Things are slowly thinning out here at GPHQ. There is a narrowing in the air. I notice that Mike has arranged all his pencils neatly on his desk, the first with its finely sharpened point pointing away from him, the second toward, him, the third away again, and so on. All placed neatly side by […]
Ambient Week ’07–Day 4–Rameses III
Posted by Ben on March 1, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/03/ambient-week-07-day-4-ramses-iii/
Ambient Week ’07–Day 3–Loren Dent
Loren Dent hasn’t gotten much coverage in the blogs or from major review sites yet. His label isn’t exactly Sub Pop-level, and his packaging looks like it could have been done in MS Paint (Times New Roman, holla!), but his music largely holds its own against the indie majors’ ambient artists. Whether this is a […]
Posted by Ben on February 28, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/02/ambient-week-07-day-3-loren-dent/
Ambient Week ’07–Day 2–Stars o’ th’ Lid
(Artist name butchered to fit on one line, because I’m ridiculous like that.) Yeah, alright, maybe it’s the obvious move to talk about Stars of the Lid’s and Their Refinement of the Decline the day after I mentioned it in reference to Eluvium’s new one. Still, I felt like maybe I came off as slighting it. […]
Posted by Ben on February 27, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/02/ambient-week-07-day-2-stars-o-th-lid/
Ambient Week ’07–Day 1–Eluvium
This week I’m going to try a little experiment. I’m going to post once a day for every weekday (M-F) on an ambient album from 2007. Try not to fall asleep. Those of you who’ve been reading guitarpants since our earliest posts may recall that Eluvium’s Talk Amongst the Trees made both mine and Mike’s […]
Posted by Ben on February 26, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/02/ambient-week-07-day-1-eluvium/
Ironically, Slavoj Žižek has argued that the future of the left actually involves embracing violence again
So sayeth Mike from his cubicle next to mine, anyway. But, I mean, he says stuff like that all the time and when has it ever been relevant to anything? Never. Academics… This time, though… this time it might actually be somewhat relevant. I mean, I can’t exactly picture the guys from McLusky plopping down […]
Posted by Ben on February 25, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/02/ironically-slavoj-zizek-has-argued-that-the-future-of-the-left-actually-involves-embracing-violence-again/
wonder what the hell’s so amusing off-camera
Here at GPHQ we get a… substantial quantity of unsolicited musical submissions. Some are from labels and PR agencies, some are from artists who are going it alone, some are from friends of bands streetteaming the shit out of their best bros’ work. All of it is welcome, but let’s face it… lots of it […]
Posted by Ben on January 22, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/01/wonder-what-the-hells-so-amusing-off-camera/
Nearly as much man-in-bearsuit as Nic Cage in The Wicker Man
Well, here’s the video for the first single from what will (unless this is the best year for music in a long, long time) most likely be one of my favorite records of the year: of Montréal’s Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? The song’s called “Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse,” and the video is […]
Posted by Ben on January 20, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/01/nearly-as-much-man-in-bearsuit-as-nic-cage-in-the-wicker-man/
Girlpants’ Top Tens of 2006: Ben!!
Maaaybe you’ve been wondering where we’ve been. Here’s the short answer: GPHQ got put under some kind of shady CDC quarantine because Joel left a half-eaten banana sitting on his desk and it achieved a degree of low-level sentience. They just barricaded us in the office with the thing and told us to call them […]
Posted by Ben on January 6, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/01/girlpants-top-tens-of-2006-ben/
low effort posting: in effect
So here’s a little experiment. I’ll put all of the recent albums I haven’t written about yet on random and write something about the first five tracks that come up. Here goes! Brand New — “Handcuffs” — The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (pre-order) Starts off with plaintive guitar strumming and lyrics dripping with […]
Posted by Ben on November 18, 2006
http://www.girlpants.org/2006/11/low-effort-posting-in-effect/
little things (that tear us apart)
Irene are an upfront and unpretentious pop band, so I’m going to skip the usual girlpants storytelling tomfoolery and just get to the meat of this here post. Despite their benign, midwestern American sounding name (makes me think of Colleen, but she’s totally different), they’re from Sweden. Like many of their countrypersons, they’ve mastered the […]
Posted by Ben on November 2, 2006
http://www.girlpants.org/2006/11/little-things-that-tear-us-apart/
You Made Me Forget My Dreams
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