit the dollars to signing an unknown or wait until the artist has a hit. Then there are guys like Mike Posner. I would bet on him for the future and today.—Marty Bandier, the 68-year-old chief executive of Sony/ATV Music Publishing

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