200 Gram Vinyl, 5.1 Special Edition Sailing the Seas of Cheese...

...comes out this Tuesday, May 21. Buy it. Here's the link to Primus' website  through which you can link to pre-order it.

Here's some descriptive text from amazon:

"The deluxe edition will be available in two six-panel Digipak configurations, each featuring the album's new stereo mix on CD and the new 5.1 surround mix on Blu-ray or DVD, plus three exclusive, previously unreleased bonus tracks, including two live recordings from Primus' 2012 '3D Tour' and a Bassnectar Remix of 'Here Come The Bastards.' The Blu-ray's audio options also include Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround. The audio bonanza is accompanied by four visualizer video streams, previously unpublished photos from the band's archive, and new liner notes by music journalist and author Greg Prato. 

A 200-gram vinyl LP to be released on the same date also features Claypool's new stereo mix of the album. In a 'Mystery Vinyl' challenge for fans, 1000 unmarked, randomly selected copies will contain the new stereo mix on a yellow vinyl LP instead of black."

Primus - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver

image courtesy of Prawnsong.com

Zoltron's Poster Series

These really are amazing. Go to the Zoltron site here and check out more amazing art (including their current Primus Tour Poster Series) and you can buy their cool stuff in their shop, here.

Trailer for Jodorowsky's "The Dance of Reality"

The new film by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Thanks to Ales Kot for tweeting this to our attention.

More Ian Rubbish, SNL Season Finale, 5/18/13

This is the first thing from SNL in decades that I really dig. I have no idea who the cast member is that plays him - I've obviously seen his name now a couple times but I just don't retain it because I'm wholly unfamiliar with the cast in general. And in Rubbish's case I'd like to keep it that way. I'm more interested at this point in seeing what this particular fiction suit does in the world at large, now that Ian Rubbish has come into a real world context by releasing a free ep (get it here) and being booked to open for the likes of Vampire Weekend in the Steve Buscemi-directed concert.

Parquet Courts - Full Performance

Found this while skulking around on the youtubes. Reminds me of old Tar and Robbers on High Street, maybe some old Sonic Youth and Fugazi thrown in for good measure. However, comparisons aside, Parquet Courts definitely have their own personality; the nice little, sometimes-smooth, sometimes jagged-and-dissonant guitar fills peppered in over perpetually bouncy rhythms. Occasional squalls of feedback and the poignantly accented backing vocals. I like.

Check out Parquet Courts' website here.

A Short Film for Savage's Album-Opening Track "Shut Up"

So thanks to my good friend Jacob I've finally acquired a copy of Savages' debut album Silence Yourself. From the first sound on the record, a sample that sounds like it is from an old movie playing on a tv in the room where one of the instruments is mic'd I knew that this would be a very important record to me. My rapidly escalating anticipation and joy were fed by immediate invocations of The Cure's Pornography, the title track off the 1982 album of the same name. I'm on my second spin in a row of Silence Yourself and it's everything I thought it would be. It's funny how a sound like what many of us refer to, for lack of a better term, as "Post Punk", often feels confined to a specific time and place, but can occasionally be re-created and what's more added to in a way that endears the new artist to fans of the old 'scene', while simultaneously adding to that scene. I guess that's a rambling way of saying this will go very nicely on the record shelf in my mind next to the aforementioned early Cure albums, Bauhaus, Joy Division and Gang of Four.