Tonight is the night shoegaze fans have been waiting for more than two decades with the release of My Bloody Valentine‘s third studio album. (The band’s last LP, the seminal Loveless, came out in 1991.)
The album, simply titled MBV, was released as a digital download on My Bloody Valentine’s official website. But careful clicking the link, because the Chinese Democracy-style wait for the new album prompted cavalcades of the band’s loyalists into a clicking frenzy which appears to be crashing the site.
Not to worry, because one American fan of the make-my-ears-bleed Irish-English rockers is calling upon the White House to stabilize the download page, with a “We the People” petition calling on the Obama Administration to “make the My Bloody Valentine website work again.”
To the best of our recollection, President Obama has never listed My Bloody Valentine when answering the “What’s on your iPod?” question from pop-culture reporters. But who knows? Perhaps our commander-in-chief or someone on his senior staff is an unabashed fan and could help the cause if it reaches the requisite 100,000 signatures. (Tally as of this writing: 93)
Yeah, yeah, obviously the White House has no jurisdiction over a shoegaze band’s website, but, come on, it’s not like these “We the People” petitions are actually used to provoke serious issues.
