Everyone’s favorite sweet-sweet whiskey/ensured hangover Southern Comfort is hosting some fun music activities this summer in select markets. But something about their press release makes me not want to enjoy their spirits.

The SoCo Music Experience festival tour is going to six markets with each event showcasing five national performers with five top local acts on two stages all for the low price of free*. An outdoor venue is transformed into the complete festival experience – food and beverage vendors, poster and t-shirt shop, the local record shop, merch tent, cornhole games, photobooths and the SoCo & Lime Dome, among other areas. The festivals are open to be people 21 and over.

“Cornhole games?” Yeah, I’ve heard about that kind of shit going down at frathouses after one too many SoCo and juices.

Full press release after the jump: (more…)

Haha, fun with stereotyping…

Thanks, Mr.Hipster Record Store Clerk.

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Date: 2008-02-26, 5:25PM PSTDear Hipster Record Store Clerk,

Thank you for judging me on the CD I bought yesterday. Our passive-aggressive altercation made me realize how conformist I am for buying an old Rage Against The Machine album. Your condescension was just the intellectual wake-up call I needed.

I discovered a new me yesterday, and my eyes were opened in a new way. Thanks to you, I realize now that the key to enlightenment is reading Pitchfork, watching High Fidelity, listening to Velvet Underground, having a tattoo of a star on the inside of my wrist, growing an ironic mustache, living in the Mission, and wearing a too-small sweater, multi-colored 70’s ski-vest, chunky plastic-frame glasses, a high school sports T-shirt, air-tight black jeans, and Nixon-era Chuck Taylors.

I had it all wrong, man. You showed me that a skilled job and a comfortable living is just a lie. I need to go to art school, have my parents pay my rent, join a Joy Division-influenced band, and wait for a record deal, like you. I’m totally missing out in life.

So thanks again for mocking me. I mean, at first I thought you were just a pathetic, frustrated musician trying to feel better about yourself. But now I see you’re an uncompromising visionary.

No one will ever understand you. You’re so different.

Signed,

Everyone Not Like You

Kind of. A small portion Death Cab For Cutie’s new single, ‘I Will Possess Your Heart’, is up for stream at Amazon.com. From the reports I’ve read, they guys seem to be recently influenced but a ton of ambient shit. Narrow Stairs has a street date of May 13th, with the single dropping into heavy rotation at every college radio station March 24th. Want the track listing? Right below.

Track Listing
01) Bixby Canyon Bridge
02) I Will Possess Your Heart
03) No Sunlight
04) Cath
05) Talking Bird
06) You Can Do Better Than Me (But I Can’t Do Better Than You)
07) Grapevine Fires
08) Your New Twin Size Bed
09) The Remainder
10) Pity and Fear
11) The Ice Is Getting Thinner

Pitchfork has already deemed the album “showing promise but lacking drive…pretentious of its own pretentiousness…being little more than a series of audio frequencies coming out of speakers, yet still lifechanging. We recommend getting it on vinyl, 8-track and piano player reels.” Don’t quote me on that though, I paraphrased a little. Not bad, considering they gave music a 6.8.

I was going to write something super special for this blog and for Slug, my one true love, but he never writes me sweet nothings like Shala does, so screw it. Here’s what Pitchforkmedia.com says:

Listening to Atmosphere’s recent free “party” LP Strictly Leakage (available here), you can tell that it was only a taste of things to come. And indeed, on April 22, Rhymesayers Entertainment will issue When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, the Minneapolis duo’s “proper” full-length follow-up to 2005’s You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having. (Read More)

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