Well, this is unsurprisingly delightful. I think I've recommended Mary's music to more people in the past year or so than I have any other band or artist... maybe ever.
Dear The National,
I am excited to hear your previously unreleased, professional live recording of an ‘00s cover you once performed in concert. However, I would like to bring to your attention that Darude's Sandstorm came out in 2001 and does NOT contain vocals. Problem solved, you have one month.
Sincerely,
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I've been waiting for this since the column started - this was #1 the week I was born, and I've joked in the past, semi-seriously, that the #1 song the week you were born must inform your life somehow.
Anyway - I love this song so much. This and a Steve Winwood song that should be in this column soon(ish) are two of my three favorite songs of all time.
On top of all of that, but you know SOMEONE involved with (the band) Googled 'Lady A' before the name change announcement. Assuming the Google happened, it stands to reason that (the band) and management, etc. were alerted and every fucking one of them - presumably - was probably like, "LOL, whatever, it's just some rando - we don't need to worry about it, we have more money than she does AND we're already being sooooo progressive!"
If I may be anecdotally vague... It feels like a lifetime ago, but I used to work - directly or tangentially - with or for a lot of the people involved with Lockn' during the first few years aaaaand... this comes as absolutely no surprise. The willfully ignorant entitlement in that (generalized) group is STRONG.
What the organizers don't seem to be taking into account is the post-Lockn' pilgrimage, where Career Festival Goers have, in the past, hung around Charlottesville for extended periods of time. That won't be good for the local economy in the long run if there's a bunch of Wookie Super Spreaders hoola-hooping and selling pins and glassware on the Downtown Mall for a week and half in October.
I'm loving how prolific Nico's been (it gives me hope for a new DARKSIDE release).
I've got a new sound bar coming in the mail today, so between this, Zombi and a few others, I can't wait to test it out before putting on a big loud action movie.
Um... well, at least it's better than his remix of Whitney's 'Higher Love'. Considering how cheesy Kygo is, I can't believe he completely omitted the DX7 harmonica solo.
The video is WILD though. If the new Stereogum allows tags/user flair, I call dibs on [bad bitch enabled]
I'm listening to It's Hard to Have Hope for the first time, and getting Disfear-meets-Gospel vibes and goddamn how did this band fly under my radar for so long. This is so fucking good.
This is sad - yet, he lived a long life and left us and (hopefully) future generations with a wealth of music to comb through and appreciate.
For me, his work on The Thing, as well as Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage stand out as remarkable scores beyond his "typical" scores. There's so much more, too.
"Here's to You" is one of the coolest, weirdest, most mournful pop songs I think I've ever heard.
Although a little boring, this might be my favorite layout of a festival lineup poster I've ever seen. Easy to read, quite handsome, nice colors. I have some friends in SF I've been meaning to visit for years, so this could be a fun to plan a trip around.
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Miss Me, Kill Me is absolutely underrated. The Edge has been fumbling with trying to write a monster riff since the early 90s, to varying degrees of success, but none of them have come close to how effortless and cool the main HMTMKMKM riff is.
Simpler times. Great write up of White Pony, BTW.
I wouldn't have put two and two together without today's columns, but I guess almost exactly 20 years ago I was in Spain on a class trip where I bought The Rising Tide, and then picked up White Pony at the Virgin Megastore (or HMV? IDK) in Picadilly while on an extended layover in London. Where the eff did these two decades go.
Oh man, same - to a fuckin' T.
I was in high school from 98-02, so between my older brother, Repo Records (both the Philly and Bryn Mawr locations), and the advent of file sharing, I was in heaven discovering bands.
SDRE stands out because I got into them after How It Feels... and they had broken up for the 17th time already, so the fact that I was able to follow them via their (limited) online presence after they announced this reunion and album was so exciting. I can still pretty vividly remember what the Time Bomb Records site looked like.
As uneven as The Rising Tide is, there are some undeniable riffs and it still gets a few spins a year from me. I can't believe its already been 20 years (ditto White Pony).
Dang, that's a jam right there.
The video is giving me Sexy Boy vibes, except Sexy Boy has been quarantined and can't float around New York, so he made a #stayathome video
Her solo releases are amazing, and I also highly recommend her band Marriages, as well as Red Sparowes' 3rd LP "The Fear Is..." (I'm pretty sure RS is also working on new material).
I grew up listening to The Bouncing Souls via my older brother, who died about a year and a half ago. When I saw this I desperately wanted to send it to him (happens a lot...), and got really sad for a minute that I couldn't. But it's The Fucking Bouncing Souls, and I bopped along to this new jam in my room alone and it cheered me up, and wherever my brother is I know he's bopping along to it as well.
I'm not getting too excited about this actually happening, but having never been to The Anthem (and hearing nothing but great things about it), I am way more excited to see Thom, Nigel & Tarik there rather than a college convocation center.
Gloomdammit, I love this band. Santos is a real social media treasure if y'all aren't following any of their accounts.
Also, since I've been acknowledged as a source, I'm going to put "Stereogum Scoop Transmitter" on my CV for when I need to find a job after all of this quarantine baloney.
Dang. I'm not as familiar with his entire body of work, but I've always really admired the craft, mood and arrangements of Mazzy Star for conveying so much with, generally, so little.
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