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A few good reasons to attend SXSW 2006

The line-up, as ever, is subject to change…but here’s the list thus far:

The Adored, Annie, Arctic Monkeys, Belle and Sebastian, The BellRays, Be Your Own Pet, Blockhead, The Boy Least Likely To, The Brokedown, Calexico, Neko Case, Cat Power, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clor, Jason Collett, The Cribs, Cuff the Duke, Jamie Cullum, Dashboard Confessional, Death In Vegas, Death Vessel, Dengue Fever, Destroyer, Die! Die! Die!, Dirty Pretty Things, Jorge Drexler, Dr. Spock, The Duke Spirit, The Earlies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Editors, The Eighteenth Day Of May, Elbow, Empire Dogs, Erase Errata, Faker, Flogging Molly, Forward Russia, Giant Sand, Gogol Bordello, Jose Gonzalez, The Go! Team, Headphones, The Hellacopters, Clarence Frogman Henry, The Juan Maclean, Kaki King, Kalas, k-os, Sharron Kraus & Christian Kiefer, Lady Sovereign, The Like, Los De Abajo, Luminous Orange, Barbara Lynn, The Magic Numbers, Magnolia Electric Company, Serena Maneesh, Mates of State, The Morning After Girls, The Most Serene Republic, Mystery Jets, My Summer as a Salvation Soldier, Neon Blonde, Nickel Creek, No things, Of Montreal, Beth Orton, Peaches, The Plimsouls, Robert Pollard, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Saves the Day, The Secret Machines, Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, Tarantula A.D., Susan Tedeschi, Towers of London, KT Tunstall, Two Gallants, Tom Verlaine, Vetiver, The Whigs, Witch, and Wolfmother.

There’s also a scheduled keynote conversation w/ Neil Young, interviews with kd lang, Sam Moore, and the Pretenders, and speeches by Judy Collins, Billy Bragg, and Kris Krisofferson.

Dammit, one of these days, I’m gonna attend this thing…

Ashlee, are you sick again, dear?

Hoo boy. Ashlee Simpson’s sick again. Why does this chick even have a career? Why do people buy her albums? Her sister certainly can’t sing, and neither can she. She’s always got some problem, be it with her voice or her talent or whatnot. Let’s just turn the lights off on this career already. It’s sort of like listening to Tori Amos, you know? Oh, now there’s something to get some conversations going in the wrong circles.

Paulie and The Ring sue EMI

Those wacky remaining ex-Beatles. Looks like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are suing EMI for some unpaid royalties. Now, you’re not going to see me carping on these two and bitching about them needing more cash, because I like money a lot, too, and more is always better these days. But I am thinking it might be a good idea to take these guys, along with Neil Aspinall, to court and sue them for not remastering the damned Beatles catalogue after all this time. Look, if bands like Steely Dan and The Rolling Stones and artists like Elton John can go through two or three reissues of remasters, then it’s high time The Beatles got cleaned up, too. The Yellow Submarine songtrack CD is all the proof you need about how great that stuff sounds after being through the digital washer in comparison to the old crappy CDs from the late ’80s that they’re still selling.

And the nominees are…

Jesus. Proof positive that rock is dead, they say. Mariah Carey winds up with 8 Grammy nominations, along with that dope Kanye West. I found myself watching Carey’s new video with the sound turned all the way down this morning, and it made for some good soft porn entertainment, but eight nominations’ worth? I hardly think so. I can’t even remember the last time I even enjoyed the Grammys. Maybe sometime back in the early ’80s. Back when Lionel Richie would be guaranteed to perform “All Night Long” for the zillionth time. Ah, screw it.

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