Cadence Weapon
Cadence Weapon just released a nice new song called “88.”
Aaron wrote about it and its retro goodness for Spinner.
To read about it and hear the track go here.
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Canada Sexing Music: A Study
Josey Vogels
What music do Canadians listening to when they’re doin’ it? Not, apparently, 3 Inches Of Blood.
That’s what Sarah found out when she spoke to sexpert Josey Vogels about a recent SiriusXM study on the sexy-times listening habits of Canadians.
To the best Vogels could figure, Canadians listen to everything when they’re porkin’. Except Raffi. No Raffi.
To read the story over at Spinner click here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
Where Are They Now? 20 Years After Alternative Broke
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.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
Alternative Then And Now: Current Bands And Their Descendents
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.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
People Who’ve Bombed On Saturday Night Live Besides Lana Del Rey
Kesha, Lana Del Rey and Coldplay
The internet is still reeling in shock that their new two-hit queen Lana Del Rey is, well, an imperfect performer.
The wannabe ’70s lounge kitten rather incapably ran through her songs “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans” on Saturday Night Live last week, leading to all sorts of hatin’ and internet backlash. It was all quite satisfying for Sarah, who had stamped her with the don’t-believe-the-hype tag early on, but it got her thinking, “Who else has super-bombed on Saturday Night Live?”
She hunted them out — folks like Kesha, Coldplay, Sinead O’Connor, Cypress Hill, Frank Zappa, Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson— and wrote a story about it for the AOL Music Blog. You can read it by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion, Television
Risky Fuel 