Despite Will Oldham's lasting popularity, his experiments with facial hair often seem to have had more influence in the indie scene at times than his music. (Cex, this means you. We saw those beard photos.)
In the course of human history, events sometimes transpire that are so momentous, so all-encompassing in scope and ponderous in implication that we are compelled to report them immediately and render them up into the reservoir of hipster consciousness that sustains us all-- even when there is precious little information to convey.
Like Motley Crüe before them, the Postal Service just can’t seem to escape controversy. Way back in 2003 it was a cease-and-desist order from the United States Postal Service, which resulted in a bizarre cross-marketing compromise . Now it’s Apple Computers and a couple of shifty directors who have allegedly maligned the soft-spoken electro-pop duo by aping their "Such Great Heights" music video
I'll bet that you, naÏve soul that you are, thought we'd finished with our wave of post-Lollapalooza-cancellation news. Hardly, playboy; we've barely touched on half those bands! I mean, what's Sparta going to do now that they've got their album in stores?