Oh yeah. When I googlebate I now get this online:
JEFF TWEEDY (MUSICIAN, Wilco)
I recently read a collection of essays: BUBBLEGUM MUSIC IS THE NAKED TRUTH: THE DARK HISTORY OF PREPUBESCENT POP, FROM THE BANANA SPLITS TO BRITNEY SPEARS, edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay. If an anthropologist from the distant future came back to our time, *NSYNC would tell him more about our culture than any Will Oldham record—definitely more than a Wilco record. People have this misperception that if something's easy to listen to or easy to read or easy to understand, then it was easy to do. I think the opposite is true. The circuit between Justin Timberlake and a fourteen–year–old girl is what's really important about music, and I definitely would argue that that connection is more profound than the one between an Interpol record and a fifty–year–old rock critic. Me? I'm just trying to connect with myself.
That's excellent.
It's from Bookforum a while ago, which I had mentioned. But still, now it's
online where everybody can see it.
Check it out, The Daisy Bang made the Rocklopedia Fakebandica.
I'm on the same page with Ape Sex (Love and Rockets comic) and The Paranoids (Pynchon).
googlebate
Ooh, I have a new favorite word!
Sweet, David. I love that Daisy Bangs article.
Btw, do all the vinyl fetishists know that Sundazed has released a number of desirable recordings as LPs? Like...
Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
180 Gram Double LP Set
Letting their firmly-planted roots grow wildly deeper down into thefirmament of rock and pop. Now, the racket will be raised another few notches with the debut of this exquisite album on double-LP, 180-gram vinyl, pressed in a very limited edition.
• NOW AVAILABLE!
Check it out, The Daisy Bang made the Rocklopedia Fakebandica.
I had *no* idea that article was meant to be a parody or whatever! I just figured it was another of the many bubblegum artists described in the book who I had never heard of.
Feel silly.
Posting the first one because someone here -- Jesse? -- is a fan. The second because I think it's funny. (Btw, the two play together in the Munisteri-led combo, Brock Mumford.) Oh yeah, almost forgot: shows are at Barbès, 9th St. & 6th Ave. in the county o' Kings.
1) Fri 03/12 Accordionist extraordinaire WILL HOLSHOUSER brings us the 21st century version of the Accordion Orchestra. 9:00pm
2) Thu 03/18 MATT MUNISTERI takes on the difficult task of performing on the 131st anniversary of the proclamation of the Paris Commune - the first proletarian uprising. 9:00pm
