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DO NOT WANT: Lady Sovereign’s Blatant Ripoff Of The Cure’s “Close To Me”

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

I had to force myself to turn caps lock off and compose myself for long enough to type out this post, cause I’m kinda foaming at the mouth right now. I used to be a real fan of Lady Sovereign, even when she was abusing the “S-O-V” spellout of her name in her early songs and acting like a little brat in general - we still loved her. But her new single So Human has achieved a level of bogosity (yes, a word) that I had thought was impossible until this point. Continue Reading »

Glenn Danzig To Be Next Rock Of Love Bachelor?

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

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File this under “hilarious if it’s true” - apparently Glenn Danzig, the prince of darkness and former Misfits, Samhain and Danzig frontman
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2009 Auto Show: Crazy cars and future cars.

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

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I went to the Canadian International Auto Show last weekend and I took way too many pictures! I’ve covered hip hop cars and rock cars so now it’s time for some crazy cars and future cars. The theme of this year’s auto show was “the future” so there were a lot of concept cars and they all look wild. See all of the pictures after the jump.

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2009 Auto Show: Loud cars driven by rock stars.

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

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I went to the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto last weekend and I took a bunch of pictures! Yesterday I showed you some cars driven by hip hop stars so today I’m going to focus on rock and maybe some roll. Here you’ll find pictures of some very fast, very loud, very old and very new cars and trucks that are probably owned by more than a few rock stars. More pictures after the jump.

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2009 Auto Show: Cars Driven By Hip Hop Stars

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

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I went to the Canadian International Auto Show this weekend and I thought you guys might want to see some pictures of new, old and future cars that may or may not be driven by Hip Hop stars. I’m no pro photographer so go easy on me. More pictures after the jump.

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Tecktonik: A Bizarre Euro Phenomenon

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Soja and I were discussing the other day (well, every day) how in Europe (and especially in Eastern European countries) the countdown charts are TEEMING with techno and dance tracks that would be absolutely pulverized in North America - if they ever saw any promotion in the first place.

Anyhoodle, I was just re-reading my Nada Surf interview wherein singer Matthew Caws talked about a bizarre phenomenon in Europe (of course) called “tecktonik” or tck. It’s not on urbandictionary.com and not really in Google, but it’s ALL over YouTube. UPDATE: It’s on Wikipedia.

Techtonic appears to be primarily a French thing - people make home videos of themselves dancing to techno in a wild and jive-y way. Everybody loves watching people dance (SYTYCD, Dance Crew, etc.), so why not showcase your freestyle dance moves online? And there’s a whole subculture of “tecktonik” dancers, among them: Boobiz, Vavan, Treaxy, Vavan and Fredo (these last three are featured in the first video below).

Here’s my favourite one - I gotta say, with the combination of Yelle’s A Cause Des Garcons and the killer sneaks, I kinda like it! There are hundreds more where this one came from. Just do a search for the tag “tck”, which is apparently the correct term.

And this one’s got 7 million views…ay-yoy.

What The Funk: Silverchair

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

In this installment of What The Funk, we discuss Daniel Johns‘ (Silverchair) extreme creepiness in the following pic.

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Silverchair at the MTV Australia Awards

This photo disturbs me greatly. First of all, WHAT is Daniel Johns wearing? It looks like a carboard cutout suit. Second of all, the chest hair - it’s terrifying and feels like it shouldn’t be there. Let’s not even talk about the facial hair. The facial EXPRESSION. And the headband? And what in the aych ee double hockeysticks is drummer Ben Gillies doing?!

Photograph courtesy Getty Images