Who Needs Coachella?
Thanks for the birthday wishes, viral videos, and and links to your shitty bands (just kidding!). You ALL neglected to mention that it was also Roland's birthday. You know, Roldand Gift. From the Fine Young Cannibals? Happy belated Roland!
Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy" (MP3)Someone mash that please!
Sleater-Kinney is back, and Dave Fridmann hasn't turned them into Mercury Rev. Download this awesomeness.
Sleater-Kinney - "Entertain" (MP3)
Stream new Spoon. More tunes added daily until release day.
Glen Phillips live show (flac & MP3) includes requisite Björk cover. (Link via Largehearted Boy, who's been breaking out a million great Warren Zevon links over the last few weeks.)
On his upcoming solo thing TheFutureEmbrace, Billy Corgan duets with Robert Smith on the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody." Anyone got an MP3? In the meantime, download Billy's "A100" here. (That was one of yesterday's comments section bday presents. Thanks reader.)
The Ghost That Feeds = NIN Vs Ray Parker Jr.
Some new CDs I've been meaning to write about: The Sun, White Out w/ Jim O'Rourke, Dungen reissue, Marbles, Ryan Adams (stream at Scenestars), Sufjan Stevens (so Ill), Eric Matthews/Cardinal, and, er, Weezer (yes "Beverly Hills" is the worst song on it). Look for Stereogum love for those next week.
Montreal Canada's Broken Social Scene never stops breeding. Stars, Feist, Apostle Of Hustle ... I can't keep up. Now singer/guitarist/vocalist Amy Milan is readying a solo album. Expect a mix of "bluegrass and country with pop."
Those who griped about my dis of Shins' opening act the Brunettes ... you're right. They weren't bad. But my concert companion hated them and I couldn't pay attention. Sorry Brunettes!
It's so sad when bands have to change their name. Dios was better than Dios Malos. And the handy UK suffix (see Charlatans, Suede) is always dreadful. But lawyers will be lawyers. Caribou (formerly Manitoba) and Supersystem (formerly El Guapo) discuss...
Supersystem guitarist Rafael Cohen (via The Onion AV Club):
"There's another El Guapo based in Chicago. They have a Budweiser sponsorship, and they've done some commercials for McDonald's. They're awful; they sound like Blink-182, but with Spanish lyrics."Electronica artist Dan Snaith (via Time Out New York):
"It would've cost me half a million dollars to fight [Dictators frontman Handsome Dick Manitoba] ... I literally picked it off of a map. It's the name of a Canadian province. This is like someone named Bob Smith suing the Smiths."Caribou plays Bowery 5/4 and Northsix 5/5.
Posie Jon Auer can be heard on two new indie tribute records: Friends And Lovers: Songs of Bread (also features Josh Rouse, Call And Response, Erlend Oye) and A Tribute To The Cars (also features Jason Falkner, Gigolo Aunts, and your least favorite Vassar alums the Bravery).
About that You Might Be An Indie-Yuppie If... contest: I promise we are thisclose to picking a winner. And by "we" I mean Lindsay who I selected to be the guest judge. Also you have a few more days to Photoshop the Foo Fighters.
Just discovered: Just Jared. Good stuff.
Katie Cruise. Katie Holmes-Cruise. Katie Noelle Holmes-Cruise... Yes I Googled "katie holmes middle name." I give 'em two weeks. (Katie's been planning this publicity stunt for decades.)
New Order performed "Love Will Tear Us Apart" On Kimmel. Here is the Windows Media video link. (Thanks Ultra.) Previous Stereogum love for that song here.
Gang of Four (who are releasing a new CD later this year) have a new version of "To Hell With Poverty" at iTunes. While you're there, Stereogum recommends dropping 99cents for the exclusive "strings" mix of Ben Folds' "Landed."
Watch a clip from The Baxter. It's a new movie featuring our favorite State guys and others from Wet Hot American Summer. Craig Wedren does the music.
ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com/. Yikes.
I've never had any interest in Star Wars (sorry), but some of you do. Three Vader virals: (1) Orange "Gold Spot," (2) Annakin's testes go for $24, (3) Darth: The Blog. George Lucas is gonna cameo on The O.C. in a few weeks.
Arjan posts an Annie remix and asks her if she reads Stereogum! (She doesn't read it. Bitch.)
Liam Gallagher surveys the UK music scene...
- Alex Kapranos = "fucking Right Said Fred"
- Kaiser Chiefs = "a bad Blur"
- Bloc Party = "a band off University Challenge, like they're sitting on a panel or something."
More music palindromes: I forgot Missy Elliott's "Work It" chorus. If you think of more, let us know.
NY Times warns of iPod thefts on the NYC subway: "devotees suggest keeping the devices concealed and switching to cheaper-looking earphones." But then people won't know you spent $500 on a space age walkman! Conundrum, I know.
By request:
Kompressor - "You Will Call Me Kompressor" (MP3)
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Actually, Broken Social Scene formed in Toronto - not Montreal.
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"The Ghost that Feeds" is one of the funniest things I've heard in a while. But tell me, does it mesh well with "I Want a New Drug" by Huey Lewis and the News?
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the kompressor link doesn't work...
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ok, ill get the embarassing thing out of the way first. i took a friend's 10 year old daughter to an american idol concert....but before the show, when they just play music and show videos or whatever, they played some sort of mashup craziness of FYC "She Drives me Crazy" and "Ice Ice Baby" that i've never been able to find. it was awesome. i could have (and probably should have) left after that.
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> the kompressor link doesn't work...
Oops. Fixed!
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i dunno, that "we're on drugs" or whatever is the worst song weezer has done......possibly the worst song ever written.
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also, misspelled craig wedren. no matter, shudder to think were sweet.
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The Baxter looks fantastic.
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thanks for all this reading and listening goodness.
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new weezer sounds TERRIBLE so far from what I've downloaded... AUTO_TUNE EVERYTHING!!!!!!! The era of naturalism is over!!!! WEEZER and COLDPLAY were bands that i didn't think would succumb but this is AWFUL!!!
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Auto Tune?
Ya who needs Coachella. Fuck em in the Indio.
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yeah Auto-tune. Rivers Cuomo sounds like a ROBOT. When he "sings" a sustained note it does exactly that. Sustains. Like a synth.
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> i dunno, that "we're on drugs" or whatever
> is the worst song weezer has done......
> possibly the worst song ever written.
I agree, this track threw me. I assume it's Rivers being tongue-in-cheek (i.e., intentional ridiculousness). But catchy, no?
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Scott,
You're usually spot-on, but I only WISH "Beverly Hills" was the worst of the new Weezer songs. What about that moronic "Freak Me Out" song about the scary homeless guy?? WORST SONG EVER. We spent 20 minutes trying to figure out whether or not it was a joke! How do you go to Harvard and devolve into a talentless dumbass? Wait... don't answer that.
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Does anyone know anything about the band The Breakfast? Include a link if you have one. Thanks!
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It's cool that New Order will dig into their past and actually played "Love Will Tear Us Apart" on network TV. But as much as I'm a fan, Bernard Sumner's "come on"s and "yeaaaaah"s kill it for me. Ovation occasionally plays a concert video from a few years back but I can't get through the whole thing because of those damn shout-outs. I do like their new album though.
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For what it's worth, MC Paul Barman has a few palindromic raps on "Pallelujah!"
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Gerald, please spin some Fine Young Cannibals tonight. ;)
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I'll definitely dig that up!
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ok, Lindsay is officially OMG CUTE!! gorgeous.
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that new Amy Millan record is gonna kick so much ass. guaranteed.
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thank you for helping me (and others) through 'choke'chella withdrawals. i was beginning to feel like charlton heston in that 1971 movie "the omega man"--the only one "not" going...
awesome linkage--thanks!
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I'm embarassed to admit that that K-Fed actually looks hot in that pic. And Britney kinda looks like Drew Barrymore.......
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that spoon song is so totally supertramp, in a very good way.
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what??? No special mention of a certain Gmail account full of music?
Stereogumsbirthday...
pass: stereogum...
hmpf.
Ingrate.
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charlton heston is in 'the omega man'? is that the one about vampires, based on the book 'i am legend'?
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I don't know if they're vampires in the movie, but yes, Charlton Heston stars, and yes, it's the one adapted from "I Am Legend".
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