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Entries from October 2008
Passion Pit’s Sleepyhead
October 15th, 2008
Tags: video
Elvis Costello urinates on his own legacy by consorting with mall-punk, emo dickwads
October 14th, 2008
Goddamnit. Seems like every day I turn around and one of my idols does something unbelievably shitty and lame. This time it’s Elvis Costello, who has deemed it appropriate to lower himself by contributing God knows what to the upcoming Fall Out Boy album. Really? Fall Out Boy? I know it’s silly to force artists […]
Tags: news
RETRO: Garden Variety “Parker” live at Wetlands 1996
October 14th, 2008
I recently stumbled across a mix tape I made for my wife back in 1995 that had this song on it. I’ve already watched this video about five times today. It’s off Garden Variety’s Knocking the Skill Level LP from 1994. I know I wore the grooves off this record when I was in college. […]
Tags: video
Of Montreal + MGMT cover Nirvana + “Id Engager” video
October 14th, 2008
Even though my partner here at the Drawer still has no use for Of Montreal, I’m highly anticipating the upcoming release of Skeletal Lamping, as the band’s previous effort, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, was my favorite album of 2007. At the Of Montreal show the other night in NYC, Kevin Barnes was joined on stage by […]
Playing Pretend with Microphones, Mountains, and Death
October 14th, 2008
Phil Elverum is a recorder of unorthodox sounds. An analog archivist. A singer of strange, dark, and heart-wrenchingly beautiful songs about the simplest fundamentals: water, air, space, mountains. He hails from the boondocks of the upper Northwest in a small town called Anacortes in Washington State, the population of which is less than 15,000. He’s […]
Britney Spears “Womanizer” video
October 14th, 2008
Watching the whole Britney Spears debacle unfold over the past few years has been a desensitizing train wreck. I get angry at myself when I pay attention to it, but I can’t help it. Because of her, people actually expect celebrities to be bat shit crazy and utterly incapable of functioning in society. Britney Spears […]
Tags: video
Seattle’s KEXP lists Top 903 albums of all time
October 14th, 2008
KEXP in Seattle has posted its top 903 albums (after its spot on the dial: 90.3), and the list – as a collection – is hard to scoff at, despite the ranking order being grossly, wildly out of whack. This was a list voted on by listeners, thus, the crazy high rankings of “new”-ish albums […]