
[Local! Music! Friday!] Tell me...what is this Local Music Fridays? AND ALSO It's Expletive Week , motherfuckers!!! What does that mean? That means a week of totally offensive songs! Yeah! DOUBLE MOTHERFUCKING WHAMMY!!! The Pussy Pirates fucking rule! In all ways possible! Take it from the Chicago Reader : " If you can get past their name, these five women (four from Ann Arbor, one from Chicago) might just charm your socks off. They all play [...]

It's Expletive Week , motherfuckers!!! What does that mean? That means a week of totally offensive songs. This song is called Punk as Fuck but it sounds more like Sad Bastard as Fuck. Partially, my extreme affinity for it comes from it's hilarious name. And that fact that I secretly envision myself to be Punk as Fuck, especially if being Punk as Fuck can sound like this. I love this band. They are so pretty and depressing. I was always surprised that they didn't blow up. This song [...]

It's Expletive Week , motherfuckers!!! What does that mean? That means a week of totally offensive songs. When I started working for The Michigan Daily , I was in a beautiful sea of incoming free review copies. Hot Hot Heat's Make Up the Breakdown was one of the albums that found its way to my dorm room in a manila envelope that I actually loved (most things, I panned ). Hot Hot Heat is hipstery (in a world where "hipster" was just starting to enter [...]

It's Expletive Week , motherfuckers!!! What does that mean? That means a week of totally offensive songs! And what better way to kick it off with than with Liz Phair, a musician who used to write offensive songs and who eventually actually became an offensive individual? Yes, Liz Phair totally sucks now. No one in 90s indie has managed or aspired to sell out quite as disgustingly as she has. Despite her recent attempted Lindsay Lohan-ization and entry into bland momhood, back in the Matador days, she was one crazy bitch who wrote [...]