You know, you are just a perfect example of how ugly and cruel the kids of this generation can be. Thanks for putting me on the suck pedestal for all to smirk at, you heartless shithead. I hope you die a quick, horrible death. Fuck you.

what happened to you dconstruction? you used to be cool…

much love,
Andrew…who also hasn’t done shit since May

I am bitter.

J

It’ll be like carpooling with SaMach but I don’t have to stop for constant bathroom breaks.

Sam you are right about that Pleasant Grove song… Tug of War is fantastic on that last album… I look forward to anything they do.

Will be great to see all the new content and shows guys.

Do I agree with everything that they said about my demo? No! not at all, but I do appreciate EVERYTHING that they said because, believe it or not, THIS is what people MAY or MAY NOT be thinking when they hear your music, and you must accept that.

good though, content is necessary and I love the idea of the music cast, I have listened to that january 1st podcast probably a million times whilst I was at work…I need a Happy Bullets album…

Love,
Paula Abdul

PS-Bosque Brown is amazing

Glad to see you guys 1) pimping Bosque Brown and 2) not talking over the music for once. See ya next week!

No, we will not. That is not our objective, nor do we feel it’s a particularly useful endeavor.

There seems to be a gross misconception of what criticism is, and why it is important.

On the other hand, equal-opportunity support for a local scene is to be lauded, but imagine where we’d be if that were the only discussion?

Good Charlotte sounds nothing like me. and what’s this with trying to sound like somebody?? ever heard of being unique?

i’m not saying i’m amazing, because i’m not, i’m saying respect the music even if it’s not what you’re about…

“i hate the song” is far from dconstruction… it’s bias… good for you… but there’s a reason why mainstream is “main”stream.

but yeah good luck with your little podcast… you guys are really going places…

just thought you guys could use a little dconstruction… you know, from the little voices.

by the way… we’re headlining a show at the aardvark jan. 6th, tomorrow, you should come hear some good music.

hint:

If you’re gonna be a name dropper (which you are - flagrantly), please drop some noteworthy names. John Dufilho does not a relevant figure make. No knocking John, but he is what he is. Aren’t you a little old to be living vicariously through a bunch of twenty-something garage rockers?

Also - shooting blurry, canted photos on a Nikon D70 running full auto doesn’t make you a “photographer” - a term that’s thrown around like turds in the monkey exhibit. Whew, i need coffee.

Thanks for listening - and commenting.

It seems you’ve missed the logic of our band listing. It includes only bands we’ve played on the show. To date, we’ve not yet played the Chemistry Set, Record Hop or Midlake (though the Chemistry Set makes the second half of the Valentines conversation, still in editing). As such, they’re not on the list. The Burning Hotels and Modico are not too familiar. We’ll have to check them out. Thanks for bringing them to our attention.

But you bring up a good point: we’re not here to shotgun a bunch of bands at you (see Andrew’s comment above). If you want that, then Cindy’s your girl. Hell, if you want that, then go to Myspace and do a regional search for bands. Here, let me do it for you:

Criteria:
Genre: Rock
Location: 5 miles within 75214

Results: 380 bands

That’s a lot. Within 20 miles, there are 1,430 (!) bands. Hopefully, some of our listeners find our service - which is to give critiques and very narrow recommendations - useful in this vast sea of mediocrity. But, if that’s not your bag and you prefer to wade through the sewage yourself, more power to you.

Also - and this isn’t directly intended as a defense of our “bashing Cindy’s taste,” which we find a bit strong given what was actually said - your “all or nothing” logic seems a bit specious. Because we don’t list every good band, we therefore have no basis of taste? Especially when there are literally thousands of bands to evaluate in the DFW area, I think having to list every good band is an overly stringent criteria for taste, don’t you?

I’m not saying we have taste, though.

Regardless, we do what we do because we enjoy it. I hope you do too, even if only on occasion. And if not, well, there’s no accounting for taste, is there?

The only issue I had with what was podcasted on said show was the part where it was presented…and I quote…”this is Cindy’s pick of the week…” and ya’ll played some crappy track you pulled off his PureVolume or whatever.

He’s a young kid with a lot of promise…and I think he deserved a little more of a listen then one self-produced song when the plan was to rip him and his music to shreds.

Now please-o-please can we change the subject!

The only reason why you might feel obligated to tell your listeners that Cindy has bad taste is that you believe you are entitled to because your taste is inherently better. There is no yardstick to measure this claim to superiority - and can only be explained by sheer self-importance. Granted, you are running a music critique podcast, an undertaking which in itself requires unabashed ego to even conceive. Yet, perhaps that is the point - to create a program where you claim to be fostering a scene for music to flourish - but instead use it as a medium to drunkenly blovate incoherent nothings which bolster your unfilled musical egos. Indeed, the artist she linked to was quite bad. But you can tell by listening that that kid’s heart is the right place. Listening to you guys leaves serious doubts.

Robert, you just made it into my MySpace profile.

;-)

However, I do love The Freek Out. The best? They wear glam rock costumes and masks when they play. They are incredibly amusing.

kate

anyway, thanks again for at least giving us the airtime. If you want to gong us again… you guys might check out the tracks No Good and Empty Nest. As you guys said on your show… those are a little more “your age bracket”. (I guess??). Anyway, really entertaining show and the quality is great - the show itself sounds kick ass… looking forward to future shows and thanks for helping support local music.

~rockus,

chris

I’m very glad you had Venable for a guest — not only because he has a really sexy radio voice, but also because that’s the kind of authority you need to make this thing work. So here are my thoughts, should you be interested:

1. It’s funny hearing you and Jenkins dealing with songs–whether it be something put forward to you by Venable or Crain–that are obviously meant to be on the radio (I’m referencing Eniac right now), and obviously songs you don’t like. You guys are like, “Uh, yeah, that was a song.” It’s just funny to me.

2. Jenkins is getting too much time to talk about the strange boys–i’d love to hear what josh might have said about the first strange boys song, and it never came.

3. it’s cute that venable says he wants to stay home and see seinfeld. according to zac, what he wants to do is make out with his wife. but then, both you and jenkins kind of pick up on this.

4. darlington? well, i’m glad someone loves it…

5. of course i love the discussion about old 97’s.

6. i am sooo laughing about the sara radle comment– i can’t remember if you know, but sara is anathema to josh. they went out for a year or so, and afterward, he apparently went to everyone and asked them to “chose sides.” mary always said she thought josh/zac wouldn’t speak to her because, once upon a time, she was in a band with radle.

7. and thank you for mentioning fountains of wayne. nice work.

that’s about it! it’s a great dialogue, as usual. nice work. you should be proud…

s

I will be back.

Cheers!
Dandee
Lousy Robot

and now I need to go back and listen to the show again to see where and how you mentioned Lousy Robot…

kate

They recorded the whole first album in their living room.

Did I mention my love for Pilotdrift?

Great show guys!

Funny - the older I get the less I want to hear ANY one whole CD by one band non-stop. I much prefer something really creative and interesting like something by Pilotdrift followed by a breezy pop-punk-thingy by 41 Georgous Blocks, followed by the overall coolness of a Glen Reynolds, etc.. etc… Of course it all depends on mood, doesn’t it?

I guess what I’m trying to say is evaluating Pilotdrift on the basis of a night of listening to them for an hour straight on a CD is probably not completely fair to them. That’s a tough listen. But they sure do sound good and talented nestled between a couple of simpler things on the old playlist.

Keep up the great stuff and I’ll continue to recomend your podcast! I’m really lovin’ it.

I tend to agree w/ many of your appraisals of the various artist you’ve played so far including Strangeboys (great raw honest sound), Slick 57 (new poppier cd sounds nothing like you’d expect), Pilotdrift (also appeals to my pink floyd side of many years gone by) and even 41 Gorgeous Blocks (way too late for the pop punk trend which has since disintegrated to a load of heavy metal horseshit that even metalheads don’t like). It’s also refreshing for others to understand that Europe gets what we do not, the beauty of pure American Rock & Roll.

To not over indulge us w/ Observer / former Observer folks, may I suggest future guests to include Teresa Gubbins, Hunter Hauk, Chris Ryan, cheerleader Cindy Chaffin or granddaddy of them all George Gimarc?

best of luck / I’ll stay tuned in,
Frank Campagna