This Week in the Mercury
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Music This Week's Mercury Music Section
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:00 AM
- Stephen Scott
Another week, another Mercury music section to read while you snuggle with your Japanese pillow girlfriend. I like how he keeps a backup pillow in his desk drawer at work. (Private note to Mercury staff: Never look in my desk. Ever.)
The gooey center of Pissed Jeans—or, if this was the New York Times, "****** Jeans." That makes it seem so much worse.
LISTEN:
Pissed Jeans - "Dream Smotherer"
Smmr Bmmr proves that vowels are for suckers. Take that, AEIOU (Sometimes Y) Fest.
LISTEN:
Thee Oh Sees - "Ruby Go Home"
No longer content with just writing heart-crushingly sad songs, Joe Pernice has branched out into penning heart-crushingly sad novels. Could heart-crushingly sad movies be next? Heart-crushingly sad balloon animal maker? The possibilities are endless.
LISTEN:
Joe Pernice - "That’s How I Got to Memphis" (Tom T. Hall cover)
Lookie! Lookie! It's our web exclusive interview with Martin Chambers from the Pretenders. Finally an interview with a band that discusses muttonchops in a non-ironic manner.
LISTEN:
The Pretenders - "Message of Love"
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