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I'm in a D.A.N.C.E.-y mode as of this moment

My fav. remix of this. Get ready to ignite.

The Intertubes are Leaking: Keyboard Cat wine

I'm just gonna leave this here...

day 08 - a song that you know all the words to

Down in Philly, the whole block's on fire.

Sick vid: Strokes live on Letterman

The chorus of this song somehow reminds of a Paul Collins (The Beat) song:

Now this is just ridiculous

worst. rap. ever.

I don't know why I find this so funny

For your random enjoyment: M.U.S.C.L.E.

day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event

I once got told by a boardwalk bike cop down in Ocean City, MD to stop singing this song, because I was screaming it at the top of my lungs whilst busking for some change. He then asked if I knew any gospel music. Damn... rockblocked.

It's been an 8 year wait, but badgers are back

day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere

Pulled this one out from way long ago. The locaton... in cars, as teenagers. Those were the days...

Hilarious: Updated version of 4-chord song

I got chills when they hit "Double Rainbow."

day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone

"Love is built like a diamond, but breaks just like glass. You were the first and you'll be the last."

Not so true anymore, but damn...

day 04 - a song that makes you sad

Gotta pick one from the king of sad:

Yes, those are some alternate lyrics.

day 03 - a song that makes you happy

I dunno necessarily why I picked this one, considering it's about going crazy and drinking gin in reaction to your cat's death. But she's totez a QT.

day 02 - your least favorite song

This is difficult, because it's hard to hate on music. But I have to pick this ditty solely because the obnoxious levels are off the chart:


Close second: Thermals - Now We Can See or anything by Pheonix.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 1

day 01 - your favorite song
I see the challenge here... so many to choose from.
I'm going to have to go with a classic:

Though, Reptilia is a close second.

30 Day Song Challenge

day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song that you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep
day 11 - a song from your favorite band
day 12 - a song from a band you hate
day 13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure
day 14 - a song that no one would expect you to love
day 15 - a song that describes you
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favorite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood
day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year

I've resisted listening to these guys for so long...

...with all that hype and such

But it is pretty triumphant.

Unexpected twist of the day

Everybody gets one.

Sick Uke Skills of the day

Wow. Marry me.

Local Buzz: 'tine 'tine

I was playing a show with The Midnight Beat last night at JR's (22nd & Passyunk) andthis foul-mouthed girl named 'tine 'tine opened up for us.

It was pretty hilarious. Sorta like the female Chang Chang, but self-admittedly bad.

My personal fav was a song about how West Philly sucks and how Fishtown hipsters could kick West Philly hipsters' asses.

I took a video on my phone... may upload it later.

Justice comes out with some wacky noisy mp3

Justice - Civilization (Video RIP) by stopthenoise
Yeah, that hurt my ears. There was a really sick part in the middle though.

Update:
Here's an Adidas commercial/video they did:

woo.

This is impressive: Chatroulette Love Song

I dunno... I think it's fake, because...
1) who uses Chatroulette anymore?
and 2) what is an attractive girl doing on Chatroulette?

I wish I had the amount of free time these guys have.

Hot track: Crave You [Cassian Remix]

I thought I had heard all the remixes of this. I just found this on my computer and... wow.

Flashback: Mercury Rev

These guys are re-releasing their 1998 album "Deserter's Songs." I totally forgot about them until now.

Some personal fav's:


And let's not forget their spin-off band, The Silent League...

Why you're smarter after a few beers

Can't argue there... the logic is flawless.

Lady Gaga swagger jacks some Korean song

There's a big ol' controversy over this.

Gaga version:


Korean song that apparently sounds similar:


I dunno... they both suck.

K-pop is crazy:

It's like everyone's on synthesizer crack and looks 14.

Cool: Le Tigre live

It's from their new band documentary or something.

Apparently, the sampled "how are you" and "see you later" stuff is from a bird training recording, which is funny because they have a verse about a dude being like a parrot and feeding him crackers.

And now...

A lightsaber-toothed tiger

I think now we can officially put a stop to all this Charlie Sheen crap

Charlie Sheen's Winning Recipes from Charlie Sheen

If I hear "winning" one more time, my brain will implode.

So stupid, yet I can't take my eyes off it: Pastor Fight

Electropop cartoon of the day

And sure, why not this...

This guy loves rats.

I work with rats. I like them. But not this much.

This is magical

Sick song: Little Girl

I have to admit, I'm on a bit of a Strokes binge lately. Why have I never heard this?

And now, for no reason

Annoying jerk dog

Annoying Jerk Dog @ Yahoo! Video

Sick vid: The National - Conversation 16

The National - Conversation 16: "High Violet"

I need to start doing this: Drunk Science

Blast from the past: Captain Zoom Birthday Song

My brother and I both had our own tapes. He overdubbed one to say "mom" on her birthday. Ahhhhh memories...

I just bought some dumb t-shirts

Yeah, yeah... I know. They are those psuedo-ironic, ripping off vintage, trying to be clever kind of shirts. Vintage ironic shirts had their heyday circa 2000, in those glorious days where no one went to Salvation Armies because they were rightfully embarrassed to step into them.

Those brave, shameless few made them cool. Then people caught on, and like locusts, they descended to these virgin fields of fashion and consumed. Thrift stores soon became picked through to the point where nothing decent was left behind.

Then it became mainstream. Lazy bros started buying these things full price. Wise business types started making them ultra-ironic, and increased the lewd factor. Soon, vintage ironic t-shirt style was looked upon negatively.

Well, if you look into the Narnia-like depths of my wardrobe, you'll find those vintage shirts, jackets, etc. from those halcyon days of the early 2000's. Though they've been stretched out, stained, washed too many times, burned with cigarettes, or just plain falling apart... they are still damn cool to me.

But I need new shirts. And it's summer. I've muted myself with solid colored tees for way too long (I've got like 3 dozen black t-shirts). I like fake ties and tuxedos. I like looking at my innards when I look at my shirt. And goddamnit, I like wild life.

It's like playing a recently made version of a classic guitar... it may not be exactly the same, but it's the closest I'll get. So don't judge--this dude needed new duds.

Absolutely Cuckoo Cats

Absolutely Cuckoo Cats from SINLOGO on Vimeo.

I'm sure this is exactly what the Magnetic Fields had in mind when they wrote this song.

Related (barely):

And now for no reason, a mountain man feeding a hyena

I think they both had a few too many cocktails.

Sick vid: The Strokes on SNL

I wonder how they felt about getting introduced by Miley Cyrus.

I am stoked for this: First official 'Super' trailer

I'm in a weird, female singer dark-country-bluegrassy mood today

Let's start things off with a classic (though it got White-Stripe-ified recently)...

And now this dirty ditty:

And just because I can:

Live vid: Spirit Kid - Assumed by You

These are kinda hilarious

And just for funsies:

And... this just needed to be done:

Um... this IS how I see the world

Badass bike skills of the day

Damn. And I thought I was good.

YESS FINALLLLY

Good listening...

Vid: Ace of Hz

So the Get Up Kids has a new album out?

I would play this game

Sick vid of the day

I see Snacks the cat

Hmm I dunno about this:

1 - totally reggae'd out
2 - the one they already released, really diggin' it
3 - major 80's rocker, a la 867 5309... whoa weird timing change
4 - tech post rocky, dudes
5 - classy strokes there
6 - new wave synth easy goingness
7 - the sad, reflective song
8 - totally Steely Dan here
9 - kinda scary death metal
10 - jingle jangle belle sebastiany

I'm still stoked. The end of "Under the Cover of Darkness" is mindblowing, and the 30 second preview didn't do it justice. So, that's gotta say something...

UPDATE:

Monday, February 28, 2011

I'm going to make myself a DIY Robocop helmet just like Peter Weller

RoboCop Speaks to Detroit from Peter Weller

Meanwhile, in Brazil...

Skip to 0:50 for the action.

And that's why I don't do Critical Mass.

And now... some classics

Apples In Stereo - Play Tough
Uploaded by Desmoface. - Explore more music videos.

Blast from the past

Fun with Eggs reunion show, 2008

Rick Racket and the Rockets performs "(My Baby Don't Let Me) Mess Around"

This makes me want to study

My friend Tom was asked by a friend to rewrite a popular song to make it about the high school PSSA tests. I think it's a success!

Hot tracks of the day

I listen to a lot of WKDU 91.7 FM Drexel Station. You should too. Here's some highlights from today's shows:

Some acousticy goodness...

Sorta reminds me of the melody in this.
A sick Smiths cover...

Another hot track from Yukon Blonde...

And I thought I had bad roommates in the past...

"Damnit, Arnold, you left your bionic eye on the coffee table again."

sick vid of the day

It's an Atom and his Package kinda day

This guy is a science teacher in the Philly 'burbs somewhere. I wish Mr. Atom taught me science in high school.

lulz

Queens of the Stone Age performed an appendectomy on a fan while drunk
What are the odds I have to do a similar thing after one of my shows? "Um... I did this on rats before... hold my beer..."

Microsoft Songsmith song of the day

Microsoft Songsmith is a program in development that takes a vocal melody and figures out the harmonic accompaniment to fit it. You just pick a musical style and let it roll. Well, some jerk did this:

Oh, I could have so much fun with this program...

This is pretty entertaining

I feel like I've heard a billion parodies of all of these.

That reminds me of this, which has a lot of the same lines...


The same guy also did the music for this, which is an all-too-catchy ditty about muppets...

Sick track #2 of the day

Find more artists like YUKON BLONDE at Myspace Music

"Ghosts on Film" by Yukon Blonde

Kickin jam of the day

Find more artists like Piebald at Myspace Music

Anthem of New Boston
Who knew Piebald could churn out melancholy rocker waltzes?

My GF made me a sick mix cd

Think this is my fav track off of it:

Can't Wait!

YESSSSS

Obligatory update:

Comic of the day

In genetics, a mash-up is called "splicing"

I love the Beach Boys, and I love diagrams

They got this wrong...

There should be a big red dot right over 44th and Sansom streets, Philadelphia.

Heard this on the radio...

...immediately fell into dangerous punk nostalgia spiral


And away we go...



And a newer song, but still good:

Indie Rock Royalty on Portlandia

Hey... it's Colin Meloy, and James Mercer, and other Sleater Kinney girl

Want diabetes?

Owl City's Valentines Day song for Taylor Swift

There you go, you just got it.

Bright Eyes Shell Games Video

right hereeee

Didn't make it all the way through... kinda boring.

I know what I'm doing for the rest of the afternoon

The Great Gatsby Nintendo Game

A lot of people seem to be upset about Arcade Fire winning best album at the Grammy's

Who Is Arcade Fire?

Not only are they evidently overrated, they are also terrible people.

I liked "Funeral"
I liked that thing they did on SNL.
I like that processing power gobbling personalized music video.

Let's remember the good old days with the good old songs:





Wait... nevermind... I totally knew they were overrated back in 2004.

Just forget this whole post.

Best steak I've ever eaten

I just wish it was a little bigger... and a little cheaper.

R-rated Veggie-tale of the day

Oedipus ...starring vegetables (2004) short film in HD from jason wishnow on Vimeo.

I once had to write a song about Oedipus for a high school class. It was pretty bad. The only line I remember was:
"Relax, take it easy/you worry way too much
You're gouging your eyes out/over things you can't even touch"
And then something about listening to the prophet Tiresias.

It was really another song I wrote with different lyrics. The original was from a rock opera a friend and I were writing about a blind, drug addicted jazz pianist named Maximillion Jazzington who lived in a futuristic, robot populated distopia named Wackytown ruled by a tyrannic king named Kaiser Mergitron, who enslaved humans and made them listen to only techno.

But that's a story for another time. And it clearly has nothing to do with this.

Can't wait...

WHYYYYYYYYYYY????!?!?!

I recently switched from State Farm to Progressive. I wish I waited so I could use this song as the reason when the State Farm agent asked me why I was switching.

Just when Weezer was getting cool hanging with/covering buzzbands and getting all viral a la these gems:





Say goodbye to your cred, dudes.

Rats are now fashionable

Skip to about 2:19 for some alt rat style

Hipster Runoff has a great post about this:




"I could have probably watched a 40 minute in-depth interview with the Rat King Alt. What do u feed the rat? Is the rat part of ur brand? R u scared that a cat will eat the rat? If a cat eats the rat, what will u do to strengthen ur personal brand? These are the kinds of questions that H&M really needed to be asking.

Hopefully H&M will start selling rats, gerbils, and hamsters in their store so that alts can finally have authentic accessories."

If you want to seriously upgrade your personal style, I can get you a rat... on the cheap.

These guys were on Philebrity

And they are damn good.

Random video of the day

This song's kind of interesting because it's like the singer's goodbye letter to his girlfriend... from space. He's a cosmonaut and he knows the mission has failed and he's not coming home. Apparently this happened a lot during the space race, and the Russians just covered it up. :(

Looks like the Superbowl Halftime Show

And sounds way better.

Related:

Also, this and this.

And this.

I apologize, we are having technical difficulties

For some reason, blogspot keeps mixing up my youtube embeds. Sorry dudes... it looks fine through google reader though.

'UGHHHHH so stupid' of the day

I saw Yo La Tengo live a couple years ago and it was so boring that the crowd turned on them.

Glad to hear they are still don't disappoint to disappoint... here's them acting out Seinfeld:

I got 5 minutes in and couldn't handle any more.

New Strokes!

The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness (Clip) by TheMusic.FM

UPDATE:

This blog has a lot of promise

http://www.foodisthenewrock.com/
Dude from My Morning Jacket and M. Ward started a food blog. Sounds delicious.

New Toro y Moi album streaming nowwwww...

I know I'm stoked.

UPDATE:
Buy it in totebag version!

Funnnnnny stuff here...

So my one band, The Midnight Beat, played two shows with this group called the Electric Mess. The lead singer, Esther Crow, is actually in this new New Pornographers video. Look for a dude-looking girl with a trucker hat and shades in the band:
There's also a bunch of comedian cameos. Pretty rad.

Darwin Deez is one goofy looking man

Amiright?

But he makes some pretty good tunezzz...
Darwin Deez - Bed Space by LuckyNumberMusic
Darwin Deez - Deep Sea Divers by LuckyNumberMusic
He's playing KFN soon. I might have to scope that out.

Bright Eyes stream new album... will it suck?

Time for a real time review.

Listen here

-Ok. Track 1, "Firewall." Weird religious stuff with reptiles. Sounds like Dr. Phil. Skipped to the real music... just a bunch of noisy crap and riff stolen from Nirvana.
-Track 2, "Shell Games": Ooo nice progression. Nice poppy beat. I think I heard this... did I post this before? Yes. I did. It's cool.
-Track 3, "Jejune Stars": Whoa. This is good too.
-Track 4, "Approximate Sunlight"... hmm, sounds like a boring Black Heart Progression song. Meh
-Track 5, "Haile Seelassie": Not feelin' it.
-Track 6, "A Machine Spiritual": For some reason, reminds me of "Arc of Time." Not really feelin' it either. And Dr. Phil is back.
-Track 7, "Triple Spiral"... pretty straightforward 90's rocker. Borrrringgg. Wait... crazy synth/organ thing at the end? Nice.
-Track 8, "Beginners Mind": This song has potential for a nice build or something. Eh, maybe not.
-Track 9, "Ladder Song"... Obligatory sad piano waltz. Beh.
-Track 10, "One for you, One for me": Sounds like a B-side off "Yoshimi" with that crazy beat. Oh great, Dr. Phil is back yet again.

Verdict: This could kick the Decemberists' new album's ass. It's got a couple hot tracks that I can get down to. Expectations exceeded, but then again, I didn't really know what to expect.

Highlights:

Sick Riffs

I think I'm going to listen to this on loop for the next 8 hours, and then I'm going to write the shred-iest song EVAR.

Classssssic songggg

What I'm Watching: Exit Through the Gift Shop

BTW, Banksy is hilarious.

And this song rules:


UPDATE:


EVEN BETTER UPDATE:

Hot track of the day

This is amazinggggg

Axe Cop: The Movie - Part 1 from Peter Muehlenberg on Vimeo.

And what can I say about this theme song? Genius.

Find more artists like Axe Cop at Myspace Music

This band "Stepdad" ain't bad either.

A song about my favorite booze

Check out "Vanilla Vodka."
'When I was 12' Myspace
So filthy for being so cutesy.

The rest of the stuff ain't bad.

I didn't know this was finished...

Here's a track The Midnight Beat recorded back in September...
Midnight Beat - Keep Trying To Get There by DanKishbaugh
Check out those hot riffs, courtesy of yours truly.

My Friend Marc's band, Eat Your Birthday Cake...

...are coming out with an LP. I guess they've just put the finishing touches on it, and it sounds pretty great.
Poor Young Werther by Eat Your Birthday Cake

UPDATE:
New track!
You With That Short Hair by Eat Your Birthday Cake
Rad, dudes.

Changes in latitude, changes in altitude...

Lulz

See also:

Hot track of the day

Toro y Moi - Still sound
Is 'funkwave' the next evolution of chillwave?

UPDATE:
New track...
Toro Y Moi "New Beat" by carparkrecords

EXTRA UPDATE:
Toro y Moi :: Still Sound (Coyote Clean Up’s Detroit Dub)

EXTRA EXTRA UPDATE:

Toro y Moi - New Beat from Jon Casey on Vimeo.

Totally overproduced cover of the day

Still, worth listening...


Original:

Hot jam #3 of the day

Cut Copy - Need you now

UPDATE:

Cut Copy - Need You Now (Stereogum Premiere) from stereogum on Vimeo.

Hot jam #2 of the day

Music Video:
Miami Horror - I Look to You

Just the song:

Hot jam #1 of the day

Memory Tapes - Today is Our Life
Riding some major chillwaves, yall.

So that's what he was after all these years...

...to take over the world, one observational joke at a time.

Remember these guys?

Warms my heart. Except when he doesn't rhyme "outrageous" with "contagious"... that makes me want to stab something.

Love how he rhymes "drunk uncle" with "Garfunkle."

Too bad the way he talks makes my ears bleed.

So, this exists:

As obnoxious as Matt and Kim are...

...I love a good fight

Matt and Kim - New Music - More Music Videos

I'm sick, I'm stressed out, and I'm bummed it's still winter...

Let's chill out...

Also:

Japanese Spiderman is crazyyy

What's the deal with the giant robot?

Archers of Loaf reunite

I totally listened to Icky Mettle 1000 times during high school.

Well, at a show with the band The Love Language, the guys reunited to play a set together for the first time in 13 years.



YESSS.

Music Nerd Fact of the Day

Iron Maiden's song "The Trooper" was actually based off of this poem.

It all makes sense now.

This is suprisingly funny video of the day

I never thought Fred Armisen was funny, except for when he did the Bartman.

After that beginning song, I'm sold. Sounds like West Philly.

This Man Man/Islands/Modest Mouse/Mikey Cera superband ain't bad...

Post-rock goodness

I was just rocking out to some post-rocky kinda stuff last night with my roommate. And today I keep getting all these messages from this band on Facebook. I went to college with the one guy. Turns out, it's pretty darn good. Really tech. Worth spacing out to.

Creepy robot voice movie theme of the day

Vampy weex vs. Black keez SELL OUT OFF

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Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive

So sick of all of those songs.

Random images found in My Documents

I took the bus into work today...

...and made this infographic about the ordeal.

Miss U 4 loko :(

This is amazing:

This dog's got talent...

So this is the guy who writes the music for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia...

...playing a neat little round-ish ditty

See also:

Cat wins... every time

But who will win in rat vs. rat?

So this was the #1 song the week I was born

Wow.

Heartwarming documentary of the day

Saved By The Belding
Uploaded by STEproductions. - Classic TV and last night's shows, online.

That's my motivational system:

Click to embiggen

Randomly generated album cover

1 - Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

...2 - Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
......
3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”. Third picture no matter what ...it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.

5 - Post it with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in

So excited to see Tron...

Perhaps this weekend?

Hilarious...

It was only a matter of time

Man... they sound like butt.

THURSDAY!!!!

Just sayin'

New Decemberists album streaming on NPR

Snag it here.

Skimming through it now...
Not sure what to think...
First couple of songs are boring...
Kinda want some metal prog parts a la "The Tane" and "Crane Wife"...
"Rox in the Box" sounds aight, yo...
Some sort of mining song...
Makes me want to dig for gold and drink moonshine...
Starting to think that "Hazards of Love" was better...
"Down by the Water" seems to be their 'hit single'...
Already over "Down by the Water"...
They really are channelling their inner Billy Ray Cyrus with ""All Arise!"...
"This is why we fight" might save this album...
NOOOO they use the emo chord progression! Immediately mega-cheesy...
Why is this song so long?...
Last song is sooooo boring...
I wonder how many times Colin Meloy used the term "Rattle your bones" in his career...
I was really expecting some crazy build and a mega climax or something...

To quote the dad dude from Inception, "DISAPPOINTED"

Goddamnit, Decemberists...

This is kinda interesting...

So this exists....

The metal gods glare down from Valhalla unfavorably.