The news today out of indieville is that
Sub Pop has signed
Mister Heavenly, a new group featuring Nick Diamonds from Islands, Honus Honus from Man Man, and Joe Plummer from Modest Mouse. (Can we pause for a second to ponder what a mischievous mindfuck this outfit will be? Have you ever seen Islands? And a sample Facebook status: "Practice starts in a couple of hours. Good thing we're all hungover!" Oh no.)
Anyway, said group plays its first-ever gig tonight in Seattle, supporting Passion Pit, and will headline its own show
Thursday at Cafe Du Nord. But before then, and because of today's announcement, we get to watch music journalists all over the web whip out their S-words and wave them all around. No, no, you sick fucks, not the word that starts with "S" and ends with "long." We're talking about the word "supergroup." We saw this noun dangling all over stories about Wild Flag, and in fact, we even
used it. Sub Pop modestly kept the S-word in its pants for
today's blog post about Mister Heavenly, but Pitchfork
showed it off in a headline. A
Google search reveals that quite a few other writers laid out their S-words in front of Mister Heavenly as well.
All of which makes us wonder: What exactly is a "supergroup"?
So, naturally, we thought of a few definitions:
1. A group whose music you haven't heard yet, but that you'll buy tickets to see anyway.
2. A group with at least one member from a band you pretend to care about.
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