Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork Live in LA

This concert was forty minutes away from me (with traffic and parking) last Thursday. I've been checking the QOTSA site off and on for weeks and still managed to miss the mention of it entirely. Of course it sold out right away, and tickets were (again) ridiculously priced compared to their shows in other cities. I'm not sure if it's the bands or the venues - me thinks a bit of both. Sorry, I LOVE Queens, but I'm not paying $75 to see anyone unless it's Joanna Newsom in a private performance. I'm posting this footage - which I believe is the new album start to finish and then some. I won't pay that tix $$ but I'll sure as hell give the boys my money next Tuesday.

image courtesy of dragcity.com

Ell V Gore - Sex Static E.P.

Wow.

Full article I pilfered this from on Exclaim.ca and Diffuser.fm

Help Fund Industrial Super Group Primitive Race

Will be comprised of - and this is an amazing line-up - Chris Vrenna, Luc Van Acker, Raymond Watts, Dave Ogilvie and Chris Kniker. Mxdwn.com* has a more in-depth article here and you can go to their campaign HQ and read it from the horse's mouth here. Let's all throw whatever $$$ we can at these guys and get this thing happening - I can't wait!!!

* and while you're on mxdwn they have some great Crystal Castles photos up.

The Trapezoid - Coma_TheTenOf3's

Narcissism day continues. This is something I did several years ago and pretty much forgot about. Put it on the youtubes this evening.

Fearful - Gorilla (Sick to the Back Teeth Remix)

When you release things out into the ether, sometimes they come back to you in unexpected ways...

Dicking around online this morning I ran through a series of lackadaisical searches that somehow ended up with me finding one of my old tracks under my musical nom de plume The Trapezoid on a Russian DJ's mix set. I'd totally forgotten that I had, some years ago, struck an accord with Amduscias Records and sent them my track, "A Season in Hell" for one of their anthology discs. Through that route it ended up here. Perhaps a skosh narcissistic I know, but I can't help wonder about the atmosphere where this would be included in a DJ set - I'm picturing the kind of establishment I wrote it for - a quaalude bar in a minor suburb of the third largest city in hell.

I wish I could have just embedded it but no dice. However, the entire set is worth a listen (~1:22:00 in length) - it's packed with awesome, dark ambient stuff. Follow this link and its the second entry down under the heading Mixes Albums, DJ Sets, titled Exhalation, Vol. 2

David Lee Roth Vs. Poker Sharks

This is just all kinds of unexpected and weird.