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10:01 am - 4 tickets to Bruce Springsteen in Seattle? BAM! Nailed it!
10:04 am - Do-dee-do-dee-do. Just enterin' my credit card info. No probs here. Been using ticketmaster.com for years...never had a problem before...
10:04:30 am - The heck?
10:05 am - Uhhh. Why do you say this is not how my name appears on my statment? Because it IS the way it appears on my statment. I should know...it's my NAME.
10:06 am - Oh snap. A TIME LIMIT? Who are these whores?
10:08 am - 2 minutes left? Already? OK, what other addresses have I held in the past 2 years? Nah, apperently none of them. And what is this about tickets will automatically be sent to your card billing address? There is no option to alter that? Even eBay has shipping options! I guess Ticketmaster hates suprise presents.
10:08 am - THIS...IS...MY...NAME!!! THIS...IS...MY...ADDRESS!!!
10:10 am - DAMN! My tickets are released back to the legion of d-bags who didn't have the patience to score their seats when I did! A travesty for sure.
10:10:30 - All tickets sold-out.
Thanks Ticketmaster. Wasted a morning and opprotunity for a great time. I am glad Eddie Vedder lives down the block from me. Maybe I will go and kevetsch at him about our mutual distain for these a-holes.
The prince of industrial darkness, Trent Reznor has posted his opinion on the yearly music awards ceremony. It seems that the Nine Inch Nails frontman is not a huge fan of the yearly game of industry grab-ass.
“While the music industry is doing everything they possibly can to go out of business, can we all make sure to rid ourselves of the Grammys, too? Out of touch old men jacking each other off. ENOUGH!”
- Trent on the NIN official blog at www.
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Now, I am not one looking to raise the ire of the man who once so famously said he would very much like to f**k me like an animal, but I am interested to see his reaction if his bands record "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" wins the award for Best Hard Rock preformance.
Or maybe it is because The Grammy's still insists on calling a catagory "hard rock". Can someone confirm if this is technically a genre still?
Alright, so everyone knows the classics. You like Pet Sounds? Wow. That's an original thought. Who doesn't? Oh, you think that Abbey Road is cream of the crop? Hey, buddy, thanks for wasting your breath.
This
isn't going to be about that. What this new column is going to be about
is the AMAZING albums that for some mixed-up reason, do not get their
deserved placement for beng awesome in the annals of music history.
These are albums that possibly didn't seem to quite make the grade when
initially released or for whatever reason, have been left behind with
time.
To start this collection, I am going to hop in the
way-back-machine and take us back to June of 1986. A time dominated by
The Pet Shop Boys, Miami Sound Machine, Run DMC and Falco. At this
time the long-running rock group Genesis decided to record a new album
at the height of its lead singer, Phil Collins, solo success. Still at
odds with former lead singer, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, put out an album
that despite being their highest seller at the time, hasn't been placed
amongst the classic.
When I think of two of the more contrasting styles in hip-hop, it isn’t much of a stretch to put The Ghostface Killah and Rakim at the poles. While both amazing emcees, Ghostface comes at you with a no-holds-barred, shooting-from-the-seat-of-his-pants style that makes you think that if he died today, there would be nothing that he held back. Everything that is on his mind, he spits. He raps like every track is his last song and every dope rhyme that is imagined comes out. He doesn’t save them up for the singles (of which he has an amazingly small amount of, despite his notoriety), but instead, he drops gems on what other emcees would merely consider “filler” tracks.
And then you’ve got Rakim, the god M.C. The Microphone fiend. The
one who’s got soul. A skilled lyricist who when listened to, makes you
engage in serious mind-debate on if he spent the last 5 years penning
the track. Every word carefully chosen, every rhyme lined up with a
preciseness unlike any other in the history of the game. While he can
no doubt rip it in a freestyle, it is not what you would expect or even
want from him. He’s the grandfather of rap for a reason. He embodies
the skill and patience that is so often missed with this generation.
So
you’ve got these two amazingly contrasted styles of rap and you want to
put them in the same place at the same time? Hell yeah you do!
Boy was I sputtering like a baby after listening to Spoon's recent
release "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga". While only 36 minutes long this is an album
Spoon can proudly keep in their catalogue.
I'm not sure if you can get more legendary than Robert Plant (Led
Zeppelin) or Alison Krauss (Union Station, Bluegrass Icon)--oh wait, you
can...Robert Plant AND Alison Krauss together!!! This seeminly
odd couple teamed up for a collaborative release this fall, releasing
"Raising Sand" (Rounder) this week.
Hey all you Rockworms! A while back we featured "The Indian Givers", as well as hosted a free .mp3 of one of their new songs, "Sticks and Stones". Well, They're back, under the new alias of "Von Nelson" and they've just finalized their third and latest EP, and have put 5 of them up on their myspace page for all to hear!
Lily Allen. Does that name sound familiar? No?! I am still at awe
that more people haven't heard of Lily Allen--especially after she's
collaborated with such artists as Common. While "Alright, Still" has
been out for a while already, this album is great.
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seems that the Nine Inch Nails frontman is not a huge fan of the yearly game of industry grab-ass.
When I think of two of the more contrasting styles in hip-hop, it isn’t much of a stretch to put The Ghostface Killah and Rakim at the poles. While both amazing emcees, Ghostface comes at you with a no-holds-barred, shooting-from-the-seat-of-his-pants style that makes you think that if he died today, there would be nothing that he held back. Everything that is on his mind, he spits. He raps like every track is his last song and every dope rhyme that is imagined comes out. He doesn’t save them up for the singles (of which he has an amazingly small amount of, despite his notoriety), but instead, he drops gems on what other emcees would merely consider “filler” tracks.
