Latest great idea for some shitty garage band name
By Eric | April 30, 2008 12:00 am
Latest great idea for some shitty garage band name, thanks to FARK: “No Pity For Drunken Whores”
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On To Round 2, with Discipline
By Eric | April 23, 2008 12:47 pm
And lest I forget, the new NIN! “Discipline” is the name of the new track, and you can now get it officially from nin.com for FREE dollars. It’s a catchy little tune, reminiscent of With Teeth type stuff. Apparently it was mastered Monday night, and the finished track was emailed to KROQ in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon, at which point began the internet feeding frenzy. And the real official download just went up today, with another “coming soon” announcement supposedly coming on May 5th. Last time they did this, it resulted in Ghosts I-IV, so we’ll see what happens this time around.
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I’m rockin out the new NIN song “Discipline”… fr
By Eric | April 22, 2008 12:00 am
I’m rockin out the new NIN song “Discipline”… freshly leaked to radio like 2 hours ago, and the full mp3 hits the net like 2 minutes ago!
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Pop Quiz Hot Shot
By Eric | April 17, 2008 2:47 pm
And just for fun, music I’ve been spinning this last while: Ashes Divide (Billy from A Perfect Circle’s new band), 36 Crazyfists, Bloodsimple, Five Finger Death Punch (thanks Adam for the recommendation!), NIN, Sevendust, Theory of a Deadman. RAWK!
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Internet Illiterati
By Eric | March 27, 2008 1:21 pm
I was greeted with an email notification this morning of a comment on one of the CD entries. The new Shawn Mullins CD, Honeydew, which is a Tiff CD. I get the following comment:
# Steve Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 4:25 am e
“Since she never does her own reviews, I found Shawn’s own take on the album”
SHE? Shawn’s a HE
Thanks for the tip, dumbass. It usually helps if one reads the *entire* review, which handily started with the line that makes it all make sense, which I gleefully pointed out…
# Woopop Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 9:36 am e
Way to take it out of context, skippy… Back up just one line:
THIS IS CD #1000! Figures, it’d be one of Tiff’s 🙂
“She”, referring to Tiff. My wife. From the line above. Reading Comprehension FTW.
There’s just no accounting for intelligence on the Internet.
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03/13/2008 Mike Doughty, The Panderers (Rochester, NY @ The German House)
By Eric | March 13, 2008 11:59 pm
Matt and I ventured to the The German House, which is a venue I’d never been to. It’s as nice as the Harro East ballroom, but about half the size. Real nice place, and a perfect venue for someone like Doughty. The first act on, that we missed most of, didn’t have a name, and seemed to be members of Doughty’s band (and maybe himself too) dressed in disguise and making a lot of noise, without much music. Somewhat interesting. The real openers were a band Mike has just signed to his new label, and they’re called The Panderers. The name didn’t fit, only because they didn’t pander to anyone! They’re a three piece (two of the guys also played with Mike), and it’s real stripped-down indie rock. Neat stuff, good groove, fun enough to listen to. I enjoyed them.
The cool thing about this show is that it was being taped for a future episode of WXXI’s “OnStage”, so hopefully we’ll see this on TV sometime soon (looking at their schedule, I’m guess June at the earliest!). Mike and the band came out, and ran through an hour and a half of his brand of rock-n-roll. Considering I’m not at all familiar with his new album, and don’t even have the older stuff down much, he’s such a great performer that it didn’t matter. Head-bopping, toe-tapping music all night, the vast majority was from the new Golden Delicious album, but a fair amount from his older stuff, including some Soul Coughing. It’s hard to describe other than a great show! At one point, he picked up a sampler, and started riffing on that, much like a DJ, for the song “More Bacon Than The Pan Can Handle” (of which they were also selling shirts adorned with that slogan!). It was pretty neat to see the electronics merged with the relative simplicity of the rest of the music. Matt and I definitely enjoyed ourselves, and I think I like Doughty even more now, after having seen this show, than I did before.
There’s no way this is in order, but here’s what I’m pretty sure got played: Fort Hood, Put It Down, More Bacon…, 27 Jennifers, I Wrote A Song About Your Car, Navigating By The Stars At Night, …Bottom Of A Well, Busting Up A Starbucks, I Hear The Bells, Grey Ghost, Down On The River…, Ossining, Move On, Circles (SC), Sleepless/Soft Serve (SC), Is Chicago (SC), Janine (SC), plus a little cover medley of Lola (The Kinks), Paradise City (GNR), and then into his cover of The Gambler (Kenny Rogers), which was awesome!!
Is Chicago…
Circles
Ossining
More Bacon Than The Pan Can Handle
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03/07/2008 The Dreaming, Shelflyfe (Rochester, NY @ The Club At Water Street)
By Eric | March 7, 2008 11:59 pm
This one started later than usual (10pm doors for a 10:30 start), and I walked in just as Shelflyfe was getting ready to go on. They’re a local band, and they weren’t too bad, a four piece rock band that uses a sampler, and uses it well. The songs were kinda catchy, but the singer had a cold, so between that and how low he was in the mix, it was hard to hear him. The rest of the band sounded pretty decent though.
But the whole reason for going was The Dreaming. They’re a five-piece techno-tinged rock band that could be described as what lead singer Chris Hall did after Stabbing Westward. Which should tell you what they sound like. They also feature drummer Johnny Haro (Econoline Crush) and guitarist Carlton (Deadsy). The band has actually been around for awhile, but finally got a full-length CD out at the beginning of the year. After setting up their own stuff, they kicked right into things, and over the course of the night, played just about everything off the album, and for an encore, did a cover of Stabbing Westward’s “Save Yourself”. Not that I had any doubt, but the band sounded excellent, Chris’ singing was right on, powerful, and the band was into the show, as was the majority of the crowd. And for $10, it was a bargain.
There were about 100-150 people there, and a good number were at least familiar with the band, if not all the songs. At the risk of sounding old, it was quite humorous to see the younger kids right at the front that had never heard “Save Yourself”, while all the older people (there were more of us, for sure) rocked out. Chris Hall was a pretty chatty frontman for someone that sounds so depressed in his music! He was cracking jokes and talking with the crowd all night, posing for pictures and the like. I picked up a CD and got an autograph from Johnny, and called it a night.
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NIN sees Ghosts
By Eric | March 3, 2008 9:49 pm
Finally, the new Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV was up for purchase and legitimate download last night, and I grabbed it this morning. It’s a double-disc of 36 instrumental tracks, broken up into Ghosts I through Ghosts IV. As an incentive to sample the album, Trent made Ghosts I (the first 9 tracks) available for free. As in, he seeded those 9 tracks on The Pirate Bay himself. It could be bought physically in one of a couple different configurations (I went with the cheapo 2CD digipak for $10 plus shipping), or simply downloaded in either FLAC or 320k MP3’s for $5. If you bought one of the physical copies (which don’t get shipped to people or to stores until April), you get a download code for all 36 tracks, for free, immediately. If you can get the server to talk to you. Which I couldn’t. (The traffic to the site was unbelievable.) Or, you can do what I (and many others did), which was go to The Pirate Bay, and download the psuedo-legal 36 track torrent. Either way, they’re mp3’s I actually paid for, and the results, if you like NIN, are quite good. Imagine the instrumental tracks on Downward, The Fragile, Still, and Year Zero, and that’s the vein these are in. Cool stuff, innovative distribution, and since he’s not signed to a major label anymore, he can do pretty much whatever the hell he wants with his music going forward. Should be interesting to see how far this goes.
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The World’s Greatest Music Collection
By Eric | February 19, 2008 11:22 am
I need to bolster my collection a bit, so I think I’m going to put a bid in…. anyone want to help?
The World’s Greatest Music Collection
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02/16/2008 Will Hoge, Dawn Landes (Buffalo, NY @ The Tralf)
By Eric | February 16, 2008 11:59 pm
(Jason Isbell was also on the bill, but we didn’t stay for him.)
Tiffany was giddy with anticipation for this one, since this show was at the Tralf, we’d be a lot closer than we were in Ithaca, and with what we assumed (correctly) would be a more respectful crowd. We got inside and found a table pretty much front and center to the stage, and after a snack and some refreshments, Dawn Landes and her band started. I’m sure she’s very talented, and good at what she does, but folk/indie rock is just not for me. However, her half hour set was entertaining and engaging, and we certainly enjoyed it. But we were here for one reason only, and that was Will Hoge. He and the band appeared on stage right at 9pm, and launched into “These Were The Days” to warm approval from the crowd. They slowed it down a touch with “Someone Else’s Baby”, and from there my order is not entirely correct, but a string of up-tempo numbers followed, including “Rock ‘N Roll Star” (which I hadn’t seen live yet!), and then “Wait Till Your Daddy Gets Home”, which featured an extended jam session in the middle that was just incredible. I think “Secondhand Heart” was next, which prompted some of the more inebriated members of the audience to get up and start dancing. Right in front of us, but hey, we could still see, and they were showing Will way more love than the Ithaca crowd did. They decided to keep everyone up and moving with “Sex, Lies and Money” before slowing down to “I’m Sorry Now”. He pretty much had the crowd in his hands by this point, and the band finished strong with “The Highway’s Home”, “Midnight Parade”, and if I’m not mistaken, the closer was “July Moon”. There was a very enthusiastic response from most everyone in attendance, which was great to see. After the stage was torn down, Will and guitar player Adam Fluhrer came back to the merch booth and we chatted with them for a minute or two, thanking them for coming back to Buffalo, and Tiff mentioned to Will that she saw him in this venue roughly four years ago, acoustic with Edwin McCain, to which Will exclaimed “Ya know, I had totally forgotten about that until we walked in today, and I was like ‘I’ve played here before!!'” So they mutually got a kick out of that story, and we said goodbye and thanks again before bouncing back to Rochester. A much better crowd experience this time around!!
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