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 [...][...]
Archive for November, 2009
November 30th, 2009 - 1:44 am § in True/Slant
Culture of Cute or Kitsch Kulture?
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 behavi[...]
November 28th, 2009 - 4:01 pm § in True/Slant
Pricey Pixies Tickets, or Can Critics Complain About Concert Costs?
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 cyni[...]
November 28th, 2009 - 4:38 am § in Perfect Lines
The more and more I agree with Christopher R. Weingarten
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 [...]
November 27th, 2009 - 5:11 am § in Perfect Lines
All emo at True/Slant
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.[...]
November 27th, 2009 - 3:59 am § in True/Slant
Australian news site tries to kill emo, fails
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 ea[...]
November 25th, 2009 - 5:50 pm § in True/Slant
ABC should thank Adam Lambert
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 fo[...]
November 23rd, 2009 - 7:16 pm § in True/Slant
The Beatles in the year 3000
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 [...]