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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Top 20 Artists/Bands Of The Decade prt.9
I've been too busy solving equations to do anything else lately, but I thought it's high time to put this to sleep already. And so the last 3 entries to this list...
Neko Case
Discovered: I saw her open for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, but didn't become a fan till I picked up her Blacklisted album in 2002. I believe she's got, with a doubt, The most killer voice in music today.
Recorded output last decade - 3 Albums, 2 live recordings, 1 EP
Fav album - Blacklisted (2002)
Fav song - 'This Tornado Loves You' from Middle Cyclone (2009)
William Elliott Whitmore
Discovered: Scott Kelly of Neurosis played a track off of Whitmore's collaborative album with Jenny Hoyston "Hallways of Always" on his radio show at Combat music radio dot com. His gravelly voice as old as time itself belies his 33 years. I saw him play a short time later and couldn't believe that the gritty bellow issuing from the stage belonged to the whoopin' and hollerin' young man on the banjo. More people need to hear his music.
Recorded output last decade - 6 Albums, 1EP, 2 7"s, 1 collab
Fav album - Song Of The Blackbird (2006)
Fav song - 'Lord Only Knows' from Hymns For The Hopeless (2003)
Isis
Discovered: At the record label I used to work at. It was amazing to follow their progress over the years and see them grow with each new album into the massively powerful and widely influential behemoth they eventually became. Quite possibly the finest metal band of the 00s in my opinion.
Recorded output last decade - 4 albums
Fav album - Oceanic (2002)
Fav song - 'Hall Of The Dead' from Wavering Radiant (2009)
Neko Case
Discovered: I saw her open for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, but didn't become a fan till I picked up her Blacklisted album in 2002. I believe she's got, with a doubt, The most killer voice in music today.
Recorded output last decade - 3 Albums, 2 live recordings, 1 EP
Fav album - Blacklisted (2002)
Fav song - 'This Tornado Loves You' from Middle Cyclone (2009)
William Elliott Whitmore
Discovered: Scott Kelly of Neurosis played a track off of Whitmore's collaborative album with Jenny Hoyston "Hallways of Always" on his radio show at Combat music radio dot com. His gravelly voice as old as time itself belies his 33 years. I saw him play a short time later and couldn't believe that the gritty bellow issuing from the stage belonged to the whoopin' and hollerin' young man on the banjo. More people need to hear his music.
Recorded output last decade - 6 Albums, 1EP, 2 7"s, 1 collab
Fav album - Song Of The Blackbird (2006)
Fav song - 'Lord Only Knows' from Hymns For The Hopeless (2003)
Isis
Discovered: At the record label I used to work at. It was amazing to follow their progress over the years and see them grow with each new album into the massively powerful and widely influential behemoth they eventually became. Quite possibly the finest metal band of the 00s in my opinion.
Recorded output last decade - 4 albums
Fav album - Oceanic (2002)
Fav song - 'Hall Of The Dead' from Wavering Radiant (2009)
Monday, March 28, 2011
RVCA mural by El Mac (figure) & Retna (background & lettering). Fucking amazing.
El Mac & Retna - RVCA Mural (2009) from ELMAC on Vimeo.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Top 20 Artists/Bands Of The Decade prt. 8
Explosions In The Sky
Discovered: The Sigur Rós message board. If I could be in any band right now it would most definitely be this one. Their music is lyrical and dramatic and bursts with so much emotion (without being EMO). Even when it's melancholic it's still hopeful and bright. Ironic coming from a guy who loves so much dark music!
Recorded output last decade - 4 albums, 1 soundtrack (Friday Night Lights)
Fav album - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place (2003)
Fav song - 'Your Hand in Mine' from The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Top 20 Artists/Bands Of The Decade prt. 7
Arcade Fire
Discovered: Craigslist music forum. These guys blew up overnight, pretty much to the point where I couldn't even be bothered to see them live anymore because it's near to impossible to score a ticket to their shows. Best band of the decade? Maybe. Most successful? Without a doubt.
Recorded output last decade - 3 albums, 13 singles, 2 EPs
Fav album - Funeral (2004)
Fav song - 'Wake Up' from Funeral
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time
2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxication : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
8 Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon : It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido : All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16 Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
1. Coffee, n.. The person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5 Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, v.. To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16.. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time
2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxication : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
8 Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon : It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido : All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16 Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
1. Coffee, n.. The person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5 Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, v.. To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16.. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Top 20 Artists/Bands Of The Decade prt. 6(66)
SUNN O)))
Discovered: In Hell. My introduction to drone and subsequent exposure to a lot of experimental/avant garde music came from this band.
Recorded output last decade - 6 albums, 2 singles, 4 EPs, 6 live albums, 2 splits/collabs, 1 box set
Fav album - Black One (2005)
Fav song - Not applicable. SUNN O))) is an album experience. However, put a gun to my head and I'll have to say it's 'Belülrol Pusztít' from Oracle (2007)
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