Music is Far Too Important to Be Relegated to the Background: Conan Neutron's best of 2011 for Collapse Board
Music is far too important to be relegated to the background. And while many “Best of” or “Top 10” lists are full of background music for background people, I reject that wholesale. We live in a world overburdened and surrounded by tawdry flacks and cheap howling sideshow men yelping for your attention at every level. All demanding that they and ONLY they have found the NEXT.BIG.THING. Finding a filter for this isn’t just a nice thing, it’s nearly a requirement.
Read my damn list, it doesn’t have the same 10 records that the rest of the lists do, but it does have stuff worth your while… as long as you aren’t a background person. Collapse Board is great, and you should already be reading it, but in case you aren’t… read this anyway!
The Poison Control Center gets an amazingly nice write up from the Collapse Board! Check it out here
http://www.collapseboard.com/blogs/before-the-little-bird-goes-south-or-some-ordinary-vision-a-love-letter-to-iowa%E2%80%99s-poison-control-center-the-band/
Thanks Conan you are the sweetest person in the whole wide world for writing this! Everyone check out his band! Victory and Associates!
A big congrats to Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie on getting re-elected yesterday! Mr. Cownie is a huge supporter of the Des Moines Music scene and actually used to set up concerts for the city! He even had Patrick and Devin on his TV Show last year! Keep up the good work Mayor and thanks for supporting our killer music scene!
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I really hope this means Russell Davies is a Police Teeth fan.
A record release in the age of indifference.
Our record release is this Friday, September 16th at Brick and Morthar Music Hall.
I wrote a thing about it, on my resurrected personal blog.
I think it’s pretty good. Maybe you will agree?
There are other stories, but this ones ours. – A record release in the age of indifference.
“Nordstrom has a waiting list for a Chanel sequined tweed coat with a $9,010 price.”
“Neiman Marcus has sold out in almost every size of Christian Louboutin “Bianca” platform pumps, at $775 a pair. Mercedes-Benz said it sold more cars last month in the United States than it had in any July in five years. Even with the economy in a funk and many Americans pulling back on spending, the rich are again buying designer clothing, luxury cars and about anything that catches their fancy. Luxury goods stores, which fared much worse than other retailers in the recession, are more than recovering — they are zooming. Many high-end businesses are even able to mark up, rather than discount, items to attract customers who equate quality with price.”
“If a designer shoe goes up from $800 to $860, who notices?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/business/sales-of-luxury-goods-are-recovering-strongly.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
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For the record: $860 is the approximate amount of money per month that the average disabled person receives from SSI (Supplemental Security Income). From $860 they must pay rent, figure out transportation, find a way to eat and wait in long lines at county hospitals for medical emergencies.
In many states, the GOP wants to make this amount of money even smaller and harder to get…because clearly, disabled people are getting over on the rich.
So I ask you…does the lady in the picture look like a “job creator?” Do you think she gives a shit about anyone but herself?
Still want to hand these assholes another tax break?
America, wise up.
Rock music just sounds better on vinyl.
We got our reference copies of These Things are Facts.
I know it is cliched to say how much better things sound on vinyl, but I have to say that the record we made, that I was already proud of, sounds about a million times better on 180 Gram vinyl. HOOOOOLY MOLY.
It’s totally not cool to hype up your own stuff, but i seriously cannot contain my excitement. This is the record that I knew we could and should make, and we have made it, we got tough, we got through it. And I couldn’t be happier with the results.
“I’m not much for hyperbole…” but Police Teeth is one of the best bands going right now. True stuff.
