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

i know who huey long is. i just am surprised that lefsetz (this is lefsetz, right?) is postulating huey long as an alternative to american populist jingoism.

(this is lefsetz, right?)

Close; it's this guy.

I wonder what Canadian cowpunk band he's talking about

why would you read cultural criticism from an offshoot of "a Chicago-based political news and polling data aggregator formed in 2000 by former options trader John McIntyre and former advertising agency account executive Tom Bevan"

Patrick Stack of Time magazine has described the site's commentary section as "right-leaning".[17] The site has been described as being run by conservatives, and containing "opinion pieces from multiple media sources".[18] In 2009 RealClearPolitics was described as a weblog "in the conservative pantheon" by Richard Davis.[19][20]

In an interview with the conservative magazine Human Events, McIntyre described the philosophy behind the Web site as based on "freedom" and "common-sense values". Said Bevan, "We think debate on the issues is a very important thing. We post a variety of opinions". He further stated, "we have a frustration all conservatives have", which is "the bias in media against conservatives, religious conservatives, (and) Christian conservatives."

so... yeah

it's garbage because it's supposed to be garbage.

That dude's background does not scream "right-wing crank" to me.

yes, how did a rich white guy who also wrote for the ken kurson-era observer fall in with those types

I was gonna say — the closing bit of that excerpt above (bad as it all is) deviates a little from what my expectations might have been, based on that site description.

He was also involved in the early careers of both the Beastie Boys and Kara's Flowers, producing three tracks for the latter in the summer of 2000, shortly before the group changed their name to Maroon 5.

Sommer was the inspiration for the lyrics of the Sonic Youth song "Kill Yr Idols", in which Moore questioned his friend Sommer's respect for Christgau.

By the way, rock’n’roll is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of holding your heart and squeezing your feelings. I hear rock’n’roll in the glassine gasps of Pink Floyd and in the starlight and chimes of Japanese ambient music. I hear rock’nroll in the urgency and neurotic brilliance of Glenn Gould, in the post-Atomic buzz of Tony Conrad, and in the overhead wire hum of La Monte Young. I hear rock’n’roll in the gnashed, gnawed flaming beauty of Tribe Called Quest. I even hear rock’n’roll in the soul and stare of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Rock’n’roll, you see, is the beautiful bucket of paint and blood, sugar and empathy, seduction and tears that we throw at the walls of our high school, the walls of our workplace, the wall of Valentines’ Day cards at CVS, the walls of our the brutalist gyms and city halls where we vote.

i'd hate to be the cleaning staff where he works

They want the gnashed, gnawed flaming beauty of A Tribe Called Quest/
But they've got left is this guy called West.

and Rock 'n' Roll / in the soul / of Ocasio-Cortez

RE: Sommer Hugo Largo is a fucking fantastic band

I've never gotten the idea he's right wing? I dunno.....He cashed out as the A&R who discovered Hootie & The Blowfish

was always a welcome b-list MTV personality in my aspiring indie days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfa6n7IH4NU

yeah, Hugo Largo is awesome

I found that first hugo largo record in the dollar bin and never could get into it -- sounded to me like Edie Brickell doing a Cocteau Twins covers album.

yeah it is pretty cool

guys i hate to break it to you but indie rock dudes can grow up and have if not nazi mouth breather attitudes at least enough comfort with the status quo to slide to their right

maura

my illusions

why must you shatter them

sorry man i’m all about breaking hearts these days

kurt loder being a libertarian reason mag dude broke me heart :(

speaking of ex mtv folks

baffler’s two plus decades on kurson piece is still worth reading
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/three-scenes-from-a-bull-market

"Sommer was the bass player for the slowcore/dreampop band Hugo Largo.[4]"

ok wikipedia like two paragraphs down you point out that hugo largo had TWO bass players, where does this shit about him being "THE" bass player come from

i don't give two shits about his links to the intellectual dark web or whatever the fuck and i'm not going to burn my hugo largo record (at least not until after i burn my copy of "it's heavy in here"), mostly i'm just appalled that anybody finds lefsetz's writing style worth copying

Closest comparison i can make to the Sommer piece is Homer Simpson's Grand Funk Railroad monologue.

Sommer has fulminated in his column against President Diarrhea, and yet he continues to associate with Ken Kurson, who remains in the Trump fold…

wasn't sure whether to put this in the nat'l review thread or here, but it's a real gem

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/why-is-lin-manuel-miranda-throwing-away-his-shot/

oh lord that url

u_u

i was gonna excelsior that pure omar parody ('glassine gasps of Pink Floyd') until i noticed it was real

thanks to the how to dress well dude for endorsing this piece of shit https://medium.com/@matdryhurst/protocols-duty-despair-and-decentralisation-transcript-69acac62c8ea

please do say more about this "club music"

My assumption is also that whichever streaming platform wins (as all roads lead to monopoly in this current paradigm)

Why would this be the case?

Oh I think we have a winner here.

a few years ago, a boy sent this to me to demonstrate his galaxy brain and i think about it constantly pic.twitter.com/VsPbCBY6F8

— isobel mohyeddin (@isobelmohyeddin) March 7, 2019

keep in mind that this was the intro paragraph to a FULL LENGTH PAPER

— isobel mohyeddin (@isobelmohyeddin) March 7, 2019

A full ten page paper, she says elsewhere.

Often, I have found,

Are we sure this wasn't an ILXor

Damn, I wanna read that whole paper...!

i think he raises some salient points

not notably distinct from plenty of OPINIONS 4 U comments on this very site a scant decade ago

I had to put this somewhere

https://tmz.com/2019/03/10/nicki-minaj-concert-canceled-france-fans-angry-chant-cardi-b/

“France loves starting wars, and might have one with Nicki Minaj now after some angry fans turned on her in the most savage way possible.

...

“As for the Cardi chanters -- we're guessing Nicki ain't sweatin' them too much.

“It's not like the French do well in wars.”

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