Thursday, December 4, 2008
The BPA fet. David Byrne and Dizze Rascal, “Toe Jam”. Is it any surprise that Norman “Fatboy Slim” Cook is involved in this?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Marnie Stern continues to shred on the guitar like nobody’s business and unlike, say, Joe Satriani she can write songs too. See the adorableness that is her new video “Ruler” here:
New Weezer album cover or Village People 2.0? Emo Scarface Guy, Dweeb, Puny Cowboy and Tattoo Enthusiast In the last post I whined, as I so often do, about record companies that don’t understand that music videos are advertisements and ought to be embeddable by anyone. Along comes Weezer to prove the point by cleverly [...]
Portishead: “Go on, drink it…” Compiled By Noah Mallin Portishead come back after 11 years with their atmospheric gloom-mongering intact. Their new one, Third (It’s their third album, natch) is readily identifiable as the work of the pioneering trip-hop threesome but the beats have grown more abstract and the rich production is studded with off-kilter [...]
“I’m recording a tasty lick you wanker…” An Ongoing Unearthing by Noah Mallin Before he invented Dr. Evil’s laser, Alan Parsons was an engineer at EMI’s studios. He’s the man responsible for the crystalline sound of both The Beatles Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon. Inside Parsons was a recording artist [...]