Lollapalooza '08 Editors' Blog: Five Observations from Day One
SPIN editor Doug Brod recaps his travels through Lollapalooza's first day of activity, featuring Radiohead, Duffy, Bang Camaro, Kidsapalooza, and the Black Keys.
By Doug Brod 08.02.08 3:12 PM
1. "Wow, what's with all those people onstage?" my companion asked as we stopped by the MySpace stage where a dirtbag choir was working hard (and in unison) to keep the butt-rock flame alive.
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13 Things I Realized While Attending the Grammys
Spin editor Doug Brod, on the scene at the Grammys in L.A., breaks down the action, and we've got plenty of YouTube clips for those of you who tuned out.
By Doug Brod 02.11.08 1:02 PM
1. The only people who could've possibly been psyched by a reunion of the Time are Kevin Smith and the Time.
2. I'm staying at the Mirage in Vegas and Cirque du Soleil's Love is in the hotel's theater and I'm getting comped first-row-center seats. Guess where I'm going that night? To see Carrot Top.
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Turbonegro, 'Retox' (Cooking Vinyl)
Norse mock-rock gods unleash odes to handjobs and vandalism.
By Doug Brod 11.23.07 4:00 AM
Punch lines fly like goopy spitballs on the uproarious seventh studio album by the world's foremost funny-punk sextet. "Hell Toupée" finds singer Hank von Helvete lamenting hair loss and Googling for wigs against precision-tooled metallic backing that suggests Queens of the Stone Age at CBGB circa '76.
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The Divine Comedy, 'Victory for the Comic Muse' (Parlophone)
Opulent, funny orchestral pop for the show-tune lover in you.
By Doug Brod 11.16.06 4:00 AM
It's hard to listen to one of Irish roué Neil Hannon's lush records without imagining him in an ascot and smoking jacket drinking a brandy. Whether relating to a horny teen's plea ("To Die a Virgin") or sneering that a pop diva indeed has "special needs," Hannon gazes at hypocrisy and other annoyances with a jaundiced, often hilarious eye.
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The Pernice Brothers, 'Live a Little' (Ashmont)
Dark disquiet disguised as luxurious easy listening.
By Doug Brod 11.13.06 4:00 AM
For nearly a decade, Joe Pernice's poetic elegies have deftly blurred the line between soft-rock melancholia and murder-suicide notes.
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Danko Jones, 'Sleep Is the Enemy' (Razor & Tie)
World's most entertaining hard rockers? From Canada?
By Doug Brod 05.16.06 3:00 AM
On their third album, this huge-in-Sweden Canuck trio once again temper their comically belligerent, AC/DC-charged garage metal with hooks perfectly suited for the stripper pole or the fashion runway. But this time, not only would the eponymous frontman rip his nuts off for you, if you've got a sweet tooth, then he's your chocolate bar. Easy, ladies.
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