New from Barsuk Records:
"We have so much money from selling Death Cab records that we don't even know what to do with ourselves! We're signing every band in the world! YEEEEEEAAAAAAAH!"
There's this.
Special! "DVD"-extra-style Deleted Paragraph from my forthcoming Mute Math article:
Christian music exists in such a bizarre cultural space, between piety and coolness, that you run into bizarre paradoxes everywhere you turn: a band that plays only bars and smokes, drinks, and curses from the stage, yet whose records are only available at Christian bookstores. Or you get the music manager at the Christian bookstore I shopped at as a teenager who would violate street dates and sell me releases before they were supposed to come out (a huge no-no in the retail biz) but unequivocally would not sell me a record because it contained the lyrics “come on baby, kiss my lips/keep my up all night.”
3 comments:
Joel,
You're welcome for reading your blog/blargh!
I totally know what you mean about the paradoxes of the Christian music world, or what is considered "Christian" in general. I could get on a soapbox right now...
On another note re: your Sufjan review, I was pleasantly surprised by how good the album is since it's the rejects of the 1st Illinois album. But I also think that maybe he could have used that songwriting energy on another state, maybe? :) Pittsfield is a good one - my favorite is Springfield.
Right now I am listening to Sixpence. I recall Andrew saying you are a fan.
Less of a fan and more of an obsessed devotee. My all-time favorite band!
I saw Sixpence NTR only once, at a Covenant Church youth conference in 1994, when I hadn't ever heard of them before. They were performing in a little room with probably less than 30 people there, but they were great! I wish I had another chance to see them, but alas... Some of my favorites: within a room somewhere, bleeding, angeltread, carry you, I can't catch you, the waiting room, we have forgotten, paralyzed,etc... Anyway, it's not very often that you find a Sixpence devotee!
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