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Archive for May, 2007
The Vault: Life Without Buildings Envisions A World Without Quonset Huts And Lean-Tos
Thu May 31 2007 by idolguest2
Beth Ditto Poses Nude on the Cover of NME, Internet Readies Seventh-Grade Fat Jokes
Thu May 31 2007 by idolguest2
As you may have heard, Gossip singer Beth Ditto has displayed the majesty that her momma gave her on the cover of the NME this week. So wait, a few years ago, nudie shots of Ditto were confined to the lesbian sex mag On Our Backs and now she’s being anointed the “Queen of Cool” by the U.K.’s most toilet paper-worthy tabloid while wearing nothing but painted-on kisses? Did we miss a meeting?
What The Music Blogs Are Posting Right Now
Thu May 31 2007 by Maura
- A city block’s worth of pedestrian-friendly tunes. [Locust St.] – An extensive look at the use of the harmonica in Jamaican music. [Distinctly Jamaican Sounds] – Getting down with some Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave). [Dalston Oxfam Shop] – Run-DMC spits for Penthouse. More »
It’s The Return Of Pick Of The Fork!
Thu May 31 2007 by idolguest2
Yes, for one time only we are reviving one of our wackest most beloved features, where we dig up the gonzoest of the gonzo writing at Internet indie-rock tastemaker site Pitchfork. More »
Brooklyn Academy Of Music To New York City: “No Sufjan, No Credibility”
Thu May 31 2007 by idolguest2
Adorable, baseball-capped yupster and indie-rock money printing machine Sufjan Stevens has been awarded a commission at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 25th annual “Next Wave Festival,” which starts in October. More »
“New York Times” Doubles Up On Inaccuracies Regarding R. Kelly
Thu May 31 2007 by Maura
We missed the headline –”A Swaggering Rap Storyteller Unleashing His One-Track Mind”–that inspired the above correction thanks to the holiday, but we’re guessing that this little mix-up means curtains for Michelle Malkin’s tenure as a holiday-weekend Times copyeditor. More »
Do Be “Cruel”
Thu May 31 2007 by idolguest2
What the blogs were posting, uh, a year ago: Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom has been running his Bostworld blog for a few years now, each post rummaging around in Bostrom’s attic-cluttered noggin and pulling out one of his idiosyncratic obsessions: yellowing ’50s newspaper articles about Ike… More »
Who Wore It Better?: Special Not Going To Rehab Edition
Thu May 31 2007 by Maura
Above, a side-by-side look at the dueling Amy Winehouse covers gracing Rolling Stone and Spin; the RS cover, which hits stands Friday, premiered on the magazine’s blog yesterday, which, we guess, prompted Spin’s people to e-mail a jpeg of the magazine’s July cover to Perez Hilton last night. More »
Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing
Thu May 31 2007 by idolguest2
Hello, I’m Jess Harvell. I don’t own a home computer at the moment. I can’t “work an RSS feed.” I have never knowingly looked at Stereogum. I don’t have cable. My knowledge of pop culture these days is almost entirely down to what one of the editors of this site copies and pastes to me in IM chats. More »
Ending On A Good Note: Thursday’s MP3 Roundup
Thu May 31 2007 by Maura
PICK: Life Without Buildings – Juno (Live) / The Leanover (Live) [more info] Faster Pussycat – Bathroom Wall [more info] Happy Mondays – Jelly Bean [more info] Map Of Africa – Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys / Map Of Africa [more info] Dottie West – Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy? More »
