Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork Live in LA

This concert was forty minutes away from me (with traffic and parking) last Thursday. I've been checking the QOTSA site off and on for weeks and still managed to miss the mention of it entirely. Of course it sold out right away, and tickets were (again) ridiculously priced compared to their shows in other cities. I'm not sure if it's the bands or the venues - me thinks a bit of both. Sorry, I LOVE Queens, but I'm not paying $75 to see anyone unless it's Joanna Newsom in a private performance. I'm posting this footage - which I believe is the new album start to finish and then some. I won't pay that tix $$ but I'll sure as hell give the boys my money next Tuesday.

image courtesy of dragcity.com

Ell V Gore - Sex Static E.P.

Wow.

Full article I pilfered this from on Exclaim.ca and Diffuser.fm

Help Fund Industrial Super Group Primitive Race

Will be comprised of - and this is an amazing line-up - Chris Vrenna, Luc Van Acker, Raymond Watts, Dave Ogilvie and Chris Kniker. Mxdwn.com* has a more in-depth article here and you can go to their campaign HQ and read it from the horse's mouth here. Let's all throw whatever $$$ we can at these guys and get this thing happening - I can't wait!!!

* and while you're on mxdwn they have some great Crystal Castles photos up.

The Trapezoid - Coma_TheTenOf3's

Narcissism day continues. This is something I did several years ago and pretty much forgot about. Put it on the youtubes this evening.

Fearful - Gorilla (Sick to the Back Teeth Remix)

When you release things out into the ether, sometimes they come back to you in unexpected ways...

Dicking around online this morning I ran through a series of lackadaisical searches that somehow ended up with me finding one of my old tracks under my musical nom de plume The Trapezoid on a Russian DJ's mix set. I'd totally forgotten that I had, some years ago, struck an accord with Amduscias Records and sent them my track, "A Season in Hell" for one of their anthology discs. Through that route it ended up here. Perhaps a skosh narcissistic I know, but I can't help wonder about the atmosphere where this would be included in a DJ set - I'm picturing the kind of establishment I wrote it for - a quaalude bar in a minor suburb of the third largest city in hell.

I wish I could have just embedded it but no dice. However, the entire set is worth a listen (~1:22:00 in length) - it's packed with awesome, dark ambient stuff. Follow this link and its the second entry down under the heading Mixes Albums, DJ Sets, titled Exhalation, Vol. 2

David Lee Roth Vs. Poker Sharks

This is just all kinds of unexpected and weird.

BoC - In a Beautiful Place out in the Country

New Boards of Canada - Cold Earth

Via Exclaim.ca via Pitchfork: New Boards of Canada (reportedly) that was premiered before Squarepusher's set last night (Sunday, 5/26/13) at the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit.

I can't wait for this record. BoC have figured heavily into my listening habits ever since they really hooked me back in the early oughts, and this year especially I've been going through jags of drowning myself in Geogaddi & 2000's ep "In a Beautiful Place out in the Country" - they're fantastic writing music.

Lace Curtain - Falling

Via Heavenisanincubator. This is just FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC!!!

Nostalgia Works in Weird, Weird Ways My Friends

UPDATE: and it would help if I included the video I'm discussing, eh?

Okay, my 80's nostalgia might be drifitng into a dangerous place with this one. I'm sitting in a CBTL working on my novel, using the brilliance that is heavenisanincubator as a soundtrack to finally cut the bullshit and get through these two chapters that are essentially going to make up about a third of the second act of the story but that have sprawled to over 15k words and need some SERIOUS editing. Inbetween tracks the silence from my headphones reveals this song playing on the overhead - it meets with a favorable reaction from me and I linger there listening before looking it up, as I realize I have no idea who sings it.

Nu shooz? Really? Still, in the moment I find that I not only don't hate it (as I'm sure I have at some point in the past) but I'm actually liking it. And it helps me eek around a narrative corner I was until moments ago stuck on, so it gets the benefit of a post. And now that that's all done, it's back to the really good stuff.

Telefon Tel Aviv - Your Every Idol/You are the Worst Thing in the World

The first time I heard these guys it was this track. I had it in our desktop mac and didn't even realize it, had never heard it before. I took a post-work nap and as I came to, swimming in and out of the realm of dreams in the gathering twilight this faded in and stole my imagination. I've been a fan ever since.

Pantha du Prince - A Nomad's Retreat

From the Black Noise album (2010)

Clip (via Aintitcool) - Drafthouse Film's "A Band Called Death"

No this is not about the band that once sang "bathe in blood of the one you've just killed." This is about these awesome, protopunk pioneers:

Thee Comic Column #38

image courtesy of marvel.wikia.com

Thee Comic Column #38 - Wherein I lay out a somewhat hasty trip down Marvel Memory Lane to some of my favorite "Guest-Starring" Arcs of the late 80's/early 90's.

New Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead

Bag Raiders - Sunlight (stopmakingme Remix)

Another candidate for greatest remix ever - and it's another Bag Raiders track!!!

Underworld - Cowgirl (Music Video)

From one of the greatest electronic albums ever - hell, one of the greatest albums ever for that matter - dubnobasswithmyheadman

Apparat & Raz Ohara - Holdon (Modeselektor Remix)

With the right subs this shakes the fookin' house mate!!!

Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix ft. Au Revoir Simone

This and the Shooting Stars back-to-back makes for a fantastic 13 minutes or so of music. Apologies for using the one with the heiress as the backdrop, it was that or confections and I'm not particularly fond of sweets at the moment, as I'm drinking this:

Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars (Kris Menace Remix)

Class of 1984 Trailer

Time for Drinking... and Posting

Tonight's set is going to arrive in spurts as I'm having company over to get loaded and watch this:

Bale Out- RevoLucian

RevoLucian's mix never seems to lose its charm.

Rudy Velle and the Soul Phonics

My good friend Anthony turned me on to this band recently. Very, very nice.

David Lynch - Strange and Unproductive Thinking

Lynch's second album is filled from start to finish with wonderfully dark and noirish songs. This is one of two songs that wrap that tone in a bit of an Underworld-like urban throb.

Police Training Video on... SATANISTS!!!

My good friend Michael sent me this recently and I laughed my ass off when I watched it. Apparently this is the real thing, used to teach cops about the dangerous practices of Satanists by a former Satanist.

Uh-huh. I'm assuming that no self-respecting follower of the dark lord would wear his hair like that.

Thanks to the good folks at Dangerous Minds for posting this. They have a more in-depth write up here.

The Neighbourhood - Female Robbery

I followed my hunch and listened to the entire album by The Neighbourhood. It's fantastic. If you're familiar with DJ Muggs' amazing record DUST then you know the Noir Hop version of Greg Duli's Twilight Singer's Fat City (Slight Return). The Neighbourhood's I Love You is a record with a very similar tone.