OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

Street Legal

from the 6 Best Things About a Tegan and Sara Show:

Their outfits are consistently on point and reflect the super-cool style they carry in their music. For the Love You to Death tour, the entire band has been rocking an all-white ensemble, plus a jacket of some sort for Tegan and Sara (usually a darker color or black). Can they get any cooler?

Show http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7565716/tegan-and-sara-show-best-things

Noisey declares itself a voice of resistance.

It's been disheartening to see some entertainment outlets already begin to normalize Donald Trump, as if he is any way a traditional candidate or a leader whose opinions merely diverge from the norm. We at Noisey have zero interest in doing this. In fact, the agenda we plan on pursuing over the next four years will be the polar opposite. We will relentlessly and unrepentantly rail against fascism and bigotry in all forms. Further, we will continue to celebrate the culturally diverse voices that make America's music scenes wholly vital, unique, and wonderful.

...

We're going to fight like fuck for music fans who feel like they don't have a voice in Donald Trump's America. We're going to fight like fuck to give a home to artists willing to speak out against oppression, misogyny, white supremacy, and xenophobia. We're going to fight like fuck to provide an outlet to artists and writers of color, to writers who are women, who are immigrants, who are Muslim, who are working class, and who are members of the LGBTQIA community. We're going to fight like fuck to use our platform here at Noisey to oppose everything Donald Trump and his administration represent.

Noisey is still owned by Vice, right?

some rad people write for Noisey,some shitty ones too. the same applies to Vice
'twas ever thus

I write for Noisey. Got a piece going up this week, I think. I just think it's funny that they're pretending/hoping nobody remembers who their parent company is and what that brand has stood for over the last, what, 20 years?

psyched that the music blog isn't going to normalize donald trump

in these times of domestic catastrophe and paralyzing anxiety, it is comforting to know that the world is ready to return to intra-media feuds

hi katherine

imo their brand has changed a lot, but yeah xxp

fight like fuck

would you like some fighting fuck, beseeeerkerrrr

lol

lede:

It’s a fool’s game to try to make diagnoses as to what might or might not be wrong with celebrities who one has never actually met in real life. Or, worse, it’s actively counter-productive: it can lead to the excusing of behavior that’s inexcusable, or conversely, condemnation of behavior that should be considered in the context of mental illness.

headline, subhed and rest of story:

It Appears That All Is Not Well With Kanye West

Kanye looks like he could use some help.

there’s something going on with Kanye West, and it’s upsetting.

West did seem particularly emotional on Saturday night.

it’s hard to listen to this speech and not get the feeling that all is not well with Kanye West.

e’ve seen this movie before — a talented, unstable artist becoming more and more erratic, being egged on all the while by the press and the public, who love the vicarious consumption of “madness” without ever having to live its reality.

above from flavorwire

psyched that the music blog isn't going to normalize donald trump

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, November 15, 2016 12:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe pfork can give him one of those rare 0.0s

trumpistan

Trump= Shit, Cat

more from the piece

We are going to start every week by re-reading this letter. We are going to remember our outrage at this moment and let it fuel our direction over the next four years. We are never going to let ourselves get complacent. We are never going to let the flames of resistance burn out.

after the fourth or fifth week of someone re-reading this letter to the staff people will start to feel pretty embarrassed about the whole thing. almost want to write a bot to tweet at noisey every monday "welcome to the workweek! have you reread your letter yet? reread it like fuck!"

Life comes at you fast

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/i-got-trashed-on-whisky-with-brendon-urie-from-panic-at-the-disco

wow

Urie has been in the music industry for over a decade, the last remaining original member in a band who have consistently taken something inherently theatrical and turned it into something sincere, accessible, and fucking cool. He is one of the most versatile and enduring artists to emerge from a period in which people genuinely wore a tie and a t-shirt approximately two sizes too small. He delivers personal anecdotes like he's auditioning for a film about his own life, expressing joy in such overt ways that, if it wasn't a completely dehumanising concept, I would start a petition suggesting that everyone feeling weathered and weary of life should be prescribed fifteen minutes with him.

what the hell let's do it anyway

I got tired just reading that

I find myself often wondering where the good writing is on Vice that explains its profile.

so talk to me a LOT about this alcohol you're drinking... in fact let's just have that be half the interview

"That was the same year that less critically-adored but more groundbreaking albums were released by System of a Down (Toxicity), Thursday (Full Collapse), Jimmy Eat World (Bleed American), and Tool (Lateralus), to name a few."

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/if-rock-is-the-new-jazz-then-i-blame-the-strokes/?trackback=tsmclip

groundbreaking claymation...

always surprised when a brooklyn vegan post isn't just tour dates

I look at my parents and they just keep getting better with age, like really good wine. They get funnier, sometimes more aggressive but in a funny way… I think 30 is going to be fun.

so glad vice is fighting like fuck to give a voice to this in trump's america

it's been a while since I saw jerry maguire but iirc basically he wakes up hungover after writing the mission statement and realises he'd rather continue being a cunt after all

Fight Like Fuck would make a great album title.

Slipknot - Fight Like Fuck

The Who - Fight Like Fuck

Tindersticks - Fight Like Fuck

We should really just start a separate thread so we can clown that essay for four years

make it so

I think whiskey is one of those things that people really get into when they get older, like beer-
I'm also into beer.

Or coffee.
And coffee.

Well, you just love everything!

95% of year-end list blurbs are awful

"In this Post-Nov.8 world, 95% of year-end list blurbs are awful"

fixed

do we have that thread yet? i was just thinking today "are they still reading that essay to themselves"

fighting like fuck to fuck to fight to make music to

Everyone knows that music has charms to soothe a savage breast, but few have read the rest of William Congreve’s line, which claims it can also “soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak,” and so, in these times of breast-beating savagery, heads full of stones, and tangles in desperate need of unknotting (times to try men’s and women’s souls, one might say), there is still a vital place for music in our lives. And so, here are my picks for the 10 best jazz albums of 2016, followed by the year’s four best previously unissued old treasures.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2016/12/the_best_jazz_albums_of_2016_and_the_best_historical_releases.html

http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-soothe-your-savage-breast-3.png

oops that's actually the line and I'm a fucking dipshit redneck, carry on

why is that line bolded

lol xp

dammit got so excited for a pedants' pile-on for a minute there

*extremely florida swamp trash voice*: i aint gon sit idly by while some pulitzer prize winning f*ggit with a phd from MIT misquotes CONGREVE on my watch

^^^ me irl

keep calm and play yourself

alas poor whiney I knew him well

ah well, tomorrow to fresh fields and pastures new

*spits tobacco into powerade bottle* 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.