I’m trying like mad to work out why I am sooooo convinced by FOE. There is definitely both art and artifice in whatever she does – the first single wrapped in recycled wrapping, and the brilliant theatrics of the Tyrant Song video. But there’s hugely more quality than gimmick. It’s all a bit unsettling and …
Month: July 2011
First off, I think this issue of the debt ceiling has revealed again and maybe more starkly than others a severely bad habit of the press to need to understand their role as non-partisan as always necessitating their taking the view that both sides of the debate are equally valid or equally a cause of …
“Michael Todd, 30, whose band was the scheduled opening act for tonight’s headliner Soundgarden, is accused of being the robber who held up the Walgreen’s on Pleasant Street in Attleboro just before 1 p.m., according to authorities. Attleboro police say a man wearing black shorts and a blue T-shirt asked to speak to a pharmacist …
This means, “Do you want sausage?!”
http://youtu.be/ytB17mKgrww
http://youtu.be/7OeQdSJ6stY
http://marathonpacks.tumblr.com/post/7388842751/i-feel-like-you-seem-pretty-well-read-when-it-comes-to
There is one place in the world where videos from reggae tunes have gone viral in 2011 and that country is in many ways a seeming polar (bipolar, really) opposite of reggae’s birthplace, Jamaica. The nation in question is Sweden. Several times this year already, non-ironic Swedish reggae tunes have made it to the list …
http://youtu.be/Tfz26abL54U With related vid http://youtu.be/YYoQul4jhYQ
http://youtu.be/r0VcDc-Wwxw
Here’s the article: 10 Years After the White Stripes ‘Saved’ It, Rock Is Again in Crisis
Job listing is here.
Here’s a funny photo from Reddit, given the title, “Instant cat pants, step 1: open can of cat food…”
http://youtu.be/AM8RCMLA9ss
The band have a track of the same name on their debut album, and here is the lovely video for it. I totally rate Warpaint, and have been privileged to see them go from a fairly nervous performance to a couple of hundred people at CAMP basement to a sold out Kentish Town Forum in …
Hey Tom, check this out. Pretty lively sounding, no? Bob Burnett saw them at that small club across from the old DC Tower Records – can‘t remember the name of it, it was only open a short time. Marc Marshall ******************************************************* Hi Marc: Weird how Vernon Reid is always so …