Two New Releases
Apparently, Tool and Pearl Jam are coming out with new albums tomorrow. The commercial I saw to hype the Pearl Jam album showed them playing in a studio. My heuristics for analyzing rock music promotions suggest that only old bands have ads featuring the band playing in a studio, and the majority of those bands are washed up.
What this basically means is that they have no credibly-recent awesome concert footage to show.
My guess is that Tool will rock the house, but I’ll have to check the lyrics sheet before I buy in. I’m a lot pickier about the moral fabric of my music than other media. I guess music lacks the thematic force to overpower moral repugnance.