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The Boy Least Likely To: The Law of the Playground

Childhood isn't kids' stuff. Like Tom Cruise, or life in Hobbes' state of nature, it can be nasty, brutish, and short. Language that would make Rahm Emanuel or a "South Park" writer blush. Intolerance enough to have Rush Limbaugh sound like Gandhi. A ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  5 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Tom Cruise,  Rahm Emanuel,  Rush Limbaugh,  Academy Awards,  Twitter Inc

Video: The Black Keys' Pat Carney: Art Spiegelman's Be a Nose! clip

McSweeney's has a new book out, Be a Nose!, anthologizing some of the private sketchbook drawings of Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comics artist. In addition to showcasing some of Spiegelman's visuals, this animated clip also features a ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  3 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Art Spiegelman,  Pat Carney,  Black Keys (musician),  Garbage (musician)

Video: Gucci Mane: "Stoopid"

Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane is supposedly readying a new album, Murder Was the Case, and the existence of a video for lead single "Stoopid" makes me think it might actually come out sometime in the foreseeable future. The animated clip shows Mane getting ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  3 Mar 2009

Shrag: Shrag

During the first wave of UK indie, Gang of Four wrote anti-love songs while bands like the Slits, the Raincoats, and X-Ray Spex rejected not only romance but also traditional femininity. In the Britpop 1990s, Blur snarkily claimed to see no difference ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  3 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Elastica (musician),  Kate Nash,  Art Brut (musician),  Mark E. Smith,  Barack Obama

Video: Deerhunter: Live at Noise Pop 2009 (four new songs)

Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Moses Archuleta, and Josh Fauver (but not Whitney Petty) played Noise Pop 2009 last week at San Francisco's Mezzanine, and Wolfgang's Vault has video of the whole Deerhunter set. It's great to see the Atlanta band ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  2 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Harvey Milk

Premiere: Themselves [ft. Aesop Rock, Busdriver, WHY?/cLOUDDEAD]: FREEHoudini excerpt

Anticon regulars Jel and Doseone, aka Themselves, are sharing a 15-minute or so excerpt from their upcoming free online mixtape. The FreeHoudini sampler features big names from the Anticon corner of the world, including fast-paced wordplay from Aesop ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  2 Mar 2009

New Music: Art Brut: "Alcoholics Unanimous" [MP3/Stream]

"Alcoholics Unanimous" is the first single from the new Art Brut vs. Satan, produced by Frank Black. Art Brut-er Eddie Argos sends mass texts to apologize for the "all night" night before, and the London band's bug-eyed post-post-punk churn is better ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  2 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Art Brut (musician),  Frank Black

Video: The Mentalists: "Kids" (MGMT cover)

Londoners the Mentalists' cover of MGMT Oracular Spectacular lawsuit-starter "Kids" has a cute gimmick going for it. The all-female quartet play the entire song using their iPhones and apps they've downloaded, including Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  2 Mar 2009

Video: Andrew Bird [ft. Mucca Pazza]: "Fitz and the Dizzyspells"

Just another snowy night spent with a guy in a banana costume. School's canceled, kids: Andrew Bird whistles while I work, playing Noble Beast's "Fitz and the Dizzyspells" at favorite Chicago spot the Hideout for a crowd of band-uniformed Bird-watchers ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  2 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Andrew Bird

Video: Grizzly Bear: "Deep Blue Sea" (Live in Brooklyn)

Grizzly Bear took a short break from Twitter (as far as we can tell by the video) to give a special performance with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Stuart Rogers shot and edited this footage of Friend/Dark Was the Night ...

From MARC HOGAN, Pitchfork,  2 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

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