Alone and Stoned
King Tuff“Hard to argue for the historical importance of this record but damn if it ain’t one of the most enjoyable of 2012, hooooooly shit I’ll tell you what,” is something I wrote on Facebook about 15 minutes ago. Way to get on my level, The Awl.
Dum da da de da da dum de da la la la la lone and stooooooooooooned
Articles: I Went and Saw Me Some Sleigh Bells/Diplo/Liturgy | Features | Pitchfork
Gotta resist the urge to share every truth bomb about live music in this article.
Articles: I Went and Saw Me Some Sleigh Bells/Diplo/Liturgy | Features | Pitchfork
This is so, so great. Owes a fair bit to Hunter S (the old “editor called, I was being all grumpy, stuff about my life”) but is no worse off for it, and I actually welcome HST rips when there’s so much impersonal, snobby music writing around. Read it.
I AM SO IN FAVOUR OF THIS DECISION. Hope they include Get Me and Back To Your Heart - although the latter’s a Lou joint so it’s always a wild card.
The Dø cover Janelle Monáe’s ‘Tightrope’ at Studio Pigalle in Paris. Watch the band recording ‘Slippery Slope’ at the studio here: http://youtube.com/thedoband
Holy shit this is cool.
More than 60 punk fans in Aceh province, Indonesia, were rounded up, shaved and forced to bathe in a lake by the police, who say the youths were not abiding by the Sharia law in place there.
FUCK THE SYSTEM
The Dark Side of Oz of our time? Can’t believe I only just found it. Works eerily well already and I’m only up to Paranoid Android.
That said, Radiohead are one of those bands to whom we’re all too eager to attach a sort of mystical, metaphysical genius. Of course OK Computer - one of the most universally acclaimed albums ever - was actually conceived as a half-album, waiting to be made whole by being interspersed with its uneasy twin a decade later! Everybody else go home, Radiohead win at music!
Maybe this means we’ll get the other half of The King of Limbs someday. Perhaps it’ll come with a weekend supplement, complete with special comic strips and vapid celebrity profiles, and it will reveal that Thom Yorke knew the true depths of Rebekah Brooks’ lack of moral fibre years ago due to the Secret Society of Powerful British Gingers.
At any rate, perhaps part of the reason 01 & 10 works is not because there’s some grand design at work, but because we have listened to these songs so many times that they feel connected to everything - at least, that’s the way Radiohead can make you feel. They are, for better or worse, all-encompassing in ways very few other bands can claim to be.
