Um, some guy wrote a song about killing Michael Azerrad, and his defense is that the critic had transcended the physical, just like the music. I don’t know if that’ll hold up in court. It’s a LAME defense (lol):
I decided to confront my would-be assassin and phoned Joe Prendergast, their 20-year-old singer-guitarist. He [...]
“Indiana had become college basketball’s equivalent of Lehman Brothers, a proud institution rocked to its core by greed, outsized ambition and bad management.”
Ouch, man.
“The first gust of trouble last season came in early October, right before Midnight Madness. As the fan base prepared for the first glimpse of a team many expected to win the [...]
The Daily Show on the increasing rhetorical violence in this country by way of Human Labeling. The whole piece is good–they get at “Socialist” and “feminist” first–but it kicks into high gear at about 3 minutes, with a mind-numbing montage (REALLY?!?!?! THIS IS THEIR STRATEGY YOU GUYS) and more importantly, a zing-back to the [...]
I’m a little behind the times on this, but, “LITTLE TERRIFYING ECSTATIC FACES, HIDING IN THE TEENY TINY BROCCOLI BITS.”
…and the follow-up
“I wanna make songs that, like, a wider, younger audience can get behind. You know? A kid who just now is getting over My Chemical Romance or something. Or like, just now thinking, like, ‘I wanna hear something a little more experimental.’”
The opinions I’ve heard contra-Deerhunter fall mostly into two camps: a) [...]
“I’ve listened to many versions of the story from reliable sources and this is what I’ve heard. It was around ’93. Hieroglyphics is huge. Del is huge. Casual is part of Hiero, he’s on a major label. Saafir isn’t yet, but is bound to get signed. Apparently the beef started because on Casual’s first album, [...]
A Brian DePalma film waiting to happen.
“’Saturday Night Live’ treats politics less as a contest of ideas than as a cast of characters.”
Also: “Politics” treats politics less as a contest of ideas than as a cast of characters. Which is why it’s there’s not much of a difference.
When Sarah Palin was nominated, everyone said [...]
Miles Raymer: User-content-driven sites have also accelerated the speed at which the mainstream absorbs elements of black youth culture, with things like “Chicken Noodle Soup” going from a Harlem neighborhood thing to a worldwide pop phenomenon more or less in a matter of days. What do you think the effects of this have been so [...]
“Pitchfork: What kind of shows were you going to?
MS: Well, Brownies was really popular, and I was going to all the underground…Todd P shows, Lightning Bolt shows, all of those kind of shows, and I’d go by myself and I’d stand around. Erase Errata, I remember seeing at some weird place, and I’d stand [...]