MUSIC NEWS - Crash Test Dummies have announced plans to release Oooh la la! , their first record in six years, May 11 via Deep Fried Records . Best known for 1993’s platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated God Shuffled His Feet and the ubiquitous hit “ Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm ,” frontman and driving creative force Brad Roberts teams up with co-writer and producer Stewart Lerman (Antony & the Johnsons, The Roches) to write and record 11 tracks conceptualized using `70s-era analog musical toys. The seeds for Oooh la la! were first planted when Roberts [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Crash Test Dummies have announced plans to release Oooh la la! , their first record in six years, May 11 via Deep Fried Records . Best known for 1993’s platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated God Shuffled His Feet and the ubiquitous hit “ Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm ,” frontman and driving creative force Brad Roberts teams up with co-writer and producer Stewart Lerman (Antony & the Johnsons, The Roches) to write and record 11 tracks conceptualized using `70s-era analog musical toys. The seeds for Oooh la la! were first planted when [...]
Photography by Nadav Dov Boretzki Before we begin (well, actually, we have begun, but you know what I mean)... Holy crap! You ever have a little piece of skin on your lip, annoyingly sitting there, you feel it on your tongue, on your upper lip, you try Carmax & Chap-Stik & whatnot but it's still there buggin' you, so you reach up, thumb & index finger, try to grab it, miss or slip, try again and maybe even again and then suddenly you got a good hold, give it a [...]
The Crash Test Dummies are set to release Oooh La La , their first record in six years, May 11, 2010 on Deep Fried Records. Best known for 1993's platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated God Shuffled His Feet and the ubiquitous hit "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm," frontman and driving creative force Brad Roberts teams up with co-writer and producer Stewart Lerman ( Antony & the Johnsons, The Roches ) to write and record 11 tracks conceptualized using '70s-era analog musical toys. [...]
Just in case you've ever wondered, this is the egg that hatched Crash Test Dummies. Make no mistake.
The final part in a three-part journey through holiday music from our friends over at Media Potluck (the guys responsible for Audio Archaeology ). First we turned you onto last year's Media Potluck Holiday Feast, then we debuted the first installment of Media PODluck and joined Cap and Nick for A Christmas Evening Together in a log cabin, and now, right on time for Christmas day, the debut of Media Potluck's 2009 Holiday Feast! Unwrap the fun and fill your day with this eclectic cornucopia of holiday songs. At [...]
The second in a three-part volley of last minute holiday cheer from our friends over at Media Potluck (the guys responsible for Audio Archaeology ). This is the first ever Media PODluck, hosted by Nick Jade and Cap Blackard. Check out the previously posted Media Potluck Holiday Feast Volume 1 and look forward to the debut of their 2009 Holiday Feast very soon. It's like an advent calendar! ...Sort of. Escaping to a secluded cabin in North Carolina, Cap and Nick discuss [...]
The first in a three-part volley of last minute holiday cheer from our friends over at Media Potluck (the guys responsible for Audio Archaeology ). Stick around for their Media PODluck: A Christmas Evening Together podcast, and the debut of their 2009 Holiday Feast over the next few days. Christmas music is everywhere this time of year. Since the beginning of November, the air has [...]
Right, I know this is list season, and I know that an overload of lists tends to result in distinct list fatigue, as well as spontaneous cries of 'Who FUCKING CARES if you think Amnesiac is better than Rocket DIY or not?' but fuck it, why not. It's like making mixes for my parents around Christmas time. Yes it's predictable, but fuck it, it really has become part of the season by now so why not. Anyhow, I will be compiling my own lists, and releasing them over the Christmas week, give or take a bit. [...]
Crash Test Dummies: The Ghosts That Haunt Me [ purchase ] I may have written before that I'm not a big fan of 80's music (other than New Wave) - I feel as if I tolerated a decade of One-Name Bands (being purposely vague so as to protect the innocent... or guilty, as the case may be), hoping for an eventual reprieve (the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my fellow... and sister... Starmakers)... So... may I just tell you how refreshing it was to usher in [...]
Crash Test Dummies : God Shuffled His Feet [ purchase ] God created man in His own image, and set him loose in the world. After a while, He had a picnic, to see how His creation had fared, and to take questions. Beyond human emotions, He was bemused. That is the premise of the song, God Shuffled His Feet. It leads off an album of wonderfully eccentric story telling, with a rich palette of musical colors to enhance the experience.
A quick one for today's post. Assuming you were listening to music in the nineties, you couldn't possibly have escaped Canada's Crash Test Dummies, and their vowel-les hit "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". Heck, the song was so big even Weird Al parodied it. In many countries, they would become one hit wonders thanks to that tune, but in some places they had already had a charting tune in "Superman's Song", which I posted a while back in the first Seven Song Circle . [...]
Something a little different for me. No real rarities in this batch. Every once in a while, I come up with these little lists of songs that fit together in various ways. Originally I intended to put them on some sort of compilation. Now, since I have this blog, I figured I'd stick a few of these series up here. I don't know how long this little feature will last, since I only have a finite amount of these at the moment. [...]
The beautiful pop & harmonies, and Brad's look at a god via puppets in "God Shuffled His Feet"... And a bit of fun & tenderness? with "Swimming In Your Ocean"..
Photography by Sinziana Stoicescu Following up huge music success must suck. Ask anyone, ask the one-hit wonders, the one album-wonders (remember 7Mary3?). The classic, of course, is the often discussed "sophomore slump", where you put out a well-tested, well-toured, from bar-to-fucking-bar album after some dude "discovers" you, helps you lay down your tracks, it clicks with the market, and BLAMO! EXCELSIOR! Ah, but then I guess you go back in the studio to either a) put out more of the same (don't mess with success, right?) or b) maybe [...]
It's been a crazy week (what else is new?!?)... and I seem to have run out of time - figured I'd just set up a round of drinks on the bar... and you can "choose your poison"until this place closes down at midnight. Cheers! James Taylor: Captain Jim's Drunken Dream (rum) [ purchase ] Jules Shear (with Freedy Johnston): Revenge (whiskey) [ purchase ] Todd [...]
Click for list official participants & info on joining in! On the 8th of March one of our New York blogger sisters, SARAHSPY , issued an edict and an invitation. It read: "I hereby declare March 9-13, 2009 Alltime Favorite Albums Week ." She explained... "Over the next 5 days, I'll geek out & explain my alltime favorites, and I invite other music/culture/personal bloggers to do the same." Invitation accepted . Obviously, I'm as game as anyone else to compile a list of my [...]
It’s official – I’m getting old. It won’t be long until my balls are hanging by a thread down by my swollen cankles. It didn’t hit me until a couple months ago at a University of Georgia college bar after the Florida vs. Georgia college football game. I was sitting at a table, watching some guy in jorts make fun of Tim Tebow. That’s when “Hard to Handle” by the Black Crowes came on the jukebox and the entire bar went absolutely nuts. You know what it reminded me of? It was like when “Sweet Child [...]
Pearl Our theme this week is Jingle Bells, and no one has posted the song. So I’ve been left to think about it all week. Everyone should know that it’s very dangerous to leave me alone like that. After all, there are countless versions of this holiday classic, and one or two were bound to be .. well... odd. Kind of like the obscure relatives who fill peoples houses at this time of year, never to be seen again, until next year. First, there is the [...]
I seem to fall back on a few regular themes here on the blog, one of them being my coffee consumption! Oh well, whatever it takes, am I right? The inspiration for this post comes from a carton of half 'n half. Everyone knows that putting a little half 'n half in your coffee makes it absolutely delicious, the problem being that it adds fat and calories and probably clogs up your arteries. I always use it when I'm out and even at work but until now I've resisted using it at [...]
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