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.

New Wolverine Trailer

Can't. Wait.

New Tricky: Nice.

I'm not going to lie, I LOVE Maxinquaye, but a lot of the other Tricky I've heard has not interested me at all. Granted, I haven't investigated everything the man has put out, but I tend to prefer the leanings of his one time collaborator extraordinaire Martina Topley-Bird's stuff. But it's been a great day for new release info and I had to click on Brooklyn Vegan's post about False Idols, the forth-coming Tricky record. So far, I'm digging what I'm hearing. Go to the mighty Vegan's post here to listen to another new song, but first here's one of my favorites off the aforementioned Maxinquaye. Oh yeah, go to Tricky's facebook page here and download Tribal Drums for free!!!

Boards of Canada - Mystery Solved

Mucho thanks to Brooklyn Vegan, Pitchfork and all the other great sites that did the research on this night and day and have made me very happy by confirming the following: The new Boards of Canada album is titled Tomorrow's Harvest and will be released June 11th on Warp.

Now, how awesome is this? That mystery string of numbers all those articles I've been linking to since this thing started (699742628315717228936557813386519225)? It's the password to get you into Boards of Canada's new website, here. However I warn you, I was unable to cut and paste that massive string of numbers into the Dos prompt opening page for the site, so write that shit down on paper or toggle some windows, cuz no one's memory is that good.

Awesome. Here's some old school BoC to celebrate. June 11th is just around the damn corner people, get excited!!!

Fuzz (Ty Segall) - Fuzz's Fourth Dream

Baaaaad Ass!

Fantastic Horror Short: Don't Move

Watch this. Seriously, come back here when you have time, or go to Bloody Disgusting here when you've got ten minutes or so to spare. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.

Thanks to Bloody Disgusting for turning me on to this. Wicked. Directed by Anthony Melton, via Bloody Cuts films, whose website is filled with shorts that I'm now itching to watch. Nice job guys!

Iggy Pop - Calling Sister Midnight

Just ran across this in Sandman: Brief Lives chapter 5. My reading/re-reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman concurrently with Alan Moore's Swamp Thing has shed light on many things, not the least of which has been some great music.

Mike Patton's Mondo Cane - FULL SHOW!!!

Thanks to mxdwn for posting a link to this FULL Mondo Cane show.

How Did I Miss the Trailer for Joss Whedon's Much Ado about Nothing???

And I totally missed this when it landed almost two months ago.

Why is it whenever I hear or see the name of this Shakespeare play I hear or see 'Much to do about Humping' first? I feel like it was on a marquee in an episode of the Simpsons, back in like the fourth or fifth season? Anyone?

UPDATE: and I really have to laugh at myself for posting this originally as "How Did I Miss the Trailer for Joss Whedon's Much to do about Nothing???"

Good lord.

Red Trailer

So as a kid in the 80's I loved action movies. Then I grew up, the 90's hit and in a weird synchronization of timing, it seemed like Hollywood matured about the same time my friends and I did. Action movies all but went away (well, they never really go away, but Mr. Tarantino and friends helped relax their grip on the vernacular of film) and smart-talking, indie cinema Savoir Faire took over. These days action movies are back, but in an upgraded, definitely gone-through-the-meta-paradigm-and-come-out-the-other-side way. The thing is, the good ones know what they are and they don't want you to take them seriously - they can barely take themselves seriously. And when in the hands of good actors this works. The first Red was a good example of this. It excels in its meta-snarkyness in all the ways that a franchise like The Expendable does not*, wh It caught my eye because it's based on a comic by Warren Ellis. It was pretty damn good (I think the only thing I disliked was the music). This one looks right in line with the first, and it seems as though the 'amping up' that is always sure to happen in an action sequel will even be done in a tasteful, elastic way. Not just "MORE BLOOD! MORE EXPLOSIONS!" but Dame Helen Mirren with two guns and Storm Shadow in tow.

image courtesy of iwatchstuff.com

Popcorn flick extraordinaire!!!

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*Admittedly I've only seen the second Expendable, and in spite of myself I did enjoy it (though its visceral violence quota was a bit much for me) but it isn't a 'justifiable' 'Like' the way Red is.

Boards of Canada Mystery Deepens with... A tv Commerical?

This apparently aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block last night, so thanks to Pitchfork for reporting it, as I do not have a television set that plays anything but DVD's, let alone cable. And go to Pitchfork again here to read about one of these surprises I missed, where NPR's All Things Considered and Radio 1's Zane Lowe show each featured a further mystery snippet.

I LOVE this.

DUDE!!! The Rolling Stones played THE ECHOPLEX LAST NIGHT!!!

With a cap of three-hundred something people for an audience, this is just crazy!

I suppose I should point out I was not there and thus this is not my video. Thanks to the mighty Brooklyn Vegan for posting this  -- it was the first thing I saw when I woke up and it blew my mind!!!

Roni Size - Watching Windows - Ed Rush & Optical RMX

All that Dee-Lite stirred up some shit from this era. Here's another oldie but goodie (fucking hell, when did this get old? Or did it - Roni Size just played that place in the desert). The bass at 1:31 RULES!!!

Crystal Castles - Doe Deer

More Crystal Castles - one of my favorites from them. Is Alice Glass the female David Yow? Perhaps at times...

Deee-Lite Call Me (Method One Remix)

The keys in this track are like clouds rolling through heaven.

Deee-Lite

Oh shit, this is going baaaaaack! Still one of my favorite albums EVER!!! The Synths just knock me out.

Miguel Migs - Dance & Clap

Nice. Another edition of drinking and posting is underway.

B'ZWAX & YAK FILMS: NEXTLEVEL SQUAD ZILLA MARCH

I don't think I ever posted this here. I found Zilla March about two years ago through the wonderful technoccult.net.If you dig the track go here and buy it. Scope out more from Yak films here.

Henry Rollin's Radio Show Moved to Sunday???

Dear KCRW: PUT HENRY ROLLIN'S RADIO SHOW BACK ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

Thank you in advance for seeing things my way,

Sincerely,

Shawn C. Baker

Rinocerose - la guitaristic house organisation

I first heard this somewhere on the other side of the pond, back at the beginning of the oughts. I think a club in Edinburgh. Somehow tracked the record down - whole thing is fantastic and doesn't get the props it deserves.

Tristan Shone's artistic Process (Author & Punisher)

The more I learn about Tristan Shone, the more I am fascinated by him.

Brian Michael Bendis' All-New X-Men

I am just in love with Brian Michael Bendis' run on X-Men. Here's my full two cents:

http://joup.co/thee-comic-column-34-bendis-x-men/

Tones on Tail - Twist

This is one of those songs that I feel was made 'for me'. Love it.

Crystal Castles - Affection

I don't love III the way I do II, but this is a start to getting me back into trying to.

Secret Board of Canada Links and... an album title???

They're set to private, so I couldn't embed them here, but follow these links: One and Two and you'll hear more of Boards of Canada fucking with us. I'm hearing complaints but I'm LOVING this; someone has found a way to bring the mystery back to album releases {props again to QOTSA on their recent weirdness as well, but this is out-mystiquing them BIG TIME at this point}. And speaking album releases, the speculation at present is the new record may be named Cosecha. What? Where'd that come from? Read all about the research going on to keep on top of this stuff on Exclaim! - it's fascinating!

Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

I'm in full Blut mode today (much to my wife's chagrin). One of the greatest metal albums ever, but you have to have the right ears to 'hear' it. Many don't - I'm not trying to be elitest, it's just not an easy piece of music to love. I almost dismissed it at first too. Then I 'heard'.

Trailer: "The Ganzfeld Experiment"

Based on this trailer The Ganzfeld Experiment will either be great or awful - it's hard for me to say from what we see here. Conceptually I really like the idea of people locked in seclusion, fueling extra-sensory experimentation with drugs, but it's rare that a flick pulls it off.

Dilinger Escape Plan - When I Lost My Bet Video

Wow.