Friday, November 20, 2009 We are creeping, quite quickly actually in to the looming holiday season and the studios are sort of coughing up the small game in lieu of the enormous money makers to come. Of course, this is the weekend of Twilight, so perhaps I'm just talking out of my ass, but this feels like the calm before the storm. An animated flick from the creators of Shrek, a slightly chintzy looking sports flick, and of course Bela and Edward - consider me non-plussed. It's the limited films I'm interested in this [...]

My buddy Vin and I arrived at the show just in time to see Whiskey Daredevils, a local band with a lot of buzz. They started off their set by saying "Thanks for coming out on Wednesday night, we know you could be at home watching Modern Family." That's true, it's a good show, which stars Ohio native Ed O'Neill, but thankfully there's always Hulu. Whiskey Daredevils often play around the area, but for some reason I have not seen them before. We both have heard a lot of positive hype about them, so we pretty excited that we were [...]
words by Bill Pearis , photos by Ryan Muir Seattle band BOAT were in town over the weekend playing Friday (11/13) at Union Hall and Saturday (11/13) at Bruar Falls . The band were on at both shows, probably due in part to vocal and ready-to-participate crowds who did not want them to stop playing. BV photographer Ryan Muir was at the Bruar show and took the band out [...]
So says MS reader Dan W. about the band Soreption in an incredibly stoned email he sent us last night. And I can't disagree... that is exactly what Soreption sounds like! Thanks for doing my job for me, Dan. Since I had so much fun goofing off while Devin ran the site on Tuesday, maybe [...]

LCL unveils its new release, by a mysterious producer from Scotland named "ZXDK". Be prepared for some serious lo-fi dub madness as your travel will cross the way of acid aliens and sci-fi creatures from outer space, turning your brain into a retro-futuristic movie theater ! 1 . Three digits in 2. Throw them into darkness 3. Zph 1 Click the cover to go to the release page for full info and bio, or [...]

Tracklist: 01 Janet Jackson & Luther Vandross - Best Things In Life Are Free 02 Inner Circle - Sweat 03 Futurecop! - Boom 04 LL Cool J - Curious 05 TLC - Baby Baby Baby 06 R. Kelly - You've Got That Vibe 07 Futurecop! - Ain't That Fresh 08 Futurecop! feat. Yo Majesty - Hey Heartthrob 09 Another Level feat. Jay-Z - No More 10 Futurecop! - Parents R Aliens 11 Futurecop! - Forget About Me 12 Alexander O'Neal - If You Were Here Tonight Futurecop! - Club Action Mix Series Vol. [...]

The idea that Earth has been visited by aliens at some point in the distant past is not a new one. In Sumer, the alien Gods were known as the Anunnaki. While in Greece, they are known as Annodoti and in the Celtic lore, the Tuatha de Danaan. Tthe Semetic scriptures (Torah, Talmud, Old Testament, and other Apocryphal texts like the Book of Enoch), call them The Nephilim, The Sons of God, or The Watchers. We are told the gods themselves had their own monarchy, with laws of succession similar to our own, and they built a [...]
YES, THE RUMORS ARE TRUE: SLAYER, MEGADETH TEAM UP FOR "AMERICAN CARNAGE" Co-Headliners to Tour the U.S. Together For the First Time in Nearly Two Decades Testament to be Special Guest Recession-Proof $10.00 Tickets Available in All U.S. Markets Slayer. Megadeth. Two names synonymous with fierce, crunching power. Two bands whose histories are inevitably intertwined in defining the thrash/metal genre. Individually, their respective prowess and accomplishments are impressive; but together, they're brutal and unstoppable. Megadeth and Slayer will join forces to co-headline "American Carnage," the most blistering, the most explosive, and the most eagerly [...]

ARTiST….: VA ALBUM…..: Smilax Promo Music Service October BiTRATE…: 174 kbps avg SOURCE….: CD LABEL…..: HnH GENRE…..: House RiP DATE..: 2009-11-12 ENCODER…: LAME 3.97 -V2 –vbr-new Tracklist: 1. DJ Aleksij and Klod Rights – Feelin' Nice (Kamisshake British Summer Remix) 8:44 2. Stefano Venditti – Crazy Kiss (The Storm Elektro Mix) 7:17 3. Eclissi Di Soul – Free (Manyus Club Mix) 7:11 4. Mario Piu', Ricky Fobis and Lady Brain – Hal 9001 (Jimithesun and Klod Space Mix) 7:49 5. DJ Samuel Kimko – Twisted [...]
I somehow worked 11 hours on my regularly scheduled day off today. I'm still here at work but off the clock, and taking a few minutes before I catch the train to go to a party tonight on my way home. This week has been something else. I'm coordinating a walking event for 250 employees. We've never done anything like this before, and the response has been phenomenal. Registration closed this afternoon and I spent this early evening tying up loose ends for the event. Even though I was busy with the walking event, [...]
Certainly not! There are people schooled in Western music and its culture who claim to flat out not like the Beatles. Those people, of course, fall into two categories. Serial contrarians and members of a secret race of human-cloning aliens that have been living among us for hundreds of years. Even Chuck D, the frontman for hip-hop's Public Enemy who once claimed "Elvis never meant shit to me", has admitted his fondness for the four lads from...

Robbie Williams - Arizona "Highway to the stars tonight" I'm a sucker for aliens, especially songs about aliens. And after the semi-recent tabloid stories about Robbie Williams going on an "aliens are out there" rant, the subject matter of his latest bonus track, Arizona , is especially clever. Not only that, but the song itself has a moody electronic feel that hearkens back to his Rudebox days while at [...]

In the first part of our Black Body Politic series, we briefly discussed the history of black models and fashion. This installment finds us chatting with up and coming model Khayattollah. Khayattollah has been a model and muse for the Boxing Kitten brand, an amazing company whose designs are based on the tradition of women with "ethnic rockability." You may have also caught her in the campaign for fashion brand A Peace Treaty (which made it's way to the e-pages of FADER ), as well as being featured by TRACE and more. [...]
I find it hard to get my head around the fact that a man older than my father made this record. Born in Switzerland in 1944, Dieter Moebius was an art student in Berlin and Brussels where, whilst moonlighting as a cook in 1969, he formed Kluster with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler. When, after three albums, Schnitzler buggered off to pursue solo projects, the remaining pair modified the name to Cluster (musicians, eh?), began an ongoing collaboration with Michael Rother of Neu!, formed Harmonia, recorded some seriously groundbreaking electronica and Krautrock (around the time Kraftwerk [...]

I admit. I'm pretty geeky when it comes to Robbie Williams . Ok, ok, so pretty much everyone agrees his last album, Rudebox, sucked bad – but come on, remember Feel? Come Undone? Millennium? She's the One? It's undeniable Mr. Williams has produced some incredibly awesome numbers other than Angels over the last few years – so surely we can forgive him for that momentary "rudebox! do the rudebox" blip? Well, I suppose he needs to begin by reassuring us all with his latest album, Reality Killed the Video Star – the musical child spawned [...]

THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE: Part Three: 2004 Today, a whole post dedicated to one year. 2004 began the current comic book renaissance (which blossomed fully in 2005), and it takes an entire post just to cover this one year. And most of the reason was Marvel. Let's get started. Superman/Batman #1-6 Jeph [...]
Earlier in the decade, an indie super group of sorts formed that you probably missed. Made of three former Beta Band members, The Aliens came to fruition with 2007's Astronomy For Dogs . While it was an excellent record, it had the tendency to stray from why it was so enjoyable, especially at the last half as they attempted to flesh out their new bands direction. Now armed with round two, Luna has found that direction with their ambition, not to mention a desire to relive the 60's. For a band that, in [...]

I think that Aliens: Salvation has one of the best comic book covers of all time. At first glimpse, it looks like it might be a traditional piece of Japanese art: a samurai kneels with his sword in front of him while behind him a dragon dances. Take a closer look and you'll see that the sword is actual a huge cannon, the dragon behind him an Alien. Yeah, I capitlized Alien there because its probably one of the most famous aliens: the chest-bursting, acid-blood aliens from the the movies with Sigourney Weaver (Alien: Ressurection was my favorite). [...]

Top Album Releases: October 2009 Nick's Top Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms Black Heart Procession: Six Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 The Flaming Lips: Embryonic Monsters Of Folk: Monsters [...]

After the aliens arrived and announced their intentions in V last night, the first thing we see is two priests arguing over a Vatican pronouncement that the aliens are harmless. The younger priest is skeptical: "There's not a lot of scripture on the subject...I'm at a loss to explain how God and aliens exist in the same world..." It was fun to see that theological argument tossed in right off the bat. Science fiction doesn't deal with the issue of Christianity very often, aside from co-opting its plotines (ie Dune ). And the Church is not in [...]