Archive: December, 2008
[Photo by Meqo Sam Cecil]
We hate half-baked countdowns just as much as the next cynic. That said, self-titled couldn’t help but stare in horror as good but not great (Fleet Foxes at No. 1 and 2? Really?) albums top the lists of other publications. Here’s one of 30 selections from our rundown of wholly recommended 2008 records …
We hate half-baked countdowns just as much as the next cynic. That said, self-titled couldn’t help but stare in horror as good but not great (Fleet Foxes at No. 1 and 2? Really?) albums top the lists of other publications. Here’s one of 30 selections from our rundown of wholly recommended 2008 records …
We hate half-baked countdowns just as much as the next cynic. That said, self-titled couldn’t help but stare in horror as good but not great (Fleet Foxes at No. 1 and 2? Really?) albums top the lists of other publications. Here’s one of 30 selections from our rundown of wholly recommended 2008 records …
If the CNN report posted above to be believed, headbanging is bad for your health, leaving concertgoers “dazed, confused and incoherent.” According to a pair of Australian researchers, bands like AC/DC should follow three simple rules to save us from ourselves:
- Provide fans with “formal training” on “how to headbang safely.”
- Tell everyone to bang their head on every second beat.
- Drop that “Highway to Hell” malarkey for a soft jam like Henry Mancini’s “Moon River.”
We’re not sure whether to believe such R&R-hating nonsense, but CNN reporter Elizabeth Coen had this to say: “I emailed the researchers to ask, ‘Are you serious?’ and they haven’t gotten back to me.” When she heard the dazed and confused comment, Coen also added, “Silly me. I thought it was maybe the drugs they were doing.”
Priceless. See what we think after the jump …
With his two Dischord-borne bands (Antelope; El Guapo, a.k.a. Supersystem) now defunct, Justin Moyer has returned to his nom de electro, Edie Sedgwick. While he looks a bit like Pop Levi these days, we can assure you that Sedgwick’s second LP (the Ian MacKaye-aided Things Are Getting Sinister And Sinisterer) isn’t on par with Pop sonically. This is a good thing—a very good thing. As Kim Coletta, the founder of DeSoto Records—Sedgwick’s original label—puts it, Moyer envisions Sedgwick as a “white, booger-drag version of Fela Kuti, Screaming Jay Hawkins, and the Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Or, maybe, a transgendered Ian Svenonius.”
The guy’s also one hell of a writer, as you’ll see in his Sinister commentary below. (Fans of self-titled’s previous print incarnation, DIW, might also remember Sedgwick’s pointed—and dare-we-say-entertaining—essay on postmodernism from a few years back.)
[Photo by Lin Stensrud]
We hate half-baked countdowns just as much as the next cynic. That said, self-titled couldn’t help but stare in horror as good but not great (Fleet Foxes at No. 1 and 2? Really?) albums top the lists of other publications. Here’s one of 30 selections from our rundown of wholly recommended 2008 records …
So we realize the Ramones are par for the Intro to Punk course and all, but the following Cars-worshiping cover is worth a listen if for no other reason than its shits & giggles status as the lead single off the only compilation self-titled’s ever been affiliated with—a Ramones tribute we ‘produced’ with the lead singer of Subpar Brakers.
Anyway, we blame the holidays for making us feel nostalgic. That said, this cut is actually quite killer, and makes us wonder where the hell Mr. TV People is these days. (The Syracuse-based ‘band’ was actually one very socially-awkward guy, discovered during our music industry tenure at SU.)
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TV PEOPLE, “Pet Sematary”
We hate half-baked countdowns just as much as the next cynic. That said, self-titled couldn’t help but stare in horror as good but not great (Fleet Foxes at No. 1 and 2? Really?) albums top the lists of other publications. Here’s one of 30 selections from our rundown of wholly recommended 2008 records …
[Photos by Andrew Parks; click for slideshow version]
While we’ve certainly covered Cut Copy before—see an S/T-hosted sparring match with their labelmates the Presets—Melbourne’s finest post-punk-as-fuck revivalists outdid themselves at the first stop of Modular’s Nevereverland Fest. As predictable as their poses are once you’ve seen them a couple times (the electro-fied jazz hands of frontman Dan Whitford, the Sonic Youth spasms of guitarist Tim Hoey), the band’s In Ghost Colours ouveure gets downright delightful with age. Holiday. Celebrate. All that.
Check out their final cycle of Ghost-ly dates after the jump …
