The Useless Critic 2.0

(corniness ensues) You may not have heard of Chicago-based new wave/power pop band Hey Champ yet, but that's about to change. The band of friends from Princeton University are hot on the rise and by September, when people are like "OH I LOVE DIS BAND I READ ABOUT ON DE INTERWEBS" you can be like "oh hey! I read about them on the Useless Critic some odd time ago."  MTV just declared them a buzzworthy band and MTV is still kind of relevant to some degree.  Their EP "Anything At All" was released in May and is worth a few good 100 listens. It was produced by heavyweight producer Eliot James, who has previously worked with the likes of Two Door Cinema Club and Bloc Party, who you may have heard of.  Also, it's worth to say this:  they were discovered by Lupe Fiasco.  Saam Hagshenas and I recently corresponded via email about playing LOLLAPALOOZA (!!!) and amazing beer (BUDWEISER), and what this eclectic group of boys are up to next. Yo...

There are RUMORS circulating about it. RUMORS. but it's been way too long:  Feist, plz. also:  the new Lollapalooza line-up? I AM ALL ABOUT THAT . Feist - One Two Three Four (Live on Letterman) by nono_the_bean

http://www.lollapalooza.com/ yes, so here who is supposed to play this year, according to whoever writes this sh!t at last.fm: - Foo Fighters - White Lies - Crystal Castles - Sleigh Bells - Eminem - !!! - Girl Talk - 30 Seconds to Mars (eww) - Best Coast - Arctic Monkeys - Cage the Elephant - Civil Twilight - Crash Kings - Cults - Fitz and the Tantrums - G.Love - Justice - Lykke Li - Muse - Fences - Portugal the Man - Primus - White Lies - Titus Andronicus - Young Giant so far I think it's a pretty solid line-up, if not too male-oriented. eh. BUT HERE IS MY HOPE THAT HAVING JUSTICE ON THIS LIST (yes FRENCH JUSTICE) GUARANTEES THAT QUEEN BITCH GODDESS UFFIE WILL BE THERE. and if so I HAVE TO GO it is my moral obligation. hence big type. question: will you buy my L-palooza ticket for me? say yes! also, become a fan of "Dog Bless You" on Facebook. and here's another link to the Japan post. http://theuselesscritic.blogspot.com/2011/03/donate-to-japan.html#comments

I decided to play the band version of "fuck, marry, kill" with the line-up, because I have nothing better to do at the library today. just kidding, I have five papers to work on. Does someone want to pay for me to go Lollapalooza, btw? I will reward you handsomely with _____jobs. because I want to go so badly! fap fap fap. Green Day- KILL THE STROKES- FUCK FUCK FUCK Lady GaGa- marry (too dirty) Arcade Fire- fuck! MGMT- fuck! Soundgarden- marry, I'm not huge on them. AFI- ?!?!?! kill Spoon- fuck Metric- fuck (see: Emily Haines) Hot Chip- faukkkkkk Phoenix- FUCK! Wolfmother- marry, I saw them before, not bad! Cypress Hill- eh marry Stars- fuck Cut Copy- fuck The National- fuck Switchfoot- wow, what the fuck? no. KILL Grizzly Bear- fuck! my favorite band! Erykah Badu- fuck, she is quite ballsy. Digitalism- marry The Black Keys- marry The Cribs- fuck The New Pornographers- FUCK IT LIKE IT IS HOT The Walkmen- marry (not really a fan) Rogue Wave- marry (boring) Minus the Bear- ...

Because I fell behind!! "French Navy"- Camera Obscura strikes me as classic Camera Obscura . I was really shocked this came off their latest album. O_______________________O so happy! worth a listen. "Never Had Nobody Like You"- M. Ward good summer song. featuring Zooey on back-up. aw. very laidback . "Dying In Africa"- Sally Shapiro hyped-up ambient cover of an Italian disco (is that why they call it? Italopop ?) song. I've heard the original is way better but I can't help but love this because I loved it first. LISTEN TO IT WITH THE LIGHTS OFF. "No You Girls"- Franz Ferdinand I wrote about this record a long time ago (when the blog was first new! HA) and how much I enjoyed it. then I played it to death. but there are still some upstanding tracks to be had. except Franz Ferdinand will never be as good as they could be. :( "Gimme Sympathy"- Metric Pretty awesome that Metric, at long last, finally released a GOOD album. I mean t...