Filed under: music | Tags: coil, fever ray, lcd soundsystem, shakira, the slits, videos
I’m really excited about the new Shakira album. Did It Again, from the little samples I’ve heard, is an awesome, awesome song. I mean, I’ve only heard it in its entirety twice, and both times coming out of my crappy computer speakers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up being one of my songs of the year. Here she is, performing it on Saturday Night Live last week.
Speaking of videos, Vanity Fair has the new Fever Ray clip up. It’s a cover of Nick Cave and Anita Lane’s 1986 song Stranger Than Kindness. It’s a really awesome video and a very cool song (though I can’t say I’m familiar with the original.) It’s so awesome, in fact, that Vanity Fair thought it was okay to introduce it with the phrase “You. Hear It. First, muthafuggaz!!” (I don’t know, is that the normal writing style for Vanity Fair? I guess I haven’t read it in a while.) Fever Ray will be releasing the deluxe edition of her self-titled debut album this November. Hear that, Santa? (more…)
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hair metal mix tapes blog
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nina hartley photos
Yesterday:
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“young adam” 2003
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“wait wait don’t tell me”
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Who’d Have Known is one of my favorite tracks on Lily Allen’s It’s Not Me, It’s You album, so I’m glad to see it’s getting put out as a single, especially as the songs on that album are best enjoyed one by one. Plus, I’m always excited when albums I like have five singles.
For the video, Lily enlisted the help of Sir Elton John. She kidnaps him, drugs him, and keeps him tied up while she walks around looking completely gorgeous and pretty and hot and amazing. (Seriously. I thought she was hot in the Not Fair video, but this might be even better.)
The clip is… disturbing. Pretty, but disturbing. OK, actually, it’s kind of a little icky. I like it!
(via ChartRigger)
Filed under: art, books, music, porn | Tags: blur, books, bookstores, death, disco, hip-hop, jonathan yeo, marvelous three, new york city, porn, proofreading, punk, snark, the gays
Jonathan Yeo’s porn collages are pretty awesome, aren’t they?
The Sword needs to hire a proofreader. Check out the second paragraph and tell me where you think the close quotation mark is supposed to go. (Never mind the assorted factual errors…)
Speaking of proofreading, haha the second paragraph of this article about dead Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.
50 songs from early-80′s NYC that are punk AND disco AND hip-hop. i didn’t know a lot of these–namely, any of the ones that weren’t on Yes New York.
Tell me I sold out, go ahead. I think I like this song a lot more now than I actually did during its heyday.
Blur are going to be in Lego Rock Band. Surely it’ll be Song 2, but how awesome would it be if you could do For Tomorrow or Jubilee?
Speaking of Blur, check out bassist/cheesemonger Alex James hosting Never Mind The Buzzcocks. I wish America had a TV program like this, but I guess I’ll just have to settle for famous people’s guest appearances on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.
Roger Ebert talking about books.
I’m kind of surprised that I’ve actually been to four of the nominees for America’s best gay travel destination, because I actually hardly ever leave Rhode Island. Portland was my favorite of the nominees by far, though more for the beer and the coffee and the decent grocery stores than for anything gay. (Actually, I did go to a number of straight strip clubs when I was there; Union Jack’s was the best thing ever, especially because one Paris Hilton-y-looking dancer only danced to Pixies songs, and because another one performed to Pulp’s This Is Hardcore. Which, oh my God.)
[truly amazing video of German group The Radio Pirates doing What Shall We Do With A Drunken DJ via House of Vader]
Pop Chart’s on! And this week we’re rhyming easy with cheesy.
Listen here! Follow along here!
Filed under: design of a decade, lists, music | Tags: 2003, christina aguilera, design of a decade, lil kim, scott storch
[2003: Back to reviewing my favorite songs one at a time.]
10. Christina Aguilera featuring Lil’ Kim, Can’t Hold Us Down
Scott Storch was never a particularly likable person–dating Paris Hilton and wearing hundreds of thousands of dollars of jewelry and terrible sunglasses does not make one endearing–but for a while there the founder of Tuff Jew Records produced some really awesome pop singles. Maybe not anything from the Brooke Hogan album, or the Ruben Studdard comeback, or the MC Hammer comeback, but before that. He had co-producer credit on The Roots’ You Got Me and Eve’s Let Me Blow Ya Mind, for instance, and then he produced Pink’s Family Portrait, Lil Kim’s Lighters Up, Beyonce’s Baby Boy and Naughty Girl, and Chris Brown’s Run It. He’s also responsible for seven of the tracks on Christina Aguilera’s insanely long Stripped album, including Can’t Hold Us Down, the album’s opening song. (more…)
Filed under: art, people from rhode island, shameless self-promotion | Tags: art, providence, world of queercraft
This Thursday marks the opening of a new show I’m curating. It’s called World of Queercraft, and it features eight artists who all somehow work with contemporary crafts. It’s also got video, photography, flags, an homage to Oliver Reed, an homage to Barbra Streisand, an homage to one of the Brontes, and a naked man mowing his lawn.
This is the first show I’ve curated in someone else’s space in two years, and the first show I’ve ever done downtown, so I’m pretty excited. It takes place at Craftland, which used to be a really cool holiday pop-up store until this summer, at which point it became a really cool permanent store.
If you’re in Providence, check it out. It’s at 235 Westminster Street. The opening’s Thursday from 5-9, but it’s up through November 21.
(nb: Once the opening’s over I’ll be posting a little more substantially again.)
[image: still from Monica Panzarino's Evergreen]
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“$pread magazine” hx
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Yesterday:
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“columbus day mixtape”
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People were writing lengthy breakdowns about Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize starting about nine seconds after Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Between this and Kanye West and Roman Polanski and David Letterman I’m pretty sure I am over the internet, at least as far as personal essays go. (That’s why, incidentally, I haven’t actually presented my opinions about any of them. Though I’m tempted to, of course.)
A California couple lost their teenaged daughter to liver cancer after their insurance company denied her a liver replacement. The angered mother went to insurance company headquarters to ask for an apology, and was literally given the finger.
Swedish group Maskinen have a new video out featuring Marina Gasolina, formerly of Bonde do Role.
A lesbian single mother’s response to gay pride. Despite the fact that I have few inhibitions I pretty much agree with everything she says.
I have no patience for horrorcore as a musical style, but I think it’s pretty shitty that the media’s angling some grizzly murders in Virginia as representative of the genre.
[photo via Flickr; this user--who goes by Morgan--photographs small town high school football games in Montana and Wyoming. As with most Flickr albums, I wish there were only about a third of the photos, because some really great images get lost in a sea of so-so ones. But it's definitely worth browsing. He's got a blog, too. These are some spectators at a game in Montana.]
I’ll be kicking off the recap of my 10 favorite songs of 2003 very soon, but in the meantime, here’s the rest of the Top 100 list I made that December.
100. Electric Six, Danger! High Voltage
99. Audioslave, Like A Stone
98. Martina Topley-Bird, Too Tough To Die
97. Mya, My Love Is Like…Wo
96. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Stop
95. Minus 5, Retrieval of You
94. Sarah McLachlan, Fallen
93. Brand New, Sic Transit Gloria
92. Kathleen Edwards, One More Song The Radio Won’t Like
91. Punjabi MC ft. Jay-Z, Beware of the Boys
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