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

trenchant zing

what else are you going to do with your history degree

My cousin used to stay, "The French are the only people who haven't marched under their own Arc de Triomphe nyuk nyuk nyuk"

this is from bandcamp, and is as much blurb as "review", but i just am not sure this attempt to cast the new weregoat album as some kind of sex-positive feminist statement is wholly successful:

Its cover art might depict three bound, naked women in risqué poses, awaiting their grisly demise at the cloven claws of a hideous goat beast, but make no mistake: The latest effort from Portland blackened-thrash crew Weregoat is actually a celebration of sex positivity, with a sinister twist. Which is to say, these eight songs are mostly devoted to capital-F fucking — blasphemed unions between succubi and killer women with “nuclear cunts” (now that’s what I call pussy power!), gore-stained orgies and nocturnal hunts. The incendiary, Bathory-esque riff onslaughts and howled, lycanthropic vocals on standouts like “Invoke the Black Oblivion” and “By the Light of the Moon” similarly bely their staunch devotion to the id, wasting no time to get to the down and dirty. Light the candelabras, bust out the flogs, pour you and your sweetie two tall glasses of blood, and get cozy.

I like that they rhymed "nuclear cunts" with "nocturnal hunts"

Amused by this set-up/tear-down the strawman take:

We’re now living through a moment when it seems as if we might one day, you know, be pulling Led Zeppelin tracks from streaming sites because of the scandalous nature of the group’s offstage bacchanals. Yet I somehow doubt it.

Feature or press release?: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-wallows-interview-20190322-story.html

https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/07/13/qa-dos-kira-on-the-physicality-of-bass-playing-her-definition-of-punk-and-why-duos-should-stay-duos/

Every mention of Mike Watt made me slightly angrier.

Fugazi was effectively a startup from which valuable lessons in governance, business and sustainability might be inferred about the way an O’Rourke administration will approach the American economy.

Fugazi capitalism would be inclusive, consumer-friendly and ethical.

https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/cox-betonomics-would-have-certain-punk-rock-edge

oh sweet jesus no

And anyone left on the right worrying about spending might like a MacKaye-like, bare-bones approach to big government, too.

It's DIY government!

the right would prefer an SSTocracy

a blast first, ask questions later government

ask me about my Gangrene New Deal

SLASH government spending!

form a NEW ALLIANCE!

godspeed to everyone who actually read that; just looking at the URL is giving me hives

it's even worse than you'd expect!

AMREPresentative democracy in action!

When I saw Beto speak it was like 50 Skidillion Watts of energy shot up leg.

My

so you’re saying he made your calves cramp?

can't believe the editor unearthed one of beto's since-now-undiscovered textfiles before the textfiles guy did

Beto won't win the election but everyone who sees him speak will run for President in the future.

Fugazi capitalism would be inclusive, consumer-friendly and ethical.

http://i63.tinypic.com/bim98z.jpg

My neighborhood 7-11 is upstairs from Dischord btw

Ftr I could find no entry for Fugazi in the RIAA's gold and platinum database.

In that respect, Tame Impala did more than enough to fill that void by drenching the crowd with their LSD-drenched visuals and even a little more crowd work than usual. (During one of their final songs, Parker crept onto the festival’s projectors with five eyeballs.)

sounds trippy

read that three times, still can't parse

where have all the editors gone?

so the projector had ... or wait, Parker had.... hang on now

Team Drench

I drenched my body with flavor drenched gatorade because I was working my body more than usual.

got me a movie oh ho ho ho
crept on five eyeballs oh ho ho ho

also whut

editors the profession are pretty much like editors the band, they're still around but nobody gives a shit about them

The editor is dead, long live the involuntary poet!

editors the profession are pretty much like editors the band, they're still around but nobody gives a shit about them

― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Monday, April 15, 2019 1:55 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hm

"crowd work"

If this exercise in space-filling were printed in a college newspaper, I wouldn’t pick on it, but it’s in the L.A. Times:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-coachella-1975-rock-dead-20190420-story.html

can we start one of these for weed writing

What name evokes so much? That of a world leader, a humanitarian or Nobel laureate? That of a sports legend, inventor, philanthropist or explorer? No. Once thought to be the most simple and humble of plants, it's now believed to be the most complex in Mother Nature’s entire garden. In existence since pre-biblical times, its cross-continent voyage began in Asia thousands of years ago, when a Chinese emperor discovered and unleashed its healing powers. Whether you use the Latin name of science, "cannabis," the U.S. government-imposed name, "mari(h)juana" or the 100-plus slang terms, its scope, breadth and reach is profound.

whoa i never knew cannabis was latin for science

so much evoking

It is Mother Nature’s Steve Jobs; celestially conceived to meet our bodies' built-in demand.

can we start one of these for weed writing

I feel like "Vichy LA Weekly hires" is a separate category all of its own

The cannabis industry has its own "F" word. Instead of the letter "F," the letter is "H," and the word is "high."

Loving that LA Times piece

Friday’s set offered a mix-and-match roll of contemporary rock varietals. Lemony new wave. Cherry-flavored ballads. Pineapple pop songs. Lime rockers.

Yum!

what the flying high?

who the hell thinks cannabis is a simple, humble plant?

This feature reads like it was begrudgingly written as a favor to someone:

In Carly Rose’s knockout of a debut single, this sly young pop singer describes her burning desire to disappear with somebody from an overcrowded gathering.

“I don’t want to dance, so just finish your Bacardi,” she moans over the creeping, bottom-heavy groove of “Birds & Bees,” which came out last month and quickly racked up nearly a quarter-million streams on Spotify and YouTube. And just before she rhymes "party" with the name-brand rum, she drops an unprintable modifier — two syllables, starts with F — to show how serious she is about leaving.

(.....)

An unprintable modifier, you guys! Pop music is sure crazy these days, lol