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New Public Enemy album produced by Paris. Unreleased Comets on Fire. American Apparel lawsuits.
New Public Enemy produced by Paris set for August release. Guests include Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, MC Ren. (Hoping that this brings PE back) [via: Okayplayer] [Guerilla Funk]
Rundown of Siren Festival (Saturday) acts [Village Voice]
Sub Pop finds six unreleased Comets on Fire tracks [Sub Pop]
Death of music criticism (Love for New Yorker/Sasha Frere-Jones. No love for Pitchfork, Spin, everyone else) [via: Tuningfork] [Washington City Paper]
More on the three sexual harassment lawsuits against American Apparel. Among the allegations: using crude language and gestures, conducting job interviews in his underwear, ordering the hiring of women in whom he had a sexual interest and giving one of the plaintiffs a vibrator. (They also have used another porno girl "Trixie Teen" in their ads) (Past AA posts at Prefixblog here and here) [Yeeeah]
People don't understand blogging tools/software (RSS, Subscriptions, Trackbacks) (Given the press on blogs, you'd think that everyone would know about blogs and their great features and tools.) [via: Businessweek][Catalyst]
Russell Simmons denies Phat Farm's involvement in new McDonald's uniforms. "Not only is it not true, I'm not in talks with them [McDonalds]. I'm a vegan! " [SOHH]
FREE NYC: The Roots 7PM at Pier 54 (Lots of other great free shows tommorrow too...Ozomatli, Son Volt, Dr. Dog, Calexico) [Brooklyn Vegan] [Productshop] [Central Village]
MP3 turns 10 years old on Thursday [Digital Music News]
IE launches new plug-in which speeds up web searches by previewing content when scrolling over links [Cnet]
Crazy Frog ringtone coming to the U.S. (Crap.) [Billboard]
Lego NES [Engadget]
Theater manager faces charges for fake robbery (The guy even stabbed himself) [via: Fark] [Lexington Herald]
Tracklisting of new Animal Collective album 'Feels' (release date: October 18) [The Fader]
Classical labels mad at BBC for posting free music downloads [Cnet]
Springstein speaks with Esquire Magazine [NY Daily News]
More news here.
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PE needs a definite reworking. However, if they keep looking forward musicall and through in some boom-bap, too, they'll be alright.
Posted by: METALFACE | Jul 13, 2005 3:16:39 PM
i'm really curious to see what Paris brings to the album.
Posted by: dave | Jul 13, 2005 4:05:19 PM
> Re: New Public Enemy
I have the album - it's kind of weak to be honest. I think it's suppposed to be an "updating" of the "It Takes A Nation..." album. Soundwise though, it's the musical equivalent of trying to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with crayons.
> People don't understand blogging tools/software (RSS, Subscriptions, Trackbacks)
I've been blogging for almost 2 years and I still don't really understand a lot of those things.
Posted by: ian | Jul 13, 2005 9:26:59 PM
thx for the PE update ian. at least my expectations are low now. damn.
i think i get a lot of the core tools for blogs, but i'm sure there are tons of things i'm unaware of. i think all of that stuff is interesting though. i'm going to try to start going to various internet conventions assuming i have the dough and time.
Posted by: dave park | Jul 14, 2005 10:45:09 AM
