Ok: third try to post. I hate the new google version of blogger, so far. I came to Pere Ubu late, but earlier than anyone currently in their twenties, I suppose, since I stole my vinyl copy of The Tenement Year from my college radio station in ’89 or ’90. Hey, I figure we’re even […]
First, I’d like to note: yesterday Prawnfork posted “Just as the Day was Dawning,” a new track from duo Big Business’s Here Come the Waterworks. I’d like to proudly point out that almost a frikking year ago J Frank Parnell posted for download and raved about the original version of this track, which appeared on […]
The Arcade Fire cancelled their Euro tour. In other news, there’s an entertaining article online in the New York Times about the death of the album as a selling vehicle. The article barely notes that this really only applies to labels with a majority of artists who make albums that plain suck. A more honest […]
Fitting today: Gruff Rhys – Lonesome Words From Mr. Rhys’s recent, 75% satisfying Candylion release, and I’m not a Super Furry Animals fan.
Not gonna accuse them, but I’m going to point out: Patchfork eagerly pushes an album in the forkast section, to the point of whipping up hysteria, and then pans it in their review section, or at least doesn’t give it the rave you’d expect. Hence: Panda Bear gets a 9.4, and while the forkast really […]
The newest post by superhuman festival maniac Bill: We haven’t hit the wall, but we see it looming. We could barely seestraight after the Yep Rock showcase last night, let alone compose coherentprose. We were there for Robyn Hitchcock and Peter Buck, Sloan and Apples inStereo. And so were a whole host of other people. […]
The newest post by superhuman festival maniac Bill: We haven’t hit the wall, but we see it looming. We could barely see straight after the Yep Rock showcase last night, let alone compose coherent prose. We were there for Robyn Hitchcock and Peter Buck, Sloan and Apples in Stereo. And so were a whole host […]
Bill shutterbugs me some real treats: Sloan:Apples in Stereo: Robyn Hitchcock and Peter Buck:Sloan again:Apples in Stereo
Aka Austin. Now a corporate far cry from a sub-200 lb Daniel Johnston caught by MTV, SXSW now showcases bands as a vehicle not for labels to make money, but for those bands and their management to secure overseas tour deals and other distro options. Today’s NYTimes piece sums it up perfectly. We can also […]
Why? Why didn’t someone tell me to listen to Hawkwind? I am a lost soul. Why did I waste 45 seconds of my life listening to one track by the Fratellis? I beg you. Hawkwind – The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)
Stop Loving Everything 