Monday, April 8, 2013
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The first track on this ep by GY!BE - Moya - hits me so hard sometimes I just want to collapse.
New Queens of the Stone Age Single!!!
ABOUT DAMN TIME!!! Seriously though, I don't hold the wait against the band - in fact I think the way they've played this whole thing is great. It's really not easy to cultivate mystique these days, what with the interwebs and all, but they did.
Anyway, I posted the live version that went around from Lollapalooza Brazil a couple weeks ago but here's the album version. Enjoy!
New Ghost B.C. track
So, brooklyn vegan has a new track from Infestissumam, the new album by Ghost B.C. (formerly Ghost). Go here to hear that.
Above I've posted some new stuff from the album as well. Infestissumam is out TOMORROW so if you dig what you hear, go buy it, or pre-order it on the band's website here.
Aintitcool's Bruce Campbell Q&A
Hot-off the heels of my Friday night viewing of Evil Dead - which I LOVED and most definitely is NOT a remake - I'm still reeling with all things Evil and Dead. Thus, I thought I'd post this little gem that the always awesome and informative (and fun!) Aintitcoolnews posted recently.
Moderat II
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Bauhaus - Live 1984/Shadow of Light
Fantastic set was my reaction upon initially posting this, however it's not a set - there's set footage, but this is apparently a video release I'd never seen before. The video is described on amzon thusly:
"Two previously released VHS's together on one DVD. Contains all the Bauhaus promotional videos as well as live performances recorded at the Old Vic Theatre in London in 1982"
Sandman - Wanda's Woes
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"This is the kind of night that needs a roaring log fire, a leopard-skin rug, a bottle of fine brandy, and, mm. I dunno. Rutger Hauer, maybe. And the third Velvet Underground LP in the background. Instead I've got a severed face and sleeping beauty for company." - from Neil Gaiman's Sandman: A Game of You.
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
This is still one of the most badass songs I've ever heard. In my quest to re-read/read Neil Gaiman's Sandman from the beginning through to the end Bauhaus just jumps off the music shelf. Along with Joy Division and The Cure, Tones on Tail and The Smiths (esp. Meat is Murder for Vol. 4 Seasons of Mist) Bauhaus is a perfect soundtrack for Neil Gaiman's lush dreamscape set on the outmost fringes of the old DCU. I'm currently reading Vol. 5, A Game of You, one of the volumes I'd not read before (I started reading the book during it's initial run with The Kindly Ones, which I believe was either the second or third-to-last volume. Of course I went back and snagged Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll's House and Dream Country as they were published in trades and then left what was essentially the middle of the saga untouched on my "To buy and Read" list. However, I very much wait for the particular moods for music/film and comics/books to overtake me before I lock into them, i.e. I can't just pick up Sandman and start reading it anymore than I can just through on Bauhaus any old time. I have to be in that particular headspace. I've begun re-reading Sandman many times over the years, as those first three volumes are among my most read comics. However I can't always sustain the mood to go all the way through, not with all the bloody distractions of everyday life. I've also often hit the $$$ wall, starting it and making my way through the beginning volumes only to find I didn't quite have it in my budget to buy the three or four volumes I was missing. Recent bursday presents from my wife have solved that particular problem).
Whenever a comic or book strikes such a strong harmonic frequency with a particular band or album I always wonder if the author themselves - or in this case any of the awesome artists involved - listening to that same music at the time of creating. And if that is indeed the case, the fact that you can pick that up suggests to me that the author/artist's hands are literally transducing the energy in its audio wave form into energy in a visible form, like a microphone is a transducer that takes audio waves and changes them into the physical rearrangement of magnetic iron particles (on analog tape) or 1's and 0's in the digital domain?
Something to think about.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
The Flaming Lips - Live 1990
SlowNerveActionBored's youtube channel is fantastic as it is laden with Flaming Lips goodness!
!!! - One Girl/One Boy
As I've said before, I am most definitely of the opinion that new !!! is always a good thing.
The Flaming Lips - Lettermen 4/03/13
WTF???
I'm reminded of the night I saw Radiohead on SNL back around the release of Kid A. This is easily my favorite Lips song in quite some time.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
RIP Roger Ebert
Didn't always agree with the man, but he was a strong, wonderful person and I'm sad to see him go. One of two icons from my home town. I grew up watching these guys and they were the first adults I saw take film as seriously as I did. Of course back then I disagreed with most of what they said and just watched the show for the movie clips - I thought movies with Arnold were great and these guys' criticisms of them were ridiculous.
Boy did I learn.
Rest in Peace to You, Mr. Ebert. Reunited with Your friend I'd like to think there's some hearty discussion going on somewhere in the After-Realms.
American Psycho + Huey Lewis + Weird Al = ...
... smiles.
It's apparently the 30th Anniversary of "Sports" - not the pastime, the album. I love that album, just like I love Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Not super crazy about the film, not because I think it's bad but I'm just so attached to what the book does to the reader - really, really puts them in Patrick Bateman's head (a fucked up place to be) and by nature a film has trouble doing that to the same degree a book - especially a book written by Bret Easton Ellis - can. But I always loved this scene and this is just fantastic.
And then there's Weird Al, who is all kinds of awesome, even if I really only listen from a distance. But the man's a comedy music institution.
The Besnard Lakes - People of the Sticks
This band... my god. Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO came out Tuesday. I'm a douche and still haven't had a chance to buy what should have been a "day of" pilgrimage to the record store for me.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives
When we went to see Drive two years or so ago it was at my friend Shailesh's recommendation. Shailesh knew I would skip it if he didn't say something. Turns out my wife and I loved it. As we left the theatre that night I kept saying, "Nicolas Winding Refn - where have I heard that name before?" I imdb'd him and realized he was responsible for the film Bronson, which I'd seen a year and some change previously and fallen for so hard that I immediately went out and tried to buy a copy of the DVD the day after the viewing. It'd been a while since a movie like that had come along at that time.
Now this.
"Wanna fight?" - Awesome.
Ataque de Pánico!!! (Evil Dead)
You know, I just put two and two together for the first time. I remember when this short went viral about three years ago - I loved it and the story that followed about how Raimi supposedly flew the creator up to LA from his native Uruguay and put him to work for Ghost House made me even more happy. It reinforced what a great person and outside-the-box filmmaker Raimi is. Flash forward a couple years and Ataque de Pánico! has been off my radar long enough for it never to have dawned on me that this was the same guy directing the Evil Dead remake.
Now I'm even more excited and honestly, I didn't think that was possible.
Evil Dead Talk w/ Fede Alvarez & Jane Levy
Bought my tickets last night for Evil Dead on Friday. I CAN'T WAIT!!! I'm posting this from work - if you watch this you're seeing it before me as my hands are freezing from liquid nitrogen vapor and I've no speakers on this computer. There may be spoilers as far as the franchise. thanks to the always awesome bloodydisgusting for posting this.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
CHVRCHES - Now is Not the Time
I keep seeing this group's name but this is the first I've actually took the time to listen. I dig it. Also, the video is a kick for me as my old, old band The Yellow House once rented a roller rink and filmed a video there. One day that will be on the youtubes and I'll be able to post it.
The Flaming Lips - Ashes in the Air
Today the new Besnard Lakes album comes out, as well as the latest from Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, which is Mr. Biafra's first concept album - I think - since The Dead Kennedy's Frankenchrist. I say this to help stomach the fact that the new Flaming Lips record - The Terror - isn't out for another two weeks. The video above was just released - I found it on the always diligent Brooklyn Vegan - but was from the The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Tones on Tail
Really into Tones on Tail again. Re-reading Sandman from the beginning and it'll surely be ToT, The Smiths, Joy Division and The Cure as a soundtrack.
The Walking Dead - Michonne Kills a Bunch of Zombies
Thanks to Bloodydisgusting for posting this. Awesome. I've been VERY hot and cold with this show but I am looking forward to tonight's season finale.
New Queens of the Stone Age track!!!
NEW QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE!!! With ... Like Clockwork due out via Matador in June it was only a matter of time until new songs surfaced. Of course there's no guarantee My God is the Sun is one of the tracks on the new album, but any new QOTSA is good QOTSA (as if there's any bad QOTSA - Ha!).
Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan and Consequence of Sound who posted this performance - live from Lollapalooza Brazil - earlier today.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Author & Punisher
Another band my friend Tori introduced me to. Listen to this track, if you dig it buy it but first, check out what Author and Punisher looks like live:
Inhumanoids
Ahh... 80's toy commercials. Where the hell did these kids find smoking caverns to play with their toys in? Apparently I lived in the wrong neighborhood...
Eli Roth's Hemlock Grove
I've been looking forward to upcoming Netflix original series Hemlock Grove from Director/Producer Eli Roth. Now first, let me say that in the past I've been a little polarized on Roth. The guy definitely has the background; he interned for David Lynch and he's worked with Quentin Tarantino. As far as his projects, I really liked wry humor and nail-biting gore of Cabin Fever (the leg-shaving scene - oh my god!), but I absolutely HATED hostel. I've been told I should give it another chance, but I doubt that'll ever happened, I hated it that much. I ignored Roth's stuff for a couple of years after that.
Then came the Tarantino/Rodriguez Grindhouse flicks and Roth's Thanksgiving trailer, which I loved. Not too terribly long after that was news that Roth had embraced and would produce Jon Watts and Christopher D. Ford's movie Clown - a movie that originated as a fake trailer the creators had posted online and attached Roth's name to. Roth caught wind of it and instead of getting upset at the use of his name took it for what it was - a compliment as well as a tactic two creative guys had used to get noticed - and reached out to the creators. The movie is now set for release this year.
How Awesome is that?
Finally, late last year while in Vegas we visited Roth's Goretorium exhibit. I was blown away. I'm still probably never going to give hostel another chance, but the guy has earned his place in my "benefit of the doubt" book and when news trickled down about Hemlock Grove - especially because I kept seeing comparisons to Twin Peaks - I was interested.
Well, below is the first footage released from the Grove, which lands all-episodes-at-once, on April 19th. Taken out of context it's a bit wonky, until the end that is. As far as werewolves go my first love will always be Dog Soldiers, but this looks like it will be pretty damn awesome.
You should follow this link to where I procured this footage from as bloodydisgusting typically posts the best horror stuff around!
The Devil's Blood is No More
I've actually known about this for about a month. I wanted to write about it, however it really, really bummed me out. I started a post and never finished. When my friend Tori turned me on to this band it was late 2011, just after she'd seen them live opening for Ghost (now Ghost BC). I was supposed to go to that show but backed out at the last minute due to the ridiculously early waking time I have during the week (not sure why, but literally EVERY show I've wanted to see for the last two or three years has been during the week). Anyway, Tori said Ghost was great but she was really impressed with The Devil's Blood. She went out and found a copy of their most recent record The Thousandfold Epicentre and I made a copy. Within about a day I was hooked and listened to nothing but for about a month.
The more I listened the more I became intrigued by the band. However, looking around online at the time there really wasn't much to go by. The only wikipedia article at the time was this one that I had to have google translate from German.
Anyway, it's been a while since I've been on The Devil's Blood so hardcore, though it's not really ever left my musical vernacular for very long. Then a couple of weeks ago I fell back into their music pretty for a couple of days and during some down time at work googled them for the first time in probably over a year.
This is what I found:
The Devil’s Blood is no more. As of the 22nd of January 2013 The Devil´s Blood has returned into nothingness.It has been a while since the announcement of our disbanding was made and we feel now is the right time to convey our plans for the legacy that TDB will leave.Our music and artwork will remain available through both our own website and that of Ván Records as well as any other medium that will prove suitable.At the time of the group’s disbanding there were several projects ongoing, each in different evolutionary stages. These were the following:
I'll stop there, but if you click on any of the text above - which I appropriated from the main page of the band's website - you can go there and read about the posthumous releases to follow. While I am most definitely excited about those, I'm really just still super bummed. I'm hoping guitarist/found SL or his sister, vocalist F. The Mouth of Satan will go on to do another project, but in the meantime I'm still in mourning.
Links from a better time:
And of course, one of the outstanding tracks from The Thousandfold Epicenter:
The Devil’s Blood is no more. As of the 22nd of January 2013 The Devil´s Blood has returned into nothingness.It has been a while since the announcement of our disbanding was made and we feel now is the right time to convey our plans for the legacy that TDB will leave.Our music and artwork will remain available through both our own website and that of Ván Records as well as any other medium that will prove suitable.At the time of the group’s disbanding there were several projects ongoing, each in different evolutionary stages. These were the following:
I'll stop there, but if you click on any of the text above - which I appropriated from the main page of the band's website - you can go there and read about the posthumous releases to follow. While I am most definitely excited about those, I'm really just still super bummed. I'm hoping guitarist/found SL or his sister, vocalist F. The Mouth of Satan will go on to do another project, but in the meantime I'm still in mourning.
Links from a better time:
And of course, one of the outstanding tracks from The Thousandfold Epicenter:
Hope Drone - Ambient Black Metal
Any time I see the words "Ambient" and "Black Metal" used in regards to the same band I take notice.
Hope Drone's bandcamp has their eponymous e.p. available at a "name your price" amount, so if you dig what you hear head on over and help support them.
Interestingly enough, "Hope Drone" was also the working title of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's set-opener when my wife and I saw them at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall back in April of '12.
Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
As I come to the end of Mark Yarm's wonderful book Everybody Loves Our Town I find myself drawn once again back to my favorite band from that era, Alice in Chains. In that return I realized a major oversight in my record collection. I do not own the AIC unplugged.
Now, I know why I don't own it - its association with empty-v. However, Everybody Loves Our Town has made me re-think this.
The book is word of mouth - in other words it is comprised entirely of interview snippets conducted and arranged by Mr. Yarm and in the last chapters as those firsthand accounts address the death of Layne Staley there's a quote by AIC bassist Mike Inez that reads, "We discovered at that show that songs like "Sludge Factory" were even heavier acoustic. Layne that night was so haunting. His voice, especially his performance on "Down in a Hole," it still brings a tear to my eye. There was a couple times I had to pull my eyes off of Layne and remind myself, Hey, I'm at work. Instead of being a fan here, I better concentrate on my bass chords. He was just so mesmerizing."
I have a powerful relationship with Alice's music, and Staley's death was the first of two rock star deaths that have actually affected me (the other being Peter Steele's from Type O Negative). Staley reminded me of my best friend Jake, who died a looong time ago. Anyway, that quote from Mr. Inez made me really want to see/hear the performance in question so I went youtube.
Wow.
Nutshell, the second track off of 1993's Jar of Flies ep just kills me every time. But it's even more powerful here. All the tracks are fantastic, but that one and Sludge Factory - which since the first time I heard it has been one of my favorite Alice tracks - are just killer.
Yeah Yeah Yeah's Sacrilege - The Video
I kept thinking the 'video' I posted the other day for the Yeah Yeah Yeah's new song Sacrilege was a little... boring. But hey, I always figure, "who the hell am I to judge?" Anyway, thanks to Brooklyn Vegan I've realized I was indeed incorrect. The video is above, as I'm sure you've already gathered.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Jason Lescalleet - Friday Night in a Catholic Home
Believe it or not this makes me really want to hear the rest of this album. I love stuff like this - which Brooklyn Vegan posted earlier today.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Richard Kadrey and the Pandar Bros Web Comic
Richard Kadrey is awesome. I'm aware of but largely unfamiliar w/ the Pander Bros. I'm going to read the hell outta this!!!
The Knife - Wanting to kill
In anticipation of Shaking The Habitual (April 8th/9th), the new album from Swedish electro duop The Knife I was looking around online and found this track from the soundtrack to a Swedish film called Hannah Med H. I'd never heard of it before and really dug this track - it reminds me a bit of Vitalic. I intend to look into finding a copy of the ST.
Puna - au dial
Heard this track earlier this evening on WLUW, the Rock Sin Anestesia with Roxyo program. Good stuff.
My friend Grez recommended the Independent Music with Ken N. show, which can also be found on WLUW on Wednesdays from 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM. I keep missing that show, but looking at the track logs it's great.
M83 Scores Oblivion
This is old news by now and this first song released went up a while ago and then re-circulated earlier this week, however I'm not so much about breaking news as I am about curating the stuff I think is awesome from around the web.
I've tried to post this before, however each time there's been some issue with the embed code. I think it finally worked. Great track, as always. Not interested in seeing the film, although I suppose I don't know too much about it and it is possible that could change. I always want to be able to dismiss Tom Cruise movies but then often find myself actually liking them (Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky, Collateral, to name but a few). Plus, if you listen to people that have worked with him, he sounds like an amazingly talented guy.
Tomahawk - Oddfellows (Video)
You know, I could have swore I posted this last month when I first saw it, but apparently not. Special thanks to the always encouraging Mr. Brown who sent me a link and reminded me about it.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Hidden Track from M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
I tried to decode this one for some time, forgot about it and now ran across it on youtube. I did the work - I just couldn't get it to work.
Monday, March 25, 2013
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