Urban Honking

You see, my friends, I really do [grudgingly] know that this is an okay trade. I have two main problems: 1. It’s like Nash, Patterson, and Cheeks gave up on the season, to make such a MAJOR trade this late in the game. I don’t want them to give up on the season. I require […]

You are dead to me. THEY TRADED MY BELOVED SHEED FOR THEO RATLIFF! Sheed throws tantrums, but THEO RATLIFF GAVE DETROIT THE CLAP!!

The Thermals played new songs on Saturday to 250 kids in a coffee shop called The Fresh Pot. One was full and bombastic with inflated power chords and one had this Cure-like guitar solo but for the most part, they sounded like all the other songs by the Thermals: 2-minute-long spastic little pods of pop […]

GUEST EMO REVIEWER EZRA on the Jealous Sound show: “You missed the drunk (and very sexist) Adidas rep who was hooked them up with $400 of free shoes the next morning. He was so wasted that he complimented me on the show, asking how long I’ve been playing an instrument. ‘My whole life,’ I answered.” […]

* CHRISTINA AGUILERA PERFORMED “BEAUTIFUL” WEARING A TAILORED MANSUIT. Which is slightly less compelling than Yoko Ono’s acceptance speech. All I could think of was her art: the cover for “Season of Glass,” with John Lennon’s glasses and a glass of water, half-empty/half-full; the installation with bird sounds, a pine coffin, and a tree growing […]

This commercial is totally creepy. Of course Sean Tejaratchi sent it.

The reason I am obsessed with the “thanks” in rap records: emcees treat the liner notes like God is reading them, and whoever comes with the most creative representation of Him is getting THEE most pimpin set-up in heaven. S.Dot still wins for the most elaborate, all-inclusive representation of the Holy One in the “Black […]

Best line from Eyedea and Abilities set last night: [Eyedea]: “This next song is a cover of an Aesop Rock song… it’s called ‘Daylight’.” [KIDS SCREAM] “Just kidding.” Most bizarre line from Atmosphere set last night: [Slug] “Vegetarians who do cocaine deserve to get punched in the face like a bitch.” Second-most: [Slug] “Throw your […]

I kicked it at the homestead last night, opting for Manifesta over SD skree punx the Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower. Then Ezra emailed this missive: “The Plot… Oh my fucking god. One of the best live shows I have ever seen. Half the show was their singer stripping the clothes off the […]

The headlines keep getting more like the Onion: “US Father Names Son ‘Version 2.0′” (BBC) “David Brent Quotations better Known than Shakespeare, Wilde, and Wordsworth” (Independent) “Saddam’s Spider Hole to be Sealed” (CNN) Artists who Demand Freedom From Record Labels Go on to Produce Rubbish” (Guardian) Actually, the last article is a column about MUDDA, […]