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OiNK Reactions Day Two: A Contradictory, Self-Selected Nation Mourns

Reactions to the shutdown of BitTerrorist haven OiNK are still pouring into Google and RSS readers everywhere. And while there are still plenty of hilarious overreactions, we're also starting to see something like informed, reasoned commentary on the bust. Plus a lot of sighing and wondering whither next:

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10:35 AM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By jharv
3,139 views, 12 comments

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The Internet Squeals Like A Pig As OiNK Turns Into Bacon

Reactions to the shutdown of BitTerrorist haven OiNK have come in swiftly from around the blogosphere, and they're exhibitng the restraint and candor the Internet is known for:

• "Sorry if this has already been posted, but I'm following the San Diego fires right now, and this is just another devastation right on top of it." [Oh No They Didn't]
• "Now that OiNK is gone, where shall we get our pre-release fix? Where can we so easily unearth new bands to hype?" [I Guess I'm Floating]

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12:01 PM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By mjohnston
4,579 views, 17 comments

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CMJ: We Keep Missing Life-Changing Performances, Free Food, Pregnant Chicks

- At least we got to download some Simian Mobile Disco songs to make up for the fact that we keep missing them. [Disco Nap]
- Here are some songs by New York hippies Yeasayer, the other band we missed yesterday and a group whose "avant garde qualities did not diminish their accessibility," which means those funny keyboard noises thankfully don't add or subtract too much from the kids' enjoyment of their indie rocking. [UberDrivel]
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12:05 PM on Fri Oct 19 2007
By jharv
552 views, 1 comment

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CMJ: We Missed All The Big Shows! Especially Vampire Weekend!

- If we had bothered to fight our way into Vampire Weekend's show at the Cake Shop yesterday we could have met MTV's John Norris! Maybe Nina Blackwood is outside at their Other Music performance right now! [MTV]
- Not only that, but Vampire Weekend is "the stage right now where everyone who follows music knows who they are, but then mainstream media picks-up on them and ruin it for the rest of it." Dude, the first place we read about them was the goddamn Times. [Music Snobbery]
- Everybody has seen Vampire Weekend twice and loves them even more the second time around! [17dots]
- Sometimes people love Vampire Weekend so much that they write about them in very solemn terms, like how their songs are "are terse clockwork constructions that equate cooperation with mutual avoidance." [New York Times]
- But Vampire Weekend wasn't the only thing we flubbed. We also missed White Williams last night, despite already being at the venue! And after this not-at-all-ridiculous description from the Village Voice—"Like Blondie's (correction: Debbie Harry's) 'Rush Rush' with the bass dialed, or the Strokes with rhythm, or post-punk if post-punk never happened"—we feel really bad about having taken that extended smoke break! [The Sky Report]

11:35 AM on Thu Oct 18 2007
By jharv
559 views, 13 comments

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Greeting The Beginning Of CMJ With A Shrug

- Apparently those missing swag bags were "heavy on the promo materials, and light on the actual gifts." Oh well. [Imbible]
- Q-Tip's not trying to sell you anything at CMJ. At least not until sometime in 2008. [NY Times]
- Billboard blogger gets too drunk on the open bar to tell anything us about the changes at Pandora online radio, tries to disguise lack of notes as "sparing us the details." (Also seems to be confused by this whole Houston hip-hop "sizzurp" thing.) [Jaded Insider]
- Even the Segways are exhausted after only one day. [Listening Post]
- RealNetworks attempts to garner some "street cred" as a threat to Apple by booking a bunch of boring-ass indie bands for its showcase. Sadly, it seems to be working. [Crave]
- How on Earth did we miss so many ukuleles and upright basses? [Bumper Shine]
- Pitting CMJ promo CDs against each other using some arcane points scoring system related to professional baseball. [Indie Rock Baseball]

11:55 AM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By jharv
116 views, 3 comments

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Blogsmacked: The Sunburnt Masses, Huddling In Front Of Their Computers


- Hey, did you hear about that band that reunited Sunday night? You know, the Lemonheads. [Buzz Bands]
- Carlos D takes facial-hair tips from souvenir posters found at a nearby Wild West-themed resort. [Stereogum]
- Thankfully, someone else made a roundup of "OMG Scarlett sings with Jesus And Mary Chain!!!" articles so we didn't have to. [No Rock And Roll Fun] More »

2:35 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By mjohnston
624 views, 1 comment

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Blogsmacked: The Regrets Are Piling Up

- Another show that we wish we'd attended: Lambchop with the Tosca String Quartet. [Stereogum]
- Perry Farrell's WTF-list affair invites a few more people, including Wayne Coyne Kramer. [Sound Of The City]
- The Spring Break effect, 1: "some dickhead at the diesel party is wearing a pinjata on his head and violently flailing his arms, punching girls and stuff." [Central Village]
- Aha! We thought we saw Kirsten Dunst! [17 dots]

12:36 PM on Sat Mar 17 2007
By mjohnston
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Blogsmacked: Bad Ideas And More Bad Ideas (And A Few Accordions)

- Judging by the way festival sponsor Slacker was being marketed—"hot" ladies in not a lot of clothing and a daunting-looking venue on Sixth St.—we thought it was an energy drink or one of those disgusting body sprays for horny 23-year-olds. Apparently, it's a portable, for-profit Pandora clone that will, alas, not get you laid. [Kofi's Hat]
- Is calling Mew "amewsing" really a compliment? We guess it's better than those fan signs at sports events that awkwardly try to work ESPN into their acronyms. [Central Village]
- When is Texas-sized fashion taken too far? When it involves tucking sweatpants into cowboy boots. [Sound On The Sound]
- A guide to all the accordion-equipped bands performing this week. This is why the Web is useful. [Let's Polka - An Accordion Blog]

4:59 AM on Fri Mar 16 2007
By mjohnston
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Blogsmacked: That Guy In The Speedo Was Probably Very Cold


- We have a feeling the people in the above photo are marketing something colossally terrible, but you can't deny that this image says a lot about the lengths people will go to just so they can spend their days in roller heaven. [gorilla vs. bear]
- You go to a show, you miss the opening band, and then you run into said missed opening band as you're straggling back to your hotel. One word: awkward. [Rapidshare]
- We're just going to say it here: Ghostland Observatory pretty much represents everything that makes us roll our eyes at the Internet. There'll be a Mew set up tomorrow, though. [KEXP Blog]
- Gerard: Just as irritated by the Fader Fort's "Blogger Room"—basically, a room with some tables so people can set up their laptops—as we were. [Gerard Vs. Bear] More »

3:56 AM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By mjohnston
283 views, 2 comments

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Blogsmacked: Mixing Up Reactions To The Mixtape Crackdown


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Blogsmacked: A Post By The Dumped

- A dispatch from the land of recently dropped major-label artists. [Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog]
- David Cassidy, the Partridge Family, and Leif Garrett welcome you to their respective fan clubs. [WFMU's Beware Of The Blog]
- One man counts down his top 10 ballads of the hard-rock era. Our one quibble? Night Ranger so does not count. Swap in LA Guns' "The Ballad Of Jayne." [Hidden Track]

3:23 PM on Thu Jan 4 2007
By mjohnston
18 views, 1 comment

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Blogsmacked: Catalogs And Countdowns Edition

- The fruits of a New Year's resolution: One man, one year, and hundreds of albums from the 1970s, reviewed every day. [News Items From The Heights]
- Ladies and gentlemen, start your list-making engines. [gorilla vs. bear]
- A downloadable countdown of last year's 56 best videos. [Shots Ring Out]
- Kate Winslet impersonations and battery shortages: A dispatch from an ex-Tower employee on her final day at the Broad Street store in Philadelphia. [Phawker]

4:05 PM on Tue Jan 2 2007
By mjohnston
33 views, Comment

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Blogsmacked: Hey, Did You Guys Hear That Pitchfork Put Out A Year-End List?

- And you thought our reaction to Pitchfork's list was knee-jerk. [DCeiver]
- Stereogum commenters' outrage now at 158 posts and counting. [Stereogum]
- The hidden Shirley Temple-Joanna Newsom link revealed ... by an irritated co-worker who didn't care too much for Ys. [matt vears' MySpace blog]
- Not for nothing, but anyone who has 30 Seconds To Mars in their favorite-albums list can't complain about Justin Timberlake being in Pitchfork's top 25. [Klobastime]

10:29 AM on Wed Dec 20 2006
By mjohnston
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Blogsmacked: Evan Dando May Actually Have A Sense Of Humor

- Just in time for Christmas, it's a bonanza of Britpop covers, including an Evan Dando version of Oasis' "Live Forever." [Copy, Right?]
- The multi-level music marketers over at BurnLounge seem to have found Jesus. [Digital Music Blog]
- Probably our favorite entry (so far) in Last Plane To Jakarta's series, "Thirty Short Poems About My Favorite Black Metal Band." [Last Plane To Jakarta]
- Microsoft's secret plan to sell a million Zunes revealed? [Wolf Notes]

4:35 PM on Thu Dec 7 2006
By mjohnston
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Blogsmacked: Music Bloggers In "Limited Influences" Shocker

- No matter what band you're thinking of, there's someone out there who thinks it sounds like My Bloody Valentine. [Merry Swankster]
- VH1, please hire this guy: "I think an all female hip hop version of 'Starting Over' could be worth a shot. Walk with me now. Trina, Lil' Kim, Eve, Foxy Brown, Khia, and Remy Ma living together under one roof in the projects seeking counseling and support from a team of life coaches." [Crunk + Disorderly]
- There's a group of hip-hop preteens who think that Jibbs' "Chain Hang Low" is a ripoff of a song they wrote four years ago—and they've even recorded a diss track. [33jones]
- Do Jay-Z's astronomical first-week sales mean he's the Joe Lieberman of hip-hop? [Status Ain't Hood]

4:03 PM on Tue Nov 28 2006
By mjohnston
106 views, 6 comments

Latest by Leto: Your mom sounds like My Bloody Valentine. more »

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Blogsmacked: Can Someone Please Help Us Find A Happy Zune Owner?

- The "I can't install this damn software" pain is felt by users and their computers. [FLX-TECH]
- The Zune Marketplace ushers in a new Microsoft quirk: the White Screen Of Death. [CrunchGear]
- Zunes are not flying off the shelves in Paramus. [Ka-Ching! On The Money With Dylan Ratigan]
- Get ready for the Zune Wikipedia wars. [Gadgetopia]
- What if you gave a launch party for a product ... and no copies of that product showed up? You'd have last night's Queens of the Stone Age show in New York. [Coast vs Coast]
- TI plays the Zune launch party in Atlanta. Really, those pictures say one thing to us: He should have given the Zune team some styling tips. [Platform|Launch|Action]
- Give a kid a Zune, and you'll make him cry like Rick Santorum's kid. [Anil Dash]

3:24 PM on Tue Nov 14 2006
By mjohnston
72 views, 2 comments

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Blogsmacked: CMJ May Be Over, But The Bloggers Aren't Done Yet

- A crummy band and incessant text messaging result in a Beckettian mini-drama breaking out. [millwhistle]
- Any blind item vaults to "awesome" status in our eyes when it uses the phrase "pretentious twaddler." [soft communication]
- Another sign of the coming Phil Collins renaissance: comparisons to Dirty On Purpose's singing drummer. [subinev]
- Best musician's self-description we've seen in a long time (well, since Friday anyway): "I yell curse words through a vocoder." [Sound Bites]
- So, did anyone meet our favorite anonymous potshotter? [Gerard Vs. Bear]

12:53 PM on Mon Nov 6 2006
By mjohnston
31 views, 3 comments

Latest by ryan hodgkins: Gerard's writing style reminds me a lot of Borat's speech style. more »

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Blogsmacked: CMJ's Daytime Open Bars Begin To Take Their Toll

- The best CMJ blog line of the day: "What's wrong, don't people in suits or tight pants like it when the nice man from Ohio gets down on the floor with his synth and tries to leap backwards off their face?" [subinev]
- How many blogger buzz bands does it take to get to the heart of what CMJ is all about? Apparently, the answer is 12. [The Battering Room]
- CMJ: A dying empire? [Liberator Magazine]
- One would think that, if it is a dying empire, the early-afternoon open bars might be hastening its demise. [extrawack!]
- Other bloggers may be all about the good vibes, but there are still some totally jerky club owners out there. [obligatory charles bukowski reference]
- The racism/sexism panel provides a bit of a letdown. [millwhistle]
- Thursday night of CMJ: The ideal time to call in sick from the revelry. [Songs We Used To Sing]

2:54 PM on Fri Nov 3 2006
By mjohnston
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