Howdy kids. Sorry for our absence as of late, We've been busy boys. The Play-Doh Launch night @ CATCH was huge and BEFORENOON 's 1st Birthday @333 was, as we have come to expect from the B4N team, classic. Anyways... I digress... I heard a cover version on a youtube link while I was looking for a Ramones video. It was by Jason Mraz. It brought out a very spitefull reaction in me as to the 'softened'version he did. Let's just say my reaction was opposite to the one Mraz intended by slowly and 'meaningfully' [...]
Books away, pencils out. Pop quiz time. First question, Puberty is: A. The House Band for the new monthly Trainwreck dance-debauchery party at the Orient Express. B. Side project of Intelligence dynamic duo Lars Finberg and Susanna Welbourne. C. That awkward stage that all humans go through to reach sexual maturation, and that most would like to forget. D. All of the above. The answer of course is D, but for purposes here we're (mostly) interested in A & B. The Intelligence [...]
"Kevin Is Gay" is a very weak step for Giant Drag. First off, the track relies on the presence of a much-too-repeated guitar riff for its main focus, and the meowing that ends the track just seems out of place compared to tracks like the follow-up "Cordial Invitation". "Cordial Invitation" is the first in a [...]
That giant blancmange of a flyer above is exhorting you to get down to Cable for Chew The Fat and watch the cream of UK bass music (and Mumdance) mash it up a week on Friday. Looks amazing, don't miss! It's also in association with the We Fear Silence guys, who've offered us a guestlist plus one for you guys - so if you want to get yourself and a mate in for free, just email an answer to this question to the usual address (thebassmusicblogATgmailDOTcom ). Which club did Chew the Fat start off in? [...]
C'è chi si paventa come avvocato delle cause perse e chi tra le cause perse sceglie sempre quelle che non si fila nessuno. Con i Giant Drag e con Annie Hardy è partita 3 anni fa (quanto tempo) una sorta di pen friendship dura a finire. C'è chi è amico con Vasco Rossi, per dire, io sono "amico" di Annie Hardy. Che culo. Lo so. La chiacchierata in questione è la terza (le altre qui e qui e ad un certo punto mi rendo conto possa sembrare ridondante ma a me va così) dopo [...]
It's been a long time coming for fans of Giant Drag. In 2005 the Los Angeles-based boy-girl duo of Annie Hardy and Micah Calabrese, whose blend of swirling guitars and sneering vocals left a palatable and lasting impression, largely dropped off the radar after the release of their debut album Hearts and Unicorns. Following a three year hiatus, Calabrese returns to the lineup, and the band's record label issues appear to be behind them. Giant Drag is apparently hard at work on their second album; in the interim, they are releasing the four-track "Swan Song" EP on Feb. 16 to [...]
Giant Drag "Swan Song" EP Feb 16 Giant Drag will release " Swan Song " EP on February 16th via Roar Scratch. For a taste, watch their video for "Stuff to Live For": Track listing 1. Swan Song 2. Stuff To Live For 3. White Baby 4. Heart Carl
Giant Drag , the on-again, off-again rock persona of Annie Hardy, is finally resurfacing. The "Swan Song" EP, which I believe was originally due out in 2008, is set for a Feb. 16 release, and director G.J. Echternkamp makes Hardy the target for everything from glitter to green beans in this video for "Stuff to Live For." History lesson: It was way back in the middle of the last decade (and doesn't it feel weird to type that? ) that Giant Drag achieved next-big-thing status, and it was deserved, with Hardy as the art-damaged but razor-sharp shoegazer girl who [...]
Friday, January 22, 2010 Jesus H. Christ, are the holidaze finally fucking over? Has the sentimental wash of all things big and bloated floated on past? Are we now knee deep in the always terrifying Doldrums of Early '10? Yes, yes, and yes. Well, here I am again, feebly clawing at the doors of this weekend's releases, attempting to give you, possibly discerning film viewers, my opinions on just what might be coming out this weekend. As I've warned before, I haven't seen a single one of these films, I'm, [...]
Let T.I. & Luda tell it, Atlanta is home to some of the most extravagant strip clubs with voluptuous women prowling the streets day and night. According to the oldest running LGBT publication in the USA, The Advocate , "Hotlanta" as they affectionately call it, is on fire-and flaming for being the gayest city in the country. Georgia isn't the most gay-friendly state, but Atlanta is undoubtedly our gayest city—with 29 gay bars here, there's a reason it's dubbed Hotlanta. Atlanta's several queer events include one of [...]
have you ever wondered what makes a man play the washboard? i know i have. and if you are similarly inclined to ponder such things, you will want to check out the outlaw jd ray by 17 pygmies. or jackson del ray's continued attempts to drag the concept album back into unfashion. i s'pose when you scrape yrself free of savage republic , record "an odd, kind of surf-a-delic, emerson lake & palmer inspired cover version of the theme [...]
It's rare that I get excited about bringing you guys music that doesn't fall under the giant umbrella that is "Electro." But today I was just forwarded some tracks from a band that is soon to become one of my new favorites. BEAR HANDS ~~!! It's been nearly 2 years since singer/songwriter/guitarist Dylan Rau and guitarist Ted Feldman graduated from Wesleyan College with degrees in film and 3 years since their first uproar in a Chelsea rehearsal space with fellow band-mates drummer TJ [...]
Top meeowing action from the 'Drag on Hearts And Unicorns track Kevin Is Gay: [Part of Decade Null 2006 ]
Hello audience, I'm Evan. It's time again for me to put effort into composing a blog entry. That's right, today is the day you'll get to read my year-end list devoted to the 100 best albums released in 2009. Like last year, I can't possibly write 100 blurbs for all the albums on this list, so I've prepared about 25 mini-reviews to go along with song samples from about 25 of the albums. As far as I know, all these albums were released in 2009, but I am an imperfect human, so there might be an error or two. Instead [...]
I should probably be standing by my window reciting Snowbound by John Greenleaf Whittier. When I get to the line, "The white drift piled the window-frame," I can use dramatically appropriate hand gestures and point. My car is behind a giant mound left by the plow. I can barely see the front fence. My neighbor has shoveled her driveway, but I sit and wait for Skip and his truck and his shovel. He will have me out in a jiffy. School is cancelled. We will have a white Christmas after all. The sun is out, and [...]
You might hate Madonna, which is a completely rational thing to do. As a person, she's done a lot of nice things like adopting from developing nations, but she's also subjected us all to looking at someone the age of our mother in hot pants, and she saw fit to marry Guy Ritchie. There are worse things she's done, obviously, but let's get away from her as a person and onto the music she's made. The production might be terribly poppy and her voice grating, but there's no denying that she's had some of the best songs in living memory. [...]
Before we get to I Rock Cleveland's Top 20 Albums of 2009, I would like to note a couple things. First, all the usual caveats apply, i.e., this list represents on man's opinion, lists are made to be argued about, and this list by this particular writer does not include much, if any, mainstream pop, R&B, or hip-hop. This was not done out of some nefarious plan to boost one form of music at the expense of others, nor was it done because this particular writer refuses to acknowledge music contributions by certain segments of the population, rather [...]
Kingblind's Top 15 Albums of 2009 2009 has been a fantastic year for music. It took us quite a while to come up with a Top 15 that we could all agree upon. But alas, here it is. From old favorites to new kids on the block (No, that that new kids!) We proudly present. The top 15 albums of 2009.. and away we go! 15) Built to Spill: There is no Enemy Three years after the release of its last album, "You in Reverse," Built [...]
You should not have remorse for anything you have done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self. Well-being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become acquainted with in order to seek it. You don't know what well-being is, because you have never experienced it. Well-being is an achievement one has to deliberately seek. In order to accomplish the feat of making yourself miserable you have to work in a most intense fashion. It is absurd you have never realized you [...]
image source Son De La frontera - "Bulería Negra Del Gastor" "I'm up, ma," only 14 and already he talks to his mother this way. He comes down the stairs for breakfast, but what does he really eat. A few bites of a grapefruit and a glass of milk and he's out the door. He barely looks me in the eye, his head down and his big hulking grunts just dismiss any effort I try to make. He's all I have, and he knows that. All [...]
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