How often does this happen? Too often, I say. To their defense, Dr. Dog do mention dogs fairly often in their songs (doctors, not so much). Still, I’m not sure if that’s reason enough to give themselves such a name. Furthermore, I can’t help but be reminded of Dr. John and Dr. Hook–but then again, maybe […]
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Awful band name, awfully good album
Posted by Ben on March 5, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/03/awful-band-name-awfully-good-album/
Ambient Week ’07–Day 5–Dag Rosenqvist & Rutger Zuydervelt
As I close out ambient week, I’m also going to close out winter. Or, at least I hope I am. It’s been in the oh-so-beautiful 60s for the past week or so, and barring deadly tornadoes and unfortunately inattentive busdrivers, the week has been one of the most pleasant I’ve had in ages. The sky […]
Posted by Ben on March 2, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/03/ambient-week-07-day-5-dag-rosenqvist-rutger-zuydervelt/
Ambient Week ’07–Day 4–Rameses III
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 […]
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/
Two Drink Mike (note: not our Mike–he can hold his liquor)
The other morning started out as a regular day at the MANpants office. I was eagerly waiting for my apple toaster strudel to finish crisping on the hood of the VW bus when suddenly I experienced a strange feeling–a feeling somewhere between divine intervention and my usual Monday morning fever dream. I felt the curious […]
Posted by Peter on January 27, 2007
http://www.girlpants.org/2007/01/two-drink-mike-note-not-our-mike-he-can-hold-his-liquor/
confessions, mk. whatever
I guess I’m about as close as Girlpants comes to having a metalhead. I can make that claim, right? Right? Who’s gonna stop me? Nobody, that’s who. Niina asked me the other day, “How are you such a Deftones fan, anyway?” but, well, I don’t have to answer to her. I ain’t gotta answer to […]
Posted by Ben on October 18, 2006
http://www.girlpants.org/2006/10/confessions-mk-whatever/
u, u, d, d, l, r, l, r, a, b, sele–omigodshutup
Chino Moreno is a source of hope for fat guys everywhere. Or at least he ought to be. He’s living proof that it’s possible to be overweight and charismatic, pudgy and socially-acceptable, grossly obese and a rockstar. He’s got the best pure voice in radio rock, he fronts one of maybe three bands currently on […]
Posted by Ben on October 16, 2006
http://www.girlpants.org/2006/10/u-u-d-d-l-r-l-r-a-b-sele-omigodshutup/
the other JC… no, the OTHER other one
Many of us remember Jarvis Cocker’s stage-storm in 1996 (and if you don’t, you should youtube it). Many of us placed a mental check-mark next to this incident, and subsequently many of us used the name “Jarvis” as a name for a character in one of our badly written pieces of juvenile vampire fiction because […]
Posted by Niina on October 13, 2006
http://www.girlpants.org/2006/10/the-other-jc-no-the-other-other-one/
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