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 for the past decade shouldn’t be considered … [Read more…]
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…]
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 is “almost a complete rip-off†of Metallica’s 1986 classic “Welcome … [Read more…]
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 say that my article caused these … [Read more…]
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 iPod/Phone-as-an-instrument idea. The number of videos of people either screwing around with a Metallica … [Read more…]
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 consumed music. It could be a simple … [Read more…]