User talk:DavidJJJ

"It's weird when you play a show somewhere and there's a disproportionate number of people backstage talking about how they're witches."- Trent Reznor

Project news

• Nine Inch Nails reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to BotleySmith and Drewcifer3000.
• List of Powderfinger awards and the discographies of Uncle Tupelo, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Powderfinger all reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Lincalinca, Dihydrogen Monoxide, Spebi, NSR77, and Teemu08
• The Smashing Pumpkins was featured on the Main Page on October 11.
• We collaborated on Nevermind, The Breeders, Alternative rock, Fugazi (band) and The Downward Spiral during the past month.
• During the month of October, Adam Clayton, One Hot Minute and Joey Santiago were promoted to good article status.
• There are two articles at prose review, Butthole Surfers and Radiohead. You can help promote these articles to FA status; every little helps.

New members

Sorchah and Tarc joined the alternative music fold during October.

Editors

User:CloudNine

"Personality. Personality. Personality. Personality>Personlaity>peporisnaitiu.Pelsonlaity>personality> PSoDURYW'OB>peojuiuauA>PRFIVGU-JSNN.;YN~CPJHOQA" ALFIHI-WUSAZ;/P ioy iqNLKH GZW IGDB." - Thom Yorke

Project news

• Pinkerton (album), Joey Santiago, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence, One Hot Minute and Powderfinger reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to Cowbellcity45, CloudNine, RaNdOm26, Dihydrogen Monoxide, Grim-Gym, NSR77 and Spebi.
• List of Silverchair awards and the discographies of Pavement, Feeder, the Minutemen and Nine Inch Nails all reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Brandt Luke Zorn, Dihydrogen Monoxide, CloudNine and Drewcifer3000.
• Nine Inch Nails was featured on the Main Page on November 20.
• We collaborated on "This Charming Man", Sonic Youth, Siamese Dream and Powderfinger during the past month.
• During the month of November, Small Mercies, "Passenger" (Powderfinger song), Jimmy Chamberlin, Spiderland, and Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt were promoted to good article status.

New members

Cambrant, Chickpeaface, Atlantik and Thelastfetusdying joined the alternative music fold during November.

Editors

User:WesleyDodds

"He didn't really talk until he got his girlfriend, and somehow that jump-started his ego, and he went from 'I am Lou, I am nothing' to 'I am the greatest.' He just went ffffft, just flipped the scales. And then he started talking a lot. And then I was realizing from a lot of the things he was saying, 'Hmmm, maybe I don't like Lou.'"- J Mascis

Project news

• Loveless (album), Spiderland and Internationalist (album) reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to WesleyDodds, Ceoil, Brandt Luke Zorn, Dihydrogen Monoxide and Spebi.
• The discographies of Nation of Ulysses and Dave Gahan reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Drewcifer3000 and Underneath-it-All.
• We collaborated on Rage Against the Machine, Flea (musician), Oasis (band), Mission of Burma and Primal Scream during the past month.
• During the month of December, Slay Tracks (1933-1969), "These Days" (Powderfinger song), Transfusion (EP), Young Modern, Ian Svenonius, Trent Reznor, "Sunsets", Alice in Chains, David Lovering, Thrice, These Days: Live in Concert, Parables for Wooden Ears, Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000, Odyssey Number Five, Vulture Street and Flea (musician), a total of 17 articles, were promoted to good article status; a record month. With the addition of Loveless (album) and Internationalist (album) (which were promoted to good and featured article status in the same month), this brings the total up to 19 GAs for December!
• Starting this month, the newsletter will contain a new feature that lists a recommended alternative rock album for project members to check out and help expand their knowledge of the genre. This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle (1993).

New members

Pjoef, WeBuriedOurSecretsInTheGarden, Argezas, Pbroks13 and Paper Back Writer 23 joined the alternative music fold during December.

Editors

User:CloudNine
User:WesleyDodds

"I still have people come up to me like, 'I really, really liked your last record.' 'Oh, thanks!' 'Are you going to do "Loser" tonight?' I'm like, 'Look, I'm six foot six. Beck is five foot sex, all right?'"- Thurston Moore

Project news

• Radiohead, Slay Tracks (1933-1969), David Lovering, "I Don't Remember", U2, R.E.M., Anodyne (album) and Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt reached featured article status in the past month, a record month for the WikiProject! Additionally, with the promotion of Radiohead, U2 and R.E.M., half of our Top Importance articles now have featured article status. Well done to Atlantik, Brandt Luke Zorn, CloudNine, the various WikiProject Powderfinger editors, Merbabu, WesleyDodds, Teemu08, NSR77 and Grim-Gym.
• The discographies of Dischord Records and Load Records reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Drewcifer3000 (who wrote both featured lists).
• Powderfinger discography reached featured topic status during the past month. Well done to the various WikiProject Powderfinger editors.
• We collaborated on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Franz Ferdinand (band), PJ Harvey and Michael Stipe during the past month.
• During the month of January, Rage Against the Machine, Pick Up the Pace, "Lost and Running", Bernard Fanning, Year Zero (album), Jon Coghill, "Losing My Religion" and "Touch Me I'm Sick" were promoted to good article status.
• Sign up for our B-class article drive on the project talk page! The goal is to increase a number of the project's B-class articles to GA or FA status within two months. The B-class article drive will run from February 1 to April 1, 2008.
• This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (1988).

New members

Skeeker, Dethzone, Sceptre, IN THE EFFIGY, Crislee 88, Grrrlriot and Indopug joined the alternative music fold during January.

Editors

User:WesleyDodds

"Expressions of irony through clothing are very important.'"- Carlos Dengler

Project news

• "Just Like Heaven" (song), Flea (musician), Bernard Fanning, Odyssey Number Five, In Rainbows and Silverchair reached featured article status in the past month! Additionally "This Charming Man", a former Featured Article, has been re-promoted to FA status. Well done to WesleyDodds, NSR77, Grim-Gym, the various WikiProject Powderfinger editors, Atlantik, Ceoil and Dihydrogen Monoxide.
• The discography of Silverchair reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Dihydrogen Monoxide.
• Surfer Rosa was featured on the Main Page on March 21.
• We collaborated on In Rainbows, Vitalogy, The White Stripes, Blur (band) and Accelerate (R.E.M. album) during the past month.
• During the month of March, Nine Inch Nails live performances, Oasis (band), Boredoms, Hoodoo Gurus, and Vitalogy were promoted to good article status.
• This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is Editors - An End Has a Start (2007).

New members

NewMarqueeDayMoonRising, Thundermaster, and SuperNeek joined the alternative music fold during March.

Editors

User:WesleyDodds

"God is in your scrotum!'"- Perry Farrell

Project news

• This month was the first in over a year in which no articles were promoted to featured article status. In the period between March 2007 and April 2008, the project produced a whopping 70 Featured Articles. Let's keep adding to those numbers!
• Pearl Jam was featured on the Main Page on April 22.
• We collaborated on My Bloody Valentine, The Queen Is Dead, Double Nickels on the Dime and Ten (Pearl Jam album) during the past month.
• During the month of April, Diorama (album), Editors, Neon Bible, Ghosts I–IV, "Yes! I Am a Long Way from Home" and "Who Really Cares (Featuring the Sound of Insanity)" were promoted to good article status.
• This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (1997).

New members

Arleach, Panic!out, N0tverycreative, and Gallagher2x2 joined the alternative music fold during April.

Editors

User:WesleyDodds

"I go to a fucking office and I write. I'm not one of these dickheads who opens a beer, high fives his mates and opens his mouth and shit pours out, which he then writes on a beer mat. It doesn't come easy."- Nick Cave

Project news

• "Touch Me I'm Sick", Diorama (album) and Nine Inch Nails live performances reached featured article status in the past month! Well done to Indopug, Dihydrogen Monoxide, and Drewcifer3000.
• The discographies of Sonic Youth, The Libertines, Foo Fighters and Smoking Popes reached featured list status during the past month. Well done to Drewcifer3000, Indopug, Tenacious D Fan and Teemu08.
• We collaborated on Superunknown, Supergrass, Kate Bush and Foo Fighters during the past month.
• During the month of May, The Killers (band), "Under the Bridge", Death Cab for Cutie, Bloc Party, Coldplay, Beck and Ten (Pearl Jam album) were promoted to good article status.
• This month's "Recommended Alternative Album" is Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984).

New members

Seraphim Whipp, Guitardude3600, Lunar Jesters, Kristmace, Freedom (song), TwentiethApril1986, JD554, Thom, and Sethward joined the alternative music fold during May.

Editors

User:WesleyDodds