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Month: November 2009

Pete Doherty: Self-Hating Jew or Living Under a Rock?

November 30, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Some musicians are known to be reclusive individuals, so it might be easy to cut them a break if they make some sort of mistake in the rare times they enter the public eye. Pete Doherty is not one of these musicians. The former Libertines frontman spends plenty of time in the spotlight, be it … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Das Deutschlandlied, David Hasselhoff, Germany, Hit The Road Jack, Munich, Nazi, NME, On3 Festival, Pete Doherty, Ray Charles, The Libertines, U.K.

Culture of Cute or Kitsch Kulture?

November 30, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Vanity Fair‘s Jim Windolf recently wrote an odd-little feature on cuteness. “Addicted to Cute,” covers all your bases on the most important cute-related memes in our culture. But the most interesting part of the article, and its main thesis, seems a bit strange: Cootchie-coo behavior used to be reserved for private moments in the home. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Alexis de Tocqueville, America's Funnies Home Videos, Awkward Family Photos, Cake Wrecks, Chuck Norris, cute, Cute Overload, Facebook, I like turtles, Internet, Internet meme, Jim Windolf, kitsch, Look At This Fucking Hipster, Star Wars Kid, texts from Last Night, Tucker Max, United States, Urban Outfitters, Vanity Fair, Vin Diesel

Pricey Pixies Tickets, or Can Critics Complain About Concert Costs?

November 28, 2009 / Leave a Comment

It’s been well over a week since Jim DeRogatis reviewed the first night of The Pixies’ three-night Doolittle retrospective at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom. DeRogatis caused quite a stir among Pixies fans with statements like: …it’s hard to consider them anything but a cynical corporation cashing in on blatant nostalgia–a hipper version of Creedence Clearwater Revisited … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, Doolittle, Jim DeRogatis, journalism, Journey, music, music journalism, Sun-Times Media Group, The Pixies, Ticketmaster

The more and more I agree with Christopher R. Weingarten

November 28, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Eye Weekly has a pretty great interview with Christopher R. Weingarten, formerly of good ole’ Parts & Labor, now known most prominently for his Twitter account, 1000TimesYes. Anyway, Weingarten has some pretty stellar things to say about the omnipresence of emo and indie in the early part of the decade, the impact of crowdsourcing on … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Brokencyde, emo, Eye Weekly, music, Parts & Labor, scrunk

All emo at True/Slant

November 27, 2009 / Leave a Comment

I’m still kicking it over at True/Slant, and my latest is a piece on an Australian news site’s puff piece on the new My Chemical Romance album. Read it. Reblog it. Tweet it. Tumblr it. Love it.

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: emo, My Chemical Romance, NME, True/Slant

Australian news site tries to kill emo, fails

November 27, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Another day, another journalist seeks to kill a genre of music. Today’s suspect is news.com.au‘s Neala Johnson. The weapon – My Chemical Romance. What got the axe? Emo, of course: NO MORE angst. No more whingeing. No more playing the victim. When My Chemical Romance re-emerge in early 2010 with their fourth album, any trace … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar, Andy Greenwald, Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional, emo, hip-hop, Mexico, music, My Chemical Romance, Neala Johnson, Nothing Feels Good, Twilight

Kuma's Secretly Hearts Emo

November 26, 2009 / Leave a Comment

I’d heard of Kuma’s Corner for months and have craved their metal-themed hamburgers and pretzel buns for many a month I’ve lived in Chicago. Tonight, I set out for the famous metal bar and was able to snatch a spot before the looming crowd grew larger than the small room had space for. And I … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: At The Drive-In, burgers, Chicago, emo, food, Kuma's corner, Melvins, metal, music, New York Times, One Armed Scissor

ABC should thank Adam Lambert

November 25, 2009 / Leave a Comment

A lot has been said about Adam Lambert’s performance on the American Music Awards Sunday night. With all the hubbub of his “racy” performance, what’s most surprising about the entire escapade and commentary in the days since the show is that there is commentary in the days following the show. And it’s still going strong. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: ABC, Adam Lambert, American Idol, American Music Awards, Billboard Music Award, Daytime Emmys, Grammy Awards, Grizzly Bear, Jay-Z, music, New York Times, Ralph Nader, Shinedown, Television, The Walt Disney Company

'Heavy Metal in Baghdad' band announces first EP

November 24, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Iraqi metal quartet Acrassicauda announced their first EP, Only The Dead See The End Of War, will come out in March 2010 on Vice Records. Back in 2007, Vice produced a documentary on the band, Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Though condescending at times, the film managed to provide a fairly human element to the consistent parade … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Acrassicauda, Baghdad, books, film, Garden Of Stones, heavy metal, Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Iraq, Islam, Metallica, Michael Muhammad Knight, music, Only The Dead See The End Of War, The Taqwacores: A Novel, Vice

The Beatles in the year 3000

November 23, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Thanks to my friend Sarah for this little gem of a video: [youtubevid id=”3Z2vU8M6CYI&feature=player_embedded”] What a fantastic spoof of History Channel documentaries. But, considering the way so many boomers mythologize The Beatles, it’s amazing I haven’t heard some of these yarns before this video cropped up.

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: History Channel, music, The Beatles
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