GENERALLY...
Team Canada looked tired and slow against the Czechs, especially at the end. I remain skeptical that we can do better than Bronze.
I miss February/March in Vancouver. I've decided that those are the hardest months to be away. Though it doesn't look that nice today:
My knee has been sore for two weeks now. Trying to figure out what's wrong. No luck yet but I am worried it's a torn meniscus:
MUSIC NEWS
from Pitchforkmedia.com
Sacre bleu, Francophiles! Holy mixtapes, indie kids! Your two cherished worlds are about to coalesce in a big way. The center of gravity: suave, debonair, and--admit it-- rather creepy French crooner Serge Gainsbourg.
All your quasi-indie heroes (Cat Power, Franz Ferdinand, Portishead, Jarvis Cocker, Feist, Placebo, The Kills), alongside requisite veterans (Michael Stipe, Marianne Faithfull), original Gainsbourgian chanteuses (Jane Birkin, Françoise Hardy), and Jack White's boo (Karen Elson) have teamed up to pay tribute to the perpetually unshaven songsmith on the forthcoming covers comp Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, due out next month.
Monsieur bears numerous fruits of amour: Cat Power scores with Elson on a rendition of "Je t'aime...Moi Non Plus", while Franz makes love to aging cover-girl Jane Birkin to the tune of "Sorry Angel". Brits Jarvis Cocker, Placebo, and the Rakes all get their Serge on. And there's even a little trip-hop nostalgia, with contributions from 1995's flag-bearers Portishead (yay!) and Tricky.
Tres bien:
01 Franz Ferdinand and Jane Birkin: "A Song For Sorry Angel"
02 Cat Power and Karen Elson: "I Love You (Me Either)"
03 Jarvis Cocker and Kid Loco: "I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going"
04 Portishead: "Requiem for Anna"
05 Faultline, Brian Molko, and Françoise Hardy: "Requiem For A Jerk"
06 Michael Stipe: "L'Hôtel"
07 Tricky: "Au Revoir Emmanuelle"
08 Marianne Faithfull and Sly and Robbie: "Lola R. For Ever"
09 Gonzales, Feist, and Dani: "Boomerang 2005"
10 Marc Almond and Trash Palace: "Boy Toy"
11 Placebo: "The Ballad of Melody Nelson"
12 The Rakes: "Just a Man With a Job"
13 The Kills: "I Call It Art"
14 Carla Bruni: "Those Little Things"
Mark Kozelek Tours America
Last time we checked in with Mark Kozelek, he was releasing a whole album's worth of Modest Mouse covers. We're not sure if he's still letting his marbles roll around in traffic or not, but given how much we dig the Red House Painters, we're inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. Fortunately for our forgiving selves, Mr. Kozelek is hitting the road. While his solo tour proper doesn't begin until May, he'll make a couple stops in Tennessee this week. (The first show, originally scheduled for tonight at Blue Cats in Knoxville, has been cancelled.) It's either that or staying home and watching the Olympics, and we know you'll take indie rock over ice dancing any day of the week.
Tiny cties made of ashes:
05-18 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
05-24 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
05-26 Boston, MA - Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts
05-27 Northampton, MA - Iron House
from fittedsweats.blogspot.com:
Kid Rock Sex Tape: This kind of taints my whole theory that the Kid Rock story was nice, because, you know, here was a mentally retarded guy who for a long time was stubbornly making "his music" and struggling, and then having a whole bunch of $ucce$$. It was like barriers had been broken down. And people appreciated "his talent" without too much snickering, and they let him tour the country, and they let him "date" the woman whose posters had festooned his bedroom forever, Pam Anderson, and his success even paved the way for other differently abled crooners like Uncle Kracker. He even got to sit near the court at Pistons games and wear his special leather hat and clap and cheer. He got to sing and play his guitar at NASCAR as the fast race cars went around and around the track. And now it seems kind of skeevy, like while he was out innocently trying to do his music, someone was talking a whole lot of women, and also, according to news reports, Scott Stapp, to put Kid Rock's penis in their mouths along the way. But then, that seems kind of prejudice of me, because he is an adult and why shouldn't he enjoy oral sex with random women, and Scott Stapp? But still. Someone filmed it. I think Kid Rock has been taken advantage of. The whole thing has gone too far. The main thing that drove us all to love Kid Rock, his innocence, has been parceled away like it was yesterday's news.
Team Canada looked tired and slow against the Czechs, especially at the end. I remain skeptical that we can do better than Bronze.
I miss February/March in Vancouver. I've decided that those are the hardest months to be away. Though it doesn't look that nice today:
My knee has been sore for two weeks now. Trying to figure out what's wrong. No luck yet but I am worried it's a torn meniscus:
MUSIC NEWS
from Pitchforkmedia.com
Sacre bleu, Francophiles! Holy mixtapes, indie kids! Your two cherished worlds are about to coalesce in a big way. The center of gravity: suave, debonair, and--admit it-- rather creepy French crooner Serge Gainsbourg.
All your quasi-indie heroes (Cat Power, Franz Ferdinand, Portishead, Jarvis Cocker, Feist, Placebo, The Kills), alongside requisite veterans (Michael Stipe, Marianne Faithfull), original Gainsbourgian chanteuses (Jane Birkin, Françoise Hardy), and Jack White's boo (Karen Elson) have teamed up to pay tribute to the perpetually unshaven songsmith on the forthcoming covers comp Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, due out next month.
Monsieur bears numerous fruits of amour: Cat Power scores with Elson on a rendition of "Je t'aime...Moi Non Plus", while Franz makes love to aging cover-girl Jane Birkin to the tune of "Sorry Angel". Brits Jarvis Cocker, Placebo, and the Rakes all get their Serge on. And there's even a little trip-hop nostalgia, with contributions from 1995's flag-bearers Portishead (yay!) and Tricky.
Tres bien:
01 Franz Ferdinand and Jane Birkin: "A Song For Sorry Angel"
02 Cat Power and Karen Elson: "I Love You (Me Either)"
03 Jarvis Cocker and Kid Loco: "I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going"
04 Portishead: "Requiem for Anna"
05 Faultline, Brian Molko, and Françoise Hardy: "Requiem For A Jerk"
06 Michael Stipe: "L'Hôtel"
07 Tricky: "Au Revoir Emmanuelle"
08 Marianne Faithfull and Sly and Robbie: "Lola R. For Ever"
09 Gonzales, Feist, and Dani: "Boomerang 2005"
10 Marc Almond and Trash Palace: "Boy Toy"
11 Placebo: "The Ballad of Melody Nelson"
12 The Rakes: "Just a Man With a Job"
13 The Kills: "I Call It Art"
14 Carla Bruni: "Those Little Things"
Mark Kozelek Tours America
Last time we checked in with Mark Kozelek, he was releasing a whole album's worth of Modest Mouse covers. We're not sure if he's still letting his marbles roll around in traffic or not, but given how much we dig the Red House Painters, we're inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. Fortunately for our forgiving selves, Mr. Kozelek is hitting the road. While his solo tour proper doesn't begin until May, he'll make a couple stops in Tennessee this week. (The first show, originally scheduled for tonight at Blue Cats in Knoxville, has been cancelled.) It's either that or staying home and watching the Olympics, and we know you'll take indie rock over ice dancing any day of the week.
Tiny cties made of ashes:
05-18 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
05-24 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
05-26 Boston, MA - Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts
05-27 Northampton, MA - Iron House
from fittedsweats.blogspot.com:
Kid Rock Sex Tape: This kind of taints my whole theory that the Kid Rock story was nice, because, you know, here was a mentally retarded guy who for a long time was stubbornly making "his music" and struggling, and then having a whole bunch of $ucce$$. It was like barriers had been broken down. And people appreciated "his talent" without too much snickering, and they let him tour the country, and they let him "date" the woman whose posters had festooned his bedroom forever, Pam Anderson, and his success even paved the way for other differently abled crooners like Uncle Kracker. He even got to sit near the court at Pistons games and wear his special leather hat and clap and cheer. He got to sing and play his guitar at NASCAR as the fast race cars went around and around the track. And now it seems kind of skeevy, like while he was out innocently trying to do his music, someone was talking a whole lot of women, and also, according to news reports, Scott Stapp, to put Kid Rock's penis in their mouths along the way. But then, that seems kind of prejudice of me, because he is an adult and why shouldn't he enjoy oral sex with random women, and Scott Stapp? But still. Someone filmed it. I think Kid Rock has been taken advantage of. The whole thing has gone too far. The main thing that drove us all to love Kid Rock, his innocence, has been parceled away like it was yesterday's news.
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