“Festival Guy” Gets Written Up
By Eric | May 4, 2008 8:15 am
…in the D&C.
If anyone has been to the Lilac Festival at all in the past couple years, you’ve undoubtedly seen “Festival Guy” getting his groove on:
It must be a slow news day, because the D&C had an article about him in today’s paper (or at least, on the website): “Festival Guy is also Irondequoit’s ‘Santa Jogger'”
Good for him!
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Trent keeps leaking new songs, this time it’s “Ech
By Eric | May 3, 2008 12:00 am
Trent keeps leaking new songs, this time it’s “Echoplex” through the iLike facebook app. It’s a pretty cool song, just like Discipline is.
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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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