the only thing shitty about stereogum nowadays is the constant negativity and bitching in the comments section.
i don't know which front page you're looking at, but aside from this article, the Village People article, and the Elvis Costello article, i see a whole lot of weird indie shit on the front page right now.
the endless bitching that stereogum gives undeserved coverage to certain artists and not enough coverage to your favorite underground artists is so, so, so fucking tiresome. i don't even care about beabadobee but christ almighty these comments are a bummer to read.
i wish it was for better reasons but i'm happy to hear so much Entombed on the weekend playlist. the intro of "Demon" is one of the all time great UGGGGHHHHHs in metal history.
not to be confused with Enforced, who just put out a crossover thrash ass whooping, i've been waiting for a new album to just fuck me up with riffs and Kill Grid is that album.
the thing that gets me is, why do people always compare being "cancelled" to being killed? the salem witch trials and the KKK straight up murdered people. even here in the stereogum comments section, yesterday someone compared cancel culture to the death penalty. last time i checked, the death toll of cancel culture is still a big fat zero.
being told that something you said was bad, is not the same as being murdered, y'all! get a fucking grip!
i doubt the distinction will be meaningful to someone still scared of big-C Communism, but most people who self-identify as "antifa", which is almost no one, are anarchist, not communist. the guy on the book cover is holding an anarchist flag ffs.
lmao i'm not a member of the State Dept, i'm an anarchist IT guy but thanks for the laugh. i was invited to represent the company i worked for at the time, to talk to local NGO leaders about "gamification", a subject i know very little about. the "NGOs operating out of Kiev organized trainings for coup participants" that you are talking about, that was me. i don't work for any government, i'm just telling you what i saw with my own eyes, it was not that. i was not even remotely vetted, my presentation was not screened beforehand, i was invited to talk about literally anything i wanted. i talked to people who worked at like local animal rescue organizations, about how to use video game mechanics to drive user engagement. it was not "coup training", it was nerds talking to other nerds about stupid silicon valley ideas. did someone take those ideas and go build a protest app? yeah maybe, but "coup training" implies a level of competence that was simply not on display.
i was actually in Kiev in November 2014 on behalf of the US State Dept and i can assure you, while the State Dept definitely knew something was about to happen (the event i spoke at was protested by the pro-Russia crowd), they were not nearly competent enough to "orchestrate" the actual uprising themselves. turns out, most people in western Ukraine just really fucking hate Russia, for understandable reasons!
it has been 14 years, i've been to hundreds of concerts, i don't even like electronic dance music all that much, and still nothing has ever been better than Alive 2007
sounds like you and the orchard got a shout out in this very poem!
between this and cassandra jenkins' "hard drive" i am glad to see an increase in non-shitty spoken word
not the biggest fan of the weeknd or the super bowl, but yeah it was cool to see something weird, dark, and kinda spooky rather than shamelessly crowd-pleasing
not sure if this was on the Gum's radar, but Chuck Johnson's new album came out today. it's not quite as singular and bewitching as Balsams (which i just picked up on vinyl) but if you're looking for something pretty, melancholy, and relaxing, you could do a lot worse.
that's the same autobiography where he devotes a whole chapter to the time he and his bandmates all peed on a female fan and like covered her in raw meat? it's presented as consensual rock and roll debauchery but in retrospect sounds completely insane.
dude honestly got so much mileage out of being blamed for columbine and then appearing somewhat intelligent in bowling for columbine (even though some of the stuff he says in that interview is flat out inaccurate) but the warning signs that he sucks have been there for a long ass time. this is a guy who named one of his tours the Rape of the World Tour back in like 07.
surprised to see no mention of Yoth Iria, the new black metal duo from some former Rotting Christ guys. their debut full-length came out this week, and it kicks massive amounts of ass. more BM with scorching guitar solos plz.
one of my most terrifying mosh pit moments was at a Genghis Tron show at Market Hotel, i was trying to hold down a spot near the front but getting tossed about when i turned around and saw a 400 pound shirtless guy in a purple balaclava barreling directly towards me. Genghis Tron fans are crazy.
i'm referring to the one at great adventure in NJ but i see now that the song is probably talking about the one in maryland. that one actually looks better.
any movie that ends with twin Stiflers riding a flying ice cream truck to heaven, while the voiceover narrator earnestly delivers the line "He was a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide" is an American masterpiece
yeah i still don't understand why teens think lipsync videos are so cool but anything that leads to more people discovering Any Other City is alright by me
Bandcamp is great for following record labels that you like, as labels will tend to put their entire catalog up, making it easy to explore. might i suggest Unseen Worlds? they have a wide variety of weird, interesting stuff, mostly instrumental.
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