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Idolator's Guide To Condiment Pop Smears Ketchup And Miracle Whip All Over Your Stereo

During last week's discussion of Marmite artists—those artists that are so divisive, they force people to take sides, with no one left in the middle—Idolator commenter moomintroll wondered if we shouldn't try and find more ways to classify popular bands through their analogues to various condiments. Since we figured the safe space in the fridge inhabited by your ketchups, your mustards, and your molding bottles of Hidden Valley Ranch was as good a way to make sense of the current musical landscape as any, we invited her to flesh out her theory for us. It's after the jump! More »

10:00 AM on Wed Oct 22 2008
By moomintroll
1,513 views, 11 comments

Latest by moomintroll: @Thierry: Yeah, Timbaland is definitely in anchovy territory right now. more »

alternate histories

Ten Artists Who Should Be Very Glad They're Not Axl Rose

The attention the media gives to Guns N' Roses and My Bloody Valentine may give young bands the idea that it'd actually be good for their legacy to record regularly for six years, then hold off for at least another 15 so that fan excitement can build and their myth can blossom. (Hey, if Sting and Joe Strummer had waited that long to record follow-ups to Synchronicity and Combat Rock, maybe people would have cared more about Brand New Day and Rock Art And The X-Ray Style!) So I looked at what would have happened to some of rock's most legendary figures if they, too, had waited 15 years to release new albums once their first six years of putting out records were done—and found that extended absences rarely make later projects look much better. More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,726 views, 20 comments

Latest by DavidWatts: My favorite thing about this post was being reminded of BS 2000. That was back when I was duping CDs from my college radio station and trying to copy the CD art with a Sharpe. My BS 2000 was one more »

The My Bloody Valentine Reissues: Surprise, They're Delayed Waiting for the My Bloody Valentine reissues? Well, you'll have to wait a little longer: "The two albums were due to be re-released by Sony this week, but there has been a last-minute hold-up while [Kevin] Shields, true to form, labours over his liner notes." So, uh, those preorders will come through sometime around 2013, then? [Telegraph via The Daily Swarm]

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upcoming tours

My Bloody Valentine To Tote Their Distortion Pedals Around North America This Fall

My Bloody Valentine announced seven North American shows today, an early-autumn jaunt that will have the band hit New York, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. And in an effort to keep their publicist busy, today also brought the announcement that the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they're curating in upstate New York—which takes place Sept. 19-21—has added Dinosaur Jr, Mercury Rev, Growing, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and Harmonia to its lineup and released a new batch of tickets. Full list of MBV tour dates (via Pitchfork) after the jump. More »

3:00 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Maura Johnston
943 views, 14 comments

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Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields will release a double-CD recording of The Coral Sea. The discs will draw from performances in 2005 and 2006, at which Smith recited a poem about the death of her friend photographer Robert Mapplethorpe while Shields made what was presumably an ungodly amount of noise behind her with guitars and effect pedals.

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holy crap

My Bloody Valentine To Play Stateside, Curate Best North American Festival Of 2008

Not only is My Bloody Valentine playing the just-announced All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, N.Y., this fall, they're curating the damn thing, and among the bands they've hand-picked to play include Built To Spill (performing Perfect From Now On), Polvo, the Meat Puppets (playing Meat Puppets II), and Low. And there's more to come! Tickets are limited to 3,000 and go on sale Friday, a.k.a. the first day of Coachella, which should make the festival-junkie action on Craigslist very interesting over the coming months. The announced lineup after the jump. More »

9:20 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Maura Johnston
930 views, 12 comments

Latest by SuperUnison: @exposition: Damn, you have it easy, I'm notsalgiac for things that never happened. more »

Why isn't My Bloody Valentine playing Coachella, as previously rumored? Get ready to be shocked: Kevin Shields told Coachella founder Paul Tollett that the band probably wouldn't be ready by then. Apparently Shields and his associates will be all rehearsed by the time the Øya Festival in Norway rolls around—it's in August—so who knows, those long-storied U.S. shows could someday happen, although I'm not going to start holding my breath over it until Shields steps on a stage. [NME]

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The latest rumor around My Bloody Valentine's upcoming onstage reunion hints that the drummer's stool may be occupied by someone other than original rat-a-tat-tatter Colm O'Ciosoig. While some would grumble that it's not the one true MBV without it being the classic late-'80s/early-'90s Shields-Butcher-Googe-O'Ciosoig lineup, my impish side thinks it would be kinda rad if these reunion shows turned out to be just Kevin Shields hunched over a guitar in front of a big-ass amp. [Listening Post]

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no mbv no credibility

Coachella: The Rumormongering Rages On!

Kevin Bronson at the Los Angeles Times has a sort of update on the heatstroke-inducing desert jam that is Coachella Festival, the lineup of which is being announced next week. According to Bronson, not only is the above poster totally off, My Bloody Valentine will not be one of the "surprising veteran act[s]" on the show's roster—but who cares, because apparently Portishead is going to be there! Maybe I should brave the desert, although I'd need to stock up on some SPF 150 and a gigantic floppy hat before doing so. A list of bands who are, so far, totally definitely 100% rumored to be appearing according to the Internets and blog boards and such after the jump. Can you say "yay, '90s"? More »

5:49 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By mjohnston
5,400 views, 14 comments

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So it turns out that when Billboard said My Bloody Valentine were going to (ugh) "do a Radiohead" for their upcoming reunion record, the writer got a little mixed up somewhere. "In the interview with Billboard I stated that the forthcoming MBV album will more than likely be self-released," MBV's manager told Wired. "That does not equate to a digital only release, which the article states...In fact we see digital as a far inferior format and the band would NEVER plan to release an album exclusively in a digital format." Well then! [Listening Post]

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formatting

The New My Bloody Valentine CD: Not Gonna Happen

Hopefully you didn't have you heart set on buying a new My Bloody Valentine CD after all this time, because MBV's manager tells Billboard that they are planning to take after another famous U.K. art rock band when it comes to releasing their planned 2008 follow up to Loveless. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By jharv
900 views, 3 comments

My Bloody Valentine To Appear In A Room Together Next Summer Hey, guess who's been booked for some shows.

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suspicious minds

The My Bloody Valentine Reunion: Totally And Completely 100 Percent Verified (For Sure This Time)?

Maybe. Probably. Perhaps. Could be. The Daily Swarm certainly seems to think so, having viewed an advance copy of an interview (debuts this Monday) with MBV frontman Kevin Shields for Ian Svenonius' Soft Focus webcast, wherein Shields suggests that a buncha stuff from the My Bloody Vault is being dusted off and gussied up for a forthcoming album, which would become the Agonizingly Awaited Follow-Up To Loveless by default. More »

2:30 PM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By jharv
1,351 views, 16 comments

your parents are going to finally get back together too

The My Bloody Valentine "Reunion": Total Bullshit Or Complete and Total Bullshit?

We're not immune from getting caught up in the rumor mill ourselves—holler at us, Adam Levine—and it was one thing when it was just the Daily Swarm posting links to messageboards where random whoevers were claiming to get the reunion scoop directly from the Bloody mouth. That's just accumulated Internet crazy talk. But Billboard picking up on it? Without even the benefit of the question mark in the headline? Are there going to be blind links to some message board denizen tomorrow saying he totally heard from Jesus that the rapture is coming followed by a "Report: Jesus Mulling Over Apocalypse" story on CNN.com? Has the world gone mad? So we ask you to plug your own opinion over the MBV rumor—outright bullshit, or completely unverifiable Internet malarkey—into our great and powerful online poll software. And if this turns out to be true, and not a rumor after all, I pledge to not attend any of the shows, as a sign that I've learned I shouldn't be so mistrustful of people on the Internet. Pinky swear: More »

4:03 PM on Mon Aug 27 2007
By jharv
2,021 views, 15 comments

Latest by Trackback: “Sex is natural! Sex is fun!” - George Michael My Desires Are Boring by Molly Young When I think of porn stars, I picture them as the sum total of their accessories: fake boobs, fake hair, fake nails, fake tan. more »

blogsmacked

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
105 views, 6 comments

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