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docshoe asked: Actually, yeah--for Rotten, anyhow. My argument is simply to play Never Mind The Bollocks (which Sid scarcely appears on, but fuck that guy). You can call it overproduced, overhyped, and overrated, but it's still a great record. Many other overhyped records of that day have been forgotten, but music fans still listen to Never Mind The Bullocks, and it helped SAVE Punk by serving as a "gateway drug" for kinds new to Punk. Oh, more kudos for Rotten: Check out Public Image Ltd.
I’ve always wanted to like PIL but I can’t get past thinking it was the worst record in my mom’s collection (which is OK, she has good taste). But I was about twelve then, so I’ve been meaning to give them another chance. Did you seem them in SF when they got back together recently?
Premature Evaluation: Should Stereogum exist?
I see this with so many sites, where they’re so caught up in page views that they degrade the user experience. It’s a fact that the more you post the higher your traffic; and that makes it so hard to compete with anyone who’s willing to post garbage quickly. I’ve think about ways to monetize my site, mainly so I can justify spending more time writing. But the truth is that the pursuit of readers can ruin your site faster than the ever-feared selling out.
…Its mix of search engine-friendly headlines and shiny click bait is not totally without appeal — Stereogum is one of a precious few sites paying its bills by writing about indie music, and has 100,000 followers on Twitter. And yet if you have been reading it for a decade, as I have, you could be forgiven lately for feeling disoriented. The Stereogum of 2012 is so far removed from the original product as to beggar belief. And so it seems worth asking how it got there, and what was lost along the way.
If I ever make a list of sexiest songs, this will be on it. It’s the kind of song that makes you want to slink up to some pretty young thang and sway. Nothing too serious, not a song for bootie-grinding. More a song for getting a little too close, and using a coy smile to get away with it.
By the way, what are your feelings on posting YouTube songs without videos? There’s so much music I want to share, and sometimes I don’t have time to upload the track. I still try to find the official video when possible. And when there’s no official video, I get to thinking the band needs more exposure. What do you think: Is it better to have more posts? Or only posts with videos?
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Doves - Snowden
This songs from Dove’s third album, Some Cities(2008). I think what makes this rock song sound out are the heavenly back up vocals. They combine and contrast with the guitars in such a striking way.
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On Glee tonight Puckerman’s character sang “School’s Out for Summer” by Alice Cooper. Oh Glee, always picking the most obvious song. Here’s a great Alice Cooper song that doesn’t get enough play, and perfect for the Glee audience: “I’m Eighteen.”
I got a
baby’s brain and an old man’s heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don’t always know what I’m talkin’ about
Feels like I’m livin in the middle of doubt
Cause I’m
Eighteen
I get confused every day
Eighteen
I just don’t know what to say
Eighteen
I gotta get away
Lines form on my face and my hands
Lines form on the left and right
I’m in the middle
the middle of life
I’m a boy and I’m a man
I’m eighteen and I LIKE IT
I know I identified with it when I was eighteen, and the song was already considered classic rock back then.
In the episode Puck and the cheerleaders do their make-up like this.
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The Grates - Burn Bridges
Hey, who here likes energetic girl bands? This one’s rolling, I tell you, rollicking!
Such a fun, upbeat song. It’s a little bit tropical, a little bit electro. Or maybe electronic tropical. But what’s with the guys in the video, standing around looking all bored and serious? Surely that’s not the image you want to give off in a video with lasers and back-up singers going “Whoa-Oh-Oh”.
Shad - I’ll Never Understand
This is only hip-hop in the tradition of smooth-voiced musicians like PM Dawn. It’s Shad, a Canadian fellow of mixed African heritage. His mother is Rwandan, and this song about Rwandan genocide has snippets of poetry his mother wrote.
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The first four seconds of this sounds bootleg, but it’s not. I suspect the uploader wanted more people to be able to discover Moving Units, but knew if they just posted the song the copyright witches would remove their content. It’s sad that the recording industry wants to squelch music videos. The whole concept of a music video was originally a tool to publicize music. I guess that felt safe to them when it was primarily in the hands of a corporate entity, like MTV. Get real, RIAA, anyone who replaces a music collection with a YouTube stream wasn’t going to buy the music in the first place.
Anyway, speaking of retro sounds, Moving Units has that eighties feel. Not the movie soundtrack vibe of dreamwave, nor the dark wave sound that lived before Goth. No, this is straight-up new wave, in the tradition of Crowded House, Tears for Fears or Simple Minds. The song is ”Dark Walls.”
Rules for Shows #4: If You Love it, Leave it Home
Rule #4
You know what drunk people at concerts like to do? They like to take things and throw them into the air. Stuff like beach balls, balloons, other patrons. Barring that, the hat off your head will do. Drunk people spill liquor all over you, and the floor. They stomp around like mad, crushing everything under their feet into the dark, mushy muck of rock and roll. Which is why there is a different dress code at a rock show. It’s understood that you are there to get dirty. Possibly, if things go especially well, you will fuck shit up. Do not wear your grandmother’s brooch to a rock show. Do not wear your dead cousin’s cufflinks. You will lose it, you will cry like a baby, and we’re all going to laugh at you.
To promote their upcoming European tour dates, YACHT is enchanté to release a new song, a cover of iconic avant-garde French singer Brigitte Fontaine’s “Le Goudron”.
Fontaine is one of YACHT’s longtime favorite artists. Her singing style, her ability to blend humor and major gravitas, her seeming flippancy about life and death, & her willingness to take on serious issues: these are all huge inspirations for YACHT. So is her path of unswerving weirdness.
“Le Goudron” is a surrealist revolutionary song originally recorded in 1969 with The Art Ensemble of Chicago; YACHT has reinvented its naive-apocalyptic candor for a neon-soaked dance floor, their preferred autonomous zone.
While Claire L. Evans of YACHT was raised in France, this is the 1st song YACHT has ever recorded in French. Of the song, YACHT says, “we can only hope that our frantic, starry-eyed cribbing of Brigitte Fontaine makes us better people. In the meantime, we wanted to pay homage.”
The pair also made a new music video for the song, shot at The Smell in Los Angeles, California. Check it out below & read more about the track on YACHT’s blog. European + US tour dates below.
“Le Goudron (edit)” ϟ download
SHANGRI-LA TOUR 2012: PT.2 EUROPE:
04.26 Nantes, FR – Pôle Etudiant
04.27 Tours, FR – Le Temps Machine
04.28 Paris, FR – KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD at Gaîté Lyrique
04.30 Heidelberg, DE – Halle01
05.01 Frankfurt, DE – Zoom
05.02 St. Gallen, CH – Palace
05.03 Dublin, IE – Workmansclub
05.05 Belfast, UK – Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
05.06 Bristol, UK – Simple Things Festival
05.08 London, UK – XOYO
05.11 Brighton, UK – The Great Escape at Digital
05.13 Norwich, UK – Norwich & Norfolk Festival
05.14 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
05.15 Brussels, BE – Les Nuits De Botanique Festival
05.16 Lyon, FR – Nuits Sonores Festival
05.17 Barcelona, ES – Music Hall
05.18 Madrid, ES – Charada
05.19 Guimaraes, PT – Vila Flor
SHANGRI-LA TOUR 2012: PT.3 SOUTHERN U.S.A.
05.24 San Diego, CA – The Loft at UCSD
05.25 Tucson, AZ – Plush
05.26 El Paso, TX – Neon Desert Music Festival
05.28 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
05.30 Gainesville, FL – Double Down Live
05.31 Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
06.01 Tampa, FL – Crowbar
06.02 Miami, FL – Bardot
06.04 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
06.05 Nashville, TN – 12th & Porter
06.06 Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone Cafe
06.07 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
06.08 Austin, TX – The Mohawk
06.09 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
06.11 Norman, OK – Opolis
06.13 Santa Fe, NM – Sol
06.14 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
06.15 Pomona, CA – The Glass House
08.10/08.12 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands
08.31/09.02 Chicago, IL – North Coast Music Festival
The team behind Metric is doing a great job promoting the album that will be out on May 1st. In an email to their fans, they note that the release on International Worker’s Day is no coincidence:
Before you jump to conclusions about those old time “socialists” and “anarchists,” take a moment to thank them for effectively implementing the 8 hour work day and making it illegal for you to get stuck in a factory job when you’re still in grade school. In 1971, there were some serious May Day Protests against the Vietnam War too. And in 2010, hundreds of thousands of people across Europe took part in May Day demonstrations in the wake of the global financial crisis, probably having no idea how much worse it was going to get for countries like Greece. In 2011, May Day was reportedly pretty subdued by contrast. It will be interesting to see what happens this year. It seems like a lot of people might be feeling too beaten down to rise up for much. My eyes are peeled.
It’s this intelligence and social engagement that keeps Metric at the top of the list of my favorite bands. The first single off the album will be “Youth Without Youth” and you can bet that as soon as I hear it I’ll be posting it for you too. Until then, here’s a video from their 2009 album, Fantasies.
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Full preview of the new Clock Opera album out April 24: http://hypem.com/artist/Clock%20Opera I listened to it all last night. This may be the first contender for Best Music of 2012.
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