Blog: hahamusic

Things that we need... A) Money, clothes, weed indeed, hats, food, booze, essentials, credentials B) Venture capital, clothing, marijuana cigarettes oh yes!, chapeaus, tasty nourishment, alcohol to be imbibed, tweed suits and impressive resumes C) Kidnap that fool!!!!! If you didn't pick A last week... YOU BLEW IT! Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly (Buy the album) posted byProfessor Murder and Stabmaster Arson

Kim Deal circa 1994, will you be my valentine? The Breeders - Shocker in Gloomtown (Guided By Voices cover) ( Buy The Breeders music ) And hey, check out some other holiday posts at Motel de Moka and Los Amigos de Durutti posted by Adam

So I intended this week's Cover Tuesday feature to be bands covering reggae songs. Then it was bands covering reggae songs in ska style. Then it was bands covering Toots and The Maytals songs as ska. But then I realized I didn't have enough of those. So it changed a little. Now it's bands covering Toots and The Maytals songs, one song by Jimmy Cliff and one by Bob Dylan as a bonus. You could call it "Ska Covers of Songs from The Harder They Come Plus One ... Not," if you need to. [...]

Well, the Grammys have come and gone and while I'm happy Stewart Copeland is getting work again, I wasn't really too interested. The tv was on mute and I was playing the song "Huddle Formation" by The Go! Team on repeat as loud as I thought woudn't upset the neighbors. Like many of you, I saw a Honda Civic commercial a while back with the song and immediately took to the internet to find out more details. I've listened to it every day since I first got it, and it's seriously one of the most fun, catchiest, high-energy [...]

Just really wanna smoke my weed A) Fuck these hoes and stack my cheese. B) Acquire carnal knowledge of these ladies of the night while also sorting and organizing my paper currency. C) Galacian pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico volcanoconiosis. If you're keeping track 'B' was the way to go last week. Don't believe us? See for yourself. Nappy Roots - My ride (Buy the album) posted by Professor Murder and Stabmaster Arson

I know that the World of Blog has been raging about this new video for the Lily Allen song "Alfie," and with good reason. I don't have a puppet younger brother, or even a younger brother for that matter, but I know a couple people who could identify with the exasperated older sister here. Only they couldn't write a song half as catchy and fun as this one. Once again, Contributor Charlotte is months ahead of the rest of us (she profiled Allen, with Lady Sovereign here ) and now I have to admit that she was right [...]

This week's Cover Tuesday features the music of Richie Havens, who I saw perform at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last Friday night. Let me tell you, if you ever have the opportunity to see Richie Havens live, jump on it. Jump on it and pin it to the ground and don't let it up for anything. The concert was electric, with Havens' powerful baritone and completely disarming stage presence, joking with the audience, telling stories and self-deprecatingly apologizing for tuning up between each song. Admittedly I didn't have too much prior knowledge of Havens' [...]

Seventeen was a really good year for me. My grades were high, I had a fun and appropriately dangerous social life, I was listening to lots of new music after a two-year bad punk rut, and I had more money than I needed. So why, I ask you, was my favorite album at the time the most depressing ever? Of course I'm talking about Ryan Adams' first solo disc, Heartbreaker . For all of you Ryan Adams haters out there, settle down. This was before he became prolific to a fault and kind of whiney. On [...]

Pumped out two thou on the 89 cutless (Biitch)... A) Jimmy Carter B) Nah you can't ride i'm selfish C) Nay, I refuse to commute with you, for I am egocentric! Last week we were looking for C. What ever happened to DJ Jazzy Jeff anyway? Will Smith(w/ DJ Jazzy Jeff) - A Nightmare on My Street (Buy the album!) [...]

Elliott Smith's album Either/Or may not be the happiest album at first look, but for me, it makes me feel something and never anything bad. After dealing with my mom's choice of music for sixteen years a I got a car and Elliott Smits she drove me to and from sports practices, I finally got my own car and Elliott smith was my first musical choice. My first car was a symbol of social freedom but even more so musical freedom, because it came with my first personal CD player. I started with a small collection [...]

Me, I'll be playing the Beatles when I get home. Abbey Road , probably, although I'll program the CD to skip over "Something." The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy guitars and singing "Yellow Submarine" at the top of my voice in the back row of the coach on school trips. They belong to me, not to me and Laura, or me and Charlie, or me and Alison Ashworth, and though they'll make me feel something, they won't make me feel anything bad. from the [...]

Sadly, this isn't the promised substantive post. But don't be mad! It's some good music anyway. We here at hahamusic are all big fans of Mr. Ted Leo and his band The Pharmacists, and so I thought it would be fun to post a batch of covers by them. Contributor Charlotte and I have both lamented over Ted making us enjoy songs we previously wouldn't have (hers: "Dancing in the Dark," mine: "Since U Been Gone"), and it's true his versions give a sort of joyful charm to even those songs you're supposed [...]

There's a much more substantive post coming in the very near future, but in the meantime here's the song that's been on repeat around here today: NOFX - Getting High On The Down Low ( Buy It ) posted by Adam

My guilty pleasure of late is Regina Spektor, specifically her concert aired on NPR's Live Concert Series. With nothing to do at work and all of the worthwhile radio stations blocked, I found that NPR's archives are fair game. I randomly tried her concert and found it helps pass the hours of playing minesweeper and free cell. The concert starts off with some annoying comments from a NPR employee, but Regina soon takes over with her overpowering concert hall-style voice. As the concert progresses, she introduces quirkier songs. Through [...]

I strolled back home with a grin on my grill... A) I theorize that due to the fact that this conflagration is in fact a phantasma, there is no valid dispute against my exhibiting hep behavior B) Will: Carlton, I misjudged you. You're a lot cooler than I thought. Hey, you wanna go to the club with us tonight? Carlton: I don't have a date. Will: Carlton, never bring a sandwich to a buffet. C) I think that since this is a dream I might as well get [...]

Thought I'd post a tribute to my favorite supplier of all things musical and live, the soon-to-be departed rbally by posting one of my favorite live shows here. A few months after the release of Dixie Chicken ( Buy It ), Little Feat recorded this intimate concert at Ultra Sonic Studios in Hempstead, NY. The band seems tuned just right in this recording - loose and amiable, joking with the crowd and the MC, and clearly enjoying themselves a hell of a lot, especially on the frenetic closer "Teenage Nervous Breakdown" (worthy of [...]

Happy Tuesday, haha -readers. Here are some good cover songs to get you through the most meaningless day of the week. NOFX - Olympia, WA (Rancid cover) ( Buy It ) The Concretes - Miss You (Rolling Stone Cover) ( Buy It ) Pearl Jam - Masters of War (Bob Dylan cover) ( Buy It ) Keller Williams - I Could Drink a Case of You (Joni Mitchell cover) ( Buy Keller Williams music ) Everyone that enjoys music [...]

Teddybears - Punkrocker (feat. Iggy Pop) ( Buy It ) Hahaha, I love that they even change that ridiculous P. Diddy - Sean John billboard from Times Square into a teddy bear (look close). posted by Adam

Ya get drunk and pass out, and they back you to the house and when you wake up on the couch you're going right back at it... A) On my block Phillip and Troy discuss fine wine and do squat thrusts B) On my block when you're that fucked up you laugh at it C) In the vacinity of my habitation, when your imbibing has incapacitated you thus, one cannot help but be mirthful! It was really tough last week. Don't beat yourself up about it [...]

When I was 15, a very beautiful girl introduced me to The Coup by way of a tape of their first two albums, Genocide and Juice and Steal This Album . After listening to the tape, I was completely smitten with both the girl and The Coup. You have to understand that age 15 I was in full blown suburban -white-revolutionary mindset, reading Che Guevara's Guerilla Warfare and rocking the Rage Against the Machine t-shirt in my school picture. On my last trip home I actually found some bumper-stickers from that time, including one that [...]