it's been a month since i've done a post

Indeed time has not been on my side lately, which is odd given my current professional duties. Anways, yesterday was my friend Jeff's birthday. A group of five of us gathered to celebrate with him at once of Chicago's secret masterpiece's, The Paramount Room. I don't know whats up with that tribal logo surrounding the glass of beer but they do have fantastic beer and food. We had interesting discussions, my friend Karl gave Jeff an interesting book that I must now track down. The book is "Wreckers of Civilization" and it's basically the insane story of psycho jazz legends Throbbing Gristle.
These guys also spoke quite a bit about Nurse With Wound who I was unaware of and really don't have the time to explain, but it's worth checking out.
After Jeff made his exit to go watch the Chicago White Sox dominate the Chicago Cubs to make the sweep official, we headed over to another bar for one more beer. There we tried to figure out if we are old or if new music really just sucks. We all agreed that if we are in fact victims of a generation gap that we could accept that. However we also could not find a musical or other artistic movement today that was worth praising.
I then went to work and continued reading Naked Lunch and then I felt filthy and vile but hey, is't that why you read William S. Burroughs in the first place?
Anyways... I woke up this morning, checked wherethehellismatt.com and found his latest video and it made me happy for some odd reason. I'm not sure if I like Matt or hate him because I am jealous of what he gets to do.
For all the people that really think people that live in other parts of the world are so much different than us Americans, I think this is quite possibly the best and most simple example they are indeed very similar to us. If you're not in a better mood after watching this I will pay you $100 dollars (just kidding, I'm not giving you shit!)
Check it out and enjoy your day!

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

White People For Peace

Against Me! summed it up with this song. If you don't know Against Me! then you should go buy their music at your local record store (if you can find one) or obtain it on the interweb. Anyways... if you are curious of the lyrics you can find them here!

White People For Peace by: Against Me!

superchunk rules!

One of the better things about the 90's was a little band called Superchunk (whose re-union I missed last year at the Metro in Chicago because I was in California, but we won't talk about that right now...or ever again).Superchunk was catchy noise pop at it's finest. they just don't make pop music like this anymore...Yes I am aware that the previous statement makes me sound old! Enjoy some superchunk on me! AGAIN... don't say that I never gave you anything!

SUPERCHUNK - Hyper Enough

SUPERCHUNK - Precision Auto

AND FINALLY
A great live clip of Superchunk playing "waterwings" from the "like a fool" record (their best imo)
man that mac can sure bounce around... goodtimes!

does the world need more weezer?

What do tay zonday, kevin federline and miss south carolina have in common?
They are all in the new Weezer video. Yes it sounds like every other song Weezer ever made. I don't hate Weezer, and just like everyone else, I really like their first record (My Name is Jonas is a Jam), but I thought they quite while they were ahead... but nope... I really don't care about this, but they do milk the whole "Mentos in the Soda" thing that we failed miserable at when we did the video for the fizz. (hint.. its in the first video in the films section)

minus the bear, throwing shapes video

besides being an overall great band, the new video from minus the bear is pretty awesome.
check it...

MINUS THE BEAR - THROWING SHAPES

the coolest 50 year old alive

nick cave is a bad ass, plain and simple. from his days with the birthday party, to the bad seeds days, the recent grinderman project, he is back with the bad seeds. if i can afford it i'm going to see them at the riveria her in chicago. this is not some old guy going through the motions for a paycheck...tis the real deal... you can only wish that you will be this cool at 50 years old...

GRINDERMAN LIVE ON THE TV


NICK CAVE AND THE BIRTHDAY PARTY LIVE
my guess is 1982

new rage: free music...nine in nails gives you their latest

say what you will about where nine inch nails has gone musically over the years, i for one could live without much of their output since the downward spiral but at least trent has his head in the right spot. granted giving your new record away is the rage these days like radiohead did with inrainbows...nine inch nails take the idea where it should be...and that is by giving you multiple high quality formats to choose from and give you no option to contribute a single dollar whereas radiohead gave you an option to donate an amount of your choice (i gave $2.00 out of sheer guilt as i felt the concept was pretty awesome) and then gave you the album at a bit rate of 160. nine inch nails offer their newest in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.
you go trent !

get your free copy of nine inch nails - the slip here

update: got the record via email and it isn't very good... trent reznor lost his musical edge a long time ago in my opinion, however he still fights the good fight... even if he did steal a pigface song... thanks for the free tunes trent!
a side note: the cover got me excited that this would be the right turn musically i was hoping nin would take... oh well !
anyways... here is nin playing the stolen song when nin was truly great!

Nine Inch Nails - Suck_Live_1989_Pretty Hate Machine Tour

pointless facts...pavement meets jerri blank

it's always odd when you think of something or someone and then you run into them or it or whatever... you know what i mean....
so i haven't listened to pavement in a little while so today i busted out slanted and enchanted and then followed it up with a little wowee zowee. while trying to sleep i was watching a strangers with candy episode and i notice a familiar face... i was pretty sure it was mark iblod, the bass player from pavement... i fast forward to the credits... bingo... there he is.... MARK IBOLD.
granted this is not the strangest thing in the world, it was just bizarre seeing that i had listened to two pavement records today.
mark plays a band member in jerri blank's brother derricks band member.

now you go ahead and enjoy you some strangers with candy and some pavement! You're welcome!
serioulsy... don't mention it... i mean it.

STRANGERS WITH CANDY
Stephen Colbert montage as Chuck Noblet

PAVEMENT live at READING FESTIVAL circa 1992
off key singing and maximum slack attitude in full effect yall

BONUS PAVEMENT - PERFUME V live at READING FESTIVAL circa 1992

United Visual Artists : Yan Shu Commission

UVA was commissioned to create an instillation in a new terminal at london's heathrow airport. The commission is designed to bring attention to china design now.

The idea of the instillation is to promote the sharing of experiences in different cultures.
Browse the UVA site for on this, some cool videos and slide show photos of the instillation as well as a lot of other work they have done. Just about all of it is amazing. Here is some of the work they did in 2004 for Massive Attack.

UVA and MASSIVE ATTACK

the one reason i would have gone to coachella

Aphex Twin - apparently he gave a pretty intense history lesson of dance music before he aurally beat people down and ripped their faces off:

Here is his intro...who else would end a beautiful ambient intro with flavor flav samples!



full on rave



this is a nice 7 minute montage where he progressed into drum and bass...towards the end it becomes pure madness

AND THE ENDING: FULL ON MADNESS....richard james rules

windlowlicker : best intro ever

NO this video is not new.
only aphex twin could pull off a 3:50 intro like this. (WARNING: if you are at work there is lot's of cursing in this intro... so start at 3.50 and watch the video)
this video get weirder with each passing second. if you've already seen it, you already know. if you haven't... then it's your turn!


AHHHH, they just don't make them like they used to... well they do sometimes.... it's not as weird but it's still brillz. My guy bob showed me this video that ISIS recently did which rocks. it's nothing like the aphex twin video but check it.

My Blood Valentine to play in New York ! ! ! All Tomorrow's Parties

WELCOME BACK




So My Bloody Valentine has been a mystery for god knows how long now, they were set to play Coachella this year but since Coachella sucks (granted they do have Aphex Twin as a last minute add on) I bought tickets to see them in June in London. Now news rolls out (Thanks to Karl Meier) that All Tomorrow's Parties will take place in New York in September with none other than My Bloody Valentine headlining.

There is other awesome stuff so far like Tortoise performing millions now living will never die and Built to Spill playing Perfect From Now On, but what is even cooler is that you have to stay on site for the 3 days.

It's going to be one hell of a party, I think that much can be counted on.
In case you missed the other link... here is the OFFICAL NEW YORK ALL TOMORROW'S PARTY LINK.

Muxtape

my guy karl meier put me up on the new rage: Muxtape

go ahead and make you some mix TAPE? of your own guy

here is my current muxing