Bad Ideas

These Widespread Panic Fans Aren't Sucking On Balloons Because They're Feeling Festive

By Maura Johnston Wed., Sep. 21 2011 at 10:30 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Widespread Panic

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Saturday night's Widespread Panic show at the Williamsburg Waterfront was capped by fans of the Georgia-based noodlers heading out into the neighborhood streets while sucking on brightly colored balloons—which were apparently filled with nitrous oxide—that they'd purchased from merchants who had set up shop outside the venue's exit. This, as you might expect, is causing a bit of consternation among local residents, who are already unhappy with the crowds and noise and other side effects of the waterfront concerts. A few selections (unearthed by our Runnin' Scared pals) from the nine clips chronicling the "post-concert drug orgy mob nightmare," shot by someone with the not-at-all-taking-a-side YouTube user Id "StopOSAConcerts," below.

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Events In Popular Music

Here's Hoping That Christina Aguilera And Maroon 5 Kill The "Lazy Mick Jagger References In Lyrics" Trend Dead

By Maura Johnston Wed., Jun. 15 2011 at 9:30 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Cher Lloyd, Christina Aguilera, Events In Popular Music, Ke$ha, Maroon 5, Rolling Stones, The Black Eyed Peas

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I mean, oh, honestly:

Christina Aguilera and Adam Levine of NBC's talent show "The Voice" are putting their voices together on a new Maroon 5 single. Aguilera is featured with Levine and his band on the tune "Moves Like Jagger," which will be released next week on iTunes.

"Moves Like Jagger"? You mean, like in the video for his embarrassing version of "Dancing With The Streets"? (SOUTH AMERRRRRICAAAAAA!!!)


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Karma

Source: Wyclef Jean Will Not Be Ruining Haiti This Fall

By Zach Baron Fri., Aug. 20 2010 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Don't Do This, Featured, Karma, Politics, Wyclef Jean

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Rene Preval, Haiti's inept past, shaking hands with Wyclef Jean, a man who hopefully will have nothing to do with Haiti's future.
And so the world's greatest publicity stunt/most irresponsible political campaign ends, not with an election but with a piece of paper, one that has many names on it but not, mercifully, that of Wyclef Jean. Reuters is reporting that a Haitian electoral official has seen the list of eligible candidates and has informed them that Jean "is not on the list." Thank god. It turns out that you cannot in fact run for the presidency of a country you have not meaningfully lived in for the past five years. Even if your dysfunctional, tax-cheating charity does business there; even if you once donned a frilly shirt and posed proudly next to a domesticated lion on a carnival float paid for by said charity. The Haitian electoral board will formally release the list later today; at the moment, Clef remains undaunted, and oblivious, which is pretty much how he's been throughout this mockery of a campaign:

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The Comedy Stylings Of Gibby Haynes: "The Plastic Was Black, So Haynes Described It As His 'Negro Baby Doll Leg'"

By Rob Harvilla Thu., Aug. 12 2010 at 3:43 PM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Comedy, Featured, Gibby Haynes, Harvilla, The Bell House

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So the gleeful journalism-destroyers over at the sports blog Deadspin have declared this Deadspin Music Week, and included a delightful tale of irascible Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes' inspired performance last month during a comedy show at the Bell House. Invited as a surprise guest by Eugene Mirman, it seems Gibby brought a prop along!

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You Can't Make It Up: Kanye West Was at the LeBron James Press Conference Last Night

By Zach Baron Fri., Jul. 9 2010 at 9:50 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Famous Bitches, Featured, Kanye West, Sporting Endeavours

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And thus did Greenwich, Connecticut, become the vortex of bad publicity and ill-advised decisions last night, as LeBron James brought along a good luck charm to an hour-long press conference that turned into an abattoir of innocent basketball fan hopes and dreams. In the audience for LeBron's announcement that he'd be stabbing his hometown fans in the heart and moving on to Miami was none other than Kanye West, who knows a thing or two about making apocalyptically bad decisions in front of millions of people. Perhaps they even discussed strategy, as far as doing everything wrong and hurting as many innocent bystanders as possible. Or perhaps they merely stood next to each other, radiating the blissful calm and assurance that comes with being rich and utterly oblivious. Because that is certainly what was coming through our television last night. Below, Kanye temporarily joins the Boys & Girls Club of America:

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The National's Matt Berninger + Hilariously Bomb-Shaped Toy Clock = "I Had The Honolulu Airport Evacuated For About 45 Minutes"

By Rob Harvilla Fri., Jun. 25 2010 at 1:51 PM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Featured, Harvilla, The National

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Our affection for this guy is well documented, but if Matt sits next to you in an airport lobby, you best get the hell out of there to beat the crowd. Spinner reports that the dude recently wound up in federal custody on suspicion of terrorism, prompted what might be the worst gag souvenir imaginable:


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Riots

Mace Me Later: A Gallery Of Tweets In Regard To The Great Drake Riot Of 2010

By Rob Harvilla Wed., Jun. 16 2010 at 7:30 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think, Drake, Featured, Harvilla, Riots, Twitter

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So. Drake (and Hanson!) was set to play South Street Seaport last night, for free, at the behest of Paper Magazine. It did not go to plan, unless the plan including half a song by Ninjasonik, enormous crowds, fights, chairs flung from balconies (yoy), Mace, damaged soundboards, and general calamity. Our man Zach Baron was there, and his dispatch is here. For further analysis, though, let us now turn to Twitter, because if today's calamity fortified anything, it's our faith in the wisdom of crowds.

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Riot at South Street Seaport: The Drake Show That Never Was

By Zach Baron Tue., Jun. 15 2010 at 9:56 PM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Drake, Featured, Riots, South Street Seaport

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By 7:30pm, Drake already knew this thing wasn't happening, though he came through anyway. That was right around the time the cops began to show up en masse at the South Street Seaport, wading into the throngs of people who had come to see Paper Magazine's potentially ill-advised free summer show featuring Ninjasonik, Hanson, and, of course, the most popular rapper in the country, Drake. On the day of his record release date. It was a recipe for a riot, and the Seaport got one--or something that pretty closely resembled one, anyway. By the time we rolled up, a bit past 7pm, cops already had the outdoor venue surrounded; fights were breaking out all over the tightly packed crowd, and as we made our way toward the stage, a guy came past us running the other way, shouting "I don't want to hurt nobody, so I'm out!" Good advice.

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Street Team Evaluation

Are You In A Band? Want To Waste More Money? Hire This Serial Killer To Post Your Flyers!

By Camille Dodero Mon., May 17 2010 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Fliers, Flyers, Shit We See on the Street, Street Team Evaluation

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We understand in great detail what a street team is (which we learned from listening to VoiceStreet over cubicle walls), and the importance of wide-scale sticker/flyer promotion, but is there really anyone out there, small business or new-to-town band, who would spot this serial-killer note taped to a Williamsburg pole on Metropolitan Avenue and dial the number (which you can't see here)? Even these shady, Hotmail-addressed Craig's List ads offering both hand-to-hand poster/flyer "commuter traffic distribution" offer a better sales pitch and cheaper rate: "5,000 FLYERS or Less for $475," which works out to be a little more than 10 cents a flyer. And in the event you have something smaller scale, you've got a couple of better options, including an important one called Do-It-Yourself. Then again, if we're truly missing something, and you'd like David Berkowitz's phone number, I'd be more than happy to pass it along, but not before making you explain why you're not dumb.

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Roger Waters Now Chumping Up Elliott Smith Murals For Some Reason

By Rob Harvilla Wed., May 5 2010 at 8:15 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Elliott Smith, Featured, Harvilla, LA Weekly, Roger Waters, Street Art

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Our fine cohorts at the L.A. Weekly report on the recent, ill-advised street-art exploits of one Roger Waters, who has apparently commissioned folks in both L.A. and NYC to tag a Dwight Eisenhower quote onto various graffiti hot spots to promo his latest tour. Haven't seen evidence of this around here (have you?), but out on the West Coast, the result wound up on an Elliott Smith memorial wall. (Which apparently gets futzed with fairly regularly, but still.) Folks are most displeased. Somebody better be keeping an eye on that Shepherd Fairey mural.

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