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Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. editor@thestranger.com (The Stranger Editor) webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/24/sopatricia-krentcil-aka-tan-mom-now-has-a-pop-song http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/24/sopatricia-krentcil-aka-tan-mom-now-has-a-pop-song Mike Nipper <p>I suppose we all remember "Tan Mom?" <strong>Maybe?</strong> She was a mom who was arrested for allegedly taking her six-year-old into the tanning bed with her. In all her public appearances she had tanned/self tanned to the point of being brown, like it was fucked up, hence her nickname "Tan Mom." <strong>Kelly O </strong><a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/05/02/lunchtime-quickie-new-jersey-mom-arrested-for-over-cooking-her-daughter">posted about this as it happened</a>. Anyways, now "Tan Mom," <strong>Patricia Krentcil</strong>, has a single out... </p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5jRc3BMhE5c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>Fake famous people make me regret the internet.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/24/sopatricia-krentcil-aka-tan-mom-now-has-a-pop-song#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16865055&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Jazz Crap ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/24/sopatricia-krentcil-aka-tan-mom-now-has-a-pop-song?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16865055&id=comments 0 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:25:14 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/20/patrick-swayze-rollerskating-and-acting-like-a-jerk-in-skatetown-usa http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/20/patrick-swayze-rollerskating-and-acting-like-a-jerk-in-skatetown-usa Mike Nipper <p>Jesus Christ. Why did every last person in the '70s hafta act like a butthole!?</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xuv_YcpM4nU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>I still haven't figured out why <strong>Patrick Swayze</strong>, that is his character "Ace," <em>hasta</em> THROW HIS GODDAMN CHEWING GUM!! Like, he throws his gum as if it's some type of badassery bullshit...."HERE TAKE THIS YOU IDJITS!! <strong>I'MA WIN THIS DISCO SKATE CONTEST</strong>" (throws gum in the corner of the room). Huh? Nice moves, tho', I guess... is that a ribbon or a key chain he's whipping around?! Also included in this <em>all-star cast of casts</em>: <strong>Scott Baio</strong> and <strong>Flip Wilson</strong>.</p> <p>If you wanna watch the entire movie, you CAN: <a href="http://youtu.be/nB8gxBIDKEM">right here</a>!</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/20/patrick-swayze-rollerskating-and-acting-like-a-jerk-in-skatetown-usa#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16776504&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/20/patrick-swayze-rollerskating-and-acting-like-a-jerk-in-skatetown-usa?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16776504&id=comments 1 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:27:50 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/17/in-case-your-oughties-rock-band-bookshelf-is-lacking http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/17/in-case-your-oughties-rock-band-bookshelf-is-lacking Mike Nipper <p>For you rabid fans, there is a copy of the <del>Dorkness</del> <strong>Darkness</strong> <em>Permission To Rock</em> bio currently on sale at the Capitol Hill Value Village. </p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:444px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/17dc/1368819141-darkniz.jpg" alt="Seriously? Seriously." title="Seriously? Seriously." width="432" height="432" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Nipsh</li><li class="imageCaption">Seriously? Seriously.</li></ul></div></p> <p>If I'd written this y'all know it woulda been titled <em>Permission To Rock? Permission... DENIED!</em> Heh. Yeah. Also: <a href="http://www.theactualdarkness.com/">They're still an active band</a>? Who knew.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/17/in-case-your-oughties-rock-band-bookshelf-is-lacking#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16792736&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Two-Block Radius Shit Talk ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/17/in-case-your-oughties-rock-band-bookshelf-is-lacking?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16792736&id=comments 0 In Case Your Oughties Rock Band Bookshelf is Lacking Seriously? Seriously. Nipsh Fri, 17 May 2013 13:59:51 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/07/that-strange-phenomenon-when-songs-youve-not-heard-for-years-pop-into-your-head-for-no-good-reason http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/07/that-strange-phenomenon-when-songs-youve-not-heard-for-years-pop-into-your-head-for-no-good-reason Dave Segal <p>While zooming downhill on Olive Way on my bike last night, <strong>the Clash&#8217;s &#8220;Somebody Got Murdered&#8221;</strong> popped into my head, apropos of nothing. I had not listened to this song (fourth track, side two of <em>Sandinista!</em>) in, oh, 30 years. Revisiting it now, the track sounds fairly innocuous, not at all the thing that flashes to mind when one thinks of the Clash. It&#8217;s just <strong>Mick Jones</strong> in lightweight-pop mode, helping to fill out a triple album, very pleasantly. </p> <p>I don&#8217;t know what this phenomenon&#8217;s called&#8212;<strong>random memory reflux</strong>? <strong>Mental glitch jukebox syndrome</strong>?&#8212;but it&#8217;s pretty damned mysterious. Some songs will do this on a recurring basis, also seemingly spurred by nothing germane: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xva27fSMMzA">The Fugs' "Frenzy"</a> does this, usually when I'm shopping for sundries. (News you can use.)</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lsj2_6_z3Vo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/07/that-strange-phenomenon-when-songs-youve-not-heard-for-years-pop-into-your-head-for-no-good-reason#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16695749&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Song ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/07/that-strange-phenomenon-when-songs-youve-not-heard-for-years-pop-into-your-head-for-no-good-reason?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16695749&id=comments 2 Tue, 07 May 2013 11:22:36 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/03/todays-music-news-franken-bands-non-fatal-shootings-and-sigur-rs-on-the-simpsons http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/03/todays-music-news-franken-bands-non-fatal-shootings-and-sigur-rs-on-the-simpsons Katie Martin <p><strong>Tearjerker:</strong> Beastie Boys' fallen member Adam "MCA" Yauch <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/05/03/mca_photos.php#photo-1">gets a Brooklyn park named after him</a>, coinciding with the one year anniversary of his death after a long struggle with throat cancer. </p> <p><strong>Two of your favorite things in one place:</strong> Sigur R&#243;s announces that <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/50591-sigur-ros-to-appear-on-contribute-music-to-the-simpsons/">they will appear on The Simpsons!</a> Naturally, they'll also be covering the shows' theme song. </p> <p><strong>98 Degrees is releasing a new album?!:</strong> Hold onto your butts, everybody! <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/its-now-or-never-for-reunited-98-degrees-20130503">The boy band that just won't quit</a> (except for, you know, that decade) has recorded their first album in 13 years, appropriately titled <em>2.0</em>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOshtrwbO2w">Here's</a> a song about their dicks/microphones. </p> <p><strong>Rihanna vs. Brooklyn Nets vs. Chicago Bulls:</strong> To the dismay of no one, RiRi's concert at Brooklyn's Barclay Center scheduled for tomorrow night <a href="http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/05/03/rihanna-concert-postponed-nba-playoffs/">will have to be postponed</a> in light of the NBA Playoffs being pushed into an unanticipated 7th game.</p> <p><strong>Black Flag has risen:</strong> Yesterday the group released their first <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzgSSVKwqaw">new song</a> in 27 years! </p> <p><strong>Hide yo' kids, hide yo' muzik producers!:</strong> AraabMUZIK's Abraham Orellana is recovering nicely from a gunshot wound after being caught in the crossfire of an attempted armed robbery earlier this week. <a href="http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/03/araabmuzik-shot-survives-robbery-attempt/">Classic wrong place, wrong time scenario.</a></p> <p>The sun's out! Enjoy this song! <a href="http://mikalcronin.bandcamp.com/">Mikal Cronin's</a> new album <em>MCII</em> is out May 7th!</p> <p><iframe width="400" height="100" style="position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=3498197158/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0"><a href="http://mikalcronin.bandcamp.com/track/shout-it-out">Shout It Out by Mikal Cronin</a></iframe></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/03/todays-music-news-franken-bands-non-fatal-shootings-and-sigur-rs-on-the-simpsons#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16664264&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Sort of News Crap News ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/05/03/todays-music-news-franken-bands-non-fatal-shootings-and-sigur-rs-on-the-simpsons?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16664264&id=comments 0 Fri, 03 May 2013 15:46:06 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/23/broseveryone-hates-a-jam-band-right http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/23/broseveryone-hates-a-jam-band-right Mike Nipper <p>But...what if <em>this</em> jam band is <strong>King Crimson</strong> doing a bit of improv!?</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HxGvVtTMNkE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>This bit is an excerpt from <em>Live In Central Park, NYC</em>, which was recorded July 1, 1974 and released in 2000. If I remember correctly, this Central Park show was the last Crimson live appearance till the early '80s. If you want more and have time, <a href="http://youtu.be/DS60D3UU0LA">listen to the entire Felt Forum (NYC) show</a>, recorded May 1, 1974.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/23/broseveryone-hates-a-jam-band-right#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16570242&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Classic Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/23/broseveryone-hates-a-jam-band-right?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16570242&id=comments 2 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:41:29 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/19/record-store-day-everyday-music-a-correction http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/19/record-store-day-everyday-music-a-correction Dave Segal <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:362px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/5eac/1366388637-45288_534952849879065_1864057335_n.jpg" alt="45288_534952849879065_1864057335_n.jpg" title="" width="350" height="541" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Everyday Music</li><li class="imageCaption"></li></ul></div></p> <p>If you find yourself at the Capitol Hill retailer <a href="http://www.everydaymusic.com/">Everyday Music</a> tomorrow morning for the holy occasion known as <a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home">Record Store Day</a> (4/20/13), you will encounter on the turntables <strong>DJ El Toro</strong> (<em>Stranger</em> freelancer and <a href="http://www.kexp.org/Default.aspx">KEXP</a> personality <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=18977">Kurt B. Reighley</a>, spinning at 10 am) and <strong><a href="http://www.madelikeatree.com/mlat61-Veins">DJ Veins</a></strong> (<em>Stranger</em> writer&#8230; uh, me, spinning old and new records you probably haven't heard before at 11 am). One thing, though: The flier for the event <strong>erroneously lists my affiliation as KEXP</strong>. Note: I am not opposed to holding down a slot at KEXP, if KEXP wants me to fill in or anything. Just putting that out there. </p> <p>Also on the bill at EM are several spiffy local bands, including <strong>Tomten, Scriptures, Mystery Ship, King Dude, Steradian</strong>, and <strong>Pitschouse</strong>. Plus: <a href="http://lightintheattic.net/releases/65-wheedle-s-groove-seattle-s-finest-in-funk-soul-1965-75">Wheedle's Groove</a>/<strong>Family Affair</strong> member <strong>Robbie Hill</strong>, in person and radiating charisma. </p> <p>More RSD info <a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home">here</a>. Gird your wallets.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/19/record-store-day-everyday-music-a-correction#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16535083&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Conflict of Interest Business Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/19/record-store-day-everyday-music-a-correction?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16535083&id=comments 0 Record Store Day @ Everyday Music: A Correction Everyday Music Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:28:10 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/15/co-editions-a-label-that-pays-you-to-listen-to-music http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/15/co-editions-a-label-that-pays-you-to-listen-to-music Sean Jewell <p><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:212px;"><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/8eca/1365794671-decoder_ring.jpg" class="zoomable"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/8eca/1365794671-decoder_ring.jpg" alt="C/O Ed. Secret Decoder Ring" title="C/O Ed. Secret Decoder Ring" width="200" height="205" /></a><ul><li class="imageCredit">Sean Jewell</li><li class="imageCaption">C/O Ed. Secret Decoder Ring</li></ul></div><a href="https://www.careof.co/">Care Of Editions</a> is a German record label with a refreshing take on some stale ideas. They&#8217;re purveryors of experimental music, a genre renowned for its <strong>DIY ethic</strong>, but this is the first label I&#8217;ve ever heard of that goes so far as to pay<em> you</em> to download their music. Here&#8217;s how <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/careof/about/negativemoney.careofeditions.pdf">that crazy idea</a> works: downloads are limited in edition, and are paid for by the sales of the record they're attached to, meaning that people can only download and get paid if others are also purchasing. The only way to &#8220;unlock&#8221; paid downloads is for consumers to purchase vinyl copies. What&#8217;s better, <strong>the more vinyl that is purchased the more a download pays</strong>. It begins with a $1 reward and goes up to $45 dollars for the last lucky downloader, provided of course that the last, the 45th vinyl copy, has also sold. C/O will do this six times between 2012 and 2013, effectively devouring itself and breaking even in the process.</p> <p>As much a work of performance art as it is a distributor of art, founder <strong>Gerhard Schultz </strong>has even gone so far as<strong> literally eliminating the label's website in proportion with record sales</strong> and downloads to emphasize the zeroing out of it all. Downloads are paid in real time, too, the label writes you a check as soon as you download, and the label will keep writing checks until all the vinyl is sold. In this way the record label will always zero its own debt out by meeting exact demand with exact supply. </p> <p><strong>Gerhardt</strong> is in Berlin, but was kind enough to allow me to take part in his label experiment from all the way over here in Seattle. He provided me with a download of two of the records&#8212;<strong>Ezra Buchla</strong>&#8217;s <em>At The Door</em>, and <strong>Scott Cazan</strong>&#8217;s <em>Swallow</em>&#8212; and mailed me a vinyl copy of of the artist known as <strong>#/TAU</strong>&#8217;s <em>First Dew</em>. Though I didn&#8217;t get paid to download, or pay for the vinyl, I wanted to go all the way through the process to see how it worked. I&#8217;m assuming I would have made at least a couple dollars, then helped to free up one more download by paying for a record. What I found immediately, aside from added confirmation for my love of experimental music, was that <strong>participation in the process was like having a philosopher for a record label</strong>.</p> <p>C/O Editions first two releases are not European experimental artists but electroacoustic releases from couple of Los Angelinos. Ezra Buchla is a viola player who loops his own strings and synth sounds into a <strong>hurdy-gurdy like drone</strong>, and chants over them unintelligibly to spooky effect. Buchla has reportedly taken for inspiration a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Spicer">Jack Spicer </a>poem, and a 16th century <a href="http://parapsychologyinfo.com/MYSTERIES/Lycanthropy.htm">lycanthropy trial</a> and conviction (damn werewolves, everywhere). His limited vinyl and download are officially out on the lables website<strong>April 12th</strong>, but can be preordered (download or vinyl) now.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F81888411"></iframe></div></p> <p><a href="http://www.scottcazan.com/">Scott Cazan</a> is familiar with stringed instruments, but rather than play them in any conventional way, he attaches microphones to them, then drums on them, sometimes he&#8217;ll even hold microphone between his own teeth, then tap at tablets and laptops and soundboards as <strong>he captures the essence of the wood and flesh of his chosen materials</strong>. His record is three tracks of high pitched frequencies: feedback that sounds like steel cable about to snap under tension, wine glasses ringing, flutes holding notes at hypnotically long intervals, only interrupted by the static, beeping, and voice samples with <strong>the voyeuristic charm of a pocket call</strong>.</p> <p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F78045514"></iframe></p> <p>The vinyl I received intrigued me. It arrived at my door <strong>4 days after leaving Berlin</strong>. Heavy, and sleeved in a cover that had a picture of American white tailed-bucks on the front and the <strong>C/O r</strong>ecord insignia (A diagram of it&#8217;s structure, philosophy, and business model in a single talisman like emblem) on back. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tau.bdhm?ref=stream"># / TAU</a> is the pseudonym of German artist <strong>Boris Hegenbart </strong>who released <em>First / Dew</em> on CD in 1996, and has re-envisioned here in vinyl. Decidedly<strong> the musique concr&#232;te-ist of the bunch</strong>, he's composing with loops, endless chanting mantras, varying only in pitch and method of creation, <strong>but constant, dysrhythmic, and acousmatic</strong>. Under the chants I heard beeps, tambourines, and maracas, ther person with me on this experimental journey heard singing. When I moved around the room, the songs changed slightly because I received them differently. <strong>I felt like I was participating in the music</strong>. <br /><div class="blogImageRight" style="width:212px;"><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/afc8/1365795156-fist_dew.jpg" class="zoomable"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/afc8/1365795156-fist_dew.jpg" alt="Fist / Dew - Boris Hegenbart" title="Fist / Dew - Boris Hegenbart" width="200" height="175" /></a><ul><li class="imageCredit">Sean Jewell</li><li class="imageCaption">Fist / Dew - Boris Hegenbart</li></ul></div><br />It occurs to me that both the record label, and the musicians are shrugging the status quo. The label forgoes the accepted relationship between artist, label, and customer; and the musicians shrug off the idea of what music is expected to be. When accessed in this way, one gets the feeling of participating in &#8211;not just admiring&#8212; some work of post-modern art that it responds to imperialism (and perhaps even environmental concerns) by ignoring (neither rejecting or accepting) a capitalist model. By cutting clean at a preordained point <strong>C/O Editions</strong> are making less into more, never engaging in excess, and giving credit to the seemingly infinite &#8212;and heretofore worthless&#8212;download. In essence, <strong>C/O Editions</strong> begins as nothing, and achieves its full potential when it arrives back at the start. There will be no take over, no mass acceptance, there are no illusions of manifest destiny, no grand plan to get rich, just music, and it&#8217;s distribution framework which only ever goes in debt to &#8211;and selflessly places attention on&#8212;the process, and the artists themselves.</p> <p><strong>C/O Editions </strong>is selling records and putting itself out of business at the same time right now! <a href="https://www.careof.co/#releases">Get over there!</a></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/15/co-editions-a-label-that-pays-you-to-listen-to-music#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16482781&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> New Releases ??!! Media Genius Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/15/co-editions-a-label-that-pays-you-to-listen-to-music?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16482781&id=comments 0 C/O Editions: A Label That Pays You To Listen To Music C/O Ed. Secret Decoder Ring Sean Jewell Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:51:11 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/12/waiting-out-your-want-list http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/12/waiting-out-your-want-list Mike Nipper <p>I waited twenty three years to find this, an original copy of the <em><a href="http://youtu.be/GaHGBpyXbqY">Psychedelic Sounds Of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators</a></em>. </p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:480px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/c18f/1365788991-sikesounds.jpg" alt="Uh...YEAH, still in shrink. Dag." title="Uh...YEAH, still in shrink. Dag." width="468" height="468" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Nipsh</li><li class="imageCaption">Uh...YEAH, still in shrink. Dag.</li></ul></div></p> <p>When I say "I waited" I mean <em>I waited till I found it the old fashioned way</em>, <strong>in a local FUCKING STORE</strong>, not on teh internet. Honestly, I never searched hard for it online, as they usually rate a few hundred bucks, AND I've had a reasonable reissue, so I wasn't exactly DYING, but still I snagged it when it landed in front of me! Fortunately, and oddly, I didn't pay teh internet price either; <strong>I paid what I usta see it sell for in 1991</strong>, which is why I could kinda afford it. The copy I found is a stereo copy, so it's NOT a more in demand mono issue, but it's original and sooooo fucking clean I'm stoked. The stereo mix is great, actually, so not a big deal. Not for me. </p> <p>I didn't really think about how long I'd waited to score my <em>Psychedelic Sounds</em> until yesterday; I was reminded how long record nerds can wait/pine to finally scratch those biggies off our want list after a friend <a href="http://dereksdaily45.blogspot.com/2013/04/park-avenue-playground-trip-bw-i-know.html">finally scored a copy of Park Avenue Playground</a>, a record he'd been seriously hunting/chasing that 45 for <em>seventeen years</em>. </p> <p>Anyone have a good, bad, or perhaps even SAD story about searching for years to find that ONE elusive record?</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/12/waiting-out-your-want-list#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16482320&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> I'm Still a Virgin Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/12/waiting-out-your-want-list?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16482320&id=comments 5 Waiting Out Your Want List Uh...YEAH, still in shrink. Dag. Nipsh Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:20:05 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/12/ezzzzz-listening-how-music-heard-while-sleeping-can-improve-your-memory http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/12/ezzzzz-listening-how-music-heard-while-sleeping-can-improve-your-memory Dave Segal <p>Via <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2308114/How-listening-music-boosts-brainpower.html">The Daily Mail</a></p> <p>A recent study co-authored by <strong>Dr. Jan Born</strong> of Germany's University of T&#252;bingen posits that listening to music in your sleep can help to improve memory. The key is to play sounds that are in sync with "the brain's slow oscillation rhythm." </p> <p><em>The Daily Mail</em> summarizes the study's conclusions:</p> <blockquote><p>Playing music synchronised to the rhythm of the slow brain oscillations of people who are asleep enhances these oscillations.<br />It does this by increasing the amplitude of the oscillations and by increasing the length of slow-wave sleep.<br />The slow oscillations in brain activity that occur during slow-wave sleep are critical for retaining memories so boosting them in turn boosts memory.</p></blockquote> <p>Toward this end, I recommend snoozing to <strong>Brian Eno</strong>'s <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mnTlzvGyRI">Neroli</a></em>, Steve Hillage's <em><a href="http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4068">Rainbow Dome Musick</a></em>, <strong>Aphex Twin</strong>'s <em><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/never-heard-of-em/Content?oid=16170835">Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II</a></em>, <strong>Lull</strong>'s <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WmqRiqy-Lw">Cold Summer</a></em>, and... this other album whose title I can't remember.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/12/ezzzzz-listening-how-music-heard-while-sleeping-can-improve-your-memory#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16481926&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Sort of News Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/12/ezzzzz-listening-how-music-heard-while-sleeping-can-improve-your-memory?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16481926&id=comments 0 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:06:09 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/11/john-lydon-when-a-man-is-talking-do-not-interrupt http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/11/john-lydon-when-a-man-is-talking-do-not-interrupt Emily Nokes <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe src="http://embedded-video.guardianapps.co.uk/?a=false&u=/music/video/2013/apr/11/john-lydon-australian-tv-video" frameborder="0" width="460" height="397"></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/11/john-lydon-when-a-man-is-talking-do-not-interrupt#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16475323&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> HAS-BEEN Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/11/john-lydon-when-a-man-is-talking-do-not-interrupt?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16475323&id=comments 4 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:03:36 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/01/this-past-weekends-trolling-spin-magazines-top-100-alternative-60s-albums http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/01/this-past-weekends-trolling-spin-magazines-top-100-alternative-60s-albums Mike Nipper <p>I'm not exactly sure what the parameters of <em>Spin</em>'s <a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/best-100-albums-1960s-sixties-alternative-list">Top 100 "Alternative" '60's Albums</a> are 'cause it's not exactly what "in the know" teenagers/heads of the '60s were listening to. In the context of the '60s <em>most</em> rock music <em>was</em> alternative or, rather, underground. Despite most of this list's top 30 being current/must own Rock 101 records, the rest is more a list of what jazz-bo/beats, nerdy college students and some deep heads were digging on. Perhaps <em>Spin</em>'s "alternative" here means' "Hey, y'all, here's yet <strong>another list of records you should hear</strong>?" Still, nice to see a lot of jazz and avant composer considered, no blues tho'. </p> <p>Oddly, sorry I gotta get record nerd niggly, they included a few non '60s albums: <em>Back from the Grave</em>, a 1983 compilation of '60s punk, <em>Nuggets</em> another '60s compilation from 1972, and <strong>Steve Reich</strong>'s <em>Early Works</em> a compilation of '60s recordings issued in 1987. Uh, I guess I get why they could be included, but c'mon!! OOF! If you're making a list of <strong>PERIOD albums</strong>, stick to it. GAH!</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/01/this-past-weekends-trolling-spin-magazines-top-100-alternative-60s-albums#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16390008&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/04/01/this-past-weekends-trolling-spin-magazines-top-100-alternative-60s-albums?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16390008&id=comments 2 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:14:02 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/29/the-lollapalooza-line-up-leaked-maybe http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/29/the-lollapalooza-line-up-leaked-maybe Megan Seling <p>Someone supposedly took a picture of a poster featuring the <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/mumford-sons-nine-inch-nails-the-cure-and-more-all,95785/">2013 Lollapalooza line-up</a> and pooped it onto the internet, causing the festival to move up their announcement and ticket sale date to April 9.</p> <p>The line-up allegedly includes: The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Mumford &amp; Sons, the Killers, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, the National, the Postal Service, Queens of the Stone Age, the Lumineers, and Seattle's own <strong>Reignwolf</strong>, <strong>Father John Misty</strong>, and <strong>Hey Marseilles</strong>, along with dozens of others. Maybe. Supposedly.</p> <p>See the <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/mumford-sons-nine-inch-nails-the-cure-and-more-all,95785/">whole, not-at-all-surprising thing here</a>.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/29/the-lollapalooza-line-up-leaked-maybe#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16372549&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/29/the-lollapalooza-line-up-leaked-maybe?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16372549&id=comments 0 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:31:49 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/25/my-chemical-romance-breaks-up-fans-petition-for-one-last-world-tour http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/25/my-chemical-romance-breaks-up-fans-petition-for-one-last-world-tour Megan Seling <p>On Friday night, while watching the very great Big Eyes at the Vera Project, I received a press release screaming in all caps: "<strong>MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE DISBAND</strong>."</p> <p>Says the band:</p> <blockquote><p>"Being in this band for the past 12 years has been a true blessing. We've gotten to go places we never knew we would. We've been able to see and experience things we never imagined possible. We've shared the stage with people we admire, people we look up to, and best of all, our friends. And now, like all great things, it has come time for it to end. Thanks for all of your support, and for being part of the adventure."</p></blockquote> <p>"They're still a band?" asked friends who I shared the news with. Then we all became transfixed on Deathfix's colorful projections and guitar riffs. (For real&#8212;Deathfix was SO GREAT at Vera on Friday. See them as soon as you have the chance.)</p> <p>But not only were My Chemical Romance still a band until 9:00 pm PST Friday, but they still have very passionate fans who have not taken this break-up announcement lightly. In fact, one fan <a href="https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/my-chemical-romance-have-one-last-world-tour-to-say-goodbye-to-their-fans">started a petition at change.org</a>, asking MCR for one last world tour. It says:</p> <blockquote><p>They ended so abruptly without saying goodbye to their fans properly, and the MCRmy is upset. They need to do it correctly if they're going to do it at all.</p></blockquote> <p>MCRmy. I see what they did there.</p> <p>Anyway, the <a href="https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/my-chemical-romance-have-one-last-world-tour-to-say-goodbye-to-their-fans">petition already has 10,653</a> supporters!</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> There is now a counter-petition, started by <a href="https://twitter.com/JADEDPUNKHULK">Jaded Punk Hulk</a>, to <a href="https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/my-chemical-romance-promise-you-will-stay-broken-up-forever-and-fade-into-musical-obscurity">ensure MCR stay broken up</a>.</p> <p>In sort of related news, <strong>30 Seconds to Mars</strong> frontman Jared Leto <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/23/jared-letos-fan-mail_n_2940045.html">recently revealed</a> that he once <strong>received a severed human ear</strong> in the mail.</p> <blockquote><p>"Someone cut their ear off once and sent it to me, that was very strange. A whole ear. The Van Gogh move. The note just said, 'Are you listening?' I never knew who it was, who's missing their ear out there," he quipped, confessing what he did with the gross gift.</p> <p>"I poked a hole in it and wore it as a necklace," Leto joked, letting admirers know, "Just don't put your entire body in a case and send it to us."</p></blockquote> <p>Don't get any ideas, MCR fans. (No, seriously. Do not.)</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/25/my-chemical-romance-breaks-up-fans-petition-for-one-last-world-tour#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16339014&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> ??!! #1 Fan Teh Internets Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/03/25/my-chemical-romance-breaks-up-fans-petition-for-one-last-world-tour?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16339014&id=comments 0 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:08:09 -0700 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/27/aw-shit-weve-got-some-stone-temple-pilots-drama http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/27/aw-shit-weve-got-some-stone-temple-pilots-drama Megan Seling <p>Breaking news! Stone Temple Pilots have fired Scott Weiland!</p> <p>The band said, simply, via press release: "Stone Temple Pilots have announced they have officially terminated Scott Weiland."</p> <p>And it turns out Weiland didn't find out about his termination until this morning, when the rest of us did. He tells <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stone-temple-pilots-fire-scott-weiland-20130227">Rolling Stone</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>'I learned of my supposed "termination" from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press. Not sure how I can be "terminated" from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that&#8217;s something for the lawyers to figure out. In the meantime, I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing all of my fans on my solo tour which starts this Friday.</p></blockquote> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/27/aw-shit-weve-got-some-stone-temple-pilots-drama#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16118648&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Breaking News Mischief ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/27/aw-shit-weve-got-some-stone-temple-pilots-drama?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=16118648&id=comments 0 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:25:59 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/07/a-non-comprehensive-list-of-band-names-that-sound-delicious http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/07/a-non-comprehensive-list-of-band-names-that-sound-delicious Megan Seling <p><strong>A Non-Comprehensive List of Band Names That Sound Delicious:</strong></p> <p>Orange Juice<br />Weekend Nachos<br />Breakfast Mountain<br />Fresh Espresso<br />The Lemonheads<br />Cake<br />Candysound<br />Jawbreaker<br />Pudding<br />Assorted Jellybeans<br />The Cranberries<br />Hot Butter<br />Peaches<br />Ice T(ea)<br />Wild Cherry</p> <p><strong>A Non-Comprehensive List of Band Names That Do <em>Not</em> Sound Delicious:</strong></p> <p>Moldy Peaches<br />Pearl Jam<br />Seaweed (which is GROSS tasting, do not argue with me about this!)<br />Poison<br />Bad Brains<br />Meatloaf (I am a vegetarian)<br />Anal Vomit</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/07/a-non-comprehensive-list-of-band-names-that-sound-delicious#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15954364&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/07/a-non-comprehensive-list-of-band-names-that-sound-delicious?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15954364&id=comments 26 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:37:46 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/01/never-stop-refreshing-this-page-about-the-new-my-bloody-valentine-album http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/01/never-stop-refreshing-this-page-about-the-new-my-bloody-valentine-album Dave Segal <p>How high is your frustration tolerance, long-suffering <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2009/04/28/saturated-x-my-bloody-valentine-et-al-wamu-theater">MBV</a> fan, from waiting for the follow-up to 1991's <em>Loveless</em>? This <a href="http://isthenewmbvalbumoutyet.tumblr.com/">tumblr</a> will keep you abreast of breaking news on that front. Just keep refreshing, <del>chump</del> champ. </p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/elRRXgib2ds" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/01/never-stop-refreshing-this-page-about-the-new-my-bloody-valentine-album#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15897842&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Hellevant Album Dust Bin Love Teh Internets Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/02/01/never-stop-refreshing-this-page-about-the-new-my-bloody-valentine-album?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15897842&id=comments 1 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:42:18 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/22/its-over-and-done-i-deleted-all-the-fugazi-offa-my-itunes http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/22/its-over-and-done-i-deleted-all-the-fugazi-offa-my-itunes Mike Nipper <p>Turns out I just...don't...like...<strong>FUGAZI</strong>. OKAY?! This ain't the first time I've mentioned this. In fact, it was here in this post, "<a href="http://www.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/10/01/ten-failed-attempts-at-line-out-posts&view=comments">Ten Failed Attempts at Line Out Posts</a>," where I expressed my lack of lerve for the <strong>Fugazi</strong>. </p> <blockquote><p><strong>3) "Gosh, I Admit It, I Hate Fugazi"</strong><br />It's true. The last time I listened to 'em, five years ago, I wondered why/how I ever gave a shit. All I could think was <strong>"What a terrible band."</strong> Thing is, I saw 'em twice, before the first EP came out, in late '88/early '89, AND I fucking LOVED 'EM, then bought their records and LOVED 'EM, etc...now, totes hate 'em. Weird, right?!</p></blockquote> <p>So at one point, yes, I did like the <strong>Fugazi</strong>. I guess from '88-91-ish, and during that time I saw 'em, prolly, ten times. Yeah, <strong>I was a fan</strong>. Then today as I was working, just letting my iTunes&#8482; play, from my speakers burst these fine recordings: <em><a href="http://youtu.be/Uo-psOFklrE">End Hits</a></em>, <em>Instrument Soundtrack</em>, and <em><a href="http://youtu.be/oFYHDPfaG2I">The Argument</a></em>. I let 'em play through, all three records. First, I didn't know who it was, it's been a while since I purposely listened to the <strong>Fugazi</strong> AND these ain't <a href="http://youtu.be/iklIE9XUUQs">the HIT songs that changed EVERYTHING</a>, so I checked who was playing. Seeing what I was hearing I thought "Oh, GOD!" and then I'm quite sure I made a SNEER FACE! Right, I have NO IDEA when I loaded 'em into my shit (perhaps 2004?!); I'm sure it was just to "check out" those last few LPs, but then I forgot. Anyways, so yeah, I listened to 'em...uh, seems like, by the end of the '90s, unintentionally, <strong>Fugazi</strong> ended up <em>sounding</em> like the bands they'd influenced. <strong>BUMMER!</strong> I feel so much better now the tracks have been deleted. </p> <p>Also: does ANYONE remember <a href="http://youtu.be/eTRRykEpjBQ">FUEL</a>, or <strong>Fuel-gazi</strong>, as they were referred to at the time. They were a straight <strong>Fugazi</strong> cop, prolly the best at the time. I saw 'em once, tho it was super impossible to listen to 'em. Currently, internet punters seem to regard them...HIGHLY.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/22/its-over-and-done-i-deleted-all-the-fugazi-offa-my-itunes#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15806843&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Shit Talk ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/22/its-over-and-done-i-deleted-all-the-fugazi-offa-my-itunes?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15806843&id=comments 25 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:57:09 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/21/my-pazz-and-jop-ballot http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/21/my-pazz-and-jop-ballot Dave Segal <p>Every year in its <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/">Pazz &amp; Jop poll</a>, the <em>Village Voice</em> asks over a thousand music critics to rate their favorite albums and singles (aka individual album tracks, MP3s, etc.) and then tabulates the results. It's very important business.</p> <p>Last week <strong>Josh Bis</strong> <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/16/critics-choose-frank-ocean-and-carly-rae-jepsen-as-king-of-pazz-and-queen-of-jop">posted about this year&#8217;s results</a>. Every year I am wildly <a href="http://furia.com/pjs/voter_685642.html#2012">out of step with the consensus</a>, although sometimes stuff I like&#8212;even if I didn't vote for it&#8212;ranks pretty high (<strong>Swans</strong>&#8217; <em>The Seer</em> coming in at #7 and <strong>Andy Stott</strong>&#8217;s <em>Luxury Problems</em> at #29 are <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2012/">cases in point</a>). </p> <p>Anyway, <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2012/685642/">here is my ballot</a> for your edification, apathy, or mockery. Maybe you&#8217;ll find something you didn&#8217;t know about in these lists that will improve your life in some microscopic way. If you have any questions, you know how to reach me.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ERd9hTRbU-w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Vk0b8mDwkxQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/21/my-pazz-and-jop-ballot#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15798734&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Lists Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/21/my-pazz-and-jop-ballot?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15798734&id=comments 2 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:07:15 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/18/why-mac-miller-owes-lord-finesse-10-million-dollars http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/18/why-mac-miller-owes-lord-finesse-10-million-dollars Sean Jewell <p>You <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/17/diggin-in-mac-millers-pockets">may have read</a> that <strong>Mac Miller</strong> and <strong>Lord Finesse</strong> settled in December over the dispute of Mac's use of Lord Finesse's work. You may have also read everything from ridiculous YouTube comment section reasoning to <strong>Mac Miller</strong>&#8217;s own lawyer's <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1700290/mac-miller-lord-finesse-lawsuit.jhtml">press release</a>. You may feel like one is better than the other, or that the spirit of hiphop is being perverted somehow, but there is a logical explanation for this, which stands outside of your spurious reasoning. Rest at ease.</p> <p><strong>Lord Finesse</strong> isn't owed 10 million dollars by rap&#8217;s cutest start up because he's decided to betray the roots of hiphop. <strong>US Copyright Law</strong> is actually pretty easy to follow and available to digest in many forms over at <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/">this website</a>. In addition to the usual FAQ section, they&#8217;ve also got pamphlets covering a series of specific subjects, and a series of cartoons for explaining things like copyright infringement to school children. There's also the entire law just sitting there for you to read. I grant you that the sections on sound recordings are incredibly dated, referring to transferring sound via <em>phonograph</em> doesn&#8217;t even sound civilized, but the principles of the law do still apply.</p> <p>It's easiest to first begin with the popular <strong>Mac Miller</strong> fan defense (no, not the gormless, air-headed defense about the honor of hiphop) which is stated reasonably as:</p> <p><strong>Lord Finesse never paid Oscar Peterson for his sample of "Dream of You" used on his track "Hip 2 Da Game" either, tho.</strong></p> <p>This is the first and best argument, which attempts to establish <strong>Miller</strong>'s innocence and show that <strong>Lord Finesse</strong> is a greedy &#8217;90s monster back from the dead, participating outside the lines of hiphop historical allowances. This argument is, however, wrong.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s why:</p> <p>Under <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html">chapter 3 section 301</a> of the copyright law of the good ol&#8217; US of A, <strong>Oscar Peterson</strong> does hold copyright for his work published in 1971 until the year 2067. This does not mean it is not okay for <strong>Lord Finesse </strong>to have sampled his work in the 1995 single "Hip 2 Da Game" (which appeared on the <em>Awakening</em> album in 1996). <strong>Finesse</strong> may have simply credited and been given permission by <strong>Oscar Peterson</strong> to use the sample, the latter of which I doubt. The more likely possibility falls under what&#8217;s called a "<a href="https://www.legalzoom.com/intellectual-property-rights/copyrights/what-are-derivative-works-under">derivative work</a>" clause (Chapter 1 Section 103), which is defined by the <strong>Copyright Office</strong> as "A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications, which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship." That means that for <strong>Lord Finesse</strong> to take an <strong>Oscar Peterson</strong> record (<em>Reunion Blues</em>, so good), put it on a turntable, sample <strong>three seconds</strong> worth of vibraphone from the first five seconds of the track, and loop it, creates an entirely different work than <strong>Oscar Peterson</strong>&#8217;s "<a href="http://www.myspace.com/theoscarpetersontrio/music/songs/dream-of-you-43512">Dream Of You</a>," which is called a <em>derivative</em>. Derivative works are copyrighted by their owners like all copyrighted works at the point of creation, no little symbol necessary. You don&#8217;t even need to file paperwork to hold copyright over something you've created. </p> <p><strong>But isn't Mac Miller just doing what Lord Finesse did? Isn't this what hiphop is? </strong></p> <p>In short, no. <strong>Mac Miller </strong>used well over a few seconds of the<strong> Lord Finesse</strong> beat. As a matter of fact, if you listen to "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuEhQ9GbI0">Kool Aid n Frozen Pizza</a>" and "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oQeg460wos">Hip 2 Da Game</a>" side by side, he used the whole goddamn thing. This is a problem because once <strong>Lord Finesse </strong>created that beat (literally at the moment he created it) he owned the copyright to it. Whether or not <strong>Mac Miller</strong> made money off the <em>K.I.D.S.</em> mixtape at the time of release is inconsequential. Whether or not <strong>Mac Miller </strong>indeed credited <strong>Lord Finesse</strong> with the use of the beat is also inconsequential (I'll get to why in a bit). He would've had to have had permission in writing ahead of time to do so, and since he didn&#8217;t "sample" the beat, as <em>is</em> hiphop custom, he set his own song outside of the derivative clause.</p> <p>Furthermore, there are four factors determining whether a copyright is being infringed upon or simply being made "fair use" of. From my personal favorite, <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107">Section 107</a>, you may be doing it wrong, and subject to infringement suit if you haven't considered:</p> <blockquote><p>(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;</p></blockquote> <p>Yes, Mac Miller did use this tape, if not this song specifically to launch a commercial career, no he wasn&#8217;t teaching kids about Kool-Aid and frozen pizza.</p> <blockquote><p>(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;</p></blockquote> <p>Yes, the fact Mac Miller credited it to Lord Finesse when he laid it down showed that he knew it was copyrighted by him (the rest of us knew it too), so it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered if he had credited Finesse or not.</p> <blockquote><p>(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and</p></blockquote> <p>Holy wow. I can't even. He just went ahead and used the whole thing didn't he? That&#8217;s not a derivative work AT ALL!</p> <blockquote><p>(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.</p></blockquote> <p>This is the kicker, folks, this is the game right here. Either <strong>Lord Finesse</strong> or his lawyers (or both) are very smart and could smell that blood in the water. They saw that <strong>Mac Miller</strong>'s (and now <strong>Dan Bull</strong>'s, for that matter) use of Lord Finesse's copyrighted work did, in fact, effect the potential market value of Lord Finesse's work. If asked, who would you think made that beat? If you were to go out and purchase an album, would it be more likely that you would now seek out and find <strong>Mac Miller</strong>'s work rather than <strong>Lord Finesse</strong>'s fairly used, copyrighted work? Yes. <strong>Mac Miller</strong> has significantly affected the<em> potential </em>market value of <strong>Lord Finesse</strong>'s work by using it in his song, to the potential tune of <strong>10 million smithereens</strong>. End of story.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0SsyF3nnQo">Dan Bull&#8217;s work </a>is also being ripped from YouTube as fast as it&#8217;s being reposted in protest, for the same reason. Despite being a <em>critique </em>of <strong>Lord Finesse </strong>(which is a completely fair use) he&#8217;s rapping over the same beat! Folks, save yourselves some time and get to the source of the problem before you run your mouth.</p> <p><strong>I don&#8217;t care what you say Mac Miller's song is so much better than Lord Finesse's song anyway. You&#8217;re stupid you suck, TLDR, GFY, OMG.</strong></p> <p>Think about this: without <strong>Lord Finesse</strong>, it's likely that <strong>Mac Miller</strong> would've gone unrecognized at his tiny label, competing to be heard from Pittsburgh, and behind label mate <strong>Wiz Kalifah</strong> without a big "<a href="http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_BGrinberg.html">mature</a>" sounding beat like that of "Hip 2 Da Game." </p> <p>The spirit of hiphop is not to steal entire tracks, it's to sample beats with which to rap over, to go out into the community and make art, to dance. Members of the hiphop community are artists just like any other community, their work, whether derivative fair use or completely original, falls under protection of the US Copyright office, and people who infringe upon that work are subject to punishment. This is to protect you, and allow you some semblance of a chance to scratch out a life for yourself with your own creative endeavors. Hiphop is the folk music of a people, a people who know better than to let themselves be ripped off, be knowledgable, beware.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/18/why-mac-miller-owes-lord-finesse-10-million-dollars#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15776356&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> ??!! Business Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/18/why-mac-miller-owes-lord-finesse-10-million-dollars?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15776356&id=comments 26 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:14:35 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/16/critics-choose-frank-ocean-and-carly-rae-jepsen-as-king-of-pazz-and-queen-of-jop http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/16/critics-choose-frank-ocean-and-carly-rae-jepsen-as-king-of-pazz-and-queen-of-jop Josh Bis <p>In what might be the most difficult arithmetic they'll do all year, 493 music writers managed to cast their ballots for the best albums and singles of 2012 by the December deadline. This week, the results of the <em>Village Voice</em>'s annual <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/">Pazz &amp; Jop</a> survey have been tabulated and, by runaway margins, we have a new king and queen of the last year in music: <b>Frank Ocean's</b> confessional R&B crossover hit <em>channel ORANGE</em> handily won as the year's best album while <b>Carly Rae Jepsen</b> took the prize for best single with the inexhaustible "Call Me Maybe".</p> <p>While Ocean was the decisive favorite&#8212;mentioned by 35% of voters&#8212;the <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2012/">albums list</a> represents only a minor reordering of the medals platform that was <em>Pitchfork's</em> <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9017-the-top-50-albums-of-2012/5/">verdict</a> on the year in records&#8212;their hivemind put Kendrick Lamar's musical memoir <em>good kid, m.A.A.d. city</em> on top, but both agreed that <b>Fiona Apple's</b> multifaceted return <em>The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do</em> in the number three spot. Beyond an indulgence of a certain level of textual creativity in album titles, though, the votes reveal a year of <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-01-16/music/pazz-amp-jop-2012-tabulation-notes/">"weak consensus" or "inspiring diversity."</a></p> <p>Beyond all of the accompanying <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/">essays and commentaries</a> on "what it all means", my most favorite part of this annual tradition is the giant piles of <a href="http://furia.com/pjs/table_album_2012_total.html">resulting data</a>. For instance, on a local front, the <em>Village Voice's</em> results disagreed with KEXP listeners' <a href="https://www.kexp.org/programming/countdowns/topAlbumsof2012.aspx">album of the year</a> selection, with <b>Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis's</b> platinum <em>the Heist</em> garnering just <a href="http://furia.com/pjs/artist_5926.html">four votes</a> (one of which was from Charles R. Cross). Two Sub Pop albums&#8212;<em>Fear Fun</em> by <b>Father John Misty</b> and <em>Bloom</em> by <b>Beach House</b>&#8212;cracked the top twenty. And, in contrast to my own <a href="http://furia.com/pjs/voter_3247903.html#2012">terminally mainstream</a> tendencies, Dave Segal maintained his place among the "<a href="http://furia.com/pjs/voter_685642.html#2012">least centric</a>" of all critics.</p> <p>While you peruse the full results, possibly <a href="http://i.minus.com/i7vB3F4ybEFzw.gif">making this face</a> at the injustice of how your own favorites fared, here's a playlist of the critically-endorsed top forty-one singles of last year:</p> <p><iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:sciencevsromance:playlist:7Aqgfsvy2Qw23V75EB7Uq1" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe></p> <p><strong>Let us know</strong> how you would have voted&#8212;being careful to apportion your hundred points such that no album gets less than five or more than thirty (see, math is hard!)&#8212;in the comments.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/16/critics-choose-frank-ocean-and-carly-rae-jepsen-as-king-of-pazz-and-queen-of-jop#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15765145&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Lists Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/16/critics-choose-frank-ocean-and-carly-rae-jepsen-as-king-of-pazz-and-queen-of-jop?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15765145&id=comments 2 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:16:52 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/10/losing-the-vegan-challenge http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/10/losing-the-vegan-challenge Emily Nokes <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pcLpyYRa0Wo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>UGH. <strong>I lost $100</strong> to someone who thought they could be vegan longer than me. </p> <p>Here's the thing, I'm a life-long vegetarian, am not super into milk, and think eggs are foul (HA, like fowl)! But seriously, SEE HOW THIS WAS GOING TO BE THE EASIEST $100 EVER? I love cheese dearly, but the person I was betting against is the <strong>meatiest meat eater </strong> of all meat time.</p> <p>So, after six days of easy breezy veganism, I was felled by a <strong>goddamned Andes chocolate mint</strong>. On accident! I don't even like Andes mints! I <em>know</em> they have milk in them! The mint just happened to be on top of my <a href="http://www.baitshopseattle.com/">Bait Shop</a> check. </p> <p>Apparently if you put even <em>sort of </em>edible candy in front of me, I will eat it. <strong>Sugar is my best frenemy</strong>. Sugar will tell me my new bangs look nice, even if sugar noticed they go waaay too far back on my head like Rod Stewart. Sugar thinks it's funny when I look bad. </p> <p>I've been quelling my rage by searching for <strong>vegan/vegetarian songs</strong>, which is the funniest thing to write a song about. I could only think of Gorilla Biscuits - "Cats and Dogs", the Smiths - "Meat is Murder" of course, and Hot Lava - "Blue Dragon"... Are there more? </p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G2ylfArPXvM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/10/losing-the-vegan-challenge#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15712403&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Shit Talk Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/10/losing-the-vegan-challenge?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15712403&id=comments 12 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:20:34 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/10/its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-taylor-swift-and-mumford-and-sons-collaborate http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/10/its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-taylor-swift-and-mumford-and-sons-collaborate Megan Seling <p>It's coming. <strong>It has to be coming.</strong> Just you wait and see.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/10/its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-taylor-swift-and-mumford-and-sons-collaborate#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15717276&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/10/its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-taylor-swift-and-mumford-and-sons-collaborate?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15717276&id=comments 0 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:27:51 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/21/the-rem-cover-that-makes-you-wish-it-really-were-the-end-of-the-world http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/21/the-rem-cover-that-makes-you-wish-it-really-were-the-end-of-the-world Dave Segal <p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F71674973"></iframe></p> <p>It recently came to my attnetion that an awful act called <strong>E4rth</strong> has done a cover of <strong>R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)."</strong> This is the epitome of a cheap cash-in on a phenomenon that was bullshit from the get-go. (I also wonder how <a href="http://www.thronesanddominions.com/">Dylan Carlson</a> feels about the project name.) Now let this be the end of all blather about apocalypse... until we're absolutely certain the world's on the brink of extinction&#8212;the first hint will be when <strong>Charles Mudede</strong> cleans his desk.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/21/the-rem-cover-that-makes-you-wish-it-really-were-the-end-of-the-world#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15588050&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Song Shit Talk Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/21/the-rem-cover-that-makes-you-wish-it-really-were-the-end-of-the-world?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15588050&id=comments 0 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:19:22 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/13/waving-sunbeams-in-the-air-on-hearing-school-of-seven-bells-cover-of-silver-apples-lovefingers-while-sleeping http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/13/waving-sunbeams-in-the-air-on-hearing-school-of-seven-bells-cover-of-silver-apples-lovefingers-while-sleeping Dave Segal <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nyPRsf_Pb78" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>Last night I was up till 3 am after a DJ gig and, as often happens at around that time, I turned on the boombox to <a href="http://www.kexp.org/">KEXP</a>, keeping the volume faint. At around 7:20 am, through non-REM sleep, the familiar lyrics of my favorite Silver Apples song, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKivSa2MYzo">&#8220;Lovefingers,&#8221;</a> had seeped into my consciousness&#8212;but the music was more subdued, slower, bassier, and the vocals definitely weren&#8217;t <strong>Simeon</strong>&#8217;s; they were by a woman who knew the value of understatement and mystique. </p> <p>Was this a dream? No, this was <a href="http://www.sviib.com/">School of Seven Bells</a>&#8217; unfaithfully reverent version of that classic proto-techno jam. Somehow this rendition by SVIIB's <strong>Alejandra Deheza</strong> and <strong>Benjamin Curtis</strong> had eluded me, but thanks to KEXP&#8217;s <a href="http://www.kexp.org/playlist/2012/12/13/7am">John Richards</a>, I discovered it in the best possible, hypnapompic manner.</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/13/waving-sunbeams-in-the-air-on-hearing-school-of-seven-bells-cover-of-silver-apples-lovefingers-while-sleeping#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15522074&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Radio Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/13/waving-sunbeams-in-the-air-on-hearing-school-of-seven-bells-cover-of-silver-apples-lovefingers-while-sleeping?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15522074&id=comments 0 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:53:01 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/12/15512586-what-is-going-on-in-this-photo http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/12/15512586-what-is-going-on-in-this-photo Kelly O <p>Holy redneck disasters! What just happened here? <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/who-should-be-crowned-drunk-of-the-year/Content?oid=15504698">FIND OUT!</a> And please, good people of Lineout, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/who-should-be-crowned-drunk-of-the-year/Content?oid=15504698">VOTE</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/who-should-be-crowned-drunk-of-the-year/Content?oid=15504698"><div class="blogImageCenter" style="width:512px;"><img src="http://www.thestranger.com/binary/aca2/1355345194-d-1.jpg" alt="D-1.jpg" title="" width="500" height="666" /><ul><li class="imageCredit">Kelly O</li><li class="imageCaption"></li></ul></div></a></p> Booze Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/12/15512586-what-is-going-on-in-this-photo?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15512586&id=comments 0 What Is Going On In This Photo? Kelly O Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:45:37 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/11/avril-lavigne-covered-nickleback http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/11/avril-lavigne-covered-nickleback Megan Seling <p>I'm not going to link to Avril Lavigne's cover of the one Nickelback song I know becauzzzzzzzz. Instead, here's an inspired performance by Yoko Ono, singing Katy Perry's "Firework" (thanks to the magic of sound editing). </p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="500" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lrJz9Dh5MsM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>(Oops! Kelly O posted this video on Slog over an hour ago. Sorry for the double dose of crazy Yoko mash-ups. Anyway, <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/11/lunchtime-quickie-yoko-ono-sings-katy-perry">go vote in her poll</a>!)</p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/11/avril-lavigne-covered-nickleback#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15503686&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> ??!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/12/11/avril-lavigne-covered-nickleback?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15503686&id=comments 0 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:29:30 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/30/merriam-webster-made-an-example-out-of-me http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/30/merriam-webster-made-an-example-out-of-me Dave Segal <p>A coworker informed me today that <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/top-ten-lists/top-10-food-words-worth-savoring/borborygmus.html">merriam-webster.com</a> had used a sentence I'd written for <em>The Stranger</em> earlier this year on the band <strong><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/doom-for-improvement/Content?oid=23047">Earth</a>'s</strong> <em>2: Special Low Frequency Version</em> to illustrate its definition for the word <strong><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/top-ten-lists/top-10-food-words-worth-savoring/borborygmus.html">borborygmus</a></strong>. My first thought: How can I monetize this? My second thought: How can I get an easy blog post from it? And here you have it. Now do yourself a favor and listen to <em>all</em> of <em>2</em> to get you in the mood for some serious weekend partying.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ls1OYn_xGzM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/30/merriam-webster-made-an-example-out-of-me#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15414445&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/30/merriam-webster-made-an-example-out-of-me?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15414445&id=comments 1 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:53:50 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/27/the-sound-of-deadline-pressure http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/27/the-sound-of-deadline-pressure Dave Segal <p>If you have deadlines in your work, you probably know this feeling: an unbearable tension and crushing pressure under which you either thrive or crumble. For journalists/writers, this is our chase-scene moment. For this writer in particular, the music that scores this sensation is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heldon">Heldon</a>&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;Perspective III.&#8221;</strong> Just listen to that OCD bass throb and that panic-attack guitar radiation. This is a prime-time fight-or-flee/write-or-writhe score. This is what it sounds like inside my head when I&#8217;m experiencing deadline pressure. No wonder I keep cracking my knuckles so much&#8230; </p> <p>By the way, <a href="http://www.richard-pinhas.com/">Heldon</a> are one of the few bands whose entire catalog&#8212;seven albums from 1974-1979&#8212;you need. Read more about this fantastic French group at <a href="http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1302">Prog Archives</a>. I&#8217;d tell you more, but I have some deadlines to deal with.</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1DgOYw_-FGA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/27/the-sound-of-deadline-pressure#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15387770&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Housekeeping Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/27/the-sound-of-deadline-pressure?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15387770&id=comments 0 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:55:39 -0800 The Stranger http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/21/the-best-song-with-thank-you-in-its-title http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/21/the-best-song-with-thank-you-in-its-title Dave Segal <p>Because of tomorrow's holiday, thankfulness is on a lot of people's minds. For me, that means music. For Line Out, that means fluffy posts about the <strong>best song with "Thank You" in its title</strong>. So many songs have these words in their titles; we humans are a damned thankful lot. After some perfunctory research, I've concluded that <strong>Sly &amp; the Family Stone</strong>'s 1969 hit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_%28Falettinme_Be_Mice_Elf_Agin%29">"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"</a> is the greatest such tune in the canon of musical gratitude. (Check also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfTqrQ-FZOM">Magazine's cover</a> of it.) Coiled, minimalist/maximalist, celebratory funk with a genius arrangement and Sly and company's vocal acrobatics? Competition is none.</p> <p>What is <em>your</em> considered/haphazard opinion on this matter?</p> <p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6Ptrc2cWRxU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>[ <a href="http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/21/the-best-song-with-thank-you-in-its-title#comments">Comment on this story</a> ]</p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15347809&amp;id=comments">Subscribe to the comments on this story</a> ]</p> Song Classic Zzzzzzzzzzzzz http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2012/11/21/the-best-song-with-thank-you-in-its-title?show=comments#readerComments http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.xml?oid=15347809&id=comments 8 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:46:57 -0800 The Stranger