In other exciting musical news, the pair of Middle Eastern wannabes known as Rainbow Arabia have finally unleashed the video for their awesome song Omar K. It was on my top songs of 2008 list, and made it up to #4 on The Pop Chart, so it’s nice to see it getting finally getting a proper release.
I just thought I’d mention it’s illegal to sell beer or wine in supermarkets in Rhode Island. Which is completely annoying, though not entirely surprising if this is the sort of thing that happens in other states’ grocery stores.
[via Pitchfork]
This has been out for two weeks now, but somehow I didn’t notice. It’s Black Hearted Love, the first single off the new PJ Harvey and John Parish album, which I’m mega-excited about. (It actually came out on Tuesday but I haven’t had a chance to pick it up yet.) As much as I love more or less everything Polly Jean does, I think their 1996 collaboration Dance Hall At Louse Point is still my favorite, as it features the beautiful That Was My Veil and the creepy-campy cover of Is That All There Is?.
I’ve never been much of a Cobra Starship fan–they’re one of those bands that makes me feel like a dinosaur, even though I totally don’t feel old when I listen to, say, Miley Cyrus–but the other day they put a new song on their Myspace called Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We’re Famous. And I like it. Kind of a lot. And not just because CS singer Gabriel Saporta sings about his cock (although, you know, that’s cool too.)
I’m really warming up to this guy, ever since he improved upon Katy Perry’s ever-annoying I Kissed A Girl for last fall’s Fall Out Boy mixtape. I always thought his group was some kind of Snakes On A Plane gimmick because, you know, it was, but I’m only just starting to realize that they go a little deeper than that.
In a Myspace blog Saporta explains how the song’s title isn’t actually true–that Patrick Stump is also part of the reason why they’re famous–but the words roll off the tongue. Regardless of whether it’s true or not, the song’s pretty catchy.
