New single from the upcoming album came out digitally about half an hour ago. It’s called “Written In Reverse,” and it’s amazingly good. Lots of Spoon songs feature heavy, simple, percussive grooves, but they’ve never sounded quite so hysterical and manic before. It helps that Britt Daniel spends the chorus screaming at the top of [...]
For whatever reason, there are no particularly exciting LP releases coming up in the pre-Christmas season. Weezy is busting out Rebirth in December, if you’re into that, and Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster is out soon. A couple of reality-show runners-up are releasing debut albums (Billboard yelled in my ear this morning that Susan Boyle [...]
Most of you probably don’t read the tech and IP blogs out there. So it seems appropriate for me to point y’all toward something currently making IP wonks go nuts worldwide–and which will, if passed, become a really big, bad deal. Cory Doctorow over at boingboing was probably the first one on the scene, raising [...]
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Tagged ACTA, boingboing, down the rabbit hole, intellectual property, piracy, Ranting Swede, Sweden, Swedenborgian
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My girlfriend has this thing about The Simpsons. With a few notable exceptions, every episode produced past the tenth season fills her with a deep sense of emptiness. She tells me that after watching the fifth and sixth seasons, any of the newer stuff just seems devoid of life, a walking shell of the glorious [...]
Today Maine seems to have failed a test of its willingness to accept the reality of gay couples’ existing in the open. In a way, this is a really important moment in the process of acceptance of people of all descriptions; at the same time, though, it’s not. A wide majority of Maine youth support [...]
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Tagged christianity, election 2009, gay marriage, ignorance, maine, national organization for marriage, no on one, NOM, OM NOM NOM, same-sex marriage, stand for marriage maine, vote
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The music industry has been in some level of hysterics for the past decade over internet filesharing. This is not news. You know about it because major industry players have told you about it, buying ad time to force ads on you about how Filesharing Is Stealing And You Are A Criminal. You know because [...]
Start with a brilliant David Foster Wallace collection. Add an obsessed college student’s passion for the work, a cast consisting of everybody ever, and funding from IFC, and what do you get? Something weird.
Well, we’ll never know for certain whether this whole thing was a hoax or not, but either way it appears to be over with. Mark, Rob and Joey are back in their respective places sans giant Xs on the web site, and Ray St. Clair has apparently taken a six-week leave of absence “to work [...]
So let me preface this by saying that I know about this show primarily because I’m interning with Chris’s manager this semester. That said, if you are even slightly interested in pretty wild jammy sorts of music, you’d probably be really into this show. I wouldn’t plug something on here if I didn’t think it [...]
This will be an absurdly short review, devoid of pictures or eye-catching design, but I felt it was necessary to comment on one of the most out-there shows I’ve seen in some time. There was a triple bill at SPACE gallery one week ago featuring White Light, Blood Warrior and Mark Summers, none of which [...]
