Instead of throwing out their new single to the blogosphere and iTunes, Deerhoof has released the sheet music of it for fans to record their own version and upload it to the band’s website for other fans to listen. More info on Stereogum. Get started on your hit single here.
Cold War Kids’ new single “Something is Not Right With Me” off of their upcoming September 23rd release Loyalty to Loyalty is streaming on the band’s myspace. I dig, I’ve been listening to their ridiculously talented debut, Robbers & Cowards a lot lately. The Kids will be in town October 10th at the Fine Line. Jam city.
Black Kids - Listen to Your Body Tonight
All hail indie pop. Yes, I know “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You” is the big jam, but you’ve already heard that one and I don’t want to blog about something that is SO last spring. Anyways, this track is off of Black Kids’ Columbia Records debut, in stores today. Erryone is drooling over these Kids, even Reuters <3’s dem. They will be at tha Entry October 7th. See you there playaaaaas.
A recent Zogby poll shows that among likely voters, Democrats, and independents 42%, 42%, and 43% respectively would be more likely to vote for Barack Obama if Colin Powell were his running mate. Coming in second was Hillary with 30%, 47%, 33% saying they would be more likely (but 25%, 15%, 26% less likely compared to 10%, 12%, and 9% less likely to vote for Obama with Powell as his running mate). Check out the rest of the poll’s results here.
Powell had this to say earlier about Obama’s experience:
“He doesn’t have experience at the senior levels of national government. But I’ve seen other individuals come along who didn’t have that breadth of experience and what they do is surround themselves with people who do bring that experience.
With Sen. Obama, he didn’t have a lot of experience running a presidential campaign, did he? But he seems to know how to organize a task and he seems to know how to apply resources to a problem at hand. So that gives me some indication that (with) his inexperience in foreign affairs or domestic affairs, he may be someone who can learn quickly.”
I think he’s fan.
Throughout the campaign John McCain has made quite a few blunders when it comes to speaking about foreign policy; suggesting Iran is helping Sunni extremists such as al-Qaeda, when in fact Iran is a Shiite-based nation and is accused of supporting groups that are enemies of al-Qaeda, repeadedly speaking about Czechoslovakia, a nation that hasn’t existed since 1993 and now he has yet another “oops” to add to his impressive foreign policy resume. This morning on Good Morning America, McCain apparently confused Afghanistan with Iraq:
Asked by ABC’s Diane Sawyer Monday morning whether the “the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent,” McCain responded:
“I think it’s serious… . It’s a serious situation, but there’s a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I’m afraid it’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border,” said McCain, R-Ariz., said on “Good Morning America
While some people may write this off as cutesy and “no big deal, people forget things and misspeak”. There are two things concerning about all of this. First, McCain’s mental health; yes, I said it, but I am genuinely concerned about his age. Reagan was 69 when he became the oldest person to become president, McCain would be 72. Furthermore, regardless of what these gaffes may mean about his health, it would be slightly embarrassing if your president is getting facts completely wrong and discussing countries that don’t exist.
A quick search on Huffington Post’s Fundrace shows that Conor Oberst has donated $2,300 to Barack Obama’s campaign (and where he lives, creepy). In the words of Salt ‘n Pepa, “What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man.” But hey, we’ve already discussed how awesome he is politically right? His self-titled CD is due out in about three weeks, August 5th. OMGZ.
HBO’s new series “True Blood”, which debuts in September, is written by the same guy that did “Six Feet Under”.
A bit of the plot from NYT, but read the full-article, for a really interesting look at interactive marketing.
…vampires have developed a synthetic blood product that can make them stop feeding on humans and join society. But do they want to?
