Hold Steady Want Your Home Movies
Via Pitchfork: Hold steady launches "social networking site" boysandgirlsinamerica.com:
This whole album is about guys, girls, love, and growing up in america. We want to you know about what you think about the opposite sex, relationships, love, the whole shebang.Et tu, Hold Steady? This better end up with Craig Finn dancing on a treadmill.We want to see you!
We want you to make a video testimonial. Post about your life, your loves, your high's, and your lows. Your first date to your worst date. Your party fouls and your massive nights. Show us what you got!
Elsewhere in indie rock user-submitted-video-land, Yo La Tengo don't wanna know about your life or your loves, just that iamnotafraidofyouandiwillbeatyourass.com,
Posted at 1:12 PM
Tags: The Hold Steady | Yo La Tengo
Social networking site? Looks like it's nothing more than a digital drop box. Oh, but there's a message board. How very Web 2.0 of them.
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stereogum is turning into a pitchfork aggregator?
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I wonder if they are aware that FOB already launched one of these (friendsorenemies.com).
Well, it was just Pete Wentz. But FOB really is just him.
Oh well. Sounds like a nice idea.
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Oh, this has brought The Hold Steady down. Don't do it guys, remove the site! What a crap idea. The only video on it at the moment is amusing though it has to be said.
The new album best be as good as the other two.
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