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Published 8/18/2008 by david (boy@largeheartedboy.com) at Largehearted Boy
Pitchfork interviews Dave Berman of the Silver Jews. Wired's Geekdad blog lists great webcomics you should not share with your kids. Five Chapters is serializing new short fiction by Joshua Furst, "The Hurricane." ...

They Might Be Wrong
Published 8/18/2008 by Stereogum at Stereogum
... • Oh noes! Everyone is hating on Radiohead today. Silver Jew David Berman to P4K : "You can go through the whole new Radiohead album and try and tell me what they're saying, and all you'll get over and over again is things are miserable, don't try, things suck. And it's all gray. There's nothing there. Never before has there been a 'greatest band in the world' who had so little to say about anything.'" But gray is my favorite color. Posted at 2:59 PM Tags: ...

"...in this sort of 1913 moment."
Published 8/19/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Simon Crowe) at Mostly Movies
David Berman of Silver Jews: (Pitchfork) The record reviews and the restaurant reviews in my newspaper cover the same amount of ground-- sometimes they're of art and sometimes they're of pizza. I don't believe anything I read in that form. My own voice sounds so phony just because of the form, and I couldn't find a way just to get this icky feeling out of me. I guess it has be something to do with blogs, the icky feeling I get from whatever the length of a blog message, and the icky feeling I get from team-making and undeserved praise. I just don't want ...

Radiohead, Silver Jews: David Berman calls Radiohead "miserable"
Published 8/19/2008 at Prefix
... depressing isn't exactly a revelation, but coming from Berman, who is not known for his boundless optimism, it's a strange accusation. [ Pitchfork via ...

Blue Mountin Releases “Midnight in Mississippi”
Published 8/20/2008 by Baron Lane at Twang Nation
... can hear Johnny Cash’s vioce from the grave (if that were rues I’m sure The Man In Black would have adviced Rich not to release his dreadful love song to John McCain. Not because it supports a Republican, but because it, well, sucks. The good folks over at the 9513 think the new George Jone’s release of duets “George Jones - Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets” doesn’t live up the the Possum’s legacy. Pitchfork.com has a Q&A with David Berman of the band the Silver Jews. ...

David Hasselhoff Uniting World Through Shared Love of David Hasselhoff
Published 8/20/2008 at Vulture
... "You can go through the whole new Radiohead album and try and tell me what they're saying, and all you'll get over and over again is things are miserable, don't try, things suck. And it's all gray. There's nothing there. Never before has there been a 'greatest band in the world' who had so little to say about anything." —Silver Jews' David Berman calls out Radiohead [Pitchfork] ...

Radiohead Still Oddly Silent Over Beefs With Hold Steady and Silver Jews
Published 8/21/2008 at Vulture
... off a music-blog firestorm by brutally slagging off Radiohead during an interview with BBC's Radio 6. "I think they've lost the plot," he said. "I like them as a rock band, all the buttons and sequencing and stuff like that I don't really care for. I'm a fan of rock music, and what they're doing now I don't think is very good." But Kubler wasn't the only boozy indie-rock titan to weigh in with a negative opinion of Radiohead this week! On Monday, Silver Jews leader David Berman told Pitchfork, "You can go through the whole new Radiohead album and try and tell me what they're ...