I feel like for as much as I like the new Matmos record I should really be a lot more into Herbert’s Scale. But without some sort of cheat sheet in front of me I’m not impressed. A few intelligent twists and twerks on danceable electronic music, but when the gestation period is this finely […]
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Park across the street, laughing
August 30, 2006 – 5:08 AM
Topics for your consideration: Stylus Magazine has a great and obsessively complete report on the summer in American teenpop running right now. That kind of shit makes me want to write for them. One of the groups featured is The Jonas Brothers, who are 2006 Hanson Brothers with better writers. I can’t imagine they actually […]
I believe this is blog-fucking
August 29, 2006 – 2:34 AM
What’s nice about the Vice blog is that it’s internationally penned, so you get gobs of Vice attitude from weirdos around the globe who sometimes know what they’re talking about. This is one of those times. Enter The Mint Chicks, a four-piece from Auckland, New Zealand with a fire under their asses. There’s an underlying […]
More ostentatious jewelry than ever
August 26, 2006 – 7:41 PM
I feel like this is what happens when people have too much money and coke becomes passe. That is, Elton John is making a “hip-hop” album. It’s not unusual that he’d want to work with Pharrell, but his list of wants also includes Snoop, Doc Dre, Eminem and Kanye. Is EJ one of the four […]
Think she’s gonna make a move
August 25, 2006 – 4:59 PM
Somehow I’ve managed to not write about Cassie’s first single, “Me & U,” even though I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. And as her album sold something like 100,000 copies in the last week and radio has gone balls out on playing it, by now most folks are aware of […]
Sure what I saw
August 22, 2006 – 6:30 AM
Pardon live show reporting ettiquite, I need to geek out for a moment. Through the magic of free Monday night shows at the Empty Bottle, I had the pleasure, nay, privilege of seeing the end of a great band I never knew and discovering a handful of other interesting, still thriving groups. Beginning at the […]
