Thanks guys for submitting your Smashing Pumpkins lolcats iconography! A lot of your submissions were similar — nearly identical, really — which is to be expected (impact font and Corgan’s cue ball only leave so much room for artistic latitude). But one entry stood out from the pack. It had that extra je ne sais quoi — and so we have our winner, waiting for you after the jump.
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Movie Rentals Now Available on iTunesCoachella was just a teaser. Keigo Oyamada, or Cornelius for the Planet Of The Apes lovers, brought his Sensuous Synchronized Show to NYC last night, and for once you’ll hear nary a bitch or a whine about Webster Hall. The show was a mesmerizing mesh of Cornelius’s avant-pop deconstructionist genius and his custom-tailored synced-up imagery — and like the Knife show during CMJ, the harrowed Hall was the perfect space for it.
The Cornelius Group comprises four metronomic virtuosos armed with guitars, theremins, flutes, and windchimes for all, and by turns they toy with every musical idiom imaginable (deep-pocket Tower Of Power/Headhunters funk, thrash, math-rock, prog, with a side of electronics and hazy-eyed balladry). A stage wide rear projection screen hosted the footage — technicolor swirls, CGI-enhanced visuals of mothers and children, rocks morphing into people, the Yellow Pages fingers coming to life and going on a walkabout — all […]
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Movie Rentals Now Available on iTunes- When it comes to leaked Chinese Democracy tracks, Axl’s woes will never end.
- Spin gets spun.
- Amy Winehouse keeps exposing herself.
- This week was Bee Gees week on American Idol, and Lakisha…
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Thanks to friend of Idolator (and commenter) Jon Solomon for sending us the MySpace page of the DC outfit Julie Ocean earlier this afternoon. Their band name name-checks an Undertones song and their…
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Did any of you guys take us up on our “Guess Which Song Gibbard Will Cover” game last night and stream Ben’s set at 9:30 Club? ‘Cause you forgot to tell us that The Office mate John Krasinski strapped on a guitar and got on stage! Bad readers. You know we’re geeks and this is what we live for! Details are sketchy and we have no .jpgs or .movs to back it up, but Pop Candy reports Jim Halpert appeared during Ben’s set last night, armed with a six string, “professing his love of Wilco.”
Add that to his prior tryst with the Shins, and Krasinski continues to make his case to supersede Braff as ‘top indie-loving sitcom star wet dream.’ All he has to do now is date and dump Mandy Moore (two Moore jabs in one day, apologies). Fill us in if you’ve got details. Or you can […]
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The physical single may be dead to all but the most die-hard record consumers, but that hasn’t stopped a secondary singles market of sorts from popping up in the digital-music world:
While the vast…
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