Stranger Dance Blogmine
[The Blogmine is a weekly feature where your fearless Stranger Dance staffers dig up all the gold hidden around the blogosphere. Feel free to pass along any interesting stories we may miss.]
- Great interview with Scarface, who’s whole tortured gangster persona has always made him one of the more intriguing rappers out there. [The Smoking Section]
- Animal Collective’s Avey Tare responds to the last week’s leak of “Brother Sport.” [State]
- In other Animal Collective news, it looks like the band will go multimedia when it heads back into the studio. [Stereogum]
- Michael Stipe, Bright Eyes, Beastie Boys, Patti Smith and more design lunchboxes for charity. The lunchbox needs to make a comeback – I’d gladly lug my Starsky & Hutch model to work. [Pitchfork]
- John Vanderslice to hold a 10-year birthday party for his Tiny Telephone studio next month, at the Great American Music Hall. [ipickmynose]
- Win free tickets to go see Mudhoney and the Wooden Shjips. [The Bay Bridged]
- An acoustic performance by Damien Jurado accompanied by cryptic, needlessly arty writing. [Daytrotter]
- Turns out that Kanye Twitter wasn’t him. He makes me so tired. [Pitchfork]
- Great bootleg of a very early Pavement show from the band’s “we-can’t-really-play-our-instruments-yet” phase. [Aquarium Drunkard]
Um, “can’t play our instruments”? Try – purposeful dischord.
I don’t know. I saw them in 1993, then again in ‘94, ‘96, ‘97 and ‘99 and there was very obvious growth in their ability to actually play their instruments each time. I really meant that joking, but there’s some truth there.
Dude, don’t play like you don’t rock your My Little Pony lunchbox everyday as is.
I second the “Kanye stories make me tired” comment. Can he just go back to being a faceless producer already?
Uncle Corey is old. Hah! j/k ;)
Listen – I’m pretty sure I might be able to figure out how to ban commenters. I prefer: “Experienced” …
Ha! Old! It’s funny ’cause it’s true…
Says the man creeping ever so close to his fourth decade … Old is a relative term. Vague Panther is the youngest among us, but displays a maturity, awareness (and devilish good looks) that we could only hope for.
I know. I’ve got exactly one month from today to get these jokes in.
I’ve long said that maturity and age seem to be inversely correlated with our friends.