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Oh my God. I always thought it was "brains." You can't fault me! Neither option is that great.
It was inspired by Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes.
But it's his first-ever music video! It's really important...and he's just a high-schooler. Just tell him how great he is and how you wish you were his big brother.
Your mom is irrelevant...and fat.
NO, EVERYTHING ON EARTH IS RACIST!!!
Is this guy for real? I mean, everybody downvotes him because they think he's serious, but I'm really starting to have my doubts.
I'm not really into Stereogum's list, but "underwhelming lineup"? I don't really know how someone can make that statement about SXSW. There are 2000 bands, so if you have somehow listened to all of them already and you don't even like 20 of them, the problem is with you. But yeah, you have to sit there for hours and do the work of digging and digging through the heaps of bands to find the awesome stuff. That's what it's all about. I am not even close to being done listening and I already know I will be seeing Ganglians, Built to Spill, the Magnetic Fields, Psychic Ills, Krista Muir, the Young, Dax Riggs, Colleen Green, King Tuff, Amen Dunes, Young Prisms, White Mystery, POND, Girls, OFF!, and Electric Flower.
Texas is not a problem unless you are convinced that everyone is George W. Bush (who wasn't born in Texas anyway). That said, Austin has almost nothing in common with the rest of the state. It is the southern Portland.
I like that someone upvoted your comment but refused to respond to your question. As long as I am typing, I'll just say that, while I don't listen to Springsteen, there is no reason for him to stop making albums if he still has new ideas and things of substance to say. Based on the handful of reviews I've read in the last decade, it would seem that he's still got the spark.
To be fair, I think pissing on art is doing something. In fact, I think I read about some art a year or two ago that was made by pissing onto a canvas.
Heh heh. "deliberate, hi-quality trickle"...
She was referring to the intent behind the gesture.
Go back. READ. My comments had everything to do with rock and folk bands and nothing to do with any other genre of music.
In my first post, I say the cap should be five musicians (with some exceptions).
Right! I said all good folk music involved one person onstage, and sure, my argument was all about coolness. Well, now you are just playing (I hope) dumb. I'm not wasting any more time on somebody with virtually no reading comprehension skills.
Okay, so I have to respond up here because Stereogum still hasn't worked a major kink out of their comments section. Obviously you didn't read what I typed very closely. Read the first sentence of my last post again. I really don't care how many people perform jazz or classical compositions. That's an altogether different thing; they often lend themselves to a more elaborate ensemble treatment and draw strength from it. That's why in my last post I used words like "genres," "rock," and "folk." By their very nature, rock and folk were always meant to be a more personal and raw form of expression. And by the way, having been in a pretty good chorus for years in middle school and high school, let me tell you, the few forays into rock were rather awkward.
What I think is that good rock and folk music is generally rooted in a minimalist aesthetic and that deviating from that is usually a slippery slope to self-indulgent mediocrity. This is not being stupid; this is knowing the history of those genres of music. The people who work within a box, who force themselves to get the most out of very little tend to produce better art. This was the basis for the punk movement, from which all the subgenres lumped under the giant umbrella term "indie" are descended. Punk happened as a response to overproduced, self-important bilge that was passing as music in the seventies. Yeah, a handful of post-sixties bands can safely pull off the "Hey, look at us, we've got a frickin orchestra!" thing, but usually it is a sign that they are losing sight of why they started a band in the first place. The more parts you add to the thing you started off calling a band, the further you get from the bare bones of the initial idea, the vital personal touch that made it interesting in the first place. For what it's worth, I saw the second song Bon Iver performed when it aired, and I thought it sounded exactly like something that could have been on the adult-contemporary station my parents would turn on sometimes when I was little (which was during the eighties).
Oh okay. So suddenly it is fine for indie music to become bloated and overwrought, one of the very things it was supposed to be against. It's only a matter of time before liking Styx becomes cool, I guess.
It doesn't sound that much like it. It's a really good song that stands on its own.
My favorite Beach Boys album is Pet Sounds. Hey Stereogum, how about you start announcing when a winner to a contest has been chosen and then naming that winner? Sometimes, not doing so is a real inconvenience, like the way that I have been waiting and waiting to know if I have a reason to go ahead and buy the very limited NIRVANA box set. Also, by never providing any evidence that people win these contests, it raises the question of whether anyone does win them.
I'm sorry OCWeekly, but a true Kurt look-alike would part his hair on the opposite side and play a Fender guitar left-handed. Also, I have reason to believe that Kurt objected to striped cardigans.
Wow, that Russell Simmons/Kanye picture is just crying out for for a caption. Russell Simmons looks like a meek little kid asking his big mean Dad if he can go play with his friends.
I'm not familiar with MC Hammer. Is that a Scottish name?
Seriously, who downvoted my suggestion, which was pretty obviously a joke?
Not before the Jeff Mangum/Velvet Revolver collaboration....
Christian Bale is very good as Bruce Wayne, but whenever he's Batman he is boring, just some guy in a rubber suit...unless he's speaking, in which case he ruins every scene with his over-the-top laryngitis voice. I'm still stunned that Chris Nolan never bothered to tell Bale to a. tone down the voice and b. don't do the voice at all around people who KNOW Batman is really Bruce Wayne. Conroy is the only voice I'll accept for the animated Batman, and Michael Keaton is the only actor to nail the character on the big screen.
So I read the whole article, and weirdly, the Videogum blurb neglected to mention Fieri's alleged statement, "Jews are cheap." Ugh.
That's my favorite part.
I hope this story isn't true. What next? Adam Richman beats up old people?
Yes, but that is only because Guy's grandfather Americanized his last name. The true family name is Fieri, which Guy reclaimed.
Interestingly, they are friends and have commented on the weird resemblance in interviews.
If he really didn't like her, it would be shocking mostly because of who he has admitted to liking already, namely Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber.
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Yes, it is impossible to find rap music on the radio these days. Where did all the rap music go? Gee, why is it that I have to go to 4 music websites a day to find out about decent rock bands? Oh, right! Because there is that one station that plays all of the Nickelback and fake emo bands, and then there's the Lady Gaga station, the two country stations, and the 5,000 hip hop and rap stations...
As expected, a thoroughly underwhelming list of pop songs from the worst decade in the history of pop music...
Also the number of times Ferris Bueller was absent...
I have nothing against this band, but music that is not hellbent on using guitars to create a massive wall of disorienting sound is not shoegaze. Why is is word thrown around so much? It is a very specific genre. I remember years ago when I would read M83 reviews and sure enough, there would be that word, "shoegaze," even though there was rarely a guitar anywhere in the mix.