Today is National Video Game Day. And what better a day than this to write about the Advantage? The band only records music written for the original Nintendo console, and it's just a blast. It's amazing how a simple context change from a video game to a rock band can make these nostalgic songs that much more exciting. And if you never played Nintendo as a child, well, I just don't know what to tell you. But for those of us who understand, the Advantage are quite a trip. The Advantage [...]
i'm about to head out for the uptown theater, but i thought i'd share a few of the songs i used to pump myself up for the walk down there before i go. enjoy..... mp3: the flaming lips - batman theme mp3: the advantage - batman 2 mp3: yo la tengo - batman theme mp3: dan deacon - pink batman video: 60's batman tv theme video: main theme [...]
ready to have your mind blown? the bushes in super mario bros. were just clouds colored green! mp3: the advantage - super mario bros. 3 (underworld)
mp3: frank black- whatever happened to pong? after watching part of the discovery channel's mini-series rise of the videogame , i had to put this song on. a good portion of the first episode is devoted to pong and it amazes me that they failed to include this ode to the game from 1994's teenager of the year . if i was the producer i would have gotten frank black to do an interview about it. when he starts dreaming about time traveling back to pong's heyday you know it [...]
That's a gremlin on a skateboard. Cadence Weapon - In Search of the Youth Crew The first taste (via Pitchfork) of Cadence Weapon's upcoming album, Afterparty Babies . I'm really digging that high-pitched squiggly organ sample that's all chopped up in the background. And it's nice to see Rollie embracing the much-maligned art of the "hip hop skit"--there's a priceless recording of his mom reminiscing at the end of the track. www.myspace.com/cadenceweaponm usic [...]
What's up indietastic faithful. As you may or may not have noticed, I've been on a hiatus of sorts. I blame Wii for my lack of posting. I've helped Rayman escape from insane rabbits on Rayman: Raving Rabbids , played way too many games of Red Light, Green Light on Super Monkey Ball (Trombone is the shit BTW), bowled a 235 on Wii Sports and saved the world from impending doom countless times on DBZ: BT2 . To cap it off, Twilight Princess has sucked me in for [...]
The Advantage really delivered last night(more acurately, they fucking destroyed) and the best part was that it was free . In fact, this week is "free week" at the Rubbergloves . You can check the lineup on the site but I'm pretty sure theres nothing particularly great coming up. At least any that won't completely pale in comparison to the Advantage show. The other bands were somewhere between not-very-good to unlistenable. Thats about all I'll say about that, except that the drummer for Fishboy looked exactly like Mark [...]
Not long ago you could have found me at specialty shops scouring the shelf for Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Megaman OST's. To the unintroduced this may seem an adolescent case but many will tell you "this is real music". Its also in part a generational nostalgia thing but behind all that pop culture there is real music. Ones to embrace this understanding are The Advantage , an exclusively Nintendo cover band (hence the name). They will be at Rubber Gloves in Denton, TX Sept. 05. [...]
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