" all-star band that he calls the Earthlings. Its lineup includes the Swell Season’s Glen Hansard, Jane’s Addiction’s Chris Chaney, touring Pearl Jam guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, and big-deal producer Andrew Watt."
This "all-star" lineup could only be more boring if it featured members of the National and Bon Iver. Hire a woman in your band for god's sake
I mean, I know it was part of a duo with his brother, but he did, in fact, make "Hell Hath No Fury," one of the greatest albums of this century in any genre.
Sophie, blazing through the sky and illuminating the outer reaches of the universe. This feels like a totally appropriate tribute to such an incandescent life.
Today, we have to say goodbye to Crack Pipe, even though we loved his rendition of "Oh, Canada!"
Crack Pipe, take off that mask, and let's see who you really are!
There is a YouTube somewhere (I think it is actually a Pitchfork interview) where Big Boi gushes about how big an influence Kate Bush was and how he used to ride his bike to school every morning blasting her music and imagining that she was a Phantom of the Opera figure living in a castle on the hillside. I am assuming you've probably come across it but if not, check it out, it is great! Any time I get weary from hearing Big Boi's more recent "middle-aged dude leering at women in a strip club" verses, I think back to this clip and it makes me continue to love him.
The worst take is that controlling access to ideas that one doesn't agree with is not a good look? I'm reporting your post to the moderator!
Just kidding my friend. I think I see what you're saying, but I'm obviously a hard-liner for free speech and free thinking. To me this is very much an academic parlor game, -- I don't think any of this actually matters much, as "Maus" and the Rogan show and Neil Young et al's music are still very readily available to anyone who wants it and will probably be read/listened to far more because of this whole controversy than it would be otherwise. And, as an added bonus, we all get to chime in with our utterly predictable opinions about it all and quench our thirst for upvotes, or in my case, downvotes.
The per-play payments have always been peanuts, right? Don't these streaming services pay significantly more than radio play ever has?
Like most free-market issues, this is about consumers. Clearly, very few people believe they should have to pay for music -- technology has been facilitating this trend has been going on for 25 years (40 if you count cassette dubbing in the 80s, which caused a similar uproar among musicians). Napster pretty much conclusively proved that music consumers will avoid paying anything if possible.
And as others have pointed out, conflating a money-centered contract dispute with some allegedly principled stand against Covid misinformation is bizarre and doubtless comes off self-serving. I guess the money stuff is a way to avoid coming off like the jerkoffs in Tennessee who want to suppress "Maus," but the impulse to control access to ideas that one doesn't agree with is the exact same, and it's not a good look at all.
Damn, I just clicked on this because I thought it was a cover of Kenny Chesney's "I Go Back" . . . suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me.
I'd love it if AC returned to form for real. I have tried and tried but haven't been able to get into any of their 2010s output except for "Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper," which I love, and maybe the bizarre ODDSAC movie.
I have never been on Spotify in my life, but I just noticed that Spotify hosts a daily Ben Shapiro show. So India.Arie, Neil Young, etc. are okay with Ben Shapiro's being paid by this channel, yet Joe Rogan is the Spotify personality these artists are trying to pull off the air?
It really is astonishing to me that this Bernie-loving artist (standup comedy is an art), who lives in Austin, whom Whole Foods (!) criticized for promoting socialism, has become the posterchild of all things evil to some progressives.
I clicked on the Media Matters link embedded in this story, and it sounds like a conversation about linguistics as much as anything. I am guessing most people in America have had a conversation in which someone notes the same phenomenon, i.e. that our words for race are hopelessly reductive and atavistic and don't make literal sense. I am guessing that most Americans have their cultural blinders set to the point that they just assume that other cultures categorize race the same as we do, but that's not true.
Good for India.Arie to get some publicity around this, and she's certainly entitled to do whatever she wants with her own art, even if it basically amounts to self-censorship as she makes it harder for people to hear her music. I can't imagine she's made any headlines for anything in years. (This is the second story about her Stereogum has ever published, the first being 13 years ago.) I hope it works out for her.
I think it is probably possible that other people were so offended by Lin-Manual Miranda's "rapping" (and maybe his ponytail too) that they reflexively became Aaron Burr fans?
Burr shot down one of the most famous and influential politicians in America in a duel in New Jersey, in the ultimate example of "keep my name out your mouth, keep my daughter's name out your mouth." Even in the 90s rap feuds weren't as hardcore as all that. Hamilton kept telling people that Burr was banging his own daughter, Theodosia, and that kind of shit has consequences.
Personally I have been a fan since I read Gore Vidal's amazing historical novel ("Burr"), where Burr rolls through 1830s NYC not giving a fuck like the Boss/complicated anti-hero he was.
I have personally found that Reed's novels work better in synopsis form, as ideas, than they do in book form, as novels. But that's true of most postmodernist novels in my opinion. Have you read/seen The Haunting? I read Mumbo Jumbo and Flight to Canada but was disappointed in both and still cling to the idea that I'll like some of Reed's stuff (especially since I find the Hamilton phenomenon deeply obnoxious as a fan of rap music and of Aaron Burr).
I personally was hoping this article would start speculating on how hot the baby will be on a scale between 1-10. And it better include a rating for the face AND body!
This should be the happiest occasion in the couple's life until someone can turn the baby into an NFT.
I love to hear from people who've spent the past two (or six) years screaming, "Believe the experts! Education and training matter!" and then they disagree with sound-bites from a psychologist who has been tenured at Harvard and the Univ of Toronto and who has decades of clinical experience, so they call him a "fucktard."
Meanwhile it is hilarious how much stock people put into the opinions of celebrities (this entire controversy seems to be about who's more trustworthy on epidemiology, a podcast host/martial arts announcer millionaire who dropped out of college, or a 76-year-old rock and roll legend millionaire who never spent a day in college). Keep doing your thing, internet.
The art in the promo that's included in this article looks a lot like Swell Maps's "A Trip to Marineville," but most people admire the latter's general aimlessness and amateurism
I don't see it listed on Amazon Prime/Netflix/etc., it's not in any theatres according to Fandango, I can't download it to my Zune, and my local Blockbuster said they aren't stocking it . . .
Yes! Roger Miller did A LOT of speed and smoked a lot of cigarettes in those days and by all accounts was writing songs on cocktail napkins at all times. His wordplay and knack for melody are outrageous.
In terms of his overall catalogue of recorded songs, I honestly think Roger Miller might have the highest percentage of great songs vs. mediocre among anybody, ever. They just seem to emanate from the guy. k.d. lang used to do a cover of "Lock, Stock, and Teardrops" that was pretty good.
My general outlook is that when someone is in show biz, their pretending not to be show biz is just another form of show biz.
Just because Aaron Dressner is not attractive or marketable doesn't mean he's not doing basically the same thing as attractive, marketable people like Taylor Swift.
I believe that is a German Shorthaired Point who wanders onto the stage with them at about 3:35 and sniffs the mic stand! Just like my own GSP has been doing all day in the Zoom videos I'm doing in my office today! Kismet!
I thought all that was basically what corporate factory pop-star songwriting consisted of also, except more people want to listen to the end product and they make more money as a result. I would assume that Max Martin and most professional songwriters in LA or Nashville or way back when in Tin Pan Alley or the Brill Building see/saw themselves as being pretty similar to this setup and also identify themselves as intelligent, sensitive, passionate artists working in harmony to express themselves.
I would guess it's mostly a matter of taste and a matter of whether commercial success bothers people enough not to like the art that produces that success.
Sounds like a super awesome job . . . these bands mostly aren't my cup of tea, but if there would be a way to frame Tim Gunn calling you a doll, that would be the souvenir hanging on my wall instead of the Wilco CD, personally (just my own taste!)
God, social media addiction seems just as exhausting and horrible as other addictions. Imagine having the money, lifestyle, and adulation of Taylor Swift but compulsively spending your time in a Twitter war with a guy who is old enough to be your dad who operates in a completely different genre (which barely exists anymore) from a different continent.
I guess about 60% of humanity knows that type of feeling now, so this is yet another reason for the sense of identification her fans feel with her.
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