WWRM

It’s almost time to start the next season of Your Mom but it’s still a hearty wait.  Hopefully this will tide you over until then.

Lately, there are some things I’ve found in the music world that I don’t like.  Actually, it’s not that I don’t like them so much as I’m not sure what to think about them.  Take Jack White (of White Stripes and The Raconteurs fame) and his new project The Dead Weather, for example.  When they streamed Horehound online I listened to just about as much as I could.  I can’t quite tell yet if it’s hardcore good or hardcore bad.  I will admit that Treat Me Like Your Mother is just as hardcore and freaky as I could ever want a song to be and that I’ve jammed to it many, many times, however the video leaves something to be desired.  Machine gun showdowns and leather jackets are cool but not that cool.

There are some bands, Boys Like Girls and Cobra Starship, who have come out with some really really lame singles lately.  I’m sure you’ve heard them on the radio and I hope you’ll agree.

Boys Like Girls sound ordinary and the pathetic lyricism is really pathetic.  The new single is called Love Drunk.  See what I mean?

Cobra Starship’s Good Girls Go Bad feats Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl.  Bravo for getting radio play guys, but does it have to be this song? And if the cover for their new album, Hot Mess, doesn’t make you want to gag I don’t know what will.

There still is good music out there, though.   The Maccabees’s Wall of Arms, is like a new version of Colour it In, their first album, plus some horns and more melancholy.  Both I and Kreig have been listening to White Lies, a post-punk revival/indie/synth awesome band from Ealing, England.  And the good old favorites are still the good old favorites: Band of Horses’ first album Everything All the Time rocks and The Horrors still have awesome hair.

Some awesome concerts going on soon, too.  The aforementioned Horrors are coming to the US, Lollapolooza has a fabulous line up (Kings of Leon, Passion Pit, The Killers, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend…), and The Academy Is… is on this Fall’s AP tour (and they don’t have anyone too lame like Armor for Sleep or Hey Monday opening for them).

Keep your ears open and remember, you don’t have to wait until September to listen to Your Mom.  WWRM streams last year’s broadcasts 24/7 online.

~itchy