It really was accident, or at least it wasn’t my intent to provoke a fight, but I guess that’s what happens when you poke a sleeping dragon in the eye. I did not mean to get in an online nerd fight with Anton Newcombe. I love the Brian Jonestown Massacre. I can prove it, just look at my Last.fm, they get mad play… just like me, HEY-OH!
Anyway, here’s the story of the infamous pissing contest between myself and Anton Newcombe by way of the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s MySpazzz that I’ve been promising for quite some time. It’s a good one.
I realize that I have just forfeit my ability to ever interview Anton by publishing this, but this story is just too good to keep in limbo. A caveat: I do feel kinda bad that I claimed he wasn’t doing anything before I was aware that My Bloody Underground was already in the works. However, it was never my intent to be mean, I just felt that there was a correlation between the advent of MySpace/YouTube/et al. and the sudden dropoff of BJM’s output. I still think that’s fair. Here’s the original write-up I did describing the conversation which happened almost one year ago today… Continue reading ‘The Brian Jonestown Massacre vs. The Decibel Tolls’
My MacBook took a massive doodie a couple of days ago. The hard drive inexplicably died. I’m all up in that warranty biz, however, so my precious has been restored on Apple’s dime. I lost a huge portion of my music in the MACFAIL that I’m slowly rebuilding. Good news, though – they slammed the Leopard jam on me for free, which is totally tits. I mention this because all the aforemtioned tragedy accounted for the lack of updates last week. But also, I’ve been lazy lately. Sorry.
With all that said, it is with great anticipation that I announce that The Decibel Tolls year end list is coming out on Tuesday! It’ll be a hoot.
This is my article cross-posted from Tiny Mix Tapes. Since they’re cool about me reposting my articles on my own blog without any exclusivity clauses, you should make like a tree and visit them and click on their ads and shizz. And speaking of trees, Caribou speaks for them…
For someone who’s named himself after majestic deer and a lush foresty Canadian province, as well as sample and title songs that greatly concern nature, it’s no surprise that Dan Snaith is stoked on saving the Earth. In addition, as Snaith has a day job as a teacher, it should be no surprise he also likes to give back. Continue reading ‘Caribou Speaks For the Trees’
