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Anthony Fantano Early years Fantano was born in Connecticut, and his parents were from Sicily. He was a teenager in the Connecticut town of Wolcott. As a teenager, Jello Biafra, the former lead singer of the hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys and a musician, got Fantano interested in politics. He called Biafra “a bit of my political idol.” Career Fantano began in the mid-2000s as the music director for the college radio station at Southern Connecticut State University.
[ Fantano started working at Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR) in 2007, where he hosted The Needle Drop. In the same year, he started The Needle Drop as a series of written reviews. In January 2009, he started a series of video reviews on his YouTube channel with a review of a Jay Reatard record. Fantano has said that seeing his review of Flying Lotus’s 2010 album Cosmogramma next to other Flying Lotus videos in YouTube’s “Featured Videos” section gave him the “hint” to keep making video reviews. Fantano took down older reviews with music clips in 2010 to make sure they didn’t break the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [8] He was working at The Needle Drop both a college radio station and a pizza place at the time. In late 2011, she decided to work full-time on The Needle Drop, but remained at WNPR until 2014. Fanano was offered a show on Adult Swim reviewing albums, but she turned it down. As of November 2016, Fantano has been posting more frequently on a second YouTube channel called “thatistheplan.” On that channel, he reviews memes and posts “often irreverent videos that don’t fall into the record review format,” according to Spin. In October 2017, an article in The Fader claimed that Fantano’s videos on “thatistheplan” promote alt-right ideas. This has led to many questions and debates about this second channel. Fantano has been criticized for poking fun at feminists and using Pepe the Frog memes, which have recently been called alt-right symbols. After the article appeared, several US tour dates for “The Needle Drop” were cancelled. At least one site selling tickets for a Brooklyn show said the article was the reason for the cancellation. Fantano created a video response to the negative article, which he called a “hit job.” He denied that he agreed with the alt-right and said that the videos in question were meant to be funny. The Fader later took down the article as both sides said the claims had been settled. In a later interview, Fantano admitted that there are some “brutal, closed-minded, young, aggressive men” who watch the “thatistheplan” channel. He also rejected what he saw as a “toxic and problematic” piece of internet humor, saying the incident made him more vocal in his support for social justice issues. By the end of 2017, Fantano had one million subscribers and expanded his content beyond album reviews to include weekly “track roundup” videos, livestream Q&As, and video think pieces. In June 2019, Fantano had a cameo in Lil Nas X’s video for Young Thug and Mason Ramsey’s remix of “Old Town Road.” He played as a security guard for the Area 51 military base (a reference to the “Storm Area 51” meme). Later that same year, he put together a charity album called The Needle Drop LP. It has songs by “artists who have been featured on the site or reviewed well in the past.” The Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a non-profit, raised the money from album sales. Reception The Needle Drop won the “Beyond the Blog” award at the 2011 O Music Awards. Nick Veronin of Wired wrote about Fantano in 2014: “Fantano doesn’t use fancy words to describe a riff or synth tone. Instead, he uses gestures, like clenching his fists or making his face do funny things. It expresses some of the more ephemeral things about music that can’t be said in words.” When asked about the quality of Fantano’s reviews in 2019, Robert Christgau, a well-known music critic, said: that seems to have found a style of rockcrit in the 21st century that makes sense and leans towards what I would call “dark prog.” Not as insensitive to hip-hop and R&B as dark proggers, but note that so few female artists made it into his top 10, that in 2018 the act is really missing. Fantano seems to have found a way to make money in the online age by spreading his own criticism. Comedian James Acaster called Fantano’s 2016 list of the best albums in his 2019 book Perfect Sound Whatever “”The real music fan’s Top 50,” and that “perhaps more than anyone, he understands if how has the role of the reviewer changed since the internet. became a thing.” In the past, an appraiser’s job was to tell people what their money was worth. Now, their job is to tell people what is worth their time. In September 2020, Joe Coscarelli, a culture reporter for the New York Times, said of Fantano that he was “perhaps the most famous music critic alive.” Coscarelli said Fantano has done a great job of bringing an “old art to a new medium” and giving record reviews a new lease of life for a younger generation of music fans. Home life Fantano lives in Connecticut. He switched to a vegan diet after being a vegetarian for a while in his late teens. Fantano told Polygon in March 2018 that he is a “free speech purist.” Milo Yiannopoulos’ speech at UC Berkeley was met with protests from students, and Fantano said “Ironically, Antifa uses violence and childishness to get what they want. The same way as a fascist.” Fantano supports Bernie Sanders for president of the United States in 2020.
