Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The LA Times Managed to Interview Him About it
For his part, Astley was nothing if not modest about his new cultural role. “If this had happened around some kind of rock song, with a lyric that really meant something — a Bruce Springsteen, “God bless America” … or an anti-something kind of song, I could […]
Awesome post that starts with looking at the grow(ing|n) popularity of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”—which you probably know as Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah”—and goes on to discuss The OC, indie rock, music as lifestyle versus music as politics and a bunch of other stuff. Be sure to watch the montage video, it’s nifty. As a […]
The Guardian gets Rickrolling
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
You may rock the karaoke, you may even have impressed the judges on American Idol, but you don’t know lyrics until you’ve seen them in alphabetical order.
I found this surprisingly hard (and fun) try it for yourself.
Mental note: Go see this film.
Girls Rock!, the website, thanks to Lilly for the heads-up.
Weekend America: The Mountain Goats do Super Tuesday - the Mountain Goats wrote a song about Super Tuesday!
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And we pull down our blindfolds
And we […]
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Don’t Invite Morrissey to Your Birthday Party - this is my favorite Natalie Dee comic in quite some time
Shot by Shot remake of Journey’s “Separate ways”
Journey “Separate ways” from patsevc on Vimeo.
For comparison, here’s the original:
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Aesop Rock - Coffee - this is my favorite song on the latest Aesop Rock album. And it features John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats. And zombies.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
Schreiber’s semi-favorable review, which begins in earnest after a six-paragraph preamble comprising a long list of baroquely rendered, seemingly unrelated anecdotes peppered with obscure references, summarizes music as a “solid but uninspired effort.”
Pearls Before Breakfast - Kant, classical music, the American subway, and the daily rat race. This article is fantastically fascinating. Read it.
“Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.”
Friday, February 23, 2007
Shins, Common, Fiona Apple: Fulbright Judges - let’s not forget that MTV is also involved.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Karaoke for your iPod
Everything you love about karaoke - without the two-drink minimum.
Personally, I have to disagree. I love the two-drink minimum as well.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Pitchfork: Stop Reading Us - Pitchfork writer calls the end of rock criticism, and likes it.
The Wrens Reissued, Rejuvenated - This is good news. The Wrens’ pre-The Meadowlands albums are being reissued (so I can get legit copies of them, rather than the ones I ripped from Sean-Michael.
Also:
Jagjaguwar will release a split single between Bissell [The Wrens’ singer/guitarist] and Will Sheff of Okkervil River, with each covering one of […]
Friday, September 15, 2006
Dictionaraoke! - take a karaoke-style backing track, and have your vocals done by the pronunciation samples from an online dictionary. Awesome and funny; I wish I’d thought of it. Check out Black Sabbath’s Iron Man:
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Bedding the “Sellout” - interesting call for indie music to embrace commercial forms in a sort of pop-art movement. In other words, let them use your music for cool commercials.
Here It Goes Again - this is basically what Jennie and I look like at the gym.
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Stylus Magazine’s Top 100 Music Videos of All Time - complete with YouTube links for each one. Hours of procrastination in one place!
Video Killed the Video Star
Remember that one guy who got famous making funny faces while lip-syncing? Remember those two guys who got famous doing the same thing? Remember the 10,000 people who fired up the webcam and did it too? There’s a word we use when thousands of sad people imitate each other in a […]