the folks over at Sterogum have put together 12 tracks of bands covering the Icelandic songstress.
more in the read more
Tracklist
1. Liars - "Army of Me"
2. Dirty Projectors - "Hyperballad"
3. High Places - "Modern Things"
4. Bell - "It's Oh So Quiet"
5. Pattern Is Movement - "Enjoy"
6. Evangelicals - "You've Been Flirting Again"
7. Xiu Xiu - "Isobel"
8. Final Fantasy & Ed Droste - "Possibly Maybe"
9. White Hinterland - "I Miss You"
10. El Guincho - "Cover Me"
11. Atlas Sound - "Headphones"
12. No Age - "It's Oh So Quiet" (Alternate Take)
its a really well put together thing below are two of my favorites off it
MP3>Liars -Army of me
MP3>Final Fantasy & Ed Droste - "Possibly Maybe"
to download the full thing head over to Stereogum
The New video for Bjork went online today you don't get the full effect of the 3D on the streaming version but the video will be out on DVD and comes with 3D glasses as well see it here "Wanderlust" single is due out on 14/04/08
Enjoyed: A Tribute To Björk
Caribou Member Re-Injured
Brad Weber drummer for Caribou has Re-Injured (broke) his wrist fall from a ladder prior to a scheduled Caribou show at Washington, DC's Rock and Roll Hotel , he was still recovering from an injury suffered back in February. Caribou canceled the gig that night, but Weber will be out of commission for four to six weeks, according to Caribou's publicist,The band is flying in a possible replacement and still pondering the fate of those many upcoming live engagements , lets hope they have it all sorted out for their Whelan's gig in May as well as ATP vs Pitchfork.
Caribou - Melody Day (live)
the crow
Subtle have leaked another track off their soon to be released album ExitingARM. The track in question is called "the crow" and can be found at the bottom of this post. A while back i posted the first track they relased from their new opus called "Unlikely Rock Shock" which you can listen to here , "Unlikely Rock Shock" follows the "Crow" on the album, so listen in order and get a sense of at least one transition.
. Also, i hear there's a 20,000-word comic book that doseone illustrated/wrote that follows the album's narrative. Keep watch at the band's site.
MP3>Subtle - the crow
2008 Reading & Leeds Festival Lineup
The initial lineup for the no-longer-Carling festival which takes place on August 22nd-24th in Reading & Leeds has been revealed.
And (as usual) it's rather interesting.
Highlights include Justice, Conor Oberst, and obviously Rage Against The Machine.
Tickets are on sale now at £145 for the weekend, and £62.50 each for day tickets (not including booking fee).
Full lineup (so far) after the jump...
Rage Against The Machine
Metallica
The Killers
Queens of The Stone Age
Foals
Justice
MGMT
Manic Street Preachers
The Cribs
Feeder
Tenacious D
Slipknot
Conor Oberst
Pendulum
Biffy Clyro
Serj Tankian
Dizzee Rascal
Taking Back Sunday
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Anti-Flag
Babyshambles (shudder)
The Fratellis
The Enemy
Bloc Party
The Raconteurs
Editors
Bullet For My Valentine
The Wombats
Vampire Weekend
We Are Scientists
Dirty Pretty Things
The Subways
Avenged Sevenfold
Dropkick Murphys
Caravan - new single - new
Caravan is the new single from Efterklang off their acclaimed album Parades and will be available digitally from Monday March 31.
The digital version holds 4 tracks
01 Caravan
02 The Romance on Mammoth Hill
03 Caravan (Max de Wardener Remix)
04 Mirador (Vincent Oliver Remix)
The single will be released as a 7" vinyl in a few weeks.
Efterklang - Caravan
Those Dancing Days For Dublin
Those Dancing Days have confirmed a show at Dublin's Andrews Lane Theatre on Friday the 6th of June. Tickets are 18 euro and go on sale Wednesday.
Here's the video for their catchy-as-hell eponymous single:
Neil Aspinall Dies
Beatles road manager and long-term head of Apple-corp Neil Aspinall has died.
Beatles fanatics such as myself will be familiar with Aspinall- a school friend of Harrison & McCartney- from the Beatles Anthology series, which Aspinall masterminded as well as appeared in.
Full obituary here.
No Standing Hangover Mix
Volume 10 of the egoeccentric Hangover mixes comes courtesy of No Standing's guitar maestro Chris O'Connor.
No Standing have just completed recording with Ivan Jackman at Silverline Studios, and having heard a taster, I can confirm that their new stuff is something to be looked forward to. The band seem to have further pushed their boundaries and produced their best material to date.
April 4th gives you a chance to check out No Standing live, as they hit the Button Factory for stage two of the Emergenza Festival.
Click to check out No Standing on myspace
Tracklisting and link in the read more...
Click to download mix
1. Nothing better - The Postal Service
2. Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl - Broken Social Scene
3 Songs of love - The Divine Comedy
4. Close to me (Closest Remix) - The Cure
5. Say Yes - Elliott Smith
6. Brothers on a Hotel Band - Death Cab For Cutie
7. Talk Show Host - Radiohead
8. Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
9. Loose Lips - Kimya Dawson
10. Too Little Too Late - Metric
food fight
New apparently unofficial music video directed by Daniel Bloomberg. Track from their album '†'.
Justice - Phantom Pt. II
Daft Punk Have Heard More Obscure Records Than You Have...
...and that's why they're so rich.
A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise
Video for "A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise" by Phosphorescent from the Dead Oceans release Pride. Video directed by Zachary Sluser and Matt Thiesen.
"A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise" by Phosphorescent
Neon Love Leaves The Shaw
Thursday nights in Dublin about to become a lot less neon, as tomorrow sees Neon Love's last night in the Bernard Shaw.
The weekly electro night brought joy and dancyness to the pub for more than a year, but is sadly set to move on from tomorrow. What the future holds for Thursdays & Neon Love, we do not know... but you're all guaranteed at least one more night of madness as Neon Heroes from the club's history descend on the Shaw tomorrow night.
Philth (Backlash), Dave Salacious (Family), Trashed DJs, Chemistry DJs, & Antics DJs will all be providing entertainment from 8 til the wee hours, with Beer for E3.50, Buckfast for E12 & Shots E3.
As always with Neon Love, admission is free! What more of an excuse do you need?
Tis a shame to see the end of such a great club, but I'm sure this is not the end for the NL crew.
Best of luck to them all from egoeccentric!
First Casualties Of The Sub-Prime Market
The implosion of the sub-prime mortgage sector in the US is largely being credited for the financial down-turn we're seeing in Global markets.
The Irish Government are, as usual, asking us all to tighten our belts (while they add extra notches to theirs); but while we worry, the real damage of the current financial climate is already being seen- in the US.
Los Angeles has recently seen a number of shanty towns spring up due to the large number of houses being repossessed. This is pretty outrageous for the 'Richest Nation In The World'. Considering how much has already been spent on the war in Iraq, and how much more is likely to be spent in the future, this seems even more of a tragedy.
Check out this shocking BBC report:
Thanks to the watchful Oz for the heads up.
Free Dr Pepper for everyone in the USA courtesy of G N'R
For anybody who doesn't know, Chinese Democracy, the new (lets not say 'new' actully, lets say 'next') album from Guns N'Roses, has been slated for release since sometime in 1999. Its been rescheduled for every few months since then and there's still no sign of it.
Dr. Pepper however are so convinced that it won't be out by the end of the year that in a genuine bout of publicity stunt craziness they have promised every single person in the United States a free Dr Pepper if it does.
Personally I hope they do release it just for the fact that this rancid rancid drink will no doubt be put out of business by having to cater to the 300 Million+ citizens of the US for free. Please God please. Oh and I've heard the album and it ain't all that anyway. Which is a nice way of saying that as much as I want to like it, it sucks.
NME has the story
Initial Electric Picnic line-up announced
Here's the first of them y'all straight off Electricpicnic.ie
Jape, Sex Pistols, Underworld, Hayseed Dixie, The Gossip, Cormac and BSQ Band, Sigur Rós, Adrian Crowley, Sinead O'Connor, Micah P Hinson, Grinderman, Blitzen Trapper, Lionheart Brothers, Silver Apples, George Clinton and the P-Fuck allstars, Tobias Froberg, Josh Ritter, Tindersticks, Constantine, Teitur, Cathy Davey, Midnight Juggernauts, That Petrol Emotion, Yacht, New Young Pony Club, Turin Brakes, The Breeders, Tartitt, Christy Moore, Noisettes, Kila, Faust, Goldfrapp, The Yard Dogs, Michael Spranti & Spearhead, One Day International, The Roots, Boss Volenti, The Waterboys, Foals, My Bloody Valentine, Lisa Hannigan, Wilco, CSS, Juana Molina, Tinariwen, Mark Geary, Franz Ferdinand, Dublin Gospel Choir, Absentee, Duffy, Dawn Landes, Conor Oberst (somewhere Rob is wetting his pants), Candi Staton, Large Mound, Emmy the Great
So.....................it is basically whats been kicking around the rumour-mill minus a few additions that would have moved it from "Quite Good" to "Damned Good". Sigur Rós and MBV together in the one place is something to look forward to but no bloody sign of Cornelius which was really blowing my skirt up seeing as I haven't seen him since Witnness 2002. Perhaps there will be more juicy stuff in the further announcements but I don't predict a quick sell-out this Friday.
They seemed to have changed the design of everything as well so I suspect this will be the last time you see the sun image above used in any Leccy Piccy stuff. In fact, I feel redundant already.
Tickets are gettable here.
Radiohead Support Announced
Bat For Lashes have been confirmed as the support act for Radiohead's Malahide Castle shows. There's still some tickets left for Friday, if this makes you want to go.
Here's the video for the excellent What's a Girl To Do?
chromatics
chromatics play Andrews Lane Theater on the 24th of April with support from Donal Dineen and guests the gig is being put on the wonderful
Maximum Joy
Probable Electric Picnic Lineup
Courtesy of Nialler9, Thrill Pier & others:
My Bloody Valentine, Sex Pistols, Sigur Ros, Moby, Wilco, Tindersticks, Massive Attack, Underworld, Super Furry Animals, Fatboy Slim, The Breeders, Elbow, CSS, George Clinton, Chic featuring Nile Rogers, Gary Numan, Franz Ferdinand, The Human League, 808 State, The Roots, The Orb, Mogwai, Faust, Neon Neon, Jamie Lidell, Foals, Lee Scratch Perry, Baaba Mal, The Wedding Present, Sebastien Tellier, Henry Rollins, Billy Bragg, Marty Mulligan, Saul Williams, Booka Shade, Transglobal Underground, King Creosote, Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, Damien Rice, The Duke Spirit, Crystal Castles, Tinariwen, Red Snapper, F*ck Buttons, Micah P Hinson, Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Fish Go Deep, Grand National, Lisa Hannigan, Super Extra Bonus Party, Cinephile, Kings of Convenience, David Kitt, Donal Dineen, Gemma Hayes, The Gossip, Plaid, Kevin Rowland, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Two Gallants, Trentemoller, Richie Hawtin, Paul Weller, James, Bloc Party, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cornelius, Buzzcocks, DJ Krush, Supergrass, The Coral, Bonnie Prince Billy, Notwist, Goldfrapp, Calexico, Jimmy Cliff, Robyn, Hayseed Dixie, Low, Dirty Three.
Hmmm... meh?
Obviously some (really) good ones, but nothing I'm gonna wet my pants over.
Full lineup at 6pm today.
Most pleasing addition: Sigur Ros/Cornelius
Most popular debunked rumor: Portishead
Still holding out for: The Postal Service/The Knife
Was never gonna happen: The Faint
***UPDATE:
Predictably, rumors are now flying around like crazy. Some worth mentioning are Conor Oberst, Jape & George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars. Fingers crossed...
Music to get lied to by
A friend of mine Cian gave me this compilation (called "Music to get lied to by") its really good and though i would share tracklisting and download link in the read more
Track listing
Sparklehorse - Sea of Teeth
Colleen - Babies
Fourtet - RID
Ohio Players - Love Slipped Through My Fingers
They Might Be Giants - Hearing Aid
Jape - I Spend Too Much Time At Conferences
Electrelane - Oh Sombra!
Micah P Hinson - The Day Texas Sank To The Bottom Of The Sea
Bjork - Unravel
Psapp - Curuncula
The Album Leaf - Thule
Nico - These Days
download here
Cian has a film up on youtube that also really good you can check it out below
Detached
Tonight
(more info in the read more)
Tubelord are a three piece from Kingston Upon Thames playing post-progressive-hardcore in coded pop.
Tubelord - Feed Me A Box Of Words
Tubelord myspace
Blakfish are a 4 piece from Birmingham UK. They have been playing together since they were 12. Blakfish's eccentric high-energy offbeat stop-start hardcore is an intoxicating blend of elemental forces, with reggae breakdowns and hip hop interludes lightening the mood amidst scalding, paint stripping riot rock topped by alternately melodic and throat-ripping raging vocals.
Blakfish - Captain Burns (live)
Blakfish myspace
Enemies started a few years back as a solo project by guitarist Eoin Whitfield called "New Man Eoin". In the summer of 2007 he got three other musicians; Lewis Jackson (Guitar), Oisín McMahon Trench (Drums) and Mark O' Brien (Bass). They became "enemies" and play relaxing, hypnotic (yet large at parts) music together. They released they're debut EP "Alpha Waves" in early March 2008.
Enemies - For One Night Only
Enemies myspace
Almost Cliché
a wicklow based DIY post-rock hardcore band with dance elements.
Almost Cliché - "Bells"
Almost Cliché myspace
Ciarán Parnell
Ciarán Parnell - Aaron Echolls
Ciarán Parnell myspace
Electric Picnic tickets: A snip at only 240 YoYo's!!!
Although the tickets and line-up were already supposed to have been announced by now. And even though Oxegen has, for the second year in a row, pinched a large portion of the deadly bands. And despite the fact that the line-up has gotten steadily weaker since the original weekend in 2005, I still have high hopes for this years Electric Picnic. Let's hope the lineup justifies the 240 euro price tag!
Seeing My Bloody Valentine is most definitely a plus point but unless I need a new pair of trousers when they finally announce the line-up tomorrow evening, then I will be most displeased to see the beginning of the inevitable decline of great potential.
Pessimistic? Perhaps. But remember. A Pessimist is never disappointed.
Electric Picnic 2008 takes place in on the 30th & 31st August and 1st September in Stradbally Laois. One or two bands including My Bloody Valentine have already been announced but the first proper announcement will come tomorrow evening and tickets will go on sale this friday priced E240. Gettem here.
Coincidence or is somebody fucking with me?
You ever get the kind of experience where you haven't heard a song for a very long time and then you hear it everywhere. A lot.
Well this thing happened to me for the Songs "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush and "No Diggity" by Blackstreet. Over the course of various radio shows and VH1 lists I heard them at least 5 times each over the last week.
Is there something about these songs? Is it their anniversaries? Is there a Blackstreet/Kate Bush revival underway? Is there some cosmic significance to the two of them? Anyway. The coincimentalness of it all has served to remind me that one of these songs has always been awesome and one I used to hate and now reluctantly admit is a classic of its genre. I'll let you figure out which is which. Click below to be reminded for yourselves
Wanderlust - 2d preview
Wanderlust is the next single from Björk. The video is done in 3d animation but this is a short 2d preview.The video will be premiered on the 31st of March on yahoo.com.
For the 3d version one will need special 3d glasses to watch.
picture preview of the video in the read more
Let's Write a Sawng
Let's Write a Sawng (Step 1 and Step 2)
(step 3 in the read more)
Let's Write a Sawng (Step 3: Chords)
Mills- McCartney Flash Game
I'd prefer to be beating Mills with a stick, but..
Original game here
Video Of The Day
Spent a lot of the weekend listening to Elliott Smith's eponymous second album which is so damn beautiful, I'm gonna have Smith on the brain for weeks.
To drag you all in with me, here's his performance of Miss Misery at the Oscars. Oh how far away from Celine Dion... :
I might be jumping to conclusions but....
LIARS have pulled out of both their ATP related performances this May, firstly at the London Astoria show on the 14th May featuring BATTLES and FUCK BUTTONS, and also their position on the lineup of the Explosions in The Sky ATP festival. This is due to them securing the main support slot for Radiohead's forthcoming American tour which starts on the 5th of May.
Things are not looking well for their gig in vicar street with battles and redneck manifesto on the 15th of May but that said even with out LIARS the line up of battles and redneck manifesto is still an awesome one. Will keep you informed as i find out more
Grindhouse comes to Dublin
More than a year after its state-side release that the poster above suggests. In fairness I always knew that Grindhouse was going to be a flop. The concept was a little bit too out there and "Nudge Nudge" for mass audiences (especially US ones) to digest satisfactorily but having been lucky enough to have seen the proper version of it I can tell you that its a hell of a lot more satisfying to see the proper version than it is to see the extended versions of "Planet Terror" and "Deathproof" seperately.
Anyway, despite the fact that the full version of the movie didn't get shown theatrically over here, Tarantino and Rodriguez are taking it on a roadtrip and it will screen in the IFI on the 18th and 19th of April. There are many of you who will have seen the split versions of the movies and will say "whats the point?" to this but there are those of us who know the difference between watching a movie and watching a movie as it was intended and it is for those people that the screenings are intended.
What you will also see in the full version is a series of "fake" trailers directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead), Eli Roth (Hostel), Rob Zombie (um...Rob Zombie) and this non-existent classic below directed by Rodriguez himself which are almost as good as the main features
Oh and the directors won't actually be there but hey what else is new?
Billy the Kid did what he did and he died
New animated video for WHY? for the song "Song of the Sad Assassin" off there new album Alopecia. The video was directed by animator Mike L. Mayfield ("Family Guy", "American Dad").
Hangover Mix Vol.9: Delorentos
Delorentos like making mixtapes. So much so that their contribution to the egoeccentric hangover mixes is a two-parter- woo hoo!
Delorentos are currently on tour, having just played a massively well-recieved set at SXSW. They'll be hitting Italy for some dates at the start of April before returning to these shores to play FM 104's 'The Gig' on April 6th in the Olympia. Also on the bill for this show are The Blizzards, The Coronas, Aslan and Television Room- with all proceeds going to Temple Street Children's Hospital.
Check out Delorentos myspace here for updates, and links to their increasingly crazy tour diaries.
Read on for tracklistings and links for the mixtapes...
Click for part one: Nial's mix.
Tracklisting:
01. Yo La Tengo- Danelectro 3
02. Bat For Lashes- Horse And I
03. Black Lips- Not A Problem
04. Magnolia Electric Co.- Doing Something Wrong
05. Sebadoh- Spoiled
06. Semifinalists- Let's Kill This
07. Nina Simone- Do I Move You?
08. Ben Kweller- Sha Sha
09. Good The Bad And The Queen- Kingdom of Doom
10. Death In Vegas- Dirge
Click for part two: Kieran's mix.
01. Siugur Rós- Samskeyti
02. Blur- Battle
03. Death Cab For Cutie- Summer Skin
04. Cat Power- Lived In Bars
05. Damien Dempsey- Factories
06. Coldplay- Trouble
07. David Kitt- Dancing In The Moonlight
08. Mercury Rev- Holes
09. Radiohead- All I Need
10. The Frames- Falling Slowly
Artwork thanks to the amazing David DeGrand over at degrandland.com. Check out his work here.
Enjoy!
There Will Be Vader
Apparently there's room for an entire genre of 'Star Wars + Something else' mash-ups. This one features Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood as Darth Vader. It doesn't have the guffaw factor of this one, but one or two scenes do work rather well:
(Contains spoilers of both movies.. as if you haven't seen Star Wars..)
The Gutter Twins on Letterman
The Gutter Twins aka Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan played "Idle Hands" the lead track off there new album Saturnalia on Late Show With David Letterman the other night.
Saturnalia is out now on Sub Pop
Idiot Of The Day
From The Irish Times:
AMSTERDAM: A shoplifter looking to make a quick getaway from a dutch supermarket after stealing a packet of meat left police a crucial piece of evidence- his 12-year-old son.
In his haste, the thief (45) made a solo dash to his car. Police in the southern town of Kerkrade said they contacted the thief via the boy, but he had refused to return and collect his son.
The man told officers to get hold of the youngster's mother instead. However, he turned himself in yesterday.
Video Of The Day
Is the bitchin first single from REM's new album, Accelerate.
This is Supernatural Superserious:
Wolfman Pics= Sweet
I friggin love horror movies.
Particular favorites of mine are the old Universal monster flicks (you know, the classic Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy etc). I remember hearing about Universal deciding to re-jig the genre with a big budget, all-emcompassing Van Helsing, and thinking: 'this could be the greatest movie ever made' (after, of course, The Monster Squad). Anyone unlucky enough to have watched Van Helsing will know how wrong I was, so I must try my hardest not to get too excited about this flick.
Universal are attempting another update, but this time sticking to one monster- The Wolfman.
Benico Del Toro is set to portray the titular beast, taking on a role immortalised by the legend that was Oliver Reed. The new film is written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven- cool!), and to be directed by Joe Jackson (The Rocketeer- cooler!).
But as we all know, in a movie like this, 90% is gonna rely on your money shot- the monster himself. Werewolves have appeared on the silver screen on many occasions, and are often... well, stupid (pictured above). So in a very smart move, the movie's producers have hired Rick Baker, the genius behind this particular monster's previous best screen incarnation- An American Werewolf in London- to handle the effects.
How has he done?
Click below to find out.
Not bad, Mr. Baker, not bad.
The movie is currently shooting, with a release date set for May 2009.
New Miracle Fortress video
Official video for "Have You Seen In Your Dreams" by Miracle Fortress from the album FIVE ROSES. Directed by Sinbad Richardson,
Miracle Fortress - Have You Seen In Your Dreams
And the winners are....
The following people are the winners of our Beck competition:
Gillan Rowley
Colm Dodd
Ruadhan O'Meara
Jason Gilroy
Andrew McCarthy
The lack of women is indicative of our catchment but congrats to all. All have been contacted by email and details looked for so they can be sent out.
Keep tuned and we'll have another competition up pretty soon
Covers part 2
A while back I wrote about a few different cover versions I thought weere good. Bands putting a different spin on the original. It can be found here
since then ive heard some new good ones and remembered some classic that i can't believe i forgot so i present cover versions part 2 (in the read more)
First up we have Big black (in case you don't know Big Black was a noise rock band founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, that was active between 1982 and 1987. They were headed by singer, lyricist, guitarist, and co-songwriter Steve Albini) doing a cover of Kraftwerk's "The Model" (or "Das Model") here's the original.
Kraftwerk - The Model
In Big Black's version the synths are replaced with that sick bass sound and high pitched guitar squeals to great effect.
MP3>Big Black - The Model
Next up I have Hot chip doing a cover of the original pimp himself Marvin Gaye all time classic Sexual Healing.
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
Now im not sure that the hot chip version will have the same effect in the bedroom department but it still sounds good.
MP3>Hot Chip - Sexual Healing
next we have 5 street walkers with a record contract or better know as the pussycat dolls being covered by xiu xiu , this is a bit of a weird one and as much as it pains me here is the original.
The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha
I much perfer xiu xiu version.
MP3>Xiu Xiu - don't cha
next we have Bonnie "Prince" Billy doing a cover of the real talking R. Kelly. the song in question is World's Greatest (I had never heard it before either).
R. Kelly - The Worlds Greatest
Will Oldam changes this RnB ditty into a country song as only he can and I have to say I love it.
MP3>Bonnie "Prince" Billy - World's Greatest
Next is Cansei de Ser Sexy putting their spin on the Grizzly Bear tune knife. I think you know what to expect so first the original
Grizzly Bear - Knife
and now the cover.
MP3>Cansei de Ser - the knife
Finally we have TV on the Radio covering a Daniel Johnston tune, one of my favorite Daniel Johnston, while his own version is raw and is really heartfelt the TV on the radio version really show off Daniels writing ability
MP3>Daniel Johnston - walking the cow
MP3>TV on the Radio - walking the cow
And now to show how wrong cover versions can be
Take That 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' 1995
yes they did this just a year after Kurt died
New Rivers Cuomo video
kinda reminds me of the Wonder years well at the start
Rivers Cuomo: "Lover in the Snow"
Lover In The Snow
from Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.
After The Balls Drop
Les Savy Fav are releasing a live album entitled "After The Balls Drop". Anyone who has ever seen them live will know what an experience there live show is and what a front man Tim Harrington is whether he is hanging upside down from the balcony in Crawdaddy or doing a quick coustume change in the middle of the crowd
What this Cd will offer is the live experience with out the sweat but will all the rock.
The download-only release will be available on April 29th via French Kiss Records and besides the obvious songs, the performance sees Les Savy Fav also playing a number of cover versions.
Being reworked is Debaser by Pixies, Hey Tonight by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Astro Zombies by Misfits, Nirvana's Silver and Everybody's Gotta Live by Love.
After The Balls Drop Track Listing:
1. The Equestrian
2. Patty Lee
3. What Would Wolves Do?
4. Sweat Descends
5. Yawn Yawn Yawn
6. We'll Make a Lover of You
7. The Year Before the Year 2000
8. The Lowest Bitter
9. Who Rocks the Party
10. Tim Speech
11. Hey Tonight (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)
12. Debaser (Pixies cover)
13. Astro Zombies (Misfits cover)
14. Sliver (Nirvana cover)
15. Everybody's Gotta Live (Love cover)
Les Savy Fav live at ATP vs The Fans
(that wig hes wearing kept popin up all weekend)
MP3>les savy fav -Sweat Descends (live) [from the forthcoming After the Balls Drop live album]
Holy Thursday
The Spook of the 13th Lock
Sylvan
Vimanas
Anthony Mc Cormack
The Lower Deck
20th March (Holy Thursday)
Doors 8.30
EUR5
THE SPOOK OF THE 13TH LOCK
The Spook is Allen from Holy Ghost Fathers/ Ballroom of Romance. Named after a poem about a haunted canal lock, the Spook plucks banjos and twangs guitars. He yelps, drones and hums songs about dead revolutionaries, partisans and haunted cobblestone streets.
Live the Spook plays solo with guitar banjo and effects or as a band with Enda Bates aka Fairlights (bass), and with Donnchadh Hoey (guitar) and Brian O'Higgins (drums) both of the late great Steerage
http://www. myspace. com/thespookofthethirteenthlock
SYLVAN
Sylvan are a Dublin based Noisy/Mathy outfit.
They recorded an EP
wit h Steve Albini in 2003 and recently recorded and album themselves and released it on Popular records in 2007. They have been compared to the likes of Shellac, Jesus Lizard and Fugazi.
http://www. myspace. com/sylvan1
VIMANAS
Vim anas are a hefty outfit consisting of a jittering bassist whose spas-tastic bopping drives the bass to seduce chunky guitar riffs in a thrashy molotov with an overlaying drum beat that rips the heart out of non-believers.
http://www. myspace. com/vimanamusic
ANTHONY McCORMACK
Ant hony McCormack is a Dublin based singer-songwriter in the vein of Elliott Smith and Neutral Milk Hotel and has been home recording his own material for a couple of years now. He has also recorded an album ("An Accident That Went Wrong") under the name "Budget of the Shopping Anarchist" with his brother Adam McCormack (Imagine I Had Hands).
http://www. myspace. com/anthonymccormack
Video Of The Day
... is Speak To Me Bones by Land of Talk.
Which has a really damn good chorus:
Mani DJ Set
Stone Roses & Primal Scream alumni Mani is to play a DJ set in the Academy on the second of May.
Tickets are a fairly cheap 15 euros, and go on sale Thursday.
Staind To Support Nickelback
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HA HA HA HA
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I'm a fascist, I know, but it's still funny.
Arthur C. Clarke Dies
All doom & gloom today- legendary science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has passed away at the age of 90.
Clarke was possibly best known for inspiring & co-scripting Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (which is possibly the greatest film ever made). An adaptation of Clarke's other highly regarded work Rendezvous with Rama was recently announced- with David Fincher set to take the helm. So it's quite likely that soon we'll have Clarke to thank for not one but two sci-fi masterpieces.
Kudos.
Kurt Cobain gets own shoe
A special Converse brand will be dedicated to him.
Anybody else think this is a fitting tribute? Boom-Boom
NME has the story here
Portishead Video Online
Check out the video for the new Portishead single- Machine Gun, here.
new minus the bear video
New video for the minus the bear track "Throwin Shapes". the video has be up over a week on mtv website in America but for some reason you can only watch the videos if your in America (what up with that ? why do they do that)
Minus The Bear - "Throwin Shapes"
so i waited a while to see the video and well to be honest its fairly meh
so another minus the bear video in the read more
Minus the Bear - "Knights"
Anthony Minghella Dies
Oscar winning director Anthony Minghella has died aged 54. Minghella was well known for films such as The Talented Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain, and won the Best Director Oscar in 1997 for The English Patient.
According to reports Minghella suffered a brain hemorrhage after routine surgery on his neck. His last completed film was an adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's The No. One Ladies Detective Agency for the BBC, which is due to be broadcast this week.
Video Of The Day
I'm not really a fan of Antony Hegarty- Antony & the Johnsons don't really do anything for me- but his new project Hercules & Love Affair seems pretty good. It's a million miles from 'the Johnsons', with funky bass and disco beats.
Here's the slightly odd video for Blind:
Mills Gets £24.3 Million To Go Away
Heather Mills (right), has managed to squeeze £24.3 million out of Paul McCartney. The former Beatle had offered gold digging 'model' a fairly damned respectable £15 mil, but the crazy bitch threw it back in his face and demanded £125 million instead.
So the whole process was dragged publicly before the courts, a scenario Mills was more than happy with as it afforded her more opportunities to shite on for the cameras about how great she is. Which is exactly what she did as soon as the settlement was made- rushed out to further throttle her dignity by making sweeping statements to the press about how thrilled she was with the 'incredible result' and about how it's great news for 'all the charities that i obviously plan on helping'.
Her elated demeanor differed slightly from her reported behavior inside the courtroom, where she apparently threw a glass of water over McCartney's lawyer, who emerged from the court with wet hair. When asked about what happened, Mills laughed (manically, I'd imagine) and said that the lawyer had been “baptised in court”.
Classy.
Its only a shame that nobody thought to throw water on Heather Mills when this whole debacle started, as the chances are she would have melted.
Budding filmmakers? Trent has a challenge for you
Got this in my email from the NIN mailing list which linked me to the vid below. Sounds like a pretty interesting idea. Check out the text after the jump.
Nine Inch Nails is pleased to announce the expansion of the Ghosts project into the visual world. The band has teamed up with YouTube to host a "film festival" around Ghosts. The concept is for you to take whatever tracks you feel inspired by and create what you feel should accompany them visually. You will be able to see all of the submissions, and a team (including Trent) will be sorting through them and setting aside ones they feel are exceptional. Eventually (within a couple of months?) we hope to present a virtual "film festival" with Trent and some special guests presenting selections of your work.
"This isn't a contest and you don't win elaborate prizes - it's meant to be an experiment in collaboration and a chance for us to interact beyond the typical one-way artist-to-fan relationship. We've discussed some interesting ways this could go, including multiple installments of the online "film festivals," to broadcast TV specials, to a one-time live performance of the entire Ghosts record with your visuals involved. It really depends on how this progresses and develops.
We are all very much looking forward to what you come up with, and hope you enjoy the experience. Visit http://www.youtube.com/ninofficial for information on how to participate".
TR
Movies that should not be made
I realise I have just posted twice about Cracked.com but I pissed myself too hard at this article and this pic in particular. They basically challenged their readers to come up with the worst ideas for movies ever photoshop up a poster. The funny thing is that I can see the Bert and Ernie movie with Will Ferrell and John C Reilly being made but the one I have provided is the one that made me laugh out loud.
The full article is here.
An idiot pulls down a tree
Showing stuff like this is what the internet was invented for
Found on Cracked.com
The Electronic Gladiator
Above is a picture of Martiandrivein’s Tron hoodie concept “The Electronic Gladiator”.It is currently being voted on for a potential upcoming product on Threadless.
The idea is for the blue screenprint to glow in the dark. The hood print would look like a helmet, as seen below.
Go to here to Threadless so it can get made and then i can buy it and be in geek heaven and live my dream of being in a video game .........please no seriously please, please
two new videos
new video for Modest Mouse, for the song Fly Trapped In A Jar off their fifth proper full-length, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
Modest Mouse - Fly Trapped In A Jar
the next new video is for the Spoon track "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" off their 2007 album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.
the video is available to watch here
Butterfly Explosion tonight in Whelans
Just a reminder that Butterfly Explosion have their triumphant comeback tonight in Whelans. Despite the Fire in The Village last night which caused the evacuation of the neighbouring venue the gig will take place tonight. Doors open at 7.30 and the first band on will be at 8. Make sure you get there for that time because the first band on is the excellent Lights who are well worth checking out
Fire in The village
Up to 800 people were evacuated from a Dublin city centre nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning after a fire broke out on the premises.
The blaze happened just inside the door of The Village nightclub on Wexford Street on the south side of the city at about half-past-one this morning.
A number of surrounding buildings were also evacuated, Whelans being one of them.
Five units of Dublin Fire Brigade attended the scene and the Gardai sealed off the area.
There were no injuries and the street has now re-opened to traffic.
Gardai say the fire was not malicious and believe an electrical fault was to blame.
Guess Sunday karaoke is off , also im taking that the upcoming gigs in the village are going to be moved if anyone know anything let us know.
*************************UPDATE****************************************
only minor damage was caused and the village is open with business as usual
Hooray For Hangover Mixes
This weeks hangover mix comes courtesy of Alan from Hooray for Humans.
tracklisting and download link in the read more
tracklist
1. Unwed Sailor - Shadow
2. Dosh - Mpls Rock And Roll
3. Liars - It Fit When I Was A Kid
4. Mice Parade - The Boat Room
5. Mountain Goats - Dinu Lipatti's Bones
6. Dntel - Fear Of Corners
7. Akron/Family - I'll Be On The Water
8. Animal Collective - Loch Raven
9. B Flieschmann - First Times
10. Papa M - Arundel
click here to download
Hooray for Humans have a new 7" single 'Already Sleeping' out this month. The 7" will feature two brand new songs. Also 'Safekeeping' is still available in all good record stores in Ireland and various online stores including iTunes, Amazon.com, Playlouder, 7Digital, Tunetribe and more.
And if your in the UK- Hooray for Humans are about to tour there with Super tennis.
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Sexman Reviews 10,000 B.C.
Hes back again and with a new haircut.
He gave the movie 4 out of 5 stars (calling it “a pretty good film”). Sexman criticizes it for there not being “enough gore” or action, but praises the unexpected humor and the plot. “But if you have a girlfriend and stuff, you should take her to this.”
