RIght Now of the Day

The Decemberists are playing live on Soundcheck in about twenty minutes. Check it.

The best song of the Day

Husker of the Day

Covered.

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Covered, A Revolution In Sound came out in March, 2009 via Warner Bros. Here's the entire playlist. Weird:

01 Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs - "Borderline" (Madonna)
02 The Black Keys - "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" (Captain Beefheart)
03 Michelle Branch - "A Case of You" (Joni Mitchell)
04 Against Me! - "Here Comes a Regular" (the Replacements)
05 Missy Higgins - "More Than This" (Roxy Music)
06 James Otto - "Into the Mystic (Van Morrison)
07 Adam Sandler - "Like a Hurricane" (Neil Young)
08 Taking Back Sunday - "You Wreck Me" (Tom Petty)
09 Mastodon with Billy Gibbons - "Just Got Paid" (ZZ Top)
10 The Used - "Burning Down The House" (Talking Heads)
11 Disturbed - "Midlife Crisis" (Faith No More)

Galactic of the day

Galactic - "Hustle Up" from Adam Johnson on Vimeo.

Billy stands alone.

I think it's been about twenty years since Billy Corgan has had hair. Actually, it's really hard to picture him with hair. Even in the picture here, I can't see the hair. It just doesn't belong and it's confusing.


This video illustrates it best. It's like a halo, hazing about his person. Making you distrust it's very existence.




Following the Smashing Pumkins demise in 2000, Billy formed the short lived Zwan with original Pumkin's drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. The duo reformed the Pumkins in 2006. However, Chamberlin left the band in March 2009, leaving Corgan the only original member. But I bet the hair has got an eye on him from above.

Iggy Fucking Pop

Iggy just put out a new to you, new to him, new to everyone album. I'm not sure if all that's true, so you take a listen and report back. Hell, he could have been gearing up his whole career to this. Or he's just been hanging out with Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg a whole hell of a lot.


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And yes, I know Serge's been dead for nearly twenty years. But Iggy's pulling from beyond. This song may not best exemplify the Serge, and his solo prowessness, but it's one of my favorites.

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Chameleon of the day

Okaaaay. I just posted a sounds-like on these guys ~ Fanfarlo. If you roll back to the May 15th post they did their darndest Beirut impression. With I'm A Pilot, they pull an O'Canada ~ drawing out the strings and frontman Simon Balthazar's vocals in Arcade Fire flair. Uhm, well done?

I go by Murphy

See Me River ~ ED JACKSON ~ 2009 EP The Great Unwashed on Aviation Records.

Midlake ~ ROSCOE ~ 2006 The Trials of Van Occupanther on Bella Union.

Spinto Band ~ ... MANDY ~ 2005 Nice and Nicely Done on BarNone Records.


CAKE ~ JOLENE ~ 1994 Motorcade of Generocity (Re-issued March, 2009)




XTC ~ ... NIGEL ~ 1979 Drums and Wires on Atlantic Records.

Bill Callahan out from the Smog

Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle is the second solo album by Bill Callahan under his own name, released on April 14, 2009 on Drag City Records. Here's a song from that album performed last month in Columbus, Ohio. What a treat.

Bill Callahan: Rococo Zephyr from Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

Cat Power covered Bathysphere on her 1996 album What Would the Community Think. She would go on to cover another Smog song; Red Apples, on her Covers Record, released in 2000.

Watch this Bill Callahan video from 2007 via Black Cab Sessions driving through the streets of LondonTown. Under the moniker, Smog, that song ~ Rivergaurd ~ was released on Callahan's seventh album Knock Knock in 1999. It's a beaut ~ and was his fourth and final collaboration with Jim O'rouke as producer.

Kuala Lumpur of the day

This is Starry Eyes from the B-Side of All My Friends, released in 2007. It was part of a medley-mash with Freak Out, running something over 12 minutes.

It's not very fair to compare James Murphy to this.

Wussy.

This is Wussy. They're from the 'Nasty... and have their roots firmly planted in some mid-west indie rock. This video isn't the best, but dig around and listen for Muscle Cars...



I'm hearing a Karen-Oesqueness that needs a lozenge with underlying Built to Spill. Fronted by Doug Martsch, original member of Treepeople, from Idaho, 1988:



Again, not the best video out there, what's up with that side angle, dude? ~ maybe just watch the first minute or so to get the connection... And here we have perhaps the foundation for both of the aforementioned: The Flaming Lips, formed in Norman, Oklahoma 1983.

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Yea! Breakfast!

This is more nutritious than anything in your kitchen.

My Shit is Perfect! of the day

Mother-Fucking BobLog III. His shit is perfect. Last night at Union Hall in BK, NY he did this with his guitar ~

And it was fantastic. It may have been one long song broken up over the 75 minute set, but it was one hell of a song. It was a wee difficult to desipher the lyrics through the fighter-pilot-helmet and the telephone-receiver-microphone. I made a few up along the way. And I think he would appreciate that. One song was titled Bah DaDa Da Bah NaDa Nah DaDa BahBah BahDaDaDa DaDa DA BahBah NaDaDaa Da ~ a title he repeated twice, for accuracy points. And he wasn't kidding. The song was about nothing at all ~ which he was very proud of.

Bob Log III also likes to share his knees with the ladies; preferably after dipping some of their tit into some scotch. [see the video section of his website: provided above] But alas, there was no tit-dipping last night. Sorry Bob Log III.

Mixtape of the day

The Tarantino Mixtape from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Inglourious Basterds due out August 21st.