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the last word
From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Under consideration in this installment is One Of The Boys, which is Christian pop singer turned Girl Gone Mild Katy Perry's Glen Ballard/Dr. Luke-assisted effort to break out of one-hit-wonderdom:
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Katy Perry Is Annoying, But She (Thankfully) Keeps It Brief
From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Under consideration in this installment is One Of The Boys, which is Christian pop singer turned Girl Gone Mild Katy Perry's Glen Ballard/Dr. Luke-assisted effort to break out of one-hit-wonderdom:
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Coldplay's forthcoming Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends has the Guardian moaning about the curse of the bad album title, raising the spectre of the Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Fiona Apple's When The Pawn..., and Public Enemy's Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age to make the case that Vida's awkward title will probably sink the album, sales-wise. (Well, at least EMI will have something else to blame for the inevitably disappointing numbers besides "softening market conditions.") But surely we've all bought unfortunately titled albums in an effort to look past awkward syntax and bad puns by musicians whose output we trust? I know I have, so after the jump, I run down five owned-by-me full-lengths that I generally only refer to as "that album by those guys, you know which one I mean." (For what it's worth, the best-titled in my collection is Ill Ease's All Systems A-Go-Go!, but that particular honor can change at any moment.)
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Bad Album Titles: They're Even More Fun To List Than Bad Album Covers
Coldplay's forthcoming Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends has the Guardian moaning about the curse of the bad album title, raising the spectre of the Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Fiona Apple's When The Pawn..., and Public Enemy's Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age to make the case that Vida's awkward title will probably sink the album, sales-wise. (Well, at least EMI will have something else to blame for the inevitably disappointing numbers besides "softening market conditions.") But surely we've all bought unfortunately titled albums in an effort to look past awkward syntax and bad puns by musicians whose output we trust? I know I have, so after the jump, I run down five owned-by-me full-lengths that I generally only refer to as "that album by those guys, you know which one I mean." (For what it's worth, the best-titled in my collection is Ill Ease's All Systems A-Go-Go!, but that particular honor can change at any moment.)
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premature announcements
Perry Farrell thinks little of Jim DeRogatis, the Chicago Sun-Times writer who leaked this year's headliners for Lollapalooza. "This guy, he's a stinker, so it was kind of like having a skunk at the party. So what do we do? Well, I think we should make him the stinky mascot. ... That's what I'm going to do. ... Pepe LePew," sneered the festival figurehead and lost cause. Responded Jim, "Wasn't Pepe the one who always got the girls? What the heck is wrong with that?" Actually, Pepe didn't get the girls, DeRo. Pepe was an overly amorous skunk that pathologically assaulted cats that had accidentally walked against wet paint. And the cats didn't like it. Anyhooo, the full line-up for Lollapalooza, which takes place Aug. 1-3 in Chicago, is out now. Behold!
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Full Lollapalooza Line-Up Announced, Perry Peeved At "Pepe Le Pew"
Perry Farrell thinks little of Jim DeRogatis, the Chicago Sun-Times writer who leaked this year's headliners for Lollapalooza. "This guy, he's a stinker, so it was kind of like having a skunk at the party. So what do we do? Well, I think we should make him the stinky mascot. ... That's what I'm going to do. ... Pepe LePew," sneered the festival figurehead and lost cause. Responded Jim, "Wasn't Pepe the one who always got the girls? What the heck is wrong with that?" Actually, Pepe didn't get the girls, DeRo. Pepe was an overly amorous skunk that pathologically assaulted cats that had accidentally walked against wet paint. And the cats didn't like it. Anyhooo, the full line-up for Lollapalooza, which takes place Aug. 1-3 in Chicago, is out now. Behold!
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As a Valentine's Day present to people who love bitching about the record industry and super-huge, arena-styled choruses, Butch Walker is self-releasing a double live album tomorrow via his Web site. Anyone who happens by said site—the new name of which brings back the spirit of such dot-com-collapse-era hoedowns as FuckedCompany.com—during the first week of the album's release will be able to download the whole thing for free; the only physical copies of the album made available will be in DVD format. Another project in the works for Walker: A collaboration between him and The Academy Is... guitarist Michael Guy Chislett, which will no doubt up the quotient of Walker-related stories in the bandom universe. [The Record Business Is Fucked via Hollywood Insider]
magazines
And now it's time for another installment of Rock-Critically Correct, in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous music-mag writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! Once again, he/she turns his/her attentions to Spin:
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Rock-Critically Correct: "Spin" Parties Like A Rock Star
And now it's time for another installment of Rock-Critically Correct, in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous music-mag writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! Once again, he/she turns his/her attentions to Spin:
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emo
Today's New York Post has an article on Crush Management, the company that guides the careers of Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, and other tortured-dude bands with overly wordy titles. It's a somewhat odd piece, if only because it's peppered with quotes from Butch Walker that sound a lot more derisive than they probably were in context, but it does also float the theory that today's emo is pretty analogous to a rock sub-genre popular about 20 years ago: More »
Finally, Someone Agrees With Our "Guyliner Is The Aqua Net Of The '00s" Theory
Today's New York Post has an article on Crush Management, the company that guides the careers of Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, and other tortured-dude bands with overly wordy titles. It's a somewhat odd piece, if only because it's peppered with quotes from Butch Walker that sound a lot more derisive than they probably were in context, but it does also float the theory that today's emo is pretty analogous to a rock sub-genre popular about 20 years ago: More »
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While researching the forthcoming albums that we'd be playing the crap out of yesterday, we found out that the Canadian spazz-wavers Hot Hot Heat are readying their next full-length with pop guru Butch Walker, who, as you may have noticed, is something of a revered figure around these parts. We listened to Hot Hot Heat's glammed-out "5 Times Out Of 100" a lot when it came out back in 2002, but our interest in the band has waned with each successive record; if anyone can get us to keep hoping that these British Columbians return to their dark-pop nook, it'll be Walker, who even made us give the Rock Star Supernova band a second listen.
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Remembering The Days When We Got Hot And Bothered Over Hot Hot Heat
While researching the forthcoming albums that we'd be playing the crap out of yesterday, we found out that the Canadian spazz-wavers Hot Hot Heat are readying their next full-length with pop guru Butch Walker, who, as you may have noticed, is something of a revered figure around these parts. We listened to Hot Hot Heat's glammed-out "5 Times Out Of 100" a lot when it came out back in 2002, but our interest in the band has waned with each successive record; if anyone can get us to keep hoping that these British Columbians return to their dark-pop nook, it'll be Walker, who even made us give the Rock Star Supernova band a second listen.
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Ending On A Good Note: Tuesday's MP3 Roundup
PICK TO CLICK: Starz - Cherry Baby [more info]
The Feminine Complex - Hide & Seek / I've Been Workin' On You (Demo) / Time Slips By [more info]
Field Mob - At The Park [more info]
Butch Walker & The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites - When Canyons Ruled The World [more info]
Paul Weller - I Walk On Gilded Splinters [more info]
The Feminine Complex - Hide & Seek / I've Been Workin' On You (Demo) / Time Slips By [more info]
Field Mob - At The Park [more info]
Butch Walker & The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites - When Canyons Ruled The World [more info]
Paul Weller - I Walk On Gilded Splinters [more info]
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Compiling a year-end Top 10 list means making plenty of painful nips, tucks, and tweaks. And so, as your Idolators prepare their Jackin' Pop singles lists, we present "Stuck At Eleven," a daily look at the songs that came thisclose to making the final cut.
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Stuck At Eleven: Looking Back At This Year's Second-Tier Singles
Compiling a year-end Top 10 list means making plenty of painful nips, tucks, and tweaks. And so, as your Idolators prepare their Jackin' Pop singles lists, we present "Stuck At Eleven," a daily look at the songs that came thisclose to making the final cut.
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rockstar supernova
To be honest, we weren't planning on giving the just-leaked Rock Star: Supernova album more than a cursory listen, but then we realized that metal-pop whiz Butch Walker co-wrote and produced several of the tracks. Walker's involvement is always good sign, and we're guessing it's his behind-the-scenes work that makes parts of Supernova actually pretty enjoyable—at least for those of us power-rock dopes who are easily satisifed by a few good catchy riffs. Take a listen to two tracks below, and let us know: Good or terrible?
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Listening Station: Rock Star: Supernova May Not Be Quite As Terrible As You Expect
To be honest, we weren't planning on giving the just-leaked Rock Star: Supernova album more than a cursory listen, but then we realized that metal-pop whiz Butch Walker co-wrote and produced several of the tracks. Walker's involvement is always good sign, and we're guessing it's his behind-the-scenes work that makes parts of Supernova actually pretty enjoyable—at least for those of us power-rock dopes who are easily satisifed by a few good catchy riffs. Take a listen to two tracks below, and let us know: Good or terrible?
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Ending On A Good Note: Monday's MP3 Roundup
PICK OF THE DAY: Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites - Hot Girls In Good Moods [more info]
Def Leppard - 20th Century Boy [more info]
The Descendents - Myage / Bikeage [more info]
Vanessa Hudgens - Come Back To Me [more info]
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade [more info]
Niobe - Give All To Love / Phosphorous [more info]
Placebo - 20th Century Boy [more info]
Prince - Trust / Vicki Waiting [more info]
The Replacements - 20th Century Boy [more info]
Def Leppard - 20th Century Boy [more info]
The Descendents - Myage / Bikeage [more info]
Vanessa Hudgens - Come Back To Me [more info]
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade [more info]
Niobe - Give All To Love / Phosphorous [more info]
Placebo - 20th Century Boy [more info]
Prince - Trust / Vicki Waiting [more info]
The Replacements - 20th Century Boy [more info]
cover-song showcase showdown
Welcome to the first installment of The Cover-Song Showcase Showdown, in which we pit two versions of the same beloved song against one another, and let you determine which is superior. Why? Because we're all about spreading democracy. That, and goosing our page-view count.
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The Cover-Song Showcase Showdown: Tackling The Mighty T. Rex
Welcome to the first installment of The Cover-Song Showcase Showdown, in which we pit two versions of the same beloved song against one another, and let you determine which is superior. Why? Because we're all about spreading democracy. That, and goosing our page-view count.
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