El sábado pasado tuvimos una pequeña celebración con motivo de our dear lad´s b-day ( @diegosynthetic ). Una noche muy divertida y perfecta musicalmente hablando, fuí FAN total del playlist de la nite. So, para este post dejaremos atras el "synthetic", quitando así los altos niveles de sintetizadores, beats y demás que nos acompañan frecuentemente en este blog, para darle más vida y presencia al "rocks"... Esperamos que este post pueda permanecer online y a nadie [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Cake frontman John McCrea believes in science. And science, he says, is asking us to change our ways. So before Cake began recording their new album in Sacramento, Calif. earlier this year, they made a few adjustments to Upbeat Studio in order to keep the beat still banging for future generations. They converted their studio to all solar power and made a pledge with Planet Earth to record the new album using 100 percent solar electricity. They're making good on their promise, [...]
Yep. The title is true . Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin's daughter Ireland asked for, and, more importantly, received a Lil' Wayne monument of a cake for her birthday. Needless to say, the youngster is probably the coolest kid in her grade, or at least, shooting up the ranks of the middle school social ladder. Of course, its Hollywood so lil Ireland Basinger Baldwin can't be on top forever, oh no, not with competition like Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Tallulah, who was reportedly seen at the same Beverly Hills bakery ordering an Easy-E cake complete with fudge-sicle [...]
I'll admit I wasn't hip to them when they came out but I've been all over all their albums for the past several months. So, I know of what I speak. Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket Cake - Commissioning A Symphony In C Cake - Love You Madly
MUSIC NEWS - CAKE, already regarded as one of the most principled, enduring, self-reliant and best-selling artists in post-alternative rock, are currently working on recording their sixth studio album, with an eco-twist: the new project is being written, rehearsed and recorded entirely with solar power . During the recording process, CAKE is sharing the results with their fans via a set of free ring tones--each based on a song from the upcoming album--released via the band's mailing list. And starting today, the first of six ring tones based on brand new album tracks will [...]
CAKE is one of those bands that for the last 15 years has crafted its own highly intelligent and wholly relatable brand of pop, rock and whatever else they dole out to the eager masses. And now the band is back after five years and are more technologically savvy and eco-friendly than ever. For one, the band was recently deemed to be one of the 10 greenest bands in the world by Billboard . In 2008, the group got together with Borrego Solar and converted its Sacramento recording studio to run completley off [...]
O Lúcio Ribeiro , anúncia que o festival Indie Rock que teve sua primeira edição em 2007 com Magic Numbers e Rakes, e no ano seguinte, teria Dandy Warhols e Broken Social Scene mas foi cancelado devido a problemas de financiaento, está de volta. Para este ano eles confirmam as bandas Cake , e Gogol Bordello (um dos melhores shows do último Tim Festival) como atrações internacionais e Holger e Monbojó no lado nacional. Pode parecer uma combinação um pouco estranha, mas tem tudo para ser um ótimo festival! Ai estão as datas anunciadas [...]
With their last tour of the States now over ten years ago, the band looks no worse for the wear. Bassist and longstanding main songwriter Nicky Wire is an attention getter, as always, doing high kicks wearing a naval captain's hat in front of his boa-covered mic-stand that could double for a colorful giant macaw. James Dean Bradfield's voice is as beautiful and crystalline as ever, an instrument that is simultaneously capable of the range and timbre of Peter Cetera and the sneer and outrage of John Lydon, making it possible for this band to turn even a mundane cover [...]
Skoal Kodiak & Gospel Gossip are sure to be great per usual.. Then there is "Death Cube" The mysterious super-group... This is a great line-up for a great cause. If you are in the neighborhood, stop by! Hey guys - the 501 is having an all day long event for The Pet Project . The event is called "Pet Rock". 501 food, and $4 Grain Belt Premium, $5 Schell's Firebrick, and $5 Schell's Octoberfest will be served outdoors all day. Come early, and get some of [...]
Welcome back, readers! Last week we noshed on Sacramento's finest CAKE and had ourselves a little e-ball (well, I sure as hell did. You may have too). This week's post was about as contrived as an unplanned pregnancy scare considering I recently stumbled upon Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore 's 50 First Dates , their second RomCom collab since The Wedding Singer (one of my all-time favorites), and I definitely drew inspiration from it. In fact, the movie was surprisingly [...]
THIS SATURDAy it all goes down... we are bringin the best of OC into SD for a night of insanity. on the OC squad: TEALONG / BBGUNS ... COLOSSAL KNXN!!! STEVE RYBACK NICKY SAVAGE the SD squad: SHARK ATTACK MR. BIGGS THE ANALOG SHOW!!! If you are in the SD area on Saturday night .. make sure you come out it will be crazy. CAKE - WAR PIGS [...]
Welcome back and uber-apologies, readers! In case you've been wondering where my Carmen Sandiego ass has been the last 2 weeks, well, I'll tell you. The Californication and the splendor of t he Pacific Ocean swallowed me whole and took away my ability to write anything worth reading. I can't explain it, really. I'm not sure if it was all the sun, the Mexican good eats, the clear weather, laid-back vibe, or the fact that I came home in a bigger funk than when I left for The Golden State, but something shifted in [...]
Got another one for ya. For those who don't know, this is iTunes Mixery part seis. Here's how it goes: I play iTunes on shuffle -> tell you which song comes up -> provide the mp3 and a tidbit -> continue until five songs and embarrassment are complete. See my previous "mixeries" at the bottom of the post. Again, nothing's off-limits – I don't "fix the mix". Have a look into my life… [image via ] Sigur Rós - "Untitled 3 (Samskeyti)" [MP3] (from ( ) ). [...]
San Diego is home to the Padres, Shamu, California burritos, and the surfer culture. But for one magical weekend in late August, the town's concrete jungle that is downtown comes alive beyond the laid back surfer caricature that dominates its culture and it stands on a pillar as a musical beacon. Sure, the 25-year-old Street Scene is no Lollapalooza or Pitchfork Music Festival when it comes to sheer popularity and hype. But what the festival does offer is a wide variety of music. Whether you're looking for soul, reggae, pop, R&B, rock, country, jazz, [...]
What a way to prepare dessert! I don't eat sugar. But, this looks like fun. Posted in Culinary, Somethin' Diff Tagged: cake, food, plant, prepare, soil
At the moment I am hard pressed for time, but after missing last week's Blast from the Past I felt it was absolutely necessary to pump something out for my faithful readers to consume. So here, I present to a record that came out this decade with only a single song that I truly adore on it. I recently downloaded the whole album just so I had "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" on my iPod and it has sat on my iTunes playlist since completely unplayed. Looking at Comfort Eagle with 0 plays next to it is [...]
A busy night just got busier — Australian rockers Wolfmother are playing a surprise show at the Roxy. It's for Yahoo! Music, and Andrew Stockdale [pictured] and his (new) bandmates, who teased L.A. audiences with a show back in April at the Natural History Museum and who crashed last weekend's Sunset Junction to play a set at nearby El Cid, are fanning the flames toward their new release, "Cosmic Egg," due in October. ... Not that anybody could steal the Dead Weather's thunder — Jack White, Alison Mosshart and mates play a noontime set at the [...]
bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse ♫ Cake - The Distance / 1996 One of the best lyrics ever. Hands down. And in one of the best songs of the 90s. Or ever, as far as I am concerned. "The Distance" is one of those songs that will never get old. I don't listen to it enough these days, but I should. I should really listen to more CAKE in general. Fashion Nugget is such a fantastic and solid album, a definite recommendation for those who [...]
bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse ♫ Cake - The Distance / 1996 One of the best lyrics ever. Hands down. And in one of the best songs of the 90s. Or ever, as far as I am concerned. "The Distance" is one of those songs that will never get old. I don't listen to it enough these days, but I should. I should really listen to more CAKE in general. Fashion Nugget is such a fantastic and solid album, a definite recommendation for those who [...]
Photography by Tsuru TSURUFOTO is now on Etsy Oh boy oh boy, got another Society Member mixtape to share with you to finish off our week with a cherry-flavoured edible bow on top, this time by VIP MixItUp and a road trip mixtape she made for laughingstock's cross country drive! Can I get a WOOT? WOOT!!! That's better... [...]
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
‘09 Been Kind
Bobby B's Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#25-21)
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
