Things I learned this weekend: Apparently it's grounds for an ass-kicking when you're black-out drunk at a bar and you tell a girl her boyfriend is "limp dicked" and ask her if you can "put a little baby in your tum tum." Good thing I was in a large group of people who would have [...]
Thanksgiving Day Massacre MP3 by The Chinese Stars You dig prog and are anti-holiday then you will love "Thanksgiving Day Massacre" by The Chinese Stars from their 2009 release Heaven on Speed Dial from Anchor Brain label. Think Deerhunter but with more screwed up vocals. A perfect track for to screw people up in your holiday music mix. Features Craig Kureck and Eric Paul formerly of Arab on Radar in this noise unit + another from Six Finger Satellite make up this bastard rock. Chances are if any of these guys were invited [...]
Masta Killah - "Brain" MP3/download Hey, I went and got my 27th Top-10-onnnnn, homey. I'll admit that any night during which I listen to "Future World" I'm 'fend to do something WRECKless, up to and including putting Trans Am at the top of my Top-10. It happens though, don't I know it the most? Also, [...]
I've been back in my stuffy, overheated apartment for a few days now, and I've been catching up on a lot of record listening. I find it's best to listen to records when I'm alone because no one can hear the soft, pleasurable moans I emit when the sound of my Rega stylus retracing the grooves of some sweet, sweet vinyl records floods my ears. I think somewhere in my father's house there exists a drawing (done by the Harvey Pekar of his generation, Z) of me masturbating furiously to to (presumably) my record collection. Maybe Z could simply no [...]
Mssr. Hornet Montana totally changed the operating system on my laptop last night while everyone was engrossed in Pig Hunt . Now I don't know what's what anymore. I know that I can officially use Google Chrome now as my web browser, but I don't know what works and what doesn't work anymore. Also there's a little menu on my screen that tells me how much RAM is in use right now. It's all very new and scary to me. But that's not the point right now! Today was the first day of the WFMU Record Fair [...]
Recommended Show: SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010 ARAB ON RADAR @ CAKE SHOP 152 Ludlow St New York, NY 10002 $12, 8PM Whoa! Arab on Radar are back together. If that's not good enough news for you, they play tonight at the rather small Cake Shop. It's a chance to see an amazing band in an intimate venue. How can you pass this up? Gamble House @ Pianos Kordan @ The Rock Shop Apache Beat @ Brooklyn Bowl Japanther & [...]
Total Slacker - "Crystal Necklace" MP3/download In the wake of Altered Zones do any non-Pitchfork blogs matter anymore? I hope so. Read me! Just compiled a new Top-10 - and yes, it had been awhile - and designated Mt. Eerie's great Live in Copenhagen triple-LP (with etching on Side 6) as Album of the Week [...]
Orphan is one of those bands I never tire of seeing. They aren't breaking the mold, but they are coming out of it with a little more color, (or a lot less depending on how you look at it). The chord-soured brainchild of drum and guitar duo Speck Brown and Brendan Majewski, Orphan float in [...]
Monday, October 26, 2009 CHINESE STARS (EX-ARAB ON RADAR), BLUES CONTROL (NY), VAMPIRE HANDS, SENSITIVE HEARTS (Providence, RI) 9:00 door | $8 Rabbit Face [mp3] from The Chinese Stars (off Heaven On Speed Dial, Anchor Brain ) via The Opening Acts [...]
![Past Blast Volume 1, Chapter 6: Six Finger Satellite - The Pigeon is the Most Popular Bird - Sub Pop [1993]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/1932324_lg.jpg)
Was there any doubt what the sixth installment of my Past Blast series would be? Six Finger Satellite 's legend has endured as a million other bumper-crop bands -- Erase Eratta, Six Finger Satellite via last.fm Numbers, Les Georges Leningrad (though much props to Leningrad) -- have broken up and drifted into obscurity. Of all the groups to employ high, chiming, slurred [...]
This was a tough review to write. I like the album, but I want more . It happens. [...]
This was a tough review to write. I like the album, but I want more . It happens. [...]
ALEC EMPIRE TAKES A BREAK FROM HIS TOUR WITH NINE INCH NAILS AND TALKS WITH YIP YIP TALK ABOUT , SESAME STREET, MUSIC AND NOISE, INDUSTRY AND MORE... click here to watch original TV Yip Yips Alec Empire: " Many of our readers might not know you [...]
![KK Rampage - Without Feelings - Rococo [2008]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/1862639_lg.jpg)
I've always enjoying interviewing artists, but it ends there. I don't kiss a lot of ass, nor do I try to make a lifelong connection. Rock 'n' roll people don't need another fanboy to suckle the tips of their clits/dicks, so I stick to amicable-but-professional relations with bands. Besides, to paraphrase a colleague, "What happens when their next 7" sucks balls?" It can be awkward dealing with a musician when you feel they've made a misstep or, worse, lost something. Every once in awhile, however, [...]
As some of you may recall from reading my previous posts, Skin Graft is an American label that was initially founded by Mark Fischer and Rob Syers as a comic book publishing house in the 80s, they also started producing records after releasing Dazzling Killmen / Mother's Day split record in 1991. Skin Graft jukebox is [...]
For those of you who missed some of the articles about Skin Graft roster (or those who don't feel like scrolling), here's an archive of all Skin Graft bands that were featured on this blog (it includes both bands that primarily released their material through the label, as well as those who put out only [...]
*drum roll* U.S. Maple are the winners of this year's Skin Graft label poll with 4 votes. Second place goes to Dazzling Killmen (3 votes). The rest of results look the following way: Denison-Kimball Trio (2 votes) Brise-Glace (2 votes) Shorty (2 votes) Arab On Radar (2 votes) Yowie (1 vote) Koenjihyakkei (1 vote) Flying Luttenbachers (1 vote) Lake of Dracula (1 vote) Flossie And [...]
My Mind is a Muffler - Arab on Radar Birth Control Blues - Arab on Radar List: Forward. Perpetual motion machine. Constant revision. Constant innovation. Fight stagnation. Accomplish. Continue to lend credence to the belief that you are worth being. Contrast the inaction of others. Be sexy. Be scary. Impress. DO SOME SHIT! [Seven days and eight posts to go, and I will have successfully completed my month [...]
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Thursday Pass Along – May 24, 2012
Superhumanoids – Too Young For Love
