August 10th, 2009 8:57am
Two In The Jukebox
Cornershop “Who Fingered Rock ‘N’ Roll?”
Tjinder Singh writes rock and roll music from an outsider’s perspective and with an insider’s knowledge, resulting in these delightfully meta songs that somehow fuse a wry cynicism with the wide-eyed joy of fandom. “Who Fingered Rock ‘N’ Roll?” is a bit vulgar, but it’s also gleefully reverential, and whole-heartedly embraces the notion of getting the band back together and hitting the road to rediscover all the old thrills. Of course, that’s just what Cornershop are doing right now, and it just wouldn’t be them to not foreground that narrative with a bit of a smirk.
Buy it for way too much money from Amazon.
8/10/09 9:18 am
Not “The Squarest Thing On The Jukebox” today?
8/10/09 10:09 am
I didn’t go to the show, I had a more important thing to do.
8/10/09 2:19 pm
The new Cornershop album is terrific - joyous, bumptious, catchy summer music that’s also sent me to their back catalogue, picking up the early stuff I missed they made before “7th Time”. I wish they toured more. They’re from the next city to mine (Leicester UK) but do they every gig here or there? Pity…
8/10/09 5:24 pm
Yes.
And you can buy it for a little less money at http://www.cornersop.com
It’s good. So good.
8/11/09 11:08 am
Dear Matthew,
The Dailymotion video you posted of “Brimful of Asha” in fluxtumblr autoplays.
You probably have no control over that, but it’s unbelievably annoying, especially if you open comments in new tabs, resulting in the same video playing at different times.
Not that I’ve done that or anything.
8/11/09 11:30 am
Yeah, I noticed. I have no control over it. It will fall off the front page within a day or two so it’s not a big deal. There are much worse songs to autoplay, surely.