The Internet is useful for so many things, but while looking at the blog The Stencil today, it occurred to me, where is the extensive Internet tribute to the pay-per-video channel “The Box” that we all so richly deserve?
As previously reported on Idolator, you might have noticed that the quality of writing in the music section of your local Village Voice-owned alt-weekly has dipped slightly in the last few years. In the first part of this open-ended series, we turned the spotlight on Phoenix New Times blogger Matt Neff (who seems to have dropped off the roster over there, sadly); this time, we look at a piece about how tough growing up can be…oh, and some stuff about the Misfits thrown in for good measure.
With a month and a half left in a glorious year sure to be remembered in a delightful VH1 special someday, it’s time to start making those New Year’s Eve plans. And by “making those New Year’s Eve plans,” I mean booking your flight to the John Wayne Orange County Airport for OCNYE, the ultimate in Los Angeles-metropolitan-area-adjacent -end-of-the-year entertainment! If the “Wine Country” and “Country Thunder” specialty areas weren’t quite enough to lure you, there will be bands you’re tried desperately to forget playing there!
RFD-TV, “Rural America’s Most Important Network,” has made the newswires a bit over the last few days for picking up the simulcast of Don Imus’ return to radio. But left unexamined was how the addition would affect the array of music programming on the channel. Likely buried at the end of the your cable lineup, between livestock auctions and agribusiness updates, RFD has some of the best musical offerings on television (not a terribly difficult status to attain, I realize).
The easy way out of any music review is the relentless slam, the cynical rant against whatever perceived injustice against what is good and just, and the music industry has a unique talent for serving up easy targets. (Courtney Love authorizes a Z-Trip remix of a Nirvana track? Excellent!) The minute I saw the listing for Tempe, Arizona’s Southern Comfort Music Experience mini-festival, it seemed like another softball thrown right down the middle. A lineup selected from the Hype Machine charts? A temporary venue set up in the parking lot of a new mall? Seemingly endless corporate sponsorship? Sounds like a the easiest blog post in the world. The only problem is when the event ends up resembling an actual good idea.
The Guardian continues the parade of bad news on this Monday with a snarky, but yet still quite frightening, news piece regarding Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell embarking on a solo career. More »
The Guardian continues the parade of bad news on this Monday with a snarky, but yet still quite frightening, news piece regarding Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell embarking on a solo career. More »
Not to ruin your morning, but there was one sentence from the L.A. Times article about the forthcoming Celine Dion/Ben Moody collaboration that seemed to be worth highlighting. More »
Not to ruin your morning, but there was one sentence from the L.A. Times article about the forthcoming Celine Dion/Ben Moody collaboration that seemed to be worth highlighting. More »
You (hopefully) have better things to do with your day than read the bold and edgy blogs the New Media folks at New TimesVVM have slapped all over their newsweeklies’ sites. Of course, when you’re gathering material for your day at a music blog, you comb even the least likely corners of the Internet for content. Of course, any Internet that would allow someone like me to pontificate on the music world ten times in a day is inherently dubious, but we stumbled upon a blogger in the VVM chain who is managing to bring shame to the industry itself.
