Things I Fucking Hate

Maybe I'm becoming a crotchity old man before my time, but I can't stand this song by this band.



The band is The Hollywood Undead and the song is "Everywhere I Go." I had the pleasure of hearing this song for the firs time on KROQ on Friday night on the way to a friends house. I instantly hated it and the fact it was on the Furious Five at 9 made me hate KROQ and Nicole Alvarez even more (I CAN'T STAND THAT BITCH (yes, all caps)). Then, I heard it on the way home, first song when I got in the car. Then, a number of other times over the weekend.

Fuck this song, and fuck KROQ. They're making KLSX killer AMP Radio a viable option. What was edgy and different and goofy nine or ten years ago is just a tired retread. It feels like a bad version of Eminem. These guys are stuck in a hipster vortex, when people do lame things because it's funny in an ironic way, like going to an ugly sweater Christmas party. Then, it becomes and obsession, find the ugliest clothes, but not because it's ironic. They've gone too deep into irony and now the stuff looks good to them. They dress hideous because they like how it looks.

The Hipster Vortex has claimed this band. These guys just take it way too serious. It's past being a joke and fun and to a point where these guys are trying to be serious. The video doesn't seem like a send up of popular hip-hop culture, it seems like a retread. They're just a bad version of what they're trying to do.

And of course, becuase they're white, KROQ is playing it. When was the last black hip-hop artist KROQ played? Cyprus hill? Is that it?

Fuck this band, fuck KROQ, and fuck me for being stuck a world where this is a real song.

R.I.P. Indie 103.1

(photo courtesy of edgar wright)

You were not always perfect, but compared to KROQ (and every other radio station in LA) you were the shining city on the hill.

After five years, Indie is going off air so it won't have to play the corporate radio game anymore. From now on, it'll be an internet only station which is great if you happen to be at home a lot. It was the best thing to drive around and actually hear new music (that's good), who actually listens to internet radio all the time? Fuck that, when I'm at home it's the TV, when I'm on the road, it's the radio and between Indie and KCRW, I had a nice thing going on.

Fact is, "corporate" Indie was still leaps and bounds better than any other radio station in Los Angeles for consistently breaking new music and programming quality, niche shows. Joe Escalante and Barley Legal Radio, Jonesy's Jukebox, Watusi Rodeo, Head Trip, Coup d’état, Harmony In my Head. Then, on top of that, the regular rotation featured cool, hip music.

You can tell they were trying to make it, with gimmicks like "Indie Activists" and all the corporate tie ins. They cut costs by letting Joe Escalante go and there were always a fair amount of commercials. But I could always count on them to play consistently quality music. I'll be damned if I'm gong to listen to Nicole Alvarez over at KROQ on my drive home. She is the epitome of what is wrong with KROQ nowadays. She has a very narrow taste in music and has such a fake radio persona. If KROQ could just let Kat Korbet, Jed the Fish, and Rodney program their own music, it would ease the pain. Instead we get Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Crap du jour in emo, nu-metal and pop-punk.

Just when I though terrestrial radio still had a chance...

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