A quick-yet-surely-overwhelming word of welcome to the latest addition to the writing staff here at the D: Mr. Pliggot, better known to his mother as Steve. Pliggy comes to us by way of the legendary Five Iron Frenzy chatroom back in the day, which we dominated with the help of the D's web guru Brody around the turn of the millennium. Steve and I go a long way back, and he's an equally sarcastic bastard to me, so here's to more incisive, witty commentary on the good, the bad and the stupid!
Speaking of the (very)good, by the way, rap vets Deepspace5 - comprised, at last count, of approximately 358 emcees and beatmakers including Mars Ill, Sev Statik, Listener, Sintaxtheterrific and more - will record their third album this summer...without the help of a record label. That's right, DS5 have seen the light and will attempt to record and distribute the latest awesomeness on their own - and you can help by picking up Bake Sale, a new comp they're releasing at their website for a pittance, with all proceeds going to finance the real deal later in Oh-Eight. Help the crew help hip-hop. Word. By the way, we were kidding about the 358 members. There are only eleven.
Gasoline Heart leave for their latest tour in a couple of days; check out their MySpace and make sure you catch one of the best American rock bands working today live.
Radiohead have decided that free pay-your-own-price downloading was fun and all for In Rainbows, but the band's next epic will be a regular pay-for-it-suckers release. Singer Thom Yorke told reporters, "It was one of those things where we were in the position of everyone asking us what we were going to do. I don't think it would have the same significance now anyway, if we chose to give something away again. It was a moment in time." In Rainbows was a slap at the band's former label, EMI. Go bands sticking it to the Man! [MSN]
Posted by mike at April 30, 2008 08:13 PM