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Someone deciding whether or not to go see Jay Reatard at Harper’s Ferry:
“The idea of paying 50 cents a minute for rock does not equal a real show experience to me. I think lap dances are cheaper, for fucks sake!”

…For the most part. About 80-90% of the music I listen to I consider catchy, pop numbers, one way or another. I agree with Jay, the pop master, that when you get away from the basic pop song, you lose people. I dig primitive, guerrila sounds, like the Black Lips and King Khan. Usually, most of my modern favorites are lo-fi to some extent or another and quite noisy, at that. Basically, it boils down to what are you going to do with pop music that makes you stand out to me. I suppose I have a few favorites here and there that lack this quality, but most are cutting edge, even if they’re not the most original cats around, try and wrap that around your dome. Quality doesn’t equal clean production. Far more often than not, it means some slick shits are doing the devil’s work and doing a fine job. The public overwhelmingly has been conditioned to eat up pounds of sugar coated mindless,souless,balless, garbage from the biggest corporate cocksuckers known to mankind. Some seriously sick motherfuckers that I’m surprised haven’t become extinct yet- due to overload of the stomach, having been pumped too much santanic sperm. I don’t know, what happened when, but it’s been decades, long before this radical nerd was even considered for existence, of horseshit ramming down our throats, perhaps they’re slipping roofies in the kids meals at Micky Dees? Anyway, if one were to take a quick paroozle (yeah, idk the spelling Glen!) of my album collection, mainstreamers if any readin’, would probably think I’m crazy, totally mad, fucked in the head, when I say I like pop music… with the likes of The Stooges, Ween, No Age, Big Black, etc present. I’ve streamed and screamed for too long, I’ll leave y’all with a poppy favorite of mine.
Chris

For a good chunk of us living in the US of A, we will never get to experience Sonny Bryans. I never heard of it until two minutes ago. But but but but but. King Khan enjoys the restaurant so much that he wrote a little song available for listen on the Shrines Myspace page. Here: http://www.myspace.com/kingkhantheshrines
Chris will definitely listen to it because Khan name-drops Mumia Abu-Jamal.
“Sonny Bryan’s Barbecue
Burning hot in my gullet
Makes me want to shave my mullet
Sonny Bryan’s Barbecue
Free ribs, free cole slaw, free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Sonny Bryan, friend of Kobe Bryant
Missed and loved by us all.”
Mmmmm… now that’s what I call flamin’ music!
Chris
Chris wrote…
7) Oh It’s Such A Shame- 8.5- Decent, nothing wrong with it, but for some reason, just doesn’t stand out.

Chris

There’s a great feature by Prefix Magazine (just posted) that highlights a day in the life of the Black Lips before their show at the Bowery Ballroom. Included in that day? Cole painting the shirt (above) that he’d end up giving to me the next day in Boston. Word.
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How many buzz words in here go against the DIY punk ethic? I’ll get you started:
1. marketing
2. sales
3. target lists
Listened to The Fall for the first time after hearing their name dropped frequently as an influence, innovator, etc. for like the past 3-4 years. I mean me personally, of course, they have been seen as an influence for decades. So, youtubed this. I like it, I’ll have to check out more. Mr. Bradford Cox humorously introduced Deerhunter as The Fall, when we saw him live. Gotta love Him!
Chris