Where to begin? Chris had called me wondering if I wanted to fill the fourth seat in the car for their trip to Wisconsin and after all but a minute of thinking, I agreed to go. I'd yet to really get to know Chris and his roommate, so I didn't know exactly how it would go down. Well, the trip ended up being a blast and far surpassed any of our expectations. We spent 20+ hours on the road traveling there and back, and took turns playing music throughout the trips. As with any group of people, the music tastes [...]
Today in Music History: 1963, Jan and Dean started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Surf City', written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson, with the Beach Boys on backing vocals. To be more precise, things I have learned since I started working the graveyard shift. It's a whole different deal from midnight to 8 am, and I've picked up some knowledge I'd like to share. Oh yeah there be music in them thar links. 1. Whoever invented [...]
Okay, so it's actually Wednesday. I've been busy - sue me. Along those lines, I've got some big stuff I want to talk about, but I'll leave it for next week and just hit a couple things quickly that irked me recently. Stickshifts and Safetybelts - Cake First, from people that routinely drive me nuts, how about this quote from Cato (emphasis added): Once we've accepted a definition of "public health" expansive enough for government to dictate what we can and can't put into our bodies, it's [...]
Os mais atentos repararam que a edição 009 saiu sem que a edição 008 tivesse visto a luz do dia. Mea culpa. É o que faz estar a tratar de vários podcasts ao mesmo tempo. Fica resposta a verdade das coisas... com um regresso ao passado: 01 - Morphine - Let's Take A Trip Toguether - Cure For Pain - 1993 02 - G. Love & The Special Sauce - Baby's Got Sauce - G. Love & Sp. Sauce - 1994 03 - Blur - Beetlebum - Blur - 1997 04 - dEUS - Suds [...]
Since I started reading "Love Is A Mix Tape," I've been revisiting some of my old mixes. This was the first one I made for The Duchess' (new) car (at the time), a Mini Cooper. I like it for the film dialog and hodgepodge of tunes. 1. Tomoyasu Hotei ~ Battle Without Honor or Humanity 2. The Who ~ Baba O'Riley 3. Jay ~ "Ball Lickers" (from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) 4. Beastie Boys ~ Root [...]
From the editor: No way could we do a new summer songs series and not have DJ Little Danny down for a post. As the creator of Office Naps , Daniel Shiman has put together one of the best audioblogs we know out there - a fantastic mix of obscure music and Shiman's considerable knowledge. For his summer songs entry, Shiman dips away from his 45-only format on Office Naps and pulls out a few LP cuts that tap into his summer idealism. --O.W. Summer is just as [...]
On the eve of the release of CAKE 's new rarities & b-sides album, extrawack! spoke with the maker of perhaps the most recognizable brass sound in rock, trumpet player Vince DiFiore, about the perils of self-releasing music after years on a major label, and being in a band that stands for things above and beyond just record sales. extrawack! : You guys have left a long relationship with Sony and are releasing a B-sides and rarities album and then a live album on your own..Has doing it all outside of [...]
New Cake B-Sides and Rarities edition features special "Scratch and Sniff" album art, plus an exclusive "War Pigs" live bonus track with special guest Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips, and also a torch of Frank Sinatra "Strangers In The Night". My favorite cut is a romantic love-drunk song "It's Coming Down". You can buy "B-Sides and Rarities" CD from The Cake Music. The band will also release a
Cake have been around for over a decade, and they've been popular at many of the blogs I frequent, perhaps because their bouncy, light-funk swing has always been just to the left of mainstream and sounds independent, even if Cake was on a major label. That's right. WAS . Cake as you know it, has changed. They've finally come from the dark side to the light. (No, I don't mean they moved from Sacramento to SF.) The band has left their home on [generic major label] and have signed themselves to their own [...]
Strange coincidence or indicator of my prophetic powers? The other day while talking about Hey Lover 's self-titled debut album , I mentioned how the catchy hooks made you want to play air guitar...and here we are a couple days later and I get this e-mail about the 2007 US Air Guitar Championships ! I think this might be fate giving me a wake-up call. Perhaps I wasn't destined to become a teacher after all! Well, while I'm pondering my reason for being on the planet, consider whether you have the skills [...]
For a change I'm having a very quiet day at work, so I'm currently exploring Last.fm hoping that I'll find some interesting or unknown stuff. There's lots and lots to choose from, though unfortunately most of it is garbage. But every now and then I stumble upon something worth posting..... + Anything Box - Clean (Radio Edit) Seems like this is a track recorded way back in 2001? Old or not, it's a really cool and utterly catchy new [...]
Well, the school year is almost over and unfortunately my ties with the school, and more importantly it's radio station, are all but over. It was a fun little run and something I honestly just wanted to test out. Having a radio show and all. Maybe I'll get hired at our local NPR station to do their indie hour. Who knows. Either way, I hope those of you that caught it enjoyed the playlist and my ramblings and for those of you that missed it, here are the songs. Life Aquatic [...]
Nothing has more potential to amaze and infuriate than a cover song. No matter what you do, someone will be angry that their favorite song was desecrated by the hands of a lesser musician. On the other hand, someone will be saying, "It's even better than the original!" In any case, I always like a good cover that dares to stray from the sound of the original and bring a little something of its own to the table. So here they are, a few covers I've always loved, from Dismemberment Plan's tragic reworking of the 80's pop hit [...]
Via Variety The '70s teenage band the Runaways has a new gig. Producers Art and John Linson will be bringing their rough and tumble coming-of-age story to the bigscreen in Neon Angels . Floria Sigismondi, who directed videos for David Bowie, the White Stripes and Marilyn Manson, will write and direct the drama about girls brought together by Kim Fowley, creating a band that would set the stage for girl groups like the Go-Go's and the Bangles.Art Linson is financing the film privately so he can make it [...]
Sometime this Spring (I've yet to find a solid release date) Cake is releasing B-Sides and Rarities - a compilation of, um, b-sides and rarities. War Pigs (MP3 Sample) Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town Mahna Mahna Excuse Me, I Think I've Got A Heartache Conroy Strangers in the Night Subtract One Love (Multiply the Heartaches) Never, Never Gonna Give You Up (MP3 Sample) Thrills Short Skirt, Long Jacket It's Coming Down Also, check out The Merlin Show [...]
When I was in high school, I loved covers , specially Punk covers. Everyone makes posts about covers and rightfully so, they are awesome. This week I asked bunches of people to tell me what their favorite cover songs are. I got a lot of interesting feedback. Now just because it is a cover doesn't mean it is great, infact lots of covers suck! Hopefully you won't hear those here. I know there are lots of awesome ones and I'm sure you are gunna email me asking [...]
Exhausting. This one word pretty much summarises my experience making this series. Every week, devoting hours of valuable time to a task that nobody really cares about (if you're reading this, you're probably one of only ten). But that hasn't dismayed me one bit, for now that I have finished, I have a completed product to cherish forever. It seems however that nobody else cares for 5 songs stuffed into one file. No, they want individual files to claim as their own and while illegality of that is even greater, that is the direction I will be taking when I [...]
I will be otherly occupied for the next week. That's a vacation week, which is 9 days because vacations start on Firdays and end on Sundays. Due to this prolonged absence, I thought that I would beg you to come back and read more about music and, hell, 2 weeks of science news, with an offering of some songs that have been quieting the voices in my head as of late. New: The new Andrew Bird record, Armchair Apocrypha is that good. The song is a freebie from Fat [...]
Well we've come across this little gem - a very interesting cover by one of my most favorite bands. . Cake. In this first sighting since 2004's Pressure Chief, this will be coming off their very first Rarities album - entitled. . . Rarities. So with out further adieu here is Cake covering Black Sabbath's [...]
Time is short 'til my departure to San Francisco (okay, via Oakland) tomorrow afternoon for the six-day fiesta of Noise Pop , the Bay Area's best independent music festival. Its proximity on the calendar to the pricey and crowded SXSW means that many of my music blogger friends are opting for Austin and not S.F. I say: their loss. Not that I wouldn't love to go to SXSW (and should probably start saving my kopecks now for 2008), but Noise Pop is just the right size, high quality, varied, and [...]
The Pelican's Perch
Good Rockin' Tonight
Heartache with Hard Work
Los Camones
The Late Greats
soul sides
extrawack!
Modern Music
Berkeley Place
Mainstream Isnt So Bad...Is It
Hits In The Car
The Yellow Stereo
Stereogum
Ashcan Rantings
BBQCHICKENROBOT.com
Open Your Eyes
busted up bulldozers
The Music Nazi
I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
J-Ax Meglio Live Tour 2012: la scaletta della data zero a Rovereto con l'omaggio ai Beastie Boys
Sound of Summer (v. 3.1)
Another All-Star In The Studio With Daft Punk
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
