Shoutmouth has compiled a list of The 50 Hottest Women in Music that mostly fixates on the commercial side of the music coin — although nods are given to Feist, Liz Phair, MIA, Cat Power, The Pipettes and a few other “indie” darlings. Lists like these invariably spark debates, so allow me to cast the […]
Cream of the Crop (Ooh, hush)
August 29th, 2007
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Sigur Rós ‘Heima’ film trailer
August 29th, 2007
Sigur Ros let the cameras roll during a two-week tour of Iceland last summer. It’s not your typical concert DVD, however: “Sigur Rós decided they would push the boat (bus and plane) out for their debut venture into live film, hauling 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland to […]
The Dirty Projectors remake Black Flag’s Damaged…from “memory”
August 28th, 2007
Covering someone else’s entire record is a bad idea ten times out of ten. But reworking a classic like Black Flag’s Damaged from “memory and intuition” is downright insane. Yet Brooklyn experimental pop deconstructionists The Dirty Projectors have done just that. The result is called Rise Above, and it’s more like a film loosely based […]
Late night Feists of fury
August 28th, 2007
In the modern era, if Cream was the first super group, Traveling Wilburys at least the best staffed and Damn Yankees and/or the cunts on MTV’s Mission: Man Band tied for the absolute worstest sounding rubbish since the dawn of recorded time (spoiler alert: John B. from Color Me Badd has gained more weight than […]
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The Killers stink up Control soundtrack
August 28th, 2007
So, the fact that the soundtrack to Anton Corbijn’s forthcoming Ian Curtis biopic, Control, contains a fair share of both Joy Division and New Order is to be expected. What’s not expected or even remotely welcome is The Killers’ version of Joy Division’s “Shadowplay.” No one wants to hear that nonsense, for God’s sake. Just […]
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The masters of on-stage banter
August 28th, 2007
The AV Club has compiled a list of the top 15 masters of on-stage banter. The winner is in a league of his own: Venom lead singer Cronos, whose ten-minute rant is the stuff of legend. It’s kind of obscure but well worth the time to stream. The runner-up is Diamond Dave, of course. And […]
RETRO: Dweezil Zappa “Let’s Talk About It” video
August 28th, 2007
Stumbling across this can mean only one thing: a very boring day at work. Dweezil Zappa used to be a fixture on MTV as a VJ and his 1986 debut solo album, Havin’ A Bad Day on Barking Pumpkin Records, had this infectiously amusing pop-rock song as the first single. MTV used to play the […]
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