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Lady Gaga announced another Jazz & Piano residency in Las Vegas. She'll bring out Diana Krall as a guest and they'll do a duet version of "Oliver's Army," unbowdlerized.
Lauren Spencer-Smith, riding high off viral hit “Fingers Crossed,” announced a partnership with Island and Republic Records. Lauren Spencer-Smith is so forgettable that Rachel forgot she'd written this item the second she hit Enter.
Machine Gun Kelly announced his new album title, Mainstream Sellout, after getting the previous title tattooed on his arm. How can you sell out if you never had anything to sell? Is there such a thing as short-selling out? Maybe Reel Big Fish can explain that to us.
Beabadoobee says her next album “sounds very 2006”: “I’ve been really getting into a band called Stars.” Here, Bea, have a circa-2006 meme. https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/299959f1bcad51b54ca1d50556c3309c315e496c/c=0-80-1600-984/local/-/media/Phoenix/Phoenix/2014/11/19/635520020160086182-country.jpg
If you decide to move to Southern California, you need an “I live in LA now” song. Counter: No, no, you don't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRrvA3_Pl00
my God, there are meth addicts with more chill than Billy
these are good but nothing will ever top "goddammitbabeyouknowIain'tlyin'toyai'monlygonnatellyouonetime"
I take it that all parties involved are pretending that the brief marriage of Elverum and Michelle Williams never happened, which is probably for the best
Unfortunately, the cops very much can get in the door when Daft Punk is playing at your rink-uh.
Hair metal was a stew of the New York Dolls, KISS, and Van Halen, and not a lot else. You're not talking about a recipe for groundbreaking artistry.
...so I should just start wearing a Kobe jersey and buy a very fancy stainless steel gas grill, then?
They were, but hair metal wasn't exactly groundbreaking stuff. And, lo and behold, 2/5 of Pearl Jam were in what was for all intents and purposes a hair metal band before PJ.
not coincidentally, they're also textbook exemplars of Dunning-Krueger Syndrome
It has been socially unacceptable in large parts of white American society to say "n****r" at least since Agatha Christie's American publisher refused to publish "And Then There Were None" under its original UK title "Ten Little N****rs." That was more than 80 years ago.
they both make unimaginative music for basic white dudes, just of different ages
there is way too much venture capital money sloshing around right now
Obviously this is named for the film, but I'd like to point out that the gay bathhouse down the street from my old house in West LA was also named Roman Holiday.
dude's voice reminds me more of Bid from The Monochrome Set, who are seriously one of the most slept-on bands of all time
you'll also see Lloyd Cole's name dropped around these dudes a lot but I think that's only because of a vocal resemblance
OK, fellow jangle lovers, y'all need to check out It Should Have Been Tomorrow by the oddly named Love, Burns. RIYL: the Chills, the Ladybug Transistor, the Feelies.
As a man with a strong regional accent I should be more understanding, but American dudes who look like Joe are usually driving lifted pickup trucks with InfoWars bumper stickers and Thin Blue Line flags in the bed
I am pleasantly surprised by it. It's really good.
What happened to her? Did she go down a rabbit hole?
Joseph Campbell And the Rolling Stones Couldn't give me a myth So I had to write my own
I wish I had some video editing skills so I could turn that Oprah "You get a car! And YOU get a car!" video into Vince Staples giving out cases of Sprite
it's been a great week for jangle
you're in Europe, it'd be like 9 AM here
congratulations, hope he's not colicky
I suppose it's more interesting than the band geeks all starting ska bands, but only just
TRPAP's last record was a bit meh for my tastes but this new one's magnificent.
It's a way more interesting way of doing "'80s widescreen pop left in the sun too long" than, say, Alex Cameron
As timescreamer mentions below, this is absolutely a branding exercise on Kim's part.
I've never felt better in my life.
You forgot Yeezus. Kim's Instagram was where the infamous blank CD-R cover art first appeared, IIRC.
I've known a couple families that relocated to L.A. in the late '70s/early '80s to get their kids into the entertainment business (one of which is the Jacobs clan*, whose star son Christian founded the Aquabats and Yo Gabba Gabba) and they're some of the grossest people imaginable. Some of the kids still toe the party line, but the others are bitter. Why would it be any different with YouTube, really? (*The younger sister of the Jacobs clan's patriarch is Deanne Stidham, a name you might recognize as the founder of LuLaRoe. The fact that people like this aren't forced to take a decontamination shower before they enter a Mormon chapel--and instead are often given positions of power and influence--is the principal reason my family and I left Mormonism.)