New ones from The Men, Jenny Scheinman and more this week. Let's get to it.
The Men, Open Your Heart: Here it is. People, if you only download one record today, make sure this is it. Big, loud, roaring rock & roll that ricochets between scuzzy garage, roughed-up punk and lovely, laid-back country with equal aplomb. Needless to say, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Here's eMusic's Austin L. Ray with more:
The album is divided roughly into three categories: rockers… more »
James Joyce wrote that his weapons as an artist would be "silence, exile and cunning." Silence isn't generally useful for musicians, and cunning comes with the territory for anyone who wants to play the pop-music game of one-upmanship. In 2004, though, a lot of the best indie records latched onto exile as a weapon, or as a metaphor, or even as their central subject. The international political landscape had collapsed into a mess of lies,… more »
"Hands on heads!" That's what the teacher at my primary school would yell when our class got out of hand. The rallying cry was supposed to make us focus in on a single activity, to stop us from fooling around and hitting each other and, hopefully, shut us up for a second. It worked. Kind of. Thirty pairs of small hands would clasp to 30 overexcited heads and we'd hold in our giggles until it… more »
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05.27.12
did you know that if you sent in a "my chest" photo it is updated and posted?
05.24.12
when you find that you cannot breathe but you, just as u do everyday, are really counting on being able to should you/can you cry for help?
05.24.12
when a cow looks at you from the side of the road and flips you off do you just stuff those humiliating feelings or do you tell a friend?
05.24.12
when all your confidence is gone should you talk about it all the fucking time or keep your mouth all fucking shut?
05.24.12
when you dont know if you can do it any more should you keep it to yourself or make a big deal about it?
05.22.12
did you know when someone on tour is at the merch table & being subtly insulting you can also pretend to fall asleep while they are talking?
05.20.12
on a scale of 1 to 10, how sleazy is it & then how practical is it to use one's own musical duo as a conduit for threeways while on tour?
05.20.12
have you ever had a day wherein you freak out and punch yourself in the forehead until you have a bump & then later punch your guitar case?
05.18.12
so when u think about suicide, does it get boring like "oh that old thing" or when u think about it do you just feel like shit?
05.18.12
does it mean that a faith in humanity conceptually is mutually exclusive to having faith in yourself?
05.18.12
does that mean you are just not a human but just a loser and a shit head?
05.18.12
are you ever at a the museum see something from 1500 years ago that makes you have faith in humanity generally but loath yourself?
