Surely, the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Bjork, Prince, and Elvis Costello will outweigh Sara McLachlan’s and Annie Lennox’s self-important Joni Mitchell interpretations (Mitchell herself despises 99.9% of contemporary female artists that cite her as an influence anyway), but nothing can save the presence of James Taylor’s moniker on that CD. Am I really going to […]

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Eccentric fruitcake producer, Phil Spector, is about to go on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson, a former waitress/actor, who made an egregous error in judgment by joining Mr. Spector for a nightcap in his Hollywood castle in February of 2003.  Set your Tivos, as this freakshow trial will be televised, of course. Spector’s responses to the allegations have […]

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SXSW looks, umm, super fun this year.  Totally wish I were there. The Gossip’s set at Emo’s featured a cover Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got To Do With It” and an excerpt of Nirvana’s “Smell’s Like Teen Spirit.”

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Jello Biafra makes a living complaining. And when he rails against the system he sounds like the dad from that shitty sitcom from the late 80’s, Just the Ten of Us. I know this is absurd, but, in high school, I thought this fat, bald middle-aged sitcom star was an underground political subversive because my […]

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Slate thinks so. It’s calling The Arcade Fire “The Great Rock Hope”, drawing its argument from an alleged “indie rock cult of Bruce Springsteen.” The Hold Steady’s obsession with the Boss is obvious. The Killers, not so much. Cheesy moustaches and tucked-in flannel shirts barely qualify as a Bruce Springsteen homage, and there’s not a […]

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Lefsetz on Arcade Fire “Why the fuck does the Arcade Fire need a gargantuan story in the “New York Times Magazine”?”

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