Looking Back On Week When We All Felt A Little Burnt Out (Except This Guy)
• American Idol: this shit is exhausting already.
• Loudmouthed TV chef type thing Rachael Ray is courting indie bands for a SXSW showcase. Now let us never speak of her on a music blog again.
• Rakim and Nas and…the Cos?
• Will Tom Petty put the asses in the seats on the couches and keep Super Bowl viewers from flipping channels?
• Robyn deserves deserves better than playing remix second bananizzle.
• Lowering the flannel, Sub Pop looks to cardigans for fiscal solvency in troubled times.
• The rapid spread of the new Gnarls Barkley single across the blogosphere: marketing conspiracy or marketing conspiracy?
• A few more alt-rock radio stations fell foul of flipping formats.
• Crazed by rumors of a possible New Kids On The Block reunion that turned out to be not true (maybe?), Maura attempted to rewrite history/the New Kids hotness scale.
• The Vampire Weekend debut was released! Way to make us hate a pretty decent indie-pop album, Internet!
• The saga of “legal” P2P download system Qtrax made us “nostalgic” for the silliness of the Web 1.0 bubble. Start updating those resumes, everyone.
