Snoozin', Blanche, & Smut

First off, Is a 4.9 a little too generous? I might think so. I listened to the album and nearly feel asleep. They just...they're not going anywhere. Plenty of bands do that I guess, it's just not really something I wanna hear again.

Daily refill has the only song I think is worth hearing, and it's the bonus track:
Coldplay-Til Kingdom Come

As if you needed more proof, here's further evidence of Alice Cooper's classiness. (via Pink is the New Blog)

Loose Record has a cute interview with Kill Rock Stars Frenchies Stereo Total.

Pitchfork also has another good list of songs to listen to, this time from Architecture in Helsinki.

Blanche

ChartAttack has a great article about the band Blanche and their relations to Jack White. I was able to see Blanche when they played before The Kills at SXSW. For some reason, whenever I'd heard their name I always thought they were some Rasputina-influenced gothic band. When we actually saw them I was pleasantly surprised. Blanche does play goth; country-gothic music.

Blanche plays country the way it used to be, not the version Keith Urban and Toby Keith would like you to believe it should be played. Blanche hearkens back to the old country classics, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn (with whom some of them worked with on her latest album Van Lear Rose, also featuring, surprise! Jack White).

Blanche-Superstition
Blanche-Another Lost Summer
Do You Trust Me? (video, Windows Media...visit the site for it in Quicktime)

Buy their latest album If We Can't Trust the Doctors... at Amazon or at Insound.

A REMINDER: If any of you like the smut MTV puts out, be sure to watch the new Real World: Austin and look for me when the kids go to SXSW! I'll be the tall kid at the artist check-in sporting a white polo shirt. I checked in some band that they had to do a documentary on, so I may be on there, but not my face (I wasn't asked to sign a release form like some others).