I posted a link to this awesome video to my Facebook the other day and should have posted it here. I love this guy. Plus he used to play drums for Parts & Labor, so he’s not just some jackass writing about music who knows nothing about making it. I recommend following him on Twitter.

And check out Hype Machine’s response.

UPDATE: Special thanks go out to Ippio for not having a way to embed videos that doesn’t start them auto-playing right when the page loads. That’s fucking annoying, guys. I couldn’t deal with it anymore so I took the embed out of this post, so just follow the link above instead.

Little Village Magazine tweeted this shit today:

Sorry Des Moines, but if you had this much art…. your brain would explode. Another average weekend in IC: http://bit.ly/ap0q4a8

I don’t understand this shit-talking towards Des Moines that just about anybody in the art or music scene in Iowa City thinks is so necessary that they do. For as much as any of them pay any actual attention to Des Moines’ art and music, for them to comment on Des Moines they might as well be talking about fucking Mars. Yet for some reason there’s this perception in Iowa City that (a) they’re the only place in Iowa that has anything going on, and (b) Des Moines is a dismal shithole from which nothing good can ever come. It was hard enough to get a venue in Iowa City to take me seriously when I was a musician from Waterloo, then fate conspired to move me to Des Moines and if anything it got worse. We get treated better in Omaha and even Dubuque. Oh, Kent Williams reviewed Why Make Clocks’ CD, These Things Are Ours, quite positively in Little Village. The album was recorded in Iowa City, and we specifically sent it to Kent because I like the dude. But then he spent half the review tearing down Des Moines before spending the rest on why he liked the CD. Is that fucking necessary? He should have just made the review half as long instead.

Here’s an idea, Iowa CIty: maybe try looking outside your little fucking bubble once in a while. I mean I love Iowa City, I’m a fan and friend of several musicians in your town, I think it’s a cool place with a lot going on, and when I make it out there I usually make sure to pick myself up a copy of Little Village. Think anybody over there can be bothered to return the favor? Fuck no. So how the hell would any of you have any idea what we got for art here, if you aren’t even looking? Really, what the fuck is this bullshit high school rivalry you’re trying to run here? I ain’t playing that game.

I don’t who the gal is sitting at the modular in the top picture that looks like it’s from the ’60s in this but that picture rules. The ashtray to the side is an especially nice touch.

The other day I caught myself wondering what ever became of Resistant Militia? I’d never heard them, I just remembered their ads for their cassette EP that used to run in Rip magazine in the late ’80s. Encyclopedia Metallum to the rescue.