For Your Consideration: Midlake Sounds Like: CSNY & The Moody Blues goes to college. For Fans Of: Nuggets. Led Zeppelin, Sea Wolf Album:The Courage Of Others (Released 2/2 – Bella Union) Free Live Set MP3: The Denton Session (Guardian UK) Streaming:NPR Music First Listen Websites:Midlake.net
It took me a bit to get into this Denton, TX band Midlake. Their music reminds me of everything Led Zeppelin did that required a flute. I would be remiss in forgetting to tell you that in addition to the CD and digital album release, the band will release a deluxe edition of The Courage Of Others, featuring a copy of the band’s short film directed by Jason Lee, a double LP, 45 rpm version of the record and a 32-page book and a live CD. This theme of bands releasing short films with their records has been HUGE lately (see Melissa Auf der Maur post). Is this a big demand to the fans? Does it influence whether or not you’d buy the record? Leave us a comment and let us know!
Firstly I should note that I own aDysonVacuum. Of course it’s amazing. I believe it cost $150 more than my LCD TV and I’m glad I didn’t have to buy it myself. (No, my parents didn’t buy it for me either!)
I’m convinced that the Henry Ford of Brits, James Dyson, must be an alien. First he perfects the vacuum with cyclonic technology after every company he brought it to laughed him out of the room and now he’s perfected the FAN as well with the Dyson Air Multiplier. After a bit of a tease concerning the “next household item perfected” his website revealed the product and soon collapsed under the weight of the Eastern World checking it out. (BTW WAKE UP, AMERICA! You’re missing a technological breakthrough while the limeys are having their tea and biscuits [they really mean cookies but they don't say anything right]) The Air Multiplier (not a D&D spell!) has NO BLADES and produces a steady breeze instead of the “Choppy” job that every fan has done since DaVinci took a swing. All of the sudden regular fans have become the bullshit invention that the Cathode Ray Tube Television now is. Who wants that crap when this crap has been perfected and made out of gray and purple plastic with an LED? BOOM! You’re welcome world! James & Co. figured it out. What’s next? The matressless bed.
Hey, JD, how about you hook us up with The Hoverboard already!
KAV (myspace.com/kavsonic) is a person as well as a band. Kav himself was the guitarist for the reformed HAPPY MONDAYS, legendary in the UK. KAV, the band, just got off the road from a destructively brilliant week of shows with upstarts Esserand high-energy DATAROCK.
Tonight KAV will be at Spaceland (1717 Silverlake Blvd, LA) for KROQ’s “Locals Only” FREE MONDAYS with October Residents: LightFM as well as Obi Best and Wrong Way Driver. Like I said this is a FREE SHOW so stop down and enjoy some music from across the pond!
It’s still the Summer of the SUPERGROUP! The next assembly to follow Chickenfoot, Monsters of Folk and the Dead Weather is THEM CROOKED VULTURES which feature Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) on drums, vocalist & guitarist Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal) and bassist & keyboardist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)…thats right LED FUCKING ZEP. The band also has Alain Johannes (QOTSA & Eleven) as live guitarist. The band’s debut album, Never Deserved the Future, will be released in October. Here is a clip!
I hate when marketing dickholes try to sell you on a band by throwing a bunch of other bands names at you of what they are like. The descriptions are rarely spot on and are completely insulting to all parties involved. But I am kind of a hypocrite so I’ll tell you that if you are into Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand then you might dig UK’s The Cribs. To up the ante I think you should know that the guitarist is the legendary Johnny Marr.
Marr was the guitarist for 80’s mope-rock pioneers The Smiths, with whom co-wrote the best songs Morrissey ever sang. More recently Marr played for Modest Mouse starting with the album We We’re Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. The Cribs album Ignore the Ignorant comes out 9/8 on iTunes and is on pre-order right now in Standard and Deluxe editions. It’s been getting pretty good reviews in England (NME – 8/10)
I’m sure they eat this britindie stuff up like bangers and mash in Europe and it would be good to see it here in the states. Unfortunately all but 3 of their dates are overseas. So if you live in LA or NYC you can catch them live.
Nov 9 – The Roxy - Los Angeles
Nov 12 - Bowery Ballroom - New York
Nov 13 - Bowery Ballroom - New York
Heya Avant Trasher Thrashers! I’m back from my extended summer vacation in the midwest and have already jumped back to The Good Life* back here in L.A. as a VIP at Epicenter ‘09. Man, life is so hard going to festivals hanging out backstage and in A/C’d tents with limitless free booze and catering! Ack!
Maybe I’ll tell you about it soon. Lots of Summer concerts and new albums to review coming up still! Stay tuned!**
*Nebraska state motto.
**Daily hits have only dropped 25% since I left. You people must be Googling Daniel Radcliffe again.
Dear GM,
Get a transparent factory that makes better looking cars.
Sincerely,
One of your many new 60% owners.
(2x former Chevy driver and 1x former VW driver)
A friend woke me up at a godawful hour of 10am so we could get breakfast on this, my last day of freedom before returning to the soul-destroying experience that is my corporate entertainment design packaging dayjob. Somehow in the nearly 2 years that I’ve been stranded here in L.A. I hadn’t made it out to any of the fine Denny’s establishments in the area. Maybe it’s because at 3am there is still so much great street meat, burrito stands and Fred 62 around. But fuck it, it’s breakfast, let’s hit the Denny’s at Sunset and Gower in the *cough* Gower Gulch. A stripmall which resembles half of the mainstreet in an 1800’s frontier town. Am I back in the midwest? No, I can still see the arclight, it must be some sort of time-space bubble?
Halloween is my favorite holiday. Well, technically my birthday is my favorite holiday, but those seem to be getting less and less exciting each year (now that I am the highest number I can be). I love costumes, make-up (especially gory/special effects type make-up), and I love all things horror. In fact, numbers 1 and 2 of my top 3 all-time favorite movies are horror movies. (And if you don’t know either of these, you toads don’t know me).
From now on I want to spell October as Octobre…I think it will look nicer on posters. Novembre gets it too.
So what is going on in Hollywood on Halloween? I haven’t a Zombie-fucking clue! Unless I find an EPIC party, I’m just gonna get sexy and dance like last year, wherever that may be. But the day after will be a sweet treat for sure. On Novembre 1st after your hangover has been subdued by a rush of sugar via snack sized bags of black and orange M & M’s you can head over to Hollywood Forever Cemetery (6000 Santa Monica Blvd) from 4 – 11pm for Dia De Los Muertos. Be sure to put a sugar skull on Johnny Ramone’s Statue. More info @ LadyOfTheDead.com
What is funny about this photo is when AliUptown and myself were at Taste of Chaos back in 2004, My Chemical Romance was performing and I told her, “Gerard Way reminds me of a little Billy Corgan”. And sure enough, Pumpkinhead has even called Gerard Way his son in interviews.
What surprised me about Gerard Way when MCR came out was how old he was. I thought for sure he was like 21 when at the time he was 28! (He’s 31 now any maybe looks 24). Unless he starts falling apart or gets addicted to crack, he’s going to be ageless like Joan Jett and Prince. We’ll see what happens in the next 19 years.
Thanks to Tonya for being friends with My Chem and hooking us up with those guest passes a few years ago. Go check out her blog Touring with Tonya.
In conclusion I think that Smashing Pumpkins should reform with all the original members so I can finally give a shit enough to see them live like I’ve wanted to since I was 15. C’mon guys, “Today” was my class song!
Oh sweet nectar! Superjail from Augenblick Studios is 3 episodes into it’s crazy/beautiful first season Sundays on [AdultSwim]. It’s faster than meth, most episodes require at least 2 viewings and no less than probably 50 inmates and bystanders die in creative and painfully interesting ways.
WARNING! IF NAME-DROPPING MAKES YOU SICK THEN THIS POST IS THE DEADLY MUTABA VIRUS!
I’ve got the Eagle Eye, yo. I’ve been spotting screen gems all over the city. 4 of the last 5 days this week I have seen a celebrity of some merit. I’d say in normal day-to-day life I average one sighting for every two weeks or so but this week has been nuts! (Too bad you weren’t visiting) Of course I didn’t get my NEW CAMERA until just tonight… but ain’t that always the way. Here are a few sightings I’ve had this week (read the keywords below for a preview):
For Your Consideration: Midlake
