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Yes, if Pinegrove headlined festivals. (I'm maybe the one person on staff here who doesn't like Pinegrove that much.)
Yeah, I thought it was pretty fun as these things go. Relax, buddy.
It's more of a tonal thing throughout. There's no one moment where the Hindenburg explodes.
You know that thing where someone is being nice to you for a reason (I was interviewing him for Urb magazine) but you still get the feeling that, in other circumstances, he would be an absolute dick to you? It was like that.
I had dinner with Immortal Technique once, and I would frankly be shocked if he was *not* doing shit like this.
Noname should've been AOTW. I'm pretty sure I didn't have time to process it before writing that week's piece.
http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/dipset-invades-kiddie-pop-extravaganza-6386106
I'm glad you guys all realize that I'm being serious all the time. Sometimes people think I'm joking. They are always wrong. Thanks for recognizing.
I think of him more as the chattering-teeth guy.
BET's media player is really, really screwy, which made putting this together a whole lot of fun.
I don't believe it. Paul talks about watching Rush Hour over and over on that album, and that seems very particular and specific. I think he was trying to sound like less of a nerd when he got famous. Paul's "Still Tippin'" verse is great, too, and that was also pre-fame.
Well, no, her publicist set it up. That's the way these things work. It was a very cool experience, tho. Currently fighting the urge to text her about how much I like the album.
They took all those old track reviews off the site, which bums me out a lot. But yeah, Shawty Lo and D4L were popular musicians who were pretty much dismissed critically in their era but who turned out to be important once we heard what so many younger artists took from them. It sucks, but it happens. I try not to sleep on stuff like that, but every critic does it sometimes.
I wrote at least one D4L track review for Pitchfork back in '05.
I appreciate that, but I don't have much to say about it. It's a very good indie rock album, and that's about all I got.
I reviewed Friday Night Lights for pitchfork. Thought his whole thing was puzzling back then too.
You don't do something like that unless you're a trained stuntman. But maybe it's supposed to be Frank?
FINE SORRY I PUT THE TRACKLIST IN THERE, JESUS. I WILL NEVER BOTHER YOU WITH A TRACKLIST AGAIN.
GLORIOUS Legit contender, for sure. Like, was that theme all this guy ever needed? Did he suffer through a decade of butt-ass TNA themes just because he didn't know what was awaiting him? Nakamura's theme also a masterpiece obv.
Last 4 albums of the week were Ka, Thee Oh Sees, Dinosaur Jr.*, and Jeremih. I love the shit out of pop music, but I press myself hard to listen to everything and pump up anything exceptional I hear, regardless of genre. It's precisely that fear of missing out on stuff that pushes me to do that. We post a lot of music on this site, but a very large percentage of it is stuff that we're genuinely excited about. There's just a lot of music right now. * I actually think I got a little lazy on Dino Jr. week, partly because I'd never written at length about them post-reunion. Shoulda probably given it to Noname instead.
Hamilton is form-pushing too tho! And it's also clearly the reason why he's on this show. I would bet money that Baz Luhrmann has never heard a clipping, song.
"Unrealistic" isn't a problem. "Stupid" is a problem.
Let Corgan Be Corgan. (He is almost certainly not going to come on our show.)
It's not online anymore, sadly. It probably sucks tho.
...I don't think so? It's been a long time.
I'm only 36 tho.
Gotta stay tru to myself.
I've heard it.
I'm playing. Hamilton is fine, I'm assuming. Haven't seen it.
Yeah, but Bun had "once upon a time, not to long ago / a brother like myself had to strongarm a ho / now this is not a ho in the sense of having a pussy / but a pussy having no goddam sense"
I never troll.
Lungfish fuckin rules but I like that Pupils album better than any Lungfish proper.