I’ve spoken with his management and the rapper in question will be known as “Grandmaster Curren$y” henceforth. Thanks for your feedback!

Oof. I get what they were doing (their forebearers were bands with names like Gang of Four, Joy Division, Durutti Column, etc) but then to go on the record in interviews and tell everyone that you named your band “Viet Cong” because of what badasses the Viet Cong were... that was painful. Good on them for owning up…

Drop your “I can’t believe they forgot X, this website is full of amaturs, I cold write much gooder fuck kinja” albums here!

Me, I’m eagerly awaiting the new Preoccupations album, which is unfortunately titled New Material (3/23). Kinja sucks!

Shopping, The Soft Moon, and Hookworms all put out killer albums this year. Good recommending, AV Club.

I think Adam Scott should get shithoused and record an episode of the R.E.M. podcast as his drunk persona, “Scott Lit”.

First, that’s just the best Soft Cell song, and second, glad to see that someone else liked the new OMD albu.

the almighty shuffle

It feels like a wry joke that the live album pick for Leonard Cohen is other people performing his songs.

As far as shoegaze goes, over on this side of the pond we had Delaware by Drop Nineteens, which is a favorite of mine. Kind of all over the place, but still killing it on (almost) every single track. (Cut “My Aquarium” and replace with the full-band “2nd Time Around” version and there’d be no need for the almost.)

Here are all the lyrics to “Dicks Are For My Friends” by Mindless Self Indulgence.

I’ll always love you, shuffle feature!

Having them speaking Klingon only on their ship makes sense, but I have to admit I miss the sneering delivery of English lines from older series, bragging to Picard about how hard Klingon beds are and whatnot. The choppy, flat tone they use when speaking Klingon doesn’t have the same magic.

Nope! On Season 2 of Discovery: A season-long arc about the Klingon-Tribble War! No Federation scenes! No subtitles either, you should have figured Klingon out by now (it’s not more complicated that Welsh!)

Affirmative action is RACIST unless its for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Seriously. It’s about time the “civilian clothing” in Star Trek stopped being completely awful.

I like that, because as I recall from “The Cage”, Spock at the time was a happy, carefree, emotional alien dude not at all like the logical Vulcan we would come to know. That’s why they stopped talking! He was experimenting with emotions to piss off his dad!

I was realizing when I watched the ep that Tilly = Wesley. She (was) a CADET, for pete’s sake, and you’re telling me she is the only one on the Disco who can do everything she’s doing?

It helps that she is not 14 years old, I guess. I honestly forgot she was a cadet until the (super funny) moment where she realizes…

Exactly. If this were TNG, Nechayev would have told the 1701-D to suck it, and then Picard would have disobeyed her orders and proved her wrong. I’m absolutely fine with Disco breaking down that Trek Trope.

Unfortunately didn’t think the scene where Burnham made the case to Cornwell was very effective, but I do like…

Apparently easier than getting hip, urbane, left-leaning people who carry a water bottle everywhere to use a travel mug. Minor progress!

Or maybe he was recording in the same studio as the Beatles and just stopped by.