Our version of the Afghan Whigs' "My Enemy" can be found and downloaded at Summers kiss records. Just click the link: Summers Kiss Bonus Tracks
"WhiteTrashParty is just the band I was hoping to come across when we started soliciting music for the tribute album. I knew there had to be musicians in working bands that were as passionate about the Afghan Whigs as I am. These guys are such fans that they named themselves after the Whigs’ first single and recorded their own versions of 3 classic Whigs songs.
For this bonus tracks series, I chose Whitetrashparty’s cover of “My Enemy”. It’s a vicious song lyrically with a killer set of hooks and riffs. Whitetrashparty plays it close to the original, which in this case is a very good thing. And while WTP is able to recreate much of the trademark Whigs sound, know that their original music parlays that aesthetic to their own unique lyrics and melodic sensibility. Do yourself a favor and check them out." Lee - Summer's Kiss (June 2009)
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“Emperor’s New Clothes” moment:
It’s best we let someone more experienced explain things for you. In this interview, Rob Newman has just been asked why he “dropped off the radar” after he split professionally with David Baddiel.
“You’re talking about a radar you have to pay money to beep on. It won't pick up just any old submarine, tug-boat or rift-valley. You gots to pay. One thing I've learnt is how very few articles appear in the mainstream corporate media spontaneously. They are placed there by PR companies. During the period in which I wasn't on the radar I was still gigging intensively and still writing lots of new material. But there was just one thing which I wasn't doing anymore. I wasn't doing paying anyone to do publicity. Therefore it appeared that I'd dropped of the planet.
Here's another example of what I mean. There was never a 'buzz' or a 'groundswell' about The Hives or The Strokes, but there was a top-dollar corporate-funded PR campaign whose press releases probably used the phrases ' buzz' and 'groundswell' , and there was an IPC-owned music media - the NME, that shameless jezebel - whose function was to provide consumers.
And it's not just in showbiz that the pay-to-register-on-the-radar PFI is operating. The same is true to a surprising extent with news as well. When researching the world of 'issues management' or corporate PR for The Fountain At the Centre of the World I was struck by how many stories on the news-wires hav.e their source in PR companies representing countries (eg. Israel, Saudi Arabia, Burma, Argentina during the dictatorship) or corporations or industry-lobby groups such as the Global Climate Coalition which received funding from Exxon and General Motors and VW and was keen to deny that catastrophic climate change is happening and that it is happening because of burning fossil fuels.”
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