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We already know you’re having a party for Halloween. We know you’ve covered your home in spider webs, candles, blacklight-reactant posters and ghouley, ghosty things from Rite Aid. Before you do anything else brilliant, we’re here to make extra sure you’re prepared to give your guests the creep fest they’re looking for ... read more |
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This time it’s the ‘90s hit, “My Hero,” which the McCain posse has been using during rallies without the band’s permission. The Foo Fighters have expressed discontent (read: flipped out righteously) at the campaign’s misuse of the song, as well as the campaign’s history of failing to get artists’ permission in general ... read more |
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If you’ve had your fill of musical vandalism and want to release some aggression, the “Not-So-Believable Punk Rock” station will help you out – especially if you’re pissed off about your parents and you don’t wanna talk about it, you don’t wanna talk about it, you don’t wanna talk about it, x10 for each of 15 choruses ... read more |
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But wait! If you carried them everywhere Courtney, wouldn’t you have noticed someone ransacking your sacred teddy bear from your own home? That is, unless, you were too blitzed to notice someone stealing your leftover husband from right under your nose. Pun intended ... read more |
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No other phenomenon can explain Oasis tribute bands (they seem just as argumentative as the originals), idol worship for Ewan McGregor, the simultaneously vitalizing and devastating power of Vanity Faire, and 35 nearly identical versions of the quote, “It was like … something was happening … but no one quite knew what it WAS” ... read more |
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The man is the band’s biggest groupie. Want more proof? He boasts about listening to St. Anger. That’s like some horndog trying to bag a girl by saying “Baby, I’d even kiss your herpes.” ... read more |
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Grunge rock demi-God Kurt Cobain bore an entire generation with such poignant descriptions as An Albino/A Mulato/A mosquito/ My libido, and he meant it. Only, God knows what he meant. Here now are the Top 5 most beloved songs with the world's most thought provoking lyrics – probably inspired by an autistic, strung-out five-year old ... read more |
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Since this column has been hibernating longer than Rip Van Winkle (5), I’ll give ya’ll a brief rundown of how things work. Like Glenn Close (6) after seeing an excited and injured soldier in The World According To Garp, I’ll slide in all the biggest music-related stories of the last week and thrust until happy endings are achieved for all ... read more |
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Holy sellout, Batman! Kurt Cobain’s delusional and money-grubbing widow Courtney Love has authorized sneaker enthusiasts Converse to release a limited edition shoe baring the former Nirvana frontman’s lyrics, sketches, and signatures. What a great idea. I’m sure Kurt would be thrilled about his image being abducted, held for ransom, and used to market quasi-trendy footwear ... read more |
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Ok, may be not the real Kurt. But the people who reportedly stole the Nirvana front man’s identity to buy a $3.2 million mansion in New Brunswick, New Jersey sure do. According to the grunge rocker’s rehabbed widow Courtney Love, thieves have obtained Cobain’s social security number and used it to buy the house, buy cars, put credit cards in her name and steal checks ... read more |
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Oh Mustang, how unfair that others remain in the spotlight. Your loud, overly pronounced sister, Stratocaster, is easily the more outspoken, the more thought-of, and it is tragically true, the more popular. But people are fools, aren’t they? Veterans and newcomers, who would think each could be as easily tricked, conned into their misguided preferences? ... read more |
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I’m hearing a song I recognize, no, a song I love. This is supposed to be Joy Division’s “Shadowplay,” but it is all wrong – the guitar is jangly and happy, the drums sound like fucking She Wants Revenge, the singing is nice, perfectly in key and so, so tepid. It is evidently some hipster-pop candy band inflicting their perverted interpretation of a classically awesome song on me, and I am not happy ... read more |
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In honor of Cupid and his contumelious nature, Cinema Blend writer Jessica Grabert and I have decided to join forces on the greatest mixtape ever created. Yesterday, we took a little field trip to Staples and loaded up on Post It Notes. Then we took meticulous, irreverent and sometimes pointless musings and wrote them down throughout the day on said little yellow pads of paper ... read more |
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You have no idea who the hell Flipper is, and that is your loss. Arguably the most influential noise band of all time, their long strange journey is a lot more interesting than that meddlesome dolphin’s. But even after two OD’s, a horrific car accident, and several reunion gigs in which the quartet played under the moniker ‘Not Flipper’, the group is ready to record a new album. It’ll be their first in over fifteen years and contain a special guest ... read more |
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a hell of a week. Santa (1) came and visited my household, dolling out Christmas cheer and accidentally leaving one of his Lipitors next to an empty plate of chocolate chunk cookies on my kitchen table. My beloved Chicago Blackhawks have won four straight, and I couldn’t be in a better mood. Now, it’s time to tarnish those good vibes by digging up all the heinous stories of Rock N Roll excess from the last week ... read more |
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