LOL Modest mouse is EMO and Issac Brock cuts himself

Issac Brock was seen cutting himself on stage at a show in Sioux Falls.

Video proof



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Band of the Week- 3/21/07-Jarvis Cocker

I heard a song in the credits of "Children of Men" and I could not believe my ears. It had the word "c___"in it. Granted people in Britain use it more often in different ways than Americans do, it still plays loudly and anybody walking by on their way to see "The Pursuit of Happyness" might be subjected to hearing the word "c___" at least once while the song played with multiple times possible should the person decide to investigate. Some people think it's a gimmick but I can't help but kinda agree with Jarvis Cocker when he says that they're "still running the world".

http://www.youtube.com/v/e_M22STINYw

Jarvis was the singer of the band Pulp. I think the thing they will be remembered for the most was the song on the "trainspotting" soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/v/1ukcPaOu804

Here is another video...

http://www.youtube.com/v/1ukcPaOu804

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New Crap Tuesdays 3/20/07

Disclaimer... bl;ogger is being weird and I can't figure out why my post looks so funny...

Good week for music, not so much for DVD...

DVD

Blood Diamond:

I watched this movie in a sneak preview at my theater, it was pretty good. A lot of people were turned off by Leo DiCaprio's accent but I thought he nailed it. Plenty of action and blood plus plenty of downtime for the ladies. Some people called it heavy handed, I call it a good rent if you've seen evrything else.

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

Ha ha another ROTLD, the 5th in the series, I'm not sure if this is strait to video or what but I'm sure it'll suck... In a good way... Here is a crappy homemade trailer...

Music

I'll Sleep When You're Dead by El-P

By far the best Hip-Hop album so far this year. Lots of unconventional guests like cat power and trent reznor. Cop this one for sure...

Drums And Guns by Low

Pretty good stuff, these guys are pretty consistent and I have listened to it a bunch...


We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse
Well, I'm sure everyone knows by Jhonny Marr of the Smiths fame is an official member of the band lending his guitar and songwriting talents. I personally haven't liked this and the last record but if you are a fan of "good news" then you will love this one...

Living With The Living by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

I didn't like it... I think I already deleted my advance copy.

New Crap Tuesdays 3/13/07

Not too much coming out this week in the world of film or music...

DVD


Short Bus 64(metacritic)

John Cameron Mitchell follows up his debut feature, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with an erotic drama about criss-crossing characters - male and female, straight and gay - who live in New York City and converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a celebration of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality.

This does look promising and maybe even something to watch just to say you have seen it. Was Hedwig very sexual? I never watched it cause everyone I knew that liked it was kinda strange.

Casino Royale 80(metacritic)

A critical and commercial success, this reinvention of the James Bond franchise introduced Daniel Craig as a gritter, tougher 007.

I watched it, I talked to my girlfriend the whole time. The movie was ok.

Harsh Times 56 (metacritic)

Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez star in a drama about an ex-Army Ranger who falls into a life of crime when he returns home to Los Angeles.

I wanted to watch this but I never got around to it. Doesn't seem like the type of role bale would do but w/e...

Music


Sound of Silver
Artist: LCD Soundsystem

I'm going to download this and review it cause I don't like it, but might so as a service I'm putting it down anyways...

Inhuman Rampage [CD/DVD]
Artist: Dragonforce

Ha ha powermetal is funny for a track or 2. Tons of talent in the guitar dept... Just watch the video and ignore the album...





Making Love
Artist: Shiner

Apparently all live tracks, I like the band but I haven't been able to secure a copy of it...

Battles The Band

The new (and first proper)album by Battles comes out May 15, I have a copy of it and it's some of the freshest stuff in instrumental post rock whateverness. Some of the songs could almost be on the radio. Some of the songs are very long and downright epic requiring multiple listenings to fully grasp the tracks. Every track is different and has elements not present on the ep's. Melodies are present which is uncommon for this stuff often times. I like the track rainbows, probably the most. It's crazy. Oh, and it's not fully instrumental though I can't make out a single word. It seems like they are using effects or he's doing the sigur ros thing and just making up a new language.


From Wikipedia:

The group's lineup is composed of well-known musicians, including ex-Helmet drummer John Stanier, ex-Don Caballero guitarist Ian Williams, ex-Lynx guitarist Dave Konopka, and Tyondai Braxton (son of Avantgarde Jazz musician Anthony Braxton), who also plays guitar and keyboard and creates live voice samples.

Here is a video for their song(atlas)...

New crap tuesdays 3/6/07

Dvd

Borat: If you haven't seen this movie and you aren't easily offended, rent it now...

Fast Food Nation: Worth a rent if not only for the fact that bruce willis is in it. It's very heavy handed but worth a view regardless.

Let's Go to Prison: Bob Odenkirk's directorial debut. I was a lil dissapointed, but still worth a watch.

Southpark Season 9: has the Ginger Kids episode... If you must own a southpark season, this one was pretty solid.

Music

Well it looks like I put the wrong week into the billboard website and I reviewed this week last week, so it looks like I am going to just cover some stuff I didn't last week...

Air:Pocket Symphony

Revolting Cocks: Cocktailmixxx

RJD2: Third Hand

White Flight:White Flight I listen to this one a lot.

Television Maquee Moon Re-Released

5 Depeche Mode albums are getting re-released

A couple Magazine albums are being re-released

2 Stooges albums re-released

Total Chaos: 17 Years Of Chaos

Short 5 minute documetary on circuit bending...

Circuit bending is taking old toy instrument and messing with them to make them do things the OEM never intended you to do with them...



Edit: Check out this response!



Apparently, this guy takes off his shirt in every episode ha ha...

12 second clip of Mark Mothersbaugh form DEVO...

new crap tuesday 2/27/07

Music

"Explosions In the Sky" "All of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone": More of the same instrumental crap that sounds good when I'm stoned, not so much when I'm not. I think there are enough instrumental bands out there and this one kinda get lost in the fold. No radio singles here(which is a good thing mind you). Try it out, maybe you'll fall in love.

!!!"Myth Takes": !!!(chick chick chick) is a band I have ignored for quite some time, mainly cause of the fans. I didn't realize they were a dance band(hey I can't keep track of every group). I was pleasntly surprised when I played it for the first time. They sound like a more dancy version of gang of four. Yes they play the forbidden drumbeat(un tiss un tiss un tiss un tiss) but they do some good things with it unlike the other bands that rely on it. Lots of multi-instrumentalization is present. The strangest track to me is "Must be the moon"...

Green Day "1039/smoothed out slappy hours": Good old fashioned pop punk from before green day was a huge successfull band selling out stadiums and stuff.

Ladytron "604": Haven't actually checked this one out yet, though I'm sure it's more of the same... For the uninitated, Ladytron plays electronic pop stuff...

Sisters of Mercy "A mecifull release": Well that was all the information given at billboard.com. I'm guessing it's a re-release of an old album. Check out the wiki for more info


Arcade Fire "Neon Bible" Yaaaaaawwwwwnnnnnn.... I tried it, I want my bandwidth back...

DVD


stranger than fiction: This movie did poorly in the theaters. Good for a movie theater employee, bad for the business. This film could have been so much more. I did laugh out loud more than once and overall I think it deserves a rent.




Well, I'm already behind so hopefully next weeks one cometogether better...

Literature-Map and listal.

I have a del.icio.us account for letting people know about websites and stuff. But every once in awhile there is something so amazing that I'll have to post about it. Here is one of them.

Listal is a catalouging website/social network. Yes, social network ala myspace. While I won't go on a full scale tirade about how much myspace sucks I will say that I secretly wish my friends would all migrate over to listal. You can keep track of all the books, dvds and cd's you own and also the movies you watch. You can also see other members collections which is always fun and it can help you keep track of what you loan to people.. It has a ton of features like groups and voting/rating of stuff. Everyone should join up.

The next site is http://www.literature-map.com/ . It's just a neat lil recomendation site for authours. Just check it out. It's unique.

When I thinkof baseball, I don't think of indie rock...

Some of the songs for the MLB 2007 video game are...

• 311 "Down"
  
• Bishop Allen "Middle Management"
  
• Cities in Dust "Emergency"
  
• Death From Above 1979 "Little Girl"
  
• Dixie Witch "Set the Speed"
  
• Editors "Munich"
  
• Five Horse Johnson "I Can't Shake It"
  
• Greatdayforup "Man's Ruin"
  
• Les Savy Fav "Hold On To Your Genre"
  
• Nerf Herder "High Five Anxiety"
  
• Nirvana "Breed"
  
• Sublime "Summertime"
  
• Tapes 'n Tapes "Insistor"
  
• The Jealous Sound "Naïve"
  
• The M's "Plan Of The Man"
  
• The Pixies "Mr. Grieves"
  
• The Specials "A Message to you Rudy"
  
• The Stooges "I Feel Alright"
  
• The Thermals "A Passing Feeling"
  
• The Walkmen "The Rat"
  
• Wolfmother "Woman"

Hmmmmm. Apparently the 2k6 game had all matador records artists...

Live video of Against Me!

A video of Against Me! playing live has surfaced and I found it on one of my favorite blogs, "Late Night Wallflower". No word on whether the blog was named for the Jakob Dylan band but my suspicions say no.




The track is high energy and very punk rock. I like it though I hope the album has some ballady stuff. Did I mention they are on a major label(sire).

Here is the video for problems...

Dinosaur jr. album preview

Dinosaur jr. has a couple tracks from the new album entitled beyond that you can stream on myspace. The tracks are pretty high energy and see on par with previous albums. Check out their pictures as they look like they should be older. But they do look kinda old in this video. Sometimes I think James Iha and Billy Corgan stole the over the top shredding from J. Mascis.




Here is the video for "Feel the Pain " directed by Spike Jones though I couldn't find anything on the net to verify that.

[MUSIC]Weezer files a lawsuit against Miller Brewing company.

I used to looooooove weezer when I was in middle school. The Blue album and Pinkerton rocked my world and loved them for it. OF course we all know what happened and how much they began to suck like no other. I blame television and video games.

Well it appears that weezer is pissed off at miller brewing because they used them in some ads and associated them with some bands they don't like. Oh yeah, did I mention it caused millions in damages? Yeah, sure.

Here is a copy of the lawsuit in pdf format. It's really boring. To make up for that, here is a fan video don in mspaint...

UPDATE!!!!!:I found out some of the bands they don't wosh to be associated with...

Audioslave (who also sued), Velvet Revolver, Puddle of Mudd, Trapt and Bon Jovi. I guess I don't blame them

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[MUSIC]I'll take selling out for 500 Alex.

It's hard to define selling out. It means different things for different people. Some peoples definition of selling out is whoring out products. If that is you definition of selling out and you listen to: The Thermals, Band of Horses, The Rakes or The Adored, then you will disappointed to know that Microsofts new "Ipod killer" named the zune, will have music from them preloaded on to the new units.

I personally don't think it's selling out unless your art suffers as a result of coddling from major corporations.

[MUSIC]New Siouxe Sioux Album In The Works.

Yep, ain't she really old?

One sign of sucess is...

Getting your music redone into childrens music. Nirvana has an upcoming remake album from the record label baby rock . Sadly, the track "rape me" will not be included.

Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Nirvana will be available on October 31.

[Music] Smashing Pumpkins in the the studio.

That's right, looks like Billy Corgan is broke or god knows what cause punknews is reporting that smashing pumpkins is back in the studio. No word on the line-upcept that Jimmy Chamberlain is in.

[music] Jhonny Marr is playing on the new modest mouse album...

I swiped this from punknews . Yes you read the title right, Jhonny Marr from the smith is playing alongside Modest Mouse and even share songwriting credits on the new album. I was done with modest mouse after their newest album, but now I have to check them out cause of this debacle. Lets hope for an ultra tremloed song a la "how soon is now"...