Note: We take a break from our songs list to give out some more awards that might make you pissed. Pity Auto-Tune. The pitch-correcting software became pop music’s boogeyman sometime late in the 2000s, joining “they don’t play instruments” and “all they do is rap about guns and women” as easy ways to avoid talking…
40. The Telephones “Kiss Me, Love Me, Kiss Me” The video tries to trick you into thinking The Telephones remain the same attention-rattled guys as before, the type of band who would make finger puppets the big draw of their clip. “Kiss Me, Love Me, Kiss Me” the song, though, finds the group getting a…
Despite the Internet’s love of the form, the list brings with it a few unpleasant side effects. Being completely cliche, for one. More subtly unnerving, though, is the implication of expertise one takes on by making a “best” list. Plenty of comment-box philosophers have shed light on this – “what makes YOU entitled to tell…
Ian Martin of the Japan Times has a nice article about the contemporary Fukuoka music scene in the paper’s latest issue and it’s a gooder. Fukuoka – “closer to Seoul than it is to Tokyo” – helped cultivate some amazing Japanese artists of yesteryear (toast to Number Girl, Shiina Ringo and a whole bunch more)…
I wore out the pages of my NASA-edition thesaurus trying to come up with new ways of saying Avengers In Sci-Fi made space-age music. Every new song blasting out…damn it, there I go…out of their camp came fitted with various intergalactic touches ranging from laser sounds to actual samples that might be astronaut talk. So…