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Gil Mantera's Party Dream is the best at sex!
El Vez, the Mexican Elvis. Samples
Public Image by PiL and Feliz Navi Nada by El Vez
I was never a big Sex Pistols fan, and only really started listening to PiL a little while ago. The first album is pretty great, short, simple, angsty. The title song has a great little bass hook and then that Irish dude's voice is spot on. So, I thought it was odd when I got a Christmas comp called It's A Cool, Cool Christmas which has some awesome covers, and homages (Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland may appear here soon!) was a cover SLASH sample stealer with El Vez (retardedly great name) singing the Spanish favorite Feliz Navi Dad as Feliz Navi Nada. I think nada means zilch. I'm not sure if it's a straight sample grab or original instrumentation, but it's right there, super blatant, and comes back at the end with the vox. Good times. Happy chewbacah.
[PiL]--------[El Vez]--------Comments Welcome
This article in the NYT magazine is very cute and should be read before it's locked away under the annoying passwords and subs needed.
And here's a question for That's Plenty, Can you name everything you've ever boughten at a Hot Topic? I bought a Rudimentary Peni 7" and this weird contraption, like reverse pliers, to get my old earrings out for when I visited my great uncle.
Looked like this, but silver, and basically had to put the metal edges in the hoop and squeeze and it would extend making the little ball drop out.
Me and Andrea were asked by the troubadour to make out in the new new pornographers video. view it here
(Update: Embedded the video here! -steve)
The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky is one killer piece of work. Snaky oboe lines give way to implosive, full orchestral chords of sheerly dissonant weight, flitting toothy flutes chomp into wavering tones and when you see it with Leonard Bernstein conducting, you get a sense of just how tres difficile the work is for the concert players. But in delving even further, as I did upon listening to WNYC last night, I found that the dissonant layers of this work are actually known to cause schizophrenic reactions! Yes, that's right. How does this happen? Well, the brain processes sounds that are consonant in a much more streamlined way than it does dissonant sounds. Because of this tim elapse, apparently a jumble of confusion occurs, as was evident the opening night of the Rite of Spring. On this evening, reportedly, old ladies with cane sbeat each other, boos, hisses and throwing of objects underscored the performance of the work. Now check this out: one year later they performed again. What happened? Well, Stravinsky was lifted out of the concert hall on the shoulders of audience members and critics alike as the sounds they heard were already familiar, the pathways for understanding them had been established. Kooky. Check this decent clip of Bernstein conducting a youth orchestra.
"You're in your living grave, fuck those neon lights. That's just how I behave riding my bike." Had an extraordinarily awesome bike ride through PTown with Zach last nite which involved weaving quickly in and out of tourists who love to jump in front of you to gawk at sea-themed baubles, seeing the drag queen Dina Martina on her bike doing the same, stopping at Town Hall to watch a guitar player busking with backing looped samples, Zach being toppled by John Waters, pizza and booze. Made me think of this song. Made think of how I love playing Name That Tune with friends. I would have completely rocked that game show. Check the live orchestra memebers in the background, and the guy on the right's face when the host says, "Tahiti." Check the unbelieveably arcane references to pop culture lost on us kids today. This show is so rad.
Without extensive surgery and lessons, I will never be an aviatrix.
CoverAfter Hours sung by Mo Tucker / Coil, but not that Coil
After Heather, my roommate was Amber. This is Amber:
Nice girl. Into being cute full time. Anyway, she played the song After Hours a lot. It's a good song. VU is great and Mo Tucker is great. She was, what I imagine, the feisty lil drummer girl. But she got preggers, quit the band and moved to Georgia and worked at Wal-Mart for the minimum wage until Penn, that libertarian magic guy, put out her records, or some other odd fairy godmother nonsense. Can you imagine going from being a rock star to domestic servitude? The moral of the story is don't get pregnant, just close the door, the night could last forever. Vampires are cool.
The band covering After Hours is Coil, but not the how-to-destroy-angels/analstaircase Coil, but some Japanese band off the same VU cover cds that brought us, you Who Loves The Sun? And what the hell, take an official live bootleg of the version with a Lou Reed intro. Double the hell, here's a clip from Penn And Teller Get Killed where Penn shows off how much he likes the Velvet Underground and the 3 Stooges.[VU]--------[Coil]--------[VU live]--------Penn and Teller Get Killed VU Clip
Without extensive surgery and lessons, I will never be an aviatrix.
Coverwho loves the sun by VU / Honey Skoolmate
Tis still the summer solstice on the wrong coast, the longest day of the year, where the sun pants you in front of yr friends. Luckily, I worked till dusk and avoided the sun:
The guy is a jerk. There's a great cover album of Velvet Underground songs called Rabid Chords, which is filled with Japanese bands that may or may not be obscure. I've heard of the seagulls screaming kiss her kiss her. There's also some USA bands like Of Montreal and that Jim O'rourke guy. it also has these little vingettes of someone named Gerard talking about Andy Warhol and the Velvets. He sounds like he could be huge tic of a man, on scented pillows, recounting the past, stroking an old Warhol wig, the tinsel platinum eroding on his fingernails. I could google it, but maybe Sam can grace us with a comment.
So the sun's a fucker, and Honey Skoolmates know bad spelling and barking dogs do make a good cover on all ends. It also starts to rock in the middle. Be sure to look for another VU nihongo band cover soon, just so I can talk about the tragic magic life of mo Tucker.
[VU]--------[Honey Skoolmates]--------Comments Welcome
In the early half of the decade, my close friend Adam quietly released an album of cover tunes entitled Adam's Greatest Hits. After the critical acclaim that album received, there was no more output from this modern genius.
Until today. Last night Adam passed me his latest release, a cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive.
I've been a Nine Inch Nails fan for a very long time, but I've never heard his stance on the state of music and the music industry. Well, now I have, and it's comforting to know that he thinks the record company people are greedy, shortisighted bunglers. Or, as he says
That's ... why you don't see any label people here, 'cos I said 'F--- you people. Stay out of my f---ing show. If you wanna come, pay the ticket like anyone else. F--- you guys". They're thieves. I don't blame people for stealing music if this is the kind of s--- that they pull off.
Read the whole thing here.
The Blow
(Fun fact - their URL contains the phrase "blow us")
talent show grade stuff
except I paid to see this
it's like youtube live
a really good show
precision ferocity
with ecstatic peace
Crowd Surfer
crowd surf in ninety-four
but here in the oh seven
land on your dumb ass
It never grows on you. Even on the north side.
Samplehallucination acid lobot by com.a / Sample from Apple Y2K Propaganda
There was an old Farside comic where they revealed to the president or emperor or something, that his whole life had been an experiment, and the funding has run out. Take that Truman Show/Matrix! Anyway, com.a was a Tigerbeat6 darling that has seemed to evaporated in the late aughts, who did a few nifty little songs with a bunch of beat robbing and sample snatching, including an obscure Misfits' sample that will be revisited someday. Hallucination acid lobot was always just another song with a classic sci-fi sample right out of the history sbemails. However, last summer when youtube was blowing up and I was showing it to one of my editors, he freaked out and tried to find this old commercial he loved and low and behold - the birth of the sample was revealed. It's about 1:53 into the song, till the end, remixing Mac HAL as an apologetic destroyer of mank-ind.
[com.a]--------[Mac ad on 'tube]--------Watch it here--------Comments Welcome
[Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver] 
New Interpol track. Not the shitty radio version floating around. Did a source recording from the stream, so it's still not the best quality, but decent. Ok song but a lot of gabba gabba hey hey about the west coast. Gets my goat something fierce. Sounds like the new album will sound a lot like the last two. Whatever happened to songs like the Specialist? Fringe erotic after the jump inspired by Ballard's Crash. Hmm...warm leatherette
Forgive the impromptu logo. Hopefully.
CoverTrap by The Pop Group / Covered by Gogogo Airheart!
This is a nice little piece of spastic anyway you slice it. The Pop Group were a somewhat amazing and horrible band that crawled out of the wreck of '77 punk rock, but didn't fall quite into the arms of 'sound system ragga post punktronix' but still ended up sound like a dance band, but via funk. Like James Brown. One thing that was interesting where their political lyrics. Part of the band wanted to go more and more abstract, the other half was wanted to go more concrete. Trap is from their demo takes and rarities album We Are Time and sits its behind in the abstract column. So WRT and Trap both soundy-feely disconnected, but there other stuff is titled things like "We are all prostitutes" and "How much longer will you except mass murder?" Whatever, it's on Rough Trade, so it's canonical. Anyway, I found out about the Pop Group, which is a great name, it's a big 'oi! fuck you' to The Band, because of the Go go Go Airheart cover. Also, Sharon Singh didn't know who The Pop Group was when I asked.
Monsieur GGGA!'s cover mos def sat in a studio for a bit, despite the delightful tape hissies, and sounds pretty swell. Lot's of echo. Or is it reverb? It's nice to Airheart putting in so much energy, unlike their lazy cover of Queen's Death On Two Legs, but that's for another day. It's a typical cover, but brings a bit of GGGA weird and mixes it with some earnest nostalgia. And they prolly won't ever do a Misfits cover.
[Pop Group]--------[Gogogo Airheart]--------Annotated Lyrics Follow--------Comments Welcome
It is really worth your while to go check out WMFU's beware of blog right now. At the top of the page they have a video of John Cage performing on "What's my Secret". He is gracious, funny, and the performance is both hilarious and wonderful. This video made me love him, and respect his work in a whole new, non-fake kind of way.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/04/john_cage_on_a_.html
P.S. In a totally separate vein, I will give a dollar to anyone who can help me get my hands on a digital copy of Marjoe Gortner's "Bad, but not Evil" album. To those who are like wtf, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoe_Gortner. I know I can buy it for not too much, but I really don't want to ship it to Hungary.
[adult swim] made a video for El-P's Flyentology song, which features Trent Reznor, the guy who likes to mow his lawn in N'orleans. new el-p LP has tvotr and someover odd guest stars as well. i think it samples harry nilsson's the point as well which is a bit odd.
They also have a bunch of tracks to download from other def jux guys. I'm not big into rap.hop.hip but I dig this. New Can ox this year please? Oh, the above stuff is all here.
reznor pre nose job.
I'm probably running the risk of blogging about stuff no one but me cares about here. I spend literally hours a day on the Guitar Geek guitar rig database. If you fetishize musical gear in any way you must do yourself a favor and check this page out. It is the shit. What makes it so cool is it has handy little pictures of individual player's gear set-up, including signal flow. All the gear is cross referenced. Shown here is the Joy Division guitar set up. Awesome
One year, I had breakfast with Dylan and Sam. We tried to think of the worst band names. I remember Dylan saying Hoobastank sounds like the word for sucking a fart. I also remember Finger Gazebo, which sounds like a 22 year old guy (with a truck) that likes to date 14 year old girls.
Those witty wits at the AV Club have published their findings of worst band names.
May I introduce Clit Ripper?
Guns and Rosa Parks may actually be brilliant.
i got this in the mail. i like it out of context.
oh my
context below....
bwahaha, are we migrating from a guitar hero 2 centric bloggy?
01. Black Mirror
02. Keep The Car Running
03. Neon Bible
04. Intervention
05. Black Wave Bad Vibrations
06. Ocean of Noise
07. The Well & The Lighthouse
08. Antichrist Television Blues
09. Windowsill
10. No Cars Go
11. My Body is a Cage
editoh crap, anyone going to call 1-866-neonbible? Ext 7777.
ObGH:
They put a new song on their website. Forget anything I said earlier this week. It's amazing. Way to go guys.
Tickets to the FIVE Arcade Fire shows in New York City at Judson Memorial Church went on sale this morning at 9:00am in an online-only sale. The tickets sold out in minutes, but Miss Lanyi and I were lucky enough to grab a pair. Many people, however, were not so fortunate and you can find them ranting and whining over in BrooklynVegan comments section.
An ebay sale started, strangely enough, the night BEFORE the tickets went on sale and ending shortly after the tickets were sold out, closed out this morning at over $2,000 for a pair of tickets.
Another pair of tickets has just recently gone up for sale on ebay. The bidding started at one penny for the pair and, at the time of this writing, has risen to $255 in just 40 minutes.
While it is tempting to sell my own tickets for a king's ransom, I am reluctant because the tickets are will-call only *and* non-transferable. I'm aware that in normal will-call situations you could simply go up to the ticket window with your two buyers, show your ID and credit card, and then hand the tickets off to your buyers. But if the tickets are non-transferable, can you still do that? I think I may just hold on to my tickets to avoid risking the fallout of a botched sale.
Anyway, with all these angry scenesters having now failed to get tickets, this may be an ebay auction to watch. It ends tomorrow. How fast will the music fans out-money each other to buy the tickets they may not even be able to purchase? See you tomorrow!
** UPDATE ** Bowery Presents has updated their website with a newsflash about tickets and scalpers.
*ALL 5 ARCADE FIRE SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT*
TICKETS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE. The ticket purchaser must enter
the venue. Copies of ID, Credit Card or Confirmation email
WILL NOT be accepted for entry. Only complete parties will be
admitted. No exceptions. Please DO NOT buy tickets on eBay,
Craig's List, etc. YOU WILL NOT BE ADMITTED!
So much for getting two thousand dollars just for being lucky on the internet.
Arcade Fire "Intervention" 2007
So Arcade Fire, the biggest indie band of 2005, is about to embark on the release of their sophomore album, a journey that blog-fav bands these days find to be on the same level of difficulty as destroying the Ring of Power in Mt Doom or playing Miserlou on expert in GH 2. I'm sure if you Google the phrase "Arcade Fire" and "Intervention" you'll come across plenty of belly-aching about this track. I don't want to add to the freak out, but I will say this: a)Pipe Organ +1 b)Production -1 c)Arrangement +1 d)"The Boss" style delivery -3. I'd bet 50 bucks McCool is all about this track.
King Crimson "In the Court of the Crimson King" 1969
I heard this track for the first time since high school in Children of Men and I can't stop listening to it. So awesome.
Joshua over at Roadside Picnic has a bunch of great podcasts up right now. Aside from the regular radio show/podcast he's got an awesome field recording section up with submissions by members of Sun O))), Mountains, Diskona, and Hazard. Go check it out
If you needed another sign that the power structure of the music industry is shifting then look no further than CMJ. The long running annual music event at one point was viewed as something akin to an independent music festival. However, along with SXSW and Cochella it has slowly turned into a trade show; a week long junket for the New Industry Insiders made of the Pitchfork-led blogosphere.
Apparently Weird Al is having the most amazing animators ever illustrate all the videos for his new album, "Straight Outta Linwood." The video for "Close but No Cigar" is animated with disgustingly sexy vigor by John Kricfalusi, the creator of Ren and Stimpy! I haven't really kept up with John K's work over the years, but judging by this video he has spent his post-Nickelodeon days getting even more awesome! See below.
Sam and Michelle should team up for a duet...
HOW IT WORKS: Musicians should go to (www.myspace.com/godofwar) to register for the contest and upload their song onto the God of War II MySpace entry page. All musical entries will be available for fans to listen to. Fans will be encouraged to vote for their favorite song - musicians are encouraged to get their fans, friends and family to go to the site to vote for their song. There are three rounds.
Round 1 "The Beginning" - Starting OCTOBER 11 - Musicians can log on and post their own recording on the official entry site. Fans can listen to all the entries and then vote for their favorite. The top fifty vote getters will make it to Round 2.
Round 2 "The Semis" - The top 50 songs/vote getters from Round 1 will be whittled down to the top 10 songs by the development team behind the creation of God of War II. They will pick their ten favorite songs that best embody the spirit of the game and potentially deserve a place on the official soundtrack.
Round 3 "The Finals" - The top 10 will be announced on the website and fans will be encouraged to listen to the top 10 and vote for their favorite. The song with the highest number of votes will win and it will be featured on the God of War II soundtrack alongside other major recording artists (recording artists to be announced).
I'm still waiting for the aural experience of being flushed down a toilet.
Also, Sam, put up some new tracks.
Tenacious D made a little video to promote their new album. The iTunes plug at the end is probably the best convincer to buy music instead of steal that I've ever heard. Tell it like it is, Tenacious D. (I'm probably going to continue stealing, though.)
Not too sure about the Tenacious D movie coming out soon, (Trailer) it could easily go either way. I'm really feeling up for some dumb comedy though. Anyone seen Jackass 2? I hear good things, but not from reliable sources.
Also, wasn't School of Rock a great movie? I like Jack Black, most of the time. (I was going to make a crack about Nacho Libre being crappy, but frankly, the hater jokes in the comments are getting a little tired, and for one post, I'm trying to avoid them).
I'm playing on Saturday at Sin-E with Judah Johnson and Lions & Tigers. Please come if you can make it!
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness: "The Owl"
Well, Emmanuel Ho made it. This is probably the best music video I have ever seen.
The aforpostedabout Jeffrey Brown also animated a video for Death Cab For Cutie. I remember hearing about this a while ago but I never looked it up. Until now.
This is pretty sweet. the place i work is having a skillmovie contest and this guy submitted this. Not really videogame related but still sweet. Oh, Sam, my old boss has a bunch of John Carpentar CDs and i know we talked about how he was always credited with composer and some other guy got the synth credit, but it seems he actually was is a real musician, was even in a band and stuff.
I saw John F Carpenter and the Pines a rockin and a rollin at Sin-é last night. Check out his super sexy vocals at http://www.ilistentojohn.com or go hear them live at Southpaw on October 14th
![imageb766ad49-ede8-49d2-bbaf-279b85b5ce06[1].jpg](http://www.thatsplenty.com/images/imageb766ad49-ede8-49d2-bbaf-279b85b5ce06%5B1%5D.jpg)
So you're a multi-millionaire and you decide you want to show the world how much love you have for comics. Please don't. (I'm looking at you KISS, Public Enemy, LeBron James) You're not giving anything to comics, it just makes you look like a spoiled eight-year old whose daddy owns a printing press. (And if you insist on peeing in the creative pool, cool it with the ninja obsession. It just makes your cash-in vanity project reek even more of Shaq-Fu and the Insane Clown Posse.) Anyway, take a cue from Jay-Z, who is apparently just naming his comeback (if he ever left) album after a similarly themed comic series that he enjoys. Its called class.
Link (via Comic Book Resources)
I had to work tonight, which is ok normally, but it means that I missed 80-year-old Jimmy Scott playing in the city tonight. I'm not the biggest jazz fan in the world, but I love this guy's voice. He may in fact be the best. He was born with Kallmann's syndrome, a genetic defect that stunted his growth. But just like in the X-Men, his mutation has given him a super-human singing voice. He's been playing since World War II, but had a major comeback in the early ninties after an appearance on Twin Peaks. I could listen to this guy sing anything. Check out this clip from a PBS documentary, singing "Motherless Child", and dear god, check him out in The Black Lodge after the jump...
Sick of those four Apes and Androids songs breaking up while myspace buffers them? Because I know I am. Well soon, the 3 million unsigned bands on myspace like them can sell their music right on myspace. They can charge whatever they like, with a small percent going to myspace. This is excpected to go into effect by the end of this year.
The idea of using Myspace and sort of manipulating it to your advantage is a really interesting phenomenon, which has been especially apparent to me with Four Eyed Monsters, who are using myspace to generate interest in their self distributed film. They have a series of podcasts about the film, as we all know and love, which are about the creative process of the film, the problems that they had, the things that were exciting. Watching this process is especially inpiring for young artist types who are trying to do the same thing (and who all, naturally, have Myspace accounts). And through the fans of these podcasts, they've gotten screenings four screenings in six major cities (Thursdays in September), completely on their own.
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
The terrific Bill Plympton animated a video for Weird Al about downloading music and then my ten-year old self came over to my house and we screamed "AWESOME!" until his throat totally melted!
Did you guys see that the "guerrilla artist" Banksy (the guy who hung his own art in the Met and the Brooklyn Museum last year...go look at his website, he's amazing) hijacked a shipment of 500 Paris Hilton cds and replaced the cd with a disc of ridiculous remixes (Banksy had the help of Danger Mouse on these, who said, ""It's hard to improve on perfection, but we had to try.")... and replaced the inner artwork with his own manipulated artwork? Oh, it's just priceless. (Actually, they're going for about $1,500 on Ebay right now, so maybe not quite priceless, but almost).
Pics and video after the jump:
Long live James Tenney. One of my favorite modern composers, and one of the first boys to go to Bennington (MFA,) he got fed up with computer music early on but For Ann (Rising) and it's use of the Shepard Tone was one of the first moments of pure awesome I had. Audio illusions. Sigh. He also composed the fantastic Having Never Written a Note for Percussion which Sonic Youth played on Goodbye 20th Century. I was supposed to see him play gamelan stuff the summer I spent in North B, but I got a speeding ticket and sat on a chair and felt shitty instead. For what it's worth and not in the tiny obit., he also dated cat lady artist Carolee Schneemann and they did a nifty eros filmy at Bennington (I think?) called Fuses that I have somewhere. Also, he was in some early Stan Brakhage [also dead] films. Art super star. I think Heather even liked him.
Expect MP3s and youtube clips later. Frames from Fuses above.
I know I've slacked off on the music section here on thats plenty, I've gotten quite busy with non-blog music projects. But fear not music fans! I am currently at work on a three volume Mix CD for a friend of mine, and I shall share it here for the common erudition. The theme of this anthology is simple: a chronilogically ordered history of music that I think is sweet from 1967 to present day.
*There are only 3 of them.
I guess I gave it all away in the title. It's sort of like Hail to the Theif, but less soul crushing. (Or maybe Hail to the Theif just seems soul crushing to me because I was reading Altas Shrugged when I got it, and now I will forever associate the book with the album (but doesn't the cover art for Altas Shrugged go perfectly with Hail to the Theif?)). The Eraser is dreary yet makes me feel a bit anxious. It's not rock and roll at all, which I was hoping against hope that this album would be, but I suppose the days of Pablo Honey are over and I'm just going to have to accept it. Regardless, I like it. Everyone wants to feel like they're entering an album-long bout of dispair once in awhile. And you can only read Ahn Rand so many times. Right guys?
http://mcsweeneys.net/2006/7/11moe.html
We are suddenly playing a show tonight at pianos at 9:30. It is so sudden in fact that no one we know will be the