the long hot dirty year

uprightcitizens:

leatherpumpkin:

rainydaywomen:

jennylewis:

Rilo Kiley are not on hiatus. They’re not taking a break. They are officially broken up. Following an extensive tour supporting the band’s last release, 2007’s ‘Under the Blacklight,’ the band reached a boiling point and never quite came back from it.

“I just felt like there was a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed and things I don’t really want to submit myself to,” guitarist Blake Sennett tells Spinner. “I had related that frustration to music but I just thought, ‘I’m not going to put myself in that position again,’ so I said, ‘F—- that, I can’t do this anymore.’”

“That being said,” he continues, “it was probably immature and that came from a place of ego. I think that stuff will rear its head in anything you do, depending on the personnel you surround yourself with; things change overtime and people change and relationships change.”

[…] Sennett says Rilo Kiley have a plethora of unreleased songs that might still see the light of day.

“I think we’re going to try and release a two-disc set of 40 songs, or something. I think that can be more considered like our last release, to me. But I don’t know.”

LET ME DIE!

1. Wasn’t this pretty much common knowledge? I remember Blake saying something to the effect of “Rilo Kiley, if it were a person, is probably in a mortuary in a body bag” in like 2009.
2. As long as Jenny keeps writing music and touring (with or without Johnathan Rice, because ugh, I really don’t care for him and when it was rumored that she was getting back together with Jake Gyllenhaal earlier this year, I was basically puking rainbows — but whatever makes her happy, I guess), I’m okay. Though the prospect of never hearing my favorite RK songs live is a painful one.
3. Man, it is really tough when a band that helped you through one of your most painful times in life splits up, though. 
4. I hope the unreleased songs all come out soon. Because I need more.
5. But I hope they’re more in the vein of More Adventurous/Execution of All Things, because like, I really liked Under the Blacklight and I still listen to it all the time, but I want more personal material instead of concept-y things.

Well, shit. 

And know this puts me in the overwhelming minority, but I love Johnathan Rice crazy amounts, and I love them together and their music.

This just terrible, though. But better than them making terrible music later, I suppose.