New Boards of Canada Snippets?

How bad do we all want a new Boards of Canada album that we're willing to scrutinize little tidbits like this? Seriously though, I'm loving that guys like BOC and QOTSA are bringing back the mystery of album releasing in the age of the internet where everyone knows everything right away.

Coliseum - Bad Will

I've seen it suggested elsewhere that the events that occur at the end of this video may have been staged. Based on the fact that there's so little footage of what happens I doubt that.

New Kode9

Wicked track. What else would you expect from Kode9 though?

Thor: The Dark World Trailer

Moist Boyz - Paperboy

Not where my head's at, but I never completely pass up anything that has connections to Ween.

Boards of Canada Mystery Snippet

It's not much as far as actuallygiving us an idea what the new Boards of Canada will sound like (well, you can tell it sounds like BOC, but you know what I mean), however the mystery they're mixing up with it is juicy junior. Reaaal juicy. Read the full explanation/story on mxdwn here. And before you say it, I know of at least one website that utilized the "New BOC" thing as a April Fool's day joke, but according to the article I linked above, WARP has confirmed this is the real deal.

Wolf Eyes - Choking Flys

New Wolf Eyes video.

Fell Voices

Wow. Just found band and I really like them. Like a large, dark drill that grinds through the armor of your skull and fills your head with shadows. And the desciption, "Cascadian Black Metal"? AWESOME. Subgenres may be pretentious and unnecessary, but sometimes they just fit!

You can go to their label Gilead Media's bandcamp page here and buy a bunch of Fell Voices (as well as other bands') music, most of which is of the "Name Your Price" variety. Remember, help FEED artists.

Great interview w/ Local Natives via KCRW

God is LSD - Girl on Fire

It's been a while since I dug this out - one of my all time favorite records. I special ordered God is LSD's Spirit of Suicide from Red Tower in Orland Park back in the early 90's after reading a write-up of it in Subculture magazine. It didn't disappoint then and still holds strong today. This is my favorite song on the record, although, "Trippin... and Fucking the World" is a close second.

It's been a while since I had a GILSD jag - 'bout to remedy that.

Tiamat - Clouds

Wow. I haven't heard this in ages. One of my favorite album covers (although the crucified raven disturbs me a bit)

A Place to Bury Strangers - In Your Heart

I've probably posted this before, but it's so good it's worth posting again (and again and again).

Stag Hare - Sandpaintings

Found this via Warren Ellis' Twitter. I like - definitely fits the floating, hung-over mood I have this morning. You can of course click on the widget and follow it back to the group's bandcamp where the album is digitally offered at the "Name Your Price" cost. Or you can go to Inner Island Records and buy the C30 cassette!

Making How To Destroy Angels

Found this via Wired this morning.

I'm over my hang-ups with the album - I listened to Welcome Oblivion the other night two or three times in a row while reading Brian Michael Bendis X-Men comics and absolutely LOVED it. (was initially disheartened to find several of the tracks from Dec 2012's An Omen e.p. on the full length as well. I've pretty much just combined them into a giant playlist in Itunes).

Real Genius? Shamalamadingdong

This is old news to most; it went viral about a month or two ago. I just finally watched it for the first time and LOVED it.

Trailer: Karl Hyde (Underworld) & Kieran Evans' The Outer Edges

A description via Underworld's email/newsletter thingy: "The film tracks a peripheral route from north Essex to the Thames; a journey that follows the flow of the River Roding from its source to its conclusion at Barking Creek and along the Thames Gateway to Tilbury. Stopping off at allotments, boxing clubs, Saturday markets and working men’s clubs, the film celebrates the vibrant energy and attitudes of the people living and working within London’s invisible borders – the unmapped boundaries that Hyde crossed each day to record the album. Cut entirely to a soundtrack made up of deconstructed Edgeland tracks, The Outer Edges offers a fascinating insight into lives lived along the edges of London. The Outer Edges will be premiered at Sonar Sound in Tokyo on April 7th, and then released as part of the  Edgeland CD/DVD package on April 22nd."

TV on The Radio Perform Dreams w/ Peter Murphy & Trent Reznor

Wow. Mr. Brown sent this to me a week or so ago and I've just gotten around to seeing it.

Wow.

Murphy's voice @ 1:51.

The Pink Skulls Cover Bela Lugosi's Dead

I've been meaning to post this for about two weeks. After my Bauhaus jag two weekends ago my friend Jeffrey threw this at me - fantastic! Jeffrey is one of the fine folks who run just about my favorite recording studio ever, Apocalypse Cow. If you're in the Midwest and looking to record, contact these folk.

Robert Rodriguez's Two Scoops

This is... bizarrely awesome

The Robert Rodriguez-penned Curandero

I'd never heard of this until the trailer popped up after something I watched recently on bloody disgusting. From the Mind of Robert Rodriguez obviously was a great way to set-up the appropriately sparse images of this trailer for an apparently "lost" film that premiered at some festivals back in 2005 but has been in limbo since. It finally received VOD and DVD release recently and definitely looks worth a watch.

New Order - Crystal

I woke up with this song on my mind. It makes me think of my friend Joe Grez and the first time I heard the song, in Dublin with him at the wonderful Whelan's venue. We saw a couple great bands that night, New Prayer Breakfast and the inimitable Daemian Frost, who I really need to get on the ball, rip their ep and post it. SOOOOOO awesome.

M83/Susanne Sundfor on Kimmel

Still no interest in seeing this movie, but this is fantastic. So weird to see M83 introduced as a string section along w/ Anthony Gonzalez and crew. I can't be happier for their success (though I still wonder why Midnight City is the only single that's blown up when there's like five or six from Hurry Up, We're Dreaming and they're ALL AWESOME!

A Place to Bury Strangers - Don't Burn the Fires

A Dead Moon cover - I've never heard of Dead Moon but after this I am most definitely going to be looking into them.

Ghost BC - Secular Haze Live in Linkoping

And to be complete I should post this as well. LOVE the stained glass in the background.

Both these last two posts for Secular Haze can be found - along with a WEALTH of awesome imagery that will only further enhance the perona of this amazing band - on their website, which can be accessed via the following links.

http://www.infestissumam.com/

http://www.secularhaze.com/

Ghost BC - Secular Haze

I'm so wrapped up in this ghost record right now that I'm revisiting a lot of the tracks and images released in the lead-up to it. I realized I never posted this one.

This and Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's Push the Sky Away are easily going to rank in my top ten of the year.

Savages - Shut Up

New Savages. I'm liking this band more and more. Had a chance to see them last Thursday at the Echo (I think it was the Echo). I should have gone, but when wake up time is 430AM, it's hard to head out for a nine PM show.

And that's me done being acting like an old fuck for a while. 37 is not that old, especially when stoked on music like this all the time.

End blathering.

Terry Moore's Rachel Rising on TV? (via Bloodydisgusting)

REALLY interesting news tonight via the always mighty Bloodydisgusting - one of my favorite comics in recent years, Terry Moore's Rachel Rising, has just been licensed for tv. Read the full article BD article here and if you dig comics and haven't read RR please give it a shot. I wrote some praise for the book here and here.

Ghost BC - Stream Infestissumam

Pitchfork has had this up for at least a week, but after going to metal sucks and seeing this handy dandy little spotify widget at the tail end of a post with highlights from the band's recent Reddit AMA, I had to add it here as well. I received my copy of Infestissumam today via my lovely wife and it really is wonderful. I like it better than the first record, Opus Eponymous. Really great and the final track, Monstrance Clock, is vying for my favorite on the record (at this time). Here's what metal sucks quoted wikipedia for definition of Monstrance Clock:

"The Monstrance clock, or mirror clock, developed during the Renaissance. The monstrance was a cross-shaped gold or silver vessel which played an important part in church ritual and often incorporated sacred figures as part of the design. The clock made use of a rotating ball at the top or in the base to indicate the time of day. Monstrance clocks and crucifix clocks remained fashionable until the eighteenth century."

Patton Oswalt Filibustering Star Wars (AintitcoolNews)

Courtesy of aintitcoolnews. I don't know thing one about Parks and Rec and I'm posting this from work so I haven't even been able to watch it with sound, but I can already tell it's hysterical.

Corrections House - Grin with a Purpose

Watch this back to back with their first video, Hoax the System.

Via the always awesome Brooklyn Vegan.

The Soft Moon - Want

How did I miss this last week? I'll admit that I'm a little taxed on drugs and violence, however the frantic nature of the way this video is lit and shot fits the 'narrative'. Plus, I really like the Soft Moon.

Low - Just Make it Stop

New Low video - well done.

New Track from The Ocean's upcoming Pelagial Record

Thanks to blabbermouth.net for posting these. I cannot wait for Pelagial - The Ocean (sometimes known as The Ocean Collective) became one of my favorite bands a couple of years ago when I discovered 2004's Fluxion. After chewing on that record for about a year I dove in and bought everything else the band had done. I loved all of it and constantly marveled at the versatility with which Robin Straps and crew turned any conventions associated with heavy music on their ear without ever sacrificing the 'raging slab' factor of the art. Then in 2010 the group put out two records - Heliocentric and Anthropocentric. They are an examination of religion, but not in the typical metal fashion. Both of those records - which saw the group with a new vocalist - are absolute masterpieces that transcend any genre trappings even more than the group already had. I can't say this enough, they are amazing. Fans of Mike Patton and Faith No More may especially want to look into them (they even had the amazing packaging for both records designed by long-time Patton art designer Martin Kvamme).

New Alice in Chains - Stone

New album God Put Dinosaurs Here out May 28th!

New Empire of the Sun - Alive

Not really where my head is at right now, but I dig the little I've heard from these guys. Saturday night with friends and cocktails music.

Cloud Nothings live @ that place in the desert

My friend Jacob turned me onto the Cloud Nothings back in October of last year via their Steve Albini-helmed record Attack On Memory. It made my top ten records of 2012.

SNL - Rubbish for Thatcher

I haven't watched SNL since before Phil Hartmen died. I see an occasional skit here or there though, if word of mouth is good. During a recent text conversation with Mr. Brown he suggested I'd like this one, and I do, quite a bit.

RIP Chi Cheng, Bassist for the Deftones

image courtesy of love4chicheng.tumblr.com

How to Destroy Angels out in the Desert

While HTDA's first full-length release Welcome Oblivion disappointed me a bit when I purchased it and found most of the contents of their previous EP on it, I still really like the band. I love pretty much everything Mr. Reznor has ever done and Atticus Ross is just a freakin' genius, has been since I learned to spell his name back when Barry Adamson's MASTERPIECE As Above, So Below came out and I rabidly memorized the liner notes as it left its first of many deep, invigorating impressions on my soul.

Anyway...

Every image I've seen of HTDA live has been a thing of beauty - their stage lighting/set-up is nothing short of amazing and looks as though it would fit their music perfectly. Thanks to Pitchfork for linking this, hopefully more will surface.

And despite the disappointment, Welcome Oblivion is still a great piece of music.

Blur Live at that Place out in the Desert

While there's nothing I could think of that I would like to do less than attend a massive, 150+ band concert out in the middle of the desert supported by a shit-ton of corporate sponsors, I won't say I'm not going to cherry pick from the wealth of footage that is sure to arrive hot on said event's heels. A reunited Blur performing There's No Other Way is - in my opinion - a great place to start.

Thanks be to Pitchfork for linking this.

GIJOE animated Movie (80's) Intro

That last post made me think of this and so I had to look to see if it was on youtube (everything is on the youtubes - soon you will be too!).

The Cobra parts still give me chills - the Joe parts are blatantly goodie goodie. But I love the animation used here - even if the movie is pretty goofy.

"When I'm done with you their going to scrape you off the walls with a squeegee."

Sure sarge, sure.

While I'm on the topic, here's my review of Retaliation on Joup. I mean, not retaliation on Joup, but the review I published on the website I write a weekly comic book column for, Joup.

GIJOE Retaliation Fake Toy Commercial

aintitcoolnews posted this earlier. It runs out of steam, but it's pretty funny.

The Afghan Whigs - Love Crimes

I'm not really a fan of Frank Ocean. Nothing against him, and it could just be reaction against seeing his name EVERYWHERE for the last eight months, but when I gave the album a run through it didn't grab me. Might down the road - definitely not ruling that out. Especially after falling in love with the Whigs' version of this song, which dropped like a year ago and I'm just getting around to posting.

You should still be able to DL this on the Whigs' website here.

NEW music from The Devil's Blood is here!!! White Storm of Teeth

Yes, The Devil's Blood is broken up, however if you recall the link I posted upon learning this contained an interview with chief songwriter/guitarist Selim Lemouchi where he stated that the album they had been working on, along with a bunch of other demo stuff, would indeed be released. Well, here's the first track from the forthcoming third and final album, III: Tabula Rasa, or Death And The Seven Pillars. This is apparently a "demo" version but it doesn't sound too much like a demo - it's not super polished, but it's polished. Really dig this - reminds me a bit of a cross between Feverdance and Everlasting Saturnalia from the band's previous record The Thousandfold Epicenter. You can pre-order III here.

All this comes via a website I just discovered earlier today, a great metal site called Metal Sucks and their Senior Editor Anso DF. Really great site and they have quite a bit more info on what's coming from the The Devil's Blood here and here.

BRMC - Let the Day Begin Video

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

You know, I was originally going to talk smack with this post about some news I just read that confirms that I will indeed be completely ignoring EVERYTHING the reunited Black Sabbath will undertake, but I like to try to keep it positive here, so instead I decided to post what I consider to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time.

Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

FINALLY!!! I've been waiting for this trailer for what feels like forever. Thanks be to bloodydisgusting for delivering it.

Vindsval's The Eye

Let's trace the origin of a post like this, not just because someone out there might find it interesting, but because I'll find it interesting, as I've been a pretty rabid Blut Aus Nord fan for about two years now but have never heard of Vindsval's The Eye before.

Okay, so first, as I do at least once a day, I went to the wonderful heavenisanincubator blogspot and read up one a bunch of music I'd never heard before. Good times on The Incubator - always. Anyway, I found a post about Kylesa's Vulture's Landing and was specifically interested by The Incubator's description of Kylesa's sound as containing a "shoegaze" element. I followed the embedded link to Kylesa's label Season of Mist (if I'd be really paying attention it would have dawned on me that I was onto something, as I just re-read Neil Gaiman's Sandman vol. 4 Seasons of Mist and once again it has remained a slowly disintegrating echo in my head since). I looked around Season of Mist's sight for a few minutes, noting various bands on the label and then with the shoegaze + metal thing did what it always does and triggered me to go google search Blut Aus Nord - specifically looking for their label, Debemur Morti Productions' site. No matter where I go to read about Blut Aus Nord and their principal founder/creator Vindsval I always find something new, especially on DMP's site. And low and behold there it was - news that a sequel to the above-embedded album - written and performed entirely by Vindsval from what I've been able to find - 1997's Supremacy by The Eye.

National Twin Peaks Day!!!

So I had no idea but today is apparently national Twin Peaks day. Thank You to my good friend Missi for informing me of this. To celebrate I'm sitting in a coffee shop, drinking damn good black coffee and thinking about maybe stopping at the market afterward to buy a pie. The above picture is from a website I just found called Welcome to Twin Peaks. It's pretty awesome.

Back in 2000 Mr. Brown, myself and our friends Two Foot and The Cap'm drove across country, from Chicago to the areas where the show was filmed. It was the - I believe - sixth year of the event. We got to drink and hang out with some of the stars and I watched my friend Two Foot threaten to beat Jacques Renault's ass (the guy was a dick - probably from Leo kicking his ass all the time). Some day I'll right it all down, it was pretty odd, as a Twin Peaks fest should be.

They are having a new iteration of the festival this year. You can read about it/book tickets here. I'm not one hundred percent certain this event is put on by the same folks who did the one we went to - the guys who used to publish the wonderful and strange Wrapped in Plastic magazine, but it'd probably still be a cool event to go to. Especially because Washington state is just so damn beautiful.