Perfume Genius - Put Your Back n 2 It (2012)

Call me cynical, but a good controversy has always helped sales in the entertainment world.

This is somehwat different when Google-owned YouTube outright rejected Perfume Genius' 16-second promo clip for "promoting mature sexual themes" and being "not family safe."

I can think of way more overtly offensive clips bandied about without so much a blink of an eye.

Ex-R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe has weighed in claiming the decision dumbheaded, further adding "I find their actions in doing so disgraceful and cowardly. YouTube, shame on you. You were born of the 21st Century, now act like it."  Hear, hear!!

 The 16 sec promo clip

Perfume Genius ad from nils bernstein on Vimeo.

Lead single "Hood" deals with one's insurmountable insecurity and hence the need for "masks" in a relationship.

Catch this clip featuring gay porn veteran Arpad Miklos before those narrow-minded zealots get their hands on it too.

Track 8 off the album via The 405.

Simply brilliant.

R.E.M. Calls It a Day / Michael Stipe's New Career

What's with The White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem and now R.E.M. calling it quits in 2011? 
At this rate, we'll be left with 2-bit talentless bands and little left to look forward to in music...

Read their full account here.


Michael Stipe's already hot on his next career as an internet flasher.  NSFW! 
Catch glimpses of this rock sausage here.



Oh well.  Sniff.