Can someone translate this CNN headline for me?

[brooklynite]

"Indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie talk about touring."

[Echo In Light]

1. You're apparently unfamiliar w/DCFC?

[MrCoffee]

2. A mediocre band is going on tour

Breaking news.

[Cant trust em]

5. another example of a band that changed its sound after signing with a big label

what a shame.

[UndertheOcean]

34. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ,,,,, wha WHA WHA

what did I think I just heard you say , you did not actually post that , I must be hallucinating..

[CoffeeCat]

3. "Death Cab For Cutie"...

...should have quotes around it.

It's the name of a band.

[Occam Bandage]

9. We don't put quotes around "The Beatles" or "Nirvana,"

except of course for situations like the above, where I am trying to signify that the names of the bands refer to the names themselves and not to the bands which they usually represent.

[CoffeeCat]

18. It's standard AP Style to put quotes around...

...the titles of magazines, newspapers, band names, book, song and play titles, etc.

It's been a while since I was a journalist, and had my trusty AP Style Manual with me at all times, but
I'm pretty sure that's the rule.

[fizzgig]

23. you don't use quotation marks for band names

you don't see "the rolling stones" or "pink floyd" in publications, just as you wouldn't see "mozart" or "bach". nor, according to my ap style book, do you use quotation marks around the names of magazines or newspapers.

[Skinner]

4. Here you go:

The members of the independent rock-and-roll group called "Death Cab for Cutie" talk about traveling around and performing.

[Bolo Boffin]

6. Translation: "We are on the slippery slope of socialism...

...and Arlen Specter has dropped the soap."

[Occam Bandage]

7. Happily!

In this article, the members of the rock and roll band named Death Cab for Cutie, who play a style of music often described as "indie rock" (so named as a result of the style's origin among small independent rock bands not affiliated with major music labels), will talk about the experiences they had while traveling from place to place in order to play concerts in multiple locations.

[Cetacea]

8. Paul is Dead.

The name of the band came from a song sequence from the Beatles film "Magical Mystery Tour".
"Death Cab For Cutie" was an in your face clue for the "Paul is Dead" believers, Paul being the
"Cute" Beatle and such. There were many clues referring to his untimely demise via automobile.
BTW, He didn't really die but did have an extended vacation with a double standing in between '66-68.


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[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Trivia Trophy winna !!!!

Nice.

[Cetacea]

16. Glad to help!

;)

[Blue_Tires]

10. it's codespeak for "AMERICA-HATING BLACK RADICAL SOCIALIST MUSLIN"

CNN is passing a message onto their corporate overlords...

[Echo In Light]

13. Ha...me thinks it works the other way 'round

;)

[old mark]

22. Corporate Overlords are da shit! nt

[LynneSin]

12. That's a headline for CNN? You have GOT to be kidding me

:eyes:

[grantcart]

14. "Herpa gerpa dorma shcudda lotta gruppa duppa music band"

[liberalhistorian]

28. ROFL, I was wondering how long it was gonna take

for someone to post something like that! I can still hear him saying, while holding up a head of lettuce or whatever it was that day, "here we have the (insert incomprehensible gibberish)", and over here we have the boom-boom!" (holding up a toy gun).

[konnichi wa]

15. Unemployed geologists riding in dangerous taxi discuss travel while giggling.

Approximately.
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[Canuckistanian]

35. Yes, it loses something in the translation

But I concur.

[Romulox]

17. Setting aside the question of how a group signed to a major label, promoted on a Time Warner website

can be described as "indie"... (And please don't try to claim that "indie" is a style of music; it's not.)

[Occam Bandage]

19. The first sentence on the Wiki article for "Indie rock" is,

"Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene."

[Romulox]

20. In other words it's a co-opted marketing term which is entirely illogical in its application.

"alternative rock" is what the marketers tried to call it 20 years ago, but that term got the stink of Madison Avenue on it long ago.

So now, multinational corporations market "indie" rock.

[Occam Bandage]

25. Yes. Do you ever claim something has escalated?

"Escalate" is a back-formation from the name of a particular brand of moving staircase: Escalator. Corporations are a major source of word and phrase formation.

[Echo In Light]

27. Well, not in an absolute sense, but overall, yes. Unfortunately, indie movies went the same route

Depends on the crossover appeal, too.

Believe it or not, tho, there are still a crazy number of very indie/underground metal bands that thrive within their own various sub-genres. I routinely buy actual vinyl records (and cds) from the tiny labels and distros who work w/many such bands.

[Romulox]

30. The ultimate "indie" is self-published stuff.

My over-riding point is that "indie" is a style of music only to marketing folks and people likely too young (and too old, as I suspect is the case with Mr. Opposite-of-Razor) to understand how the former manipulate them.

"I routinely buy actual vinyl records (and cds) from the tiny labels and distros who work w/many such bands."

Uh-huh. I got a 7" in the mail the other day published by the now defunct Bobsled Records. Now that is truly an "indie" record, but neither I nor any fans of the band in question would likely describe it that way.

[Echo In Light]

31. Yeah, the only time such terms come up is in an explanatory sense per this type of discussion

Gravity, Teepee, Rise Above, I Hate Records, Meteor City, Psychedoomelic, Church Within/Doom Dealer, Eyes Like Snow, Electric Earth, Shadow Kingdom, Southern Lord, Holy Mountain ...there's actually quite a few, really solid small metal labels hard at work.

[Romulox]

21. PS: The second sentence in that self-same Wiki article reads:

"Indie rock musicians are typically unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels."

:hi:

[Occam Bandage]

26. They are. Similarly, humans typically spend their entire lives on Earth,

but that doesn't mean astronauts are inhuman.

[Romulox]

29. What an inane response. nt

[walldude]

24. I can do a pretty good translation...

Roadies gear up to work 18-20 hours a day for little or no recognition, while having to deal with whiny spoiled musicians, moronic tour managers, and lazy stagehands.

[mitchum]

32. Indie rock is rarely independent nor does it rock

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. "Independent popular beat combo discuss a programme of concerts in diverse cities"

m'lud.