Despite proving utterly incapable of posting here in the last couple of weeks (or doing much of anything else besides working and working through <em>GTA IV</em> – more on that later), I’ve managed to cobble together a few words for the Powerhead Games blog on the Mixed CD Swap I arranged. Sure, the actual swapping [...]
As a general rule, I like it when musicians cover somebody else’s songs. Oh, sure, it’s a bit of a crap shoot – I can think of dozens of mangled, horrible versions of songs, usually performed by somebody with no understanding of what made the original work, and there will always be mediocre, unheard of [...]
One more before bed, I think: the new single from Los Campesinos!: The opening lines alone just kill me. Everything past that is gravy. And every video should have at some point a boy handing a girl a guitar in the snow, because MAN. Slightly drunk. Slightly late. Signing off now, for the betterment of [...]
Just returned from an evening of date night adventures with Girl that featured gin, the Simpsons movie, a bit more gin, dinner at 7A, and then culminated in seeing Los Campesinos! at Mercury Lounge with opener the Dead Trees and a special appearance by Oh Lord, Even More Gin. Because the rock music can only [...]
A day of triumphs, then, as I: i) have at long last gotten around to beating the original Guitar Hero, making Stevie Ray Vaughn my bitch while barely surviving Ozzy. ii) am 2/3′s of the way towards drunk, having declared war on a bottled of wine following… iii) finally, along with the rest of my [...]
This isn’t the something with actual weight mentioned earlier. This is just something. Summer, oh how she is here. Memorial day weekend + girl out of town + work able to carry on with me just checking me email every few hours = three days with nothing to do outside of play video games, catch [...]
The new Battles record is fucking me right up. I’d never heard Battles before a few hours ago, never heard of them before this weekend, but Reed described them as very interesting, very complex, and very cool, and, y’know, that’s the sort of thing you wanna look in to. And here they are, middle of [...]
Today’s post titles comes from the Undertones. We love the Undertones, right? Short and sharp ballistic pop hitting such heady subject matter as candy, girls, and being teenagers in love with candy and girls. A band with no greater rock aspirations than seeing your daughter naked, the Undertones are the ever-so-perfect and ever-so-under used glue [...]