Pic of the Day
May 21, 2010
Franklin Square Event
May 19, 2010
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May 19, 2010
| I took my dad to the mall the other day to buy some new shoes (he is 66).
We decided to grab a bite at the food court. I noticed he was watching a teenager sitting next to him. The teenager had spiked hair in all different colors – green, red, orange, and blue. My dad kept staring at her. When the teenager had had enough, she sarcastically asked: “What’s the matter old man, never done anything wild in your life?” Knowing my Dad, I quickly swallowed my food so that I would not choke on his response; I knew he would have a good one! In classic style he responded without batting an eyelid …. “Got stoned once and screwed a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my daughter.” |
Male Bonding
May 19, 2010
Male Bonding Nothing Hurts
Emerging from the fertile D.I.Y. rock scene in Dalston, a gentrification-proof London neighborhood with ample “lo-fi” bands and Turkish restaurants, noise-pop trio Male Bonding plays fast. Nothing Hurts, the band’s first full-length, gets it done in half an hour, and most songs clock in at around two minutes. But, there’s much more to Male Bonding than high-speed, high-impact punk. If you will know their velocity, you will remember their melodies. Every song on Nothing Hurts, whether a clipped, snarling rock anthem (“All Things This Way,” “Crooked Scene,” “Pumpkin”) or something more foggy and contemplative (“Franklin,” “Worse to Come”), carries a hook that’s immediate and permanent. Nothing Hurts was recorded in the fall of 2009 in New York and mixed and mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound.
After a triumphant return home to the UK, from their US tour with the Vivian Girls & The Soft Pack the band are gearing up to begin a pretty lengthy UK tour.
Interview with Dirty Laundry TV.
Band of the Week on Spinner.com
Free MP3 of Franklin, via Stereogum
Free MP3 of Years Not Long via Pitchfork
“Webb’s upper-register vocals have yearning nailed down, and the feeling is cemented by lyrics…”-Pitchfork
“…people of the world will finally know of Male Bonding’s gritty awesomeness.” – Fader
“…Male Bonding, gets friendly with choppy, high-velocity noise pop.” –Village Voice
Pic of the Day
May 17, 2010
Music Monday
May 17, 2010
Pic of the Day
May 16, 2010
QOTD: by Jim Jarmusch
May 13, 2010
Pic of the Day
May 13, 2010
Podcast Thursday
May 13, 2010
KEXP Song of the Day:
Best Coast – When I’m With You
FADER: Visionary Podcast #5
Visionary Podcast Number Five_ Best Coast, JJ, Free Energy, Tanlines, Nosaj Thing
Best Coast- Something in the way
jj: Things will never be the same
Free Energy: Something in common
Tanlines: Power everything
Nosaj Thing: FWD
Foals: New album release, Total Life Forever
May 12, 2010
Foals Total Life Forever
Following the release of their 2008 debut, Antidotes, comes a brand new record from Oxford, UK quintet. Written primarily in the basement of their Oxford HQ (“The House of Supreme Mathematics”) and recorded in Gothenburg with former Clor man Luke Smith, Total Life Forever finds Foals singing rather than shouting, emotional as well as functional.
Keep an ear out! Beginning soon, you can hear the bands new song, “Spanish Sahara” in the promo campaign for Season 8 of Entourage.
Here are some useful links to various videos, photos and social networking sites for the band.
Official video for This Orient
The Making of This Orient
Foals You Tube Channel
Foals official website
Foals on Facebook
Foals on MySpace
Foals on Twitter
The making of “Total Life Forever”
NME cover featuring Yannis
Pic of the Day
May 11, 2010
Beach House at First Unitarian Concert Review
May 11, 2010
Beach House at First Unitarian Concert Review
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Open Letter to the Bearded Boys
May 11, 2010
Dear Beardy:
Don’t get me wrong, I have lusted after many a bearded fella in the past year or so but it’s too much now. The trend of the long beard that you can’t seem to let go of needs to end. There are too many of you walking the streets and now that plaid shirts are all the rage it’s just overkill. Leave the bearded flannel plaid and wool slouchy hat look to the Canadian lumberjack. It’s just not working for the hipster boys working at the local coffee shop and vinyl record stores. Besides, it’s starting to become difficult to distinguish between you and the registered pedophiles on the street. Who is the real wierdo with the beardo? We use to know but not so much anymore, think of it as a public service and make a difference in your community.
A little facial hair is great, but there should be a rule that a beard should never be so long that it could obstruct your vision if a big gust of wind were to take you by surprise. Come on guys, we’ve been so patient waiting for you to get thru the “patchy” phase and identifying what you had for breakfast by the left over contents. Please, no more mismatched facial and head hair colors. How many men out there have brown hair but grow ginger beards? Way too many! The valance really should match the tier curtain, just sayin’.
Give us back your smooth baby soft skin, your chiseled jaws and your cleft chin, and by the way your Mother called and asked me to write this….don’t break her heart.
Miss your face,
C-
Your Monday Inspiration: Cool inventions(?)
May 10, 2010
Your Monday Inspiration: Cool inventions(?)
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Pic of the Day
May 10, 2010
Music Monday: Broken Bells
May 10, 2010
Pic of the Day!
May 9, 2010
Happy Mother’s Day to all you Teen’s out there!
becuz baby loves the thrill of the wind in his
becuz Ken finally grew a pair
becuz twins make double the tips
It Ain't Hemingway 