You can buy a download or you can buy the vinyl. Or you can buy both It’s always exciting when Radiohead makes a new album. Their latest, A Moon-Shaped Pool, is available as of today directly from the band and iTunes and Amazon. It’s also streaming at Tidal and at Apple Music, which is apparently […]
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Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill Gets Hillary Clinton “Rebel Girl” Video Taken Down for Copyright Infringement
John Podesta is right for once. The quadrennial phenomenon of musicians demanding that politicians stop using their songs as campaign anthems took an interesting turn yesterday when, as Death and Taxes reported, Tobi Vail, drummer/co-founder of the radical-in-every-sense Olympia feminist punks Bikini Kill, filed a copyright infringement notice against a video in support of Hillary […]
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Lorde Shows Gaga How To Do a Bowie Medley
Oh no, Lorde, you’re not alone! Lady Gaga’s appalling tribute to David Bowie at the Grammys (whenever they were) got taken to pop star school at the Brit Awards Tuesday night by Lorde, with the help of Bowie’s final road band. The band moved through an expertly arranged two-minute medley of the instrumental bits of […]
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Sorry, But There’s No Way to Avoid Talking About Kesha at this Point
Jeez. You don’t have to have a single opinion about the pop singer Kesha’s music/persona/image/career, etc. to feel enraged by a headline like the one above, or to be stopped in your tracks by the photo that accompanied it from the NY Daily News report Friday. The story of her ongoing attempts to get out […]
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Glenn Frey of the Eagles Dead at 67
Glenn Frey, 1948-2016 s_bukley/Shutterstock Just minutes ago, TMZ reported that Glenn Frey of the Eagles has died at the age of 67, apparently of complications related to “intestinal issues.” Frey was of course best known as the co-founder of the band that he insisted did not use a definite article: Eagles. He sang lead on […]
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New Songs/Videos from Missy Elliott, Emitt Rhodes, Pony Time, and Deep Sea Diver. Three Gems. One Bummer.
Missy Elliott has been missed. Four totally unalike artists unveiled new songs and vids today. Three of them are very good. Missy Elliott’s “WTF (Where They From)” featuring Pharrell Williams Like all Missy Elliott’s greatest work, “WTF (Where They From)” sounds simultaneously meticulous and instantaneous. It’s like every beat and every rest was meticulously handcrafted […]
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Whoa, Conde Nast Bought Pitchfork!
Pitchfork can now write about the concept of selling out with real authority. Please raise your hand if you ever imagined that Pitchfork and The New Yorker would ever be published by the same conglomerate. While I’m waiting to see a single hand, I’ll mention that the NY Times reported a couple hours ago that […]
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Summer Is for Skinny People
This Time of Year Is About Frivolity and Fun and Being Alive and I Hate It
Summer is about frivolity and fun and being alive and I hate it.
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Fuck You
Salinger Attempts to Defile J.D. Salinger’s Corpse
Salinger attempts to defile J.D. Salinger’s corpse.
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Point of No Return
Terry Gilliam’s Latest Is a Ghastly Mess
The sad truth is that if The Brothers Grimm weren’t such a ghastly mess, it might have been one of Terry Gilliam’s best films. Of course, Gilliam is no
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Goodnight, Luna
A Great Band Bows Out with Dignity
Luna Thurs Feb 10 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie Bands end. It’s that simple. But like most things in rock culture, “simple” doesn’t necessarily mean “uncomplicated.” If you’re in or into the band in question, the ending can be fraught with some of the most complex, contradictory emotions imaginable. The news that Luna is calling […]
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The New War Between the States
Why Urban Values Trump Suburban Faith
It’s no secret what the urban population is against–the Bush administration and its red armies have done us the favor of making it a cinch to identify: We oppose their sub-moronic, “faith-based” approach to life, and, as stated above, we hereby relinquish our liberal tendency to sympathize with their lack of, say, livable working conditions, […]