While listening to the radio this afternoon I heard three songs in a row of bands that I will classify in, my all time favorite bands list. Being it’s Friday night I thought it would be fun, to come up with a few lists of some of my favorites. It’s much harder then I thought [...]
It’s The Autumn Store Christmas Party #4 and we’re quite excited about this line up… The Give It Ups The Give It Ups are up from London. Their myspace says that they’re “two girls and three boys from South London, who play short, fuzzy pop songs” where as I’d say they play ACE short, fuzzy pop songs. [...]
Self-Titled White Vinyl 12″ This is the debut full length for Ancient Sky who feature current and former members of City Of Caterpillar, Verse En Coma, Ghastly City Sleep, Majority Rule and Darkest Hour. Contrary to what you might expect from their band lineage, Ancient Sky is a completely different beast. “Largly influenced by classic psychedelic [...]
In my continuing scramble to catch up with great albums from this year, I've recently come across The Cave Singers, a band out of Seattle. Apparently one of the Cave Singers is from Pretty Girls Make Graves, which is pretty cool. Anywho, I started spinning their latest album, Welcome Joy, and was struck by how much they do with very little. The opening track, "Summer Windows," is an...
When musician Nate Heagy heard that Google would be collecting Street View imagery in his home town of Saskatoon he decided that this would be the ideal opportunity to promote his band Fear Salesman. In preparation he created a sign of his band's name and placed it in the trunk of his car. The sign stayed in his car for a few months whilst he waited for the Street View cars to arrive....
... want to be murdered, by me?" taunted Mike Krahulik.) A fully loaded Xbox 360 with every Rock Bandsong released so far, plus all of the Rock Band games sold for $1700, and another 360 that includes every Xbox Live Arcade game to date landed $1900. PopCap pack - one of two prizes we won at silent auction! Some lucky winner with a spare $2000 gets to be an honorary member of...
... appears in the Jeff Bridges drama as part of down-on-his-luck country singer Bad Blake's backup band, it's the songs that Bingham co-wrote with "O Brother...
... -- it's a new website called Guvera, which serves as a venue where people can freely download songs, and is backed by advertisers. [It's] a tool that matches advertisers with the consumers most receptive to their messages. When users register, they're asked for the usual personal details (location, age, gender), as well as for insights about their tastes (their favorite music, movies,...
... consists of two night classes per week for an academic year and focuses on everything from the band’s songs to the influence of their fashion on youth culture. Really, the only way to top this degree would be to get a doctorate in Rolling Stones-ology. 2. Thanatology, Hood College At first it may seem a bit odd that a person would want to get a Master of Arts in Thanatology, or the...
Shed Seven are one of those bands the critics will never love. They'll call them Britpop also-rans; safe, mid-table rockers. But not every band can go stratospheric, play stadiums, or change the world. And not every band ought to. Some settle for just keeping going. The fact that Shed Seven keep going and are able to sell out two nights at the Manchester Academy as part...
Beyonce ft. Lady Gaga - Video Phone I probably would have never listened to this if Gaga wasn't on it. As it is, her part is definitely the highlight. Like the worst Beyonce songs, the track's utterly tuneless. Oddly enough, it's growing on me a little. Maybe it's the ridiculous lyrics. C+ Marina & the Diamonds - Mowgli's Road Sort of a feistier Feist, this track has a a distinctly...
... irrelevent for fans specific to one type of music – why wait through a number of dance and boy bandsongs when you can simply create an online radio channel specific to hip-hop? It could also easily be argued that Top 40 music pretty much sucks nowadays, but that argument has been made for years, and the few decent songs that do make it on air will eventually be played on “classic...
A quick hit since its my day/night to relax with an unclear beverage (or eight), sing 80s hair bandsongs, play some low limit donkey MTTs while fighting off the temptation of hitting up the cash games to make the money back. But an important post for all you WPBT go'ers next week. Most of you are hardened veterans of the cowboy-tilting, Geisha Bar clearing, Dick-Bro sighting weekend...