Sleater Kinney
Nirvana
Spoon
The Stooges
DOOM
El-P
Animal Collective
Broken Social Scene
Modest Mouse
Belle and Sebastian
The Flaming Lips
Aretha Franklin
Neko Case
Tom Waits
Fucked Up

Well, Ohboy, the distribution system in the 1960s and 1970s was very different from the one that exists today. Many of the major labels of today were independents then, and signed bands based not on perceived commercial viability but rather on personal taste. Motown and Stax were independents. Sun was an independent.…

*Carl Newman shudders*

*Cue Accusation of Selling Out*
*Cue general assent*

The fact is that major record labels use an outmoded business model that is generally unfair to the artists who produce the product the labels make their profit from. Independent record labels don't have the distributing and marketing capabilities of the major labels, but for small/mid-level artists whose primary…

Well, in lieu of major labels, extremely lucrative artists have recently been arranging their tours and marketing directly through live music megaliths like Ticketmaster.

Megaupload and Rapidshare are fantastic and don't even require that the downloader's computer be used to transfer files to someone else's. File-sharing sites are dangerous because legal action can be taken against anyone who shares his/her music folders, and torrent sites are dangerous because torrents can easily be…

Somehow, I think RZA would not like to be associated with Senator Byrd.

Agreed, C.C. I haven't seen the film, but the use of the twist in the novel is cheap. It's clear that the narrative was just an elaborate means of obfuscating the information revealed by the twist, and as such the entire work was a delivery system for the twist and only the twist. All other considerations- character…

Redman is a friend of the Clan, but not a member.

He already got Graham Chapman!

People are scared of things they can't predict! That's why the original poster for The Empire Strikes Back showed a one-handed Luke Skywalker screaming, "You're not my father!" at Darth Vader while a frozen Han Solo hanged on the wall in the background and Leia kissed it.

I wonder why you know that until I look into the eyes of your avatar…

Woodhouse FTW.

Well, we all know how Hollywood adaptations of beloved 80s kitsch icons turn out.

Well, there was Wilco's Yankee Hotel Fotrot. Beck's Sea Change. Mr. Lif's I Phantom. McClusky Do Dallas. Neko Case's Blacklisted. Sleater Kinney's One Beat. The Flaming Lips's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. El-P's Fantastic Damage. QotSA's Songs for the Deaf. Sonic Youth's Murray Street. Sigur Ros's ().

Shakira videos could just be her ass and midriff and her records would sell in the exact same quantities as they do now.

Also, Christopher Walken shook Jason Mraz's hand in an L.A. hotel lobby and received a dire vision of pop singles to come. Unfortunately, Walken was hung over at the time and attributed the vision to Goldschlager, and a vital moment was lost forever…

It sounds like the dread phenomenon of "jism toes."

A Great Album
…that merges Smith's pop melodicism with an evocative textural style. It's beautiful from front to back, and far more consistent than Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me.