Archives: 2006 July

Poe It Up n throw It Up!!!

July 30th, 2006

We reppin for anybody thas chuggin a Purple Sprite, a white muddy cup, nahmean, anybody thas leanin off that syrup n codiene drank. That purple punch, that throwed potion. If you got ounces in ya cup w/ jolly ranchers and yellow tuss and all that, then you know what it means to be a throwed!!

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last show for July already

July 26th, 2006

Growing - “Epochal Reminiscence”
Vlor - “Horses in Deserts”
This Kind of Punishment - “On Various Days”
Tinsel - “Sleep in Deep”
Popol Vuh - “Dream Part 4″
Folks and Peas - “As Difficult as It Is”
A Warm Palindrome - “Little Piglets”
Alvarius B - “Phantom Green Light”
Sunburned Hand of the Man - track one of Self Titled
Beat Happening - “Look Around”
Monks - “Complication”
The Homosexuals - “Neutron Lover”
Icebird - “Ohio”
The Pope - “Dance of the Czars”
Red Monkey - “Missy”
Lake of Dracula - “Henry Clay”
Monoshock - “Burn My Eye”
Two Lone Swordsmen - “Punches and Knives”
The Howling Hex - “Instilled with Mem’ry”
Quintron - “Push, Pull, or Drag”
Nick Riff - “Freak Element”
Space Streakings - “Noruze Thrillercar”
The Fatales - “Ministry of Defense”
Icky Boyfriends - “Drug War”
The Clean - “Beatnik”
The United States of America - “Coming Down”
Amps for Christ - “Scotland the Brave”
My Bloody Valentine - “Never Say Goodbye”
Bugskull & The Big White Cloud - “We Understand That”
Thuja - track five of The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
Super Numeri - “The Sea Wolves”
Justice - “Let There Be Light (demo)”
Noxagt - “Coefficient Ascender”
Burning Star Core - “Benjamin”
The Punks - track six of Thank you for the Alternative Rock.
Cerberus Shoal - “A Cloud No Bigger Than a Man’s Head”

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this one time

July 20th, 2006

in the 80s I saw this cartoon on tv, then like twenty years later I was talking to my friends about it because they had seen the same cartoon and we had a pretty fun time talking about it

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I drew some comics

July 18th, 2006

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I missed my show last week but

July 18th, 2006

this one was pretty killer

Jackie-O Motherfucker - “Stockholm, Sweden Nov 6″
The Oh Sees - “Losers in the Sun”
Honor Role - “Throwing Rocks”
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Somewhere in Europe / Hotpink!”
Pere Ubu - “Humor Me”
10lec6 - “Counter Stroke”
Felipe & Forte - “Pick Your Poison”
Liars - “Hold hands and it will happen Anyway”
USAisamonster - “Dookie Monster”
irr.app.(ext.) - “Wracking the Carcass for Residue”
Flying - “Last Trick”
Ash Ra Tempel - “Freak n Roll”
The Pink Mountaintops - “Sweet ‘69″
Suicide - “Dreams”
The Pin Group - “The Power”
Evangelicals - “What an Actress”
Porgy - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
Space Needle - “Sun Doesn’t Love Me”
Erica Pomerance - “The French Revolution”
Jockesses - track four
Hella - “Bitches Ain’t Shit But Good People”
Yellow Swans - “High on the Mountain of Love”
Harry Pussy - “Smash the Mirror”
Klangkrieg - “Korpus 1″
Yuko Nexus6 - “Tourists in Provence Market – Arles, France”
Open City - side a, track two
Kousokuya - “Breaking Suffering Song”
Antennas Erupt - “Let’s All Live in Loving Hearts”
Yowie - “Tohi”
White Mice - “Mousetrap”

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this is not a democracy, it’s a cheerocracy

July 18th, 2006

humorous annecdote about the band Oneida:

My friend Jake went to some event where bands play childrens songs for little kids, or something like that, and Oneida and a band called the Baseball Furies were there. Later, they were interviewing the musicians, and someone asked the Baseball Furies where they got their name (it’s from the The Warriors). They didn’t know, and said something like, “uh, I don’t remember, I think we just thought it sounded cool.” Oneida was asked the same question, and Fat Bobby replied matter-of-factly, “it’s from the movie The Warriors.”

I saw Oneida at Schuba’s on Saturday, and they totally ruled. They’re a four-piece now after adding one of the guitarists from the Fucking Champs, and while a lot of their newer stuff is softer and more melodic, they still know how to rock the epic hypnotic psyche jams. Arriver was cool but a little (!) heavy on the cheese, though you have to respect any band that performs their entire rock opera live complete with the three-voice acapella part about vikings or whatever, and the middle band was kind of boring. All in all a good show.

Also, why can’t you ever find pictures of a show afterward? I might be less annoyed by those kids with the digital cameras if I could actually see their pics later.

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what’s the past tense of ghostride

July 17th, 2006

I ghostrided some whips today….. it was pretty dipset

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some more mp3s I guess

July 10th, 2006

So there are lots of blogs that post mp3s and talk about new bands and link to each other and try to generate hype and set the blogosphere abuzz, which is cool, but it all seems kind of exhausting and masturbatory. Plus record reviews have always seemed somewhat meaningless, both in the dancing-about-architecture sense that they’re ultimately self-referential and in the “who cares what some dude on the internet thinks?” sense. I suppose I ended up writing more than my share of critical blurbs at the radio station, but I still have trouble with the “sounds like whoever meets whoever, in space” stuff, and most of the time my thoughts are just along the lines of “oh man this totally rules.”

At the same time, though, I enjoy listening to music and thinking about music, and now that I’m not filtering incoming cds for the rock show at WNUR, it’s nice to have some kind of outlet to write stuff down, even if this doesn’t have the charm of sloppily bisected mailing labels stuck in the corner of the cd jacket. Basically what I’m trying to say is that I might post mp3s and write some stuff about them from time to time. I think rapidshare keeps their files up like forever, so hypothetical readers of the future can still download.

anyway

On - “Pole Position” (click)

Celebrate Psi Phenomenon is a pretty new New Zealand label run by the guy behind Birchville Cat Motel, and they just put out a group called On’s new album, On. It’s awesome sludgy punk rock with two fuzzed-out basses and tons of feedback and that broken, damaged NZ sound that we all love. The webpage calls them “a full throttle blur of utterly wasted heaviness clinging to a two-chord, droning, punk rock core. Hell hath no fury like this mess and the threat of serious physical harm hangs in the air like a half-landed drunken chick-punch.” Cool.

They remind me of one of my favorite records from last year, Times New Viking’s Dig Yourself. They’re a noisy guitar-organ-drums three piece from Ohio whose demo tape was so good, Siltbreeze came out of retirement to release it on cd. click

Also, a track from classic NZ rockers the Dead C just because I saw their album on one of the pages I was browsing a minute ago. click

http://chicago.craigslist.org/zip/179981105.html

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I’m married to the game and I love my wifey

July 10th, 2006

This album is pretty cool. Mike Nuss and I used to talk about crunk music in the bathroom at DX and he recommended Lil Wayne, but I haven’t really listened to him until a week ago. Here’s an mp3 in case anyone actually reads this.

The new Sonic Youth rocks, too, and Load put out a Paper Rad dvd that will explode your mind out the top of your head like troll hair.

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how are you gentlemen

July 7th, 2006

My window looks across an alley into another apartment occupied by two cats. For a while I thought there was just one, but I now know there are (at least) two. I haven’t noticed any humans living there, but I assume there are some or that the cats are independently wealthy or perhaps retired.

Sometimes I wave until they look at me or I consider how unbalanced the effort to potential payoff ratio is.

unrelated: click here to download a sweet Sunn O))) song - watch out, though, it might be too heavy for your Chevy if you know what I mean

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