New Weezer album cover or Village People 2.0? Emo Scarface Guy, Dweeb, Puny Cowboy and Tattoo Enthusiast In the last post I whined, as I so often do, about record companies that don’t understand that music videos are advertisements and ought to be embeddable by anyone. Along comes Weezer to prove the point by cleverly [...]
Portishead: “Go on, drink it…” Compiled By Noah Mallin Portishead come back after 11 years with their atmospheric gloom-mongering intact. Their new one, Third (It’s their third album, natch) is readily identifiable as the work of the pioneering trip-hop threesome but the beats have grown more abstract and the rich production is studded with off-kilter [...]
Black Francis: “Yer in me power…” Compiled by Noah MallinLast week brought us a new album from ex-Pixie Kim Deal’s band The Breeders; This week brings us ex-Pixie Black Francis (nee Frank Black) and his new album, the awesomely rocking Svn Fngrs. As we all know, two weeks of ex-Pixies albums means five more weeks [...]
The Raconteurs are voting for McKinley this year… Those rascally Raconteurs rush release their new one, Consolers of The Lonely today. Naughty iTunes spoiled the retro unheard release fun by accidentally offering downloads over the weekend. Here’s the video evidence, a new song called “Salute Your Solution”: The B-52′s are all “Mwahh hah hah hah [...]
Be Your Own Pet try out their gangsta stares… The retro-retards at Universal Music have put their foot down on Be Your Own Pets’ new album Get Awkward, axing three songs from the U.S. version. The reason? The songs were too violent, so says the sanctimonious money hemorrhaging major label which is home to Eminem [...]
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