Not about baseball: here’s a map regarding “It’s Grim Up North,” the 1991 single by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
Full map here: http://flipflopflyin.com/itsgrimupnorth/index.html
so weird when my interests converge
If you want to see a picture of Creedence Clearwater Revival dining at Taco Bell in 1969, here you go. –EH
Fogerty goes because of the prices.
sadly, they’ve cropped out the bathroom on the right :(
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Rise Records Sign 7 Seconds
Rise Records have signed 7 Seconds, an incredibly influential hardcore band from the 1980’s. The band will be releasing a new 7” and record in the near future. Check out a statement from Rise below after the jump.
now THIS is an actual surprise!
On May 28th our most in-depth interview to date will premiere as an Alternative Press podcast where we talk about everything from the formation of the band until now.
you’ll be shocked to learn I’m really looking forward to this
‘Where’s The Love’ by Hanson
As far as “Express Yourself” homages go, this > “Born This Way”
Thank god we don’t have to choose!
Sometimes you have to remind people that a critic can mock something, deride it even, and still love it, or at least love parts of it. This is always how I read Meltzer and Bangs on the Doors. In one of his early reviews of them (I forget of which album), Meltzer calls the band (not even Morrison, but the band) “ridiculous” but means it, I’m pretty sure, in a way that is entirely complimentary. Bangs referred to Morrison as a bozo, but also was intensely moved by some of their music; in the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, he suggests that “Light My Fire” paved the way for “Gimme Shelter” (an argument I think Greil Marcus picked up in his recent book on the band). One of the trends I find disconcerting in so much music criticism today is that writers seem unwilling to acknowledge the idea that ridiculousness and pretensiousness and buffoonery sometimes don’t prevent great music, and in fact, sometimes lead directly to great music.
Scott Woods, “Critics Are Strange” (via occupiedterritories)
This is a great point. I’ve always felt that the best part of quite a few bands I really like (My Chemical Romance, Coheed And Cambria, System Of A Down, and Chiodos all spring immediately to mind) is, indeed, their ridiculousness.
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“It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” - the Creator of the GIF
I’m sticking with a hard “G” (like “gift”}
Yeah, seriously. I can’t say ‘jif,’ it feels so WRONG.
who cares how the creator pronounces it? Words belong to their readers, not their authors
New singles from Francis & The Lights, The Limousines and Sombear today
What a great day for pretty, restrained, ethereal tunage!
oh now, this…this is good
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Francis and the Lights - ETC
This is every bit as beautiful as I would have hoped. Glad they’re back!
