An interesting thing about Girl Talk is that alt musical historians are unwilling to concede whether he is mainstream or alt. When he first started out, he was apparently rlly conceptual. He played music that was crappy and no1 liked, and had to use gimmicks like ‘getting drunk’ and ‘having skanky backup dancers’ as he […]

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wow! I went to my childhood Tower Records store the week before it closed. It was thrilling and sad at the same time. I bought $150 of crap I probably didn’t need. After a decade of spending thousands there on crap I probably didn’t need, it somehow felt right.

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I really was in Guyville. When I went back to the documentary, the one unifying thing with the guys is, they all talk a really long time, and then I get a tiny little word in edgewise. They were all like, “This is what’s good,” “This is what you should like,” and I was like, […]

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Spin tackles the Swedish Pop. (via)

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“From the absurdly elaborate pivoting, platform-raising box, to the black fabric wrap (which looked blue to our camera), to the faux-LP liner, to Peter Saville’s signature etched in foam, they clearly did Joy Division justice on this one.” WTF?!

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After its acrimonious departure from Interscope Records, replete with the requisite blog-style rant outing label-head Jimmy Iovine for his alleged philandering habits, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead is gearing up for its sixth long-player. Scheduled for a January 2009 release, the as-yet-untitled record will reside on the band’s own imprint, […]

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1.4 million people downloaded NIN’s The Slip since its release on May 5, 2008. And this Google Earth rendering is a snazzy way to present the numbers. For old schoolers, you can pre-order the limited (well, if quarter of a million is “limited”) physical version here. Gatefold vinyl version out August 5.

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