August 2011
fagg0t of le year~
U kn0 it bb ~
Belispeak
Purity Ring
Canadian electronic duo Purity Ring nab Best New Track honors with their skittering, sinister new one, “Belispeak”. Read our recent Rising feature on the act here.
My favorite new band of 2011!! Can’t wait for them to put out a full-length album.
“There are great moments in awards shows. Bruno Mars sounded really good doing ‘Valerie’ for Amy Winehouse. I don’t think anyone is bummed that Adele is killing everything. Her voice was real and focused when I went thru and watched highlights from tonight. Kanye and Jay Z are always murdering. Beyonce is pregnant. Yes this is awesome as shit, culturally speaking. But can I just ask, the reader, us, we … as non-rhetorically as possible: Don’t we seem dumb? Didn’t MTV lose the fight against themselves? Didn’t Rock’n’Roll STOP? Why are the lights so bright? Isn’t our talent as artists enough? Why do we try SO hard? Does a moonman mean what it did back then? Should we feel pumped when we get one? Should our mom’s cry? I am not even thinking about it that hard. I will close my eyes in 90 seconds and have total peace… But, seriously. Why are we waving around so much? Why do we NEED this shit so bad? Why don’t we just have MUSIC? DO music? Soul? I don’t know. I don’t mean to criticize. Anyone. Actually. Except for MTV. You might have had a very large opportunity to be stabilize your self as a global presence of culture and art about 15 years ago and you fucked the dog. Sorry.”
—Justin Vernon of Bon Iver (via lucasshanks)
