has anyone seen “celebrity” rap superstar? it has to be the most god-awful show to ever disgrace the tube.i caught one episode and it actually caused me to feel very depressed. just cant believe people will go to such great lengths to sell their souls for an extra 2 minutes of f list fame. this is one of those instances where i would love to take the brain child and/or the exec who greenlighted this, lock them in a room with no ventilation, cover the floor with about 2 inches of the most vile diarhea immaginable, prop their eyes open alaa clock work orangeand put the video of that money drinking its own piss on constant loop.
ani difranco and i have a weird relationship. i absolutely love her live disc, living in clip, but my adoration stops there. i respect her and her music and i really want to dig more of here stuff but i havent been able to get behind any of her other recordings. maybe her recently released career retrospective, canon, will help open my ears to something i may have been previously missing.
both hands - new studio version
ani difranco site / righteous babe
i would be hugely surprised if chicago’s the 1900’s werent lighting up the blogosphere. simply put, they just sound, think belle and sebastian having relations with 10,000 maniacs whilst hopped up on the 70s, like a band that people would dig. not the flavor of the month kinda dig, but the i am still going to call in the morning kinda dig. their new record cold and kind is out on 10.2 on parasol.
richmond fontaine’s the fitzgerald floored me the first time i heard it and with each successive listen i found myself falling under their spell. its a painfully somber record but oddly uplifting. if you have ever noticed i quite often liken records to life experiences, whether i have ever had them or not, cause these experiences deserve soundtracks and the fitzgerald is no different. to me, the fitzgerald, sounds like burying a body in a field during the dead of winter - that is if you can actually envision that process having a soundtrack.
they have a new record out, thirteen cities, that i didnt even know existed up until a couple of days ago. needless to say i have yet to check it out.
barely losing from post to wire
here they are playing at the borderline in london in 04.
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