The Grammys will be telecast live tonight. And I completely forgot about the entire awards show until it popped up on Twitter. I hardly think what I’m saying should be news to anyone, but an awards show for a self-congratulating industry that’s had a tragic relationship with consumers fo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Metallica’
November 24th, 2009 - 12:50 am § in True/Slant
'Heavy Metal in Baghdad' band announces first EP
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 [...]
August 28th, 2009 - 4:20 pm § in Perfect Lines
Undone Sanitarium
Ok, I can’t pass up an opportunity to talk about this (via Rolling Stone): Last week Rolling Stone chatted up Rivers Cuomo about Weezer’s new album Raditude. Near the end we asked about the 15th anniversary of their debut single “Undone – The Sweater Song,” which he now admits [...]
Tags: Chuck Klosterman, emo, Fugazi, KISS, Metallica, music, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer No Comments
July 16th, 2009 - 1:03 am § in Perfect Lines
A Brief Scribe on Scrunk
The behind-the-scenes (or rather, behind-my-thoughts) on the Boston Phoenix piece I did on scrunk and Warped Tour is still to come, but consider this a little preview. A lots been said online since the piece went on the net about scrunk/crunkcore and its impact on Warped Tour, which isn’t to [...]
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May 1st, 2009 - 12:19 am § in Perfect Lines
iMusician Meme
Stumbled upon this video through the 100 Bands in 100 Days Project: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh0VX74alwk] iBand… one of those many “phenomena” that might not be called such if it weren’t for the Internet. And these folks aren’t the only ones in on the iPo[...]
July 11th, 2008 - 4:48 am § in Perfect Lines
Free the Musics
In honor of free slurpee day, I’ve decided to do a (rather brief) post on free music. Since Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want, online release of In Rainbows last October, the idea of artists offering their albums for free has been at the forefront of almost any article relating to popularly [...]
Tags: Adult Swim, America, AmpLive, Antlers, Arizona, Atmosphere, Bleed American, Capitol records, Clarity, community, Daily Mail, Dan Deacon, Danger Doom, Dashboard Confessional, DreamWorks, elpuocddoeht, emo, Feed The Animals, Flagpole Sitta, Food For Animals, Forest Fire, free music, free slurpee day, Ghosts I-IV, Girl Talk, Gnarls Barkley, Harvey Danger, In Rainbows, Jimmy Eat World, Lars Ulrich, Lights In The Sky Tour EP, Metallica, MTV, music, music industry, music-sharing, Napster, New York Hospitals EP, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Observer, pay-what-you-want, Planet Earth, pop culture, Prince, Radiohead, RainyDayz Remixes, Remix Artist Collective Volume 1, Rolling Stone, September 11th, Stereogum, Strictly Leakage, Survival, That's Stupid The Mixtape, The Cool Kids, The Middle, The Slip, UK No Comments