1.15.2009

DON'T HATE ME: HIPSTERS OUT OF ROADRUNNER RECORDS



I sincerely love the whole Roadrunner organization and get way prickly when kvlt types slag them. Monte Conner and crew are great folks, Metal people of the highest caliber for realsies. Now, post-platinum Roadrunner (Slipknot, Nickelback) and I have lost touch a bit, and who knows the pressure brought about by the Universal and now Warner Bros deals. But if you look up there it reads Hipsters Out Of Metal! and RR dangled this info for all to see so if we at HooM! were to give them a pass, we'd only be hurting ourselves. And you. From Roadrunner Records' roster/staff picks for Best of 2008:
T*** S*********, Promotions Coordinator
Girl Talk – Feed The Animals
Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
She & Him – Volume 1
Bloc Party – Intimacy
The Parlor Mob – And You Were A Crow
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Anathallo – Canopy Glow
Phantom Planet – Raise The Dead
TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
Gaslight Anthem - The 59' Sound
Sigur Ros - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Low Vs. Diamond - Low Vs. Diamond
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
The Wombats - A Guide To Love, Loss, & Desperation

R** B*****, Senior Vice President, A&R
Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Nickelback - Dark Horse
Sigur Ros - Heim
Feist - Let It Die
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The Wombats - A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation
Portishead - Third
Ray LaMontagne- Gossip in the Grain
Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty

Ack! These aren't fussy artists (like the disgraces in Trivium and Killswitch Engage) or office staffers -- these are major decision-makers in the Roadrunner organization! Hipster subversives charged with promoting and managing some of our greatest Metal resources! Arm-crossers, not headbangers! They like Ray LaMontagne? His new video looks like a Dockers ad! Coldplay? That shit is for people who find Radiohead too challenging and U2 not shrill enough! Bon Iver? Yeah we get it dude, your gf dumped you. Why don't you cry about it? Hipsters out of Roadrunner Records!


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yup, Thom makes some very major decisions. He's why we almost signed Hot Hot Heat.

Anonymous said...

*did* sign Hot Hot Heat.

Anonymous said...

Thom with an H, stop making such major decisions so badly. Just because you have a ripped up shirt that does not make you metal.

Anso said...

gulp!

Anonymous said...

You're having a killer '09 Anso, best post and the year's only a couple old