some interesting nugs in his wiki
As an A&R representative, Sommer was integrally involved with the success of Hootie & The Blowfish, and also worked with The Gits, 7 Year Bitch, Michael Crawford, Duncan Sheik, and Scott Weiland. He was also involved in the very early careers of both the Beastie Boys and Kara's Flowers, producing three tracks for Kara's Flowers in the summer of 2000, shortly before the group changed their name to Maroon 5. These tracks remain unreleased. More recently, Sommer has produced New York City-based rock band The Indecent, and in collaboration with Stuart Chatwood (formerly of The Tea Party), is working on his own project titled Uncommon Folk, which features electric slocore interpretations of traditional American folk songs, and features guest vocals by Glen Campbell, Mavis Staples, Blind Boys of Alabama, Jakob Dylan, and Robin Zander.
also not many can say they signed 7 Year Bitch and Hootie and the Blowfish
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 November 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
He does a regular column for Big Takeover that's usually pretty good. Reminiscences of NYC hardcore in the '80s and that kind of thing.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
he was in Even Worse. he's totes got cred from the olden days. he also produced Hetch Hetchy and Hetch Hetchy were waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Hugo Largo. the A&R stuff is just LOL 90's time to get paid stuff.
― scott seward, Friday, 20 November 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link
Why I Will Not Buy Adele’s New Album 25
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 23 November 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
I'm not much of a writer, but I'm certain I could write a much shorter article about why I'm not buying the new Adele album
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Monday, 23 November 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
It was March 10th, 2011. It was one of those songs that just stopped you in your tracks. Something so different from everything else on the radio at the time that I instantly fell in love. I drove straight to the nearest Target, bought the CD and popped it in my car’s CD player. I can’t say I’ve called many things, but, hell, I called this. Mind you, this was long before the world knew Adele. “Rolling” was still just starting to get played on AAA radio and hadn’t cracked top 40 yet. Go me.
The album was certified as gold in February 2009 by the RIAA. By July 2009, the album had sold 2.2 million copies worldwide. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in February 2009, Adele received the award for Best New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Chasing Pavements", which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
hahahaha so he's patting himself on the back for hearing a song on FM radio and buying a CD at Target, fuckin hipsters man
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 November 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
you know who's gonna be big is this drake kid, i keep hearing about him
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah, i hear he's the next Travi$ $cott
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 November 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
the guy who wrote that article performed at my school and i ended up at his show for some awful reason. anyway here is the kind of music he makes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJWi2qJIfds
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 23 November 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
wait watch this one instead. it's even worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vaYaTnqsKg
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 23 November 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
i always forget now if i had him in a class i taught once or if he just had so many signs up around campus that his name was imprinted on my mind
― j., Monday, 23 November 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
Ari Herstand Will Teach You Guitar
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2015 22:10 (eight years ago) link
i always forget now if i had him in a class i taught once or if he just had so many signs up around campus that his name was imprinted on my mind― j., Monday, November 23, 2015 4:09 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm sure he just played there a ton. his music is like ready-made for suburban college kids 'going to their first concert'
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 23 November 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
no really i think he was a student
i also think he never showed up and dropped
― j., Monday, 23 November 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
found his blog
"I became a force on the University of Minnesota campus. From around the time of my CD release to more or less Fall 2009, I was the most popular musician/band on campus. The U has about 40,000 undergraduate students so it wasn't a bad market to start with. My presence on campus was so undeniable that the music editor for the Minnesota Daily felt the need to write three hate pieces on me in one semester. He despised my presence so much that in the Fall of 2008 he included me in the "Freshman Survival Guide" handed out to all incoming freshman and listed me as the #1 of the top 3 worst bands in Minneapolis (the top 3 best bands in his piece are all now virtually defunct). He then wrote a scathing album review of my 2008 release which garnered some of the most comments of any MN Daily piece on the website and finally, I made the cover of the December joke edition next to Lindsay Lohan and the president of the University of Minnesota. My headline? "Surgeons Attempt To Reattach Local Musician's Balls Fails."As these articles were pouring out from the desk of a writer who will go unnamed, I was filling the 800 person capacity Varsity Theater, had just opened for Ben Folds in front of 3,200 people and had begun my massive college tour making obscene amounts of money. I had received about 30 other positive music reviews/previews that year in papers around the country, but of course, I can pretty much recite the MN Daily's hate pieces word for word."
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
had begun my massive college tour making obscene amounts of money. I had received about 30 other positive music reviews/previews that year in papers around the country, but of course, I can pretty much recite the MN Daily's hate pieces word for word.
Y'all are the reason that Dre ain't been getting no sleep
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 00:23 (eight years ago) link
As these articles were pouring out from the desk of a writer who will go unnamed
it was you, right????
― j., Tuesday, 24 November 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
hahaha that name is vaguely familiar but he's from that like parallel but secretly more popular Mpls music scene of like uh the fine line and the pourhouse and pickle park and playing at u of m frat house spring fling bullshit
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
wait so that means the AAA radio station he first heard Adele on would have been pre-format change Cities 97.
hmmm...wonder which Target he bought it at? My money's on the Quarry one. Not hardcore like the Lake Street Target but still close enough to Northeast to feel "hip"
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 02:16 (eight years ago) link
oh god listen Carnage the Executioner is a god live performer but sometimes I wish he never would have beatboxed into a loop pedal
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 02:17 (eight years ago) link
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 23, 2015 8:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
too real
― goole, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
"secretly more popular" is such a crucial phenomenon
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/23/457081463/review-adele-25
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
lol I think I found the operative sentence there
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
― goole, Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:26 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
forgot O'Gara's too!
but yeah I remember walking to my car after playing a Maps of Norway show at The Kitty Cat Club and walking by that fake Irish bar in Dinkytown that used to be BW3s and the windows were open and like 150 kids were jumping up and down while some band of dudes covered "Beverly Hills" by Weezer
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Ironically when it was still a Buffalo Wild Wings, I somehow saw a show by the legendary chiptune/Game Boy weirdo Fuckstorm who made horrible noises while a video of Mr. Quintron played on a projection screen.
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
http://www.inc.com/john-brandon/10-best-albums-of-2015-to-play-in-the-office.html
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
it's like Talking Heads' "Don't Worry About the Government" in prose form.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
its the hand gestures white indie artists adopt when beat-boxing that I can't stand
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 09:45 (eight years ago) link
like, "oh, it seems i have discovered a sole funky limb, let me show it to you"
Lol
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 12:39 (eight years ago) link
hack journo, how the sausage is made
http://news.yahoo.com/rihanna-anti-album-complete-lyrics-191135829.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw
screensnaps in case they fix it:
http://imgur.com/a/vLyY5
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Friday, 27 November 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link
The album's release comes just a few days after the "Bitch Better Have My Money" singer announced her Anti 2016 world tour with fellow artists Travis Scott, Big Sean and The Weeknd. Anti is [DELETE ONE OF THESE ENDINGS TO THE SENTENCE AND KEEP THE OTHER BASED ON FACTS: streaming exclusively on Tidal before it makes its way over to iTunes and other streaming services OR streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and can be purchased on iTunes].The 27-year-old performer's latest album has [NUMBER OF TRACKS] and its lyrics [HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS] continue the "BBHMM" storyline of an even edgier, freer Rihanna than fans were introduced to in her last album three years ago, Unapologetic. Rihanna especially pushes the edge in [NAME RELEVANT SONG FROM ANTI THAT MATCHES DESCRIPTION], where she sings: [ LYRICS ]
The 27-year-old performer's latest album has [NUMBER OF TRACKS] and its lyrics [HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS] continue the "BBHMM" storyline of an even edgier, freer Rihanna than fans were introduced to in her last album three years ago, Unapologetic. Rihanna especially pushes the edge in [NAME RELEVANT SONG FROM ANTI THAT MATCHES DESCRIPTION], where she sings:
[ LYRICS ]
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Friday, 27 November 2015 01:35 (eight years ago) link
Ha, was just coming to post that.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 27 November 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
it is a shame square brackets cannot be put in display names
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Friday, 27 November 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
lmfaooooooooo
― dyl, Friday, 27 November 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
Damn, seems to be down. Eight hours ws a p good run tho
― albvivertine, Friday, 27 November 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
at least they were planning on basing it on facts
― j., Friday, 27 November 2015 04:13 (eight years ago) link
Dude who wrote it works at Mic, where it was originally posted, as well as freelances at a couple of other spots. Still hasn't mentioned it at all on FB/Twitter, yet.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 November 2015 05:29 (eight years ago) link
agreed, and yet
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 27 November 2015 05:43 (eight years ago) link
omg
― Number None, Friday, 27 November 2015 07:39 (eight years ago) link
big fan of this kind of thing in general, local newspapers printing "[DROP IN QUOTE FROM THIS BORING BASTARD]" or something
― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 November 2015 08:34 (eight years ago) link
years and years ago I wrote copy for an award ceremony brochure (I think) and put [CHECK THIS!] next to some assertion or other which ended up getting printed, it looked like I was being my own hypeman
― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 November 2015 08:35 (eight years ago) link
[DELETE ONE OF THESE ENDINGS TO THE SENTENCE AND KEEP THE OTHER BASED ON FACTS]
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 November 2015 11:45 (eight years ago) link
idgi is this guy leaving messages in square brackets to himself, to check before he submits, or does he actually expect sub-editor to do all this work for him?
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Friday, 27 November 2015 12:02 (eight years ago) link
I dunno, one the one hand it's embarrassing, but not too terribly damning for the writer. As j says, at least it reveals responsible (if p basic) fact-checking stuff, not something like [remember to actually listen to album, find out who this mysterious "Rihanna" is, etc]. In other words, let s/he who has never riddled a draft with "notes to self" cast the first stone. Now, actually publishing it like that, well that, that I cannot defend.
Of course, I can see how it happened: writer accidentally sent an earlier (I hope MUCH earlier) draft, editor didn't bother to read it, voila. I'd be mortified.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 27 November 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
So wait this was a real fuckup? Not a sarcastic commentary on the state of music journalism?
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 27 November 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
not sure that's really Yahoo News' stock in trade
― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 November 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
Amazing
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 November 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link