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History lesson time, kiddies: in 1971 a covert White House Special Investigations Unit was established called The White House Plumbers. Their sole responsibility was to prevent information classified by the Nixon Administration from leaking to the news media, hence the name (get it? Plugging leaks? Plumbers…no wonder that corrupt fuck was nailed.) Now, before you think I’m just padding my column here (because I am), there IS a point to this vaguely educational side note, and that is the fact that currently there are very few record labels that employ plumbers of their own and the result of this short-staffed situation is something we’re all familiar with: album leaks.
Filed under: Columns
Hey Kids,
The school paper offered me a column and who am I to say no to some healthy (but completely shameless) promotion? Here’s the first of what I have affectionately decided will be the sister “publication” to this blog, yet focused entirely on music, hence SOUND GRENADE.
Past is Present; Present is F***ed
When I was asked to take over this column I decided that I wanted it to be noticeably different from both all the other music related pieces I’ve written, but also the ones I’ve read as well. Ultimately though, the problem in trying to be unique is that sometimes the norm is actually pretty good too. So while I don’t want this column to follow the traditional “concert review/album review/rant” formula, I’m not ruling out some concert reviews, album reviews or rants. The goal here is to create a kind of genre spanning, format hopping independent music smorgasbord that both the musically uninitiated and the jaded music snob can understand and enjoy. Whether I succeed in this or not is up to you.
