- This is quite seriously the feature of my dreams: Taking One For The Team: Brokencyde Challenge. But in my dreams, Jason Linkins writes it and it’s published here. But better that it exists at all. “The Millionaires only sang (Ha! “Sang.”) four songs before storming offstage to sulk at their merch table 20 yards away. It was clear from their body language and attitude that they thought they should be headlining the show. And despite the fact that they had just put on the most appalling thing I’d ever seen, I couldn’t have agreed more. Millionaires really should have been headlining.”
- Jenny Lewis’ 70′s California Rock 8 Track Playlist for Rolling Stone is dreamy.
- This King Khan & BBQ video is all the reasons I love King Khan & BBQ in one video.
- Were you under the impression that the only new Kanye tracks you’d hear this week would be from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? Of course not! You can now hear the first leaked track from his upcoming collaboration with Jay-Z, “That’s My Bitch.”
- There’s almost too much internet this week re: Yeezy, but some of it is just so good. Like these videos of little kids reenacting his most famous tweets.
- “But of course, over the years, as a critic or music geek, you tend to hear thousands and thousands of variations upon that form. Most of them are pretty unmemorable at best. A lot of them are just okay, no more no less, which makes sense given that there’s a time-tested formula involved. And even the stuff that’s just fine is less exciting given that you hear so much of it, day in and day out… when it comes down to it, what you want is the classic form delivered in some wholly new, artful, and unexpected way. And when it comes to pop music, that’s pretty much what Kanye West specializes in. He’s mixing hip-hop and indie-rock irony and lush pop and any number of other influences into something that’s both highly original and highly accessible.” Peter Suderman’s essay on Kanye and music criticism is spot on.
- Hey look, the Black Cat got a new website! Looks great, guys.
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