Los Campesinos! - International TweeXcore Underground (video)

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Los Campesinos! Day!: Rock out with your glockenspiel out
Published 5/19/2008 by Dan at TiFaux
I’m declaring today Los Campesinos Day. In honor of this Welsh band, you can’t use any vowels all day.
I’ve covered this band before in these virtual pages, but a lot of awesome stuff is happening with this band behind the scenes at TiFaux. First of all, TiFaux John and I saw them on Friday (they were great!). Second of all, I wrote my second Washington Post article on them. Third of all, TiFaux Cristin’s brother’s band, Titus Andronicus, will be opening up for them tonight.
In any case, the band’s new album “Hold On Now, Youngster” is out now and you should definitely give it a ...
Bring forth your abused, Christian America, and let them rock
Published 5/21/2008 by Steven Wells at Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk
Christrock276.jpg Considering the lilies of the field ... Christian rockers mewithoutYou. Photograph: PR In his recently published book Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh explores the strange alternative world that America's fundamentalist Christians have created for themselves. Not surprisingly, he finds much to mock. Mints with spiritual messages are marketed as "Testamints". And there's a grinning, kid-friendly cartoon character of a cross - presumably the same cross Jesus Christ was nailed to and on which he died in unimaginable agony - called Smiling Cross. In short, if you're searching for dumb Christian yuks, this book's got them by the sack load. Like the Christian ...
