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June 07, 2005
Packed Up and Left
The Onion interviews the not-too-funny-to-be-country Robbie Fulks.
Don't be cute. Wiser words were never spoken:
No literary movement before this one has ever made me angry. People's taste is none of my business. But this shit is being marketed to young girls, who are already getting weak enough ideas from other media about what being a girl means — why should the few who read be plowed under, too?
[Via largehearted boy]
Idlewild will release their new album, Warnings/Promises, on August 16. Rumor has it that three-part harmonies rule the record.
In other news, Rilo Kiley have officially kissed their indie cred goodbye—being, after all, one of the bands that made Barsuk Records—and signed to Warner Bros. Their last record, More Adventurous, was released via their own imprint on WB, but only managed to clear 200,000 copies since it was released last year.
The recent trend of the disappearing bass player has snuck up on Sparta, who have lost bassist Paul Hinijos to their former compatriots in The Mars Volta. The money is probably better, but the music is so much worse.
Posted in A/V Dorkout | 7 June 2005 at 07:46 PM | Comments (2) | | Link
June 06, 2005
Free + Legal
All you mixmasters out there, listen up. Salon is going to give away a nice, shiny new iPod for the best summer mix. The catch is that the downloads must be available free and legally online.
The rules are below:
All tracks must be both free and legal. To make this easy to police I'm going to insist that they are posted on the artist's Web site, on the label's Web site, or on a legitimate MP3 site like Better Propaganda, Insound or Epitonic.
Include the artist name, track title, album title, and download link for every track.
No streams! Only MP3 downloads.
You're welcome to dip into the Audiofile archives to find some of your material, but I'll be more excited about playlists that bring in new material.
You can't include your own music! And be sparing with music by friends. If you're close friends with an unheard of musician who you think is the greatest songwriter alive ... you're probably wrong!
Each playlist should be between 10 and 15 tracks.
Each playlist should have a title.
Submissions should be sent to audiofile@salon.com with the subject line "Playlist: Summer."
The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. EDT, Monday, June 27.
Check the full article here.
Posted in A/V Dorkout | 6 June 2005 at 10:46 PM | Comments (0) | | Link
June 02, 2005
I May Go Down in Flames
Yeah, so I said I wasn't going to be updating this often and here I am, back twice in one week. On top of the laziness, I'm a big fat liar.
Things to mention:
01. If you don't own Dolorean's Violence in the Snowy Fields, you should be ashamed of yourself. Tramp on down to your local record shop and pick up a copy.
02. Has anyone heard the new Lucero album? The rumblings aren't good, but then again, their last album wasn't that great.
03. Despite a multi-year hiatus from anything remotely good, I actually like the new Ryan Adams album, Cold Roses. Check out "Let It Ride"—definitely one of the strongest songs of his career.
Linda Perry, singer/songwriter of 4 Non Blondes (whom I loathe) and lately hitmaker extraordinaire for Pink and Christina Aguilera, has inked a deal with Kill Rock Stars. Yes, that Kill Rock Stars.
A new album from Nada Surf will be forthcoming this September, titled The Weight is a Gift.
Posted in A/V Dorkout | 2 June 2005 at 10:55 PM | Comments (0) | | Link
