Out there
• Spinner has the new Pinback video. I love these guys.
They also have a list of Rock's Hardest Partiers:
11. Sid Vicious
Sid was basically hired to be the world's biggest burnout. His antics generated so much press for the Sex Pistols that no one noticed he was the worst bassist on the planet.
I recently read Simon Reynolds' "Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984," which had a nice summation of the Sex Pistols' antics. I recommend it. The book, that is; although if you're feeling antics, go nuts.
• More videos over at Stereogum. Two marvels of stop-motion animation for videos by They Might Be Giants.
They also have an Of Montreal cover of the Zombies.
• Of Montreal is especially coverlicious today, as Pitchfork has the band's take on Love Is All's "Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up." It's a pretty, stripped down version that sounds nothing like the original:
• Gothamist has a Q&A with members of Beirut, an interview that they did over email that really could have been more informative. See, they thought they were getting Zach Condon, but instead they got answers back from Jason Poranski and Paul Collins. I really sympathize. I hate doing email interviews, because there's always the chance that whoever your emailing will just take three seconds to toss off really not-engaged answers. Which seems to be what happened to them. Although, some people are really more communicative over email than phone. It helps when their publicist knows this; I was hepped to that tip when I talked to writer Sarah Vowell and the Long Winters' John Roderick, and those were two of the best email interviews I ever did. The worst was probably with the notoriously reticent Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
• Tom Breihan, over at Status Ain't Hood, reviews a Black Lips appearance last week that was really more indie BS than anything good. It's an example of how blogs-gone-wild can create a monster.
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