we HATE

Last night I flipped on The Colbert Report to find that cult art-rock forefathers, Devo, were performing on the show. To this point I had forgotten that their new album, and first in two decades, was out this week and that Devo was once again alive. While I’ve yet to judge the album itself,...
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I am a little bit upset. Yesterday, the day before I was to finally see my beloved Devendra Banhart (and touring band The Grogs) play live in Denver, I get an email from Ticketmaster reading, Hello, this is Ticketmaster Customer Service with an important alert for your upcoming event: Devendra Banhart and the...
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It’s always difficult when a band that you really love for very specific reasons makes something new. In this case the band is Broken Social Scene, a band that has been most defining for my musical identity, as of now. I love them for their sound that is unique in many ways but still...
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Google just shut down one of our good friends, Living Ears, in what has been called “musicblogocide 2010″. We just want to tell everyone that we are really depressed about this, and we feel that it has broken the silent alliance between bloggers and record labels. Are we really just looked upon as leeching...
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They tell you to swiftly move on to your next shopping experience, and to never stop consuming. They wrap the message up in the latest “indie” sound from Hipstown and beautiful young humans in fashionable clothes. They try to convince you that this new product will finally be the one that gives you immortality....
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Hate is a strong word and since there seems to be some sort of agreement among all music blogs to only comment positively, and with a certain positive enthusiasm, on stuff, I will try to make this as fair a post as humanly possible. It seems as though hip(-hop)ster Kid Cudi has had great success...
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My taste in music is a complete mess. It’s 8-bit techno in the morning and Bon Iver in the afternoon… Damian Marley on Saturdays and Fucked Up on Sundays. Makes no sense but anyway I suppose it makes me an open minded and widely sound tolerant person. Call me the Land Rover of music! So...
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The first time I had the mixed pleasure of meeting Adam Sandler was in a movie theater in Reykjavik back in 1999. The movie was Big Daddy and even the popcorn didn’t help. The movie was really so terrible that it haunted me for years. You might think that my short relationships with mr....
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‘Breakfast At Sulimay’s’ is a regular Web show in which older folks weigh in on popular music. In the latest episode they judge the music video “Kids” and it does not go well. I must admit I felt kind of the same way the first time I saw that video… Then again they hated...
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You can hate him or love him, or like me, hate him now, but admit that you used to love him. Kanye West – or more specifically the ‘Kanye 2.0′ featuring various inappropriate actions such as crashing stages, stealing mics and releasing pop-albums. I liked when South Park did their interpretation of him, which...
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