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...about mindshare—the term used in the corporate world to describe how consumers think about a product. Friday was about media coverage of the hundreds of thousands that are so enamored with Sony’s hardware that they are willing to camp out on the pavement or even take a bullet for the chance to own one. If you don’t believe me, just look to the four people in Kentucky who were actually shot in a drive-by BB gun assault while waiting in line outside their local Best...
...PAVEMENT...
...Sales of Pavement's fuzzed-out masterpiece don't stack up to the rounding errors on Nevermind, but its influence on Beck, Blur, Radiohead and countless other musicians of the '90s is incalculable. Lead singer and former Whitney Museum of Art security guard Stephen Malkmus expressed alienation with the same lo-fi guitar grit of Kurt Cobain, but his lyrics and vocals were models of cryptic passion. Somehow his word salads communicated both the ennui of a suburban smart-ass and an awareness that ennui isn't tragic...
...success.” Example: “The new Arcade Fire album is totally gonna be their Wowee Zowee.”You might say that “Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition,” a two-disc expanded reissue, is the Wowee Zowee of Pavement reissues. Confusing and repetitive, this two-disc set pales in comparison to the exquisite re-releases of “Slanted & Enchanted” and “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.”However, as a historical document, it does an admirable job of capturing the greatest rock band...
...Jain slips a few boxes into a plastic bag and hands them over to a customer, then spits a stream of paan juice onto the pavement. Red Rain, perhaps...