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Blue Öyster Cult, “Screams” (from Blue Öyster Cult,...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:38:20 -0600

Blue Öyster Cult, “Screams” (from Blue Öyster Cult, 1972)

Shut up with your “more cowbell”; the grown-ups are talking.

rjwhite: Via Mr. Nate Patrin. Hobo Hitler is a dead ringer for...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:09:03 -0600

rjwhite:

Via Mr. Nate Patrin.

Hobo Hitler is a dead ringer for John Lydon with a few days’ growth.

The anti-geek/pro-hipster policy on display here is the exact...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:07:39 -0600

The anti-geek/pro-hipster policy on display here is the exact opposite of Internet culture 2010.

(via mothrapisces)

"A lot of people take the back seat out of their car and put a kind of cushion affair in the back so..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:45:55 -0600

““A lot of people take the back seat out of their car and put a kind of cushion affair in the back so just a bare eyebrow shows out of the back window and that’s cool, because you’re in your capsule.””

- David Lee Roth on lowrider culture, Spin May 1985.

4hero, “Sunspots” (from Parallel Universe, 1995) As...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:04:42 -0600

4hero, “Sunspots” (from Parallel Universe, 1995)

As an aside, this is what I’m hoping things’ll be like by the end of the week.

Comets on Fire, “The Antlers of the Midnight Sun”...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:46:34 -0600

Comets on Fire, “The Antlers of the Midnight Sun” (Live at the Echo, Los Angeles, 8/16/06)

This week begins in a way not unlike last one ended. (And aren’t these guys due for another album soon?)

mothrapisces: bathyscaphe: via img.photobucket.com BROOKDALE...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:58:15 -0600

mothrapisces:

bathyscaphe:

via img.photobucket.com

BROOKDALE CENTER!

Boris with Michio Kurihara, “Starship...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:04 -0600

Boris with Michio Kurihara, “Starship Narrator”

It’s gonna be one of those kinds of weekends.

235to1: What’s that? Someone made a film noir montage cut to...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:45:27 -0600

235to1:

What’s that? Someone made a film noir montage cut to Massive Attack? Are they living in my head?

This made my day.

Beats the crap outta when Snatch used this song, I’ll say that much.

7 crucial things comic geeks and sports fans have in common

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:25:08 -0600

Or, why Patton Oswalt was so believable in Big Fan:

1) A deep, distinct need to statistically quantify their favorite player/character’s abilities

2) The more ardent fans dressing up in elaborate getups at major events

3) Participation in a collectors’ market that saw the bottom drop out sometime in the ’90s

4) A reputation (deserved or otherwise) for making women feel awkward around its most obsessive enthusiasts

5) Getting mocked for living in their parents’ basements for blogging about their interests

6) Accusations of obsessing over the feats of big muscular guys as signs of being secretly gay

7) Visible and popular media figures who hail from stereotype-friendly cities on the Eastern Seaboard, represent fanboy culture to the wider world, and will not shut up about that one movie that came out in the mid-late ’70s, god, just give it a rest already

The Smoke, “That’s What I Want” (1973) Or: why...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:12:01 -0600

The Smoke, “That’s What I Want” (1973)

Or: why more fuzzed-out mid ’60s mod-psych bands should’ve stuck it out ‘til at least the early ’70s. (Though apparently it isn’t even the original lineup that recorded “My Friend Jack”, so huh.)

Also! (via allmusic):

[The band] ended up in a bizarre management situation, when they were offered a seeming rescue by a pair of twin London-based entrepreneurs, Ron and Reg Kray. Renowned today the world over as notorious gangsters, the Kray brothers have been immortalized in books, including Profession of Violence and Reg’s own autobiography Born Fighter, and one feature film (The Krays), and were even memorably satirized in one Monty Python sketch (“The Piranha Brothers”). They were among the top crime kingpins in London at the time, and among their other enterprises, they had an interest in a few clubs, and thought at one point that a more direct participation in the entertainment business might prove lucrative. (And yes, it sounds funny to read it, or even to write it, but that is exactly how Morris Levy, an American gangster and club owner, came to go into the record and publishing business in New York, and ended up founding Roulette Records). Thus, they signed the group and became the Shots’ managers, but were never able to do anything with them in terms of bookings — strong-arming clubs for “protection” money was more their specialty than lining up engagements. The band decided to abandon the contract, and when they were served with an injunction, they were left unable to perform.

Scharpling & Wurster present the Merge Records 20th Anniversary Roundtable Discussion!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:13:11 -0600

Scharpling & Wurster present the Merge Records 20th Anniversary Roundtable Discussion!:

perpetua:

The panel includes Ronald Thomas Clontle, Philly Boy Roy, Timmy von Trimble, The Gorch, Barry Dworkin, and some other major figures from Newbridge, New Jersey!

The possibility of getting to hear deranged, violent Fonzie prototype Roland “the Gorch” Gorchnik discuss the Arcade Fire means this is a drop-everything-and-listen situation.

Whoops.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:51:22 -0600

So I thought that by enabling my Twitter posts to appear here, they’d just show up in an inconspicuous sidebar or something. This was not the case. My bad.

tomewing: Five minutes and thirteen seconds: This is “R-Type”...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:47:52 -0600

tomewing:

Five minutes and thirteen seconds: This is “R-Type” by Jo, from 1995 - she was 18 or 19 at the time, one of the few women producing jungle records and (I think) the only producer at that time to use videogame soundtracks as their main sample source. The result is glitchy, rough-edged, psychedelic jungle: propulsive and woozy at the same time, and thanks to the continued fascination with 8-bit sounds it’s aged very well.

I wanted to upload a bit more jungle and hardcore because all the recent conversation about cassettes had reminded me of it: for me it was a cassette medium, when I started listening to it (relatively late! 1993 or so) the Oxford dance music shops still disapproved of it and never stocked the vinyl, they just had a handful of cassette mixes on one corner of one shelf. The first jungle compilation I got was a cassette, in a 99p remainder bin in Tower Records. And my all-time favourite drum’n’bass compilation, Virgin’s Kodwo Eshun compiled Routes From The Jungle, I bought on one of those chunky and resilient double cassette packs. That was where I first heard Jo’s music, in fact.

What would your 5’13” track be?

This track is a (fairly recently discovered) favorite, but I never realized Jo was a woman — not because I though that women were an unlikely possibility in jungle, but that ones who built tracks out of old Nintendo game samples might’ve been.

rendit: unbornwhiskey: thediscography: I wrote about “We Are...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:40:20 -0600

rendit:

unbornwhiskey:

thediscography:

I wrote about “We Are the World 25 for Haiti” for The Stranger, as well as some other new songs.

(snip)

They all stand on a highway that lifts and disappears into a black hole. A black hole is the place in which Victory transpires. It is very cold and there is the sense that no one involved is really making it happen, that it is happening by mere casualty of universal contract.

It’s lucky for us that they could rebound so ably on the next record.

A wonderful YouTube description: “A great song by most of the jackson family.”

(As an aside, I sincerely love how that illustration completely ignores what Jeff Bridges actually wore during the recording session and puts him in his Lebowski robe.)

RT @beatonna: the internet: It’s For Talkin Shit Bout Things

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:51:08 -0600

RT @beatonna: the internet: It’s For Talkin Shit Bout Things

RT @FakeAPStylebook: scenester/hipster - Derogatory terms, usually used by scenesters and hipsters.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:51:08 -0600

RT @FakeAPStylebook: scenester/hipster - Derogatory terms, usually used by scenesters and hipsters.

RT @matoswk: “We Are the World 25 for Haiti”: an essay for The Stranger....

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:40:38 -0600

RT @matoswk: “We Are the World 25 for Haiti”: an essay for The Stranger. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/unnatural-disaster/Content?o …

RT @BeaucoupKevin: Can’t a movie be good without being “awesome” or...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:40:38 -0600

RT @BeaucoupKevin: Can’t a movie be good without being “awesome” or “fantawesome” or “awesomely nerdy” or inciting “nerdgasms” or…?

RT @jalopnik: Some Daft Punk Crashed Into My M3 http://jalopnik.com/5480203/ #carcrashes #bmwm3

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:40:38 -0600

RT @jalopnik: Some Daft Punk Crashed Into My M3 http://jalopnik.com/5480203/ #carcrashes #bmwm3