“I knew I was coming!” eternally sunny singer Jimmy Buffett told us in yesterday afternoon’s press conference following his surprise set that kicked off Saturday’s Bonnaroo calendar.
While Buffett’s longtime backing band The Coral Reefers was already on the schedule, the confirmation that the “Margaritaville” man would be joining them didn’t come until Thursday night and quickly became the worst-kept secret of the week.
BITCH:CULTURE
14 Jun 2009 15:56 GMT
The first full day of concerts at Bonnaroo was met with intermittent sunshine, a crowd that swelled to an estimated 75,000 and multiple reasons for people to wander around without pants.
While the rest of the world trudged to their cubicles to endure another day underneath fluorescent lights, those of us here in Tennessee spent the afternoon stumbling from stage to stage, forced to make difficult decisions like whether to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Santigold, debating the risks of bu...
BITCH:CULTURE
13 Jun 2009 14:35 GMT
Every year since 2005, Bootie USA has released a free CD containing the year's best mash-ups and remixes. Bootie originated in San Francisco, but now is in eight locations, including New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and Munich.
My favorite thing about the Best of Bootie compilations is that they are free. There's quite a lot of content you can get for free on the internet these days, but Best of Bootie is legitimat...
BITCH:CULTURE
12 Jun 2009 18:45 GMT
Greetings from Bonnaroo, the rain-soaked music festival that kicked off Thursday afternoon in Manchester, Tennessee.
For the eighth straight year, some of music’s biggest names will be descending on what seems to be an eternally mud-caked plot of land in the Central Time Zone. This weekend promises to be no different on either front with upcoming shows from Bruce Springsteen, a newly reunited Phish, and Nine Inch Nails schedule...
BITCH:CULTURE
12 Jun 2009 13:00 GMT
After her weird video came out for "What's a Girl to Do" in 2008, Bat for Lashes went from being a little indie chick singer to an international name. If you haven't listened to Bat for Lashes, you're missing out. Her second studio album "Two Suns" was released in April and contains some great tracks.
BITCH:CULTURE
11 Jun 2009 18:00 GMT
Some years, festival line-ups can be so 'meh' that the idea of spending
a weekend in a tent, in climatically tumultuous Blighty can seem plain
old mental. With the likes of Nick Cave, Blur, Bat for Lashes, Jarvis
Cocker, Neil Young and Florence and the Machine touting themselves
about so freely this summer, 2009 is not one of those years.
BITCH:CULTURE
09 Jun 2009 09:01 GMT
A few weeks ago we rejoiced in discovering how sex with ducks and gay marriage are "one in the same" through the music of Garfunkel & Oates. And now, I'm pleased to announce that I'm completely obsessed with Riki "Garfunkel" Lindhome and Kate "Oates" Micucci. Not in the scary stalker way, just the, eh, infactuated "let me be your BFF" sort of way...
BITCH:CULTURE
08 Jun 2009 09:25 GMT
Ah, Summer, the season of the mass-market paperback, the time for bookstores to stack seven dollar guilty pleasures on a table with a hand-lettered sign that says “Beach Reading”.
Whether you’ll be shaking sand out of the pages or not, that’s the perfect two-word term for any of those softcovers with their watercolor illustrations and embossed lettering, the ones that are somehow harder to justify when the temperatures are frozen in the low double-digits.
BITCH:CULTURE
05 Jun 2009 16:00 GMT
I have a confession to make: I love macho movies.
That means pretty much anything with explosions, zombies or mindless violence will do it for me. I don't think I'm alone in this, however most of these films aren’t really marketed to girls and therefore get overlooked.
Here's a short introduction to some classic macho flicks...
BITCH:CULTURE
04 Jun 2009 09:18 GMT
Taylor Swift.
From what I know about her she is tiny, blonde, sings country-esque music, is about 14 and once dated a Jonas brother.
From my estimations, this makes her annoying. Incredibly, unforgivably annoying.
At least even Miley Cyrus has some edge and has songs that I can listen to without going, "What is that? WHAT IS THAT NOOOOOOISE??"
BITCH:CULTURE
03 Jun 2009 16:22 GMT