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Despite All Their Rage, It's Pathetic

Posted on July 10, 2008 at 07:29 AM

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Tons of reunions going on, if you hadn't noticed. In a (music) world where there are a million bands, streaming and downloading across a million outlets, who stands out? Not many. 'Name' bands, as they say. Hence this lil' piece on Chicago rockers Smashing Pumpkins and their lil' 20th Anniversary tour, which is scheduled to run in August, and then later in the year. The first Anniversary show takes place on  August 9th at the Horseshoe Casino (rock n' roll!) in Hammond, Indiana. As the band's website helpfully notes, Hammond (and its casino) is "closer to Chicago than the Pumpkins have been since their final show on December 2nd of 2000." Woo hoo! While we are watching Corgan and maybe Jimmy Chamberlain and some other dudes or chicks play the Best Of Smashing Pumpkins, we can all reflect on how, at that moment, that casino is as close to Chicago as the Pumpkins have been to Chicago since... since when? Oh right... since their final show on December 2nd of 2000! Who says rock n' roll is dead?


The World Is A Vampire (Do do do doo, doo dooo):

Haven't seen too much hubbub about this on Internet so it's hard to tell just how true this is, but, um, apparently David Lee Roth almost died... and in Ontario? Dude has an allergic reaction to nuts, apparently, and had a serious reaction after an exposure. According to this article, it all went down in "Oakland, Ontario," which must be biggish Toronto suburb Oakville, right? Who knows, especially when you're reading an article on a San Francisco website about David Lee Roth almost dying on a Canadian highway from an allergic reaction to nuts. Nuts.

If there was ever any doubt that indie rock is self-reflexive and ultimately follows a Hornby-an path of raiding the personal pop culture past to travel back to childhood, and to bring childhood into the present, then that doubt is erased with the freakin' indie rock coloring book.

Flavor Flav reveals when he lost his virginity. It's younger than you think. Younger. Seriously, younger than that. Um, it's pretty young.


Links:

Smashing Pumpkins Reveal First Details of Anniversary Shows [NME]

Roth Suffers Near-Fatal Reaction [SF Gate]

Sufjan, LCD, Newsom, Feist, BSS Inspire Coloring Book [Pitchfork]

Flavor Flav Claims To Have Lost His Virginity at Age... [Prefix]

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your post is pathetic. you have no idea what you are talking about. SP has always been 90% billy and jimmy, and the new members are great. furthermore, this isn't like other reunions because SP have actually been releasing new music, whether you are clued in about it or not. This ain't like Rage or STP or The Police just banking on their greatest hits.

joe on July 10, 2008 at 09:22 PM

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