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Major Label Debut: Punk’s “Sell Out” Albums Revisited | NOISEY

A look back on some of the punk albums that got major label releases. The good, the bad, and the stranger than fiction.

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Three People in LA Are Trying to Trademark Emo | NOISEY

The Emo Wars rage on.

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Kurt Cobain Would've Been a Huge Taylor Swift Fan

Unfortunately, Kurt Cobain was never able to hear Taylor Swift’s music because as we all know, he died tragically in 1999 of a fatal car accident that killed him. RIP. It’s a shame because had he lived, the legendary Nirvana drummer and Tay Tay would’ve had so much in common!

Right now, you probably just did a double take. Surely, he can’t be serious. “My favorite 80s grunge hero Kurt Cobaine… and pop singer Taylor Swift? Similar? This guy’s a moron!” Sorry, haters. But it’s true! And you know what Taylor says, “The hater’s gonna hate, hate, hate, hate.”

Speaking of Tay’s lyrics, think about how similar both of their songs are. Let’s take a look. Here’s a song by Taylor Swift.

“You put your arm around me for the first time You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter You are the best thing, that's ever been mine”

And here’s one by Nivrana:

“Don't call me daughter, not fit to the picture kept will remind me don't call me daughter, not fit to you gotta keep em separated”

Not convinced? Here’s another. Here’s Taylor.

“Nice to meet you Where you been? I could show you incredible things Magic, madness, heaven, sin”

And here’s Nirvanna.

“Pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name Blood sugar sucker fish in my dish How many pieces do you wish?”

Um... eerie! But not surprising. The two have had musical careers which have taken similar trajectories. Taylor of course rose to fame as a country star before switching over to pop, whereas Korrt started out in the band 311 before starting Nirvanna with Dave Grohl.

But it’s not just their lyrics that are similar. Let’s take a look at the two blondes and their fashion senses. Here’s a photo of Taylor Swift looking fab:

Hm, flannel. Where have I seen that before? Oh right, on a scruffy frontman of a DC-based band named Kurt Ralph Kobain! Here’s Kurt being Taylor 20 years before Taylor was Taylor.

Music and clothes aside, Swift’s kinship with Cobane goes deeper. They shared an attitude. Kurtd is often considered the creator of teen angst, with his song “Smells Like a Teen’s Spirit.” Well who embodies the “Teen Sipirit” more than Swift, who signed a record deal at age 14? It’s like Crobayne was her guardian angel. It’s almost too much of a coincidence. But it’s true.

I think that it’s safe to say that had he not died tragically nearly 200 years ago next week on the anniversary of his birth, Taylor Swift would have been BFFs with Kurpt Q. Krobainne of the lemgendgery grumge band The Nervernas.

Thank you for your time.

posted by Mark Realman

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The Lifecycle of a Punk Band | NOISEY

From upping the punx to lowering your cholesterol.

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The Best Fucking Songs of 2014

Caves - “Sad” The Menzingers - “I Don’t Wanna Be an Asshole Anymore”

Against Me! - “Transgender Dysphoria Blues” Pup - “Guilt Trip”

Beach Slang - “American Girls and French Kisses” The Lawrence Arms - “Seventeener”

Bully - “Milkman” Cayetana - Serious Things Are Stupid” Chumped - “December Is the Longest Month” Modern Baseball - “Your Graduation”

Rozwell Kid - “Kangaroo Pocket” Hard Girls - “The Quark” Body Count - “Talk Shit, Get Shot”

United Nations - “Serious Business” Frameworks - “Loom” Punch - “Worth More Than Your Opinion” Warsawwasraw - “Nipplesin” Single Mothers - “Marbles” The Dirty Nil - “Cinnamon” Big Ups - “Goes Black” Andrew Jackson Jihad - “Children of God” Bear Trade - “Bleedin’ Heart Trouble” Jeff Rosenstock - “Hey Allison” Antarctigo Vespucci - “Guest List Spots” Joyce Manor - “Catalina Fight Song” Masked Intruder - “When I Get Out” The Downtown Boys - “Slumlord Sal” Netherfriends - “Joey Vision” Tacocat - “Bridge to Hawaii” Museum Mouth - “Crocodile” Violent Soho - “Covered in Chrome”

Cheap Girls - “Slow Nod” Brian McGee - “Ruin Creek” Sam Russo - “Crayfish Tales” Tim Barry - “Older and Poorer” Cory Branan - “The No-Hit Wonder” Foxing - “Rory”

The Smashing Pumpkins - “Tiberius” Weezer -”Back to the Shack” The Rentals - “It’s Time to Come Home” Run the Jewels - “Oh My Darling Don’t Cry” Beyonce - “XO”

And some songs that are not on Spotify:

Terror Pigeon - “Girl”

Meat Wave - “Brother”

The Gaslight Anthem - “Have Mercy”

posted by Dan Ozzi

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Here Are The Shitty Interview Questions You Should Never Ask Bands | NOISEY

How did you get your band name???

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Tim Barry: Growing Older and Poorer, with Grace | NOISEY

The former Avail frontman is transitioning into family life.

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Songs Perverse and Songs of Lament: Reflections on Cursive's Accidental Masterpiece, 'The Ugly Organ' | NOISEY

An oral history of Cursive's big, weird, wild surprise.

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What you are looking at here is Joey Ramone's face projected onto Bono's to sell some Apple shit, just in case you were not sold on U2 being the most worthless scumbags of all time.

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The 123 Worst Musicians of All Time | NOISEY

Music sucks.

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Live Nation Now Owns 84% of the Most Popular Venues and Will Soon Own the World

Like all very cool people, I live in New York. As a cool New Yorker, I routinely see some weird, wild, and otherwise wacky shit. On a simple walk from Point A to Point B (which are the names of two different bars in Brooklyn because everything here has very cool names), it’s not uncommon to come across any combination of the following: a dude jacking off right into the street, a Christian zealot yelling at me to repent or burn in hell, or “other.” “Other” is a catch-all for all of the things that happen which you could never anticipate. Last week, for example, I saw a motorcycle gang rip down the street on their Harleys BLASTING Coldplay. I’ve lived in New York my whole life and I still wasn’t prepared to see something like that.

But by far, the weirdest, wildest, most mind-boggling thing I see in New York is at Applebee’s. On the occasions where I’m unfortunate enough to find myself in the hellhole that is Times Square, I’ll have to walk past the Applebee’s on 42nd Street. To my continual shock, there are inevitably tourists lined up there. ...Lined up. ...At Applebee’s. ...Why? In a city with eight million restaurants—where authentic culture and rich history is waiting around every corner ready to hit you in the face like the heat from the engine of a passing city bus, why would anyone, ever, for any reason choose to voluntarily dine at an Applebee’s? From Times Square, you can hop on a train in any direction and within literally five minutes be transported to authentic Chinese food, French cuisine, or some cool dining experience you didn’t even know existed—basically anything that isn’t the Times Square Applebee’s, where the food is more expensive and worse in quality than tourists are used to at the Applebee’s location back home in Nebrohmaha.

Why do people eat at the Applebee’s in Times Square? The answer is simple: People like convenience and they want what’s familiar. Even if the familiarity is mass-marketed garbage. As long as people can get a slice of apple chimicheesecake at the end, they’re happy.

That might explain this recent article in Billboard which lists the 25 most popular clubs in the United States over the last year, ranked by attendance. Of the 25, an amazing 21 are operated by the live music giant, Live Nation, with 12 of them being House of Blues locations and five being Fillmores. Billboard estimates that Live Nation rakes in $300 million annually off ticket sales and has about 80 clubs and theaters. Jesus Christ and holy shit.

If you know anything about Live Nation, it’s not news to you that they are a gigantic, dickbag corporation intent on monopolizing live music. Many small venue owners and local promoters have accused them of deliberately trying to undersell them and drive them out of business, much like Amazon takes a financial hit on book sales just to eliminate competitors.

Here’s an idea of how bad Live Nation’s stranglehold is: Back in 2010, they attempted to merge with fellow live music giant dickbag Ticketmaster and wouldn’t you know it, the United States Justice Department said that was a-ok because ha ha our system works so well. But in the middle of this unholy union, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (which includes companies like Google and Microsoft) tried to stop the merger, citing that it would not “protect competition in the primary and secondary markets for live event ticketing.” That’s bad. When companies that produce the computers used in every office in America and a search engine used by 9 trillion users every single day (source: Google.com) say that your company is an out-of-control money-grubbing scumbag, that’s bad news.

But Live Nation taking over the live concert circuit is nothing new. This list on Billboard is just a reminder that while we’re constantly bombarded with stories about how badly the music industry is hurting, clearly Live Nation is doing just fine. Of course they are, they own most of it. Here’s the thing though: You can only blame Live Nation for so long. Their stranglehold on live music is only going to continue to grow unless we all make a conscientious decision to avoid them. Homogenized commercialization and monopolies are all well and good for our nation’s food franchises and pharmaceutical companies, but shouldn’t live music belong to the people? That was both rhetorical and overly call to armsy. The answer is yes. Yes it should. So do your part. If you are in a band, book your tours at independently operated venues. Tell your booking agent you don’t want to give Live Nation business. Book shows in basements and libraries and in the back of bowling alleys if you can. And if you’re just a regular ol’ concert-goer, don’t buy Live Nation/Ticketmaster’s fee-heavy tickets and make an effort to avoid their locations whenever possible. They list them right here on their website.

Or you know, you can always just make it easy on yourself and go to The Fillmore or House of Blues location #00038. Maybe they’ll have apple chimicheesecake.

-@danozzi

Oh and here's that list if you're interested.

Top 25 Most Popular Clubs: 01. House of Blues — Orlando, FL (339,470 attendance) 02. House of Blues — Boston, MA (322,755) 03. 9:30 Club — Washington, DC (268,727) 04. House of Blues — Dallas, TX (222,988) 05. House of Blues — Chicago, IL (211,446) 06. House of Blues — Houston, TX (209,799) 07. House of Blues — Anaheim, TX (192,424) 08. The Tabernacle — Atlanta, GA (185,769) 09. House of Blues — Los Angeles, CA (172,005) 10. House of Blues — San Diego, CA (155,938) 11. House of Blues — Cleveland, OH (155,556) 12. The Fillmore — Silver Spring, MD (152,332) 13. The Fillmore — Denver, CO (151,387) 14. Palladium — Hollywood, CA (148,555) 15. House of Blues — New Orleans, LA (145,077) 16. The Fillmore — San Francisco, CA (140,100) 17. Irving Plaza — New York, NY (135,398) 18. The Fillmore — Charlotte, NC (133,212) 19. House of Blues — Las Vegas, NV (131,208) 20. House of Blues — Myrtle Beach, SC (129,528) 21. The Fillmore — Detroit, MI (129,199) 22. Lifestyle Communities Pavilion — Columbus, OH (128,975) 23. The Paramount — Huntington, NY (127,730) 24. Stage AE — Pittsburgh, PA (124,013) 25. Stubb’s — Austin, TX (116,582)

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The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon Just Wants a Normal Person Life | NOISEY

After surviving fame and a divorce, New Jersey's "true heir to Springsteen" is getting back to normal.

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Here’s What’s Cool and Not Cool at Warped Tour, According to Twitter | NOISEY

Porta Potty selfies, vaping, and getting your period.

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This Month in Shitty Music: July 2014 | NOISEY

Brooklyn girls, metalcore and a thoroughly pointless award show.

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Here’s Your Chance to Bang All the Dudes Playing Warped Tour | NOISEY

One Tumblr has done the work of collecting the Tinder profiles of all the guys looking for love on the tour.

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Watch Laura Jane Grace Play Two Acoustic Songs in a Tattoo Shop

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Negative Commenters

Hello. This is where all the negative commenters will go from now on.