Pitchfork finally chimed in with their Julie Ocean review today, nearly a month after their taser coverage, and it’s yet another piece pontificating on the cliches of power pop and anonymity of bands that play the genre.
Stephen Deusner writes:
Despite its effusiveness, power pop is a highly conservative genre, favoring a minimum of elements: infectious […]
Punk Planet, No Depression, Harp and now Resonance.
Another print music magazine has left the building, the victim of declining label advertising, rising postal costs, ever-present distribution issues and a shift in the music discussion from magazines to blogs. While we would never consider ourselves technophobes, we can’t help but thinking something is being lost here. […]
In which we re-publish our one-year old arguement as to why Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky is one of the most beautiful records we’ve ever heard.
The reviews have begun to trickle in, and by tomorrow they will be flooding in, so we decided it was time for us to pipe up in defense […]
From today’s New York Times:
Phil Spector, the mastermind behind hit songs like “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “The Long and Winding Road” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” went on trial on Wednesday on charges that he shot to death a struggling actress.
We don’t know about you folks, but we’re pretty certain that adding cheesy string […]