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are you shitting us?

Music Bloggers Get The Wrong Kind Of Editors


There are a lot of inexplicable go-to obsessions in the music blogosphere: The constant album-cover polls, for example. And the non-stop use of the word "totally," as in "I totally want to know what you think of this album cover!" But nothing is more aggravating than when a middling artist lucks into a dry record-release schedule and, by virtue of nothing else going on, suddenly becomes the BEST! BAND! EVER! This month, it's Editors. What gives? More »

3:20 PM on Mon May 21 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,692 views, 17 comments

Latest by GoodbyeGhost: Wow, an overheated rant about overheated blog praise? A blog creating music news where there is no music news by sniping at blogs who hype "bad" bands when there are no "good" bands to hype (and no music news more »

are you shitting us

Are You Shitting Us?: Mickey Avalon Proves That Blue States Lose

Look, we know that the festival-crazy nature of South By Southwest results in a bunch of cut-and-paste lineups—Satellite Party opening for The Good, The Bad, and the Queen; Paolo Nutini and Kings Of Leon setting the stage for the Stooges—but Saturday's showcase at Stubb's, which boasted Ghostface and Rakim as headliners, included a short set by Mickey Avalon, the Los Angeles ex-hustler who fancies himself a rapper. More »

10:43 PM on Sun Mar 18 2007
By mjohnston
1,946 views, 5 comments

are you shitting us?

Are You Shitting Us?: The Brits Go Crazy Over "America"

To make fun of the U.K.'s oft-inexplicable music obsessions is just too easy; after all, this is a region that still embraces the Fun Lovin' Criminals. And normally we wouldn't give two farts and a crumpet about Razorlight, a Strokes rip-off for people who think even the Strokes aren't ripping off the Strokes anymore. But as the Brits continue to hack out their year-end lists, one single keeps popping up: Razorlight's "America." It topped the British charts, the U.K. iTunes store, and Q magazine's reader-voted singles poll—and in the NME, no less a bad-song authority than Brandon Flowers said he wished he'd written it. For those of you who've already traded your copy of the most recent 'Light-rock epic to secondspin.com, here's a listen: More »

10:58 AM on Thu Dec 14 2006
By Brian Raftery
621 views, 18 comments

Latest by tiger22: This is a really good song, you shoud stop being so closed minded. Razorlight are a talented group. more »

are you shitting us?

"Are You Shitting Us?" Part Two: Can Someone Please Choke "New Rave" With A Glowstick?

Reading the NME daily is a hazard of our job, but at least it's helped teach us a lot about the value of using superlatives sparingly. By now, we're pretty immune to their over-the-top ranting about any bowl-cut-topped blokes who pick up a guitar, but if there's one thing about it that gets us, it's their constant big-upping of "new rave," or "indie rave"—the amorphous genre's code name changing, we guess, depending on how edgy they're feeling that morning. Anyway, we ran out of PLUR for the NME's next big thing today, when we found this quote from Muse lead singer Matt Bellamy: More »

3:57 PM on Fri Dec 1 2006
By mjohnston
1,245 views, 5 comments

Latest by FunkyJ: NME only invent genre names so they can claim the death of them a few months later.. more »

are you shitting us

Are You Shitting Us? Part One: Morningwood Leaves Us Limp

While on a $2-bin spree a few months back, we decided to pick up the self-titled album by the New York outfit Morningwood—despite our grave misgivings about the band's name, we had an extra two bucks, and there were more than enough copies in the bin to spare. We returned to the Idolator flophouse and plopped the CD into our stereo, only to be gobsmacked by how just flat-out awful it sounded. The music was stoopidly slick, the songs were all too long by half, and lead moaner Chantal Claret's "sexy" vamping almost made us feel bad for her. ("First it was my legs, now my heart is open"? Come on.) The vision we got was of a Capitol Records honcho, upon finding out that The Gossip existed, heading down to the Major Label Cloning Lab to concoct a version that was completely depoliticized, 110% cheesier, and really freaking annoying. The CD was returned to the used-bin from which it came a few weeks later. More »

3:48 PM on Tue Oct 17 2006
By mjohnston
668 views, 29 comments

Latest by drjimmy11: it's good fun pop music. There are a million less talented and more annoying groups out there to pick on. (*ahem* every other artist on the Capitol roster, although they probably have one token legit act like The Flaming Lips more »