Dan Auerbach

The multi-instumentalist best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist for The Black Keys, Auerbach has some solo business cookin'. He released Keep It Hid earlier this year on Nonesuch and I heard he played a great set on Wednesday night here in NYC... thanks Dnugg.

Keeping form with the Keys' drone and drum... here's The Prowl.



Yeah. I'm feeling a little Bob Log III too. And because I recently read a great quote regarding the Log... here's some Boob Scotch.



Tom Waits says:
And then there’s this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He’s this little kid — nobody ever knows how old he is — wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can’t see his face, and plays slide guitar. It’s just the loudest strangest stuff you’ve ever heard. You don’t understand one word he’s saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That’s what I aspire to basically.

Naked lips. Er, lip? Just watch...

The Flaming Lips have a new album - Embryonic.

And their new video is quite a package itself. Find it here on NME.com

As per usual, Wayne Coyne gets all Prisoner ~ more on that below ~ with the bubble, recruits the masses to get naked on bikes and births them from a birthing fur-bubble in the woods of Portland, OR. Obviously.

But what wasn't was the song... I have to say that I like the sound of this Watching The Planets number. I've noticed The Lips from quite a distance since their 2002 Yoshimi smash. It's just that Wayne always has too much noise going on. Not that this track doesn't... Awe, hell. It's probably just the boobies and penises distracting me from noticing. Hooray!

So this is the intro to The Prisoner.


It's an all-time favorite of mine and my lady's. It's a BBC sci-fi thriller TV series from the 60's staring Patrick McGoohan ~ armed with his most distinctly classic speech pattern ~ who's trying to figure out where the hell is is and who the hell's in charge. And he ain't no number.

There is also a six-episode miniseries set to air on AMC this month... starting this Sunday actually. And while my fist is shaking in their direction... Ian McKellen will star as Number 2 and that James Caviezel ~ dude who was Jesus for Mel Gibson ~ will reprise McGoohan's role as number 6.

And Christopher Nolan ~ Momento and a couple of those Batman movies ~ has been rumored for a film adaptation. Don't fuck it up dude.

Brilliant? Or? Wait, wait... Nope. It's not.

Some genius has given the masses mix-infinitum.

twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader

I guess it was bound to happen? But I certainly didn't see this one coming.

Am I to suppose there will be an onslaught of youtube videos of two youtube videos with crossfades from Lady Gaga lip-syncing tweens to kitty-antics and meows and dudes on skateboards? And stuff..?

Jesus.

CMJ'd

You may have noticed a hiatus of updates over the past week. There were some 1400 bands in NYC last week for CMJ and instead of highlighting the what's-what and who's-whatnots while it was going on, I'll use this week to give a rundown of what went down. Yarp.

In the meantime, crunch on these informative PSA's!

Monty Python Week on IFC.

Tune in peoples. Terry Jones' son has produced and filmed a six-part documentary airing along side all of the best-bestest Monty Python skits and full-features on IFC. The cast comprised of these blokes:

Micheal Palin
Graham Chapman
Eric Idle
Terry Gilliam
John Cleese
Terry Jones

And this is my, and will be your, favorite skit by These Flying Circi:



Gilliam is my fav. Take a gander at his stylistic aggressions toward the absurd and brilliance. Top notch.

Throughout the Python cannon, Gilliam's interludes created cohesiveness when there was none to be had. Enter animation and suspension of disbelief. To each and to all's awe.


It's certainly no Judean's Peoples Front contribution... Fuckin' splitters.

It's the People's Front of Judea!!

Since breaking wits with the circi... Gilliam went on to direct quite a few American noticed films ~ oddly enough, as he was the only American of the troupe ~ Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Fisher King(1991) and 1995's 12 Monkeys. His latest flick was released Oct. 16th:

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Yees. Johnny Depp and Heath Ledger.

Monty Python - ministry of silly walks
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You don't have to pay for it.

Last night Port O'Brien played at Mercury Lounge for dollars.

Tomorrow they play at Union Hall for dollars.

No dollars? Well, tonite's your nite!

They play FREE at Sound Fix in BK at 6pm.

Just scroll down if you want to hear their vibe.

Sea Wolf and Port O'Brien

You're a Wolf here spent many many minutes on repeat when it came out on Dangerbird Records in their 2007 album Leaves in the River. From the same album...

Winter Windows shared those many minutes.




Their September 22, 2009 release White Water, White Bloom doesn't have the same airy-awesome drive that was so damn appealing throughout their previous album. I've read, or more likely, heard, somewhere that their intentions were for a more full-band sound and with the help of producer/multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis (Saddle Creek) I suppose that was achieved. And Alex Church's vocals still resonate and crescendo on cue. Which is nice.

Sea Wolf is on tour with Port O'Brien and will be at Mercury Lounge tonight and at Union Hall in Brooklyn on Friday night. Get it.

From the album, Threadbare ~ Port O'Brien's October 6th release ~ here's a cool song:

'My Will Is Good' by Port O'Brien - Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

The Shackeltons

The Shackeltons will be playing at Bruar Falls in Brooklyn on Friday night for only eight dollars. Frontman Mark Redding does his darndest to channel Ian Curtis and a live viewing is highly recommended. Your Movement is from their 2007 self-titled album released on KEXP disc jockey John Richards' label, Loveless Records.

The band is named after Earnest Shackleton, an explorer who most notably attempted to cross Antarctica on foot in the early 1900s. Spoiler alert! He died of a heart attack.



Along a similar faulty vein, The Breaks was directed by Sam Jones ~ who also directed the 2002 Wilco-doc I am Trying to Break Your Heart. A must see.

Tune in Tokyo.

So.

I was a guest host on my buddy's show ~ All Over The Shop ~ on East Village Radio this past Saturday night. Check that archives page to tune in to that episode... OR tune in this Saturday night from 6pm-8pm when I'll be hosting the program all-by- my-damn-self.

There will be upcoming dates in November that I will be covering on the show as well.

Internet Radio!!

Tap that ass, NASA.

The folks at NASA will be blowing chunks out of the moon tomorrow morning.

At 7.30am EST, the LCROSS mission will launch some rockets into the south pole of the moon in attempts to snatch up presumed deposits of frozen water laying below the lunar surface.

I hope Coca-Cola jumps on board and comes out with some awesome lunar-cola by the holidays. I've been hearing about this magical moon now for decades and demand an outer-space additive to my high-fructose corn syrup based consumable beverage. By the holidays.


Update: Here's how it went.

ApSci

ApSci is a now Bronx-based duo comprised of Raphael Lamotta and his Filipinio-Australian wife Dana Diaz-Tutaan. They have been performing together since 1998 and signed to the San Francisco-based underground hip-hop label Quannum Projects in 2004.



A classically-trained singer with theater background, Diaz-Tutaan toured Australia with Blackalicious in 2004 and, in 2006, was asked to play the lead role in Here Lies Love, a musical collaboration with David Byrne & Fat Boy Slim. ApSci's new album ~ Best Crisis Ever ~ is out October 13th, 2009.

ApSci plays MonkeyTown on Friday night. Expect a visual-explosion accompaniment on the BIG screens.

Have a Vampire Weekend?

The oxford-clad quatro have officially announced their upcoming album ~ Contra ~ will be released state-side January 12th, 2010. These guys had the market cornered on all things kitchy-Columbia University-prep. I see they've widened there nets for all-things-nostalgic for the rest of the white people born in the 1980's. Perhaps an homage to all things sitting-in-front-of-a-television is to be expected.


Is there no stopping them? Let's just see if they get their instruments on that Fraggle Rock movie I keep hearing about.


Click for a free download of their new single Horchata.

Ringo mutha-fucka, what's happenin?

Lorne Greene was a Canadian. He was known to fellow Canadians as "The Voice of Doom," an epithet he acquired as the chief radio announcer for CBC radio from 1939 to 1942, the height of Canada's darkest days of WWII. He would later become a Canadian pioneer figure in early Hollywood.

Greene is best known for playing the patriarchal character Ben Cartwright on the long-running western Bonanza (1959-73). Throughout the 70's Greene was also popular as the spokesman for Alpo Beef Chunks dog food commercials. Weeks before this death in 1987, he had signed on for a revival of Bonzana. Bummer... no reprisal.

In 1964, Greene had a #1 single on the charts ~ although which charts is still in question ~ with the western ballad Ringo. Growing up I had this 45 on my jukebox in the basement. I swear I could play the best pool of my life while serenaded by "The Canadian Voice of Doom."

I meant to put this up about a month ago. Well fuck me.

Or dagger me, rather.

Major Lazer "Pon De Floor" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

Click on this ~ link ~ for more videos from this director.



As for daggering, its origins lay in breaking Jamaican dicks. Observe.



Major Lazer is at Terminal 5 on Saturday night. I'll be there.

Woah, Soulsaver has a new album. Epic.

Soulsavers are an English production and remix team comprised of Rich Machin and Ian Glover. They have a downtempo electronica sound with influences of rock, gospel, soul, and country. Giddy. Up.

Although formed in 2000, they just released only their third album, Broken, on August 17th, 2009. Mark Lanegan is featured as the main vocalist with contributions from Mike Patton (of Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk), Jason Pierce ( of Spiritualized and Spaceman 3), and Gibbby Haynes ( of Butthole Surfers).


From the aforementioned Broken... the all instrumental track Wise Blood:


The non-album single Sunrise was written by Lanegan and sung by Will Oldham, aka Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, which preceded the album's release on August 3rd, 2009.



And now for some perdy Will Oldham moving pencil scratches...