[Links] Culture Club - 9/28
-RIP: Beau Velasco of the Death Set passed away yesterday
Giveaway
-We’re giving away 2 tickets to the Psychedelic Furs/Islands/Happy Mondays show in DC
Stuff that’s streaming:
-Air’s Love 2
-Karen O’s Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack
-deadmau5’s For Lack of a Better Name
-Au Revoir Simone’s video for “Shadows”
“News”
-The small music blog world is abuzz about the fight between Nathan from Wavves and the Black Lips’ Jared Swilley; here’s Wavves’ side and Swilley’s side. My thoughts? Seems petty to me, I’m surprised people (or a person) still uses the word “faggot” and who actually hits someone with a bottle?
-Raekwon is working with Method Man and Ghostface Killah on a new project
-BLK JKS played live in the Current studios. My mom was just in Minneapolis seeing my sister and went to a BLK JKS show on a whim (probably on the day this was recorded), expecting African-style drumming; her expectations were not quite fulfilled, but nevertheless, I think she enjoyed it more than she would let on
-P4k has started their top 200 albums list with 200-151. We at CotP will be putting something together for the millenium…we’re still hashing out all the details
-From the annals of “WHA?”: “I was inconsolable when Oasis split up” - Nelly Furtado
-In spite of her threats, Lily Allen is not quitting music
-Two big shows went down in LA with good coverage: Common’s benefit show with a lot of the okayplayer (The Roots, Talib, etc.) crew, Kanye, De La Soul and Ludacris and Bon Iver’s cemetery at dawn concert
-Portishead is back in the studio
-I don’t know much about props, but this guy is building a mean Daft Punk helmet
-Warner and YouTube have reached an agreement
-XLR8R interviewed Cougar
-Largehearted Boy lists this week’s interesting musical releases
