The Internet has found itself a new ally in its ongoing fight against SOPA and PIPA. As Billboard reports, Trent Reznor, MGMT, The Lonely Island, Nada Surf's Daniel Lorca, and OK Go have all co-signed an open letter to Congress expressing their opposition to the legislation. The letter was also signed by comedian Aziz Ansari, fillmaker Lloyd Kaufman, MythBusters ' Adam Savage, and other members of the entertainment industry. "We fear that the broad new enforcement powers provided under SOPA and PIPA could be easily abused against legitimate services [...]
Dear Matador Records: The new Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks song was on the internet for a minute, but there's now a "404 error - file not found" message associated with the link on Mr. Malkmus's internet-based website . If I am posting the below track in error, please drop us a line and I'll remove the file post haste. If it makes you feel better, we always encourage the readership to buy records (although, in fairness, that's usually kind of an embedded assumption; we're a little bit less explicit about consumerism [...]
Dear HMV Forum, With regards to your recent concert of Death From Above 1979, I'd hereby like to raise a few issues, which I felt greatly impacted on my overall gig-enjoyment. Firstly, I ought to clarify that I was on the balcony. And I understand that there are rules and health and safety and whatnot but I have never in my life been told off for dancing at a gig. Complete and utter total sad-face. We acquiesced to your demands and sat down, peering over the balcony, watching the pit surge and sway, feeling [...]
Note: This piece comes from new contributor UFOROMANTIC, which AFIN is very pleased to have on board! Rap has gotten a raw deal since it has caught on as a mainstream style, and has lyrics that are sometimes alienating as they deal with subject matter that is less than identifiable with the vast majority of people. It comes largely from the same place as punk, from an ideological standpoint: anger, and the need to express one's self with a big FUCK [...]
Dear independent artist, It's time. It's time to pull the plug on your myspace page. To pull the plug on an ugly ad-infested site saddled with 66 million dead and or dying accounts (though, personally, I don't know anyone who hangs out there). In the world of myspace, you are nothing but an unhatched fly egg on the giant mound of turds, larvae, flys, and god knows what else, i.e. not even a blip. Your myspace is, at best, a diversion of a few select streamable [...]
To the guy who came into my job today and asked about me, I apologize for insinuating that you might be a creepy stalker. I try not to publicize things like where I live or where I work, so I get caught off guard when someone I've never seen before says they know me. I'm sure you're a really nice guy, but I'm paranoid and socially awkward, and that makes for some uncomfortable interactions between me and the people who read this website. Again, I'm sorry if I made you feel like a loser for introducing yourself to [...]
Dear Mr. Conan O'Brien, In light of recent events -- in which a no-talent assclown held a clueless television network hostage until said network shot itself even deeper in the foot and succumbed to aforementioned no-talent assclown's demands , putting you and your wonderful show in a very tough position -- I write you this letter. I just read your own letter of resignation , and I applaud you for making difficult sacrifices in order to preserve the most established -- though now forever jeopardized -- franchise in the history of broadcast [...]
I've debated with myself whether I would email the staff personally or an open letter. But...
To Whichever BBQ Bro It May Concern, Hey everybody! What's good? Not much here. Just getting ready to fuck up a can of Campbell's Chunky for lunch. Should rule. Welp... heard you all got in a lil' pickle outside of Nashville in Hopkinsville, Ky. Got nailed for having a lil' "controlled substance" for party hard solutions. That's a bummer, man. It's kinda like the song "Rollin' Dirty" with the Bone Thug bros. I probably would've been humming that to myself if I were in a similar situation. Anyway, good to hear you're out of [...]
Marcus Whitperson, one of the writers at LiveMusicBlog.com, has written up an excellent and well thought out open letter to the members and management of Phish regarding the need for a Phish concert webcast . Head over there to see Whitperson's arguments for why this has to come soon. There are a lot of people out there that would pay $10-20 per show for this if it was done correctly (read: hi-definition, solid bandwidth, quality sound). "After witnessing the evolving and ever-expanding online activity surrounding Phish's recent reunion tour, I'm now thoroughly convinced that the [...]
-------------------- We're sad to report that last night Noah and the Whale had all of their instruments and tour equipment stolen from Trinity Way NCP car park in Manchester. At some point between midnight and 11am this morning, the band's trailer was taken containing all the equipment listed below, most of which is of great sentimental value to the band. Many of the instruments were packed in flight cases marked NOAH in 6" high stencil lettering, or gold marker pen lettering NOAH AND THE WHALE or NATW. If [...]
( Editor's note: Today's post is explicitly intended for Maryland's best quasi-experimental indie folk quintet, Le Loup. I felt I owed them an explanation for my failure to review their upcoming sophomore album, out September 22 on Hardly Art. If you're not in Le Loup, you're more than welcome to read the following letter to the band, but that's a touch voyeuristic isn't it? Creep. ) Dear Le Loup: I've been procrastinating. I'm working on my doctorate and I've got two classes this semester, one of which requires a substantial [...]
Lately black radio has been on a jihad, so to speak against bill HR 848.
Lately black radio has been on a jihad, so to speak against bill HR 848.
Dear Granada Theater - We have had some good times - no, some great times. You bring some really good acts to town and although your sound varies from good to pretty bad, I'm not sure that is your fault most of the time. But, that doesn't mean you are without faults. For example, what is up with waiting so long between acts? You don't need an hour of no live music between the opener and the headliner. Once the headliner's equipment is set up, let them play. I'm kind of tired of waiting on these inexplicably [...]
Having followed the advice contained within R. Kelly's "The World's Greatest" and got precisely nowhere, I felt it was time to write a letter of complaint.
Dear Sufjan Stevens, Every single day that I am at work I find a way to listen to music. Some days I find myself drifting along to whatever John Richards of KEXP has to offer, other days I browse random websites, myspace pages, and other forms of online media like youtube, and on a few days each month I dive into old albums and songs that I've always loved. I love music and I love to hear random tracks, brilliant live covers, and new music from artists that I genuinely appreciate. Today at work I received [...]
AN OPEN LETTER TO FELLOW GRIZZLY BEAR FANS What's emerged in the last 24 hours is a low quality rip of the third studio album by Grizzly Bear. When I say low quality, I mean low quality. For those of you who are downloading it, with the intention of keeping what you hear...I'm not sure entirely what I should be telling you to do here. Either, hold out, wait for a better quality leak and then judge it. Or simply pre-order the album this very second, and carry on enjoying what you're hearing. For those [...]
I asked my esteemed colleague, who listened to this before me, "Who won Round 1?" He said "neither." Saigon - "Under Achiever" (Joe Budden Diss) I'll let you decide. Propers due to Legend Previously Posted - "The Letter Opener" - Saigon Responds To Joe Budden | Joe Budden - "A Letter To Saigon"
The letter opener as in one of these . Disappointment best describes Saigiddy these days. After last year's shoulda/coulda/woulda " Believe It ," antics dominated most of his viral fame, leaving fans wondering if it was the actual Saigon or the one from Entourage they were dealing with. But you can ask Nas or LL Cool J how beef can awaken a sleeping giant. And while it remains to been seen how lethal the "super classic" Warning Shots 2 will be, I'll be damned if Sai didn't [...]
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