Uninteresting anecdote alert:
I studied abroad in Glasgow in 2002-2003, and made the stupid decision to go home for Christmas break. Got a sinus infection at home somehow. My return trip to Glasgow happened to be on the first day the TSA implemented a search-all-check-in-baggages rule, which delayed my flight by 3 1/2…

Yes! I will forever be thankful to the ad men Toyota hired in the early '00s: they introduced me to Buzzcocks.

Agreed. There's always been a melancholy undercurrent to even their most buoyant songs, particularly because of the way Julian Casablancas delivers those lyrics. And I think his lyrics were always mourning the passing of time, as you mentioned. Kind of amazing, actually, considering how young they all were when that…

Even my hip-hop-only brother, with an aversion to white guys with electric guitars, knows that Neon Trees is a shitty, watered-down version of the Strokes. That's how blatant it is.

Holy shit, really?

Because if the "wholly Black" parent is American, there's little chance they're "wholly Black." You're getting your genotypes and your phenotypes mixed up.

SAW IT ON THE WALL
MOTHERHOOD MEANS MENTAL FREEZE
http://youtu.be/o9hAS2uHG_I

SAW IT ON THE WALL
MOTHERHOOD MEANS MENTAL FREEZE
http://youtu.be/o9hAS2uHG_I

Rock Steady was such a disappointment. I mean, "Underneath it All" alone was enough to make me want to chuck that
record out the window. She always writes better songs when she's having relationship problems; she and Rossdale had broken up when they were making Saturn, and Tragic Kingdom, of course (which isn't my…

Rock Steady was such a disappointment. I mean, "Underneath it All" alone was enough to make me want to chuck that
record out the window. She always writes better songs when she's having relationship problems; she and Rossdale had broken up when they were making Saturn, and Tragic Kingdom, of course (which isn't my…

Return of Saturn was fucking amazing. The one album No Doubt has done that really accomplished something artistically.

Return of Saturn was fucking amazing. The one album No Doubt has done that really accomplished something artistically.

HOLY SHIT I was at that Troubadour show!

HOLY SHIT I was at that Troubadour show!

I came here to post that exact same thing!

I came here to post that exact same thing!

"City" people are incorrect.

"City" people are incorrect.

Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. Off the top of my head, these are all much worse:
Architecture in Helsinki
Chumbawumba
Mister Mister
Against Me!
!!!
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Hot Snakes (that one just grosses me out)
Puddle of Mudd (as mentioned above)

Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. Off the top of my head, these are all much worse:
Architecture in Helsinki
Chumbawumba
Mister Mister
Against Me!
!!!
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Hot Snakes (that one just grosses me out)
Puddle of Mudd (as mentioned above)