Two years ago, Philly punks Dark Thoughts released their self-titled debut album, and it immediately made them a sensation in underground-DIY-punk circles. (It feels a…
The Lost Boys, Joel Schumacher's landmark 1987 teenage-rebel-vampires movie, is firmly etched in the collective memory of every kid who grew up watching TV in…
Saw the Hold Steady's 6th show ever at the Ottobar, opening for the Oranges! (They also played their 2nd show ever in Baltimore, at the Talking Head, but I didn't go for some dumb reason.)
I'm from Baltimore, so it's fuck DC as a staff, a record label, and a motherfucking crew. (Baltimore has a little-brother complex about every other city on the eastern seaboard.) I did like that story tho.
The Cardi B album is better than the Neko Case album.
Stereogum's list was based on staff voting and the vagaries of subjective taste, but some things are just simply and obviously true, and this is one of them. Sorry.
No! I had a whole thing written yesterday and I had to completely scrap it and start over.
On the other hand, it was about how good Drake is at rap feuds, so maybe yeah.
To hear him tell it, nobody had. He didn't remember saying what he'd said at first, and he seemed incredulous that it would really bother anyone.
As for killing the interview, I mean, I don't know. We talked about it internally a lot. But I'm a straight white guy who grew up with every advantage, and I don't think it's up to me to police the way people talk if they didn't come up the same way I did. It's tough, though. The whole thing was bad.
I know what you're getting at. I asked him about that, he didn't have any good answers, and I felt like I'd ambushed him. That's the real reason we aren't running the interview. That's also the whole situation that bummed me out.
