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Ice Cold Cash Food Trivia Show Set To Debut

Ice Cold Cash

Ice Cold Cash

A number of months ago Aaron had the opportunity to work on the Food Network trivia show Ice Cold Cash.

His job was to research and write “difficult” questions for competitors on the show. Needless to say he ended up learning far more about fermented shark meat than any person rightfully should.

Now, finally, Ice Cold Cash is set to make its official debut.

The first episode, “Brotherly Love,” is set to debut on Friday. Here’s its upcoming airing schedule:

  • Friday, February 10, 2012 4:30 p.m. EST
  • Friday, February 10, 2012 9:30 p.m. EST
  • Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:30 a.m. EST
  • Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:30 p.m. EST

Please check it out. To find out more about the show go here.

 

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Where Are They Now? 20 Years After Alternative Broke

Courtney Love of Hole

Courtney Love of Hole

It was tough being a music fan when “alternative” broke. Suddenly everyone thought The Smiths were their band and Soundgarden were considered as good as Black Sabbath. Worse, if you brought your hot new Nirvana Nevermind cassettes to house parties you’d get them stolen. Twice. Fuck you anonymous Nevermind cassette stealers.

Anyway, it was with that wealth of knowledge and experience that I wrote the story Where Are They Now? 20 Years After Alternative Broke for Spinner. In said story you can find helpful updates on the likes of L7, NIN, Blur, Pearl Jam and all those other faves of Gen Xers.

To read the story, click here.

 

 

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The Imaginary Shins-Decemberists-Sleater-Kinney Portlandia Supergroup

The members of Echo Echo

The members of Echo Echo

UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP, we’ve unearthed this story here.

There’s a supergroup called Echo Echo featuring members of The Shins, The Decemberists, and Sleater-Kinney that kinda exists, but only in the fake world of the indie comedy show Portlandia.

Aaron was interviewing The Shins’ main main James Mercer about his band’s forthcoming album Port Of Morrow and he talked about being part of the fake Portlandia band.

You can read what Mercer said by heading over to Spinner and clicking here.

 

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Alternative Then And Now: Current Bands And Their Descendents

Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire

Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire

Everything old is new again. Or something like that. And everything in music has been done before.

And if you’ve got a big enough record collection, you can actually trace the genelogical lines between artists a couple decades remove. Which is exactly what Aaron did in an article called Alt-Rock Then And Now: Connecting The Classes Of 1992 And 2012.

The story is exactly what it sounds like. Massive Attack were compared to The Weeknd, Pearl Jam to Arcade Fire, Jesus And Mary Chain to Crocodiles, etc., etc.

To read the story over at Spinner, click here.

 

 

 

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Six Extremely Detailed Descriptions Of Rock Musicals We’d Like To See

Scenes From American Idiot, The Musical

Scenes From American Idiot, The Musical

There’s been a lot of talk in the Risky Fuel household over the years about things like Pippin, Cabaret, and Hair. All of it by Sarah.

She’s moderately obsessed with musicals and has crafted a number of fake ones in her head. It would seem the enablers at AUX TV thought it would be cute to set her loose and reveal some of these ideas. The result: storylines for musicals about Bon Jovi, Arcade Fire, Rush, The Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre, Joel Plaskett, and the topper, a gay love triangle called Heavy Metal: The Musical set to Judas Priest songs.

You can read all about said musicals by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

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