It isn’t much of a stand to say that ‘The Wire’ is the best show that television has ever seen, but I’m making it anyway. That show was perfection and took a complex subject, like the decline of an American city and brought it to life by showing all the angles and organizations that enabled its destruction. Let’s see if they can do the same for the following subject...the music industry. Yes, another complex story about decline is on the horizon as the makers of the ‘The Wire’ has optioned Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age, a book by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper. And as us music fans know, there is a wealth of failings to choose from. Just think, you can meet another 531 characters, see some crying over sold leer jets and watch as executives try to bully new artists into 360 deals. Bring it, makers of the Wire. Music lovers need a holy grail show just for them.
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Ugh. Paste’s profile of Free Energy made me kind of hate them. So does your review. It’s this unctuous defense of good-time rock-and-roll ("we’re just here to party, and we’re awesome!") that seems more self-serving than fun-loving.
by beth on Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 09.41 pm from the entry: Foreign Born + Free Energy - The Knitting Factory (Brooklyn, NY; Mar. 12, 2010)
that inescapable feeling you are referring to, is that like when you hear something and you could have sworn you heard it before because of the nostalgic catchy quality? or is is like when you’ve heard a band exactly like said band?
great post by the way!
by paul on Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 03.15 pm from the entry: The Novel Ideas - "The Sky Is A Field" - Borrow It
Whoa! I had no idea she was enegaged. You would never know with the way she behaves! Wow!
by art on Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 09.48 am from the entry: Nikki Darlin and John McCauley: 1+1=1
This comment stream is so meta. Great review Kelly.
by chris on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 07.50 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
no prob. The whole album is excellent, combining some of the harder sonics of Los Angeles with the meat of his debut and obviously difficult to summarize in only 50 words… 
I’d say it’s on par with the debut, but better than Los Angeles.
by kelly on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.23 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
By the way, I really liked the mp3 posted. Thanks.
by Joshua H on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.17 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
WHO WROTE THIS...PUKE ! “WHO WROTE THIS...PUKE ! “Picture yourself coasting your bike past space funk palm trees, homeless harpists, vintage video arcades, electronic drum circles, and 60s psychedelic singers who’re waiting for the bus. Cosmogramma is kinda like that if someone suddenly tripped you just as you’re starting to enjoy the ride. But in a good way.””
by Joshua H on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.17 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
this sounds potentially brilliant. i wonder who is meant by the “makers” of the wire. david simon is working on a series for hbo involving musicians in new orleans. which sounds awesome, but clearly different than this project.
I was wondering who the “makers” were too. If David Simon isn’t on it, I wouldn’t be worried because he didn’t single handedly write and conceptualize The Wire, however, I would like to see a strong section of the writing staff on it, at the very least. But you know what, even if it was a producer from The Wire and no one else, I’m still going to watch this show because of the content.