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Who's the American Idiot?

April 22, 2010 / Leave a Comment

The Green Day-inspired rock opera, American Idiot, is now open for business. And the reviews are good [via The New York Times]: A pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions — bring on the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, please! — only to transcend them through the power of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: ...is a Real Boy, American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day, Kidz Bop, Michael Mayer, MTV, music, New York Observer, punk, Say Anything, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times

Music In 2009: A Review

December 31, 2009 / 5 Comments

It’s hard to sum up an entire year of pop music in one concise “best of” list. Instead, here’s a tidy little look at some of the highs and lows in pop music over the past year: Hip-Huh?: The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones declared that hip-hop was dead and upset a lot of hip-hop heads. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 2009, American Idol, American Music Awards, Animal Collective, Barack Obama, Billboard, Boston, Boston Red Sox, Breathe Carolina, Brokencyde, Christian Bale, Christopher R. Weingarten, crunk, crunkcore, David Rowell, DJ Earworm, Eminem, emo, Faith No More, Freaxxx, glo-fi, grindcore, heavy metal, hip-hop, I'm On A Boat, Idolator, Jane's Addiction, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Killing in the Name, Kingdom Come, Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Live Nation, Maura Johnston, Michael Bay, Michael Jackson, Millionaires, MTV, MTV VMAs, music, Neon Indian, New England Patriots, No Line On The Horizon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II, Pavement, Pig Destroyer, Pop music, R U Professional? (4 Xtian), Raekwon, Rage Against The Machine, Relapse, Sasha Frere-Jones, screamo, scrunk, Simon Cowell, Susan Boyle, Taylor Swift, Terminator, Tha Carter III, The Black Album, The Blueprint 2, The Blueprint 3, The Lonely Islands, The Mae Shi, The Marshall Mathers LP, The New Yorker, The Van Pelt, The Washington Post Magazine, Ticketmaster, Toro Y Moi, Transformers, U2, United States of Pop, Veckatimest, Warped Tour, Washed Out, X Factor, year in review, Yellow House

Kanye West & Spike Jonze – We Were Once A Fairytale

October 19, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Kanye West is back, back to being an artiste of merit, back from the depths of hell he was cast in after a disastrous VMAs appearance, back from South Park cracks and autotune-haters’ smacks. Or something like that. MTV reported that the short-film collaboration between Where The Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze and West, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Arts, emo rap, film, JCVD, Kanye West, MTV, MTV VMAs, music, South Park, Spike Jonze, Videogum, We Were Once A Fairytale, Where The Wild Things Are, Wrestler

mtvU's phallic symbol

October 14, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Woodie. Whatever possessed mtvU to name their annual music award as such is beyond me. Is it supposed to be a joke aimed at their college audience? Cause I’m pretty sure college kids these days are smart enough to figure that one. Anyway, mtvU recently released the ballots for the awards show. What’s the big … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 3Oh!3, Amanda Blank, Animal Collective, Billboard, emo rap, Green Day, hip-hop, MTV, MTV Video Music Awards, mtvU, music, P.O.S., Rhymesayers Entertainment, Woodie Awards

Taking Back Sunday at Government Center

July 27, 2009 / 4 Comments

It’s hard to turn down a free concert, even if that means watching Taking Back Sunday. Especially considering the underlying theme o’ this blog. I’ve never been entirely “in” to TBS. Just something about them never really caught me, even though I was their prime target when they first hit it big. I can understand the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Boston, Crooked X, Dashboard Confessional, Dew Tour, emo, Government Center, MTV, music, screamo, Taking Back Sunday

One Year After Mexico's Anti-Emo Riots…

March 3, 2009 / 1 Comment

Last year, Mexico City was the scene of an all-out subculture battle that shook the country to its very soul. Or so the media made it seem. And so the media made it. Period. The very reason I was upset by the illogical and false comments by a “journalist” from the Louisville Parent Examiner was because … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: anti-emo riots, emo, emos vs punks, Glorieta Insurgentes Plaza, Kristoff, Mexico, Mexico City, MTV, music, news, Telehit

Red White and Bluemo

January 22, 2009 / 1 Comment

James Montgomery’s recent piece for MTV, “Are We Ready For Barack Obama’s Emo America?,” is great not only because of the juxtaposition of stereotypical American values and musical genres, but because the work gives support for emo as a generally progressive and positive mode of communication. Although Montgomery lumps Sufjan Stevens into this mix, the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: A.R. Rahman, Are We Ready For Barack Obama's Emo America?, Barack Obama, Best Original Song, emo, Inauguration, James Montgomery, MIA, MTV, music, Oscar, President of the United States, Sufjan Stevens

They Said It…

December 30, 2008 / 3 Comments

Roundup of various end of the year music lists…

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: About.com, Alexandra Cahill, Allmusic.com, Alopecia, Amazon.com, Amy Lindsey, Ann Powers, April, Associated Press, Baltimore City Paper, Belly, best albums lists, best albums of 2008, Billboard, Blender, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Chris Barton, Chris DeLine, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cokemachineglow, Cortney Harding, Culture Bully, Dear Science, Drowned In Sound, Edna Gundersen, emo, Entertainment Weekly, Eric Mahollitz, Erik Thompson, Escapers Two, Fact Magazine, Food For Animals, Friendly Fires, Greg Kot, Heather Phares, HLLLYH, I Guess I'm Floating, I Rock Cleveland, Ice Cream Spiritual, James Christopher Monger, Jessica Letkemann, Joan Anderman, John Bush, Jon Pareles, Jonathan Cohen, Josh Keller, Justin Harris, Katie Hasty, Kelly Hilst, KEXP, Kyle Johnson, L.A. Times, Largehearted Boy, Limewire Music Blog, Margaret Wappler, Matt Collar, Melissa Trejo, Michael D. Ayers, Mojo, Morgan Chosnyk, Morgan Kluck, MTV, music, Music Blogs and Sites, Nate Chinen, Neon Neon, New Haven Register, New York Observer, New York Times, NME, NPR Listeners Poll, NPR Second Stage, Parts & Labor, Paste, pictures for sad children, Pitchfork, Ponytail, Q Magazine, Receivers, Robert Thompson, Rolling Stone, Sarah Rodman, Spin, Stainless Style, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Stereogum (Gummy Awards), Sun Kil Moon, Susan Visakowitz, The AV Club, The Dodos, The Mae Shi, TIME, Tiny Mix Tapes, Troy Carpenter, TV On The Radio, Uncut, USA TODAY, Visiter, webcomic, Why?, WOXY

The Politics of Fashion

September 11, 2008 / 2 Comments

Naomi pointed me the way to this excellent piece by Thursday/United Nations’ Geoff Rickly on the MTV Headbanger’s Blog site on my previous post, and it got me thinking about the impact of fashion on culture. Rickly astutely notes the power of the image, and in doing so recalls Marshall McLuhan’s “the medium is the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Beastie Boys, Che Guevara, Daniel Boorstin, emo, fashion, Fugazi, Geoff Rickly, Gym Class Heroes, Headbanger's Blog, hipsterdom, hipsters, independent film, indie, Instrument, iTunes, Jem Cohen, kafia, Marshall McLuhan, MCA, Mona Lisa, MTV, music, New York Times, Palestine, The Image, Thursday, United Nations

Rock N' Roll Post-Graduates

August 21, 2008 / 1 Comment

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1001xArPVk] They really don’t make ’em like this anymore. That was one of many thoughts that jumped in my brain while watching Rock N’ Roll High School the other day. Camp doesn’t even begin to describe it. Joyful absurdity. Now that might do it. Whoever had the idea to take a simple B movie, combine … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Airplane, Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional, Disney, emo, film, MTV, music, punk, Rock N' Roll High School, Roger Corman, The Promise Ring, The Ramones, Unplugged
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