Do Me A Favor And Vote For “Hot Rock”

Sleater-Kinney are taking requests on their website for their upcoming fall tour. Go and vote, especially if you want to get them to put songs from The Hot Rock back in their set after having those songs be mostly absent from their live show over the past few years. Apparently, the band doesn’t think the fans like those songs as much as, say, the seven or eight songs they always play from Dig Me Out. Prove them wrong, okay?

When I Go Forwards You Go Backwards And Somewhere We Will Meet.

Don’t get me wrong, I quite like the song, but it’s pretty much impossible for me to hear Queens Of The Stoneage’s “No One Knows” without expecting them to launch into the chorus of Radiohead’s “Electioneering”. The new album is far better than I would ever have expected – I’m very much in debt to all of the folks on Barbelith who have been giving Songs For The Deaf glowing recommendations. I could really do without all of those fake radio transmissions, though…