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Panic At The Disco Go Pastoral

I spent part of my summer traveling around the country and talking to bandom writers (bandom, in case you are lucky enough to be out of the loop, is fan fiction about emo bands). The overwhelming consensus among my subjects was that the characterization of Panic at the Disco's Ryan Ross (not the lead singer, the other one) had taken an abrupt turn from fragile emo kid to twee hippie. Judging from this video for their new single "Northern Downpour," he seems to be angling for yet another shift: Middle school graduation attendee in 1975, complete with goofy haircut. More »

11:45 AM on Fri Oct 31 2008
By Kate Richardson
324 views, 9 comments

Latest by The Fort Hill Blues: @Maura Johnston: I concur. I had a long conversation with one of my friends about how ridiculously under rated this album was and actually got a few friends to go out and buy the record. more »

corporate rock still sells

The Half-Year In Review: Dave Grohl Owns Alt-Rock Airwaves (What Else Is New?)

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he gives the year's rock charts a midway-mark overview. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Al Shipley
1,300 views, 19 comments

clichewatch

You Can't Download An Overused Phrase, But You Sure Can Try To Stomp It Out Of The Lexicon

"You can't download the concert ticket," Panic At The Disco drummer Spencer Smith told MTV News when he was talking about why the band's live experience was how the band really gauged itself. In the era of torrenting and Sendspacing, people who are still hoping to make some sort of profit from music are looking at things that you can't download as a way to bring back the "real" aspects of the artform—but in their quest for tangible objects, and not virtual experiences, they're kind of overusing the whole "you can't download" construction After the jump, a list of items that have fallen victim to this cliche, and probably will continue to until the Internet's backbone gets fat enough to fit things like 12-inch slabs of vinyl or life-size replicas of 3 Doors Down through it or the entire industry collapses, whichever comes first. More »

1:00 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
761 views, 4 comments

Latest by Clevertrousers: You can't download STDs. more »

why does it not surprise me that ashlee simpson likes sublime?

Seventeen Magazine Lets You Openly Judge The Taste Of The Stars

Seventeen (which the idea of my infant daughter reading someday fills my heart with dread already) is rolling out widgets that are complete with animated somethings and interactive whatsits, which play tracks selected by today's biggest pop stars with sizable teen audiences. Apparently, if you are in fact a teenage girl, you could express your fandom for your favorite artist by embedding this sort of thing on your Facebook page. Instead, let's just take a look at the artists' choices, and validiate our existing feelings about their artistic output! More »

12:30 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Dan Gibson
1,111 views, 9 comments

Latest by owenmeany: Jeez, Gibson, you have EVERYTHING, huh. more »

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Panic At The Disco Play With Dolls

"That Green Gentleman" is one of the standouts from Panic At The Disco's Pretty. Odd, and its fussy harmonies and baroqueish stylings are well-matched with this cute clip, which is stuffed with Russian dolls, old-timey bikes, and lots of kids gleefully running around. (Even the product placement is mercifully—and dare I say tastefully?—brief, although I could just be saying that because I'm still suffering PTSD from that Fergie song for Sex And The City.) "Do you think they want to be the Monkees?" a friend of mine asked after I sent him the YouTube of this clip. "Nah," I said. "I think they're aiming in a different direction..." More »

2:45 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
628 views, 12 comments

Latest by thearcanemodel: oh yeah- i have it. thankfully it is on emusic. this is a good reminder that i should (digitally) dust it off... more »

Surely I'm not the only person who, upon seeing the headline "Beck, Wilco, Panic set for SF music festival," thinks that it's kind of cool that Panic at the Disco are going to give at least one of this summer's festivals something different—only to click on said article and find out that the "Panic" in question is actually Widespread Panic, which I guess makes more sense give that Jack Johnson is also playing the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in August. But still, meh. (Click on the logo for the currently announced lineup.) [Reuters]

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the last word

Panic At The Disco Let The Strings Come In

Nearly every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's installment covers Panic at the Disco's Pretty. Odd, which lead singer Brendon Urie said should be described in a way that should make at least one reference to its awkwardly punctuated title. Did critics take Urie's challenge? Let's find out! More »

12:00 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,273 views, 13 comments

corporate rock still sells

What Radio Rock Hopefuls Will Get To Say "Thanks For The Add"?

Since many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock, welcome to "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al Shipley (a.k.a. Idolator commenter GovernmentNames) examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of Billboard's rock charts. This time around he grades six modern rock bands looking to get their new singles added to radio playlists, both on their chances for hitting big and the relative suckiness of the songs in question. More »

11:50 AM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Al Shipley
797 views, 6 comments

Latest by Chris Molanphy: @jordan_s: The Panic song has been emerging remarkably slowly, as I noted in my column a couple of weeks ago. It only ranks 49th on iTunes right now, and on SoundScan's all-store digital-sales chart, it's down in the 70s as more »

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Panic At The Disco Have A Technicolor Fever Dream

They may be ditching the exclamation point from their name and chucking the contortionists to the curb, but Panic At The Disco's video for the (still ridiculously catchy) "Nine In The Afternoon" is a sign that they're still all about the showmanship, with splashes of bright color, a Beatles-like chase scene that seemingly was inspired by a Rennaisance Faire that took place on a golf course, and what looks to be a single-band-handed attempt to bring the facial hair stylings of Rollie Fingers to the children. Plus, the whole dream motif of the video means that they'll still get "Brendon is so cute in his PJS!!!!!!!!" comments from the YouTube faithful. Oh, those boys are so, so canny! [YouTube]

9:35 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
175 views, 7 comments

Latest by MrStarhead: Where is it ever nine in the afternoon? Alaska in summer? more »

(intentional) leak of the day

Panic At The Disco Still Know How To Put On A Big Show

ARTIST: Panic At The Disco
TITLE: "Nine In The Afternoon"
WEB DEBUT: Jan. 28, 2008

James Bond Dissed Noel Gallagher, So Let's Cast The Oasis Movie

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