Cypress Hill- Hand On the Pump (1991)
The King Khan & BBQ Show- Love You So (2004)
Bad Brains- Big Take Over (1982)
Strange Boys- No Way For a Slave to Behave (2009)
Chris
Category Archives: Music
CD Review: Break It Up
Band: Jemina Pearl
Release: October 6, 2009
Label: Ecstatic Peace (Thurston Moore)
1. “Heartbeats” – 9.2
2. “After Hours” – 8.9
3. “Ecstatic Appeal” – 8.7
4. “Band on the Run” – 8.3
5. “I Hate People” – 9.5
6. “Looking For Trouble” – 8.7
7. “Retrograde” – 9.0
8. “Nashville Shores” – 8.8
9. “No Good” – 8.9
10. “D Is For Danger” – 8.7
11. “Selfish Heart” – 8.2
12. “Undesirable” – 8.5
13. “So Sick” – 8.9
Comments: With the Vivian Girls and Mika Miko, I felt a certain kind of like punk grrl vibe, but Jemina sounds like a girly girl just happening to sing punk. She’s really good at sounding clear, making me hesitant to call this natural garagey punk, which tends to be “dirty.” Overall, this sounds like cleaner garage a la Hunx, except with a pure female voice. It’s catchy, but I wouldn’t listen to it on a regular basis, other than maybe one or two songs.
Grade: 8.7
This Ain’t No Prog Blog…
Random title indeed. This is an extremely brief commentary or rant if you will on something that occurs quite often when I am discussing music with other music devotees. Here’s the setup:
Someone asks me if I like some Progressive Rock band like Dream Theater or King Krimson and then I respond that I’m not really into Prog Rock, yet every time this incident happens I am sporting a shirt with one of the few prog bands I listen to (i.e. Tool, Pink Floyd). Most of the music related shirts I wear would be appropos, like the Ramones or the Black Lips, but for some strange reason, I am never seen wearing such shirts when this question arises. I don’t know, I think it’s slightly amusing enough to make a post out of the situation…. and I’m also procrastinating my french homework.
Chris
TWO WEEKS!!!
In what seems like an eternity, two weeks, Glen and I will be rocking out and experiencing the Supreme Genuis of the King Khan & BBQ Show! Can’t Wait.
Chris
Things I Miss:
When No Age used to tour regularly!
They still are on the road like 98% of the time, don’t get me wrong, but they were here in July ’08 then November ’08 and then April ’09 (on a special occasion). My luck they’ll schedule a date here the same night as the Pixies or Sonic Youth show.
Arctic Monkeys @ HoB
I dig if tickets aren’t sold out. The date is December 13 and that’s a Sunday night. If I do manage to get a ticket, I know that I’ll do all that I can do to get there earlier than last time when I saw Animal Collective from the way back, but by the grace of God (and a few pushy-shove people) I managed to get really close to the front. I don’t think that will happen at an Arctic Monkeys show.
Modest Mouse Clarification
Haven’t gotten all crazy over them, though I do recognize they have put out some great tracks over the years. That said…seminal indie powerhouses? Been signed to Epic since 2000 thus I thinks not.
There’s A She Wolf
Ticketmaster + Live Nation = Monopoly?
The Atlantic
Ticket distributor Ticketmaster and concert promoter Live Nation have been hoping to merge. Britain’s antitrust regulator objected today in a preliminary ruling. It believes the merger would severely limit competition and hurt consumers. I think it’s right, and its decision is something of a no-brainer.Let’s break it down. Imagine you want to go see a concert. Since Live Nation has, by far, the strongest influence in the concert space, you will probably be going to one they promoted or produced. So to buy those tickets? Well, you probably have to go through Ticketmaster, since it has vast control over concert ticket distribution.
How cornered would they have the market? According to this CNN Money article from back in February about the proposed merger, their combined market share would be close to 80%. If that isn’t a threshold for antitrust regulation, then I’m not sure what is.
It makes sense business-wise for them, but as a frequent concert attender I am concerned about prices sky-rocketing.
CD Review: Paranoid Cocoon
Band: Cotton Jones (Formerly of Page France)
Release: 2009
Label: Suicide Squeeze
1. “Up A Tree (Went This Heart I Have)” – 9.6
2. “Gotta Cheer Up” – 9.7
3. “Some Strange Rain” – 9.5
4. “Gone The Bells” – 9.6
5. “Photo Summerlude” – 9.3
6. “By Morning Light” – 9.2
7. “Cotton & Velvet” – 8.9
8. “Little Ashtray in the Sun” – 8.7
9. “Blood Red Sentimental Blues” – 8.7
10. “I Am The Changer” – 9.3
Comments: What we all loved as Page France died as Page France in 2008. Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw, the two main pieces of the PF puzzle, decided to do a thang by themselves called Cotton Jones. Cotton Jones is a bit jazzier/bluesier and less deep lyrically than Page France. I get this sort of Doors vibe with tracks on here being predominately vocal-centric and mellow. As a really big Page France devotee back in my day, I don’t sense a lot of lasting appeal to these songs like I did with Hello, Dear Wind (2005), for example. So why I have given them such high ratings? They have a good amount of now appeal. Beautifully written, beautifully sung. Versatile, too. Jazz, blues, folk, country, rock…Michael and Whitney can do ’em all no problem. Admittedly, things get a bit boring (“done before”) toward the end.
Grade:9.3
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 