Crickets
Friday, March 12, 2010
Crickets, Music The Hideout's SXSW Bon Voyage
Posted by Kevin Warwick on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:40 PM
- Rob Karlic
- Mickey
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Crickets, Music This Week in Sharp Darts: Blood Bros
Posted by Miles Raymer on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Crickets, Music Today in Heroes
Posted by Miles Raymer on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:15 PM
The key to winning at life isn't getting all the toys or outliving all your enemies. The key to winning at life is to doing whatever it is you're doing like it's the best thing in the whole wide world. If every moment of your life totally kicks ass, you are the king of the world even if your job is standing on the side of the road holding signs advertising cheap pizza.
Video evidence after the jump.
Crickets, Music Beauty Bar Opening Imminent
Posted by Miles Raymer on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 PM
It was all the way back in November when word got out that beloved underlit dance-music room Sonotheque was going to become a Chicago outpost of the continent-spanning Beauty Bar chain. Though the building's outward appearance hasn't changed noticeably since right after it closed, when Sonotheque's modernist facade was torn down, the promised interior renovations must be popping off—the Empty Bottle Presents update e-mail that went out yesterday includes a packed schedule of DJs at Beauty Bar starting in just two weeks.
The complete list—including DJ appearances by members of Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit, the Faint, and more—is after the jump.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Crickets, Music RIP Biggie
Posted by Miles Raymer on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Thirteen years ago today the world lost the best rapper it's had so far. I don't know how times I've listened to Ready to Die, but every time I put it on I come away with at least one more reason it's among the best records of all time.
After the jump, a freestyle Biggie recorded the day of his death:
Monday, March 8, 2010
Crickets, Music The Numero Group Turns the Tables on a Bootlegger
Posted by Miles Raymer on Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM
A bootleg that became seriously popular would often be bootlegged in turn by another underground label. If it became seriously, seriously popular it would be bootlegged by a legit label. This is how Dylan's Basement Tapes and the entirety of his incredible Bootleg Series on Columbia happened. It's also how the Numero Group's upcoming Eccentric Breaks and Beats came to be.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Crickets, Music Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber
Posted by Miles Raymer on Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Is it important that some of the alleged lesbians on the site don't really look that much like Justin Bieber? Not really. What's important is that some of the alleged lesbians look a lot like Justin Bieber, and that is LOL.
(via Fuck Yeah Dykes)
Crickets, Music More 'Fork
Posted by Miles Raymer on Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Well damn, it looks like I owe Jessica Hopper a dollar. Back when she and I made our predictions about who would end up playing the Pitchfork Music Festival this year, I brushed off her suggestion that rapper Freddie Gibbs would wind up on the lineup—I figured it was unlikely because he's still relatively underground, without the type of popularity in indie circles that past P4K hip-hop acts like the GZA and Clipse had.
Seems I was wrong, though. The new batch of festival acts announced today does include Gibbs, along with Girls, El-P, Broken Social Scene, Panda Bear, Dam-Funk, Bear in Heaven, Titus Andronicus (whose new The Monitor is worthy of comparison with the Constantines), the slightly surprising Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and locals Alla, Cave, and the Smith Westerns.
Three-day passes for the fest are sold out, but tickets for all three individual days are still available.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Crickets, Music So Who Listens to Hinder?
Posted by Miles Raymer on Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM
Last week Maura Johnston—who the Village Voice picked up for their Sound of the City column after the abrupt end of her tenure at Idolator last year—wrote a chart rundown where she wondered how generic post-Nickelback pseudo-grunge bands and terrible neo-Limp Bizkits like the Hollywood Undead manage to place so highly when it seems like no one actually listens to them. The answer, according to dancer/blogger Bubbles Burbujas: strip clubs.
If you only read one fascinating description today of the the godawful music environment in your average strip club written by a dancer who can talk knowledgeably about both Shinedown and Animal Collective, make it this one.
Crickets, Music The Best Kind of Record Fiend
Posted by Miles Raymer on Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:44 PM
