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Tonight OC Notes' Emerald City Sequence

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:41 PM

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For my weekly OC Notes post, I'd like to tell you to hit up Nectat tonight, where OC Notes will be sharing his Sequence: a re-edit of the 1978 super soul musical The Wiz, with his own added soundtrack. Otis just pumps pure black excellence.

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Lists Marxist Pop

Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:49 PM

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For me, these tunes (five in number) best capture the popular spirit of Marxism, and Marxism always comes down to the wages, and wages come down to money (the universal equivalent), and money makes the world go round and round.

5) Alpha - "For the Wages"

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Tonight Tonight in Music: Rene Hell, Earn, RM Francis, Harpoon Pole Vault, Lisa Dank, Ayron Jones and the Way, Mega Man, Megasapien, Explone, Boom City, the Knast

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:38 PM

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Song / ??!! Jack White + Christian Juggalos + Mozart + A Song About Ass-Licking from 1782

Posted by Kelly O on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:39 PM

Megan posted this in Today's News, but can we talk a little bit more about this, pretty please? The original Leck mich im Arsch. ICP's Leck Mich Im Arsch. "Mozart, dope for the most part/Respect it, cuz he knows art... Alotta chicks lickin' his ass when it goes dark"

Fucking Mozart mashups, how do they work?

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Teh Internets / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Imagine Your Record Anagram'd

Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:24 PM

Here’s a novel concept from the Warm Voices blog: Review albums by forming anagrams from the artist name and release title. Some pithy truths can result from this approach. For example:

Marilyn Manson- The High End of Low
Silly ham showman frighten'd no one!

Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Rank name! Women can't applaud us.

Joe Satriani - Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock
Drat! Satch jerks off into our ears. I fuckin' hate solos. Pure onanism!

This is harder than it looks. I tried to come up with something meaningful for Shabazz Palaces’ Black Up, but failed (“Plaza blazes shack up CBS” and "A pub blaze lacks cash zap" sound all right, but are nonsense—albeit entertaining nonsense). Anyway, hours of fun can be yours, too, if you want to set your letter-scrambling mind to it.

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Band New Band Alert: Theories

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:01 PM

Joe "Grindo" Axler, the hardest/drumming/working/dreadlock-growing man in the industry (Seriously, every time I see that guy riding a bike I think one of those fuckers is gonna get caught in the spokes.), alerts us to the 47th band he's in. Do you think he's using a double kick pedal here?

<a href="http://theories.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2011">Demo 2011 by THEORIES</a>

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??!! Hot on the Heels of Mr. D. Erdman's "Whole Lotta Hole" Post Comes Some Guy's "Girls Playing Acoustic Misfits Covers" YouTube-Mined Blog Post

Posted by Mike Nipper on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:41 PM

Big D, you might wanna watch what you post; somebody is biting your style. From what I can tell, instead of "Hole 'Doll Parts' covers", he substituted "girls," "Misfits," "guitars," and "acoustic." Oh, and "bedroom," apparently. Eesh.

DANZIG are you taking note of your massive influence on cute young ladies performing acoustic versions of MISFITS gems? Oh sure Metallica can cover MISFITS songs but they have NOTHING next to these young ladies singing all alone in their bedrooms. The immortal Static Age album from 1977 still has an atomic punch of an influence and who wudda thunk it would explode in the lonely bedrooms of teenage girls? So, behold....The top 20 cutest damn MISFITS covers! So damn darling I could just screeeeeeam with giddiness!

If you enjoy the Misfits and/or the idea of some random GUY biting Mr. D. Erdman's steez, then dig it.

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News Today's Music News: Jack White Loves Juggalos (and Juggalos Love Ass Licking), the Beach Boys Will Release The Smile Sessions, and Beyonce's Baby Is Already Helping Her Career

Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:54 AM

Was the Sony Warehouse Fire Done by Professionals?: Some say so.

New (Old) Beach Boys!: The Smile Sessions will be released November 1st.

T.I. Has Been Released From Prison: He'll serve the remainder of his 11 month sentence in a halfway house.

Getting Knocked Up Is Good for Your Career: Beyonce's baby announcement has helped her album sales.

Bruno Mars Is Suing His Publisher: Something about contracts and shit.

Everyone Loves a Juggalo: Jack White has produced Insane Clown Posse's new single, "Leck Mich Im Arsch."

New Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Video: Featuring Fences!

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Alex Shakar

The only other time Alex Shakar published a novel, 9/11 happened and everybody forgot about The Savage Girl and its lucid, scathing prose about branding and identity.

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??!! / Film Elvin Jones, Like You've Never Seen Him

Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:26 AM

One recent night while DJing with former Sun City Girls member/Sublime Frequencies honcho Alan Bishop (shameless name-dropping, but true story), he excitedly recounted a scene in the 1971 movie Zachariah in which Elvin Jones—drummer for John Coltrane from 1960-1966, among other things—guns down a man in an old West saloon while wearing a sliver lamé vest and then, of course, the Ohio group the James Gang kick into a blues-rock jam, only to have Jones nudge aside the sticksman so he can perform a magnificent drum solo… as a bunch of honkies and the band watch on in awe.

It was one of those anecdotes that beggared belief. But, WOOMP, there it is, on YouTube (the film is available on DVD). Now you too can revel in one of the most amazing scenes in cinematic history. Gaw-DAMN!

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Mailbag Unsatisfied Dave Matthews Band Customer

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:02 AM

DMB sucks a fat baby’s ass for playing at the Gorge the same weekend as B-Shoot.
There was a time when I was a huge Dave fan. No doubt he’s a talented artist who supports many causes around the globe. Unfortunately Dave misses the bus when it comes to think globally, act locally. Dave lives in Seattle. Every year he plays three shows at the Gorge in eastern Washington over Labor Day weekend. Labor Day weekend is when Bumbershoot takes place at Seattle Center. It’s an annual, local arts and music festival. Granted Labor Day weekend at the Gorge is a huge paycheck for DMB, Inc especially since the promoters have recently added a bunch of other bands to appear, creating their own Davefest. Dave can pick any weekend of the year to be at the Gorge (how about the 4th of July), after all he’s Dave Frigging Matthews, but he chooses to compete with a festival that’s nearly 40 years old and features local food vendors, artisans, performers and musicians. I no longer buy any of Dave’s CDs or merchandise. I would encourage all of you to boycott Dave until he begins to act locally.

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Album / #1 Fan Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:30 AM

Queen, Sheer Heart Attack, Hollywood/Elektra
Some people get into a band and buy all their records at once. For me, the process tends to stretch out for years. I've been a Queen fan since junior high, so this love affair has been going on for awhile now. They were so big back then—the late-'70s/early-'80s—that another West High student and I used "Another One Bites the Dust" as the theme for a hall-decorating contest. I still remember painting a big, disproportionate cowboy to complete the urban-western theme ("Steve walks warily down the street, brim pulled way down low...").

In 1981, the quartet provided the score for Flash Gordon, and I picked up my first Queen release, a cassette copy of their greatest hits, including the theme song (which Public Enemy sampled on It Takes A Nation of Millions). I love the way Freddie Mercury shouts about the bleached-blond space traveler, "Savior of the universe!" Today's superhero movies could use that kind of spirit. (Side note: I once met the original Flash Gordon, former Olympian Buster Crabbe. Nice guy.)

Then, after I moved to Seattle, I bought A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and News of the World.* Last year, I finally picked up their self-titled debut. This year, it was 1974's Sheer Heart Attack. Of those titles, it's probably my least favorite, but I love it anyway, which probably says more about me than about their catalog. For one thing, it features my favorite track: "Killer Queen."

* Oddly, "Sheer Heart Attack" appears on this 1977 record.

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Bumbershoot The 2011 Bumbershoot Guide Is Alive!

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:00 AM

I lost a kidney to bring this guide to you. TRUE STORY.

In the guide:

Five Great Things About Daryl Hall & John Oates!

Butthole Surfer and the Ultimate Brown Sound!

Hari Kondabolu Talks About What's It's Like to Be a Pseudo-Celebrity, Das Racist, and His Fear of Dying in an Airplane Crash!

Broken Social Scene!

Red Fang Rolled Their Van!

Is It Still Possible to Love Battlestar Galactica, Knowing That the Ending Sucks Donkey Dick?!

Charles Mudede Is in Love With Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon!

Astronautalis on Relentless Dirtbag Touring, German Squats, and F. Scott Fitzgerald!

Dennis Coffey Has Made a Life by Staying Out of the Limelight!

John Dwyer Keeps Thee Oh Sees Pointed Toward the Good Life!

Eighteen Months of Accomplishments, Van Breakdowns, and Weddings with the Lonely Forest!

Daughter of a Gun: Marya Sea Kaminski's Bonnie Parker Play

Plus, some words about every damn thing happening at Bumbershoot!

GET YR TICKETS RIGHT HERE BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO WAIT IN LINE LIKE A SUCKER.

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Video A Day in the Life of a Blue Scholar

Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:12 PM

Nice beat, beautiful people, a gorgeous island in the sun...

How you living? Like a scholar.

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#1 Fan Youth Crew Tuesday: 7 Seconds "Not Just Boys Fun"

Posted by Derek Erdman on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:49 PM

There was an unsavory term for girls in the macho east coast hardcore scene of the mid-1980s, and that was "coat rack." Somehow the brutal goons didn't hip themselves to this gem off of the first LP released by 7 Seconds called The Crew. "Not Just Boys Fun" is a call to recognize the female contribution to hardcore, and how it's unfortunate that they were not welcome in the, uh, pit.

I'd reckon that 7 Seconds from Reno, Nevada was responsible for a lot of people's introduction to punker music, with their popular cover of "99 Red Balloons" from the 1985 LP Walk Together, Rock Together. Their early output cannot be denied as classics of the genre, from the 1982 Skins, Brains and Guts 7" on Alternative Tentacles up until the New Wind LP from 1986. Many might argue, but after that things got slower and moved into a reggae/metal mixture that wasn't quite up to snuff. I have a vague recollection of seeing them in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1990s. Kevin Seconds had long dreadlocks and the band was aping U2. My, how times had changed.

The Crew is a brilliant LP from 1984, released on the Stern Brothers' BYO label. It's really the only 7 Seconds slab that fetches real money on the collector's market, with the blue vinyl & test pressings worth about $300-$400. But when it comes to posi-crossover, 7 Seconds were the progenitors.

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New Releases / Bumbershoot Thee Oh Sees Announce Release of Carrion Crawler/The Dream, Add Finberg to Lineup

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:43 PM

Bay Area garage-rock titans Thee Oh Sees just announced that they'll be releasing their second album of 2011: Carrion Crawler/The Dream on In the Red Records, Nov. 15. Their other LP from this year, Castlemania, came out in May and is highly recommended.

Thee Oh Sees are slated to play Bumbershoot Sun. Sept. 4, 3:15 pm, at Fountain Lawn Stage. As if they weren't already dominant enough, Thee Oh Sees' lineup now includes Stranger Genius award winner Lars Finberg of the Intelligence. If this set isn't one of THEE highlights of Bumbershoot, I'll give Grant Brissey a 45-minute foot rub.

Press release after the cut.

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Nerd / Song New SPORTS: "Vitamin C"

Posted by Jason Baxter on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:43 PM

Is a remix/rework/retitled jam sort of like a "requel"? If so, does that make this re-interpretation of the Cyclist's "CAN" the X-men: First Class of MP3s that have dropped this week? Or is it more like the Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Or is it more like [insert other nerdy reference]?

Pop-culture comparisons aside, this track serves as another good reason to join SPORTS's figurative electro-dance "team," with its thirst-inspiring chorus and deliciously groovy intersections of vintage synth and guitar. Headphones up! Commence chair-dancing:

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I'm Still a Virgin I Never Liked the Zeppelins Much, but Unsane COVERING the Zeppelins?! Hell YEAH!

Posted by Mike Nipper on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:57 PM

I never hear the Led Zeppelins without hearing the Small Faces, which is to say if I hear the Zeppelins it makes me wish I was, instead, listening to the Small Faces. ANYWAYS, as I don't care much for the "GREATEST ROCK BAND EVER," I really enjoyed when '80s and 90s heavies, such as Unsane, KILLED, or at least cheeked up, any notion of Zep's...well, everything.

Oh, Killdozer's "When the Levee Breaks" should also make any list of '90s Zeppelins covers...uh, if there ever is one?! Killdozer crucified the sacred ROCK gods by just EXISTING.

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