Today's headlines...
No fun? Iggy's reunited Stooges play cybercast (Yahoo News)
MS: "I'm starting to feel like Paula Abdul sitting here," Pop joked at one point, heavily tanned and bare-chested as usual.
Each break required staging and camera adjustments, and Pop was not keen to see the momentum dissipate during the brief delays. "I'm getting annoyed," he said, chomping at the bit to play the next song.
Lily Allen Is Not Pregnant, IS Sick of Rumors -- And Work (VH1)
MS: "At first I used to read things about me, and I'd get really angry and go on my blog and write a whole reply to it. But now, since there's so much of it, [I'm not] bothered to reply to it all," she sighed. "But some of it is true. [However] I am not a lesbian, I am not pregnant. But yeah. It's really annoying."
Get In The Ring (Village Voice)
MS: But none of that seems to matter to Murphy, at least not as long as he's talking about his newest love: Ultimate Fighting. "If I didn't have to go on tour, if I wasn't wrapped up in the LCD (Soundsystem) world, I would be training six days a week," Murphy says excitedly. "That's all I would do: working on music and learning to fight."
The Hold Steady To Offer Acoustic Live EP in April (Pitchfork)
MS: The Hold Steady...acoustic? That's odd. The hard-partying rock n roll juggernaut isn't exactly the kind of band known for toning things down (unless they're playing a high school), which makes their new EP all the more interesting. Live at Fingerprints, out April 17, showcases five songs recorded at the record store Fingerprints in Long Beach, California.
Calvin Harris Blasts Bloc Party (NME)
MS: "A lot of these people think they're changing the world with their music, but actually they're just boring the shit out of everyone. Like Bloc Party - they are rubbish. They make very tedious music. What kind of person is going to make all this music and not make one single tune? What's the point?"
Getting Political With Ted Leo (Georgetown Voice)
MS: "[I was] thinking about the fact that everything about this current war is the same old story—Guatemala, Chile, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Iraq—stop Communism until the Cold War ends, then stop Terrorism—set up a series of straw men, lie to the public about the threats, take action, covert or openly, and keep the war machine rolling, continually filling the coffers of military defense contractors with money, and continually filling the electorate with fear."
Sales Can't Buy Love For Some Bands (Yahoo/AP)
MS: So are the critics wrong? Do music buyers have bad taste? Is this karmic payback to all the haters? "There are some bands that, let's face it, are critic-proof," said Nathan Brackett, a senior editor at Rolling Stone. "Just like there are some movies that are critic-proof. Nobody is really reading the reviews for `Norbit,' you know? And nobody's reading Nickelback reviews either."
That might be a good thing. Nickelback's "All the Right Reasons," which debuted at No. 1 on the charts in the fall of 2005 and was still number 16 this week, was called "hard-rock ridiculousness" by The New York Times and "unspeakably awful" by Allmusic.com. Even the late Nirvana frontman and grunge icon Kurt Cobain would disapprove, suggested Rolling Stone, which called the disc "so depressing, you're almost glad Kurt's not around to hear it."
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