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When Slow News Days Attack

noah | August 20, 2008 9:15 am
noah | August 20, 2008 9:15 am

The New York Daily News’ gossip column would like to remind you that Kurt Cobain, now 14 years passed, didn’t like Axl Rose. While this information isn’t really all that new, the lede to the piece sets new standards of… something: “Fans of Kurt Cobain continue to mourn the Nirvana rocker. More »


Which Alt-Rock Classics Do We Hate Most?

Michaelangelo Matos | August 13, 2008 5:15 am
Michaelangelo Matos | August 13, 2008 5:15 am

Earlier today, the R&B blog SoulBounce came up with an idea we’re kicking ourselves for not having come up with first: the editors’ and their friends’ (and their comments box’s) choices for the “Universally-Adored Soul Classic That [They] Hate.” (Funniest moment: site editor nOvaMatic’s dis of Frankie Beverly and Maze’s “Before I Let Go,” one of two: “My god, is this song potato salad? Must it be at every Black gathering?” Funny it appears here so soon after they named it one of the all-time greatest soul songs, but then nOva didn’t write that one.) We like this idea so much that we’ve decided to rip it off, using a different category. After the jump, we’ll will pick our Universally Adored (or so it seems) Alt-Rock Classics We Hate.

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Every Popular Musician Will Show Up In Some Courtroom Somewhere Someday

noah | July 25, 2008 9:30 am
noah | July 25, 2008 9:30 am

AP04101005533.jpg• Simon & Schuster has sued both Foxy Brown and Lil Kim for not coming through on books, despite being paid advances. In 2006, Foxy was paid $75,000 in hopes that she’d write an autobiography, while Kim was given $40,000 in 2004 for a novel. (Fiction still gets no respect, even when it’s penned by a famous-ish person.) [Bloomberg via ProHipHop]

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Five Kiss Songs That Could Easily Be Turned Into Jingles

noah | July 17, 2008 12:45 pm
noah | July 17, 2008 12:45 pm

kiss_comic.gifThe “writing ad-ready songs for the enjoyment of viewers at home and the delight of network accounting departments” reality show Jingles has had its debut, which was scheduled for later this month, pushed back by CBS, but that isn’t stopping the network from letting the world know that Kiss bassist and entrepreneur Gene Simmons is going to be one of the show’s judges. (I’m guessing he’s going to take the acid-tongued “Simon” spot on the panel.) This caused me to think about how Simmons’ body of work could itself be employed for the purposes of selling crap that people don’t really don’t need, via the time-tested “out of context lyric used to shill for a slightly incongruous product” method that so many ads employ these days. Five possible examples of how you could hear Kiss songs during breaks in Law & Order reruns after the jump.

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Old Nirvana Footage Makes Us Feel Even Older

noah | July 17, 2008 11:00 am
noah | July 17, 2008 11:00 am

You know how we complain about all these people who are constantly snapping photos and filming videos at shows? It can be a nuisance, for sure, but sometimes it’s a damn good thing those people are out there. More »


The Half-Year In Review: Dave Grohl Owns Alt-Rock Airwaves (What Else Is New?)

Al Shipley | July 17, 2008 10:00 am
Al Shipley | July 17, 2008 10:00 am

AP080712028929.jpgMany people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here’s “Corporate Rock Still Sells,” where Al “GovernmentNames” Shipley examines what’s good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he gives the year’s rock charts a midway-mark overview.

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Argument Of The Day: Do People Actually Listen To Nirvana?

Dan Gibson | June 20, 2008 1:30 am
Dan Gibson | June 20, 2008 1:30 am

nirvana.jpgWhere to begin? Atlantic Monthly associate editor and blogger Matthew Yglesias posts a Nirvana video yesterday in the midst of his political coverage, mentioning that he doesn’t think many people actually listen to the band, despite their influence. So, if you’re an economic blogger for Portfolio, why not write out an extensive rebuttal to that assertion?

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anthonyjmiccio | May 16, 2008 10:15 am
anthonyjmiccio | May 16, 2008 10:15 am

Along with his Foghat purchase, Michael Stipe revealed in his Death & Taxes interview that he still has a hard time listening to Nirvana albums following Kurt Cobain’s suicide. “It was all written, it was all right there and it was so obvious where he was going, and then he didn’t make it. More »


Is “Heart Songs” The Worst Weezer Song Yet?

anthonyjmiccio | May 15, 2008 2:15 am
anthonyjmiccio | May 15, 2008 2:15 am

weezer.jpgMy personal feeling about Weezer is that they made two of the best rock albums of the ’90s, two good albums that traded lyrical coherence for good hooks, and Make Believe, a near-abortion that revealed how lucky we were to have Rivers Cuomo babble about hash pipes and dope noses instead of starkly announcing “We Are All On Drugs.” “Pork And Beans” has a Blue Album-worthy chorus hook and distortion pedal push, but the lyrics are a pretty embarrassing attempt to seek sympathy for his “uncool” songs. Now “Heart Songs” offers a star’s sequel to “In The Garage,” name-dropping the artists who helped him throughout the gestative years of his career (before Nirvana changed his life) over a creepily tepid backdrop featuring acoustic guitar, strings and what sounds like a glockenspiel.

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The Kurt Cobain Converse: For Those Days When Your Doc Martens Need To Be Aired Out

mariasci | March 18, 2008 4:50 am
mariasci | March 18, 2008 4:50 am

Because there aren’t enough “Commodify Your Dissent” jokes out there, the Daily Swarm is reporting that Converse plans to release a line of Kurt Cobain-inspired sneakers as part of the company’s 100th-anniversary celebration. More »