lost highway

Steve Albini doesn't produce bands, he sets up mics and they produce themselves.

Wishful Thinking is a slow burning piece of melancholy that I can never get over. Pot Kettle Black... not that it's maligned, but totally mix tape worthy and not played all that often. In a Future Age

Yeah, not any details, but it confirms it is indeed a plan. Man, PR for a new album is a calculated thing. There is a time to officially announce, then interview, before that shush is the word. Then again, they're still probably figuring out exactly what it's going to be so there's probably not a good way to discuss it yet.

Ohhhhh...

Been a fan for 15 years. Never considered the meaning.... not sure I get it now.

Buuuttt... you guys know what the Joy Division actually was, right?

Yeah, I am always psyched for a debut. I remember now, he said they were in love with 'Walken' and playing it out all over their tour. He said when they started trying to lay it down in the studio they were frustrated that they couldn't capture the same energy.

There were some things discussed in interviews around the time of TWL where Tweedy said they're not as into trying new stuff out live as they used to be.

Nah, we'll keep the revenue in Colorado. Thank you.

That Cindy Lauper record is surprisingly solid. I throw my used copy on the turntable at parties for ironic fun, and am constantly surprised by how great the whole thing is, albeit in an 80s,day glo, sparkly production kind of way.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/25/wilco-solid-sound-festival-daydream So in this ^ little Solid Sound article it closes with mention of a new album out, possibly as early as the end of this year. There's absolutely no other info, and this is probably not the first time I've started a thread about a new Wilco record far too early (by now I at least know better than to speculate on what it might sound like) .... but it's an exciting idea. Maybe there'll be more info soon to stick on here!

I think this discussion, slippery slope fallacies aside, has mostly run its course. But I can't resist swinging by for one last thing that occurred to me: That psycho in SC also had a Rhodesia flag on his jacket. Is there a better analogy- basically the same piece of anachronistic-offensive flair in a different geographical context- than looking at the Rhodesia flag next to the Confederate flag. Now back to the less symbolic, seemingly insurmountable task of combating institutional racism...

I don't think anyone is planning on, or even could ban every instance. I think government buildings is the goal, which you can see is more than a little logical as we don't need the flag of a competing, rebellion government next to the stars and stripes down at the state house.

You mean European white supremacists from abroad, not the white supremacists of European descent who were part of the rebellion? (You can see how this gets tricky.) Also it's fair to say there is an ignorant prejudice against people from the south. The presence of a drawl (let alone a twang) is enough to bring some northerners to misjudge the intelligence of the person speaking. That division weakens the unity and harmony of our country, while being an ironic xenophobia on the part of an anti-racist. Yet, I'm not sure waving a confederate flag is the best way to clear up misconceptions.

The main thing that's been missing in this discussion is that the meaning of a symbol derives from the average cultural perception in the time that it is being viewed. Some dixie scholar can grumble about the "real meaning" of the stars and bars, and his or her opinion counts as part of the conversation, but it is one voice in a large crowd that forms some consensus based on their subjective interpretation of an abstract graphic design. As it happens there are perhaps more Americans that associate the flag with its more negative connotations. If you wave that flag you have to be prepared th

Cool stuff. A little jammier but similar vocal style.

Lovin the tropocalia classics!

Totally. It would have been nice to discuss taking it down from government buildings when life was normal, not when it felt like an impotent gesture after several people died.

That flag was President Davis's banner. He was trying to lead a new, separate country in part of ours. It was to be a country where humans from Africa could still be considered property. He lost. Some people still fly that flag, unpatriotic as it may be. Many of the fliers are ignorant, many are racist, but not all.

^ pretty much summed up my thoughts.

I won't argue with a request for more YLT, ever. Also, while they do an admirable job performing tracks like 'Autumn Sweater' live, they're still more 'album songs' than 'live songs'. That one might be a favorite track for a mix tape, but while we're filming in hd I could really go for a romp like 'Deeper Into Movies'.

Thanks for asking! While Jawbreaker and Jawbox once shared a split 7", they weren't too closely associated with Jawbreaker being a NY/California entity, and Jawbox being a DC group. I love both because they took the punk rock vitality of their respective musical communities and brought it somewhere arguably not in the punk rock mold. Jawbreaker did this through its strikingly poetic lyrics and emotional vulnerability, which was unthinkable at the time of political soapboxing and iron-clad sarcasm and humor. Their lyricist Blake Schwarzenbach could write a Salinger-worthy narrative into a

I had an opposite take on that. I really liked it. It showed the diversity of the people brought together by music, and I think it was making a statement that the folks participating in an event are just as much a part of what gives it energy and it's unique identity as the groups playing. They did some of those 'intense humanity staring down the barrel of the camera' shots in the Fugazi documentary to similar effect. I think Brendan Canty has long been interested in how that works.

I just discovered this lady and she's blowing my freakin' mind!

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