Comments on: Ultragrrrl Declares Emo “Dead,” Hypes This Band Called The Pixies

By: nwrex

nwrex — Sun, 13 May 2007 12:26:30 +0000

Hey I was at Bamboozle too. I didn’t know Weird Al was emo!!

By: westartedthis

westartedthis — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:54:18 +0000

I listen to my shit, baby.

By: Cam/ron

Cam/ron — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:20:54 +0000

Strange, my last post didn't make it. Here it is:

Matos, she was an assistant editor at Spin so she did help edit the zine. I should've wrote that she "co-edited" Spin.

By: Cam/ron

Cam/ron — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:15:16 +0000

Matos, she was an assistant editor so she did help edit Spin. I should’ve wrote that she co-edited the zine.

By: Matos W.K.

Matos W.K. — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:03:05 +0000

@Cam/ron: She never edited Spin. She was on staff there but not as an editor.

By: Poxy_Bollocks

Poxy_Bollocks — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:37:06 +0000

But Ultragrrl, didn't you blog that My Chemical Romance is this generation's Nirvana?

Sounds to me like someone's trying to save her ever-decreasing hipness quotient. Ever see the band list on her Stolen Transmission label? I've heard better at open-mic night at my local 4-H club.

By: Bob Loblaw

Bob Loblaw — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:46:29 +0000

@Cam/ron: I don't mind Ultragrrrl in the slightest, but "She is a Lady MacBeth here and she can't wash Emo off of her hands" is an awesome line.

Out, well-documented track record! Out!

By: glumble

glumble — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:19:09 +0000

@MJ: Nothing is ignorant about my comments, except for the fact that women get paid slightly more than I had originally thought (77 cents per every man's dollar according to womensmedia.com).

@nonce: I don't read Rolling Stone, and it's incredible to me that you sincerely believe "actual music journalism" is most prevalent in Lesbian art magazines. I'm not saying it's necessarily right that women aren't well represented within the music journalism community- I'm just saying that's how it is. When Ultragrrl's half retarded social and music commentary is bolstered as any point of interest, it's giving a bad name to women. My condolences.

By: nonce

nonce — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:55:19 +0000

What's not clear to me is how these kids get hooked on Ultragrrl as a voice of authority. I mean, sure, when I was a kid I owned a Technotronic album, went through a Coil phase and a Pavement phase, but at no point would I have taken the opinions of somebody with a intentionally-misspelt psuedonym seriously.

@glumble:

Maybe it's time for you to put down the Rolling Stone and dive into actual music journalism for once. It's people like Jann Wenner who ensure women critic's voices aren't heard. The best piece of rock-crit I read recently was a Le Tigre tour diary in a lesbian art mag. (LTTR: look it up.) It fit in well there, but it should also fit in RS, the VV, etc.

Long rant! Time for a cookie.

By: Snowbrigadier

Snowbrigadier — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:48:15 +0000

So wait, you mean kids aren't still fawning over The Perks of Being a Wallflower and listening to "Alseep" on repeat for days?

I'm starting to feel old.