Category: music

I've been recommending Bloc Party people lately. Not that I expect anybody to get airplay anymore, but still I think K-Rock in New York could throw a crumb to these guys and play “Banquet”. I sent my buddy Zimm over to the .com and .net namesakes for mp3s, since there's definitely a good primer available between the two. I also recommended my them to my friend Wayne also.

In passing I mentioned them as what Coldplay or U2 would sound like if they were really good, or something like that. But when I listen to Silent Alarm I don't think they sound like either band. So really I guess if someone liked either of those bands, and there are at least a handful, they would like Bloc Party. Well, only if they past the fact that the only way the songs will be drilled into their skull is if they play them over and over and over for themselves. There are also a lot of Gang of Four mentions in review of Bloc Party, I see where they come from, but I only just picked up Entertainment recently. So basically I'm just namedropping. In summary, whether you love or hate U2 or Coldplay, you'll like Bloc Party, or you won't, but you probably will. My taste is not your taste. I'm kind of jumping back and forth in this post right now. I kind of signed off like 5 minutes but skipped back up here to type some more.

I'm sleepy now and sleep is a rare commodity in my house right now (an infant will do that to you), so I'll make my links and be back next month, if not later today.

I knew if I looked there would be new White Stripes' mashups. And here's two:

DJ Zebra – Voodoo Stripes (White Stripes vs Prodigy) Thanks, Totally Crap.

Team9 – Blue & White Antenna (White Stripes vs Kraftwerk)

The White Stripes always seem to distract me now and again. It must be the color palette, or Meg's…ummm…drumming. Who knows?

The Blue Orchid video has a quite sinister feel to it, provided by Floria Sigismondi in conjunction with a burnt up old mansion, Jack's mustache, a girl with painful shoes, albino snakes, and ummm…Meg drumming on dishes with a hammer. The will not take over your entire conscious, subconscious, id, ego, and superego, like “Seven Nation Army” did. But it least it won't have your co-workers throwing stuff at you for sitting at your desk going, “Dum…Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum…Dum” incessantly. You'll just be making that swishy guitar sound with your mouth, but not nearly as often.

Whitestripes.net has an .mpg file.

Triple Tremolo has a .wmv file.

I actually wrote a review of Elephant that a never posted anywhere, not that anybody needs to read it, since they already have the CD by now. But perhaps it will appear. But then again, it looks better as a piece of paper lying beneath a bunch of credit card applications, receipts, post-its, random pieces of envelopes with unnamed phone numbers, magazines, crapalogs, and outdated coupons. Aesthetics are important, you know.

This is probably old. But so am I. Sort of. Well…you know. It's relative. Whatever.

It's all about the juxtaposition.

Found at Get Your Bootleg On.

Interesting. But I'm more curious to hear about the “metal, egg-like object”.

More detailed account.

And a Lennon assassination theory.

Love Rodeohead. Click the cowboys for bluegrass bliss.

Found on *6ize.

Ol' Dirty Bastard was an entertainer; a character with character and a spontaneous nature. Whether he was saving a child beneath an automobile, or saving a Mariah Carey single from obscurity ODB applied his inimitable talents. I might just have to break out Return to the 36 Chambers, it's been awhile. Rest in Peace.