Salem - What kind of music genre is this ?

Salem baited into trolling Whiney:

http://soldout.squarespace.com/blog/2011/3/15/salem-getting-to-the-root.html

soldout: certain music critics, particularly chr1s w3ingarten, have accused salem of being racist for the pitched-down vocals jack uses on album. we think that's ridiculous, but we'd love to know how you respond to
that.

JD: Im not even trying to be in a dialog with angry/upset 40 year olds but... that guy is an ass :( . We all use effects on our vocals. Chr1s should probably eat a salad and go to bed. Its an intense and serious accusation to say someone is racist, its clear he doesnt understand our work but to be so negative as to say all that is very sad. Sometimes I think older people can be intimidated when something new gets attention, I just googled him and it looks like he is tryna be in a band....maybe he is jelix???? I pray 4 him.
JH: is chr1s w3ingarten white? Racial interpretation is in the ear of the beholder. i pitch down my vocals too, i wonder if he thinks thats racist too even though i dont rap?
H: He's probably just another angry white man. We get a lot of reactionary responses to our music, putting energy into hating something is still giving your energy to it, it doesn't bother us.

hypocrite baited into matching screen name to real name

hahahahah omg amazing

"Chr1s should probably eat a salad and go to bed."

I'm 31, assholes! 12 minutes ago via web

he took the bait, now let's watch what happens!

dude I thought about that but your visible screenname sez yr last name in it! anybody wants to delete my post feel free, I 100% do not mean to blow whiney's spot here

^^ aero otm, ilx is basically free publicity for whiney, right?

xpost

i don't care, i'm just saying someone else had a visible screen name with their name in it for a while and would get super pissy about way less than this

salem's response is such horseshit - "he's old! old people don't understand!" great argument you dumb fucks, congratulations on publicly admitting that you're incapable of engaging criticism

anyway I posted this to say "this is how assholes act when they get called out," not to say "these guys said lol things about whiney" - I'm on whiney's side here

xp yeah actual-lol it's not really news that I am a pissy diva type whines!!

Don't let them win, Whiney. I kind of hope you keep this going.

But your last name is a lot more googleable than your first and it's in your screen name, unobfuscated! Or do we hide those from people not logged in, I forget.

I kind of hope you keep this going.

lol well this only came to my attn because I could feel the steam escaping from whiney's ears as it broke through the tweetstream

That's kind of the deal, if you're going to respond to someone who's actually critical of you, you probably shouldn't do it to the guy who only gets more verbose when wound up.

Salem try to pick a fight with our dude is very much slingshot-to-the-gunfight

Hahaha, thanks dudes. I pretty much said my piece in the Voice f2k article. There's literally nothing left to say about these diarrhea stains until they release their next terrible record. But by that point everyone will have bounced on to the next flavor-of-the-month fake blogger genre and it will be like kicking an O.D.'d horse

skreets is watching whiney, be careful

this made me lol. hi j0hn d0ran whoever you are
http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/04/08/interview-british-online-mag-the-quietus-responds-to-salem-hoax

" I work between 70 and 80 hours a week on a website which is pretty much a labour of love and the freelance work I need to do, in order to keep myself in baubles and biscuits." "
We need to have really good google presence for me to earn the paltry amount of £100 a week (do a google conversion and start weeping) and this is for a 70 hour 7 day week, which is kind of destroying my physical and mental health at the moment."
"Maybe I'll start working 14 hour fucking shifts instead of 13 hour shifts."

I usually don't like to post negative things on this board just cause, but this?? Is the life of a music journalist/web designer really so strained and laborious?

My life as a freelance journalist is a piece of piss. My life as the owner/editor/features editor/staff writer of an independent music site is *exactly* like that. No overexageration. No metaphor. One of the 15 - 20 people I know on this board could probably confirm it if they so wished.

I'm not looking for sympathy by the way, I enjoy doing nothing other than my job with my waking hours. I wouldn't have it any other way. That's not to say I like having my time wasted though. This is the only time I've ever mentioned my hours/pay in the context of not wanting trustafarians in shit NYC bands pulling spoofs on me.

They took one of my questions out. They said who should they have spoofed if not Salem and I said they could have done Wavves by taking a liquid shit onto a dictaphone. Didn't make the cut.

I said they could have done Wavves by taking a liquid shit onto a dictaphone.

Would've definitely left that in any interview I was publishing.

My question wasn't meant to be sarcastic or ironic. I'm far removed from the music industry. I do write quite a lot, though I never consider it work exactly. I've never gotten paid for my writings. Any kind of work involves a certain labor, yet also when a lot of strain and stress is involved I question the joy and quality of the work. Not that writing always comes easy and that certainly can be stressful. Maybe that's why I choose work that doesn't concern my loves, taste, and pleasures. When music becomes work are you really listening with the same ears you once had?

That's a question for yourself not for me. And, no slight intended, I think it shows a lack of imagination.

This is my job. I love it. I don't think the scale of listening I do or the fact it pays my rent affects my appreciation of it.

The truth of the matter is I don't really see it as work, in a 9 - 5 job sense, I see it as an utterly pointless and mainly harmless calling that allows me to get loads of music and to get into all the gigs I want to go to and to hang out with other people like me so I don't feel like so much of a fucking mentally ill freak.

Music fills the space in my life that other people would fill with religious or spiritual concerns. It has also given me a solid framework to help me get over my genetic predisposition toward thirstiness and narcotic use and, to a certain degree, has helped me with low level mental health issues.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=91272

And he looks so happy!

what a cute couple

Such a perfect meeting of minds. Is he the rapper? Please let him be the rapper.

There's our boy!

A small fire broke out early Thursday morning in Courtney Love’s West Village home, a Fire Department official said.

The fire, in a fourth-floor bedroom of Ms. Love’s town house, at 250 West 10th Street near Hudson Street, was probably started by a candle next to the curtains, the official said. Ms. Love discovered the fire, the official said, although it was not clear whether she placed the 911 call, at 1:52 a.m. There was also a male occupant at the home at the time.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/small-fire-in-courtney-loves-town-house/#

Killing Courtney with fire lol

so who overdoses first?

he'll be the one to drop. you can't kill courtney.

i think you're right

omfg

Listen, and understand. Courtney Love is out there. She can't be bargained with. She can't be reasoned with. She doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

the only person who'll remember the Fader Fort performance will be markers

http://i53.tinypic.com/xaxo2a.jpg

SHE SAY I DOWN WIH HUH I SAY BITCH YOU ALOOOOONE

^^^^

she say im down wih huh, i say bitch you alone
you lyin wit the flesh, lyin with the bone
she say i'm lyin wih huh, my mind in the SKREET
i say i'm not with me, i'm with she, i'm with she
now plane lights blinkin, off in da evenin
got me thinkin, wish i was leavin
it's not that i'm tryna be somewhere else
i'm not tryna be here... by myself
if you were here too i'd still be with myself
i talk real loud, i don't wanna hear myself
i'm faraway lost and i don't want help
if you could bring me back, i kill myself... haaa
not myself, that's just myself
i don't know if you could tell, but i'm in hell
i don't know if you noticed, but i haven't spoken
my arm might be broken, i'm so sick of jokin

hahaha eeeeee

LMFAO!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7pRqaIX64

"Salem's cover of Alice Deejay's immortal trance anthem "Better Off Alone""

(((d-_-b)))

I'll start paying attention when they cover Ian Van Dahl.

this is apparently from a new ep they have coming out

does this band still exist?

naw...they're out on the skreets

lol

http://rapgenius.com/Salem-sick-lyrics#note-587099

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsBvDm9-Bk

no one seems to have posted this here yet. it's pretty amazing...

i love seam

after a few years of avoidance due to all the hype at the time of release, i picked the SALEM album up today.
3 spins in ..
love it.
are they still working together, or have things fallen apart due to vice magazine related excess ..

I think theyre still together. The album is great though. Also check out their remix of gucci mane's "round one"

yeah .. i need to track that remix down due to the love on this thread.
the album still sounds amazing.
love the dark claustrophobia vibe.