Here's video footage from My Morning Jacket's debut of new songs from Evil Urges in Houston on 3/10/08

Here's what I've got for Halloween this year.

Rules:

1. Songs shall be chosen for content, lyrics, or a creepy, halloween-y feel.
2. Only one obligatory song permitted per playlist.
2a. Obligatory Songs: Monster Mash, Thriller, Werewolves of London
3. All songs must be able to fit on standard 70-minute CD-R

The List:
Electric Eel Shock - Scream For Me
Misfits - Astro Zombies
Bo Diddley - Bo Meets the Monster
Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters in the Parasol
The Sonics - The Witch
Eagles of Death Metal - Kiss the Devil
Wolfmother - Witchcraft
The…

I've finally added this pretty long but cool clip of Benevento/Russo Duo covering Radiohead's Paranoid Android from this summer's School of Rock Festival in Asbury Park, NJ. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdr61mDYLmY

It’s typical Ween, meaning it’s awesome. No two songs are in the same style and the production is great. It starts out manic-depressive, goes into the expected schizophrenia of musical styles, and ends up with a lesson in classic rock history from late 60s pop to late 70s prog.

1) Fiesta – Sounds like a vintage game show theme song.
2) Blue Balloon – Has a lounge-y type feel to it, and so far we’re 2 for 2 on songs with trumpets. Sounds like something Flight of the Conchords are trying to do.
3) Friends – Obviously drawn…

May's mix is a smattering of new music with older classics in the same stylings. Songs were selected for flow as much as style. The songs span indie, punk, electronic, and folk and some even combine one or more of the styles. I even get dangerously close to emo on it, but not too close since the most "sensitive" tracks come from Wilco and John Butler instead of Get Up Kids. And of course Black Rebel Motorcylce Club are always dressed in black and have tempers and Dinosaur Jr loves Soap Operas so much that their…

Thu 7 Jun – Dinosaur Jr., Awesome Color

Cousin It and friends really rocked hard, especially for being so old. It was one of the first shows in a long time where I wasn't waiting for it to end because my feet hurt from boredom or that the crowd was so annoying that it ruined the show. There were freaks in the crowd who kept talking to us, mostly aging hipsters who were asking if we liked dinosaur jr, so we ignored them. They played a decent mix of old and new material, kept it fast, kept it loud, and…

April 2007: Politics as Usual
Recently, the amount of political jockeying going on has really gotten to me. From Imus to Gun Control, to even the skyrocketing taxes where I live that are funneled into bottomless pits while I still sit in traffic for more than an hour to travel 10 miles. It's all really getting to me. And so, I present to you my April playlist, full of dissent, anger, and dissatisfaction from the past 40 years:

Comrade - Mini Band
A college favorite of mine, it's just a really good song

Full Disclosure - Fugazi
Arguably the political…

…to catch up with the sun but its sinking: What happens if Sirius and XM Merge?

My predictions on what we could expect if these two combine to form one company. This is assuming that the FCC and Justice department find it OK and justifiable to become such a monopoly.

1. Currently, XM and Sirius aren't individual radio stations, but act as auxiliary bandwidths in addition to AM and FM (presumably why XM chose the name). However, these are sort of tantamount to company towns where they appear to be a freely set-up arrangement of shows who have slots on…

Hold on, just a little bit longer

Why Sirius and XM should not (and cannot) Merge

No one is a bigger cheerleader for Sirius radio than I am, so with that said, yes I do in fact have a bias here. But lets be fair: I have applied to work there numerous times. I must have applied for over 20 positions ranging from general ass-kisser to revolutionary DJ. They probably have 5 different versions of my resumes 20 times over and I can't get so much as a "thank you but we're not interested. I don't care. I can't help…

Few artists get me excited these days. Typically it takes a new release from an established act to really get me going, usually something from My Morning Jacket, Ween, or Wilco. But 2007 held one album I had been more excited for than all the others (Both Ween and Wilco are supposedly in the studio). It's taken me almost a year to get it since I first read about it in Under The Radar last spring, but I've finally got my hands on the 3rd release from one of the best bands I've heard in a long…