i have to give bobby a lot of credit for fighting his own demons as these horrible events happen to him. i don't know how well he's succeeding but he's still standing.
whatever brings this great song off that great album back around is good to me. i can't say i liked too true all that much. but since dee dee blew her voice out on the only in dreams material she gets a pass.
Oh my word. Two of my absolutely favorite things in the world combined into one.
Blochead, every Marissa Nadler album is very very good to excellent. I listened to July for a year straight. You can't go wrong with Marissa. She'll coax you into jumping off a cliff. Another one to check out is a woman that she worked with a few years ago. Emily Jane White. Both of these women are phenomenal and devastating.
crime and violence is what many of these nola rappers know. b.g. is in jail, juvenile's daughter was murdered by her own half brother at the age of 4. who knows what birdman and slim have done? it's amazing wayne made it out alive.
the new orleans rap scene is a human tragedy. no limit is practically a cemetary/prison. the best rapper from that scene is underground in a casket. r.i.p. soulja slim.
don't be doggin h&o..
regarding #2-the history of rock & roll is his-story.
i'm in my early 40's. does that make my opinion about music more valid than those younger than me? no. it's all subjective. you may groove off of merzbow and i'm digging emily jane white. as neil young said, "it's all one song".
this article may be triggering? sorry, you don't have to be a victim of sexual abuse to be absolutely angered and disgusted by this piece. the article is revolting no matter who you are if you have any respect for yourself and others.
what a great review.
i was at night 2 in santa clara. the reviewer is right. it's the closest i've felt to the dead since jerry died. i feel so fortunate to have been able to go. i said goodbye and it felt o.k. not that i won't be listening to the dead for the rest of my life but when jerry died it was a cold ending. this one was a warm, enveloping ending. i took no drugs, drank no alcohol yet the show was transcendent. it wasn't the best show or the tightest show. but that sound. that dead sound. it was in the air. trey copped jerry on two songs but found his own way in the rest. and he was still part of the sound. i'm so thankful they decided to do these shows.
i've never gotten past the singles and it wasn't until the last few years when i started to appreciate them. being a middle aged gen x'er, grohl will always be the nirvana drummer to me even though the foo are huge and ubiquitous. i certainly don't think he should have hung it up just because kurt died. but kurt died so i moved on in a different direction musically.
I was witness to one of the final vh shows of the 2004 tour in bozeman, mt. eddie was completely hammered. he is a fuckin' liar and his performance on that night was a musical shit splatter. if it wasn't for michael anthony playing the role of bouncer on stage keeping drunk ass eddie away from sammy there would be more than a third of a tongue missing from that asshole's mouth. unfortunately, eddie is representative of many alcoholics. unable to accept personal responsibility and shifting blame to others.
what buzz does is basically save everyone the trouble of trying to figure kurt out.. there are truth, lies, misdirections and half rememberances in every aspect of the post-kurt world. all that matters to me is the memory of seeing nirvana in 91' and the great music they left behind. i don't need to know anything else.
i'm a huge fan of chelsea wolfe but imo marissa nadler is the reigning queen of spooky-sad songwriting. if chelsea were to bust out a handful of songs that thoroughly gut you like "flatlands" i'd reconsider.
if you think of universal themes as a rap album and koz as a rapper then this would have been par for the course. he was wrong. but this kind of shit is all over the music and in the opinions of several of the rapper stereogum covers. yet, somehow it's ok. maybe the drummer should have put a beat to his rant. severe double standard. it's time to call out all the misogynists. a sun kil moon album isn't loaded with this crap yet some people love music i can't even listen to without cringing. again, mark is wrong but so is stereogum and everyone who supports this kind of crap put to a beat.
what was "meandering" about that performance? bob sounded like bob and the band is top notch. now, if this were his 2004 band i'd agree with you. they sounded like shit and bob made changes relatively quick. but here? uh, no. maybe you're the wrong person to be writing about this.
he's on liver #2, as is phil lesh. it's sad that these assholes abuse themselves and get another shot when so many deserving people die waiting in line for a transplant.
the guy is a mega millionaire who has played every continent in front of hundreds of millions of people. i suspect this performance might be the one he'll cherish until his dying day.
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