- Doug Stephen in FOR FUCK SAKE EVERYONE KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE GOD DAMNED ACCORDIONS JESUS CHRIST Woah, okay Vice Magazine.
- Doug Stephen in Vampire Weekend - S/T I’ve never listened to a solo Paul Simon record, or to Graceland, so I don’t know about that. But the songs I’ve heard by Vampire Weekend...
- bjyhore in New Single: Patrick Wolf’s “Accident and Emergency” She had actually been robbed of it cant be cruel. Mistress. I could do. jennifer lopez porn Three.
I’m quite ill, and so I may not be writing too much for a bit. But, as I sit here in a semi-comatose stupor, you know what’s disappointing to me? No, not that when I stand up, it feels like an army of jackrabbits are hitting me in the shoulders. It’s that people in English-speaking countries (or at least the two I’ve lived in, the US and Canada — Alberta, so I won’t pretend to speak for Quebec) don’t seem to like trying foreign-language music (unless it’s “The Macarena”). Because if they did, Belanova would maybe be more popular. And then, as I shimmied around my car/bedroom/office with the glass window to the smoother-than-butter-or-Duran Duran synthpop, I would perhaps like the radio better.
Their 2007 album, Fantasia Pop made my best of the year list, and I’d strongly recommend it if you like synth-based pop music at all. I do. But you probably guessed that already.
From Portishead.co.uk:
23 Jan 2008
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be releasing our album, titled THIRD. on April 14th 2008.
The album has 11 tracks and is 49 minutes 13 seconds long.
Let’s hope the Third is more like First and less like Second.
Apparently the Lazy Local News Human Interest Story Du Jour in recent months has been the local spotlight on emo–how it stands for “emotional,” of course, and how it could be affecting your child! First there was the classic WDAZ-Grand Forks lead story on the dangers of emo, and tonight, viewers of FOX 32 in Chicago got to meet “northwest suburban college students” Addison Park and discuss The Emo Backlash! Click away and witness the glory as local news squares attempt to enhippen their audience with the following gems:
-Emo musicians write and sing about what they feel!
-Blink-182 and Green Day are apparently emo now!
-Apparently an online video shows an “emo” kid being “assaulted” by a classmate! (which, awesome)
-YouTube user TheKingoftheWorld says, “Zomg the birds r dying!”
-Most importantly: Addison Park are horrible.
Don’t be too embarrassed, Chicago–up here in Wisconsin, our local news is maybe even more hysterical, what with all the panic about salvia, the new legal high that your kid could be on RIGHT NOW! “Zomg,” indeed.
(p.s. Yes, i purposely used the photo of Addison Park on a goddamn railroad track because apparently those schmoes have never been to the Rocknrollconfidential Hall of Douchebags. Just because you photoshopped in an oncoming train doesn’t make your cliche’d railroad photo any less lame, you shitwits. And for fuck’s sake–mandals? Mandals?)
(p.p.s. Thanks to my pal Chris in Chicago for warning me that this was gonna be broadcast tonight.)
Let’s talk about 1991. Your humble narrator was beginning his senior year of high school, a little album called Nevermind was about to knock the record biz on its ass, and despite the 80s having officially ended the year before, hair metal still ruled the airwaves and MTV. And presiding over the denim, mullets, AquaNet and rampant vapid groupie metal chick sex i was not having was “the world’s loudest heavy metal magazine:” RIP.
RIP Magazine ruled my high school years and more or less dictated my musical taste until college. Unlike bullshit rags like Circus and Metal Edge, which were essentially teenybopper pinup collections for hesher douchebags who didn’t want to be seen buying Big Bopper for the Debbie Gibson glossies, RIP actually gave a damn about the music it was covering–and more importantly, it only marginally cared if you liked it too. Sure, the covers were full of the bigwigs, like Guns ‘N’ Roses and Aerosmith, but inside the same issue whose cover Axl graced, you could see an interview with Faith No More slagging him off. Basically, RIP was ballsy and didn’t give a fuck–probably because it was owned by Hustler kingpin Larry Flynt. Sort of hard to care about public perception when your parent magazine is dedicated to bringing the golden shower to the mainstream.
Leading this show was RIP Editor-in-Chief Lonn M. Friend, who in 2006 published his autobiography, Life on Planet Rock, which i recently devoured after receiving it as a Christmas present this year from fellow SSC scribe Josh “The Fucking Wizard” D. Read more »
Dude, sweeeet!
The popular music website LastFM has upgraded their system so that music fans can request to listen to their favorite songs when they so choose.
But won’t the record companies be pissed people can just listen online for free?
Ah, but you see young padawan, LastFM is funded by advertising revenue from their millions of page hits that they share with the record companies. Also, when you stream the song there is a link that directs you to Amazon.com where you can purchase the track. Although, LastFM has always been legit and has been calling up labels to license songs to stream on the site since 2002.
Well what changed so that they could get full songs and albums?
Another excellent question! Gold Star! Last May, CBS purchased LastFM for $280 million. Now that means they can get in bed with Universal. Sony/BMG, Warner and EMI, who all own about 70% of the world’s recorded music.
Dude, sweeeet!
Well worth repeating sir. I concur.
my friend brian sent me this link this morning about this band called the high strung that posted an open letter to pitchfork on their myspace. not only is the letter amusing and incredibly well-written, it calls out quite a few of the points about pitchfork that we bitch about here on superstarcastic. what criteria do they use to pick “the next big thing?” and if their reviews are all personal opinion journalism, why can’t they just come out and say that?
anyway, yay for the high strung for being witty while self-promoting. and for donating their van to the rock and roll hall of fame at 2:00am. you should read their letter. then you should check them out.
