Spider Bags

I don't know much about Titus Adronicus. I know Mr. Brown gave me their album The Monitor a couple years ago and I dug it, but it's kind of remained in the "every once in a while" book in my car. While browsing Brooklyn Vegan a little while ago I noticed the singer of Adronicus wearing a pretty wicked looking shirt for Spider Bags and went ahead and googled that band (it was either a band or a strange, strange product - I figured I'd win either way). This is what I found. I dig it. You can find the Chapel Hill's Spider Bags bandcamp here and download this song for free!!!

Spider Bags "Shake My Head is available here from Odessa Records.

!!! - Slyd from Thr!!!er

New !!! is always a good thing.

Queens of the Stone Age Rarity

In anticipation of the forthcoming new QOTSA record (I'm now seeing the possibility of March bandied around the interweb but with no real specific source so...)I've had Rated R in heavy rotation. Coincidentally today as I was removing my headphones at the end of Better Living Through Chemistry a co-worker had a Queens song running on youtube that I had never heard before. I'd been pretty thorough back in the napster days in amassing what I thought were all the bands b-sides and rarities up to that point, but Spiders and Vinegaroons is one that slipped by me.

Until today.

Fake Zombie Emergency in Montana Interrupts Talk Show

Someone hacked this television station in Montana and added their own zombie emergency message. Once again fiction, no longer content with being marginalized to our imaginations, has attempted to supplant our consensual reality. When will it succeed?

Thanks be to Richard Kadrey for the tweet wherein I found this.

NextLevel Squad "Zilla March" Flexing Gas Mask | YAK FILMS + B'ZWAX

I discovered this track and this video about two years ago via the always marvelous technoccult.net . You can buy it on B'ZWAX's bandcamp here. My Chicago peeps will recognize the setting. If you've ever read the L in Chicago, can you just imagine these guys getting on it.

Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places

Ransom Riggs' 1st novel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is awesome. It is a narrative constructed around a handful of VERY odd old tyme pictures. I wrote about it after I read it here. Riggs is also a travel writer and has a WONDERFUL youtube channel that is slightly akin to one of my favorite websites, Forbidden Places, which is kind of a photographic foray into lost and forgotten urban places all over the world. This video, posted on the VlogBrothers youtube channel is an adventure with Riggs in a forgotten hospital. Fantastic.

Toy Fair 2013: Mattel Masters of the Universe Classics Castle Grayskull ...

This was on ainitcoolnews earlier today. Bad ass version of something I loved as a kid.