9 posts tagged “music”
Pitchfork Media, it would appear, has never heard of Discount.
My top discs for 2008 are:
Only this year, when I've been in the coffee house, I've played LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver, Envy's Abyssal, the World/Inferno Friendship Society's Red-Eyed Soul and Pure Trance 4.
Dear Dan Yemin:
SWEET FANCY MOSES, quit dropping random FUCKS in your FUCKING songs, so I can play them on the motherFUCKing radio and have those songs blast the rest of the Pitchfork approved garbage my station plays out of the water and into sub-lunar FUCKING orbit.
FUCK.
Oh, yeah, New Lexicon is pretty awesome.
It is unclear to me why "The Reasons" was not an mp3 from the Weakerthans' Reconstruction Site. If you can explain to me how in the fuck "Plea From a Cat Named Virtue" is better than "the Reasons", it would be enlightening. Thanks.
It seems like Jimmy Stadt is reading my mind. First it's "it's a long, wet road to love and freedom" and now it's "damnit, all that I used to have burned out in a jar like a lightning bug".
His band, POLAR BEAR CLUB, may in fact, be the best new punk band this year.
Dear major labels:
If you want my money, meet or beat digital prices in physical stores. Please. I want to buy CDs. I want to support artists. I care about album art, I really do. I want to see that producers and mixers and people at the plant get paid, and I still spend more on music than 95% of the U.S. population.
But insulting me with $13 releases, especially during the first couple weeks the CD is out just earns my ire and rancor, which, in the end, costs you money.
Sincerely,
a fan of music.
Most of the time, when I hear songs, I don't thrash around. I don't jump around, play air guitar and scream back at an invisible singer "I never met a traitor I didn't like".
But most songs are not Hot Cross' Turncoat Revolution and they don't have eloquently screamed lyrics like "obsessively stabbing Achilles to kill it all".
Guitars are as noodly as anything you'd hear from the Fall Of Troy, and the voice is less fashionable and far more urgent. Sadly, the band broke up this summer, but if you read this before the end of August you can still catch them on tour.
BioWare is doing a Sonic the Hedgehog RPG for the Nintendo DS. Seeing as this is a developer that knows the genre inside and out, this Sonic game might not suck.
I recently purchased the sunnO)))/BORIS collaboration on exquisite/bordering-on-decadant 3-disc vinyl with crazy artwork for $15. Truth is, the package is so amazing I'm afraid to listen to it. (Southern Lord, if you read this, could you hook me up with a review copy of the CD?) I also picked up the INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONSPIRACY'S Live at Oslo Jazz Festival, which is just as danceable as HEAD AUTOMATICA's Decadance, and has me shaking my posterior for weeks to come. Also, a quick purchase of AMERICAN FOOTBALL's EP rounded out the heist from the decaying corpse of the Virgin Megastore downtown. Because all you need in life is symphonic doom metal, ass shaking, jazz reinvisioned live cuts and a quick fix of sad bastard emo...
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