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burning questions

"The Believer" Music Issue: Can We Please Ask Ian MacKaye Some New Questions Already?

I've read two Q&A's in The Believer's 2008 Music Issue (there are three). One was illuminating, one less so. One of the issue's two Andy Beta pieces is a ripping Q&A with Sun City Girl/Sublime Frequencies co-founder Alan Bishop (there's more on Beta's blog as well). While I'm not fond of the "schema" format in which Beta jokingly lays out his unsuccessful attempts to find Molam music in Laos, the Bishop interview crackles: lots of clearheaded talk about the motivations behind Sublime Frequencies: Bishop is punk as fuck, right, whatever, but he's also someone who thinks through ethical questions even if you disagree with his answers. If only the other Q&A I read had the same kind of thrust.
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1:00 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
933 views, 13 comments

Latest by betablog: "While I'm not fond of the "schema" format in which Beta jokingly lays out his unsuccessful attempts to find Molam music in Laos" That schema would be Lonely Planet. more »

american recordings vi: the velcro fly

ZZ Top Is Rick Rubin's Latest High-Profile Comeback Production

ZZ Top! Of course! The trio will celebrate its 40th anniversary by herding into the studio with Rick Rubin later this year, after they wrap up a co-headlining tour with Brooks & Dunn. The band is aiming a sound more "La Grange" than "Sleeping Bag" (aw, can't they do both?), and Rick Rubin does seem the painfully obvious choice for a high-profile authenticity move. The band has also signed to Rubin's American Recordings, which heightens the prospect that its forthcoming album will get his full attention, rather than being one of eight projects he watches through a large telescope from inside his ashram. In recent years Rubin has worked with the Dixie Chicks, Linkin Park, Metallica, Weezer, U2, Kanye, Green Day, the dude from Semisonic... is there any respected figure in music that Rubin has yet to work with? I was able to come up with five who would be definite collaboration coups for both sides. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Anthony Miccio
787 views, 10 comments

Latest by cosmiclove: @Captain Wrong: That Rubin Times Magazine article was LAWLZ. more »

dreaming is free

Three Indie Rock Nightmares Guaranteed To Break Your Glasses

NME news editor Paul Stokes shares three "indie rock nightmares" on the magazine's blog, but they're along the lines of "I live with Julian Casablancas" and "this guy from the Klaxons is looking at me!" The world of indie rock has infinitely more disturbing horrors, and while I've never actually had the three dreams I describe below, maybe you will once you've read them. Prepare to Touch And Go...to hell! Eee-heheheheheheheeee! More »

12:30 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,534 views, 5 comments

rumors

Ian MacKaye: Not Dead

In case you were wondering, Ian MacKaye is still alive and well, despite spurious Internet rumors that sparked a flurry of e-mails, Wikipedia updates, and Google searches earlier this evening. The "obituary" that was floating around, which I'm not going to repost for reasons that will become obvious, not only spelled MacKaye's name wrong and misused the comma about eight times, it said that he got hit by a car outside of a Fugazi show (!) in New Jersey before being taken to a hospital in Baltimore (!?). A note to the Dischord offices asking after the "news" elicited the following response: "Thanks for your concern, Ian is fine and all is well. Just an internet rumor." Hooray! To celebrate MacKaye's continued existence, give a listen to his agit-folk duo The Evens, because both their albums are terrific, and criminally underrated:

The Evens [MySpace]
Ian MacKaye is alive. Elvis is still dead [baltmoresun.com]

12:16 AM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By mjohnston
873 views, 6 comments

Latest by TheMojoPin: Hmmmmm. In on the kill faker? more »

kent state

Ian MacKaye Lends His Ears To Kent State Investigation

This is going to take a while to set up, but trust us, it's worth the trip: Last week, Alan Canfora—one of the survivors of the 1970 Kent State University shootings—released a newly enhanced audio snippet featuring 13 seconds of National Guard gunfire. The material was originally recorded by Terry Strubbe, a KSU student who had a reel-to-reel player on his dorm window, and according to Canfora, you can hear the words "Right here. Get set. Point. Fire" being spoken on the clip. Compelling stuff, to be sure—but you'll have to read way down to find a rather intriguing indie-rock connection: More »

10:30 AM on Mon May 7 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,027 views, 5 comments

Latest by max: How about a MT reunion instead? more »