This is a new song…that presumably will be included on their next LP. I dig.
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Bunker Hill Race Distribution
Okay, so this survey does have some degree of error. Like…people might be multi-racial or maybe I was flat-out wrong in my observation. Anyway, here are the results for a twenty minute observational session of students at Bunker Hill Community College who walked passed me on the lower level.
BHCC Statement: Students of color comprise over 50% of student population.
My Observations
Total: 89 students
Black: 24 students (27%)
White: 36 students (40%)
Asian/Indian: 23 students (26%)
Hispanic: 6 students (7%)
My Conclusion: Students of color comprise 60% of student population.
40 Things Popular At Beginning of ’00s, Now Not Anymore
I don’t deserve to steal the spotlight of this great list, so go to the website and check it out:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-things-that-were-popular-at-the-beginning-of-th/
CD Review: Those Darlins
Chris will probably follow-up soon with an extensive review of his own. This is just for my record keeping purposes.
Band: Those Darlins
Release: 2009
1. “Red Light Love” – 8.8
2. “Wild One” – 8.3
3. “Mama’s Heart” – 8.4
4. “Hung up on Me” – 8.5
5. “The whole damn Thing” – 8.5
6. “Who’s That knockin’ at my Window” – 7.9
7. “Snaggle Tooth Mama” – 7.7
8. “Cannonball Blues” – 8.2
9. “222” – 9.0
10. “DUI or DIE” – 8.6
11. “Keep my Skillet Good and Greasy” – 7.2
Comment: Country has never been my thing, per se, though at least a few of my favorite bands draw at least some significant influence from the genre. Those Darlins are probably best described as a throwback to early country/rockabilly. I guess it’s not really my thing, but I do appreciate it.
Grade: 8.3
Sultan To Tour W/ Black Lips?!
Read this very fun and informative blurb from our boy Mark Sultan that tells us many things.
Oh the humanity! I’m back in Montreal from another tour! It was a lot of fun, aside from overstated shit. Great to play with Those Darlins and Dum Dum Girls. Sometimes prefab hype caught up with us and people who don’t care about music judged us for not being ‘crazy’ enough – glad you don’t like it. Sometimes we were just bummed and tired, though. I wanna thank everyone for supporting us and having fun. The shit that went down in KY really put us through the ringer financially, as friends and as a band and happened not as you think, no matter what you read from whomever’s lips or fingers. Really. I’m mostly sad not everyone saw us play with entertainer, ‘Leo Chips’. That was fun and just starting to work. The ‘show’ was finally starting to come together (hence the name, ‘The King Khan & BBQ SHOW’). Oh well. But there is good news – a lot of people enjoy the new KKBBQ album, ‘Invisible Girl’. Thanks so much! We’ll try to tour again or make up lost dates sometime in the future. My new album, entitled ‘$’ is coming out sometime soon. No idea when. Or how, at this point, but I do know that there was one song from it – Nobody But You – floating around… Maybe the In The Red myspace page? Speaking of In The Red, they put out a new single of mine a few weeks back: ‘I Am The End’ b/w ‘Catastrophe’. These are non-LP versions. The new Bloodshot Bill & Mark Sultan album is done! It took a while to iron out the last mixes or whatever,more than a year in the making, but it will be out soon on Norton Records. Tours: The King Khan & BBQ Show will be in Europe in February. Dates coming soon. The Almighty Defenders will be playing sporadically at festivals in both the US and Europe from now until the summer, and both bands will tour together with Black Lips in around May for one fun European jaunt. Keep your eyes peeled. I will also be on tour, hopefully, in the US opening for the Black Lips. With my new band. Standing and singing the whole time. More rockers and dancers. I think that’s it for now! MARK SULTAN
Yeeeee that probably means a March or April Black Lips/Mark Sultan US tour.
Song of the Day
A tune that I like to simply call “chill” because it’s mellow and underwhelmingly epic.
Cold War Kids – “Pregnant”
Pictures From Arctic Monkeys HoB
Review coming at a time to be determined.
Tommorow!
Set List From Friday Night @ Terminal 5 In NY!
1. The Jeweller’s Hands – Humbug
2. Brianstorm – FWN
3. This House is A Circus – FWN
4. Still Take You Home – FWN
5. Potion Approaching – Humbug
6. Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds cover)
7. My Propeller – Humbug
8. Crying Lightning – Humbug
9. Sketchead – Humbug B-Side
10. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – WPS
11. The View From The Afternoon – WPS
12. Cornerstone – Humbug
13. If You Were There, Beware – FWN
14. Pretty Visitors – Humbug
15. Do Me a Favour – FWN
16. Fluorescent Adolescent / Last Christmas – FWN
Encore:
17. Secret Door – Humbug
18. 505 – FWN
$35 Helders doesn’t sing “Last Christmas” tommorow night. Good shit, Alex!
Porno Music Video
First, Girls experimented with gay pornography in their video for “Lust for Life.”
Now, Massive Attack has gone the porno route with a 1973 film featuring commentary from the actress (Georgina Spelvin, now about eighty years old) who starred in it.
Fine. Here’s the link for said nude art (can under-18s watch it since it is a music video?)”Paradise Circle”: http://special.the-raft.com/massiveattackdvd/paradisecircus_full.swf
Damn, We’re Screwed
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year’s Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.The sprawling legislation would give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a new agency to oversee consumer banking transactions and shine a light into shadow financial markets that have escaped the oversight of regulators.
The vote was a party-line 223-202. No Republicans voted for the bill; 27 Democrats voted against it.
The Boston Globe said in their article that it would “crack down on the types of Wall Street practices that caused last year’s economic meltdown.” You (Michael Kranish), my friend, are retarded. This legislation gives more power to the Federal Reserve, you know the institution that actually caused the mess. Oh and just to vent some more, Rep. John Tierney (Democrat – District 6) voted in favor of it. Stooge.
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 