Flaming Lips - You Lust

The Flaming Lips - You Lust (NSFW) from Delo Creative on Vimeo.

Weird. Creepy and um... wow.

I should definitely add NSFW. I find it interesting that the visual component of this band has become almost almost as regularly intense as their sonic side. Might we see a video for every song on The Terror?

No Joy - Hare Tarot Lies

Could have done without the puking, but very interesting video and great song.

Ryan Gunwitch-Black's Comic Tension: The Kickstarter

Ryan Gunwitch Black's Kickstarter for his independently created comic Tension. Looks outstanding. He keeps a great blog here.

The Muppets Perform Slayer's Behind the Crooked Cross

Still reeling from the loss of Jeff Hanneman earlier in the week I went looking for some clips and found this. Amazing!

Hilarious! Reggae Version of megadeaf's symphony of destruction

This is amazing!!! Mr. Brown just sent this to me, immdiately upon hearing it I knew I had to repost it for everyone's comedy enjoyment. I HATE megadeth. I HATE dave mustaine (not mortal hate, but you know, he's just such a fuckin' wanker). I especially HATE everything from this stupid album, the album where he looked at metallica's then newfound commercial success and said, "ME TOO! ME TOO!". At least w/ larsy-poo and crew you can see how, after making a technical masterpiece like ... And Justice for All, who wouldn't want to step back a bit and simplify the operation. You know, call in a big producer like Bob Rock and have a go at it. But Mustaine, ugh. countdown to irrelevancy is such a forced attempt. And he drew up the characature he would enforce as his brand logo and even went so far as to go back and re-record the vocals for the four good (and two magnificent) albums he'd created up to that point. metallica might have sold out, but mustaine became a fucking whore and now twenty years down the line the responsibility of that has eaten away his brain and caused him to become a complete right-wing fruitloop. And as such, when I see people lob intelligent criticism or witty insults his way, I laugh and give a thumbs up. That's what we have here. Nice work Andy Rehfeldt, nice work.

Johnny Marr & Andy Rourke Perform How Soon is Now?

Whoah.

You can get the full details about this show on Brooklyn Vegan here.

If you listen to the excited roar of the crowd at about 0:47 secs, just as Marr introduces Rourke, you can hear the fact dawning on them they are about to witness something amazing. I admit - I'm not usually one for reunions and I only got into the Smiths about five years ago, but once I 'discovered' them they became one of my favorite bands of all time. Just hearing this while I type is giving me chills. And of course this track is a classic - even before being a Smiths fan this one meant something to me.

I'd still wager no matter what we'll never see these guys joined by a certain Mr. Morrissey, so this is probably as close as we're ever going to get.

But then, I've been wrong many times in my life. I'd like to be wrong about that.

Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan for posting this and making my day pretty much within moments of my waking up.

Massive Attack - Be Thankful for What You Got

Massive Attack - what more is there to say. And there's nothing more to post, cuz I'm out. This feels like a good way to wind down another Saturday night.

Underworld - Pearl's Girl (LIVE)

Not just my favorite Underworld song, but one of my favorite songs period.

The Streets - Weak Become Heroes

Possibly my favorite Streets song.

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse

Continuing the new vibe. Reflections on the past give way to contemplations of N.O.W.

Ok - something New: Pole Folder

Well, not new new, but something not from my own personal reminiscences this evening. Just heard Jason Bentley spin this on KCRW.

BRMC - In Like the Rose

Larry Fessenden's Beneath

Interrupting our regularly scheduled program. You had me at "directed by Larry Fessenden". Thank Bloodydisgusting.

Blue Karma - Left Behind

Not affiliated with tim lehaye and jerry jenkins.

Oasis - Fucking in the Bushes

Oasis - Fucking in The Bushes from Giancarlo Gamero on Vimeo.

Easily my favorite song by a band that has a lot of amazing songs.

Stereophonics - Mr. Writer

Backing vocals to this track still give me chills.

Saint Germain - Sure Thing LIVE!!!

Best song ever? Some days.

There's a skosh of distortion on the recording, but the performance is the shit!

Over the Rhine - The Body is a Stairway of Skin

Old school trip hop.

Helen Stellar - Newton

Tomorrow is the ten year anniversary of the night I met my wife. I was in a band called The Yellow House and she was a music journalist. She'd heard she should come to see us. She did. The band played. Afterward we were introduced. We hung out all night, drinking pints of beer and talking. We made plans to see one another again. I have been ecstatically happy ever since.

Early on she made me a bunch of mix-discs. I'm going to do the drinking and posting thing tonight and a lot of what I post will be stuff she turned me onto. All of it is awesome. She is good like that.

Rosenkopf - Burning Spirits

So I was hunting around on my favorite music blog heavenisanincubator and on accident I hit the 'Next Blog' button that blogger puts at the top of all its pages. It's an interesting idea - kind of a way to just move to a random blog, or just to get to know your neighbor. Well, the next blog over from the mighty 'incubator is the tour diary for a band called Rosenkopf. I'd never heard of them before and immediately flipped over to youtube and looked them up, them flipped back and began reading. I'm not entirely sure what year this tour diary is from, I believe it was 2012. You can click on the widget above and follow back to Rosenkopf's bandcamp where the track is available for free download. There's also a host of stuff on youtube which I'm kinda working my way through now, inbetween repeated listens to The Oceans' Pelagial. I've posted one of the live tracks below.

Dillinger Escape Plan @ Golden Gods: Lots of blood, fire and insanity, + Chino Moreno for a Depeche Mode Cover

Very special thanks to HaloMillenium for the cleanest rip of this I've seen yet. The camera-in-front-of-the-tv technique versions that began popping up the day after the show were so bad not only did I not re-post any of them, I didn't even watch 'em. Props for all who attempted just in the name of getting it out there, but it was just not happening.

Warning: the sound mix here is off - Greg Puciato's vocals are waaaay up in the mix and the instruments are waaaay down. I think this makes the material come off a bit more disjointed than it actually is.

Danzig & Doyle Golden Gods: FULL SET!!!

That's much better. Fucking Death Comes Ripping into Skulls? Nice. Thanks to stormrider3 for posting this. Check out their youtube page I linked to above - lots of footage from last night.

Danzig & Doyle @ Golden Gods 2013

Last night. This is the only halfway decent footage I've found so far, I'll try to post more as footage filters in. Classic.

The Ocean - Pelagial

So I've put down the Slayer for a bit (couldn't find my original cassette copy of Seasons in the Abyss so I had to walk away for a while) and started my first pass through the new album by The Ocean, Pelagial. It is incredible. The concept for the album is just mind-blowing, especially when you listen to it and realize they pulled it off. From their (awesome) website:

The concept of the album is made evident in its title, Pelagial. Listeners will be further submersed as they journey with the band, beginning at the surface of the ocean and plunging through all five pelagic depth zones: epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathyalpelagic, abyssopelagic, and hadopelagic. In synch with diminishing light and increasing pressure as one dives or sinks deeper into the ocean, the album begins rather light and progressively gets heavier and slows as the band reaches the unfathomable depths of the hadopelagic zone, characterized by complete darkness and a thousandfold increased pressure as compared to surface level. What is remarkable about Pelagial is that this is not some detached conceptual idea; this can actually be heard and felt while listening to the album.

Palms - Patagonia

I've seen Palms name bandied about on various music sites recently but hadn't paid attention at all really. Now I see Chino from the Deftones and a bunch of the guys from Isis are in it. I'm not familiar with Isis at all. I know this is probably a major overlook on my part, they've been on my list for some time, I just haven't gotten to them yet. But I've always dug Chino, and especially after Koi No Yokan being my album of the year last year, and a record I still ADORE, Moreno's name made Palms shoot to the top of my list. Thanks again to bloodydisgusting and go below for a listen to another Moreno side project that I LOVE, Team Sleep.

image courtesy of antiquiet.com

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil Kickstarter

I've still only seen the first four episodes of season 1, so I'm not even watching this video yet to avoid the spoilers. Thanks to Bloodydisgusting for posting this. I'd imagine moving forward the only way anything is going to get made is with a kickstarter campaign first, to prove to deeper pocket investors that there's interest. While that's fine for pre-established artists/franchises, that's gonna suck for newcomers.

RIP Jeff Mother Fucking Hanneman

I came home to find Pelagial, the new album by The Ocean had arrived, and my wonderful wife had purchased me the Twin Peaks Archive (another post coming on that) but the second I heard this terrible news about Hanneman I knew exactly what was going on the stereo.

My three favorite Slayer songs from various eras. Spirit in Black features what is one of my favorite guitar solos of ALL TIME and it's Jeff playing it at about 1:43






And a great interview with Hanneman and Araya from 1986!!! (which also has a live version of Hell Awaits in the middle of it).

Nachtmystium - No Funeral

From the album Addicts: Black Meddle Part II. I am really into this band right now.