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

The Wipers
Dead Moon
Heart

xpost ha ha ha

The comparison of him and Fruciante was my least favourite among many many awful moments.

https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/mogwai-created-a-spiritual-experience-at-canton-hall-with-their-hope-through-darkness-rock-symphonies-11742010

In anticipation of the headliner, 14-year-long Mogwai fan Houston Ellsworth, host of the punk podcast Local Obscene, says that he is stoked for the night’s performance and remembers a time when Mogwai’s music nourished his soul during a particularly difficult period.

Am I missing something there? He’s been a fan of Mohawk for 14 years.

Guess you're right -- that reading didn't occur to me, I assumed it was a flub of "14-year-old." Don't think I've ever seen that particular construction before (like most of the article, the phrase feels like it was autotranslated from another language).

young team!

Is the Alternative Nation website written by an insane A.I.?

Links have been showing up in my Google News, and every one I've read has been completely incoherent.

https://www.alternativenation.net/eddie-vedder-makes-painful-the-who-revelation/

Steven Tyler Fat Girlfriend Revealed By Big Name

Ozzy Osbourne Reveals If He’s Broke After Tragic News
Led Zeppelin Icon Reveals If He’s Broke After Tragic News

It's like they keep filling out the same Mad Lib over and over.

hey the writers get four cents per completed Lib go easy on the poor wretches

all my friends are bankrupt, take it slow

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has uploaded a clip of his ‘Life on the Road’ series on AXS TV where he interviews Metallica drummers Lars Ulrich, who is drinking alcohol in the clip. Ulrich also discussed a ‘crazy’ show with AC/DC. An AC/DC Axl Rose breakup secret was revealed yesterday.

Johnson said, “It looks rock and roll, that’s the good thing about it.” He added, “There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be. It looks the business.”

Ulrich responded, “We’ve been here 15 years.” Johnson shot back, “There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be. That’s fantastic.”

An AC/DC icon revealed why Angus Young is a ‘recluse’ last week. Ulrich laughed and proclaimed, “I like that. There’s nothing here that shouldn’t be.” The two then hugged. Ulrich recently wrote on social media, “28 years ago today, on August 10th 1991, we played the first show on the AC/DC European tour at Gentofte Stadium just north of Copenhagen in Denmark.

what

Talk to transformer writes articles now huh

ha was just abt to post this^

there’s nothing here that shouldn’t be

talk to transformer really doesn't yield too different results

Eddie Vedder Makes Painful The Who Revelation

Onstage at the Rock & Brews in New York's Times Square in December 1989, Eddie Vedder's final Rock & Brews performance before his death at the age of 47, Vedder took aim at the Who, his favorite band, by revealing that they were "torturing him."

"I've known the Who for years and they have been very kind to me," Vedder said of the band. "But lately I think they've been torturing themselves. I think they are trying to find something and I don't know what. They are playing for too many people and I'm getting tired of hearing them play and they want to play more."

Vedder was referring to the band's recent decision to release a new album, With or Without You, which contains tracks about his personal life. Vedder expressed his frustration with the band, calling them "the biggest group in the world, the biggest band in rock and roll and I think they are not enjoying it."

The Who recorded the album themselves, with Vedder

They have to be using Talktotransformer or something like it.

https://i.imgur.com/rLYHMbz.png

I’m intrigued and wonder what the revelations are. Must subscribe to find out
(revelations never to be revealed)

Steven Tyler Fat Girlfriend Revealed By Big Name -- I cannot stop laughing

rock & brews was founded in 2012 lol

This one is annoying because there is something there in terms of general concept which may be worth exploring, by somebody else.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a28904211/2003-to-2012-forgotten-music-era/

also xpost to 00s poll threads

Great idea, terrible examples.

wow

How did he write this entire thing and not notice that his entire thesis boils down to "for every artist from this time period with multiple hits that people remember, there are one- or no-hit wonders that everyone has forgotten"?

a cursory listen to old episodes of american top 40 would reveal etc. etc.

I thought it would be about indie/blog-era gems that are lost because you only had the mp3, post-cd and pre-streaming.

"Can you believe the world has forgotten KT Tunstall?"

Um... yes? Pretty easily, in fact? (And I liked that song, too)

I have a similar problem with Alternative Nation, it always feeds me weird Van Halen oriented ckickbait

Lol if only this guy had heard of the "studio groups" of the 60s

I finally read that Alternative Nation link and am I the only one who now REALLY wants to follow the writing career of Brett Buchanan?

Xpost Like bruh what if i told you Question Mark and the Mysterians didn't have an illustrious career

I’d like to believe this started life as a spiked LA Weekly listicle and was hurriedly punched up into paragraphs for prestige publication

that Deleted Years piece reads like a very ineffective attempt gee along nought-stalgia*

*(c)2019 frame casual

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/live-review-joanna-newsom-philadelphia/

Ah yes, a charming evening of career-spanning ragtime

While her dress positioned her somewhere between the angelic nymph persona she’s come to occupy over the years and Greco-Roman goddess of warfare, her sincerity in the face of noticeable nervousness revealed Newsom to be less of the stately elvish Homer of my generation’s dreams and more a spellbindingly human artist who proved the City of Brotherly Love to be true to its name.

Consequence of no editor dot net

Ok is this a review or Ode to a Grecian Urn

that stately elvish homer in full

https://i.giphy.com/media/z2l1cinVfSyiY/giphy.gif

maybe Newsom rearranged all of her music into ragtime

Having read that review, I didn't realize DiCrescenzo founded a school of journalism

The use of "ragtime" (and "rococo ragtime" in the review itself! though that seems ever so slightly more accurate tbh) almost made me wonder if there was a bot-generated component to this review. But googling around finds that a number of reviews of Divers include it on a list of styles that inform the album, presumably referring to Sapokanikan. Which, I guess. but pretty random for that descriptor to get linked to that song, let alone artist.

Highly recommend dipping into that reviewer's oeuvre. She has a similarly florid review of Roskilde 2019, rife with pull-quotes for this thread.

i may be just tired of the del rey overhype moment but something about this one really bugged me
https://hyperallergic.com/515894/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell/

Internet phenomenon turned Saturday Night Live laughing stock, her sustained popularity has perplexed those who would prefer to see brilliant women fail... based on her new album, she deserves comparison to the heavyweights of American mythology like Joni Mitchell and Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway and Bob Dylan, Silvia Plath and Carole King.

I mean, in the context of "I am profoundly uninterested in what this person has to say with their art" I am pretty okay with comparing LDR to Hemingway and Dylan

well yeah i'm there with you but why not throw in lars von trier and evelyn waugh while you're at it

Those comparisons are absurd

hemingway and dylan were both brilliant women