awesome tune ... summer awaits
2010-04-29
2010-04-22
musicians are sassy
Check this interview with Dom of the band Dom. I haven't even heard a song yet and i already like them. He covers all of my favorite topics:
pop culture songs' true meanings ... check
Lil Wayne ... check
foster homes ... check
porn ... check
craigslist ... check
worcester mass .... check
talking shit about a fellow indie musician ... double check
food stamps ... check
hockey ... check
... and more!!!
i work-lol'd reading this ... oops
pop culture songs' true meanings ... check
Lil Wayne ... check
foster homes ... check
porn ... check
craigslist ... check
worcester mass .... check
talking shit about a fellow indie musician ... double check
food stamps ... check
hockey ... check
... and more!!!
i work-lol'd reading this ... oops
2010-04-14
new band of horses
i'm going to go ahead and give them the benefit of the doubt seeing as how they disproved my initial reactions on cease to begin ... but whatever, here's the first single:
2010-04-07
july 17ers against Gaga
M.I.A. from an interview in NME: "The pop rebel also had some choice words for Lady Gaga in the interview: "People say we're similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same. None of her music's reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza disco, you know? She's not progressive, but she's a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do!"
...a-fucking-men sister ... amen
...a-fucking-men sister ... amen
2010-03-03
quick takes
a few words on a couple of the albums on regular rotation at the moment:
titus andronicus - the monitor: still not able to make this one hook like "airing of grievances". the punk epicness was replaced with countrified banjos and piano parts which shows growth in their sound repertoire but it didn't translate to growth in songwriting.
you say party we say die - XXXX: read a decent review, also caught the genre hook "dance punk" ... but found the album a bit more dance / mood / electronic than punk ... not really my thing i guess. think they'd be a decent live show though. dance punk bands always are.
gil scott-heron - I'm new here: still making my way through this album. Unfortunately i haven't made the time to sit down and dissect, but have it in multiple shuffle lists and i am digging what i am hearing. bluesy / soul / spoken word spruced up with interesting beats and tempo tricks. think there's a lot more here to explore still.
pantha du prince - black noise: ambient electronica is not where i'm at right now. when and if it becomes that type of mood i'm pretty sure i will not be able to turn this album off. it is pretty much awesome, but a 7 minute electronic journey is not fitting for my attention span at the moment. plus panda is on a track so you know it's gonna get at least some props from me ...
local natives: too early to tell. at first i was really annoyed by the voice. actually i'm working on a piece relating east vs. west coast indie bands and some completely made up theories about what that's all about. but overall there are a few tracks here that have been stuck in my head some. i think this is gonna be a good one.
hot chip - one life stand: i think i definitely caught onto hot chip because of the pop dance electronic of their last album. this album explores more of the brooding englishman thing they have going. and what i would call the portions i found less interesting on their last album. it's not bad, but it's not what i dug about them. not ready to bury it yet, but running out of motivation to keep it in rotation.
titus andronicus - the monitor: still not able to make this one hook like "airing of grievances". the punk epicness was replaced with countrified banjos and piano parts which shows growth in their sound repertoire but it didn't translate to growth in songwriting.
you say party we say die - XXXX: read a decent review, also caught the genre hook "dance punk" ... but found the album a bit more dance / mood / electronic than punk ... not really my thing i guess. think they'd be a decent live show though. dance punk bands always are.
gil scott-heron - I'm new here: still making my way through this album. Unfortunately i haven't made the time to sit down and dissect, but have it in multiple shuffle lists and i am digging what i am hearing. bluesy / soul / spoken word spruced up with interesting beats and tempo tricks. think there's a lot more here to explore still.
pantha du prince - black noise: ambient electronica is not where i'm at right now. when and if it becomes that type of mood i'm pretty sure i will not be able to turn this album off. it is pretty much awesome, but a 7 minute electronic journey is not fitting for my attention span at the moment. plus panda is on a track so you know it's gonna get at least some props from me ...
local natives: too early to tell. at first i was really annoyed by the voice. actually i'm working on a piece relating east vs. west coast indie bands and some completely made up theories about what that's all about. but overall there are a few tracks here that have been stuck in my head some. i think this is gonna be a good one.
hot chip - one life stand: i think i definitely caught onto hot chip because of the pop dance electronic of their last album. this album explores more of the brooding englishman thing they have going. and what i would call the portions i found less interesting on their last album. it's not bad, but it's not what i dug about them. not ready to bury it yet, but running out of motivation to keep it in rotation.
2010-02-26
2010-02-25
fuel for the ring
i don't listen to much FM radio. For the most part, only the stations that live at the extremes of the dial tend to deliver music in a manner that is not blatantly fueled by corporations attempting to bend the consumers will to their financial benefit. Not that I'm totally against it. Despite what you might think I think corporate radio has it's place and usefulness. And for christ's sake I'm a fan of the Beatles. I don't think anything says more about my appreciation for pop music than that.
anyways, i get a fairly heavy dose of radio friendly tunes during my day job as my coworker plays her vanilla radio station to break what would be a silence otherwise only cut by the click / clack made by our fingers and the occasional sigh that comes with working in a dead end pointless job.
probably the most interesting part of the daily ritual of vanilla rock is the slice of americana known as the morning radio talk show. it's the typical guy / girl banter and "interesting" news chat. In particular the thursday ritual where they bring in a local artist to play a song in studio. Saved for a rant on another day, there is nothing more telling of rochester's awful awful creative musical vision than the sewage that typically spills out of the speakers on these days.
today in particular was so heinous i decided to write a post about it. in short ... in honor of the release of johnny cash's last volume of american recordings, a multi album compilation consisting of cash covering great songs by other musicians the in studio band played ... johnny cash ... covering soundgarden. it basically shit all over not one, but two of my favorite musicians in one fell swoop. wow ... that was bad, i hope the station posts it so i can link it for all eternity.
anyways, i get a fairly heavy dose of radio friendly tunes during my day job as my coworker plays her vanilla radio station to break what would be a silence otherwise only cut by the click / clack made by our fingers and the occasional sigh that comes with working in a dead end pointless job.
probably the most interesting part of the daily ritual of vanilla rock is the slice of americana known as the morning radio talk show. it's the typical guy / girl banter and "interesting" news chat. In particular the thursday ritual where they bring in a local artist to play a song in studio. Saved for a rant on another day, there is nothing more telling of rochester's awful awful creative musical vision than the sewage that typically spills out of the speakers on these days.
today in particular was so heinous i decided to write a post about it. in short ... in honor of the release of johnny cash's last volume of american recordings, a multi album compilation consisting of cash covering great songs by other musicians the in studio band played ... johnny cash ... covering soundgarden. it basically shit all over not one, but two of my favorite musicians in one fell swoop. wow ... that was bad, i hope the station posts it so i can link it for all eternity.
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