Explaining the Obvious: Maria Aragon, K’Naan, Matisyahu, Lady Gaga
How many of us have seen that commercial for the new phone that shows a young Asian girl, she is clearly amateur and possibly a YouTube sensation, singing
“When I get older, I will be stronger…”
Show of hands, who knows this commercial? Ok, a couple. Me, when I saw it I was at first reminded of [...]
Farewell Mark Linkous
I can’t say Sparklehorse was the most consistent group/guy in music, but when it/he was good he was very good. Mark Linkous killed himself Sunday — very sad.
Without words
It’s been, what — two weeks? — since the season finale of Californication aired and I still can’t get “Rocket Man” out of my head. I don’t particularly like Elton John, but this scene just blew me away. It was an uneven season, and I often couldn’t make up my mind whether I was watching [...]
Ceci n’est pas une chanteuse
I was looking around at the state of pub-it-yourself magazines (in one of those Screw all y’all, I’ma make my own damn magazine moods) and found this amazing document on a site called MagCloud. It’s called Gigi, the Black Flower by Josh Gosfield, and it’s a collection of retro-designed media that tells the fictional story [...]
Nice one
Why do I still want to like Kanye West? So the guy says a lot of stupid things, so he comes off as a big baby with a huge ego and no self-awareness. So what? If you want a “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” moment, you might have to tolerate idiocy like this. [...]
Things you weren’t meant to see
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The Rolling Stones - cocksucker blues part 2 sélectionné dans Musique et Rock / Pop
Part two of Cocksucker Blues, the documentary about the Rolling Stones’ 1972 North American tour. It is banned, or unreleased, or illegal, or something — let Wikipedia explain. I watched it last night [...]
Sing it, Katie
This may go down as the pinnacle of Auto-tune the News.
Oops — there’s the door. Must be my lettuce dealer with fresh leaf.
A few things your dad liked
Here’s just the sort of thing that gets me going. “Gets me going” perhaps a poor choice of words — but for me, as a kinda-ex-Playboy guy who likes forgotten music and fetishizes everything having to do with bygone bachelorpad-ism, a picture like this is like a papyrus scroll from Giza. Look at that sweet [...]
Not your father’s songwriter Earle
Justin Townes Earle is Steve Earle’s son, and he’s really good. I got to meet him for a profile I wrote for Inked. Nicest guy in the world, though — and I don’t mean to generalize — you often get that with recovered heroin addicts. We should all wake up every day feeling so lucky [...]
Which is better
“I’m a Cuckoo” from Dear Catastrophe Waitress was the best song Belle and Sebastian put out post-Boy With the Arab Strap. What makes it more appealing? Stuart Murdoch in jogging shorts:
…or Lisa and Molly in hats slapping each other?
Yeah, not really a fair fight, is it.
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