Festival Review: CoS at The Great Googa Mooga
“Food is the new rock ‘n roll.”
- Justin Warner, chef at Do or Dine
“A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork /That’s the way we spell New York.”
- Escort, “Cocaine Blues”
“You’re going to what?” The Great Googa Mooga doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but “music”, “food”, and “festival” do, and that’s about all I needed to tell people about the eponymous inaugural festival this weekend in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. If that wasn’t enough to win over the skeptics, I broke it down by the numbers: 75 food vendors, 35 breweries, 30 winemakers, 20 bands, and 40,000 general admission tickets that sold out in a few hours. That’s what happens when you bring together Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio, David Chang of Momofuku (or alternatively, Jimmy Fallon’s fried chicken throwdown against ?uestlove’s “Love’s Drumsticks”), Anthony Bourdain, and James Murphy under Superfly, the events and marketing company behind Outside Lands and Bonnaroo.
The intersection of food and music is nothing new—I Like Food, Food Tastes Good tells you how to make your favorite bands’ favorite foods, James Murphy is an unabashed food enthusiast, and Sammy Hagar has his own restaurant, to name just a few favorite examples—but thanks to Googa Mooga’s advertising in every New York subway stop in the weeks leading up to the event, it’s recently been both lauded and vilified as the ultimate Platonic ideal. Admittedly, $ 250 per day is a hefty price tag for the Extra Mooga tickets, which allowed you to see panels like “Noshing with…” James Murphy, Aziz Ansari, and David Chang or eat brunch to the dulcet tones of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. It’s hard to argue that there’s anything wrong, though, when you’re sampling three different kinds of pork sandwich while watching Fort Lean, or sipping Thai basil lemonade while Peelander Red plays guitar on top of a Porto-Potty.
Like any festival, there wasn’t nearly enough shade or free water (for once, there were plenty of bathrooms); the festival’s parameters were hard-pressed to fit so many people; and the hottest dishes, like Tom Colicchio’s pork belly tacos and Baohaus’ fried chicken Bao buns, sold out within hours of long lines that just kept getting longer. But concertgoers and foodies alike made up for it by sharing bites, wiping sauce off each other’s faces, and handing out extra water bottles to small children. The thing overheard most, however, was: “What is that, and where can I get it?”
YouTube, Calm Down: Hot Problems Is Just A Joke
“Hot girls we have troubles as well. We’re just like you, except we’re hot.”
Those words have been reverberating across the Net because April 15, the day the planet was introduced to YouTube’s newest teen catastrophe, “Hot Problems.” The song –which has above 11 million views as of May possibly 8 – attributes 17-year-olds Drew Garrett and Lauren Willy (collectively identified as Double Consider) singing about the trials and tribulations of living daily life as desirable young girls.
YouTube has not been type to these poor hot ladies. “Is this a joke?” commented YouTuber Annie Parkins. “Well yeah you [two] are seriously caught up (ugly and crap singers)!”
Thankfully for Parkins, it was all a joke.
In an interview with ABC News, Garrett and Willy produced it clear that “Hot Problems” is not meant to be taken seriously.
“We knew that we couldn’t really song,” explained Garrett. “So we determined to go for more of a speaking singing.”
Math Awareness Month: 10 Artists From Beyonce to De La Soul Play the Numbers Game in Lyrics
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Artists have been identified to play amount video games inside their lyrics from time to time. Only some singers are ready to carry metaphorical word troubles but rappers really like to put into action math in a bar or two. Some are simple sufficient to grasp even though other people make listeners pull out the notepad and calculator. A clever play on words and the correct movement can make any equation sound like a hip-hop quotable.
April is Mathematics Awareness Month and in honor of that, The BoomBox takes a look at some mathematical operations used in music over the years, like fractions and geometry. That contains complete songs as nicely as sharp couplets dedicated to the topic. Sharpen your pencils.
“Mathematics,” Mos Def
“Yo, it is 1 universal law but two sides to every single story/ 3 strikes and you be in for lifestyle, mandatory/ 4 MC’s murdered in the last 4 years/ I ain’t tryin’ to be the fifth one, the millenium is right here/ Yo, it really is 6 million approaches to die, from the seven deadly thrills/ Eight-year-olds gettin’ located with 9 mills/ It is 10PM, exactly where your seeds at? What is the deal…” Read more…
Marilyn Manson Performs With Johnny Depp at 2012 Revolver Golden Gods
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Before Marilyn Manson‘s performance, Golden Gods host Chris Jericho introduced Damien Echols, who was recently released from prison after 18 years. Echols is one of the West Memphis Three, a trio of young men who were convicted of murder without solid evidence to back it up. After much support from artists such as Manson and new discoveries such as upgraded DNA testing, which did not place any of the West Memphis Three at the scene of the crime, the three were released last year.
“I can’t even articulate what this means to me,” began Echols. “Just last year at this time I was still sitting on death row waiting to be executed for a crime I didn’t commit. In 2010, when Marilyn Manson spoke out about my predicament, I never dreamed that tonight I’d be standing here with you. i just want to say thank you to everyone who gave us their love and support over the years. It really did keep me alive. It’s what kept me going and its what kept me from dying inside. I am thrilled beyond words to be able to introduce this final performance tonight. So without further ado, my very dear friend, Marilyn Manson.”
Manson began his performance by playing ‘The Dope Show’ from his 1998 album, ‘Mechanical Animals.’ Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momsen joined Manson onstage in a skimpy leather outfit. The barely legal Momsen gave the audience a scandalously sexual show as she proceeded to dry-hump Manson with the back of her head.
Manson then went into his single ‘No Reflection’ from his upcoming album ‘Born Villain.’ After an emotional and demented performance of the track, Manson went into his famous cover of ‘Sweet Dreams’ by British pop duo Eurythmics. The crowd immediately brought out their cameras as Manson surprised them by bringing out Johnny Depp as a guest guitarist on the song.
“We’ve got one more song for you motherf—in’ motherf—ers,” Manson stated standing next to Depp as the band launched into ‘The Beautiful People.’ The Golden Gods crowd went nuts after the performance, where Manson and Depp stood side-by-side with their arms around each other.
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20 fascinating things we learned about Madonna from her second Tweet chat
Madonna, friends and crew from her upcoming tour celebrate MDNA hitting no. 1 on the U.S. album charts these days.
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Wilson Phillips talk new reality series, the power of ‘Hold On’, more
Upon releasing their self-titled debut album in 1990, Wilson Phillips immediately took the pop world by storm, scoring multiple number one hits not just in America, but worldwide. While the group disbanded in order to pursue solo projects in 1993, the bond between the three women – Carnie and Wendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips – remained strong and they eventually reunited for a new tour, a new album and most excitingly, a new reality series documenting their career.
We sat down to chat with the members of Wilson Phillips about all of the above and more…
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Is There a Boy Band Feud Between The Wanted + One Direction?
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Is there a feud brewing between U.K. boy bands the Wanted and 1 Course? The Wanted’s Max George and Nathan Sykes insulted A single Direction by saying they only appeal to children, just before backtracking on Twitter and supplying a semi-apology.
George spoke about his band’s results in America with ‘Glad You Came,’ which has risen to No. 4. He stated people take the Wished much more seriously than 1 Path: “I’m not positive how effectively they’re in fact performing nevertheless. They are a lot more faces, if you know what I mean. I don’t feel folks genuinely appear at us more than there as the same sort of band, since I assume individuals seem at them more like a Jonas Brothers kind of band that are really Television and children’s magazine primarily based.” George extra that his band has a far more respectable fan base in the U.S. “I assume our audience more than there is sort of 18 to 25 or 30. We have a lot of radio play but I think we’re a lot more of a music band,” he stated.
George also seemed offended that A single Route, who formed on a singing competition show, haven’t created an energy to get to know the Wanted or any other British bands: “We don’t speak. The ‘X Factor‘ household stick together. They’re really near, you know, all the ‘X Factor’ contestants, and they type of remain in that one circle normally.”