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Two New Contests & Two Contest Winners
Ok I have two contests for you today. The first being the great guys I finally met at SXSW this year, SOUND Team. You can win SOUND Team's Work EP in orange vinyl! This will be a short contest, so you need to get your answer in asap. Here it is: In the comments section, tell me who is the best female rocker currently making music and why in less than 4 sentences. This is completely subjective, so if you don't win, you will be unhappy, but thems the breaks.SOUND Team - Your Eyes Are Liars
Contest #2
The second involves the pint-sized english rapper Lady Sovereign. You can win a vinyl copy of her album along with some buttons by sending me an email at dodge77(at)gmail(dot)com and putting Lady Sovereign in the subject line.
Lady Sovereign - XXXChange Remix
BTS & HARD-Fi Contest Winners:
The HARD-Fi contest winner is Adam Barney. Tim was our first BTS winner, but the BTS second winner is The Big S. Most all of your answers to whether Vince Young will suck as a pro or not, sucked. Young will suck, but suck in the way that he will likely be just good enough to have a long career as a backup after a couple of unsuccessful seasons as a starter. Basically it boils down to this: The Wonderlic is important, it is a determinant of decision making and on-you-feet thinking. Vince Young will think he should run 2 out of 3 times and he may be right once in a blue moon, but the difference in the pros is 2 out of 3 times he will get clobbered by bigger, stronger, faster men. Secondly, yes he has a cannon for an arm, but so does Brett Favre. You know what a cannon of an arm gets you? Faster interceptions, just ask Brett. Thirdly, his coaches have actually said the less they coached him and just let him play, the better he played! HUH?! What?! Sorry, that shit doesn't fly in the NFL. The best thing that can happen to Vince would be that scouts and teams continue to be scared away from him and his draft status drop to the point where he may actually go to a decent team towards the latter half of the first round. One with a decent O-Line, that can work with him, assuming he is coachable, over the next couple years until he's ready to take the field with a behind the center, pass first attitude.Moreover, to this particular arguement, Dan Marino had a low Wonderlic, but was in a good system, with talent around him, and he was a prototypical drop back and pass QB...he cannot be compared to Vince Young. Lowest Wonderlic this year? Marcus Vick with an 11...he can tell you about decision making.
posted by Dodge @ 8:59 AM
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Vince Young < Andre Ware
haha ryan. ouch. but i agree 100%. if the lions draft vince young, i'm picking a new team.
Assuming this is a pretty broad catagory, I'd have to say Gwen Stefani, (eventhough I'd hate to admit it). The woman not only exudes confidence unlike any other, she's fun to watch live, and has successfully crossed over/mixed music genres i.e. ska, pop-punk, hip hop-funk. She's lasted since 1990 and it doesn't seem she'll stop anytime soon. (I don't think the same could be said for Meg White or PJ Harvey).
I was gonna be safe and answer with Neko Case, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Jemina Pearl of Be Your Own Pet because she somehow managed to turn me into a 14 year old superfan and get both feet stomped on while I flailed about to their show at Fox and Hound. Not to mention she swears like a sailor and wears shorts under her mini skirts cause she wants to be at least somewhat of a lady. I'm in love with her and scared of her at the same time. Is that weird?
Elizabeth Powell of Land of Talk. Because the band is from Montreal. She has a sexy Cat Powerish voice and plays guitar like a member of Fugazi. Very new and underground, so very hip. This time next year everyone will know who I'm talking about.
Dottie Alexander, from Of Montreal, gets my finger in this contest.Not only can she wail some fantastic synths, she can beat the cowbell like a woman without a cause. Her live proformances are nothing less than entertaining, and wonderful.
i'd have to say karen o, especially with the new YYY album right around the corner. you just can't front on her voice. it's got sex, attitude, longing...
patience from the grates. dude, you saw her at sxsw. the girl has mad hops.
Emily Haines! Emily Haines!
Emily Haines's work with Stars, Broken Social Scene, and Metric makes her at least one of the hardest working women in indie rock. She's increadibly active in the Toronto scene when she isn't constantly touring with Metric. Honestly, just listen to Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl (BSS) or Calculation (Metric) to see that, not only is she hard working, but also talented.
Simple, the clear choice is Jenny Lewis. And a choice that requires no justification or defense.
Sybil
well. someone has beaten me to the punch. but ill just go right ahead and say it again for clarification.
jenny lewis.
because she can be adorably awkward, because of the dance she does while singing the frug, and because she is so amazing live and she because she's not afraid to change it up and release a solo record that is similar yet completely different from rilo kiley.
Chan Marshall's got this sexy, brittle but powerful anti-rockstar thing about her. I like that.
Kelly Clarkson
Four words:
Since U Been Gone
patience from the grates,for all of her energy,her invisble human trampoline,jumps,kicks,and still being able to sing perfectly and never out of breath or out of tune.
she is amazing and it makes me tired just watching her.
orlando
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Sonic Sierra, a sixteen-year-old from the Bay Area, who sings in the band Two Seconds. She's got a voice deep like Karen O and she sings the truth. What's cooler than that?
Now, I've never seen them live (because I live in the butthole of America that is Butte, Montana) but I would have to say Ninja from The Go! Team. I get this whole mental image of Wonder Woman totally kicking butt when I hear "Huddle Formation"... I don't know, it's like getting the same effect as Red Bull or a quadruple-shot latte when listening to this kind of music.
Sonic Sierra can also be found playing on the streets.
prior to last weekend i wouldn't even have considered her, and i'm still not sure how i feel about this choice, but after seeing the fiery furnaces at red's scoot inn at sxsw, i can't get eleanor friedberger out of my head. she was raw, yet refined; direct, yet discreet; sexy, yet unassuming. i'm not sure why, but she reminded me of chrissie hynde. needless to say, i fell in love.
Wait, is this a contest on how to write persuasively about your person of choice? Because if this is, then I'm out. Again, let's look at the facts, not what we think or even hope to think, but facts.
Screw the guy playing it safe, I'll call Neko Case and do it in four words: New Pornographers; Alternative County. Any girl that straddles both of these mediums flawlessly is the most impressively bad ass chick in music right now (sorry Jenny Lewis, not buying it).
Eleanor Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces. She loves her grandmother. She makes me want to start a band. And she was enchanting on Pancake Mountain.
i might have to say madonna. may it be cliche. but who else has reinvented themselves for more then 20 years? that performance with gorillaz at the grammys says enough. may she not be a virgin anymore, but she still can rock.
No question that the answer is Emily Haines. He energy on stage and her vocal talents make Metric and Broken Social Scene (when she's there) some of THE best live acts i've ever seen. She's insanely talented, intelligent, sexy and not afraid to stand for something. Plus she rides her bike around downtown Toronto, pure indie rock.
I am going to say Amy Millan. Recently I read in an interview she has been working on her solo material for over 5/6 years. Making it take a beatseat to her work with BSS and Stars, it will finally be released this year. Imagine the persistance of that woman. It must be such a nervewrecking time for her; she's on a brink of something new, something fresh, And the new mp3s that have been floating around prove that even if she won't break to the masses, she is going to break at least a couple of hearts. And I think that is all one can hope for.
I vote Amy Millan, she should be proud.
Im going to have to go with Neko Case, despite already being mentioned before. The woman voice can blow the pants off of any man or woman who listens to her albums, her songwriting is more clever than ever on her new album, with its influence of Russian folklore, andd the fact that she is able to carry her talent from genre to genre whether it be the wonderful pop vocal aspect she brings to the New Pornographers or the heart-melting croonin' in the alternative country genre. Overall, that Neko Case is one hell of a gal.
connor oberst
Karen O., because she's the only girl who can tell me what a Gold Lion is...
Annie, of Giant Drag. Clearly the rockingest of all modern-day rock chicks, is our Annie. She's dirty, like a good rock chick should be - singing about having sex like your dad. Plus her voice is amazing in a jump-through-hoops-backwards-just-to-hear-her-burp kinda way.
a week ago I probobly would have said Neko Case or Jenny Lewis, but then I listened to the Lucinda Williams live at the Fillmore CD. It may be the best live album I've heard in a long time. Lucinda rocks hard, her voice is as good as it's ever been and she's exploring her music in ways she's never deone before.
Austin is a much better place without your ilk in it. F off Kentucky boy. Vince Young will lead whatever crappy franchise you follow to a Super Bowl and possibly throw for another 3000 yards and run for an additional 1000 yards like he did this past season.
Moving on, both UK and Louisville basketball are an embarassment to America. You should do a contest on how big of a racist cunt Adolf Rupp really was. The winner can get a Gnarls Barkley ringtone.
Genna Giacobassi from Fiction Like Candy for sure. If you don't believe me take a listen to the Fiction Like Candy Myspace page. She updates her page almost weekly with a new song and a new cover. Her original music is great, and her recent cover's of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Details of the War changed the meaning of that song for me.
"Major", I would bet my house, cars, wife and everything else I have that none of what you predict ever happens.
Moving on, Adolf Rupp's racism in the 40's, 50's & 60's in completely relevant to today and this conversation. obvs.
eh, fucktardery.
Definitely Regine Chassagne from the Arcade fire because: shes in Arcade Fire (is a good enoguh reason but i will go on), She puts on an incredible live act, she plays like 5 instruments and she is in a rock band, a jazz band and a medeival band
how many people can say they are in a medeival band?
Plus shes originally from Haiti
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Charlotte Cooper from The Subways, because her voice isn't the greatest musical voice out there, but she still makes you want to dance and riot, and she makes boots look good.
You're right about fucktard-ery. Good thing fly-over American indie boys are much more skilled at evaluating a QB (WHO HASN'T EVEN BEEN DRAFTED YET), than 3 NFL coaches who know how to win.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/nfl/stories/032906dnspogosselin.121c9607.html
VY won't likely play much next season, which is why I'm bookmarking your site so i can hound you and laugh at your sports-inteptness in a couple years.
I can't wait til South By, ACL, and ACL-fest limits tickets/wristbands further so we don't have to deal with fanboys from fly-over america in Austin.
I think I'll have to go with Maja Ivarsson (The Sounds), and here's a little of why: her energy is addictive - it's virtually impossible to sit stil while listening to the sounds, I'm an insomniac and they frequent late night t.v., and well, she freakin' gorgeous so why not!
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