Yeah, there’s no doubt they sent this to everyone who bought their tickets for the Clarity X 10 tour, but you have to hand it to Jimmy Eat World for really caring about their fans:  “A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR BOSTON FANS This is a note of gratitude directed at you from us, Jimmy Eat World, … [Read more…]
jimmyeatworldFound out we were a clue to a crossword pzzle today on yahoo.3 letter word for jimmyew music genre?Take a wild stab at that 1. Ugh… :-0 about 19 hours ago from Tweetie  @jimmyeatworld did you try “ska?” about 17 hours ago from web in reply to jimmyeatworld
So, for folks who’ve been following along in this blog, I submitted a proposal to Continuum’s 33 1/3 series to write a book about The Promise Ring’s Nothing Feels Good. Series editor David Barker emailed everyone who submitted a proposal today concerning those he picked to make it to the shortlist, the final compilation short … [Read more…]
The 33 1/3 blog released the final list of the nearly 600 potential books on a wide variety of albums that Continuum received after the call for open proposals a little while ago. Needless to say, it’s quite a list. It’s interesting to see what albums people are passionate enough about to fill an entire … [Read more…]
2008 is almost gone as the New Year will arrive in a matter of hours (or it may have already arrived depending on when you read this). So, in anticipation for the number of times I’ll forget to put “2009” on whatever documents need a proper year, here’s a little listing of 9 things I’ll … [Read more…]
For those that caught Bruce Campbell’s latest B-movie flick, My Name Is Bruce, it’s, well, a Bruce Campbell movie… though some of the jokes were a complete miss and would have benefited the movie had they not been written in the first place. In any case, one of the movie’s driving characters is a young … [Read more…]
What do you get when you mix emo with childhood? Happiness, of course! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX9zzr_xEnk] I honestly wish Yo Gabba Gabba! had been around when I was a kid – you can only watch Sesame Street for so many hours. And may Jimmy Eat World continue to confound critics of emo with their creative choices and … [Read more…]
For some reason the climax of Children of Men has come up in multiple conversations in the past few days. Namely, the fact that it’s such a grand scheme that shows how brave and experimental even the most mundane action shots can be and how exciting a typical art-house film (or film for an art-house … [Read more…]
It’s always nice getting some sort of personal email, especially when it’s in the form of a musical reunion between David Byrne and Brian Eno. Well, “personal” isn’t quite the right word, but I certainly took the message as a sincere and direct one: It’s with great pleasure we offer you a sneak peak by … [Read more…]
In one corner, weighing in at 6 members is The Mae Shi, with support from The Death Set, at Great Scott. In the other, pulling together as a duo is No Age, with a little help from High Places and Abe Vigoda, at the Middle East Downstairs. It is a challenge to behold… For music … [Read more…]