Andy Gapin

On two separate occasions this week, my project almost came to an end. Last night, I actually hopped back out of bed when I realized I had completely forgotten to take a photo. And on Thursday, I had planned on taking my photo for the day at the Jealous Sound show in Philly, but I ended up having a really difficult time getting a good spot with a good angle. The venue was very narrow and I couldn’t really get off to the side at all. I had the microphone directly between myself and Blair the entire time and wasn’t close enough to get a shot of anyone else in the bad. Technically, the shot I finally got came after midnight, but I don’t think that really matters much.

Robert Smith of The Cure is an idiot. He had this to say about Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails.

The Radiohead experiment of paying what you want – I disagreed violently with that. You can’t allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don’t consider what you do to have any value at all and that’s nonsense.

If I put a value on my music and no one’s prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan, it can’t work.

I look at it as the polar opposite of that. I think bands that deliver music like that are saying they have that much faith in their music that it creates its own worth without someone needing to dictate what that worth is. And it also says they’re trying to get to ears and not just wallets.

I love The Cure, but Robert Smith, stop talking. Please. You’re just not relevant anymore.

In other news, supposedly, The Jealous Sound are working on a new full length. Anyone else skeptical about this? I don’t think there’s any other band in the world that takes longer to put out new stuff than this band. And that sucks.

Also, The Gaslight Anthem have a new video…

And after all that, here’s the playlist for The Playlist last night. It was a relatively average show last night which is why I spent most of this post talking about all of the above instead. That M. Ward track features backing vocals by Zooey Deschanel, but it isn’t really much. It’s no She And Him.

Source: 90.3 The Core