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Hey, y'know there is a venue here, if the MG's are swinging thru the midwest...

― briania (briania), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

how did I live in Iowa for eight years and not become aware that there was a place to play in Cedar Falls? I gotta have my booking agent look into it, that'd be fun

ontopic: I am living in fear of the look my wife is gonna give me when she learns that I went out and bought a Distillers album

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Will she turn her head away in disbelief/disgust like this?

http://thedistillers.net/mike6.jpg

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 11 June 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

and my headline was the much, much livelier and funnier and more meaningful one I actually used

i dunno, mine was kinda staid, but me and everybody I know who read it didn't understand what yours was about. plus it had swearing in it. I've got a mom!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 12 June 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

and while Coral Fang is indeed a big drop-off, there's some pretty good numbers (favorite is "Dismantle Me") where Brody throws in some big anthemic-yet-pained repeated hook at the end (like the one that goes "he's gone away" or the one about fucking him in the eye of her sun or something) that I don't even mind the lyrical monotony and all. I'm really hoping Fang's just kind of a one-off fluke weakie.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 12 June 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

didn't understand what yours was about.

what I mean is that people weren't sure if that was a reference or something. In all reality I wouldn't have complained except for the word "fucking." My mom's always complaining about me and my sister (who writes for the Morning News) having such bad pottymouth in stuff we write.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 12 June 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

bought Sing Sing Death House yesterday, will listen today!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 12 June 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

They're still crap.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, they're not that bad. they're nothing special though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link

brody dalle really is an incredible looking woman. it's a shame they suck.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 12 June 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

BD = Hotxor.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Jess do you know this song "Seneca Falls"? Not to be all emo about it but I read its lyrics this morning (having been hearing it in the Tony Hawk soundtrack for several weeks) and googled "Seneca Falls" to see what she was on about, and...well let me just get as hyperbolic as I feel about it. I dug me some Bikini Kill back in the day, but they don't have a feminist anthem in their catalog that heart-punches me the way "Seneca Falls" does. Completely fucking awesome.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

plus it leads right into "The Young Crazed Peeling"!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

(nb it's not that they read particularly well on paper, just that she sounds kinda drunk in her delivery & so seeing a line like "the thing about destiny/is that it never, ever makes mistakes" spelled out all lucid-like in reference to the 1848 Women's Conference & the long struggle that then lay ahead...just kickass political songwriting with the exact opposite effect that explicitly political songwriting is often accused of i.e. place message b4 rock/danceability, being boring/longwinded like me, etc)

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

On a Courtney trip, will their next album sound like QOTSA?

Spinnerette kind of does.

― smashing aspirant (milo z), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link

I really expected I'd like the Spinnerette album more than I do. I mean, I like it fine, but it was something I figured I'd be listening to non-stop and that's not what happened.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Looks like they're back!

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— THEDISTILLERS (@The_Distillers_) January 3, 2018

I was a huge fan of Brody Dalle's solo album Diploid Love when it came out, but have never been able to get into the Distillers proper. Hopefully enough time has past since both those things that whatever comes of this project will be both new and good.

― how's life, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 10:25 (six years ago) link

eight months pass...

Just putting this here. Won't have a chance to listen until later.

https://pitchfork.com/news/the-distillers-return-with-first-new-song-in-15-years-listen/

― how's life, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link

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