wow! I went to my childhood Tower Records store the week before it closed. It was thrilling and sad at the same time. I bought $150 of crap I probably didn’t need. After a decade of spending thousands there on crap I probably didn’t need, it somehow felt right.

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I really was in Guyville. When I went back to the documentary, the one unifying thing with the guys is, they all talk a really long time, and then I get a tiny little word in edgewise. They were all like, “This is what’s good,” “This is what you should like,” and I was like, [...]

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I’m a little slow getting around to this, but I just re-read it and laughed the whole way through: Meathead over at Buddyhead rips Rolling Stone and Coldplay’s Chris Martin a new one. Easy targets, I realize, but they were both asking for it. For RS to call Chris Martin a rock god is [...]

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Spin tackles the Swedish Pop. (via)

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“From the absurdly elaborate pivoting, platform-raising box, to the black fabric wrap (which looked blue to our camera), to the faux-LP liner, to Peter Saville’s signature etched in foam, they clearly did Joy Division justice on this one.”
WTF?!

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After its acrimonious departure from Interscope Records, replete with the requisite blog-style rant outing label-head Jimmy Iovine for his alleged philandering habits, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead is gearing up for its sixth long-player. Scheduled for a January 2009 release, the as-yet-untitled record will reside on the band’s own [...]

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Two-thirds of the core of Siouxsie and The Banshees performing the jaunty, jazzy “Right Now” off The Wild Things EP on Tops of the Pops as The Creatures in 1983. Sioux is all dolled up, if a little bored by the staid atmosphere of TOTP. This EP is well worth tracking down, but for the [...]

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1.4 million people downloaded NIN’s The Slip since its release on May 5, 2008. And this Google Earth rendering is a snazzy way to present the numbers. For old schoolers, you can pre-order the limited (well, if quarter of a million is “limited”) physical version here. Gatefold vinyl version out August 5.

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What is his deal? And why do people keep provoking him? Can’t Thom Yorke talk some sense in to him?

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Taking “Everything in its Right Place” as the basis for a thesis project, a student has created an interactive “breakdown of the technology behind a song from one of music’s sonically obscure albums.” (via)

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Not sure what’s happened to The Faint since the genius of Blank Wave Arcade, but they’ve managed to consistently underwhelm on all subsequent releases.  Sure there are a few good tracks on Danse Macabre and Wet From Birth, but if the new track, “The Geeks Were Right” is any indication, Fasciination isn’t exactly charting unexplored [...]

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Cookthink ponders the intersection of Fruit and Music.
Does the strawberry catalog (which could also include Sonic Youth’s Sympathy for the Strawberry) trump Stealin’ Apples (Benny Goodman), Red Apples (Cat Power singing a Bill Callahan song), Appletree (Eryka Badu), Apple Honey (Woody Herman), Big Apple (Tommy Dorsey—not Kajagoogoo) and June Apple, a traditional song that Doc [...]

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(via Simsie) [lyrics] More at MySpace

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компютри втора употреба
no comment.

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sorry, eric. (via)

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mp3 available at pinglewood. (via BigStereo)

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“Just as we were about to go live on the air, Thao Nguyen and the three guys in her band The Get Down Stay Down started swearing. They ran through all the words you can’t say on the radio, some of which would make a longshoreman blush. It turns out that this was strategic — [...]

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I saw Jens Lekman a few months back. Only about 6 months after this amazing show and while I enjoyed both shows, the latter was definitely lacking in that certain joie de vivre that can make or break any performance. So much so that I didn’t even post about it. Turns out even [...]

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Is that really Moz? He looks so pedestrian. And old.
(via the slut)

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