Silver - The Personal Decay
Good Tad (& Lex) song.
Post-Punk New Wave Super Friends by Butcher Billy
We’re all moved by music in some way or another, whether that be in the ass-shaking region or touched by heart-wrenching lyrics, but could the tunes spinning on your record player, walkman, or speakers move one to be a hero? Much like our fabled superheroes, recording artists wield great responsibility and can just as easily save lives. Billy’s newest series explores the relationship between real heroism and fantasy, though in real life we never got Billy Idol riding a giant seahorse so maybe comic books have the edge in that respect.
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This is my tribute to Chris Hadfield’s tribute to David Bowie.
It is also on Society6.
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It takes until 3:22 to get to the payoff of this song, but it’s a jackpot.
On Jeff Hanneman
I always liked Jeff. No idea what kind of person he was off stage, though. That’s the problem with most artists; you can enjoy their work however much, but you never know how much of a shitty (i.e. normal) human being they are until it’s too late. But I know he didn’t let a little thing like Necrotizing Fasciitis force him into retirement.
I was never the biggest Slayer fan. Even in my most metal days, they weren’t one of my bands. If me and my best friends had our own thrash band to latch onto, mine was either Anthrax or Exodus. (Eric’s was OverKill, Brian’s was Testament. Eric always knew how to pick ‘em better.) By the time I found out about Slayer, their reputation already caricatured them to a point that rubbed me the wrong way.
But there are two Slayer albums that I hold in high regard: South of Heaven, and Seasons in the Abyss. ‘Seasons the most. It showed that even the archetypes could still advance, still progress. There weren’t any crazy orchestration or changes in time signature, but it wasn’t just a mess of open E strings and snare drum. There was dynamic. Breathing room. Structure and character that weren’t present in past Slayer albums.
Jeff Hanneman was the musical mastermind behind those two albums. On top of “Angel of Death” and “Raining Blood” and any significant parts of Slayer’s discography.
I don’t know enough about Hanneman or Slayer to go into further details and acknowledgements; for all I know, Hanneman could’ve been just as guilty as Kerry King and Tom Araya for the post-Seasons career. But he wrote the bulk of (the music of) those two kickass albums, and I just want to say thanks.
Shred in peace, Jeff.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/verymuchso/where-are-all-the-women-at-coachella?sub=2142269_1084250
Graphic by @chrisritter16
on the plus side… la roux, janelle monae, and metric are at this one?
There’s no real plus or minus side to this. If there is, it’s subjective and projected by the viewer.
If the issue is that there’s an imbalance to the number of female-led acts to male, the problem isn’t Coachella itself. Coachella is probably the most welcoming major venue for the general range of styles and sounds of a female-oriented/fronted band. The real issue is that there are, in general, not as many female-oriented/fronted acts as there are male. And really, the first step to solving that is for those acts to be formed. If they do, great, more diversity and balance. If not, well, the initiative just wasn’t there.
Otherwise the stats here are just stats.
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If ever get into Source Filmmaker, I’m doing a music video to this with Francis.
(Source: Spotify)
I blame it on this song being the only song I could hear going into surgery.
(Source: Spotify)
