Prodigy did a remix of the Foo Fighters' "White Limo."
http://www.myrxp.com/News2/Story.aspx?ID=1556551

I was kinda skeptical, but it's not bad.

The Aquabats!

New album today from Real Estate. It's familiar, but it's quite good.

Yessssssssssssss. That made my week.

Is that what the girl is watching in the beginning of Ghost World?

It is! But it's the dance that makes it for me. I think that's going on my wedding mix.

They were dancing? I just assumed that they were exposed to some kind of neurotoxin.

M83s new album is REALLLLLLLLY good I know I've tried pimping his single here before, but seriously its worth it just for the intro alone (also because Zola Jesus shows up):

New Tom Waits is streaming on his site. You need an invite, but I think you only need to sign up for his mailing list to get one.

Hard to get a full read on it when I'm just listening while at work, but so far it seems like a return to some of his more playful 70s and 80s work, as opposed to the more ominous, emotionally dark sound of Mule Variations, Alice, and Real Gone.

The Stone Roses could possibly be getitng back together! Holy shit!

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I'd give my left nut to see them live.

Well my study abroad program ends early May....

Theres a black Angels/ psychic ills show on Halloween. Anyone else going?

This song is in my head.

GREAT SONG

This should be interesting - the inimitable David Dye will highlight the alt country movement on his show tomorrow afternoon, covering Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, and Wilco: http://www.xpn.org/xpn-programs/world-cafe

Giving the Girls catalog a few spins, and can't quite decide whether I like it all. I think yes.

Figures. Saw them live and hated them, so you'd probably be all "woo amelodic noise."

Editor's note: I have no idea what they sounded like anymore.

Aww. No glockenspiels? Poor Beardo.

Life without mini-xylophones is pointless

The Supersuckers and no one on the highway leads to much speeding. Glorious speeding.

Anyone else get the new Coldplay album? Its totally cool to admit you like them.

Anyway, the album is pretty much what I expected (I heard them play half the tracks live a few weeks ago), but its still awesome. There are some nice surprises in there though which is nice.

And yet you wonder why women treat you like something they scraped off their shoe.

Checked out these guys tonight for a measly $6. They were definitely worth more even on a Monday night. They played at one of the smaller venues here and the place was barely half full. Weird. Reminded me a bit of Depeche Mode and Radiohead. I'd definitely see them again live.

This song played over the closing credits of the episode of Luther I watched last night:



I had to look it up. Joan Wasser, aka Joan as Policewoman, off her new album The Deep Field. Also off the same album is this song which I like:

Heard this song on the radio the other day, it's about four years old. Thought it was cute. The video is terrible.

I've been listening to it pretty obsessively for the past week or so. It's REALLY GOOD (I've heard a lot of people claim that his singing gets annoying, but I like it).

The frog song (with the stupid French name I don't feel like writing) alone makes the album.

Its not one of those things you can just pick and choose songs too. The whole thing is just so expansive and so well done its ridiculous.

I've given the Coldplay album enough listens that I can say I really, really love it, but also really, really hate it at the same time. It's a shame because 95% of the album is fantastic, but a few songs just kill the whole mood when I listen to it. I'm sorry I don't ever want to hear Rihanna on a Coldplay album. Whoever thought this up, I just don't have words. It's frustrating because the whole thing could have topped their last 2 albums if it were for not one or two overproduced out of placed tracks. I honest feel like some of the more acoustic tracks (which I knew they wanted to go towards, but refused to believe they'd actually do until I heard the album) were recorded in 2000. Coldplay keeps trying to keep being more expansive and take over music, which shows their development of an artist and its fantastic to see where they've moved from Parachutes, but the way they do it one some of the songs is just horrible.

That being said I think this is definitely better than Viva La Vida if you take out Paradise (which I liked as a stand alone because it doesn't fit with the album in my opinion) and Princess of China (track with Rihanna). It's still no Parachutes or A Rush of Blood to the Head, but nothing else can be, which is fine.

Best Track on the album by far by the way:

Oh, I like this:

Don't know if there are any Pavement fans in here, but Steven Malkmus' band released a new album this year, Mirror Traffic, and it is really good.

He has been doing solo stuff for a while now (which I just discovered these past couple months) and most of it is pretty fantastic.

White Denim released a 4-track EP a few weeks back, and it's more of their spacey, blues-tinged psychedelia, which is definitely a good thing. Doesn't look like any tracks are available on YouTube, but here's the Spotify URL: http://open.spotify.com/album/2zkqTMdXXDTkGvxQh0aDDf

And here's the Pitchfork review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15956-...your-workplace/

That Wild Flag song put me in the mood for some Pretty Girls Makes Graves...



Shitty sound quality on that one, sorry.

I'd forgotten how good Garbage 2.0 is. That album is pretty much great from the first track to the last. One of my favorite Garbage tracks, however, is this B-side:

New album is called Open Flames, and it's really striking. Best listened to on better sound than what you can get from your laptop or desktop. It wasn't until I gave the album a spin in my car that I really appreciated it.

Is it bad if I kind of liked the track off of "Lulu" that I just listened to?

Ever since the DJ at the baptism I went to on Sunday played Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters, I've been replaying the video on youtube.


I need help.

This has been stuck in my head for the past several months.

It's alright I'm getting dizzy,
just enjoy the parrrty

Watching one of my musical favorites, Lindsey Buckingham, butcher his own music during a concert on Palladia. I don't think anyone in the history of anything has misunderstood more about what made him appealing than he himself has. Everything that he's done (with the exception of "Holiday Road") is still the second greatest endorsement* for the power of cocaine.


*Aerosmith in the 70s being the first.



Also, just noticed a new series on VH1 Classic (or something): Metal Evolution. Might be interesting to some here, though I imagine it's not going to break new ground. In fact, let me summarize the first nine episodes -- "We were trying to rip off Judas Priest and Thin Lizzy."

And Motörhead. But, yeah, pretty much.

Klosterman on the new Metallica/Lou Reed album: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/714631...metallica-album

Holy tits, that's entertaining! Klosterman used to bug me many years ago, but man, that's a better review of anything I've read in a while. Gonna have to scan through his recent stuff now... er, tomorrow.

The first footnote alone is one of the funnier things I've read recently.

This line literally made me spit hot coffee on myself:

I've always liked Klosterman, especially back when he was writing columns for Esquire, even if I thought he was too much of a wordsmith for his own good. But I think one of his central premises in that review is wrong. Arresting creative development wasn't the only reason why the old big-label model sucked. It was also, more importantly in my view, that they charged us $20 for the resulting products of that assembly line, and controlled the channels for distributing the same. So the "democratization" of the music industry opens up more creative choices, yes, but it also allows artists who can't make gobs of money to get their music out there. In other words, Metallica and Lou Reed are both at points in their careers that they could do whatever the fuck they wanted, under the old or new record distribution models. "Lulu" has nothing to do with the shift. Pretty ironic that Klosterman would cite anything involving Metallica as an example of the democratization of the music industry, when they were one of the most notorious voices to resist it.

Meanwhile, I went to see Battles at Webster Hall last night. As I said earlier in this thread, I didn't exactly love the latest album on a first few listens, but appreciated the musicianship (especially of John Stanier, who is a madman), and figured it was something that I would appreciate more live. Suffice to say, that was correct, because they were great. I was wondering how they were going to do the songs off Gloss Drop that had vocals, because it didn't seem likely that they would bring the guest vocalists along for the tour to sing one song each. They got around that by playing over vocal tracks, and having big screens showing videos of the artists. Sounds gimmicky, but it was actually very cool. Doesn't look like there are any YouTube pics up yet, but will post a pic if I remember to.

*gasp* How did I not know this song? I love Garbage.
And Garbage 2.0 is my favorite of their albums too. I saw them play during their tour for that album on my college campus, which was incredible. Seeing them live hooked me more on their music and made me fall more in love with that album.