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Jimmy Eat World’s perfect three album run
The Quietus makes the case that Jimmy Eat World’s three album run from 1996 to 2001 perfectly encapsulates early to modern emo.
Released between 1996 and 2001, Jimmy Eat World’s second, third and fourth albums – Static Prevails, Clarity and Bleed American – bridge emo’s past and present. They illustrate its story as a cultural sensation: how it got swept out of suburban basements, boosted by burgeoning social media, and elevated into a significant force in the music industry. These three albums chart Jimmy Eat World’s mid-90s ascent, major label disappointment, and mainstream breakthrough in chronological order, but they also mirror emo’s journey from a DIY network, to a trend, to an international phenomenon.
Each album has a great songs, while I prefer Clarity, Bleed American is the most accessible.
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1994 Green Day ‘riot’ concert at the Hatch Shell
In 1994, Green Day played a concert at the Hatch Shell in Boston that turned into a riot.
Maybe WFNX Radio didn’t anticipate their catapult onto the charts when they scheduled them for a free concert on the Esplanade. Thirty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1994, Green Day drew between 70,000 to 100,000 fans to the show, which quickly got out of control, The Boston Globe reported at the time.
Green Day headlined at the Hatch Memorial Shell to celebrate college students returning to the city. After the crowd swelled, fans stormed the metal barricades, and bottles were thrown, Green Day lasted about 20 minutes on stage.
More than 100 people were treated for illness and injuries, at least 20 were transported to local hospitals, and least one officer was injured, the Globe reported.
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Lo-fi music with the Hi Chord synthesizer
The Hi Chord synthesizer makes it super simple to create simple songs or samples using only chords. In offers the ability for different keyboard types and a drum machine.
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A Space Movie by Caroline Klidonas
Caroline Klidonas created an entertaining space movie without ever leaving her apartment. Hilarious and enthralling.
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Ninja style obstacle course added to Olympic pentathlon
A Ninja style obstacle course is added to the Olympic pentathlon replacing the equestrian component.
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
Just give Alexandra Petri a Pulitzer already. Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children.
Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow.
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Co-op as affordable housing
The Swiss pioneering a different approach to affordable housing: co-ops.
What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains?
In Switzerland’s member-based cooperative housing, new residents buy shares to gain admission to the building and get one vote in the corporation regardless of how many shares they own. The co-op uses the money to maintain the building, keep rents below market rate and, often, provide communal amenities like child care.
When a resident moves out, their shares are returned at face value. There is no capital gain.
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Bee nutrition supplement
There might be a way to save the bees–a nutritional supplement.
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike commercial substitutes that lack key nutrients, this supplement mimics natural pollen’s sterol profile, giving bees the equivalent of a balanced diet.
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Play ball, get a car
Back in the day, a college football player getting a car required either subterfuge or other shady creativity. Today, however, with the free for all that is NIL, players can get a car easily, and car dealers are becoming a power broker with programs.
There has always been a mystique around cars in college football. Before NIL, there were whispers, message-board postings and social media photos soft-pedaling accusations of underhanded dealings by boosters.
Paparazzi-style photos appeared in the newspaper, like in 1979, when future SMU Pony Express (and Excess) star Eric Dickerson’s gold Trans Am made national news and became the most famous car in college football history, right up there with the Ramblin’ Wreck of Georgia Tech.
But now, there are thousands of Eric Dickersons. Players legally pose with their new sports car on a dealer’s Facebook page. While it takes some of the cool factor out of the old days, it’s a natural evolution for the combination of sports and commerce. And a Pontiac seems downright quaint in retrospect. Across the country, major college football parking lots might as well be outside the Chateau Marmont.
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Printing The Onion
While not profitable yet, The Onion is making money with subscriptions to its print edition.
Filled with spoof ads and satirical headlines that often take swings at the news of the day, the Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month. The publication has a new deal to sell its papers at Barnes & Noble, and is expecting about $6 million in revenue this year—up from less than $2 million in early 2024.
The Onion isn’t profitable, but Chief Executive Ben Collins aims to turn a profit next year. “People like getting something in the mail that’s not f—ing awful,” he said.
The publication’s results show that old-fashioned media products can find a niche despite changing reader habits and an unforgiving digital landscape.
