STOP PLAYING HARD-TO-GET, MASTODON

Wow Stephen Colbert just zinged the shit outta Kanye West, who at some point humbly branded himself ahem "the voice of this generation of this decade" [sic]. Well Colbert owes me a coke cuz I jinxed him after we simultaneously exclaimed that thanks to AutoTune-dependence, West doesn't technically have a voice, let alone one that represents a decade or a generation or whatever the fuck. Colbert then detailed his Operation: Humble Kanye mission, and we at HooM! say amen. Fuck that guy. 

Somebody should launch a similar initiative on those big fat jerks in Mastodon, who steadfastly refuse to send me a copy of forthcoming fourth album, Crack The Skye. Look, jerks, you dropped your advance on producer Brendan O'Brien, the media is eating out of your hairy hands, your last two records reversed Earth's rotation. Obviously the next step is to get HooM! on board (moreso) with an advance copy now now NOW. You're only cheating yourselves, Mastodon. You too, Warner Brothers Records; you guys are nothing without HooM! For now, bassist Troy Sanders talks to the SGumbags at Stereogum:

Crack The Skye is a departure from everything we've previously recorded. We kinda strapped on our aeroshells and departed from Earth, and then captained to the ethereal element of the universe and slept on the roof of the world to get a perspective on this record.

We're dissecting the dark matter that dominates the universe, in a nutshell. It gets way more detailed and far beyond fucked up if I were to explain the whole thing to you.