Look Around You - Music

I love me some Drinky Crow, Superjail and especially Tim and Eric, but Look Around You is my current favorite in the Adult Swim lineup. Look Around You originally aired on the BBC in 2002, and was recently picked up by Adult Swim. If you are a fan of Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, you should enjoy this.

Don Caballero - Grey Eagle tonight

Barring any miraculous snow day tomorrow, there is no way I am going to make it to this show tonight, but if anyone has a chance to get out in Asheville tonight, Don Caballero is going to rip shit up at the Grey Eagle tonight.

Along with The Liars, DC is probably the only holdout from the brief math rock revolution to still be remotely relevant. The only thing their new disc Punkgasm offers in the way of something new is vocals on a handful of tracks. Other than that it is just business as usual for this Pittsburgh trio. That being said with newcomers like Marnie Stern biting DC's finger tapping guitar style, it is still refreshing to hear old school flannel enthusiasts party like it is 1996.

DD/MM/YYYY opens up, and tix are $12.

Tracks:

Bulk Eye
Pour Yourself Into the Rug
Why Is the Couch Always Wet?
The Irrespective Dick Area
Shit Kids Galore
Loudest Shop Vac in the World

Well played. Well played, indeed.

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Steelers vs. Cardinals - CATCH IT!!!

For the most part I could really care fuck all about who wins the Super Bowl this year, but want to at least give big ups to a couple of Georgia Bulldogs that will be making an appearance in the game. Hines Ward already has one ring and an MVP award from Super Bowl XL with the Steelers and this year he will be up against the 6'8, 260 lb monster TE Leonard Pope with the Cardinals.

Here is a small mix for the game. Pretty random assortment, but I pulled whatever I could think of that either name dropped players or cities (and also a shout out to the "Angry Samoan", Troy Polamalu. Not because I like him, but because I have never dropped Boo Yaa Tribe on a mix before and thought it was about time). I have also included two of my favorite Springsteen songs, that I am sure he will not be playing at the halftime show. Instead, I will settle for a Clarence Clemons nipple slip.

SuperBowl Shuffle Mix

Tracklist:

Pope - Prince

Messiah Ward - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Angry Samoans - Boo Yaa Tribe

Arizona - Kings of Leon
Hotel Arizona - Wilco
By The Time I Get to Arizona - Public Enemy
Pittsburgh Stealers - The Kendalls
I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh) - Frank Black
Pittsburgh - The Lemonheads
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - Bruce Springsteen
Badlands - Bruce Springsteen

Tobacco - F*cked Up Friends

If Dandelion Gum, 2007's excellent Black Moth Super Rainbow release, was a lysergic dream of hugs, kisses, popsicles, rainbows and marshmallows, Tom Fec's newest project, Tobacco, is like being slipped an angel dust mickey and waking up next to the dumpster behind the skating rink. On F**ked Up Friends, the BMSR frontman trades in his dreamy, soft focus electronic melodies for a dirtier, more ominous mix of analog trickery chock full of vocoders (suck your AutoTune, T-Pain), mellotrons, tape machines and analog synths.

Plenty of reviews are pimping this as an Air wannabe, but this is definitely not bachelor pad get your freak on music, unless you are planning on getting it on with the lady you picked up underneath the overpass with a shopping cart full of sudafed, grape soda and VHS tapes. Imagine Einsturzende Nebauten growing up in Chatsworth, CA instead of off the Autobahn and being influenced by Roger and Zapp instead of pneumatic drills and you are on the right track.

Enjoy!!

Tracks:

Pink Goo

Hairy Candy

Tape Eater

Truck Sweat

Grease Wizard

AMT for your case of the Mondays

Just in case you are having trouble getting it going on a shitty, gray Monday morning, here is a little slice of heaven from Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO. I have only seen these cats once, but I still talk about it to this day as one of the most amazing live shows I have ever seen. They are playing at the Earl on Wed, April 22. Sadly, it looks like they are skipping the Grey Eagle on this round.

This is a track called Phantom Utopia Or Suicidal Star Wars of of their 2008 Glorify Astrological Martyrdom disc. It doesn't quite reach the out of body level of some of their previous works, but it is hard to expect Nirvana every time from a band that releases about 3 discs a year.

Track:

Phantom Utopia Or Suicidal Star Wars

Friday Afternoon Fish Fry pt.1

I am hoping to start posting a Friday afternoon mix to help ease out of work mode and into the weekend. This is a test run, so comments are welcomed.

If I have ever made a mix for you before, some of these tracks are old standbys. The others are hopefully a little fresher, like a couple of new favorites, Ryan Bingham and Hayes Carll. Again, more thought will go into next week, this is just a test run.

Friday Afternoon Fish Fry pt.1

Track Listing:
1.Rollin' and Tumblin' - Bob Dylan
2.Cabin Down Below - The Gibson Brothers
3.Dollar A Day - Ryan Bingham
4.Drunken Poets Dream - Hayes Carll
5.Honey Bee - Lucinda Williams
6.Buried Treasure - Bonnie Prince Billy
7. Goodnight Rose - Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
8.It's A Shame - Hayes Carll
9.California Stars(live) - Wilco
10.Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
11. (Stay Away From)The Cocaine Train - Johnny Paycheck
12.Let's Kill Saturday Night - Silkworm

Vivian Girls

Although it looks like I am spending most of my blogspace shilling for shows around the area, I thought it might be nice to drop a review in from time to time.

The Vivian Girls self titled disc dropped back in September of '08, so there has probably been enough time lapsed for a backlash to start against them. Everyone knows indie hipsters hate for other people to like what they like. Hopefully this is not the case with the Vivian Girls.

This trio of Brooklyn chicks have a sound that harkens back to the heyday of K Records; back when they were fostering upstarts like The Beat Happening, Modest Mouse and Chicks on Speed, not folky navel gazers like Mirah. And as tired as it is to say, the main influences that jump out at you listening to them are The Velvet Underground and The Pixies, with maybe a touch of some of more primitive Yeah Yeah Yeah tracks.

But don't let my lack of creative reference discount the sheer awesomeness of this disc. These girls make a clatter akin to beating your dick on an aluminum trash can lid while building up a wall of sound taller than Phil Spector's jewfro. If anyone can fill the void left by the dissolution of Sleater Kinney, Vivan Girls are as capable as anyone else. More fun than Fannypack, hotter than The Donnas and louder than Bratmobile.

Tracks:
Tell The World
Where Do You Run To
Damaged

Clem Snide - Grey Eagle - 3/13/2009

I am not sure why Clem Snide never took off and found the mass audience that they deserved. Anyone that likes the music of Andrew Bird and M. Ward should feel right at home curling up next to the wistful whine of Eef Barzelay and his bandmates.

Long story short, they are playing at the Grey Eagle on Friday March 13th. Tix are $8. No word on a discount for ironic t-shirts.

Bonus points, I lobbied long and hard for Clem Snide's version of "I'll Be Your Mirror" to be me and my wife's first dance song at our wedding. I lost, and Bob Dylan prevailed. I think we can call that a wash.

Tracks:

Joan Jett of Arc

The Dairy Queen

I'll Be Your Mirror

Too Soon?

I never imagined that Shepard Fairey would be the Leni Riefenstahl of the new millenium, but we could do much worse. Much worse. Imagine Obama posters as crafted by Thomas Kincade. In the "painter of lights" hands, tomorrow we would be staring down the grim reality of a McCain/Palin slide toward our deserved Darwinian end.

See you later, W. I am sure history will treat you kind. Good riddance.

Tracks:

Reckless Kelly - American Blood