Last week I featured a band described by critics as “post-rock” and wondered what exactly that meant. Today I bring you a song by a band called Savages, who have been described as “post-punk.”
From what I can gather, post-punk is basically pretentious punk, or to put it less judgmentally, punk with a little more thought behind the art.
I occasionally look at YouTube’s list of most-watched video clips of all-time just to see where the country is headed.
Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ holds onto the crown, and has now been viewed more than 1.5 BILLION times. To top that off, an alternate version of the song performed with Korean pop star Hyuna now sits in the 20th spot with an additional 343 million views. That takes “one-hit wonder” into a new stratosphere.
My old pal Brad Paisley has been in the news a lot the past week or so, and not in a good way.
A track on his new album, Wheelhouse, called ‘Accidental Racist’ has been vilified as racist itself, or at the very least tone deaf about race relations.
The track, a duet between Paisley and rapper LL Cool J, is an imagined conversation between a “Skynrd fan” with a confederate flag on his T-shirt and a black Starbucks employee who (presumably on his off hours) wears a do-rag, sagging pants and gold chains.
A few months back there was a brief moment where popular songs in the opposite key were all the rage. Minor key version of major key songs and major key versions of minor key songs hit YouTube in a wave.
The first one I heard was this major key rendition of R.E.M.’s ‘Losing My Religion.’
Somehow this video — with all of its Basic Instinct goodness — escaped my attention in the several years since it was released.
Rumor had it that the track was addressed to Jay-Z after an alleged affair with Rihanna. All parties involved deny that.
