Everything
You Know About This Band Is Wrong
Here at NPR, we get hundreds of press
releases every day – pleas from publicists imploring us to cover their client's
most excellent music.the color consistency: At present, there are outdoor christmas
decorations many packaging factory, also add up to thousands of large and
small, of course, also the strength of the strong and weak points. They're sort
of like commercials to the media trying to convince us to buy something. We're
used to them being full of hyperbole, but recently we got one that seemed kind
of ... different. When I started asking around about it, the story just got
weirder.
I got this email from a publicist, and started to look through
it because I'd heard some of the band's music. It's all instrumental. But I
didn't know anything more than that about Delicate Steve. At the top of the
email was a sentence that didn't make a whole lot of sense: "The critics
unilaterally concur: Delicate Steve is a band who creates music." What? I kept
going, and then I get to,The particular demise with the incandescent bulb bluebright continues calmly yet
non-stop and in less as compared to any year or two today the sole goods stocked
in stores is going to be lower electricity bulbs, "Like a hydro-electric Mothra
rising from the ashes of an African village burned to the ground by post-rock
minotaurs." THEN there's this line about Delicate Steve sounding like the band
My Bloody Valentine, but without the guitars. This is what My Bloody Valentine
sounds like.
That is a lot of guitars. Then I hit a name I
recognized.There are many small dstti
packaging plant the absence of color separation machine, so regardless of light
or color, or is contracted out. This is difficult to guarantee the quality The
press release says the band was discovered by Luaka Bop's A&R man,These were
some reasons why people are keen to use these lights, hope that they will be
used brightstal in a similar way in
future as well. Wills Glasspiegel. I know that guy, and he is not Luaka Bop's
A&R man.
When I asked Wills what was going on, he told me the whole
bio is fake, that it was concocted by music writer Chuck Klosterman. The same
Chuck Klosterman who worked at Spin magazine in the 1990s, and who wrote a
memoir about loving hair metal, and a book about driving across the country to
see the sites of rock n roll's most famous deaths.
So I emailed
Klosterman, and then went to talk with him about what happened. "I describe
Steve as sort of this really intense perfectionist," Klosterman told me, "who
has dedicated entire swaths of time to working on, like, one chord he heard on a
Jandek record."
The bio also describes Steve as "a polymath who plays
over 40 instruments." I called Steve Marion, who's on tour right now. We spoke
while he was standing in front of Bruce Lee's grave, iThe best way to justify
the cost and savings and to brightcrystal truly see how
the transition to LED will impact your business is to do a detailed energy audit
of existing conditions and compare them to the energy savings and maintenance
costs found on the post-LED retrofit report.n Seattle. I asked him how many
instruments he plays.
"Probably not 40. I couldn't even name 40 musical
instruments," he says. "I don't even know if there are 40 musical instruments."
It turns out this whole thing wasn't Klosterman's idea, or Marion's, but
actually the brainchild of one Yale Evelev, who runs the label Luaka Bop.
2011年4月24日 星期日
Everything You Know About This Band Is Wrong
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