Baths sucks.

Throughout the past decade, indie rock fans, blogs, and musicians have gotten less critical of each other. This has arguably been because the last decade was great for independent music and most bands were undeserving of most criticism that was prevalent in blog comments and message boards. This has led to an overly accepting view on music where criticism is met with disdain.

But criticism is necessary to keep the music scene from going downhill. Backlash keeps undeserved popularity in check and prevents a hundred clones of said undeservedly popular band. Backlash helps ensure that music progresses instead of dwelling on one sub-genre for months (e.g. chillwave).




So I had the unfortunate chance to see this guy live. You know how you see laptop DJ's and it sucks because they're laptop DJ's?

This guy is like that except worse because he sings too, but he can't sing for shit. He was out of key half the time. It was painful to watch. Baths sucks.

Congratulations, the new MGMT album is going to suck.

So MGMT have this new album coming out in like April 13 called Congratulations. It's going to suck.




Let's take a look at the tracklist they released:

01 It's Working
02 Song for Dan Treacy
03 Someone's Missing
04 Flash Delirium
05 I Found a Whistle
06 Siberian Breaks
07 Brian Eno
08 Lady Dada's Nightmare
09 Congratulations

(BTW, what's the point of releasing a track list? It's like if you made a movie and then were like, this is a list of the names all the scenes will be when the DVD comes out and you go to scene selection. It's retarded, really.)

7 is an obvious attempt to seem like they know what the hell they're doing. (No one knows what they're doing. And those that realize they don't know what they're doing often turn out to be the best bands.)

8 just is like "WTF? Seriously? What are you guys on and where can I get some?"


Okay, now on to why it's gonna suck.

Here's how things like this go:

1. Band releases half-decent debut album with like 2/3 catchy songs.
2. Band gets hyped a crapload despite mediocre critical reception.
3. Band ends up in various car commercials and plays a few late night shows.
4. Band announces 2nd album and gets hyped even more craploads.
5. 2nd album sucks and major backlash commences.

Trust me. I know this stuff.

The Grammys Still Suck

Remember last year when we all thought that the Grammys weren't going to suck as much because Radiohead was nominated for best album?

Remember when Radiohead didn't actually win best album?

Remember who did get best album? I don't. (Coldplay maybe?)

The Grammys have gone right back to sucking. And I'm going to talk about how this years Grammy nominations suck.

The record of the year thing is full of lame albums that aren't worth typing about so I'll skip that.

Remember last year when No Age was nominated for best packaging?

Remember finding out that they had an award for best packaging?

MGMT and Silversun Pickups are all nominated for best artist despite having been in car commercials for the past 4 years. And Oracular Spectacular came out in 2007. 2007!

MGMT is nominated for some group vocals category for Kids. Seriously? If any alternative band should be nominated for this, it's Animal Collective. What with their Beach Boys influences and all.

That David Byrne and Brian Eno album is nominated for best alternative album. I think it should win because it's better than the new Phoenix and the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Although, that Phoenix album is really good. This one's going to be a close race.

No lo-fi album nominated for best packaging this year. Neko Case is in there though.

Apparently, surround sound albums exist. I guess Zaireeka turned out to be like influential and stuff.