This looked like just the right combination of fun and retarded to waste some time. The concept is taking your top 20 artists and insulting them. So keep in mind that I pretty much love all these bands ridiculous amounts and my comments are not at all serious (unless otherwise noted). Sometimes the "bad" things I write about them are the things I like anyway.

1. The Decemberists
Pretentious indie folk for English majors looking for validation for the idea that they're cooler than other people.

2. Sonic Youth
They're just noise for the sake of being noisy. But really,…

A list copied verbatim from my RYM. Because I'm super cool and original like that.
It's in alphabetical order, by the way.

1. Arcade Fire- Funeral
I still think it's over rated, but not for kissing in the snow it isn't.

2. Asobi Seksu- Citrus
If Arcade Fire is music for kissing in the snow, this is music for kissing in the high noon sun with clouds drifting by and a breeze washing over you.

3. be your own PET- be your own PET
For when biting, punching, scratching, kicking and kissing are all acceptable forms of…

Fri 29 Feb – Holy Fuck, A Place to Bury Strangers, White Denim, Veil Veil Vanish

Last night I went to see A Place to Bury Strangers at the Bottom of the Hill. It was good times.
I got there way too early, froze my ass off with Zoe and her friend, finally got in, bought A Place to Bury Strangers’s amazing CD and a T-shirt, grabbed a free pin and sticker, as well as some ear plugs, and then got my CD signed by them.
Not too much of an interesting story there, I just saw them, asked for…

Well, it's been more than a year in the making, so here it is: BEST ALBUMS OF 07 EVER.

25. Blitzen Trapper- Wild Mountain Nation
These guys make a darn good spastic album. They might not be Pavement or Guided by Voices, but they're probably the best you'll get nowadays.

24. Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Well, for some reason, I liked this a lot more when I first heard it. But it's still pretty good.

23. Sally Shapiro- Disco Romance
Not really an 07 release, but who gives a shit. Anyway, this is…

My list of things I need to listen to is really long right now. I'm gonna try to make it through these before I get too much more new music.

Robyn Hitchcock- I Often Dream of Trains
Belle and Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Belle and Sebastian- The Boy With the Arab Strap
Cage- He''s Winter
Enon- Grass Geysers
White Whale- WWI
Bishop Allen- The Broken String
Dirty Projectors- Rise Above
Black Francis- Bluefinger
Thurston Moore- Trees Outside the Academy
Thom Yorke- The Eraser
Miles Davis- Birth of the…

I think this the place most likely for all of my last.fm friends to find something, so.
Who wants an OiNK invite?
I have 3.

Let the death match begin! (Or not)

The Decemberists are playing four shows at The Fillmore (my second favorite venue in the Bay area) on their new tour! I am definitely going to try to make it to all of them (a nice way of saying I will drive to and from SF every night if I have to). I will be insanely broke, but it will be so worth it.
Anyway, if you haven't heard, some nights they will be playing only their longer songs and on the other nights they will be playing their shorter, poppier songs. Should be pretty amazing.

Also, I really need…

Mwahaha! My list is finally complete(ish. Version 1.0 is done at least.) Enjoy. Or don't.

Top 150 albums ever

So I was just listening to Gillian Welch's Hell Among the Yearlings, and thinking how stupid it is that some people hate country so vehemently. Sure, some of it is terrible; now, name a genre where that isn't true.
So, if we say that any genre consisting of more than, say, 100 bands has some bad things in it, why is it that so much hate falls onto country?
Well, a large part of it is political. Political in that there is a divide on political lines. What's the cliche about Republicans/conservatives? They're trailer trash hicks who listen to…

Thu 19 Jul – Sonic Youth

So I saw Sonic Youth playing Daydream Nation at the Berkeley Community Theater last night. And, as expected, it was amazing. Thurston Moore is a guitar God, and as one of my friends so aptly put "KIM IS MADE OUT OF SEX." (Thanks Tom.) She is the sexiest woman old enough to be mother that I know of.
Anyway, it was a seated show, which was a bit lame, but not lame enough to ruin the concert. We missed about half of the opening band's set, which honestly wasn't anything too special. I don't…