Judging by how fast tickets for The Shins' and Iron and Wine's (separate) two-night stands sold out, everyone loves their schmindie. So, as a public service announcement, I'm compiling some schmindie-related news stories in one neat post.
I feel like one of those poor college kids who get an internship at Media Matters and it means they have to watch "Glenn Beck" every night. I'm regularly asked to define schmindie, so, to me, schmindie is boring indie rock that gets the benefit of the doubt because it's "indie". Generally, if it has guys with beards and/or acoustic guitars, you're probably going to need to wake me when it's over.
- Fleet Foxes are releasing a 7" single to their song "Mykonos" on Tuesday and have announced a North American tour. The dates (which I'm taking from their MySpace page) for that are:
5/25/09 George, WA Sasquatch Festival - Gorge Amphitheatre
7/29/09 Washington DC 9:30 Club**
7/30/09 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory**
7/31/09 Jersey City, NJ All Points West – Liberty State Park
8/1/09 Newport, RI Newport Folk Festival – Fort Adams State Park
8/03/09 Montreal, QC Metropolis Theatre**
8/04/09 Toronto, ON Massey Hall**
8/05/09 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Theatre **
8/07/09 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza – Grant Park
8/09/09 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue ** (on-sale May 9th)
- If you missed your chance at getting tickets to see Iron and Wine at The Triple Door for Tuesday night's show, he's playing an acoustic set at the Sonic Boom on Capitol Hill Tuesday night at 6pm.
- Someone pitched a 33 1/3 book on "Forthcoming 2009 Album" by Wilco (which got exactly as far in the process as my proposal) and now said album has a title. It's (and I really wish I was making this up) Wilco (The Album). The first track is called (and I really, really wish I was making this up) "Wilco (The Song)". Pitchfork has the details.
- Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips has apologized to The Arcade Fire for all that shit he talked about them. Pitchfork reported that he said, "I wish whatever had been said wouldn't have been taken as such a defiant statement from the Flaming Lips, because it wasn't...I really feel bad about it. I like enough of their music. The idea that I'm somehow against them...I'm not!"
- Tickets are sold out for Sasquatch! on Saturday and Sunday. Only Monday tickets remain. I cannot get you in to any of the days so please stop asking me.
Reviews
1 McKnight Rider said on May 5, 2009
Schmindie. That is so true. Don't forget about those Cave Singers. I'm sure they'll have beards and acoustic guitars to their graves. My mom loves them when she's not listening to 103.7 The Mountain.
2 cb said on May 6, 2009
Wow, the negativity in this post is startling. You just managed to dismiss Wilco, The Shins, Fleet Foxes, The Flaming Lips, Iron and Wine, The Arcade Fire, and all of Sasquatch as "boring" and somehow comparable to Glenn Beck.
Can't we leave the name-calling to someone else? Being a hater is so unbecoming.
3 ChrisB said on May 6, 2009
cb -
Nice initials!
I actually like The Flaming Lips and didn't mean to dismiss them but included that item because a) I did want to dismiss The Arcade Fire and b) Animal Collective didn't do anything interesting in the past week or so.
I've also never said that "all of Sasquatch" is boring. A lot of it is, though. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, of Montreal, Erykah Badu, Santigold? Not boring (or schmindie).
Should the person who we leave the name-calling to be someone who enjoys to the above bands so they can feel free to talk shit about pop stars? I wrote this post in the tone I did because I find it really amusing that I hear far worse things about pop than anything I said above about schmindie. For example, yesterday, I mentioned on Twitter that a pop group I listened to growing up was reuniting after their singer took time off to recover from losing vision in one eye after having a brain tumor removed and one friend wrote back that he wanted to vomit by mere mention of that band, but hey, some guy on the internet said that Iron & Wine is boring. Oh noes!
For what it's worth, cb, people who read what I write on here with any regularity know far, far more about what I like than what I dislike.
4 Imaginary Shrie said on May 6, 2009
I totally get your point Chris, and I don't like Iron & Wine or the Shins either. I always hold your opinion in high regard. HOWEVER, maybe cb is responding to your hatin' onslaught in the form of a news blurb instead of an opinion piece or review?
IGshr*e
5 blauzly said on May 6, 2009
Boo-hoo-hoo! Chris, you're just jealous you can't grow a beard.
6 Amie Simon said on May 6, 2009
Chris, you are so hilarious.
I'm just surprised you didn't take this chance to include some Band of Horses bashing (a band which I continue to think is fabulous).
And blauzly is totally right. You are obviously jealous of all the beardys!
7 serotonein said on May 6, 2009
Really, Chris, that tone would have made more sense coming from me... but then it would have been a slagging of pop "artists"... and definitely the shitty aping of garage rock that is the yeah yeah yeahs ;)
8 victoria absentia said on May 6, 2009
I seriously almost fell off my chair just now laughing at that picture.
9 imaginary dana said on May 7, 2009
I think the white glove has slapped your clean-shaven face, ChrisB. The challenge is on for some imaginary facial hair growth!!
10 ChrisB said on May 7, 2009
Dana @ 9:
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