“Whateva whateva, I post what I want.”
“I don’t know about it. But I’m not having hip hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.”
– Noel Gallagher
“It’s ridiculous, if we don’t embrace what is new then how do we progress? I’ve never actually experienced anything like that before. It’s 2008, what is that about?”
– Jay-Z
Indeed. What was it about Noel Gallagher and others not wanting [...]
After Metallica revealed their “Revolutionary Pricing Tiers” for their Mission: Metallica experience the parallels between Microsoft and Metallica got scary.
Why am I calling Metallica the Microsoft of music. Well, firstly, both Microsoft and Metallica have had a troubled relationship with the internet. Recently for Microsoft, the Yahoo debacle has drawn attention to the company’s online [...]
No Eurovision song will ever beat My Lovely Horse (which wasn’t actually a Eurovision song but, well, you know…). They should just say this is the ultimate Song for Europe and be done with it. Forever.
Note: I wrote this post for another blog (that is now dead) sometime ago. Since the Eurovision Song Contest is being held today I thought I’d repost it here.
In 2006 Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest with Hard Rock Hallelujah. This year Finland brings heavy metal back with Teräsbetoni performing the song Missä miehet ratsastaa [...]
I was going to write a post about how in the olden days you had to buy advertising space to peddle your new record.
Instead, I decide to admire the synergy.
Death Cab For Cutie Take Over Stereogum
As a 33-year-old with a good-for-nothing minor in political science I should probably scuff at politics at the music video level. Having said that, I like this new alternate Coldplay video for Violet Hill. Talk about undermining political image building. The highpoint… well, I can’t pick.
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And if you want to talk about the issues [...]
Official site: www.thecrash.com
Attention USA, UK, Canada and Ireland. The Crash are releasing their album Pony Ride on May 20th through Rykodisc. Here’s the title track from the album and if you don’t like it you must also hate puppies and sunshine.
And how could you not like a band that makes videos such as these two [...]
The last time I heard of Kevin Shields was when he contributed tracks to Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. Skip ahead to summer of 2008 and Shields and My Bloody Valentine are back for real. First there was the announcement of a reunion tour. Now Pitchfork is reporting that Loveless and Isn’t Anything are being [...]
All right. Compare these 30 second samples from Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming Anywhere I Lay My Head album. First track is Scarlett singing the rest are Tom Waits:
Now, it’s hard to belittle Tom Waits but he was not, as Leonard Cohen once sang, born with the gift of the golden voice. I have every respect in [...]
Update: MTV Movies Blog has this quote from Chris Carter:
“It’s really Mulder’s faith in the paranormal that is the faith that he’s wrestling with,” the co-writer/director said. “So while you can see a church in a photograph, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s about religion.”
So, the movie is more about Mulder’s faith than Scully’s. That’s good [...]
