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Yup, Buzzgrinder shirts. Just $10 (+$5 shipping). ORDER HERE.
Before you buy your $5 cappuccino and/or $35 shirt this weekend, stop by your local record store and buy an album or three. It’s all part of Record Store Day. Some pointers:
The Decibel Magazine blog writes: Cockroaches of Hardcore: Top 5 Must-Own Releases. The list includes Minor Threat, Black Flag and three more. Duh.
How about you? What are you Top 5 HARDCORE releases? Not metalcore. Not death metal. Grind. Doom. Gloom. Grunge. Bubble Bath. Horrorcore. Top 5 HARDCORE.
(I also want to add that Decibel has one of the best Magazine/blog combos online today. It’s got content worth linking to (see above), which might just lead to people subscribing to the mag. What a concept.)
John Darnielle plays under the moniker The Mountain Goats. Though the loudly strummed folk songs usually deal with tales of life, death and love, they always seem to have the most metal phrases ever sung over acoustic guitars (just look at that tshirt he’s wearing!).
This is my top five ‘Most Metal Lines’ from the newly released Mountain Goats album Heretic Pride:
5. “Piles of broken bricks, sign posts on the path
Every moment points towards the aftermath”4. “I dreamnt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls
On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls
And the dream went on forever, one single static frame
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name”3. “I cast my gaze towards the pavement
Too many blood stains on the ground
Rhode Island drops into the Ocean
No place to call home anymore”2. “Ugly things in the darkness
Worse things in store
In the declining years
Of the long war”1. “Bells ring in the tower, wolves howl in the hills
Chalk marks show up on a few high windowsills
And a rabbit gives up somewhere, and a dozen hawks descend”
A side note, John Darnielle has written the upcoming 33 1/3rd book, Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality.
John Darnielle describes Master of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric center in southern California in 1985. The narrator explains Black Sabbath like an emissary from an alien race describing his culture to his captors: passionately, patiently, and lovingly.
Rap is illegal in Iran. I mean, wow, lyrics about love?
“Felakat is aware of his appeal. He coyly admits his female fanbase has “become fanatical” since the release of “Nazgol,” his first hit track, themed on love and fidelity, last March. “I’ve had to change my mobile phone number twice,” he grins.”
Simon Napier-Bell gets all “history teacher” on you kids:
“other times - when your nitwit star, out of his head on drugs or drink or self-admiration, tells you to cancel the gig with a stadium full of people waiting for the first chord, or wakes you in the middle of the night with a call from Sydney to say he can’t go on stage because he has no clean socks (as the lead singer of the Yardbirds once did) - it feels less so.”
Serious - take a 15 minute break and read it. Then, if you work in the music industry at a record label, hit up Craigslist.
Ohio State University sure knows how to churn out the new breed of editors for music magazines. The article, Top Five Records…, was written by Graham Beckwith, the Arts & Life editor for The Lantern.
“A girl who listens to The Clash is going to carry herself differently than a girl who listens to Rascal Flatts. And the Clash girl is going to be cooler to me every time.
I’m pretty sure a Clash girl is more passionate, doesn’t take shit from anyone and walks with a swagger.”
Are Clash records even allowed on the OSU campus?
Radiohead’s latest makes an official showing.
The band’s seventh album was No. 1 on the week’s music charts with sales of 122,000 copies, according Nielsen SoundScan figures released Wednesday.
Just as the Buzzgrinder staff has slowed down, it seems the CD buying public has, too.
“Variety has the latest music numbers from Nielsen Soundscan on music sales from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. In 2007, 83.9 million albums were sold, down 21.4 million from last year.”
Still want a job at a record label in 2008?
Richard Morales writes, How to avoid a band breakup:
“Band members, who get involved in a relationship after the band has been playing for a while, can create chaos and disarray among other members. There is not much you can do to avoid this situation. In reality, if one of your band members decides to start dating, all you can do is hope for the best.”
UPDATE: Members spelling fixed. OMG.
Nina Chiminec of SPV Records writes, Top 6 Strategies For Getting Along As A Band:
“Obviously, make sure they can play their instruments first, but after you’re done with the try out, hang out with them. Even if you’re grabbing a slice of pizza, you need to know how the band gets along as people, not just musicians.”
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