April 11, 2008
Love this tune from Brooklyn folksters Phosphorescent, and I was pleased to discover this spirited and somewhat raucous live performance of it.
Phosphorescent performing the song “Wolves” of their album “Pride” at Cake Shop in NYC on November 1oth, 2007…
Phosphorescent- Myspace
So by now you must have discovered Pitchfork TV, if not happy day for you. The online video showcase was launched recently by the same people who bring you Pitchfork obviously, and features exactly what you’d expect, good alternative music videos (great quality for online stuff)…minus everything you hate about MTV. Here is a fun video following the group Man Man around as they work on their new album “Rabbit Habits”. It’s great to see all the freedom and experimentation that the band exploits in the studio, which is exactly what you should do while recording…I agree with Honus Honus, every song should feature the recorded sounds of a dog in a bathtub.
April 3, 2008
Ok so I added a category here called Muxtapes, I’ll list cool ones that I find in said category! Here is the first entry, from Deathcannon. A nice mix of experimental mostly instrumental stuff, for those who like Sigor, LightningBolt etc. I really enjoyed the song from HEALTH which I had not previously heard…cool stuff!
April 1, 2008
Thanks to one Vance Fink I am feeling a bit like a I grabbed the wrong vitamins while running disheveled out the house this morning. Check out this well edited trippy video…and enjoy some media induced visual hallucinogenics. It’s gonna be hot yo…but fear not, you won’t need a jacket.
March 30, 2008
Happy Sunday to you! I made my first Muxtape and would like to share it with y’all. Actually it’s my second one, first one was all classical music, I’ll try to recreate it later, something was going on with their servers which prevented me from being able to link to it. This site is great fun, you should make a Mux and post the link to it here in the comments so we can listen to some of your favorite music, and mock each other for our poor taste! Here is my track list for this one-
Etherbomb001-
Our punk rock Muxtape- Etherbomb001
Sign up and make your own Muxtape to share, it’s really easy- Muxtape
March 28, 2008
Riot police took to the streets apparently in Mexico to protect the Mexican Emos, or as I shall refer to them henceforth Mexemos, as they gathered to protest attacks upon their ilk by Mexipunks and Mexibillys. It is shameful to attack someone because of their appearance, and I am shamed by my distant Mexipunk brethren. That being said…they are EMO, this should help more people feel sorry for them, which is the goal right? This is not a story from the Onion…I repeat, not from the Onion. Hey kids…stop fighting each other, you’re all basically on the same side of this bigger war we’re in.
A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.
Emo Se Defienden
Wired- Mexican Emo Riots
Urban Dictionary- What is a Mexican Emo?
March 27, 2008
This is a really simple yet elegant site devised to allow you to create and share music mixes. I really appreciate the design of this thing which has basically no bells and whistles, and gets right to the point. Very well executed design in my opinion. The site was getting hammered with traffic as of this posting, so you can’t create an account, but their blog says they will be back up after 9pm. For now you can still head over and enjoy other people’s mixes. It is interesting to think, perhaps we will eventually no longer have any physical music of our own…it will all just be online at sites like this?
Muxtape- Website
This probably sounds funnier in description than it really is, but in case you need to do a Vocal Beatbox performance for a crowd of little people…or more specifically oompa loompas?…try adding some helium to your game plan!
March 24, 2008
Someone forgot to tell this guy Matthias Loibner that the Hurdy Gurdy is an instrument for nerds. He’s obviously spent hours learning his scales and he could give any of the master shredders of our day a run for their money, just watch as he loops sections and tears it up. Thanks to Ben for this great video of this amazing musician and this great sounding instrument, which seems to bridge a gap between strings and wind. All hats off to the real Hurdy Gurdy man, I’ll bet the groupies are lining up outside his tour bus!
March 19, 2008
I sort of lost touch with some of the extreme Japanese post punk stuff after the early 90’s. I had all the early Shimmy Disk releases of Boredoms, Ruins etc., and continue to love Melt Banana of course. It was great to discover this later project of Yoshida Tatsuya who was the drums half of probably one of the most bad ass duos of all time (Ruins). Koenji Hyakkei is a larger scale band project which incorporates singers and many other instruments, but continues to mine a lot of the same veins as Tatsuya’s other projects. This song was set nicely to an old experimental short “Ghosts Before Breakfast” from Hans Richter, and it really works nicely.
Audio Sample- Doi Doi
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Koenji Hyakkei- Skin Graft Website
