I was relistening to old Superego episodes a while ago and in the background of a God's Crazy Monsters sketch, there was a famous synthpop song playing. I knew that I'd heard the song before, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I spend ages Shazaming and Soundhounding to no avail. I went to the Superego website and…

I saw The Buzzcocks play last night. It was amazing. This is their 40th anniversary tour and they still seem to be on top of their games. Pete Shelley's voice sounded great and Steve Diggle was jumping around like a madman. They opened with Boredom, played for about 55 minutes, and then their encore was What Do I Get,…

I am deeply uncomfortable around people drinking and most of my friends are heavy drinkers. I stand in the corner and occasionally talk to someone. I mostly stay home. Such is the life of the straightedge arsehole.

I can't wait to listen to this, unfortunately my income at the moment is exactly $0, so I can't buy it. Iggy and Josh were fantastic on The Nerdist this week (I know that everyone's supposed to hate Hardwick, but this was great.). Iggy is basically the best and I'm pleased to hear that he's going out on a good one.

I have never had a drink of alcohol in my life and am therefore superior to all of you.

Watt and Albini are two people you can just listen to all day. They both have a hell of a lot to say, although Mike doesn't always seem to know how to say it.

This is where I got it from. http://rsmithing.com/2012/0…

The Mountain Goats - Spent Gladiator 2
The Mountain Goats - Snakeheads
The Vaselines - Bitch
The Faith - Don't Tell Me (demo version)
Public Enemy - Security of The First World
Don Caballero - Well Built Road
The Mountain Goats - Dance Music (live)
Angelic Upstarts - Do Anything
Tenacious D - Cock Pushups
Bearcubbin'! - Hot…

I think that he probably can't act, but just for temperament alone, I would want mid 80's Steve Albini to play me. That would be cool.

I know for a fact that Lou Reed had a pretty hard-core Israeli rabbi speak at his funeral. The anti-semite charge seems weird.

Jonathan Coulton - Tom Cruise Crazy
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Opium Tea
The Fall - To NK Roachment: Yarbles
Dogbreth - Hunger Pains
PJ Harvey - Yuri G
Minutemen - 1 Hit Song
Parents - Low
Garfunkel & Oates - Only You
Minutemen - Cut
Regina Spektor - Eet
Fugazi - Blueprint
The Clash - Guns On The Roof
The Mountain Goats - The…

I guess so. He did 2014's John Peel Lecture on basically this subject. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I'm from New Zealand. About ten years ago Iggy Pop starred in a series of commercials about for Orcon, a broadband company. They showed how fast their internet service was by getting different musicians from New Zealand to do a version of The Passenger, with Iggy on vocals, over a skype-type thing.

The Stooges - No Fun (Full Version)
Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
The Misfits - Violent World
The Mountain Goats - New Star Song
Iggy Pop - Sixteen
Ben Folds Five - Julianne
Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
Paramore - Turn It Off
Beasts of Bourbon - The Low Road
Shellac - Riding Bikes
Public Image Ltd - Annalisa
B…

He's not often talked about, for some of the reasons that I mentioned above, but if Paine isn't a Founding Father, then no one is. He wrote Common Sense, which many people regard as the basis for the revolution, and he wrote The Crisis, which inspired soldiers to keep fighting even when everything looked like shit.

Why does everyone forget Thomas Paine. That guy was not only an inspiring writer, a trailblazing critic of The Bible and other forms of religion, and someone who chose to fight on the front lines of the War of Independence, he also escaped execution in France under Robespierre because they just kind of forgot to kill…

I read about this earlier but I didn't want to believe it. Fuck.

Werewolf Gimmick by The Mountain Goats. John Darnielle writes some great fucking rock songs and Werewolf Gimmick is definitely one of my all time favourite MGs rock songs. That riff is undeniable. It's also my favourite song of the year to sing along to because I get to bust out my shitty American accent and the third…

I read about Late World on some AV Club inventory a while ago and pirated it. I'm still working my way through it, but I'm really enjoying it.

I just watched Purple Onion for the first time a few months ago and I loved it. Galifianakis' style of comedy is great, although I do prefer what John and Bo did in their specials, which I call, "Snarky dicks that end up being wonderful and life affirming". The last part of Ragnarok and the last song on What. are the…