I found a band extraordinarily similar to King Khan and the Shrines that I actually, yes actually, had an incredibly difficult time realizing that what I was listening to…wasn’t King Khan and the Shrines!
So what band do I speak of?
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears!
A credit goes to WERS.org for introducing me to these soul geniuses.
A mainstream hip-hop song for your listening satisfaction:
Band: The Morning After Girls
Release: 2009
Comments: A shoe-gazey effort that literally does not make you want to stop looking at your shoes. That’s because upon listening your head will consistently (but very very slowly) be moving down and side to side. I wouldn’t say The Morning After Girls are purely psychedelic, but they are quite a spacey group. The first track “The Best Explanation” is a decent defense for my just mentioned claim. Picking things up to a more “alternative” level is “The General Public.” Present is a certain quality of mainstream rock instrumentation (like Dandy Warhols). Continue reading CD Review: Alone
After 100 it’s basically random order, but the first 100 is pretty much spot on.
1) The Beatles
2) Black Lips
3) Ramones
4) Rage Against the Machine
5) Pink Floyd
6) Pixies
7) Nirvana
8) Tool
9) Sonic Youth
10) Johnny Cash
Continue reading My Top 200 Favorite Artists
| Number | Band | Grade |
| 1 | Black Lips | 99 |
| 2 | No Age | 98 |
| 3 | King Khan and the Shrines | 98 |
| 4 | Radiohead | 98 |
| 5 | Animal Collective | 97 |
| 6 | The Libertines | 96 |
| 7 | The Walkmen | 95 |
| 8 | Editors | 94 |
| 9 | The Strokes | 94 |
| 10 | Peter Bjorn and John | 93 |
Hello world! I would like to introduce myself. My name is Matthew Ramsden and thanks to the generosity of the founders of this blog, I have been appointed as a new writer and contributor to Kids Like You And Me. Well, my posts will pretty much be the same as what the other writers post; CD and movie reviews, political opinions, anecdotes about my life etc. However, I will also add whatever I know about live theatre if any drama kids read this (REPRESENT!!!) So that’s about it. I want to thank the founders of Kids Like You And Me again for adding me. I’m sure this will be an interesting experience. In the words of the great journalist Edward R. Murrow, “Good night and good luck.”
Cole Alexander of The Black Lips playing acoustic guitar on the same website where naked playmates and cybergirls frolic?
Apparently, it’s very, very true, and it will indeed occur in the not so distant future! Playboy.com launched its ”Uncovered” video series today where guest artists perform cover songs from bands that influenced them. The series, exclusively created for Playboy.com, will show fresh videos on the second Tuesday of each month for 10 consecutive months. Confirmed artists thus far include The Black Lips, Dinosaur Jr., The Dears, Drive-By Truckers, A Camp (Nina Persson of The Cardigans) and Phosphorescent.
The complete lineup—with four additional artists—will be available on Playboy.com August 1. – BlackBookMag.com
Haha this is going to be awesome.
Band: Dinosaur Jr.
Album: Farm
Release: June 23, 2009
1. “Pieces” – 
[8.8]
2. “I Want You to Know” – 
[9.3]
3. “Ocean in the Way” – [8.9]
4. “Plans” – [9.2]
5. “Your Weather” – 
[7.7]
6. “Over It” – [8.5]
7. “Friends” – [8.4]
8. “Said the People” – [7.9]
9. “There’s No Here” – [8.6]
10. “See You” – [9.0]
11. “I Don’t Wanna Go There” – [8.5]
12. “Imagination Blind” – [8.2]
Final Grade: 8.6
Ted Nugent in the Wall Street Journal
Common sense is alive and well in America if you’re not stoned, drunk, greedy or just plain stupid. To think that anyone could even argue that Napster [or any other file sharing program] has the right to give away an artist’s product is ridiculous. Hey, I have a good idea! I’ll just stand outside the local grocery store and offer its food free to the public. It doesn’t matter if the owner took the risk, pays all the taxes and overhead, struggles with a bureaucratic land mine field of regulations and laws, invests his warrior work ethic in bucketsful of sweat day after day, and basically busts his butt to provide a quality service and jobs for the community. Hell, no. I’ll just make that decision for him, thank you, and give away his products and hard-earned money. Who does he think he is anyway? The same applies to recording artists. We invest sweat and blood and millions of dollars creating musical products. It takes years of insane sacrifice and grueling tour schedules and intense effort. To think a third party should be allowed to give away our product for zero compensation in brain-dead and un-American.
I think a pretty good point is made here. The term “Un-American,” though, is always a silly conclusion and in my opinion should be avoided at all costs.
Apparently, just apparently, the Black Lips will be touring the United States again starting October 28 in North Carolina. Now it would be kind of really cool if they decided to keep going north all the way to Cambridge, Massachusetts to play the Middle East downstairs again in November. But it would be even cooler if they just zipped on over here in early August before embarking on a tour in Europe. It actually makes more sense for them to zip over here than to just peace out from Atlanta.
Boston to Vorarlberg, Austria: 3811.3 mi
Atlanta to Vorarlberg, Austria: 4125.8 mi
That extra 314.5 miles could be a real bitch. So if they just play Monday, August 10 at the Middle East downstairs, they could play an awesome sold out show and make some good dough on top of that selling more t-shirts and 200 Million Thousand CDs.
But, if for whatever reason, the above is not possible…the November thing sounds pretty cool. We Boston die-hard Black Lips fans would much appreciate another show imminently!
Glen Maganzini
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