KCRW’s Nic Harcourt is this country’s John Peel, having “discovered” acts like Coldplay, Dido, David Gray, and Norah Jones. The NYT reveals what it’s like to be a purveyor of cool.
Rolling Stone reports that The Stooges will be re-releasing a deluxe double CD of 1969 and Fun House on August 16 on Rhino Records, with Jack White penning the liner notes for Fun House. Link from Michelle.
Like two weeks ago I was walking on E. Houston with my friend Matt, when I saw this dude walking down the street talking into a telephone receiver…an old school telephone receiver from a rotary telephone. I was like, “What the hell is that guy doing?” Then I looked again and I noticed he’d plugged the receiver into his cell phone as you would with one of those stupid head pieces. I ran up to him and said, “That’s awesome!,” but I do have to wonder, where the hell does he put that thing when he’s NOT using it? Go ahead, make your own.
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What’s even weirder is that actual hack you linked to. It shows you not how to hack just the receiver, but turn your whole rotary phone into a portable cell phone… and you could even dial OUT with the rotary.
if “discovering” coldplay, dido, david gray and norah jones makes someone a purveyor of cool i wonder just how low one must sink to be the purveyor of mediocre…
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Nic Harcourt blows. Everybody hipster in LA makes fun of him. But I guess in New Yorkers they find him “cool.”
Listen up, modernage: aren’t you gonna blog about the abso-fucking-lutely delicious rock & rollness of Kate & Pete at Glasto fest over the weekend? Dude, I love how Gwyneth shows up to see her “man” play and she’s trying to look all Kate, but she hasn’t got a chance…those two are so fucking cool they are impossible to touch.
I vote them the Keith & Anita of the new Millennium.
ColdLay and Jacko Whitie are overrated and overtalked about. Aren’t there any other bands that deserve some attention on this planet called earthe?
Well, if you think that then you’ve come to the wrong place. Go somewhere else asshole.
i don’t have the great love for coldplay (more like a mild distaste) but that doesn’t make this a place to avoid. why so separatist young anon?
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