Posted: July 17, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
By Jasper
No Age, Abe Vigoda and High Places are at The Crofoot (Eagle Theater) tonight. No Age (and High Places) will be at Pitchfork this weekend, but they’re wedged between Jarvis Cocker and Animal Collective and there’s no way I’m cutting either of those sets short …so The Crofoot sounds like a good idea for this evening.
As I just kind of mentioned, I’ll be in Chicago this weekend at Pitchfork Musicival Festivical. I’m going to stand around judging people while looking miserable and complaining that the lineup wasn’t as good as it was last year – all while sweating my balls off in tight black hipster jeans and ironic sunglasses. It’s gonna be sweet! I haven’t been paying that close attention to what’s going here, but I know The Hold Steady and !!! will be in town at some point. In fact, I think !!! is playing the Pike Room. That sounds incredibly dangerous.
I do know that next weekend, on the 26th, every band in the state is having a Release Party somewhere (not to mention X! Fest and Art Fag). I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Javelins will be at The Belmont, The Hard Lessons at The Crofoot and now The Hentchmen at Park Bar. This will be The John and Mike Hentch Birthday/Bellyache Record Release Party. The new 7″, with new tracks “Iron Pimp,” “Moonlight & The TV Glow,” “Wild Wild Lover” and “Dorian Gray,” is the first in a series of 4 singles and will include Hentchmen trading cards and chewing gum. I hope the gum is all hard and stale and powdery — I love that shit.
Here’s a Beck song. It’s from the Chemtrails 7″. It’s called “Vampire Voltage No. 6″. You can feel fine about stealing it since the money would just end up going to the Church of Scientology. Also, it’s only two minutes long and not worth a dollar. Stupid alien Jesus.
Posted: July 16, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
By Jasper
More good news for the funniest show on television — there will be at least 52 more episodes of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. But at what point do people start watching? And at what point does Charlie Day win a fucking Emmy for Best Comedy Actor? All 32 existing episodes are on Hulu right now. That means free on the internet. I actually own the DVDs. The real ones. Like, I paid actual money dollars for them. If that’s not the best endorsement I can give, I’m not sure what is.
“A 33-year-old Clarkston man…arranged a meeting for sex with an online contact he believed was a 14-year-old girl and showed up wearing a T-shirt that read: ‘World’s Greatest Dad’.”
Fucking. Priceless. The best part about that shirt is the “W” in “World” is the WWF-Wrestling-Font “W”. So that probably means the 14-year-old was going to have her oil checked before being given a pile driver into a 33 year-old cock. Immediately following that, he would help her with homework because, after all, he is World’s Greatest Dad.
Every internet is overflowing with of Montreal news. I suppose I’ll do my job and point out there’s no Michigan stop on their upcoming tour. Write your Congressmen. Tell him/her that Michigan blows. Include photos of Kevin Barnes’ penis.
The new Walkmen album is very Walkmen-y.
Posted: July 15, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
By Jasper
For all the Intertainment “Feed The Animals” has provided, you owe Girl Talk another $10. (Another video here.)
Posted: July 15, 2008 @ 11:31 am
By Jasper
As I’ve said approximately one million times, packaging a vinyl LP/7″ that comes with high-quality MP3s is an artist’s best chance of getting me to pay for recorded music…unless you’re Beck: “The first MP3 begins with the familiar sound of a needle hitting wax, and the MP3s, having been produced from a playback of the album’s vinyl master, will sound like they would coming from your turntable.” No they won’t. No they won’t Ohmygodnotheywon’t.
The internet released Jaguar Love’s album, Take Me To The Sea, yesterday. If you weren’t paying attention the first 50 times I told you, Jaguar Love is two parts ex-Blood Brothers and one part ex-Pretty Girls Make Graves. Some might call it rock. Others might call it abrasive. I call it T3H 4W350M3. Here’s a track I’ll be told to take down very shortly because it’s not “Bats Over The Pacififc Ocean,” which is on their MySpace…so what’s the point of me hosting it? None. None point.
Jaguar Love - “Jaguar Pirates” (”Pirates,” get it? Cuz I stole this album. Zing!)
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Posted: July 14, 2008 @ 10:20 am
By Jasper
I had successfully avoided Facebook from whenever it was invented until…I dunno, maybe a month ago. I read something about a Facebook plugin/application that lets you remotely manage your bittorrent downloads — and seeing as my employer allows me all the kiddie porn I can eat, but won’t let me execute a .torrent file I figured I’d give it a shot. So far, I’m irritated with its uselessness and haven’t even bothered with the torrent plugin. Every time I complain about it, someone tells me “It’s better than MySpace. Facebook is awesome.” Awesome for what? I don’t get it. All it’s done so far is creep me out since, from my very first visit, it’s automatically shown me everyone I know when I login. Again, I don’t get it. Why the fuck would I want to be online friends with my real friends? Those people are only my friends because I haven’t found anyone better. Someone needs to build a social networking site like Last.fm. You know how they do the whole “If you like The Killers, you’ll love Backstreet Boys” recommendation thing? That’s what I want when I login — “If you can tolerate Jake, you’ll have a much better time with Andrew.” That would be helpful. Instead all I have is another way for the same dreadful people to tell me about their day. The only thing less interesting than my day is your day.
And while I’m thinking about it, does it seem completely fucking insane that someone hasn’t created a MySpace-type network just for bands? I think we can all agree that MySpace is one of the worst designed and poorly executed websites in the history of the innernets. But because of its free-ness it’s become the replacement for every band’s Official Website…when you’re able to login. And when the page loads properly. And when the media player actually plays. Seriously, scrape all the hot fourteen year-olds off the site, code it properly and make it somewhat usable…seems like there’d be money in that. But what do I know?
I got a Facebook invite to “Spin Magazine Presents: Lolla Pre-Party” with The Silent Years, Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s, The Friendly Foes and one TBA. This is a great line-up, but why is Spin throwing a Lollapalooza pre-party in Detroit when the only band on the bill actually playing the festival is from Indiana? Anyway, the show is July 31 at Saint Andrews. Go get your tickets or something.
Why? is touring again, but there’s no Michigan date this time. I guess they couldn’t find another Quizno’s to play in. I wonder if they know we have actual venues here. Ah well, their Friday show in Chicago will make my four-day self-created music festival complete: Why?, My Bloody Valentine, Hot Chip and Nick Cave. Lollapalooza can go fuck itself.
Has everyone noticed all the Pitchfork Festival bands that have gigs this week in Michigan? Mission of Burma at Bohemian National Home, Caribou at The Blind Pig, No Age, High Places, Icy Demons, !!!, The Hold Steady, Bon Iver and King Khan & the Shrines at The Crofoot, Extra Golden at Concert of Colors, Boris at Saint Andrews…I should have just stayed here. Seeing full sets from !!! and The Hold Steady might have been worth it. (git yer free Hold Steady tix here)
“…seemed to confirm everyone’s worst fears about young bloggers: they’re shallow; they think the world revolves around them and their problems; they grow addicted to the rush of instant feedback or instant fame; they become nothing more than caricatures of real people after a while.” Caricatures of real people? I don’t even know what that means. (story here, quote lifted from here)
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at 5:17 pm
Sweet! How the fuck did you get this?