00:09 This film should be played loud , the intro titles read. I would concur, except I would also add, "Be sure to turn the volume down during the actual music segments." . 09:28 Our first glimpse of how The Band looks. Now I know where Wilco get their fashion sense. 15:14 Oh, look--it's Ronnie Hawkins performing one of my favorite rock and roll mannerisms: redneck band leader screaming encouraging rev-it-up phrases over the guitar solo. [...]
As a public service to all my readers, I'm going to translate select song titles off the new album Synthetique by the French 80's glam outfit Prototypes : L'amour L'amour L'amour means "Love, love, love." Machine Arriere means "Machine of the butt." Un Coup de Langue means "My language blows." Est Ce Que Tu M'aimes? [...]
Solid Gold by Eagles of Death Metal ( buy ) Sinking Ship by The Clean (Currently Unavailable) Kawliga by The Residents ( buy ) Nervoused Out by Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns (Currently Unavailable) Juicy, Juicy, Juice by Royal Trux ( buy ) (Dancing [...]
Oh, dear. It seems that Let's Whisper is in a bit of a pickle. They have a list of new song titles in front of them (written in crayon) but can't seem to remember which ones are real and which ones were submitted by lovers of their childlike gentle pop sounds. Can you help them figure out which song title is the real one amongst all the fakes? [Answer is below] Popsicles Are Fun We Like Gumby Marathons on Nickelodeon Let's [...]
Gogol Bordello Guy: "What are your policies on the hardships faced by traveling gypsy musicians? And what will you do to reduce the price of black and white striped leggings which they frequently wear?" Woman Who Irons Her Hair: "Senators, I am a big fan of Phoebe Snow and yet she hasn't had a hit record in over 30 years. What are your thoughts on any potential future hits by Phoebe Snow? [Pause] For god's sake, will someone tell me if Phoebe Snow [...]
Linette S., 41: Let me just start by saying that until last week, I did not even know who Patty Griffin was. But all of that changed last week. I only worked a half day and went home thinking I would just go and lay down for a while. I'm in bed and all of a sudden I could feel something is lifting my blanket and slowly putting it down again. I thought it was my imagination and did not make much of it. Then I had the distinct [...]
I raised all of you better than this. Here is all the wrongness which you allowed to happen during my recent sabbatical: 1. You encouraged Leslie Hall to channel her inner Roches (but at least she possesses a much better fashion sense). 2. You catipulted Santogold into the charts simply for emulating M.I.A. when, in reality, she is also [...]
As usual, I was the first in my party to spot Ken Burns. I somehow end up winning this spirited competition every year, with Burns and I gravitating towards each other within mere hours of the festival's beginning. Is it because I, too, am a 40-something male sporting the bowl cut hairdo of a 12-year-old? While waiting in line for Firaaq (a film so pedestrian, I had to depart 30 minutes into it), I spot Salman Rushdie conversing with the film's director Nandita Das . [...]
Oh, Maya Rudolph , you multi-hyphenate talent of indeterminate racial origin! When we locked eyes earlier this morning--you in your Earth Mother finery, me in my Homo-Lite office wear--it made me giggle in all those secret places. I swooned and tingled, much the same way I feel when listening to the music of Luie Luie , another superstar of possibly unknown ethnicity (but almost certainly what some would call Fiery Latin ). It would be appropriate to say his music touches me, but seeing how almost all the songs on [...]
Please don't even begin to express your shock-- outrage and shock! --over the allegations in defrocked doughboy Scott McClellan's bitch-and-tell bestseller. Did you really think Bush wasn't at all the world's biggest fuck-pig liar about his motives for the Iraq war? Were you really in the dark about Cheney 's practically-tattooed-on-his-fo rehead involvement with the Valerie Plame leak? Next thing I know, you'll be telling me you weren't expecting the latest album by The Oh Sees to [...]
The First Song Popping Up on Your iPod Which Makes You Weep During the Long Drive Home from the Funeral: Don't Bother, They're Here by Stars of the Lid , due to its tender ethereal weight. A vast soundtrack to the cosmos, it makes you reflect on loss and grasping the infinite, asking yourself what the fuck it's really all about. The Second Song Popping Up on Your iPod Which Makes You Weep During the Long Drive Home from the Funeral: [...]
It was a given that Daddy:Disco was going to pass away very very soon, and although he was not much of a music lover, I had been scratching my brain for the last week or so in an attempt to find that perfect track which would pay tribute to him; something, say, like an Italian folk song. It finally occurred to me, as that dreaded phone call arrived late tonight (pronouncements of death always come in the evening or early morning, don't they?), that since Daddy:Disco was the King of Cussing, especially while flexing [...]
The all-dark-clothing urgency of Iron Curtain 's music should make my eyes roll, yet they surprisingly stay firmly in place. Perhaps it's because the paint-it-black keyboard wash and echo-laden vocals of 25 years ago which drip over every track on Desertion 1982-1988 now finds itself in vogue once again. These tunes sound timely without being retro. Sure, some of the compositions push too hard at being seen as dangerous (the only reason to name a song Anorexia or [...]
You are always greeted by a multitude of shocking experiences when shopping the mega-enormous Amoeba Records in Hollywood. To start, there is that final tally to your charge card. Second, you'll spot releases by bands whose break-up you had assumed was a done deal. [You mean to tell me the fucking reprehensible Poi Dog Pondering is still together and was somehow allowed to release a new fuddy-duddy hippy-dippy album???] But the largest jolt to the system isn't even the myriad of celebs spotted as you traverse the densely-packed [...]
ACT ONE The scene opens on a line of travelers awaiting the task of showing their boarding passes to an FAA inspector at the Tucson International Airport as they prepare to fly to Los Angeles. The line moves slowly--the inspector is courteous yet thorough in her duties--but dispenses each traveler in line at a steady pace. About three people from the front of the line is ASTRONOMY PROFESSOR, a married man in his early-to-mid 50's, balding yet continuing to grow his hair in a shaggy swirl as if still in his 20's. He [...]
With only two of The Fab Four barely standing, pondering the legacy of their artistic impact becomes less and less interesting with each passing day. All that's left to ponder are the reactions of all the other bands when faced with such a pervasive cultural icon. In the case of the Ace Records comp Beatlemaniacs , you get to hear abundant examples of supreme nobodies attempting to touch the hemlines of Somebodies. Sonny Curtis spells it out deliberately: A Beatle I Want [...]
Plugged-in Gaul rocker Electronicat scores your most masochistic toothache to a throbbing pulse as layers of guitar noise undulate on your brain waves in a shimmering display of aural menace. On his 2007 missive Chez Toi , tracks such as Pancake Lady and Seveneves become red-beamed sniper lasers zeroing in on your temple, while the thank-god-it's-finally-availab le-on-CD shoulda-been-a-hit She's a Queen plods its way to the dance floor through a back beat fuzzier than that [...]
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 CLEVELAND – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum breaks ground today on its newest feature, the You're Not Necessary Nursing Home and Euthanasia Insta-Clinic , which is scheduled for completion in early 2009. This new facility will house past-it performers who, after being forcibly removed from irrelevant tours plugging recent releases, will be sedated into retirement using a potent mixture of lobotomy-inducing drugs. "Sadly," explains Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum President and CEO [...]
One booth at the SXSW 2008 trade show received oodles more attention due to the young, sexy female sporting a low-cut lingerie thingy underneath a taut leather jacket barely draping her Hostess Snack Cake -sized booty. Also, she was continually handing out free candy to every male heterosexual passerby. The booth at which I was employed was not equipped with such flirty enticement and suffered accordingly. At some point during a eureka moment, I myself dressed in the same exact outfit to grab the spotlight, and it while it didn't result in more customers, [...]
So, Lou Reed: I see that we will tangle once again . Are you so hell-bent on revenge that you would follow me all the way to this year's SXSW Festival ? Is it my fault that, back in the halcyon summer of 2005, you caught me in a short-lived love affair with your dog on the streets of Telluride ? Laurie didn't seem to mind--in fact, her winsome smile led me to believe that she [...]
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