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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7)
Sparkleobit: Mark Linkous
That Sparklehorse only released four official albums reflects unfairly on Linkous’ work; outside of his private umbrella, he collaborated and produced and collaborated again.
I was in a really bad mood earlier today, and was listening to Liz Phair all morning, and it was...
I was in a really bad mood earlier today, and was listening to Liz Phair all morning, and it was brutal. I was revisiting Phair to try and get at the root of I’m still single (the answer is here somewhere!), why that kind of seems to be about being a woman who writes about music (even though there’s so much more to me than that), and why I have this complete inability to approach men I’m interested in and indicate my interest.
I mean, really, this put me in about the most terrible mood you could imagine.
new jj :: "I Know"
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This week just gone
1. Mark E Smith’s YouTube magic [2007]
2. Busta Rhymes uncomfortable around gay men [2006]
3. RIP: Jason Rae [2008]
4. Woman denies being in Kerry Katona sex tape [2007]
RIAA use charity album in piracy battle
On the heels of the encouraging news high that the “Hope for Haiti Now” charity album became the first all-digital record to top Billboard’s 200 music sales chart, we’ve also learned that there is a group of P2P users who are uploading and downloading the charity album illegally.
Introducing…
Hello new friends, Max Pearl (aka, DJ Kat Fyte) here checking in as the newest contributor to Trash Menagerie. For my first post, I’d like to take all of my new readers on a guided journey of those winding corridors and dark hiding-places that I like to troll as I make my way through the blogosphere. That means recommendations, people!
Past/Present
I love it when familiar or (in)famous faces turn up unexpectedly in new contexts. It happened when KK Barrett of the Screamers showed up as Spike Jonze’s production designer, and it’s happening now with David McDermott and Peter McGough’s new film, Mean to Me, a 12-minute end-of-the-affair noir starring Agyness Deyn, in her acting debut.
You may (or may not) remember McDermott’s immortal harangues from Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party. Exhibit A:
Gemini Club - Mirrors.
It goes without saying really… Folkobit: Fred Wedlock
Fred started singing to the customers of the pub he was born in - earning sixpence at the age of four, according to his official site. Like Jasper Carrott and Billy Connolly, he built his skills by working the circuit of folk clubs, and earned his wider fame thanks to his sharp wit.
Haiku Review: Michael DuFault - MicroD (self released, 2009)
Swick + Cassian.
It’s been a while in the waiting, but we can finally blog something Swick related here Glastonbury 2010: Police rub hands at first certain drug arrest
Makeup and Vanity Set.
Makeup and Vanity Set is a Nashville based artist speciallising in bleepy melodies, poundi U.S. GIRLS IN LONDON TONIGHT !*!*!*
Deunionised: Janes Addiction split again
Not any more, though, as he’s walked. He announced it on Twitter, so it must be true.