Music
Whip This
Care of the OV friend and trustee, Kaitlin Mara, here’s the OV story of the week. Our favorite nerd-rock-new-wave group ever, Devo, are apparently in litigation against McDonald’s. In the fast food chain’s happy meal, you may find “new wave Nigel,” a plastic toy rockin the Devo red flower pot hat. Devo found this [...]
Gallagher Disses Jay-Z
Via Stereogum, via The Sun, via Bizarre (isn’t the internet great???), Oasis rumbler Noel Gallagher isn’t thrilled about Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury. In fact, he’s “not having [it],” (now via the BBC, which comes via NME). Jay-Z takes the high road, though, saying, “We don’t play guitars, Noel, but hip-hop has put in its [...]
Black Metal Still Dark
For anyone who follows the OV regularly, you’ll know our staff is obsessed with Norwegian Death Metal, the popular genre of Scandinavian rock music still thriving today. Okay, maybe not our entire staff, but at the very least Mark Cichra is. And if you want to share this experience with Mark, we can help. [...]
Brian May the Chancellor
From the BBC, the great Brian May, guitarist of Queen, has just been named chancellor of an English University, specifically Liverpool John Moores University. On the eve of the new Queen album, this has to be the strangest promotional tool in the rock era. Read about it here. (PGJ)
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Obsolete Nostalgia : The Vines
In a new series for the Obsolete Vernacular, we’ll look back at a cultural moment of the last fifteen years, re-evaluating and re-contextualizing it for 2008. In the first installment Paul Jackson looks back a mere 4 years to the last major single from Australian rockers The Vines. Oh, what a simpler time.
Pandora’s Music Box
In our never-ending quest to make the world conform to our lives and schedules, we’ve discovered Pandora.com. What is Pandora? Internet radio. Put in an artist or band you like; Pandora’s software then mathematically analyzes what is unique to the song; then finds other songs with similar attributes. So I said I like [...]
The Record Report: 01. 02. 03. 2008
In the latest record report, Vernacular Editors Paul G. Jackson and Michael Grandone, with an assist by Patrick Rossmann, announce the new LP releases from the first three months of 2008. Some snotty comments and rich insights included free. Comments and contradictions are welcome.
