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Sometimes, one thing leads to another and you’re googling for Das Damen’s “Bug” video. Vintage SST stuff.
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Hum “Stars.” The opening chord is sooooo fucking ’90s.
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A better answer as to why people dislike Nickelback is tautological: They hate them because they hate them. Sometimes it’s fun to hate things arbitrarily, and Nickelback has become an acceptable thing to hate. They’re technically rich and technically famous, so they just have to absorb the denigration and insist they don’t care. They have good songs and they have bad songs, and the bad songs are bad enough to build an anti-Nickelback argument, assuming you feel like that’s important. But it’s never required. It’s not like anyone is going to contradict your thesis. There’s no risk in hating Nickelback, and hating something always feels better than feeling nothing at all.
Taking in a concert doubleheader with Creed and Nickelback, the world’s most hated bands - Grantland
Irrational hate toward certain popular culture institutions: I feel it.
Posted on May 13, 2012 with 1 note
Source: grantland.com
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Rick Springfield should be rebranded as power pop. This song is a fucking gem.
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you see Smith spitting, cursing, and telling an early audience: “Don’t be afraid of me. I’m just a nice little girl.
The Mother Courage of Rock by Luc Sante | The New York Review of Books
An overview of Patti Smith’s career as poet, musician and irresistible animal of a woman.
Posted on January 24, 2012 with 3 notes
Source: nybooks.com
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REO Speedwagon “I Can’t Fight This Feeling” has been my headsong for a few days so I decided to listen to it. I never realized how the video was so fucking bizarre, inspired by Magritte even. Also: neckties.
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Zombies are out tonight.
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And… to Sammy, who was just a little white boy, he was deeply and mysteriously black. In Sammy’s eyes, “C” must have appeared as all of the African continent, shot through with American cool, rolled into one welcoming and loving figure. So… Sammy decided to pass on my work shirts and became fascinated by Clarence’s suits and his royal robes. He declined a seat in dad’s van and opted for “C’s” stretch limousine, sitting by his side on the slow cruise to the show. He decided dinner in front of the hometown locker just wouldn’t do, and he’d saunter up the hall and disappear into the Temple of Soul.
Bruce Springsteen News: brucespringsteen.net
Bruce Springsteen’s eulogy for Clarence Clemons, about how his own son, Sammy, adopted Clemons as a father figure.
Posted on July 10, 2011 with 3 notes
Source: brucespringsteen.net
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One time, we got on a plane after a show and he spent practically the whole flight in the bathroom. When he finally came out, he had this hairbrush … twisted up in his hair … He was soaking wet … like he tried to take a bath in the airplane sink. He flopped down on the floor, fussing with the brush caught in his hair, and never went back to his seat, landed that way.
The 9 Saddest Eddie Van Halen Stories From Sammy Hagar’s Rolling Stone Article — Vulture
This one is story number 9. There are some other good ones if you wanna click thru. I mean, “Might as well jump, jump!”
Posted on March 25, 2011 with 5 notes
Source: New York Magazine
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In the interview she’s almost Shelly Duvall-like, then when she gets on stage, a beast emerges.
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