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?
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.
If hell is other people, then gigs are hell with weak lager. But who are these fleshy individual hells who surround us? Where have they come from and why are they here? We ran some numbers. We got some answers. Here’s a cross-section of the particular shapes of fan you can expect at average gigs by typically hip bands.
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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Again, it stings to put a DO in the DON’Ts but tuck in your fucking shirt guy. You look like Duane Peters if he was in Glengarry Glen Ross.
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Dude, old Jews bawl their eyes out every time you walk by. Eat a burger or put some pants on. [Click for video]
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