"All ppl are gonna do is go up to that statue and take pictures shoving their crotch in her face and putting their crotch on her butt"
im not saying that they shouldn't change the wax figure, but this is basically what people do to all wax figurines anyway, even Abraham Lincoln. ESPECIALLY Abraham Lincoln.
Everyone gets that paper, but I really don't think the two examples are at all comparable. You're comparing licensing music for a soundtrack to THIS?
http://i.imgur.com/mMhRft2.jpg
C'mon, son. That's disingenuous.
falls in line with their deliberate attempts to cultivate their brand as adolescent antagonism against nothing. so i wouldn't be surprised if that released statement was just another layer of artifice.
Also have no idea why Ethan would WANT to take credit for the lyrics, because they're pretty terrible. Like grade 10 lyric notebook terrible. The music is great though.
I always felt that they gave us What Happened To The Fambly Cat? as sort of a goodbye album, which i personally prefer to a goodbye tour if having both is not a possibility.
isn't their whole "brand" like, a satiric exaggeration of what passes for white trash culture in South Africa? They seem like pretty normal dudes IRL away from their artistic personas.
Viewed in that context, it seems 0% offensive to me. That being said, literally LOL W/E to this band, in general.
Don't know about the rest of the record but this is basically a black metal cover of Smetana's orchestral piece of the same name.
Feels weird to refer to something as a cover of a classical song, but there you have it.
Uh maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you've got the wrong festival. This was the Ottawa Folk Festival. Folk is in the name. It's a folk festival. And for the most part, bands have a folk-ish element to their music. Most genre festivals bring in bigger bands with more tenuous roots to the genre, just to pay the bills. But still and all, largely a folk festival. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Folk_Festival
Eh he played another show the day before at the same festival, and was similarly ripping on the comparatively unknown country-folk-ish band you could hear in the background at the time too. ("You guys got hillbillies in Ottawa too?!"). Guess which show's comments make the blog news though.
He's just taking the piss to give the show a little juice. Not to mention in that first show the spill-over was loud enough to be obnoxious for the quieter kind of music he plays. I can only imagine how much worse it would have been when a louder band like War on Drugs played.
I don't even like Sun Kil Moon that much. It's just clear to me this is being spun into something it isn't.
That Black Mirror episode where the woman's husband dies and in her attempts to cope with the grief, gets a robot with an AI personality tailored to be like him, is one of the saddest hours of television ever aired. Non-stop tears.
I'm honestly befuddled by his prior disparaging of The Unicorns. Yes, it's not "serious" music. And their oeuvre may not hold a candle to Return to the Sea.
But Arm's Way was middling, and every Islands project afterward fairly bland and uninventive. Tell me what compares to the sound or the fun of Jellybones?
"Let's wait to see what the other songs sound like before thinking he hasn't progressed"
"...most definitely going to be one of the better albums of 2014"
a.k.a. Don't jump to conclusions guys, because i already have.
"Than it's not" instead of "then it's not"
"Their job is.." not "They're job is..."'
"your prop argument..." NOT "you're prop argument..."
swear to god, one of you better start using proper grammar because i do not have the energy to hate two people today.
NOPE. I'M WRONG. IGNORE ME.
(although I still don't really agree with your premise to begin with. Why would you release a statement to the press about this sort of thing if the story wasn't already In The Press?)
You're wrong. See here: http://www.stereogum.com/1620632/conor-oberst-responds-to-anonymous-rape-allegations/news/
Oberst hadn't commented one way or the other at the time of Stereogum's reporting.
it loses more of its fragility though. and they're not a very harmonious pairing, even in a contrast. if it had to be a duet/conversation, there are more apt pairings.
I think it's much more enjoyable without Ezra. He probably could have done a solid version by himself, but their vocal stylings do not pair up well at all.
although i'm sure there's a more popular equivalent that I don't know of, this actually sounds to me more like something by Parallels (which had the same dummer as CC for awhile.)
Definitely one of their more vibrant songs, but I think there's a lot more to be said for their dreamier paced songs.
Wait, so where was stereogum's article (even a brief blip!) when it was revealed that Arcade Fire's publicist arranged for a rave review from Rolling Stone?
I mean, if we're going to post like, the chronicles of Coinye or whatever, I would think this might deserve a mention.
Artists don't owe you anything whatsoever, nor you them. If you're pissed that they don't justify themselves to you, don't buy or listen to their album or go to their concerts. Problem solved. The lives of strangers are under no obligation to revolve around you and your opinion.
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