First up is The Undertones self-titled album. Released in 1979, this is really start to finish great punk/power pop album. I love some of the tracks on this album but just overall it's a great record and worth a listen. Trust me.
Try it/Download
You don't have to trust me on this next choice by Temple of Bon Matin, but I do like it a lot. This album, titled Thunder Feedback Confusion,has been described as if Glenn Branca and Hawkwind had some gross sonic whore of a baby. If any of that last sentence makes sense to you then check this out. Definitely noisy, definitely rad.
It was released in 1995.
Try it/Download
If you like these albums...go buy the fucking vinyl.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Shit I'm Digging
Monday, March 30, 2009
Stephen Malkmus Daytrotter Session
They do Vanessa From Queens, Elmo Delmo, and Funk #49.
Daytrotter Sessions
All Points West Line Up
FRIDAY, JULY 31st
Beastie Boys Yeah Yeah Yeahs Vampire Weekend the National/Fleet Foxes / MSTRKRFT/Q-Tip / the Pharcyde/Organized Konfusion/the Knux / Ra Ra Riot/Seasick Steve / Telepathe/Shearwater / Heartless Bastards Flying Lotus/College Humor Live / Arj Barker/Eugene Mirman / Bo Burnham
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1st
Tool My Bloody Valentine Gogol Bordello Arctic Monkeys/Neko Case / the Ting Tings/Yelle / Crystal Castles/St. Vincent Tokyo Police Club/the Cool Kids / Kool Keith/Cage the Elephant / Chairlift/White Rabbits / Electric Touch the Postelles/Black Gold / College Humor Live/Tim & Eric / Judah Friedlander/Jim Jeffries
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd
Coldplay Echo & The Bunnymen MGMT the Black Keys/Elbow / Silversun Pickups/Mogwai / We Are Scientists Ghostland Observatory/the Gaslight Anthem / Etienne De Crecy/Lykke Li Akron/Family/Steel Train / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis/College Humor Live / Janeane Garofalo/Michael Showalter / Todd Barry
Friday, March 27, 2009
Yikes this is Sexy
Can I call him a modern day Serge Gainsbourg. After this video, I think I can....sorta NSFW but I mean there is no nudity.
Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer from Lucky Number Music on Vimeo.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Chinese Rocks - Dee Dee Ramone Interview
Cool interview with Dee Dee Ramone about the song Chinese Rocks (which he wrote but was made famous my Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers)
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
The above album is one of my all time favorites. It came out in 1971, it's one of the sexiest things ever put on record and it will almost always seal a deal for you if things just need that extra push over the line. It's amazing. I love it. The album has finally been re-released after many years of it being really really hard to find. As a result Pitchfork has given this album's re-release a 10.0. A very rare thing, and if any album ever deserves it....it's this. Slow-clap. I will be buying this on vinyl this weekend. Fact.
I will not be posting sample tracks off this album as it should be listened to from start to finish and you should go out and buy the fucking thing if you want to hear it...it's that good. The French always bring the sexy.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Dinosaur Jr.'s New Album Cover Amazingness
Thank God there are people in the world like Dinosaur Jr. who still think like this when it comes to album covers. Farm comes out June 23rd on Jagjaguwar. FFO: face-melting rock.
OMG (Oh My God)
OMG means Oh My God.
UPDATE:
hahaha. ahhhh a good laugh because it's true.
But seriously, back the fuck off Sonic Youth.
Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
So....I recently received a copy of the Decemberists' new album 'The Hazards of Love.' It's not bad...it's also...not great. To be fair, my relationship with the Decemberists has been a long one. I really loved their first album 'Castaways and Cutouts' but since then it seems like they have had trouble re-capturing that sound or just the overall feel of that album, again.
While 'Picaresque' and 'The Crane Wife' are not bad albums at all, they just don't really stand up to their first full release. If their career was the other way around, and their studio albums ended with 'Castaways' you would be hearing me say that they are the greatest band ever. I am not sure if overall this is a good thing or a bad thing. They released a terrific album, and, to be honest, 'The Hazards of Love' is the closet they have come to recapturing that overall sound from the album's start to the album's finish since 'Castaways', making this album, for me, the second best of their career releases.
Does anything I just wrote makes sense? Do you see what I am trying to say? They haven't really ever released a bad album (period, though not really, here comes the comma), but it hasn't matched their best, this album, which still isn't their best, comes the closest to their best when compared to all the other studio albums.
It's notable that the Decemberists have genuinely tried to capture or create an album in the truest sense which is really commendable especially in this music market. The album 100% should be listened to start to finish and I could imagine the album sounds a fair amount better on vinyl (I listened to digital) as the arch of the album just appears to be conducive to a vinyl listening session.
So there you have it. I am not sure what all this said, but I guess, if you like the Decemberists, and you have liked all their other albums, but 'Castaways' remains your favorite, I think you will really love this album. It's a good album. Check it.
Buy It Here (Digital)
Buy It Here (Vinyl)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Ocarina of Rhyme
Atlas Sound - "Solo or 'The Square'" Digital 7"
Atlas Sound has released a new digital 7" on the Deerhunter website. I have mentioned many a time how much I really love the stuff that Bradford Cox puts out as Atlas Sound and while I am not so much a fan of the second track, the first title track is really awesome. If you don't like repetition you aren't going to like it. But I do so HA!
Atlas Sound - Solo or "The Square"
Atlas Sound - Memorial Corridor
Friday, March 20, 2009
Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
Just a little treat for your Friday. I thought we needed to get a little more intense after the Prince post.
Bad Brains - Pay to Cum (7 inch Version)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
R.I.P. Popcorn Sutton
So I had never heard of this guy before I read The Post this morning, but I'm pretty sure he's the man.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Famed Appalachian moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, whose incorrigible bootlegging ways were as out of step with modern times as his hillbilly beard and overalls, took his own life rather than go to prison for making white lightning, his widow says.
"He couldn't go to prison. His mind would just not accept it . . . So credit the federal government for my husband being dead, I really do," Pam Sutton told The Associated Press yesterday from the couple's home in Parrottsville, about 50 miles east of Knoxville.
A few hours earlier, she had buried Sutton, 62, in the mountains around Haywood County, NC, where he grew up. He went to his grave in a pine casket he bought years ago and kept in a bedroom, and underneath a gravestone that reads, "Popcorn said FUCK you."
Sutton nicknamed "Popcorn" for smashing up a 10-cent popcorn machine in a bar with a pool cue looked like a living caricature of a mountain moonshiner. He wore a long gray beard, faded overalls, checkered shirt and feathered fedora.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The best blog of all time.
No...not dreamtard....did you really think I was going to say dreamtard. We over here at dreamtard are WAYYYYY too self deprecating to ever say that we run a good site or that we add anything of "value" in this internet world. This website, called Everything is Terrible, is the greatest site I have ever seen. It's loaded to the fucking GILLLLLSSS with hilariously miserable/awesome/terrible/makes you want to cry/makes you want to be back in the 80's or 90's videos and just really...well....here is an example. Find more over at their site.
So get off the couch you ugly son of a bitch and go get your face slashed at bargain basement prices. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Go, get out there, and use those "raw materials" to get a man down at the singles 40+ night at the bar.
PS: I will pay 500+ for the painting in the background...you know exactly where that is going....above my bed...yeahhhh...LADIEEESSSS
Lifelike
Can this dude please come back to NYC? I went to see him once at Studio B and he totally blew my mind. This guy can get a place moving, big time. Below is a track that is so awesome and will pretty much get any party from "ugh this place blows" to "holy shit what is this song and why are we all taking our cloths off". You have to download the track to listen to it but....whatever....do it.
Super Mal - Light Years (Lifelike Discopolis Remix)
Thank you Mass Hyperbole. Job well done.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Hey, you're cute.
Hehe, thanks. I'm Alex. You're cute too. Do you want to get out of here?
So? So let's DANCE.
Borderline - Madonna
Via Gothamist
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
I love this album. I don't care that it was just made Best New Music by Pitchfork and if that somehow makes me predictable then screw you because I do think this album is awesome. I am trying to put my finger on why I like it so much but I can't seem to figure it out. It's rock, it's really good rock, I don't know, sometimes, some people, just put out great records....this is one of them. Who cares what it reminds me of, or what it is about the songs that I enjoy. Maybe it's the hooks or the lyrics or whatever, it doesn't matter, it's good, that's all that in the end should really matter. This is turning into a ramble. Cheers to you Cymbals Eat Guitars on a job well done. Like you are reading this or even care what I have to say. Ugh...kill me.
Cymbals Eat Guitars - And the Hazy Sea
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Indiana
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wind Phoenix
Enjoy. Feel free to give me a free copy of this on vinyl.
The Soft Pack
I just heard these guys yesterday...I like it. I guess they used to be called The Muslims, shits new to me.
Happy St. Patricks Day
Heres a video that has NOTHING to do with with St. Pat's day, green beer, or leprechauns...but it made me laugh this morning so here you go.
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Recession hits Gene Ween
Gene Ween posted this on the Ween Forum today:
Hi folks, I'm doing a clean-out of some Ween paraphernalia and just listed a bunch of our records autographed by the both of us. I'll also be putting up more Ween related stuff as the Weeks go on. My Ebay handle is "the_grobe" and here's a link in case you cannot get it together to find me on Ebay. This is the real deal folks so if you want some cool Ween shit, now's the time to check Ebay regularly. Thanks. -Gener
BUY GENER'S SHIT HERE
The Dead Weather
Well this is cool. Jack White is a true Rennaisance man.
Nashville — The invitation indicated only that the party on Wednesday night here was the “grand opening of Third Man Records.” But the 150 fans, friends and members of the media who showed up to the small warehouse in an industrial section of Nashville were given more than a tour of Jack White’s new label offices - they were present for the announcement and the debut of Mr. White’s new band, the Dead Weather.
In his primary group, the White Stripes, Mr. White is known as one of rock’s finest guitarists. In the new band, though, he plays drums. Alison Mosshart, of the London-based duo the Kills, is the lead singer; Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age plays guitar; and Jack Lawrence, from Mr. White’s other band, the Raconteurs, is the bassist. The 11 songs on the “Horehound” album - 10 originals and a yowling cover of Bob Dylan’s “New Pony” - are spare and sexy, with vocals often distorted or submerged beneath grinding, snaky rhythms. (The first single, “Hang You From the Heavens,” was immediately made available on iTunes; the full album will be released in June.)
The five-song set the Dead Weather performed in the small space at the rear of the offices had a garage-blues feel, more physical than the recordings. “Tonight was the first time I played drums on stage since I was a teenager,” Jack White said in an interview after the show. “I wanted to look at the music from a new angle, and it gets me back to the structure of how songs are created.”
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
I have had a chance to listen to the new Phoenix. It's pure electro-pop bliss. If you are at all into this sort of thing...I highly recommend you pick it up when it comes out. These guys consistently knock this "idea"/"genre" out of the park and this album is no exception. Well done Frenchies.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Dan Deacon - In the Studio
Alright so I am not the biggest Dan Deacon fan in the world. It's a little too all over the place for me. I think this guy is trying to put 5 hits of acid right onto an audio track. It just feels cluttered to me. Dan is however a very nice guy based on the one interaction I had with him at a concert. I commended him for the sheer energy he puts into his shows and he was really cool and conversational. This video though is totally awesome. His upcoming record Bromst was recorded at some house and this house is the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life. This is one of 4 videos Pitchfork has up on their site. All of them are worth a watch simply to geek on technology.
Little Boots - New In Town (Fred Falke Remix)
More from Fred Falke. This guy is a machine of remixes. This one is of Little Boot's track "New In Town." It's definitely a party banger. What do you think? You can tell us what you think in the comments section. That's what it's there for! Great Job! Ugh.
Little Boots - New In Town (Fred Falke Remix)
Extra:
Here is a preview for Sebastien Tellier's upcoming single and music video....what a sexy French bastard.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Ween Update (2009 shows? Butthole Surfers & Spongebob)
hi guys, just thought i'd post a quick update. we are starting to rehearse again finally, much like the "new look" ween.com soon the world will have a "new look" ween (the band). we are procrastinators though, so just keep waiting for us if you could, thanks. a good friend of mine from way back in the day is writing a book on the history of City Gardens, the legendary (and now defunct) Trenton shithole nightclub where Ween got it's start and played about 100 times. our first ever club gig was on may 3, 1987 opening up for the butthole surfers and the show has become something legendary. there is an excerpt from the book now online. it is a really funny read, as you will see. also, we are being interviewed for a documentary on spongebob squarepants which will be aired on nickelodeon sometime in the near future. for me personally being a part of that show is something that i'm very proud, we did music for the show before it ever aired without having ever seen an episode and as luck would have it it turned out to be the best cartoon since bugs bunny. later on they ended up usin "ocean man" as the end theme for the spongebob movie. the little kids in my neighborhood are very impressed. lastly, i will be DJing at John and Peter's place in New Hope, PA on Wed. March 18. the evening is billed as "funky dance party with dj mickey", which is me. please come out and throw down, sexy ladies, this means you.
- Mickey
Ween/Butthole Surfers article here
Monday, March 9, 2009
New Music: Dinosaur Pile-Up
Dinosaur Pile-Up are the UK's best new band right now. Followed closely by Little Death (more on Little Death later). Dinosaur Pile-Up are from Leeds, where there is a bit of a grunge revival "scene". A more apt description would be a bunch of bands from the same town that happen to be playing guitars and a shared lack of synthesizers. Their music recalls not so much early 90's Seattle grunge like Mudhoney or early Nirvana, but the moment when that music entered the pop melting pot and became the sound of rock music worldwide (basically they sound like the Foo Fighters' first record). If you think that's a bad thing, you're pretty short-sighted. That record is amazing. Apparently this new old sound is catching on across the pond, where (thank god) they still love rock bands that aren't Nickelback or U2. "My Rock n' Roll" achieved single of the week status from both NME and Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1. Check out Dinosaur Pile-Up, my favorite band of the moment:
My Rock n' Roll
There is nothing difficult, avant-garde, or overly indie about this. If you don't like it maybe you just hate rocking out. Weirdo. Their current single "Traynor" is also amazing, but alas I could not find an mp3 link and didn't want to upload it myself somewhere. Email me and I will describe it to you.
DINOSAUR PILE-UP ON MYSPACE
Saturday, March 7, 2009
They Are Back [UPDATED WITH BETTER VIDEO]
We just got back from Phish....oh my god.....Fishman is back on the right of the stage, the trampolines are back, so is Fishman playing the vacuum and wow...just wow. They opened with Fluffhead....
03.06.09 :: Hampton Coliseum :: Hampton, VA
Set I: Fluffhead*, The Divided Sky, Chalkdust Torture, Sample in a Jar, Stash, I Didn't Know#, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Farmhouse, NICU, Horn, Rift, Train Song, Water in the Sky, Squirming Coil, David Bowie
Set II: Backwards Down The Number Line^, Tweezer, Taste, Possum, Theme from the Bottom, First Tube, Harry Hood, Waste, You Enjoy Myself
E: Grind**, Bouncing Around the Room, Loving Cup
Friday, March 6, 2009
Ironically Insulting Products: Patriotic Nostalgia Edition
This made me chuckle:
From FlagClothes.com:
"Won't you look cute cooking in this ROSIE THE RIVETER APRON? You bet! Plus the added slogan "WE CAN DO IT" doesn't hurt if you're a new cook trying out something new. The Apron is 100% Poly and Mashine Washable. Made in the U.S.A!"
A fun way to express your can-do attitude at home in the kitchen, where you belong!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Kutiman: Pop will eat itself.... and it's delicious
Israeli producer Kutiman has become an overnight internet sensation by mixing an album entirely from samples of YouTube videos.
Kutiman, the masterful Israeli funk musician and producer, outdoes himself by creating Thru-You: Multiple YouTube clips (mostly instructional and performance videos) edited into slick mega-mashups. They're not just patchwork assemblages, they're sample-based original creations that coud hold their own on anyone's album... Plus they're 100% audiovisual! It's a work of next-level genius.
Stephen Malkmus : Ho-Lee-Fucking Setlist
Wow.
Check out this setlist:
2/25/09 Great American Music Hall
Stephen Malkmus (solo)
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Harness Your Hopes
Us
Blue Arrangements (Silver Jews)
Starlings Of The Slipstream
Pink India
Spit On A Stranger
Fin
Range Life
Real Emotional Trash
Loretta's Scars
We Have Laid Here (Bill Fay Cover)
Lions (Linden)
Freeze The Saints
Shoot The Singer
Zurich Is Stained
Heaven Is A Truck
Vanessa From Queens (Partial)
Here
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Love Train (O'Jays Cover)
Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones Cover, Partial)
Summer Babe
This really makes me have high hopes for a Pavement Reunion in the near future.
Thurston Moore & Mike Watt...Seafood & Punk Rock
Thanks to Miguel for this video. Thurston talks about the first time he and Mike Watt met and there mutual love for Richard Hell.
I realize Sonic Youth is normally Matts area, sorry for stealing your gig maaaaaan.
PS - LOOK AT ALL THAT FUCKING VINYL BEHIND THURSTON
Sebastien Tellier - Roche [Video]
I finally cleared out some of the contents of my Inbox and found this awesome video from the sexiest French man since Serge Gainsbourg. Check out the video below from Sebastien Tellier's track "Roche"
PS: I need a white linen suit for this summer.
> 1 Day
Jles and I are heading down to Virginia to see Phish reunite. Pierre and Matt will be here to bring you your regularly scheduled programing of verbal diarrhea. Till we meet again. I can't believe we are seeing Phish.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Steel Mill - The Wind and the Rain (Live) - 1970-04-24 - Monmouth College, Long Branch, NJ
This is a video of a 21 year old Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt with their band Steel Mill. I had NO IDEA Bruce had such a Jimmy Page complex back in the day, and I had no idea Bruce could play guitar like this. Thanks to Vic for this one.
Neil Young - Fork in the Road
Neil Young To Release Fork In The Road On April 7
Neil Young will release his new studio album Fork In The Road on April 7 through Reprise. Based around Young's passion for alternate fuels, Fork was inspired by Young's partnership with the Lincvolt Project and his own rebuilt 1959 Lincoln Continental that runs entirely gas-free.
The new album was recorded in 2008 between tours with his live band Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar, keyboards), Chad Cromwell(drums), Rick Rosas (bass), (vocals), Anthony Crawford (vocals, guitar), and wife Pegi Young.
A special bonus edition of Fork In The Road is available now for preorder at www.neilyoung.com.
Fork In The Road track list:
1. When Worlds Collide
2. Fuel Line
3. Just Singing A Song
4. Johnny Magic
5. Cough Up The Bucks
6. Get Behind The Wheel
7. Off The Road
8. Hit The Road
9. Light A Candle
10. Fork In The Road
I saw Neil's past two tours and he still rocks about 10x harder than most bands full of 20 something year olds out there.
OLD MAN ROCKS!!!!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Newsweek Preview of Sonic Youth's The Eternal
Newsweek's Seth Colter Walls was invited by Matador to come and listen to the new Sonic Youth record. He thought it was so good he couldn't wait until June 9th (!!! WTF so long) to hear it again. So he/Newsweek begged and pleaded for Matador/Sonic Youth to edit their own sound collage preview of the album. And they did. Here it is...
This is bits and pieces of the entire album chopped up and re-edited into one 2 and a half minute clip. It being Sonic Youth, you can assume that the end result is 100% deliberate. Personal note: This record is going to rock my face. Matador will include lots of SY extra goodies with this album in their "Buy Early/Get Now" store.
Monday, March 2, 2009
The Thing (John Carpenter Remake 1982)
Watched this movie with Dave the other night, and man does it kick ass. This version is a remake of the original that came out in 1951 titled The Thing from Another World, both of which were taken from the novel Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
If your into gorey movies, with old school special effects (think Alien) then you will love this movie. It stars Kurt Russell running around Antartica drinking J & B scotch, while lighting aliens on fire with a flame thrower...I mean whats not to love about that?!?!?!
My favorite scene from the movie :
Dreamtard Salute to Good Ideas: Buying Bottled New York City Tap Water
Thanks to Lynn for sending me this article. We had an interesting discussion about this topic the other morning at Scotty's, and I'm shocked that this business plan could ever possibly work.
Full article HERE but I'll paraphrase my favorite lines.
"Reporting from New York -- Two teachers on their lunch break scanned a refrigerated shelf inside a Manhattan coffee shop lined with drink bottles: Naked Juice, Perrier, Smartwater, New York City tap water.
"Tap water?" said Alison Szeli, 26, picking up the clear plastic bottle with orange letters: "Tap'd NY. Purified New York City tap water."
She studied the description: "No glaciers were harmed in making this water." She compared prices: Smartwater cost $1.85. Tap'd NY was 35 cents less.
Szeli and her co-worker went for tap, carrying the bottles to the cash register.
"It's cheaper," Szeli said. "Water is all the same anyway. I just prefer to buy my own water in bottles."
Then the swindler who created this business, Craig Zucker, said this:
"There aren't necessarily fountains or places to get clean water on every street in New York."
Actually Craig, that's exactly where you can find clean New York City tap water... At literally every single tap in New York City. Buy yourself a plastic water bottle, turn any single faucet right....boom, problem solved.
Anybody who actually purchases Tap'd NYC brand bottled water officially takes the term "Irrational Consumer" to a whole new level. Paying $1.50 for 12 ounces of New York City tap water is equivalent to paying $16 for a gallon of water. The highest average price that GASOLINE ever reached in the United States was $4.591 a gallon (on 6/24/08), and this guy is asking you to pay nearly 4 times that amount for a commodity that is literally free.
If you had a choice between pumping free gasoline out of your house, or going to a store and paying INFINITY PERCENT more (that is actually the percentage price increase) for gasoline of the exact same quality, which would you choose?
The choice shouldn't be any different for fucking WATER! IT'S FREE YOU FUCKING MORONS!
Pink Reason
Pink Reason, I am really enjoying their album Cleaning The Mirror right now. The best way I can describe them would be if Sonic Youth and Joy Division had a lo-fi baby. I am having trouble finding tracks to listen to over the internet but when I do...I will post them. So really this post is kinda pointless. Have a good Monday.
VHS or Beta - Burn It All Down (Fred Falke Remix)
What? French electro?? Yeah....we still care about that stuff. Here. Here is some Fred Falke, remember him, yeah...he still kicks ass. Check out the new remix below of VHS or Beta's track "Burn It All Down."
VHS or Beta - Burn It All Down (Fred Falke Remix)
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