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
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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

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"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