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I really liked that country song he opened with.
It must've been fun for Lorde to watch Sting and Shaggy, two guys who weren't even nominated for Grammys this year, perform a song together that wasn't even in the running this year, when she wasn't invited to perform as an Album of the Year nominee. I bet that was a true career highlight for her.
Does anyone know the last time an Album of the Year nominee wasn't invited to perform one of their original songs alone? Based on my memory, the one-two punch of no solo performance -and- getting shoved into a tribute cover medley seems unprecedented. Even when it's a band with less mainstream music cred they still get shoved on at the end, like Arcade Fire with The Suburbs. What an incredible insult.
I hate Grammy medleys, but the Synth Battle of 1985 was amazing and I'll fight you.
Why can't they just embrace the joke and call the album, "Lute Variations on Wasn't Me: A Tantric Sex Odyssey"? It's 2018, we need this kind of entertainment.
Is it just assumed now that infamous wardrobe malfunction was planned, or it still something people are unsure about?
Will this meeting be held in a tennis court?
I had been wondering what Anthony Bourdain had to say about this.
^ This is basically what I'm saying. Also, when you reach for the term "species" instead of "country," since China is a country and Chinese is not a species, there's something kinda gross going on there. I don't really care much either way if Morrissey is racist jerk or just a jerk, but I'm also not interested in making excuses for him.
This is a lot of mental gymnastics to justify calling Chinese people a "subspecies."
All I can think about is why Bryce Dessner doesn't get a chair.
Of course Steely Dan have a Buy/Sell Agreement and shares.
"Thanks for tossing us this softball." - Katy Perry Illuminati conspiracy theorists everywhere
Yeah make that two sold-out nights in a row. It didn't hurt that they also had Broken Social Scene opening for them. I feel like AF need a band like that on the road to flesh out their bill.
I really don't think Roger Waters & co actually expect artists to cancel shows in Israel. I think getting people talking about it is the real goal, so here we are. Maybe at most they want to intimidate and discourage other artists from playing there in the future, but any expectation that someone like Nick Cave or Thom Yorke would say, "Oh, my bad, hadn't thought of that, we'll cancel our shows now!" is just ridiculous.
I do want to add, I don't know the full contents of his appearances on the show because I'm definitely not going past that paywall, so I'm not saying I think Jesse Keeler is necessarily in the clear. I'm just saying the article barely had any substance behind its claims and it's too bad how something that shoddily put together could blow up this much and require a response from the artist, which only makes it blow up more, etc., etc. It's not as if someone is coming out with personal accusations of abuse that need to be treated seriously, it's just an author trying to connect dots that aren't there—or, if the dots are there, the author hasn't taken the time to find them. All of that said, Jesse Keeler could definitely do a better job of picking his friends, especially when he must know that virtually everyone else from that early Vice era stays the hell away from McInnes now.
I'm the last person to let alt-right d-bags off the hook, but the original post making these accusations is such complete garbage. I feel bad for Jesse Keeler that this even has to enter the music news cycle and get more attention than it deserves. Gavin McInnes remains a human turd pile though.
I mean, anything is possible with a combination of mushrooms and confirmation bias.
I thought this was YG with Hootie and the Blowfish and Kendrick Lamar for a hot second.
OMG, how did I just now realize that Mark Kozelek is Vince Vaughn.
This is the cover I never realized I've always wanted.
A band that worked this hard to mythologize themselves can't just turn around and tell their fans to chill.
If I intellectualize this I can understand that James Murphy can do what and if you like the music then nothing else should matter. But the fact is, I can't listen to LCD Soundystem anymore without feeling cheated and gross.
Oh wait... never mind. https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/6togvw/s3e14_philip_jeffries_voice/
Yeah, that's his voice. I don't think anyone could impersonate that British-meets-Southern accent if they tried.
When I saw them on their last tour, they said "we'll see you again in seven years" at the end of the show. It was obviously meant more as a cheeky reference to how rarely they tour than an actual game plan, but I've always trusted that claim above their breakup. They're coming back. Would be cool if these videos mean a shorter wait.
Does no one ever tell Liam Gallagher when it's not raining outside?
You guys are right. In a post-Dimebag world, you never know which teenage girls at the Jewish community centre are carrying a gun and intend to murder you.
Preferring Being There is like thinking the Blue Album is better than Pinkerton. It's totally okay to do.
Also, FFS, I don't think anyone anywhere has actually said that he raps on this album. They mean he's rapping as opposed to singing, and that it sounds lazy. The go to comparison has been Blondie's "The Rapture," where I would definitely say she raps. Talk-singing would be the only other reasonable (non-German) word to use and that's more what Leonard Cohen did. Win Butler doesn't sound anything like that here.
Win Butler turning this around to be about everyone else being stupid and not knowing real rap is is 100% pure Win Butler. I'm surprised he didn't also specify that it's actually called "sprechgesang."
This will definitely help with Paul Ryan's whole "I'm a cool dude who's into rock" thing.