Our favorite punk rock frontwoman Jemina Pearl of Be Your Own Pet has said what we’ve all been thinking about bands on the Warped Tour for quite some time in a new interview on Pitchfork. She says:
“I just associate it with a certain look and a certain style and the kind of kids at school that I thought were– this is really bad, I’m sure– the kind of kids that were dumbasses wearing Rancid t-shirts who thought they knew what punk rock was and threw things at people in the cafeteria. So it’s like, okay, now we’re going to be performing for these people…..Yeah, maybe I’ll be eating my words later, but all those bands have this very specific look and sound and style. It’s like the new hair metal or something. There are like 10 different rules about how you write a song and what everything sounds like and looks like. I’d like to imagine that we’re very much the opposite of that.”
So there you have it AP Magazine crowd – scenester music is a cookie-cutter, shallow musical form devoid of creativity and only popular because record labels push it down young kids’ throats. Good to know that real punk-rockers like Miss Pearl agree with us here at CC. You can read the rest of this excellent BYOP interview here. Also here’s a missing cut from Get Awkward that Pearl describes as “especially important”. We think so too!
Be Your Own Pet – “Becky” ******************************************************************** SF PERKELE SPEAKS OUT In other news, SF Perkele has spoken out about his supposed MF Doom/Madvillainy tape. From his Myspace:
“MF/SF BOOTLEG IS MOS DEF NOT OFFICIAL! Only made a few cdr copies for friends about a year ago, no track/album titles whatsoever. Shit was untitled as fuck, a ruff draft. We don’t know who the fuck made it available to the internet and named the tracks etc. Please delete it from all the sites and don’t distribute it anymore to these ignorant motherfuckers, whom it wasn’t meant for in the first place. Real talk!”
So there you have it, no Madvillainy 2, sad to say, and we won’t be posting any more mp3s of this bootleg per Mr. SF’s request. Still, looking forward to more MF Doom in the future!
MADVILLAINY 2 ON ITS WAY?Our favorite underground rapper MF Doom has a new album/torrent circling the Internet music drain entitled MF Doom meets SF Perkele: I Still Hear Voices (Prelude to Madvillainy 2). Exciting news to be sure, but it begs the question, as no official news has been released from the Doom camp, is this a real release?
In short, the answer is N-O. Sadly, it seems this creation is the work of SF Perkele alone, a Finlandish electronic artist with a clear taste for Doom’s mush-mouthed flow. The rhymes over the admittedly Madlib-esque beats are old Doom tracks purloined from the Metal Faced One’s extensive back catalog and laid over new instrumentation and beats. With some clever labeling and placing the album on all the right torrent sits, SF Perkele almost pulled this one off. More details here.
Sadly, it seems that Madvillainy 2 is to remain imprisoned in the land where all Chinese Democracies go and will probably never see the light of day. Still, we always have the next Doom release to look forward to, whenever that will be (you’ll hear it here first!). MF Doom meets SF Perkele – “Fishscale” ******************************************************************** NEW BAND CHEER: MUSCLES Not so much new again as new to us at Cannibal Cheerleader, Muscles is an Australian electronic artist with a penchant for referencing early 90’s house music with just a whiff of irony and playfulness to make the listener unembarrassed to jam out. Tracks like “Ice Cream” cut like a knife with their unhinged beats but provide enough experimentalism and lyrical wordplay to keep even the most jaded vinyl collector satisfied. Stereogum recently posted the new video for single “The Lake” and it’s as kickass as the song, check it out below.
Muscles – “One Inch Badge Pin” ******************************************************************** BECK’S MODERN GUILT TRACKLIST/COVER ART Finally, a release date for what’s sure to be one of the top albums of 2008! Beck’s Modern Guilt is coming out July 7th (though we can trust we’ll be receiving it a little earlier than that wink wink) and check out that sweet minimalist cover art up above. Seems to match perfectly with the wispy, 60’s dreaminess that new track “Chemtrails” seems to be sporting (you can hear that one over at Beck’s website). Tracklist below:
“Orphans” “Gamma Ray” “Chemtrails” “Modern Guilt” “Youthless” “Walls” “Replica” “Soul of a Man” “Profanity Prayers” “Volcano”
In other news, SF Perkele has spoken out about his supposed MF Doom/Madvillainy tape. From his Myspace:
