Love! Romance! And all that crap! This week brought two very different music-related spins on the aforementioned topics to my attention, or at least two things that try to bring together music and “relationships.” Blog-rock porn and Sublime fans playing the match game, after the jump! MORE »
Posts Tagged ‘steve aoki’
pointless listmaking
Five Reasons Why Jam Band Fans Are Better Than Indie Rock Fans
I was skimming through this year’s Bonnaroo lineup as part of my usual round of cyber-stalking Neko Case, and I came upon an interesting discovery—this festival kicks ass! Although one of my friends described the layout as a desert of dust and piss, and the jam-centric lineup means stupid Phish is going to play for approximately 76 hours straight, I can pretty much get behind anything that brings together High On Fire and Janelle Monae (that isn’t made by the Hood Internet). Something this good could never happen on indie rock’s watch! Here are five reasons why the mud-caked hippies who will attend Bonnaroo are better than your sweater-clad ass! MORE »
I have a personal metric for how ridiculous American society has become, a calculation that simply adds together the amount of respect the culture affords to two phenomena: Donald Trump and Playboy. MORE »
Urb busts back against Pitchfork’s takedown of Idolator fave Steve Aoki’s Pillowface mix CD with a screed that manages to zing the entire city of Chicago in the process. MORE »
“Here’s a fun item from our new blog about Steve Aoki kicking a blogger in the head.” Maura: “How is that blogger not you?” Ha ha. (But! This story is lame-o false advertising. Especially about the “fun” part. So, uh, don’t click on it? Or maybe click it on it, but don’t say we didn’t warn you. MORE »
“Here’s a fun item from our new blog about Steve Aoki kicking a blogger in the head.” Maura: “How is that blogger not you?” Ha ha. (But! This story is lame-o false advertising. Especially about the “fun” part. So, uh, don’t click on it? Or maybe click it on it, but don’t say we didn’t warn you. MORE »
Emphasis ours: “If you’re heading out to the club this weekend, don’t be surprised if you hear the DJ blasting the latest from indie faves LCD Soundsystem versus the latest from electro king Tiesto. It’s a new trend that Steve Aoki, a DJ based in L.A., has helped pioneer.” Sigh. MORE »
Emphasis ours: “If you’re heading out to the club this weekend, don’t be surprised if you hear the DJ blasting the latest from indie faves LCD Soundsystem versus the latest from electro king Tiesto. It’s a new trend that Steve Aoki, a DJ based in L.A., has helped pioneer.” Sigh. MORE »
Avert Your Eyes: It’s The First Entry The Worst Album Of 2008 Race
No, not album cover. Album. Because the timely tracklist for dipshit “celebrity” DJ Steve Aoki’s mix CD Pillowface And His Airplane, set to hit stores in January, just landed in our inbox. And aside from being chock full of the hot hits of 2005, it also features the most nauseating collection of guest stars and collaborations that we’ve seen in some time. MORE »
“Celebrity” DJ Steve Aoki on the electronica titans of yore: “Paul van Dyk, Erick Morillo, Tiesto. I have never even heard of half these DJs, or know their music. That is really not my world…This new global dance energy, it’s really distorted and dirty. It’s not electronic music. MORE »
