Rhino just keeps doing it. A few weeks ago they re-released all The Replacements Twin Tone albums as remastered editions with b-sides, outtakes, and in depth liner notes. What else could any hipster alt rock fan dream of? So, on order of release there was Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Stink, Hootenanny […]
Trent Reznor is a really nice guy. He just made a new Nine Inch Nails album called The Slip and he likes his fans so much that he decided to give it to them for free! That’s right, Trent Reznor is giving away the new album digitally, 100% free, with physical copies coming out in […]
From the very moment it starts, It’s a Shame About Ray transfixes and mesmerizes me like maybe no other record before or since. Beautiful and serene while at the same time completely lonely and bittersweet, Evan Dando’s melancholy voice shines through pitch perfectly in his magnum opus. Luckily for all of us mere mortals, Rhino […]
Happy 4-20! To celebrate you should go to a record store. And you shouldn’t go to any old record store, but an independent record store filled with Pretentious Record Store Guys like me. 🙂 Seriously, why go to a mall and pay $20 to buy from a pimple faced high schooler with a smock when […]
You have to love Adam Duritz and the Counting Crows. Listening to August and Everything After as well as Recovering the Satellites and you can’t help but feel their pain. A lot of people can sing, but very few people can make you feel when the do it. Duritz and the Crows do both with […]
Looking back on all the great music of the 1990s, I’m stunned at how much truly great stuff was put out and also at the amount of crap that was allowed to be produced as well. This isn’t a Best of the 90s list, only my favorite records of the 90s; albums that I keep […]
There are very few comics that serve as a sublime example of what happens when images and words collide on a blank sheet of paper. In that rare instance when that comic comes around you cherish it and hope that it never ends. 100 Bullets is one such comic. Unfortunately, the series has just begun […]
1) The Beatles –Revolver 2) The Beatles –Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 3) The Beatles –The Beatles (White Album) 4) The Beatles –Abbey Road 5) The Beatles –Rubber Soul
The Kinks are the second greatest band ever. They give The Beatles a tight run for the prize of being the best, but ultimately they come in as 1a. Wes Anderson can’t seem to make a movie without featuring at least two of their songs in the film (see Rushmore through Darjeeling). So if you […]
Vinyl is way better than CD. When you listen to a record it’s warmer and has much more body than a CD, causing it to sound much fuller. It’s like a nice, fine wine as opposed to a boxed pink wine. Whether or not you spin the black circle you can at least admit it […]
Evan Dorkin is pretty much the man. Besides the fact that he is a multiple Eisner and Harvey Award winner, Evan has worked for every major and just about every minor comic publisher, weaving his mainstream work with the Big Three with his own indie comics published through Slave Labor Graphics. Here is a quick […]
1) Nada Surf – Lucky 2) Vampire Weekend – s/t 3) Magnetic Fields – Distortion 4) The Whigs – Mission Control 5) Cat Power – Jukebox
Next Tuesday Feb. 5th is Super Tuesday, so the Parade of Freaks wanted to remind everyone to go out and vote in the primaries. Who has won the Parade’s admiration and vote this season? Why, none other than Mr. Barack Obama. Why? Because he is an Agent of C.H.A.N.G.E. What is C.H.A.N.G.E.? Change is Citizens […]
Seriously. Pretentious Record Store Guy can’t stand him! Pretentiousness is one thing, but a pompous drummer? Please. What did Phil Collins do? He stepped up and made a great band terrible and in the process made a fortune by swindling the idiotic and still coked up masses in the early and mid 80s. Then he […]
What did you do today? I listened to The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs in its entirety (Stephin Merritt should win a Nobel Peace Prize or something) on vinyl while drinking a Starbucks Caramel Frappacino and then, because all my fans demanded it, I came up with 50 All New Cool Band Names. I would […]
