Archive for February, 2006
More Chuck Norris News…
More informing news on the Chuck Norris front, seems that our favorite martial artist was supposed to have played the evil sunse in Karate Kid but didn’t want to be associated with the Cobra Kai..
The role of Sensei Kreese was originally written for Chuck Norris. Rumors emerged that Norris turned down the part since he would not consider having his name associated with a villainous character and did not like the idea of a karate dojo being depicted as villains. However, when asked about the story on The Adam Carolla Show on February 9, 2006, Norris insisted that he didn’t turn down the role – he wasn’t actually offered the role. Norris noted that he was already playing leading roles by the time the movie was in production. thanks wikipedia….
and now to the music…
SXSW please come sooner—
It took me a while to like this DFA group but after a few spins, it was hard to turn it off…
The Juan Maclean
Genre: Electronic Hometown: Dover NH http://www.thejuanmaclean.com/
Showcase information coming soon… –>Saturday, March 18 12:30 a.m.The Parish (214B E 6th St)
Add this to your SXSW Calendar
The Juan Maclean – Give Me Every Little ThingDownload Stream
Other songs and SXSW artists you may enjoy
Hot on the heels of a series of DFA dancefloor funk twelve inches, comes The Juan Maclean’s Less Than Human, recorded at Juan’s New Hampshire home and Plantain Studios, was mixed and produced by the DFA and Juan Maclean. This former member of Six Finger Satellite aligns metallic synths, cowbells, samplers and even “robot stuff” to create tracks twinged with doom and glory; pulling singular life experiences and far-out, mechanical inspirations into the mix.
and I kind of figured I would put the other electronic act which is an import from the UK.. they kind of remind of a sweet 80′s synth act with some smooth rhymes
Hot Chip
Genre: Electronic Hometown: London UK http://www.hotchip.co.uk/
Showcase information coming soon… –>Saturday, March 18 10:00 p.m.The Parish (214B E 6th St)
Add this to your SXSW Calendar
At the tender age of 7, Alexis Taylor began listening to Prince and dancing on his bed to the sounds of Dirty Mind and The Black Album, a habit which has continued into adult life. Meanwhile, Joe Goddard began heavily grazing on hip-hop records in the early 1990s, a diet which consolidated into an unusually passionate relationship with records by the Souls of Mischief and Madlib. The duo collided during an impromptu wrestling match in the school playground, and the result was ‘Hot Chip’. Soon enough, the funk began to tell, and with the addition of artist Owen Clarke on synthesizer, Felix Martin on drum machine and percussion, and Al Do-it on pretty much anything he can lay his hands on, Hot Chip have embarked on a new era of sonic exploration. The band like to think of themselves as a modern day pop group with the spirit of Brian Wilson, the passion of Public Enemy and the niceness of the Neptunes. Hot Chip have a sound balanced between the soulful and the experimental, and they try to have a sense of humour too.
More Chuck Norris News…
More informing news on the Chuck Norris front, seems that our favorite martial artist was supposed to have played the evil sunse in Karate Kid but didn’t want to be associated with the Cobra Kai..
The role of Sensei Kreese was originally written for Chuck Norris. Rumors emerged that Norris turned down the part since he would not consider having his name associated with a villainous character and did not like the idea of a karate dojo being depicted as villains. However, when asked about the story on The Adam Carolla Show on February 9, 2006, Norris insisted that he didn’t turn down the role – he wasn’t actually offered the role. Norris noted that he was already playing leading roles by the time the movie was in production. thanks wikipedia….
and now to the music…
SXSW please come sooner—
It took me a while to like this DFA group but after a few spins, it was hard to turn it off…
The Juan Maclean
Genre: Electronic Hometown: Dover NH http://www.thejuanmaclean.com/
Showcase information coming soon… –>Saturday, March 18 12:30 a.m.The Parish (214B E 6th St)
Add this to your SXSW Calendar
The Juan Maclean – Give Me Every Little ThingDownload Stream
Other songs and SXSW artists you may enjoy
Hot on the heels of a series of DFA dancefloor funk twelve inches, comes The Juan Maclean’s Less Than Human, recorded at Juan’s New Hampshire home and Plantain Studios, was mixed and produced by the DFA and Juan Maclean. This former member of Six Finger Satellite aligns metallic synths, cowbells, samplers and even “robot stuff” to create tracks twinged with doom and glory; pulling singular life experiences and far-out, mechanical inspirations into the mix.
and I kind of figured I would put the other electronic act which is an import from the UK.. they kind of remind of a sweet 80′s synth act with some smooth rhymes
Hot Chip
Genre: Electronic Hometown: London UK http://www.hotchip.co.uk/
Showcase information coming soon… –>Saturday, March 18 10:00 p.m.The Parish (214B E 6th St)
Add this to your SXSW Calendar
At the tender age of 7, Alexis Taylor began listening to Prince and dancing on his bed to the sounds of Dirty Mind and The Black Album, a habit which has continued into adult life. Meanwhile, Joe Goddard began heavily grazing on hip-hop records in the early 1990s, a diet which consolidated into an unusually passionate relationship with records by the Souls of Mischief and Madlib. The duo collided during an impromptu wrestling match in the school playground, and the result was ‘Hot Chip’. Soon enough, the funk began to tell, and with the addition of artist Owen Clarke on synthesizer, Felix Martin on drum machine and percussion, and Al Do-it on pretty much anything he can lay his hands on, Hot Chip have embarked on a new era of sonic exploration. The band like to think of themselves as a modern day pop group with the spirit of Brian Wilson, the passion of Public Enemy and the niceness of the Neptunes. Hot Chip have a sound balanced between the soulful and the experimental, and they try to have a sense of humour too.
The well is dry—SXSW Music Wristbands Are All Gone
So the pandemonium has struck all the hipsters in the ATX because Waterloo sold all of the wristbands….that means that I will have to Macgyver something for next to get a hold of one of the wristands. I guess according to a headcount done by news 8 in Austin of 4200 people waiting to get a wristband. If the good people from SXSW decide to sell anymore, I’m told it’s easiest if you bring cash instead of dealing with a credit card.
more news here
http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=156126
**People in Planes**
Most notable for their new video directed by Joaquin Phoenix, and a good selection if I don’t say so myself. After listening to their single, they sound like a rockier Neil Young..
Joaquin Phoenix Likes People in Planes: Part Two, the Video
On January 12 I posted about Joaquin Phoenix directing the video for “If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)” (MP3), the lead single from People in Planes‘ debut album As Far as the Eye Can See. The video, filmed in the Ontario, California airport, is now public, via Windows Media (large/small) or Real Media (large/small) stream.”I’ve never heard anything like it (“If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode),” said Joaquin Phoenix via press release. “Really the movement and the rhythm of the song gave me my first ideas for images. I started doing some research on airports and found a couple of pictures from a Japanese architectural photographer and saw images of airports in blues and yellows. I really loved the idea of combining colors and giving it a really metallic look.”People in Planes touch down in New York this evening at the Mercury Lounge, in between Jeff Klein (7:30 PM) and the Waylons (9:30 PM). Yours truly will be there and will file a full report in the near future.
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People in Planes
Genre: Rock Hometown: Cardiff UK http://www.peopleinplanes.com/
Showcase information coming soon… –>Thursday, March 16 12:00 a.m.Dirty Dog Bar (505 E 6th St)
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People in Planes – If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)Download Stream
Gareth Jones – Vocals Peter Roberts – Guitar Kris Blight – Bass John Maloney – Drums Ian Russell – KeyboardThe great chasm for any musician is the distance between what they hear in their heads and what reaches listeners’ ears. Unless you’re a band committed to either effete esoterica or stage-humping feral lunacy, your success largely depends on how well you reconcile the purity of your musical ideas with an audience’s need for hooks and melody. This is what makes People In Planes so welcome: their music is equally ambitious and pleasing. The band’s debut: As Far As The Eye Can See is a richly atmospheric, sometimes challenging album that doesn’t stint on inviting melody and anthemic choruses.
The Subways
These kids are one evil triangle waiting to implode. 2 are dating and the other 2 are related. Sounds kinds of messy, but they achieve a great fresh sound that’s very concise and not too much else but some ROCK N ROLL!! Here are some mp3 from Stereogum, I am obsessed with their cover of Tv on the Radio’s “Staring at the Sun”
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002132.html
The Subways
Genre: Rock Hometown: Welwyn Garden City UK thesubways.net
Showcase information coming soon… –>Friday, March 17 10:00 p.m.Stubb’s (801 Red River St)
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Hailed by NME as “the sexiest thing to sweep rock ‘n’ roll off its feet in years,” the Subways have quickly established themselves as one of Britain’s most undeniably exhilarating new bands. Young For Eternity, the London-based trio’s Sire Records debut, is alive with teenage kicks and manic pop thrills, veering from rambunctious punk thrash and tender acoustic pop to grungy blues-infected dynamos like the addictive first single, “Rock & Roll Queen.”
The well is dry—SXSW Music Wristbands Are All Gone
So the pandemonium has struck all the hipsters in the ATX because Waterloo sold all of the wristbands….that means that I will have to Macgyver something for next to get a hold of one of the wristands. I guess according to a headcount done by news 8 in Austin of 4200 people waiting to get a wristband. If the good people from SXSW decide to sell anymore, I’m told it’s easiest if you bring cash instead of dealing with a credit card.
more news here
http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=156126
**People in Planes**
Most notable for their new video directed by Joaquin Phoenix, and a good selection if I don’t say so myself. After listening to their single, they sound like a rockier Neil Young..
Joaquin Phoenix Likes People in Planes: Part Two, the Video
On January 12 I posted about Joaquin Phoenix directing the video for “If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)” (MP3), the lead single from People in Planes‘ debut album As Far as the Eye Can See. The video, filmed in the Ontario, California airport, is now public, via Windows Media (large/small) or Real Media (large/small) stream.”I’ve never heard anything like it (“If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode),” said Joaquin Phoenix via press release. “Really the movement and the rhythm of the song gave me my first ideas for images. I started doing some research on airports and found a couple of pictures from a Japanese architectural photographer and saw images of airports in blues and yellows. I really loved the idea of combining colors and giving it a really metallic look.”People in Planes touch down in New York this evening at the Mercury Lounge, in between Jeff Klein (7:30 PM) and the Waylons (9:30 PM). Yours truly will be there and will file a full report in the near future.
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People in Planes
Genre: Rock Hometown: Cardiff UK http://www.peopleinplanes.com/
Showcase information coming soon… –>Thursday, March 16 12:00 a.m.Dirty Dog Bar (505 E 6th St)
Add this to your SXSW Calendar
People in Planes – If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)Download Stream
Gareth Jones – Vocals Peter Roberts – Guitar Kris Blight – Bass John Maloney – Drums Ian Russell – KeyboardThe great chasm for any musician is the distance between what they hear in their heads and what reaches listeners’ ears. Unless you’re a band committed to either effete esoterica or stage-humping feral lunacy, your success largely depends on how well you reconcile the purity of your musical ideas with an audience’s need for hooks and melody. This is what makes People In Planes so welcome: their music is equally ambitious and pleasing. The band’s debut: As Far As The Eye Can See is a richly atmospheric, sometimes challenging album that doesn’t stint on inviting melody and anthemic choruses.
The Subways
These kids are one evil triangle waiting to implode. 2 are dating and the other 2 are related. Sounds kinds of messy, but they achieve a great fresh sound that’s very concise and not too much else but some ROCK N ROLL!! Here are some mp3 from Stereogum, I am obsessed with their cover of Tv on the Radio’s “Staring at the Sun”
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002132.html
The Subways
Genre: Rock Hometown: Welwyn Garden City UK thesubways.net
Showcase information coming soon… –>Friday, March 17 10:00 p.m.Stubb’s (801 Red River St)
Add this to your SXSW Calendar
Hailed by NME as “the sexiest thing to sweep rock ‘n’ roll off its feet in years,” the Subways have quickly established themselves as one of Britain’s most undeniably exhilarating new bands. Young For Eternity, the London-based trio’s Sire Records debut, is alive with teenage kicks and manic pop thrills, veering from rambunctious punk thrash and tender acoustic pop to grungy blues-infected dynamos like the addictive first single, “Rock & Roll Queen.”
===================So this post couldn’t wait till manana===================
I know I say this after every good show that I have seen, but, WOW, I never thought a concert would ever impact me the Sigur Ros did tonight. Thier sound makes you feel this sense of nostalgia that makes you teary eyed. There’s one song off of ( ) , I think it’s no.3 , but everytime I hear that song it makes me feel as if I were having my last moments and everything that ever mattered to me started flashing before my eyes, but in a good way. The other funny side to this story is that same song also makes me think of what music would sound like in the afterlife. Sigur Ros had me in tears like a little seven year-old that just skinned her knee. This was only after the second song. They sounded fierce, had this sonic presence and their drummer is amazing. Very impressed!! I am happy that I decided to go and well worth the money I spent…
===================So this post couldn’t wait till manana===================
I know I say this after every good show that I have seen, but, WOW, I never thought a concert would ever impact me the Sigur Ros did tonight. Thier sound makes you feel this sense of nostalgia that makes you teary eyed. There’s one song off of ( ) , I think it’s no.3 , but everytime I hear that song it makes me feel as if I were having my last moments and everything that ever mattered to me started flashing before my eyes, but in a good way. The other funny side to this story is that same song also makes me think of what music would sound like in the afterlife. Sigur Ros had me in tears like a little seven year-old that just skinned her knee. This was only after the second song. They sounded fierce, had this sonic presence and their drummer is amazing. Very impressed!! I am happy that I decided to go and well worth the money I spent…
Tonight is your night bro…
For some reason that quote has been resonating in my mind… It’s from that part in “Twins” when Danny Devito is getting ready for his double date with his twin brother Julius played by the Governator… but tonight is going to be an epic night, Sigur Ros will be playing the Paramount Theatre. The Paramount Theatre is the only venue in Denver that I have only been to once, the first time was seeing La Ley (sweet Spanish rock band from Chile). I will be prepared with my box of tissue and copious amounts of booze.
Local boys from Austin sound like the offspring of Drive by Truckers by way of the Brazos…I I really believe that all this rockabilly hee haw bizness may be on to something.
Okkervil River
Genre: Rock Hometown: Austin TX www.jound.com/okkervil
Showcase information coming soon… –>Saturday, March 18 12:15 a.m.Emo’s Annex (600 Red River St)
Okkervil River – No Key, No PlanDownload Stream
Okkervil River’s Black Sheep Boy is one of 2005′s best-reviewed albums. Writing in the New York Times, Kelefa Sanneh noted that “Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil River, writes like a novelist. His songs are full of elegant phrases and unexpected images that tell – or don’t quite tell – stories of characters trying to figure out if they need each other…The marvelous new Okkervil River album Black Sheep Boy should advance his cult further.” The Chicago Tribune’s Allison Steward added that “Wordy and dense, prone to murder ballads, full of soft strings and Wurlitzers, [Black Sheep Boy] manages to be both violent and bookish; it’s a striking, woebegone work that offers up its charms slowly…The album winds down with the nine minutes-long “So Come Back, I Am Waiting,” one of many Okkervil River songs that plays out like the strangest Cocteau movie you’ve probably never seen,” and Stephen Deusner wrote in Pitchfork that “Sheff never overplays his hand and always maintains control, which…makes him at once heartbreaking and somewhat humorous – more self-aware than Conor Oberst, more serious than Colin Meloy, more legible than Jeff Mangum.”
So there is too many bands, so I thought I would do two, maybe three if I want to.
The Rakes- This band is dismissed as a young UK post punk band 10 minutes late for the dance punk revolution that was ensued over the last couple of years, but I say off with their heads, dance punk lives…. No, seriously!! Their quick licks and snappy lyrics will reel you in no time…
The Rakes
Genre: Rock Hometown: London UK www.therakes.co.uk
Showcase information coming soon… –>Wednesday, March 15 1:00 a.m.Flamingo Cantina (515 E 6th St)
The Rakes – RetreatDownload Stream
Other songs and SXSW artists you may enjoy
The Rakes consists of Alan Donohoe: a singer and vivacious reader who draws lyrical inspiration from unlikely places. Guitarist Matthew Swinnerton, whom producer Paul Epworth has called ‘a genius.’ Also calm, collected bassist Jamie Hornsmith and maniac drummer Lasse Petersen, whose notorious on-the-road antics were recently described as ‘unprintable’.
I am a hopeless Woody Allen fan, and it was refreshing to see that he changed the scenery on us by using London as the backdrop to this dark comedy/thriller. Scarlett Johansen (aka God’s gift to man) proved to be quite the muse for Woody because this is his best work since, like, yeah, you get the gist…but this movie scared the bejesus out of me. I have never been this affected by a movie since I saw “Creepshow 2″ for the first time. I definately recommend this one!!
Tonight is your night bro…
For some reason that quote has been resonating in my mind… It’s from that part in “Twins” when Danny Devito is getting ready for his double date with his twin brother Julius played by the Governator… but tonight is going to be an epic night, Sigur Ros will be playing the Paramount Theatre. The Paramount Theatre is the only venue in Denver that I have only been to once, the first time was seeing La Ley (sweet Spanish rock band from Chile). I will be prepared with my box of tissue and copious amounts of booze.
Local boys from Austin sound like the offspring of Drive by Truckers by way of the Brazos…I I really believe that all this rockabilly hee haw bizness may be on to something.
Okkervil River
Genre: Rock Hometown: Austin TX www.jound.com/okkervil
Showcase information coming soon… –>Saturday, March 18 12:15 a.m.Emo’s Annex (600 Red River St)
Okkervil River – No Key, No PlanDownload Stream
Okkervil River’s Black Sheep Boy is one of 2005′s best-reviewed albums. Writing in the New York Times, Kelefa Sanneh noted that “Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil River, writes like a novelist. His songs are full of elegant phrases and unexpected images that tell – or don’t quite tell – stories of characters trying to figure out if they need each other…The marvelous new Okkervil River album Black Sheep Boy should advance his cult further.” The Chicago Tribune’s Allison Steward added that “Wordy and dense, prone to murder ballads, full of soft strings and Wurlitzers, [Black Sheep Boy] manages to be both violent and bookish; it’s a striking, woebegone work that offers up its charms slowly…The album winds down with the nine minutes-long “So Come Back, I Am Waiting,” one of many Okkervil River songs that plays out like the strangest Cocteau movie you’ve probably never seen,” and Stephen Deusner wrote in Pitchfork that “Sheff never overplays his hand and always maintains control, which…makes him at once heartbreaking and somewhat humorous – more self-aware than Conor Oberst, more serious than Colin Meloy, more legible than Jeff Mangum.”
So there is too many bands, so I thought I would do two, maybe three if I want to.
The Rakes- This band is dismissed as a young UK post punk band 10 minutes late for the dance punk revolution that was ensued over the last couple of years, but I say off with their heads, dance punk lives…. No, seriously!! Their quick licks and snappy lyrics will reel you in no time…
The Rakes
Genre: Rock Hometown: London UK www.therakes.co.uk
Showcase information coming soon… –>Wednesday, March 15 1:00 a.m.Flamingo Cantina (515 E 6th St)
The Rakes – RetreatDownload Stream
Other songs and SXSW artists you may enjoy
The Rakes consists of Alan Donohoe: a singer and vivacious reader who draws lyrical inspiration from unlikely places. Guitarist Matthew Swinnerton, whom producer Paul Epworth has called ‘a genius.’ Also calm, collected bassist Jamie Hornsmith and maniac drummer Lasse Petersen, whose notorious on-the-road antics were recently described as ‘unprintable’.
I am a hopeless Woody Allen fan, and it was refreshing to see that he changed the scenery on us by using London as the backdrop to this dark comedy/thriller. Scarlett Johansen (aka God’s gift to man) proved to be quite the muse for Woody because this is his best work since, like, yeah, you get the gist…but this movie scared the bejesus out of me. I have never been this affected by a movie since I saw “Creepshow 2″ for the first time. I definately recommend this one!!
I rented a couple of movies so that I wouldn’t have to look for parking when I went to a show the other night and I came out with this movie. I rented “Waiting” as well, the BRAIN, hahaha, which coincidentally enough I gave to my roommate Sarah (she loved it, she bent over received a swift kick in the ass and I called her a fag)….but back to “Chumscrubber” what a weird movie, kind of one of those teen angst movies that adapts to the time it was made, and the tough issue the movie deals with is the substance abuse epidemic that is striking most high schools and middle schools nowadays, the vicodin and codeine etc… The dialogue is aight and it did have some funny moments, I think I would wait till the movie comes out on IFC or Sundance to see it if I were you..
I rented a couple of movies so that I wouldn’t have to look for parking when I went to a show the other night and I came out with this movie. I rented “Waiting” as well, the BRAIN, hahaha, which coincidentally enough I gave to my roommate Sarah (she loved it, she bent over received a swift kick in the ass and I called her a fag)….but back to “Chumscrubber” what a weird movie, kind of one of those teen angst movies that adapts to the time it was made, and the tough issue the movie deals with is the substance abuse epidemic that is striking most high schools and middle schools nowadays, the vicodin and codeine etc… The dialogue is aight and it did have some funny moments, I think I would wait till the movie comes out on IFC or Sundance to see it if I were you..
