Why I need to stop watching VH1's Nocturnal state.

Uh, what?

I feel like there's something I'm just not getting here. I mean, Duffy's cute and all, but the sexed-up retro lounge act stolen from Sharon Jones was already done in the last three years...by Amy Winehouse. And I think she did it better. Granted Amy has fucked herself sideways with her crack use and forgetting to eat since early 2007, she still sounds better...or more interesting, or something, than Duffy. Maybe it's that Amy twists the retro-ness by injecting honestly modern lyrics ("kept his dick wet, with his same old safe bet" is a favorite of mine), or the fact that she is pretty good at sounding like a black woman. Or, maybe it really is just her train-wrecked persona that attracts me more than Duffy's squeaky clean white girl-ness. I will say that Duffy's better than Joss Stone though. Not that it's hard to be better than Stone, someone who pushes and forces her vocals out with such force that she sounds constipated most of the time.




Yeah, dude. This is when you ruled, Chris.

Are Tom Morello and Chris Cornell really content with their work in Audioslave? Do they like what they do? I feel like they are just wasting their time and talent on this crappy, modern rock sludge that should have never happened in the 90s, let alone now. It sucks when your bands break up, dudes. But it doesn't mean you have to get together and collectively fake it for another decade. We loved you just the way you were.




Snooze.

Thriving Ivory? What kind of a name is that? I guess it's a name your band comes up with when you meet as bros at UC Santa Barbara, you describe yourself as "Modern Rock", and you sound almost identical to Matchbox Twenty...which isn't a good thing. If anything, check out their website (linked above) to see a bunch of dudes with really cool hair. And their hair reminds me of Maroon 5...who I liked when I saw them with Goldfinger, and they were a little band called Kara's Flowers who played on Beverly Hills 90210 at the Peach Pit After Dark...