I just can’t tell the difference between 2009’s big pop contenders. Two women in one year is always going to be confusing, but when they’re both making music electronically? What’s going on? I feel like a blind man stumbling through a snowstorm. Help!!!!!!
I drew up a comparison chart to help me, you and everyone else decide which one of these girls is which. I think this will be on every single editor’s wall by nightfall. Don’t you?
According to every magazine/website/zeitgeist newsletter, there are a whole lot of exciting new bands you will be hearing more of this year. Hooray. According to general laws of statistics, each of them has a hypothetical propensity to kill. Wouldn’t it be great if one of them committed a murder at some point during 2009? Just think: Indie gossip would all be about CSI-style corpse decomposition periods and semen samples, or maybe more retro talk of candlesticks and lead pipes. With that in mind, we’re offering the music press the chance to get a jump on the game, by ranking 2009’s potential indie breakouts in terms of their murderous proclivities, using nothing more than Poirot-like little grey cells. Elementary findings follow. Read more »
Once, making it to the top in the music industry required hard work, talent and timing. Thankfully, those days are long since over. No, nowadays all you need is a copy of our guide to making it in the biz, Zane’s mobby number and a burgeoning friendship with Dev Hynes. Just stick these simple rules to your fridge, and within no time at all, you too can be the band that everyone dismisses as pure hype.
As the 2008 slams the brakes on, editors the breadth of the land put their feet up on the desk and just serve you some reconstituted yesterdays: top-10-20-30-50-100 countdowns of stuff that happened over the past twelve months. But as you grind your way through one end of year music supplement banging on about Kings Of Leon & MGMT after another, your eyes go oblong and there’s a sense of intense, giddying deja vu. Haven’t we seen it all before? In every other magazine/paper/webzine/cereal box? Like, every year? Forever?
Slice through the crap: this is The Only Top 35 Albums Of The Year Countdown You’ll Ever Need.
The Big Pink are two friends called Milo and Robbie who make noisy shoegazey music with an ever-revolving band of musicians including people like Akiko from Comanechi and Daniel O’Sullivan who plays with SunnO))) and Ulver.
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People think that acid casualties are all a bunch of homeless drags, but some of them go on to do great things like host a cooking show or psychedelify the fish bait industry.
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We saw this grown ass man at JFK and just to recap: he is wearing his peepeejammer bottoms and carrying around a felt orange neck pillow like it’s a wubbie. Is there a way we can get the terrorists to only blow up his plane?
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