admin1. I was the third person to view the video on YouTube. Early-adopter status confirmed!
2. “Old Skin” is a song from the great album Old Wounds.
3. Legit Midwest: beards, plaid shirts, and a wood-paneled club. I can smell the stale PBR.
See the video below:
As the weather stops being oppressive in the Northern Hemisphere, a number of potentially great albums from countless genres are on the way. Here’s a list of ten that have us excited, including efforts from Isis, MF Doom, Coalesce, Prefuse 73, Mr. Lif, and more.
Louis Armstrong was a: jazz legend, marijuana supporter (he smoked every day), slang inventor (he is cited as the first to use the terms cats, chops, daddy, jive, mellow, pops, scat, solid), actor (he appeared in over thirty films), writer, barrier-crosser, and, as author Steven Brower points out in the introduction to Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong (Abrams, 256 pages, $35), a talented and dedicated collagist.
Begrudgingly, online editor Scott Morrow has joined this decade with the purchase (not by him, mind you) of his first iPod.
Preferring to let the music speak for itself, Koushik weaves choirs of strings and choruses in and out of down-tempo, old-school hip hop beats.
Political inspiration is great, but the world is tired of Will.I.Am‘s celeb-packed Obama tribute. In honor of the freshly passed stimulus package, here are five good songs about the United States’ 44th president.
Walking through a quiet neighborhood in Portland, my friend and I come across our destination, a nondescript house — seemingly empty. A few folks nearby on the sidewalk encourage us.
“Just go on in,” they offer. We accept. Approaching the porch, I see a sign on the door with two words: “David Bazan.” Bazan, the former frontman of Pedro the Lion, has arrived here as part of an intimate nationwide tour.
Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art
by Norman Hathaway
Hardcover, 226 Pages, Picturebox, $50
[currently available for $20 here]
Overspray is a another great visual resource from Picturebox, with many examples of ’70s airbrush art from four artists.
P.O.S. has saved hip hop.
I haven’t been this excited and energized about a hip-hop album since Shadows On The Sun by Brother Ali came out in 2003.
Punk: No One Is Innocent
by Thomas Mießgang, Wolfgang Müller, Glenn O’Brien and Jon Savage
(Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnberg), Paperback, 250 pages, $60
Published in conjunction with last year’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien (read a review of the exhibition here), Punk: No One Is Innocent focuses on the 1970s punk scene in New York, London, and Berlin and its influence on the art scene.
This book joins the ranks of countless other art exhibitions / expensive catalogs organized in the last twenty years that discuss the exact same subject yet adds insult to injury by using a Sex Pistols song title as its name. Oh, you’re so fucking clever.
Enough already.
Every year, we’re treated to fossils of rock and roll providing halftime entertainment that appeals to the most common denominator. Naturally, most of it is excruciating to independent music fans. Here’s a list of awful moments from this year’s big game (in chronological order).