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1. I think we all wanna go to Lollapalooza this year…what a lineup!!!!!!!!
I remember being thirteen and literally *just* getting into Jane’s Addiction. In the summer of 1990, the year prior, just before I started the 7th grade at Georgetown Day School, my mother finally broke down and got cable. I finally had my MTV. The video for “Been Caught Stealing” from album I wasn’t allowed to buy Ritual de lo Habitual was the song that confounded and interested me the most on the network that summer (alongside Warrant’s “Cherry Pie,” Van Halen’s “Poundcake” and LL Cool J’s “Six Minutes of Pleasure”). Fast forward a year, and there was Adam Curry telling me that Jane’s Addiction was breaking up?!?!?! And that they were planning a summer carnvial, comedy, arts and crafts and music tour? I wanted to go. Badly. But couldn’t. Throughout the 90s the concert festival really set standards high for defining the concept that Farrell himself coined, that of the “alternative nation.”
3. Dear urban mainstream: Weird Atlanta has returned. You’re welcome.
I’ve honestly wondered out loud when the vibrant diversity that dots Atlanta’s underground was going to make itself apparent on the mainstream scene. Janelle Monae is the best performer walking in music today. Half Laurie Anderson, half James Brown, her buzz is uproarious and finally is not being denied. On May 18th, her debut album ArchAndroid will hit shelves, and the weird wonder that we have come to expect from the ATL will return. Know what else is coming? Outkast. No, not Andre 3000, but Big Boi, who is featured on Monae’s breakout rave funk fest “Tightrope,” but the dank smokin’ trunk crusher returns on May 4th with debut solo album Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. The timing of having the legendary genre and sound expanders Outkast having new music alongside the undoubtedly and awesomely weird Monae is too clutch, and I expect the summer to feel like a transplant to 1993, when Southerplayalsticcadillacmusic and it’s inherent uniqueness pushed all music and set the standard by which you tuned your Walkman.
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