- Wade - STILL in SonicBids & CMJ 2007: Anatomy of a Scam? …Meh. I LOVE this…..as a past user (used by) Sonicpigs, I got really disgusted that I was allowing myself to fall into the...
- tape in New Single: Patrick Wolf’s “Accident and Emergency” anna nicole smith sex tape
- Borch in Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays me Down I forgot about the syrup! Rice cakes then… nothing blander than rice cakes, unless, of course, they’re topped w/ meat.
Start holding your breath, readers, because in a few days we at Superstarcastic will (like all the other jerks out there) be posting an article about our favorite albums of 2006.
In the meantime, I’d like to take issue with Pitchfork’s top single of 2006. OF COURSE Justin Timberlake should receive the honor–it’s just that “My Love” is not his finest work. But “Dick in a Box”? That’s where it’s at. At the close of a year in which it seemed like every single was nu-gaze, cutesy pop, or sung by a chick wearing a deceased weasel on her head, “Dick in a Box” sparkled with originality by couching timely and helpful holiday gift-giving tips in the form of a satirical homage to ’90s boy bands. What more could you want from a song (or, furthermore, for Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa)?
So yeah–many of our writers believe that the single is dead, but I don’t. This year, I choose Justin Timberlake’s “Dick in a Box.”
Huh. I guess now i know how out of touch i really am–my #2 selection apparently produced nary a peep from anyone except for a “Brainiac? Never heard of ‘em.” I guess this means i’ll have to utilize the new mp3 player feature here on the site to school some fools in a future post (maybe one i actually do when i’m not at work).
ANYWAY, we have arrived. It’s been a hell of a ride, kids, and now, i give you DJ’s #1 Most Favoritest Awesomest Badassest Record of ALL TIME: the incomparable Angel Dust by Faith No More.
Here’s a band that seriously hasn’t gotten their due i
n the United States, despite a hit single (which, i swear, i barely even connect with this band anymore. Seriously, “Epic” is so far removed from what this band is about that it makes the wave of rap-metal bands who cite FNM as an influence all the more embarrassing) and Mike Patton’s annoyingly devoted “everything he touches is gold” cult following (of which i am a devout member. I am what i hate–and what Patton himself isn’t so keen on either). It stuns me how many people still see FNM as the “flopping fish” one hit wonder, and have more or less ignored one of the most interesting, strange, and original bands of the last 25 years. Read more »
Santa was good to Joiezabel this year. He got her a brand new hat.
UPDATE: It keeps her toasty for her fireside chats.
oh! hello. i didn’t see you there. let me just take these expensive headphones off and put this on pause, here, and–oh, what’s that? what am i listening to? why, this is the latest full-length from australian band youth group, hot off the presses. it’s really good. what? hell, i don’t know if they actually use presses, i just…it’s an expression, ok? leave me alone.
anyway, dear readers, if you’ve noticed that we’re suddenly getting a lot more comments, there is a reason…you can now comment to superstarcastic without officially registering on the site. we couldn’t call ourselves a socialist collective if we didn’t condone sharing, after all.
this means that the shy and terrified among you can actually voice your opinions without worrying that we will track you down by your email address and kill you for liking billy joel or panic!#$^& at the disco or even (gulp) my chemical romance. don’t get me wrong - we would much rather know who you are so as to properly make fun of you. however, if you have something to say, by all means make up a pseudonym and jump on in there.
also, merry holidays and all that. we will probably be low on the postings over the next week and a half or so but please bookmark us and come back - we will make it worth your while, we promise.
For his most recent studio album Born in the UK.
Mar 03 Philadelphia PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
Mar 05 Somerville MA @ Somerville Theatre
Mar 06 Washington DC @ 9.30 Club
Mar 07 New York NY @ Webster Hall
Mar 09 Detroit MI @ Majestic Theatre
Mar 10 Chicago IL @ Metro
Mar 11 Minneapolis MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe
Mar 13 Nashville TN @ Exit/In
Mar 14 Atlanta GA @ The Loft
Mar 16 Austin TX @ Stubbs Bar-B-Q (outdoors-SXSW)
Mar 18 Boulder CO @ Fox Theatre
Mar 19 Salt Lake City UT @ Urban Lounge
Mar 21 San Diego CA @ House of Blues
Mar 22 Los Angeles CA @ El Rey Theatre
Mar 23 San Francisco CA @ Great American Music Hall
Mar 25 Portland OR @ Aladdin Theatre
Mar 26 Seattle WA @ Neumo’s
Mar 27 Vancouver BC @ Richards on Richards
Strap in, kids. I could type about this band and album all goddamn day.
Once upon a time, a band changed my life. Cliche’? Yeah, but only because every music fan worth a damn had a band change their life. Me, i actually had two, but we’ll get to the other one soon enough.
Senior year of high school (1992), Other Band unlocked the door to my closeted and sheltered small-town metal-centric musical lexicon. Once i got to college, that door was creaked open by a band here, a band there…mainstream “alternative” bands like Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, more obscure (to me) fare like They Might Be Giants or Sebadoh…but then in 1994 the doors were blown off the fucking hinges, and finally, finally, i understood punk rock.
August 1994. Elk’s Club, Green Bay, Wisconsin. The opening band: Milwaukee’s Alligator Gun, playing friendly, energetic, Seaweed-influenced punk-pop (as opposed to pop-punk, a different beast entirely). This did not prepare me for what was next. What was next were four of the best dressed thrift-store chic lookin’ motherfuckers going batshit and sending their instruments through more effects than a Star Wars Special Edition. Holy mother of fuck, who IS this?
“Thank you thank you thank you we are Brainiac from Dayton Ohio. It’s good to be back here in Green Bay, Wisconsin with all of you. This next song is called ‘Ride.’ rrrrrRRRRRRRRRROOOOWWWWWWWWGHHH!!”
Jaw, meet floor. And DJ, meet your new favorite band. Read more »
