Prior to being sentenced to 15 months in the slammer for chaining and beating a male escort in his London apartment, Boy George performed his pro-Obama song “Yes We Can” on the Alan Titchmarsh Show back in September. It’s a terrible, terrible song. But also funny. And sad. Happy new President day (as the market […]

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I recently received a bit of press in my inbox with the following lead-in: “If you LIKE Animal Collective, you will LOVE Francois Virot.” Well, then I guess I will detest Francois Virot. Email deleted. Like Wilco and The Flaming Lips, there are just certain bands I have an illogical, knee-jerk reaction to. I am […]

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With Be Your Own Pet’s sudden, premature, and unceremonious break-up, it’s not exactly surprising that lead singer Jemina Pearl has plans for a solo record. She’s still on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! label, which was also home to BYOP. No juicy details as to why the band broke up have surfaced, so in the meantime […]

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Amazing footage of one of Guy Picciatto’s pre-Fugazi bands, playing the opening track off Rites of Spring’s one and only LP live at the (old) 9:30 Club in Washington DC. Before emo was a dirty word.

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Almost a year ago, after reading about Dent May on Kitsune Noir, I somehow came to possess a handful of tracks (Apparently entitled the “Brush With Velvet EP”) from Dent May and quite quickly “Meet Me in the Garden” came to be “that song.” You know, “That Song,” the one that plays on shuffle on […]

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Tim Jonze half-slags off a slew of bands who rip off Joy Division by way of Joy Division imitators in a piece entitled “Songs ripping off songs ripping off Joy Division.” Ha. The watered-down effect is inevitable with iconic bands, but it grows more amusing as the degrees separate further. Editors is to Joy Division […]

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Community service worker, jailer of escorts, and 80’s pop icon, Boy George, shilling overseas for Takara Shuzo. I have absolutely no idea what’s going on in these ads. They are disturbingly bizarre. I guess it pays. There’s no way this would sell soft drinks in America. I am constantly intrigued by Japanese aesthetics.

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