13 Responses to “The “Village Voice” SXSW Line-Up: This Explains A Lot”

1. by kiteless at 4:23 am

   You know things are bad when the best song on your album (Cinematics) is a cover of Beck’s ‘Sunday Sun’.

2. by Ned Raggett at 4:28 am

   Ah, the Horrors. Kill them.

3. by thumps at 4:38 am

   Don’t be so hard on the Voice, it was an honest mistake.

   Tip your waitress…veal…etc.

4. by beta.rogan at 4:45 am

   I haven’t heard the new album so I may take this back, but I honestly don’t mind The Bravery much. They’re better than The Killers.

5. by chopstewie at 4:52 am

   So The Horrors, a band on Ultragrl’s label, play the Voice party and in return the Voice runs a glowing profile of her. Ah! Journalistic cred.

6. by GiantPanda at 5:00 am

   oh snap

7. by brasstax at 5:09 am

   @beta.rogan: Brandon Flowers, even at his most obnoxious levels of retardation, looks like a songwriting laureate and wunderkind compared to The Bravery on their best day.

8. by chrisb at 5:24 am

   I saw The Bravery open for Depeche Mode last year, and they were one of the most cliche bands I’ve ever seen. The lead singer strutted around stage like he’d just taken a class called “Lead Singing 101.”

9. by Chris Molanphy at 5:42 am

   I think the Bravery are both overrated by the mainstream press and overhated by hipsters. They’re not that great and they’re not that bad. Catchy, inoffensive; the album is about one-third pleasant.

   And as long as we’re dragging the Killers into that, I’ll take that good one-third of The Bravery over most of Sam’s Town (”When You Were Young” and “Read My Mind” excepted).

10. by brasstax at 5:57 am

    Who you callin’ a hipster?

11. by KurticusMaximus at 11:51 am

    People are still arguing about The Killers v. The Bravery?

    Let it go, guys. Neither are particularly good, and neither are particularly bad.

12. by FionaScrapple at 2:14 am

    @KurticusMaximus:

    The voice of reason. In a few years, maybe one or two of them will re-appear on a reality show…maybe.

13. by peabo at 3:44 am

    mando diao’s first album was great. wake up