If you notice a drop-off in posts today, don’t worry, I’m OK; I’ve probably just gotten lost in a haze of looking for YouTube clips and blog posts recapping this weekend’s SP20 festival, which celebrated the 20th-ish anniversary of indie heavyweight Sub Pop. More »
Especially when what I think are mysterious DNS problems are preventing a handful of people who have access to my IM name (including Dan!) from getting to the site, and especially when it’s in glorious as-hi-def-as-492-pixels-wide-allows form. Thanks, RSS feed of Pitchfork.TV! More »
Gentle readers, I am writing this from my couch, where I am as crouched in the fetal position as I can be (going all the way would, of course, render me completely unable to type). I am not operating at 100% right now, and what better way to exploit my lousy physical state for music-blogging gain than by writing a listicle (oh man, using that word just made me worse) about music one should listen to while under the weather? Specifically, when one is put under the weather by a foodstuff from one of New York City’s finer dining establishments? (I swear, if the matzoh ball soup I had for lunch yesterday is the culprit, I am going to cry.) Five songs that are making me feel just a little bit better after the jump.
Casting about for a “last post” for about an hour has finally resulted in me striking gold: Not only are forefathers of awesome Mudhoney coming out with a new album this year, Sub Pop is readying a 20th-anniversary edition of Superfuzz Bigmuff that’ll include “singles, demos and a pair of live recordings from 1988.” Also the likelihood of that one-off reunion of Green River, which counted among its members Mudhoney’s Mark Arm and Steve Turner, happening at the Sub Pop 20th-anniversary show this summer is apparently pretty high, and all I’m saying is that I will pay any amount of money in order to get a ticket. (Just one!) While I go off to sell some plasma, please enjoy this 1989 clip of “Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More” and “Chain That Door”; after the jump, a more recent performance of the near-perfect “You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face).” [Harp / YouTube]
File under “pieces of news that I thought Jess was giving me in order to fake me out and get my attention”: Green River–the Mark Arm-fronted Seattle band that the northwest rock historian behind lamestain pegged as “the first grunge rock stars”–is going to play a reunion show in honor of Sub… More »
We don’t like to brag about our job, but really: How often do you go to your mailbox and find out that you’ve just received a package from one of the greatest grunge-rockers of all time? More »
