tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78637855691184059742011-09-26T13:03:25.768-04:00Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-73710374320268868582011-01-15T05:37:00.000-05:002011-01-15T05:38:01.658-05:00<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-7371037432026886858?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MulticolorCharizardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13996966924244897698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-66454485929891888972010-09-06T14:15:00.003-04:002010-09-06T14:30:09.153-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3615/3479685097_dae8192236.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3615/3479685097_dae8192236.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Well gee, is this one of those rare <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">occasions</span> where this ska music blog is being infiltrated by -Gasp- SKA MUSIC?!<br /><br />Yes sir it is, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Mouthwash</span> are a ska punk band from West <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Norwood</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">London</span> consisting of some soccer players and some people who really <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">didn't</span> have anything else to do. I saw these guys supporting Streetlight Manifesto at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Islington</span> academy and they were fucking epic, fast, frantic ska punk with Wiley and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Dizzie</span> Rascal esque grime influence and a strong air of London pedigree. I'd recommend this band to anyone really, they seem really hard to dislike to me, ska fans, punk fans, rap fans, metal fans, I think anyone can enjoy this band I really do. Check 'em out.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Mouthwash?ac=mouthwas">Last.fm</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1m2nvm4iiw5">1000 Dreams</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2iyzj5mim22">True Stories</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6645448592989188897?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MulticolorCharizardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13996966924244897698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-71837093772066690032010-08-24T04:59:00.003-04:002010-08-24T10:56:04.695-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/67/l_00476c42ec8e4c8b8b7838cb9f165ea1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 404px; height: 604px;" src="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/67/l_00476c42ec8e4c8b8b7838cb9f165ea1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Ok, so a while back, the foreman of this site, Bugger, posted about a guy called James who went by the name of Crywank. I downloaded his demos for his album "James is Going to Die Soon" and I fucking loved it, this guy is awesome, i'm his top listener on last.fm and honoured to be so.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All that said, the actual album "James is Going to Die Soon" doesn't do it for me as much as the demos did. There are a few changes to the songs themselves that I didn't like too much, particularly on my favourite song by the guy "Zains, Cam4, Wah-Wah and Sirens". The lyrics are slightly different, which is okay, but the thing that I dislike is just that his voice seems to have less depth on the album, it's less emotional, less passionate. When he shouted his lyrics on the demos it came across as shouting because of his emotions his feelings, on the album, it seems like more of a "Okay I'll shout here because there's a shout here", it's a good album, it just doesnt match the passion of the demos. I still enjoy listening to it, and there are some new songs on the album that are pretty cool, but if it comes at the cost of the song Blur, which i fucking love, I'd rather have blur, I also wonder why "Harvey Milk Shit on The Table", wasn't re-recorded like the others. I like it, but id rather have the demos any day. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ioss4t89pkqx13y">The Album</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-7183709377206669003?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MulticolorCharizardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13996966924244897698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-69385947684471733972010-08-13T18:16:00.005-04:002010-08-13T18:27:18.200-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sw14group.com/curtsmith/ps/CS_PS_cover.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 670px; height: 671px;" src="http://www.sw14group.com/curtsmith/ps/CS_PS_cover.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Little late on this one since I haven't been around. Tears for Fears' frontman Curt Smith put out a new single with airy vocal harmonies that remind me of dream pop. Check it out here: </span></span><a href="http://sw14group.com/curtsmith/ps/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://sw14group.com/curtsmith/ps/</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Username: listento</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Password: Perfectly Still</span></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6938594768447173397?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-23726934207929917902010-07-15T15:01:00.003-04:002010-07-15T15:13:15.507-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/134/l_4b3c4a91c6af472b9be34aed546dd1a7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 398px;" src="http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/134/l_4b3c4a91c6af472b9be34aed546dd1a7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mixtapes have this sort of rapid fire indie-pop-punk thing going on with male/female harmonies and it makes me happier than anything to come out this year. Oh, and both of their releases are up for free download on Death to False Hope Records. The Thought About Growing Up EP is only seven minutes long and it's free and it's perfect and you have no reason not to listen to it. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mixtapesohio"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Mixtapes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.deathtofalsehoperecords.com/downloads/dtfh022.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Maps</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.deathtofalsehoperecords.com/downloads/dtfh036.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thought About Growing Up</span></span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2372693420792991790?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-4202372458294408182010-07-12T14:50:00.004-04:002010-07-12T15:10:39.495-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8020/eimg5501cl6.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8020/eimg5501cl6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Two posts in a day! Ska on a ska blog! Return to former glory? Possibly! </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Daly's Gone Wrong are an amalgam of some of the trendy things to do in punk and metalcore these days. They do they pop punk/metalcore verse/chorus switch and they have the humorous bursts of other genres except here they're mostly ska. There's even a straight acoustic love song. It's incredibly catchy through its six songs, with shout-along repetitions and and clean singing/screaming juxtaposition. I think they do it better than anyone else. Recommended if you like The Flaming Tsunamis, A Billion Ernies, or Folly. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dalysgonewrong"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Daly's+Gone+Wrong"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mrnjxjyik2y">Exit Where You Belong</a></span></span></div></div><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aWI5KFQJQRo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aWI5KFQJQRo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-420237245829440818?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-35681266180128771212010-07-12T13:50:00.005-04:002010-07-12T14:09:18.396-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://jasonlipshutz.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/1257448757_sleigh-bells.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 320px;" src="http://jasonlipshutz.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/1257448757_sleigh-bells.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I know I'm super late on the internet hype machine for this one but this album is still awesome to me. Sleigh Bells are the two people to the left, and the dude is from metalcore band Poison the Well. Except it's not metalcore at all. Sleigh Bells play this incredibly loud, noisy version of dance-able electro, with airy female vocals that would sound more at home in a dream pop band. Sort of like how my favorite album from last year, Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors, succeeded because it was a strange blend of such disparate influences into a singular, consistent sound. Download Treats and then begin to dance. It's good for your soul. Recommended if you like Death From Above 1979, M.I.A., or The Go! Team.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/sleighbellsmusic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Sleigh+Bells"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?myyzlgmhhtd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Treats</span></span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j97AtOWdkqg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j97AtOWdkqg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-3568126618012877121?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-62229597455571523822010-07-09T13:33:00.003-04:002010-07-09T13:45:52.326-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/27503665.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 252px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/27503665.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A while ago my in-real-life pal Griffin finally decided to put together an "album" of a bunch of his miscellaneous recordings and uploaded it to Demonoid. Most of it is pretty silly and light-hearted. Sometimes they're acoustic singer-songwriter bits and others are electronic instrumentals and some are just him fucking around. Of course I'm biased because he's my bestest buddy. But yeah it's pretty good for sixteen-year-old-kid-in-his-bedroom-core. That's a thing now.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/abzinq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Abzinq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?nzytvkkq22j"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">George Clooney Takes a Bath</span></span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6222959745557152382?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-27808716272181219312010-06-30T12:57:00.006-04:002010-06-30T18:02:42.856-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ohmpark.com/pics/autil/fest/Picture%2018.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 469px; height: 351px;" src="http://www.ohmpark.com/pics/autil/fest/Picture%2018.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Alright, Pegasuses-XL... These guys... Are... Uh...</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">OK</span>, so this band is</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> INSANELY difficult to describe, they're a super group consisting of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 100; line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mark Dale of Disband, Jeff Tobias of We Vs. The Shark and Dark Meat, Joel <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Hatstat</span> of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Cinemechanica</span>, and Jeff <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Rosenstock</span> of Bomb The Music Industry! But their music is nothing like the music of their members other projects, It's sort of fast paced <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">synth</span>-hardcore</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 100; line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> inspiration taken from riff based 70s rock, Trans Am, and 80s post punk. Each of their <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">EPs</span> is like a journey into your own psyche in a way, because everyone can read something different into their music, I love the band, but i have to be listening to them at the time to describe what the hell it's like, its like an acid trip in a way, but sped up to about 15 minutes per <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">EP</span>, just comes and goes. I definitely recommend these guys if you like hardcore synthesized music or even post punk, even if you <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">don't</span> you might like them, an acquired taste, but if you do get into them, i will vouch that you will love them</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 100; line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 100; line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://quoteunquoterecords.com/qur005.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Midnight Aquarium On </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">QuoteUnQuote</span></span></a></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 100; line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://quoteunquoterecords.com/qur006.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">XL on </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">QuoteUnQuote</span></span></span></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 100; line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://quoteunquoterecords.com/qur011.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Self titled on </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">QuoteUnQuote</span></span></span></a></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2780871627218121931?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MulticolorCharizardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13996966924244897698noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-52317013373724526732010-06-27T16:11:00.005-04:002010-06-27T16:44:16.297-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/67/l_00476c42ec8e4c8b8b7838cb9f165ea1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 404px; height: 604px;" src="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/67/l_00476c42ec8e4c8b8b7838cb9f165ea1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So this guy friended me on last.fm and I listened to his demos. Apparently, he read(s) this blog! It fits in with much of the stuff on this blog. He barely plays guitar and sings about his emotions and cites influences like Andrew Jackson Jihad and Paul Baribeau. I'd recommend it to any fan of heart-on-the-sleeve lyricism. From the Myspace bio:<br /><br />"I say I'm anti-folk inspired by punk and outsider music, if you want though you can just call me out as just some guy who can't play guitar very well. I wrote these songs out of frustration and sadness and they ended up making me feel a lot better, I hope they have a similar effect on you."</span></span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/crywank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Crywank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zymuzth2krt">James Is Going to Die Soon</a></span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5231701337372452673?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-28594450765556586462010-06-26T15:05:00.008-04:002010-06-26T16:57:13.615-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JOR_w_yfLv4/SgNW7e5VslI/AAAAAAAAAHw/Eivcmu__xwk/s400/aesop+rock+monkey.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 365px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JOR_w_yfLv4/SgNW7e5VslI/AAAAAAAAAHw/Eivcmu__xwk/s400/aesop+rock+monkey.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. "Daylight" by Aesop Rock </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXAKOfk7_ho"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Aesop Rock is one of those white rappers that I frequently hear people cite when they say "I don't like rap except for (rapper)." I hear that about Eminem a lot too. Although the only similarity the two they have is their skin color and their occupation. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. "Distorted Prose" by dälek </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXgM9T4mFbQ"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The beat of this song is so noisy and industrial and gives it this really eerie post-apocalyptic feel, which isn't something I often expect from a hip-hop song. But then again, I don't know anything about hip-hop. This is definitely mood music.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. "Magic Number" by De La Soul </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0irL1M15DH8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I love Schoolhouse Rock, and the fact that much of this is lifted from "Three Is a Magic Number" made me ecstatic on the first listen of it. I made sure to play it for everyone who knows Schoolhouse Rock. Oh and De La Soul were this seminal hip-hop group from the late eighties and they're pretty darn influential on the whole darn thing.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/11-greyalbum.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/11-greyalbum.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. "99 Problems" by Danger Mouse </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtfEYuZhDjo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Jay-Z rapping and The Beatles sampled for the beat. I shouldn't have to explain anything about this. "99 Problems" has the catchiest chorus ever and has been embedded in our culture since its release.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. "9 to 5" by Lady Sovereign </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQcG1y6Z3Iw"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If introducing this woman's music to someone I describe her as that "British teenage lesbian. How's that for averting rap stereotypes?" but that really marginalizes how enjoyable this is. It's catchy and she's funny. Kinda upset that she didn't develop at all.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. "E.R." by Dark Time Sunshine </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(feat. Maggie Morrison)</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVm8nE9aG_U"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Vessel is one of my favorite albums so far this year. Just needed a track from it as an example of its excellence.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/741/000095456/del-crop.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 300px;" src="http://www.nndb.com/people/741/000095456/del-crop.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. "Dark Skin Girls" by Del tha Funkee Homosapien </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U93d1LAcApI"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I don't actually agree with the views presented in this song but it has me singing, "Dark skin girls are better than light skin; Light skin girls ain't better than dark skin," all day long when I hear it. Del is impressive in that he can find four minutes of reasons why dark skin girls are better. In rhyme. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8. "Inherited Scars" by Sage Francis </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VL0mB8ILeo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This song is about cutting and came out in 2002 so Francis got labeled as an "emo rapper" for no good reason. I mean the whole mainstream emo trend led to people not realizing that self-harm is kind of a big fucking deal. The song is probably the most personal of everything on this playlist. Everything this guy says just makes me go, "Shit that's tough."</span></span></div><div style="float:right;margin:0 10px 5px 0;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rpaonSDPw7Y&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rpaonSDPw7Y&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9. "Accordion" by Madvillain</span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10. "Bird Flu" by M.I.A </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31VCncSHmw"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I think M.I.A. is at her best when she's doing bizarre incorporations of world music in her raps. The percussion on here is so good. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11. "Purexed" by P.O.S. </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JHbUuWzVNE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">P.O.S. was into hardcore punk before he started rapping and that intensity definitely carries over from his previous musical interests into his hip-hop. This song's message is something to consider too.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ekonica.com/culture/manga-comics/the-spread-of-manga/images/gorillaz.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 396px; height: 303px;" src="http://ekonica.com/culture/manga-comics/the-spread-of-manga/images/gorillaz.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">12. "Plastic" by Prefuse 73 (feat. Diverse) </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXGUWc6vkPk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Glitch and guest rappers. It just sounds too cool to ignore. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">13. "Rhinestone Eyes" by Gorillaz </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZR20t0Uu2M"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Easily my favorite song on Plastic Beach. Hope it's released as a single. Not a rap tune. The vocals are just a little creepy, which is my favorite thing about Damon Albarn in Gorillaz' stuff.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">14. "I Luv U" by Dizzee Rascal (feat. Jeanine Jacques) </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tntRTRkp2GY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dizzee Rascal is just awesome. His British accent allows him to slur just about anything and make it rhyme. There's some pretty original social commentary here. The beat is loud and incessant and I love it.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://prepidemic.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/super-mash-bros1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 252px;" src="http://prepidemic.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/super-mash-bros1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">15. "Future Dads (Platinum Edition)" by Super Mash Bros. </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVmOU_tkEUE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mashups are made to amuse pop music consumers. And it works. These guys get lots of understandable comparisons to Girl Talk: the samples fly by as they try to combine everything with everything. I favor Super Mash Bros. slightly since they're so obviously in it for the novelty of the genre. I laughed out loud on first listen.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">16. "Juicy-r" by wait what </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwsioYOTX74"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G. vs. "VCR" by The XX. I like both of those artists. Make of this what you will.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2EYeesW1YA4/S5EfgEjWlfI/AAAAAAAAAFc/LNV2TEwvD64/s320/danletour.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 298px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2EYeesW1YA4/S5EfgEjWlfI/AAAAAAAAAFc/LNV2TEwvD64/s320/danletour.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">17. "Thou Shalt Always Kill" by Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is a little dated. I don't care; I only recently discovered it. Scroobius Pip is more of a spoken word poet than a rapper, and Dan Le Sac provides glitchy beats for him. Scroobius kinda just throws a bunch of shit at the wall and hopes that some of it has meaning. It amuses me.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">18. "Pursuit of Happiness" by Kid Cudi (feat. MGMT and Ratatat) </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXFeEMf_NQY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Someone put this on a CD they burned for me and I thought, "Wow, this makes a great closing track." The production on Kid Cudi's stuff is more interesting than the lyrics. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>If anyone wants me to upload this playlist, just ask. Too lazy to do it now.</b></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2859445076555658646?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-70906104751735130412010-06-25T23:28:00.000-04:002010-06-25T23:28:20.566-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/118/l_a4b43f3baf7243569cfd61a91ca7e082.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 450px;" src="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/118/l_a4b43f3baf7243569cfd61a91ca7e082.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I befriended James (Color the Lifeline) on an emo forum a few years ago. We never really had similar taste but we discussed music with each other somehow. He's written a few posts for this place too. I haven't actually heard from him in a couple months, and I miss him, so if you're reading this James get the fuck on AIM.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So he kept me up to date on this EP he was writing for months and of course like many indie artists the release kept getting pushed back and back and then finally, one day, my preordered copy of Absinthismic came in the mail. I have no idea what the title means. You'll have to ask him.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">His Myspace page lists his influences, some of which include The Beach Boys, Hellogoodbye, The Academy Is... and Motion City Soundtrack, and he wears all of these on these on his sleeve. The whole album is streaming on last.fm so give it a listen.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/colorthelifeline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Color+the+Lifeline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ColorTheLifeline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Buy This Shit from CD Baby</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sorry to my three followers that I haven't posted any full albums for download recently. I promise the next post I write will have some stuff.</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-7090610475173513041?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-64406488830542308022010-06-19T13:38:00.008-04:002010-06-19T14:09:51.606-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_znJECLHX7eM/TB0AsqzplTI/AAAAAAAAAA0/qjRxG_HhID4/s1600/LoveEndsDisaster!_BandPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_znJECLHX7eM/TB0AsqzplTI/AAAAAAAAAA0/qjRxG_HhID4/s400/LoveEndsDisaster!_BandPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484540688612300082" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If anything, I can commend this band for giving me a hard time to form a consistent opinion on them.</span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When I got first emailed their single I thought it was a good indie rock song, and nothing more. I expected the album to be yet another boring instance of a band whose success will come from comparisons to other band. See: pretty much every indie rock album review that mentions a band's influences (which is damn near all of them). So I wrote a review like that last night. My thesis was Love Ends Disaster! are a talented band that sound like a lot of other talented bands. I still stand by that, but I was more cynical about it in my original draft. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There are a ton of ideas on display here, and too many to list all of them. "Knight Takes Queen" has some electronics, "Pigtails" is a minute-long song more frantic than any Johnny Foreigner track, and closer "Knight Takes Queen" is an obvious take on Beach Boys harmonies and SMiLE-like sound effects. (There are two different tracks titled "Knight Takes Queen.") None of these ideas are new, though. You're sure to find something you'll like on this album. Too bad the rest of it doesn't follow that up. Love Ends Disaster! are the millionth band in an age of Pandora, Last.fm, and other personalized music recommendations hoping to get fans by listeners saying, "Hey, these guys are cool like (band)."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/loveendsdisaster"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Love+Ends+Disaster!">Last.fm</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">City of Glass comes out July 26th.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Going to close on some conversation between me and PirateSquid about this:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family:Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:15] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">so anyway I have mixed feelings about Love Ends Disaster! </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0163B3;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:16] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">Album really picks up in the second half, which totally caught me off guard while I was writing the review</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#D35900;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:17] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">I kinda think my positivity regarding them started when I first heard track nine and went "oh yes glockenspiel!" </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0163B3;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:18] tom:</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;"><a title="http://www.myspace.com/loveendsdisaster" href="http://www.myspace.com/loveendsdisaster" target="_blank" ev_id="635">http://www.myspace.com/loveendsdisaster</a></span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:19] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">all four of these songs on the myspace are better than the first single</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:19] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">especially "Killer Bombs"</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0163B3;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(1, 99, 179); ">[13:23] Gabe Penisington: </span><span style="font-family:Bookman Old Style;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">I can't really make an opinion</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(1, 99, 179); ">[13:23] Gabe Penisington: </span><span style="font-family:Bookman Old Style;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">it's like, at first I was "Eh"</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(1, 99, 179); ">[13:23] Gabe Penisington: </span><span style="font-family:Bookman Old Style;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">then they added a cool part</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:24] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">yeah that's how i felt first time</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(1, 99, 179); ">[13:24] Gabe Penisington: </span><span style="font-family:Bookman Old Style;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">so I'm at a loss of opinion</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#D35900;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(1, 99, 179); ">[13:29] Gabe Penisington: </span><span style="font-family:Bookman Old Style;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">To be honest, this music seems humid</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#D35900;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(1, 99, 179); ">[13:29] Gabe Penisington: </span><span style="font-family:Bookman Old Style;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">I don't know what that means</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(1, 99, 179); ">[13:29] Gabe Penisington: </span><span style="font-family:Bookman Old Style;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">but when I think of this music</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(1, 99, 179); ">[13:29] Gabe Penisington: </span><span style="font-family:Bookman Old Style;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">I think of being sweaty and uncomfortable</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family:Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#D35900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Bookman Old Style';color:#0000FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:29] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">the singer sounds like the guy from the world/inferno friendship society but british</span></span></span><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:30] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">I think how I feel about this band right now is how I felt about Los Campesinos! before I fell in love with them</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:30] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">moments of frantic brilliance and some creativity counterbalanced by meh midtempo sections</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(211, 89, 0); ">[13:31] tom: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=" ;font-size:11px;">but eventually, Hold On Now Youngster became one of my favorite albums so if that's any indication of where this album is going I have to review it positively</span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6440648883054230802?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-16962418245539947982010-06-19T01:44:00.004-04:002010-06-19T01:56:31.088-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bandcamp.com/files/41/64/4164722263-1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 350px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/files/41/64/4164722263-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">From the same dude who sent me Alright the Captain comes The Cast of Cheers. And you should download this and pump it through your speakers and dance right now. It's angular, it's rhythmic, it sounds like Foals. These guys can play their instruments and their three-minute slices of delicious post-punk will make you move. To be honest, I didn't expect this to blow my mind but then the repeated YING-YING-YING-YING of "Goose" just felt sooooo right. I didn't even get upset about the fact that they describe themselves with the ridiculous-sounding (but surprisingly accurate) tag of "robot rock." Their debut album Chariot is available for free download on their bandcamp so you might not even feel guilty about enjoying this without money.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thecastofcheers"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Cast+of+Cheers"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://thecastofcheers.bandcamp.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chariot</span></span></a></div><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ecQklamrFdI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ecQklamrFdI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-1696241824553994798?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-40780076090995602822010-06-16T20:52:00.007-04:002010-06-26T22:44:18.705-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3922639/Failed+Attempts+at+Facial+Hair+n1481400282_30119135_6822.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 453px; height: 604px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3922639/Failed+Attempts+at+Facial+Hair+n1481400282_30119135_6822.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is the project of a hipster with twinkle in his eye, a ukulele in his hands, and a notebook full of name-dropped bands and witty romantic lyrics.<br /><br />The first time I heard this guy, it was with a song entitled, "Grindcore Girl", a story of love, loss, and The Locust. I think I love this guy so much because of his personal and hilariously blunt lyrics, or it could be I feel my heartbeat race when I hear a band that I know mentioned in equally obscure music. But either way, I'd recommend this guy. I've heard of him being described as a hipster Never Shout Never by my friend. Then I told my friend to shut the hell up and to listen to some more Crass.<br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/failedattemptsatfacialhair"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Myspace</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> - You can get the entire album here for 3 bucks. Shipping/Handling included. If you're smart you'd buy this.<br /></span></span><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Failed+Attempts+at+Facial+Hair"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?n2bzw4mdnkt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Girls, Friends, and Girlfriends</span></span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-4078007609099560282?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-52764033791947218672010-06-16T19:51:00.008-04:002010-06-26T22:44:28.945-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/4961590/Paul+Baribeau+15paulbaribeau.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 458px; height: 466px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/4961590/Paul+Baribeau+15paulbaribeau.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the past few weeks this man has become my favorite songwriter. His music is mostly basic: acoustic guitar, untrained voice, blunt lyrics. It's raw and sincere and his stories don't sound fudged to me like I think a lot of lyricists do. That last part is just speculation/ wishful thinking though. Anyway, he's on Plan-It-X Records, and he fits right at home with the likes of Ghost Mice and Kimya Dawson. I ordered Grand Ledge before writing this post. I got Unbearable two weeks ago and have been listening to it almost nonstop. I also can't pick just one song to post in YouTube form, so here are two, and the other stuff I usually post when I write for this blog like I used to do all the time three months ago.</span></span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/paulbaribeau"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Myspace</span></span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Paul+Baribeau"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Last.fm</span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?fyjutyonzzm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Paul Baribeau</span></span></a></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dz3wkjzmkgi"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Split with Ghost Mice</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yzovorm2jzj"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Grand Ledge</span></span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zdmozuczzyd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Unbearable</span></span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.plan-it-x.org/artist/paul-baribeau/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Buy This Shit from Plan-It-X Records</span></span></span></a></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I think this quote from the above link describes it best: "H</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e will destroy you, if you're a human."</span></span></span></div><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ly3ug10ZJLg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ly3ug10ZJLg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kgb05UCrTis&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kgb05UCrTis&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5276403379194721867?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-61782968136216437212010-06-16T18:23:00.004-04:002010-06-16T18:31:54.829-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/100/l_3e59aaa366aa402285b486e2cbf7e1ac.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 688px;" src="http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/100/l_3e59aaa366aa402285b486e2cbf7e1ac.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">These guys are one of the first bands to actually email me. That's why I'm bringing this blog back from the dead; I felt obligated to promote them. Not like that's a bad thing though. They're three instrumentally talented dudes who sent me their EP, which is available for download from their bandcamp page. It's some frantic instrumental stuff. I'd recommend it for fans of Hella, Tera Melos, Adebisi Shank, et cetera.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/alrightthecaptain"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Alright+the+Captain"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://alrightthecaptain.bandcamp.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">123.EP at Bandcamp</span></span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6178296813621643721?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-59698894231952641692010-04-04T20:06:00.005-04:002010-04-07T18:20:35.820-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/125/l_85b02af95041416e8529ea6e973b4d15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 735px;" src="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/125/l_85b02af95041416e8529ea6e973b4d15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br />Rick Johnson is probably best known as the bassist for Michigan ska band Mustard plug, however, I was never really into said band and when my friend told me he had released solo material and recommended I listen to it, I was </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">very</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> sceptical. Despite that I downloaded only album of his I could find, entitled "Six Crappy Months Part One" and loved it. What's interesting about this album is that it's a thirteen track album, and only about 20 minutes long, with eight of the tracks being under two minutes long, each one a catchy fusion of Ska, Punk and Electronic. I would definately recommend the album, I cant really say I recommend him because there are two albums of his i havent heard, but go download the record, you can find it on QuoteUnquoteRecords. It really is awesome.<br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.last.fm/music/Rick+Johnson+Rock+and+Roll+Machine"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/rickjohnsonrockandrollmachine"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Myspace</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur007.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">QuoteUnquoteRecords</span></span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5969889423195264169?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MulticolorCharizardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13996966924244897698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-31525509829354112022010-04-03T14:37:00.007-04:002010-06-26T22:45:43.274-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flowersintime.org/images/blog/Mumford++Sons+12545131.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 499px;" src="http://www.flowersintime.org/images/blog/Mumford++Sons+12545131.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Interesting looking bunch aren't they? Mumford and Sons are a london based indie folk group who are partly responsible for the revival of the folk scene in London and the rest of England. Im not sure how it is across the pond in america, but here in England these guys are getting really popular. Being a londoner myself, one who is interested in the underground music scene. I saw them several times in local underground music venues, and supporting fellow indie folk hipster Laura Marling. So I've been following these guys from the start, and I tell you, from the debut EP, simply entiteld "Mumford and Sons" these guys have been phenomenal, seriously all the energy and commitment that goes into their music is amazing, unfortunately I couldnt find my EPs after moving a few months back so all I have is the album, either way the album "Sigh no More" is awesome, great vocals, great arrangement, really catchy, its awesome. Check them out, im pretty sure they wont dissapoint.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.mumfordandsons.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Official Website</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?o5ya4znzxmx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sigh No More</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-3152550982935411202?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MulticolorCharizardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13996966924244897698noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-60976798430619322822010-04-03T12:59:00.005-04:002010-06-16T19:41:03.025-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.popfrenzy.com.au/img/photos/Her%20Space%20Holiday%20sits.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 335px; height: 500px;" src="http://www.popfrenzy.com.au/img/photos/Her%20Space%20Holiday%20sits.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Apologies for not posting in a month. I've been busy/lazy (whichever is an acceptable excuse).</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So I was browsing through my last.fm recommendations the other night and I was recommended this band Her Space Holiday due to similarities to Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Postal Service, Bright Eyes, Cloud Cult and</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> ¡All-Time Quarterback! So I expected it to be the umpteenth band of that variety that last.fm recommends to me, and I'll like it somewhat but there won't be anything notable about it. Then I read the description.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Her Space Holiday is Marc Bianchi, a musician with roots in the California emo scene. During the early 90’s, he was part of the highly influential emo band Indian Summer."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And my mouth dropped and I rushed to mediafire to download an album. Musically, it's mid-tempo indie rock composed of drum machines, synths, piano, and sampled string orchestras. Lyrically, it's a similarly awkward, personal, emotional story that makes me love things like Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Paul Baribeau. This style always has its uncomfortable cringe-worthy moments: "Meet the Pressure" is Bianchi getting butthurt over bad press. Overall, though, I recommend it to any fans of aforementioned electronic singer-songwriter types or Indian Summer fans, just to see how much Bianchi has changed.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/herspaceholiday"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Myspace</span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.herspaceholiday.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Official</span></a></div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Her+Space+Holiday"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last.fm</span></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zmtwynvwo4y"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Young Machines</span></a><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k4fyk5IThAs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k4fyk5IThAs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6097679843061932282?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-19953619242568103412010-02-27T20:18:00.005-05:002010-06-26T22:46:09.994-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/466678/Those+Poor+Bastards.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 453px; height: 700px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/466678/Those+Poor+Bastards.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br />I know what you're probably thinking. "Oh, Country music? It must suck. I mean, Johnny Cash was alright, but country music is all the same abomination." I thought that way too, then I finally caved in to a friend telling me about Those Poor Bastards, and now I can not be grateful enough for introducing me to one of my favorite bands.<br /><br />These fellows are a Gothic Country duo, and their production value sounds like they recorded it in a 1950's recording studio, though all of their releases are post-2000. They have a somewhat minimalistic approach to musicianship, but their composition and the way they arrange their music is simply so powerful, so heartbreaking, it's hard not to find these people amazing. From their heartbreaking lyrics of loss and destruction from the bands 'characters' of Old West ministers who enjoy the more decadent ways of life and have been trodden and cursed by their 'god', to their crooning and even screams of pure desperation (that's right, they include screams in this country band), I can not recommend these people enough. Though all of their records are amazing, I'd say their weakest is Plagues and the best albums to start with is either Songs of Desperation or Satan is Watching.<br /><br /></span></span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Enjoy wanting to kill yourself, folks.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/thosepoorbastards.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Website</span></span></a></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/myspace.com/thosepoorbastards">Myspace</a></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/myspace.com/thosepoorbastards"></a><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Those+Poor+Bastards">Last.fm</a></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?kzzwyrbmojm">Album: Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks - Sabella (2001)</a></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?k1m3mdznnyi">EP: Those Poor Bastards - Country Bullshit EP (2004)</a></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jxvzgmznoee">Album: Those Poor Bastards - Song of Desperation (2005)</a></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ninmzzjyjdm">Album: Those Poor Bastards - Hellfire Hymns (2007)</a></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?tz4kmomvez1">Album: Those Poor Bastards - Plagues (2008)</a></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yltk4hmzojm">Album: Those Poor Bastards - Satan is Watching (2008)</a></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G3B8NDRU">Album: Those Poor Bastards - Abominations (2009)</a></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G3B8NDRU"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zuwmyyjzhzc"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Album: Lonesome Wyatt and Rachel Brooke - A Bitter Harvest (2009)</span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-1995361924256810341?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-8415081325886914962010-02-18T19:48:00.006-05:002010-02-18T20:20:53.420-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cuervoandrollband.com/site/wp-content/uploads/los-campesinos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 422px;" src="http://www.cuervoandrollband.com/site/wp-content/uploads/los-campesinos.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Los Campesinos! are my favorite indie pop band. They have seven members, playing the standard lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, and drums plus a violin, a keyboard and a motherfucking glockenspiel. Lyrics from frontman Gareth Campesinos! (They've all adopted "Campesinos! as their surname) are dripping with typically hipster way-too-cleverness, and are all shouted by all seven members of the band. You should shout, too. Their first record Hold On Now, Youngster is an energetic frenzy of twee pop and pop punk, and their newest release Romance is Boring brings them into noise-pop territory. It should be mentioned that they put out new material with amazing speed, having released all three of their full lengths in the timespan of two years. Recommended for fans of Johnny Foreigner and Dananananaykroyd.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://loscampesinos.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Official</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/loscampesinos"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Los+Campesinos!"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m2igm03kj5j"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uxutzyzgyn2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hold on Now, Youngster</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ktjumnymimu"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jqjkyyiwa1d"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Romance is Boring</span></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tk0vQhxyR5Y&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tk0vQhxyR5Y&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N6booM03nKI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N6booM03nKI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fun question: Which member of Los Campesinos! would you most like to bang? I'd go for the redhead, Aleks Campesinos!</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-841508132588691496?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-68245100266834396012010-02-17T11:50:00.003-05:002010-02-17T13:18:38.100-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/8476533/Mutiny+on+the+Bounty+promo+pic+08.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 332px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/8476533/Mutiny+on+the+Bounty+promo+pic+08.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> This Luxembourg Quartet is quite the band. They're an extremely fun mixture of Math Rock. Quite reminiscent of The Fall of Troy and </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Blakfish</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">. Their riffs are unpredictable and all over the place, but keep their </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">catchiness</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">, and the yells and vocals are something to sing and/or scream along to. Their time signatures are something I wouldn't recommend even trying to keep up with. I'd recommend this band to anyone who likes fun music with loads of talent involved.<br /></span></span></p><p><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mutinyonthebountytheband"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Myspace</span></span></a></span></p><p><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Mutiny+on+the+Bounty"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Last.</span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">fm</span></span></span></a></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4zxjy5krfey"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Danger Mouth</span></span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6824510026683439601?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-23582519523620998622010-02-17T09:34:00.006-05:002010-06-26T22:45:00.325-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.watkykjy.co.za/uploaded_images/antwoord_CD_Cover-703554.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 474px;" src="http://www.watkykjy.co.za/uploaded_images/antwoord_CD_Cover-703554.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> Die Antwoord are three South African kids rapping about ninjas who aren’t actually South African kids. However, they do rap about ninjas.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> A lot of people are going to use Die Antwoord as a reason to muse on modern pop culture, and how this couldn’t exist any other time than right now. I’m going to do that. Die Antwoord are the latest band to get the internet hype treatment: 1.5 million YouTube views in a week, a full-length Pitchfork article, numerous blog reviews, and some people even caring that Fred Durst tweeted about them. What initially sparked this interest was people watching and asking, “r these guys fo real?” The answer is that they’re about as real as your grasp on the English language. Their popularity continued, because we all love things that admit that they’re fake (because that’s the truest form of honesty), e.g. Lady GaGa and Sacha Baron Cohen movies.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> In the introduction track “Whatever Man,” frontman Ninja announces in his faux-African accent, that he “represents South African culture.” He then lists groups of people (black, white, African, et cetera) and he says, “I’m like all these things – all these things fucked into one person.” Then it becomes outrageous in a way that these words can’t fully translate to you. Female member Yo-Landi Vi$$er’s digitally altered squeaky vocals enter and a simple beat begins “Wat Kyk Jy.” The first understandable word said is “ninja,” and the lyrics remain both obscene and ridiculous from then on. One can only make out some of what is being said, considering all of these funny voices dropping in to contribute only a few lines. There are a lot of “guest rappers” on this album – which isn’t uncommon for rap music at all. The reason I use quotations is because it’s been speculated that all of the guests are just the guy who plays Ninja making other sounds with his face.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> The next track, “Enter the Ninja,” is their most popular YouTube video, probably because it’s one in which the lyrics can be heard completely. After Yo-Landi croons the chorus for the first time, Ninja yells, “Yo I’m a ninja. My life is like a video game.” He elaborates on this premise for the remainder of the song. At one point, he stops rapping to contemplate exactly what is happening around him. “Fuck! This is like, the coolest song I ever heard in my whole life… Look at me now, all up on the interweb! Worldwide! 2009! Futuristic! Enter the Ninja!” </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> The album continues with stomping beats laid down by DJ Hi-Tek, catchy choruses, high-pitched vocals provided by Yo-Landi Vi$$er and obscene lines from Ninja and his multiple personalities. (Personal favorite: “I fit right in! I fit cock in your mother!” from “Wat Pomp.”) It’s not monotonous, though. Die Antwoord don’t exclusively stick to this formula. In “Rich Bitch,” Yo-Landi takes the mic for the entirety of the song and tells us that she is, guess what, a rich bitch. A motherfuckin’ rich bitch, in fact. “I Don’t Need You” is nowhere near as frantic as the tracks that precede it and humorously uses auto-tuned background vocals in the chorus. By the way, auto-tune is acceptable as long as it’s intended to be funny. “Dagga Puff” is the obligatory rap album homage to marijuana. Its beat sounds like it came from a music box in a nursery school, and its chorus goes “Early in the morning smoke a big fat spliff, nothing quite like it, like a spaceman spliff.”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> Towards the end of the record, things begin to fall apart. “Beat Boy” starts like most of the rest of the album. Someone decided to let Ninja take the microphone for eight minutes almost uninterrupted, over the albums least involving beat, which also doesn’t change much. “Doos Dronk” is barely a hip-hop song, but more of a horror film’s interpretation of circus music. It’s the soundtrack to the scene in every kid’s cartoon when the old person is telling the scary story of the family of drunks who caused a major ruckus in the olden days of the town. At one point I think it’s about Ninja beating Yo-Landi, because there’s a slapping sound effect and she screams and the police sirens pass. I can’t make out a single word of the song, which makes it all the more disturbing. While it’s not exactly mixtape fodder, this is an excellent way to end the album, rather than just more of what existed during the rest of it. Oh wait, “$O$,” (that’s the title track) ends the album, and it’s a completely uninteresting four minute instrumental. For the best effect, turn off the album when “Doos Dronk” ends and get into your bed. Stare at your ceiling with eyes wide as plates all night long like in the aforementioned kid’s cartoon.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> Like everything else in our viral video culture, Die Antwoord have a good chance of not lasting for too long. Hopefully, though, their audience will grow even more before they fade away. $O$ (the album, not the song) is a damn good time and, if anything, it gives you and whoever else is listening a chance to yell in poorly-imitated African accents at one another about one another’s mother’s vaginas. That’s a necessary life experience.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Stream: </span></span><a href="http://www.dieantwoord.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.dieantwoord.com/</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> (Hit “Player” at the bottom right hand corner. Site also has the videos mentioned.)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com/2010/02/die-antwoord.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Previous Die Antwoord Post</span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zn1nknzjhvm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Download $O$</span></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2358251952362099862?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-8953069187194883912010-02-15T16:07:00.003-05:002010-02-15T16:22:52.741-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QTs2O5btrds&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QTs2O5btrds&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://72musicians.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">72 Musicians</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> is a documentary about twenty bands in the Kansas City indie scene. Yeah, I had no idea such a thing existed either. On the website for 72 Musicians, they have a free download album of twelve live songs by bands in the documentary (which is also something I highly recommend you download). The band that piqued my interest most was fronted by a guy in a lab coat screaming whilst accompanied by noisy guitar parts and synthesizers(!!). I immediately went and found their full length Catapult Calypso. A bizarre experience highly recommended for fans of The Blood Brothers, Foxy Shazam, Neon Blonde, etc.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://72musicians.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">72 Musicians Official</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/adastraperaspera"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Ad Astra Per Aspera Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ad+Astra+Per+Aspera"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tyfzwiyzk4g">Catapult Calypso</a></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-895306918719488391?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-11700527387312592032010-02-15T01:36:00.004-05:002010-02-15T01:54:16.871-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/372557.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 252px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/372557.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Lyrics from "S.R." by Reel Big Fish:</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i>"Whatever happened to Suburban Rhythm? Why did Ed and Scott quit? Please don't go, Suburban Rhythm. All the other bands are just shit."</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">This is pretty much the only way people discovered the band Suburban Rhythm after they disappeared. Suburban Rhythm was a band that existed in the early nineties, when ska was underground in Southern California but not hitting mainstream yet. These guys played alongside bands like Reel Big Fish, Sublime, and No Doubt when they were all new bands. Constant bickering between the band members led to their early demise. This self-titled compilation album is all of their recorded material, but it's no longer in print. The band is most noteworthy for their genre bending. Besides ska and punk elements, they have funk ("18 Inch Ruler"), reggae ("Incomplete"), bluegrass ("Blue Hawaii"), psychedelia ("99 Degrees"), jazz ("Bright City Lights"), and whatever the fuck "Bixville" is. That's why Reel Big Fish plays "S.R." in so many styles live. (Aaaaah, now it makes sense!)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mrtwydj2tuj"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Suburban Rhythm</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Suburban+Rhythm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Last.fm Page</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I just discovered that they </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS_vZsPSnnU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">recorded a music video</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">. However, I don't deem that song worthy enough of being the one I embed. Note that every comment is related to the Reel Big Fish song.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TAFQhtLr7SY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TAFQhtLr7SY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-1170052738731259203?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-2357643523584097832010-02-14T19:48:00.019-05:002010-06-26T14:55:41.579-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/4253/178627_10_1273082526.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/4253/178627_10_1273082526.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><b><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. "The Golden Age" by Beck </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zAT15vaFk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></span></div></b><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I usually try to start playlists with songs that are the opening track on their respective albums. This is also a good example of Beck's variety to people who mostly think of him (pictured right) as being that guy who can identify a good drum break and has two turntables and a microphone. It's a mood-setter. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. "Take Time" by The Books </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1irbhY_dgY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Books are fucking awesome and they are unlike anything you have ever heard before. If you've heard anything like The Books before, please inform me. I'm waiting. A friend of mine described this track being like "listening to a painting." You guessed it: she's artsy. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thehurstreview.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/andrew-bird-building.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 344px; " src="http://thehurstreview.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/andrew-bird-building.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><b><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. "Sovay" by Andrew Bird </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-R0-b74Uwo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></span></div></b><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I really don't have too much to say about Andrew Bird (pictured left). The guy writes some damn good chamber folk, and he used to be a member of Squirrel Nut Zippers.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. "Katy Song" by Red House Painters </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFQ4nuUuwNo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mark Kozelek is sounds like a really fucking mopey guy from his music. His songs are long, hypnotic spells of depression and self-loathing. Sample lyric: </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Glass on the pavement under my shoe / Without you is all my life amounts to." </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Be sure to invite him to your next party.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.vashtie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/elliott_l.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px; " src="http://www.vashtie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/elliott_l.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><b><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. "Rose Parade" by Elliott Smith </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTUqCN_PIs"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></span></div></b><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If you haven't already heard of Elliott Smith (pictured right), you're missing out considerably and should probably fix this immediately. Elliott Smith is the man who puts all other "indie" lo-fi depressing bedroom-folk artists to shame, with his flawless catalogue that lacks bad songs and his undoubtedly manly method of suicide: it's suspected that he stabbed himself in the chest with a kitchen knife. Repeatedly. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n9/music_tapes/music"><img style="text-align: left;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 600px; " src="http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n9/music_tapes/music" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. "Majesty" by The Music Tapes </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_0wegMc7Q"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The most popular bands in the Elephant 6 collective, such as Neutral Milk Hotel and Of Montreal, don't hold a candle to the weirdness of the lesser known artists on the label. Enter the Music Tapes. Julian Koster (pictured left) is an ex-member of Neutral Milk Hotel and Chocolate USA; he plays banjo and the saw (like the thing magicians use to slice people in half) and records his songs with Great Depression-era equipment.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. "It's a Wonderful Life" by Sparklehorse </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGZsQf6WjHI"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There are some people in your life with whom you constantly trade music back and forth. Then there are some people in your life with whom you only discuss music once; then you make a mental note to never do it again because that person has terrible taste in music. Lastly, there are people with whom you rarely discuss music, but one day they say, "Hey check this out," and you fall in love. Sparklehorse falls in that third category.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DUXEI-JBbJY/Sq75hlFDpFI/AAAAAAAAAC4/Uk1URiWH3mI/s320/belle-and-sebastian-itw.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 310px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DUXEI-JBbJY/Sq75hlFDpFI/AAAAAAAAAC4/Uk1URiWH3mI/s320/belle-and-sebastian-itw.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><b><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8. "If You're Feeling Sinister" by Belle and Sebastian </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obNIqksGYnQ"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></span></div></b><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nothing needs to be said about this band (pictured right).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9. "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssdgFoHLwnk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Justin Vernon was critically acclaimed in 2008 for the album For Emma, Forever Ago. His girlfriend dumped him, so he went to a cabin in the woods and barely plucked his acoustic guitar and multi-tracked his vocals forty thousand times. Or the story goes something like that. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://rymeorreason.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/sufjan_stevens_51.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 377px;" src="http://rymeorreason.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/sufjan_stevens_51.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10. "June on the West Coast" by Bright Eyes </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo2rET72ets"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Conor Oberst: Love him or hate him, you gotta...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I don't know where I was going with that. He was kind of a drunk douchebag when I saw him live.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11. "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EzeW5KoPUI"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This song makes me cry. Well actually, it doesn't make me cry, but if I had a soul I would probably cry while listening to this song. It's on his concept album </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sufjan Stevens Invites You to Come on Feel the Illinoise. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It's the second in his series of trying to write albums about every state (first was Michigan). I forever blame him for making me mispronounce the state of Illinois, because I talk more about this album than I do that state. Sorry, Illinois. Oh and I have yet to point out that Sufjan Stevens is the guy pictured on the left. Except this far in the text he's now pictured above.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/files/2009/12/jeffmangum.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 267px;" src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/files/2009/12/jeffmangum.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">12. "Joe's Waltz" by The Dodos </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3-i8rsAiPI"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Song kicks some major ass for seven and a half minutes.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">13. "Holland, 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhhfJTgHx58"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is probably the loudest song on this not-so-loud playlist. I think it has to do with the Holocaust or something. You can never tell with Jeff Mangum (pictured right).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">14. "My Mom" by Kimya Dawson </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRBI_bK0W0Q"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You already know how I like Kimya Dawson. This is the track that breaks up the sausagefest that is this playlist. (Woohoo!) I also never realized until now that both of the female-sung songs are right next to each other. Whoops.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://earbudz.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/regina_spektor.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 341px;" src="http://earbudz.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/regina_spektor.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">15. "Chemo Limo" by Regina Spektor </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1jvwwmq5ntl"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Download!)</span></span></a></b><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sorry about the lack of YouTube link on this one, folks! I have no idea why this song isn't on there. Oh well! Anyway, this song is heartbreaking and I'd have sex with Regina Spektor (pictured left). My dad had me explain to him that "crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin" was money and not a literally crispy founding father.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/inthemix/9189160-9189164-slarge.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 344px; height: 344px;" src="http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/inthemix/9189160-9189164-slarge.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">16. "A Minor Place" by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHFldNEkwSc"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is the umpteenth moniker of folk artist Will Oldham (pictured right). I think his logic behind his constantly changing name was this: he thought that if there were different people playing music with him then the band should have a different name. Whoa, it makes sense. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">17. "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake </span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sXDIutZEr4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Listen!)</span></span></a></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is the oldest song on this playlist. That's really the only thing that differentiates it from the rest of the disc. There's a piano and a guy who killed himself. Oh and he's heralded as classic and has received numerous accolades. The album of which this is the title track currently holds 23rd place on the all-time list at Rate Your Music.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">18. "Never Get to Know" by Paul Baribeau</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzTlt5tTjPc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzTlt5tTjPc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?noutzwkotma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Download the whole playlist!</span></span></a></span></b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-235764352358409783?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-39233963451607379382010-02-14T15:31:00.005-05:002010-02-14T22:58:04.898-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wTaIOtuD0ZA/RfwNUgev7TI/AAAAAAAAADQ/pxgzBKMBCDI/s400/The+Slackers+-+2006+-+Peculiar.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wTaIOtuD0ZA/RfwNUgev7TI/AAAAAAAAADQ/pxgzBKMBCDI/s400/The+Slackers+-+2006+-+Peculiar.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Holy shit, a ska album on a ska blog?</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So when ska went through its "third wave revival" during the nineties, most bands were doing the "punk with horns" formula popularized by Less Than Jake and the like. As somewhat of a rebellion, there were some bands trying to revive the more traditional sound of ska, such as Hepcat, The Pietasters, and </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Slackers</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. When I was first discovering the third wave of ska, I didn't dig this bands too much, since my idea of ska was the pop punk of Goldfinger. After I stopped being a picky twelve-year-old, however, this album grew on me. Like a tumor. This album has a pretty damn relaxed vibe to it most of the time, even when discussing heated aspects of politics. This is the only album I've listened to in full by this band. I should probably fix that.<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.theslackers.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Official</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/theslackers"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Slackers"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Last.fm</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4j44yjytyz4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Peculiar</span></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q3v7uxqu3mY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q3v7uxqu3mY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-3923396345160737938?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-58218463048984213152010-02-13T14:44:00.004-05:002010-02-17T09:42:20.848-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mahala.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/die-antwoord.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 320px;" src="http://www.mahala.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/die-antwoord.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Die Antwoord might just be a prank by the musical blogosphere to prove that hipsters will listen to absolutely anything that Pitchfork says is new and original. If that hypothesis is correct, I've just been punk'd. Die Antwoord are a bunch of kids claiming to be from Cape Town, South Africa rapping about ninjas in their weird little voices. I'm pretty sure they're a parody of M.I.A. It's all strangely addicting; I've listened to the album four times in a row since I downloaded it. (You should too.) Hopefully these guys will make it past the Youtube hype cycle and their debut $O$ will make some impact this year.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.dieantwoord.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Official</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dieantwoord"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Myspace</span></span></a></div><div><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7766-die-antwoord/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Aforementioned Pitchfork Article</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zn1nknzjhvm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">$O$</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wc3f4xU_FfQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wc3f4xU_FfQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5821846304898421315?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-65481172555631172002010-02-11T15:12:00.006-05:002010-02-11T15:45:33.282-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/38633135.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 187px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/38633135.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">First up is the band </span></span><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bark+Bark+disco"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bark Bark Disco</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. They sent me a friend request on last.fm, and of course I accepted. I always listen to free tunes and accept friend requests. Their debut Your Mum Says Hello! is available for free download on </span></span><a href="http://www.barkbarkdisco.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">their website</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Despite their clearly derivative style and a "genre" they invented for themselves, it's simple and catchy lo-fi indie pop. They bare similarities to The Vaselines, </span></span><a href="http://skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com/2010/01/casiotone-for-painfully-alone.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Casiotone for the Painfully Alone,</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The Moldy Peaches, Beat Happening, et cetera. It's not spectacular and it won't change your life, but if you dig the aforementioned bands and you dislike that three of them broke up and one of them released a crappy album last year, then this will hold you over until another silly lo-fi band comes along. Also, </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti8tk-1AJYo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">their first music video</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is amusing.<br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The second band that contacted me was </span></span><a href="http://www.theurbaneffect.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Urban Effect</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. They followed me on Twitter </span></span><a href="http://twitter.com/skankintodabeat"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(You should do that too.)</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> So I went to their twitter and found a link to their homepage, from which I could download their self-titled debut. Bark Bark Disco is mediocre; I can't deny that. At least they're a fun band, though, creating sing-along tunes about sex and love. Rather than being mediocre and fun, The Urban Effect is just plain mediocre. </span></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/theurbaneffect"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Their Myspace page</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> l</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ists </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">their influence as </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pink Floyd, The Doors, Radiohead, Queen, Elliot Smith, Portishead." I don't think one could pick bands that are more popular than that. This results in an album full of vaguely progressive, melodramatic rock that just sounds like a weak version of dredg. (By the way, I tweeted this band back and told them that dredg is better.) One more humorously pretentious thing from their Myspace:</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"4 Individuals 4 different backgrounds 1 Musical direction. Our passion for eclectic melodic songs have permeated in our rythms, harmonies and souls. Our first Album is a reflection on each of our unique perspectives on life, love, war and most importantly un-deterable melody. It's much more than just the release of our compiled material . It's us hitting the ground running, or falling out of a window."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Why is there some sort of taboo against criticizing obscure bands? I've gotten a little yelled at on last.fm for suggesting that lesser-known bands are weak sometimes. Every demo on </span><a href="http://lyricswillnotreachtheaudience.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lyrics Will Not Reach the Audience</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> gets a review of "They're pretty good. Check them out if you like (x band)," regardless of the band's actual quality.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span>So this is a message to any musicians who read my blog: Send me your music. I won't bullshit you and tell you that it's good if it isn't.</b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6548117255563117200?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-26799718483487890152010-02-10T16:51:00.005-05:002010-02-14T22:59:13.371-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/104e82a7e1a489860bb156611cdb62c04g.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 386px; height: 386px;" src="http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/104e82a7e1a489860bb156611cdb62c04g.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a href="http://norwegianrecycling.multiply.com/music/item/63/Donkey_Kong_Country_Mashup_Album_Donkey_Business"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Donkey Business by Norwegian Recycling.</span></span></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Peter Bull, better known by his stage name Norwegian Recycling, wanted to make a tribute to David Wise. David Wise is a British guy who composed the soundtracks to numerous video games, most notably Battletoads and the Donkey Kong Country series. On Donkey Business, the beats Peter Bull samples are all taken from Donkey Kong Country and set to hip-hop songs. It sounds like it's only a novelty, but it works on the strength of the vocals sampled from many places and the fact that Donkey Kong Country does have a pretty bad ass soundtrack - something I had never thought of before listening to Donkey Business. I'll never listen to Eminem the same way again. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Bonus Norwegian Recycling track: "Acoustic Alchemy" is a pretty damn cool mix of his, too.</span></span></div><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/66QJH7kxh_Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/66QJH7kxh_Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2679971848348789015?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-68859026331360310612010-01-30T16:43:00.007-05:002010-02-15T01:31:06.452-05:00<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/194431/Black+Eyes.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 154px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/194431/Black+Eyes.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">These dudes are an experimental Post-Punk band that pulls their inspiration from all over the music spectrum. From Post-Hardcore, to Jazz, to even Noise Rock, this DC quintet is actually simply incredible. They're also known for their dual vocal system, not unlike the Blood Brothers. With one vocalist who has a high, screechy voice, and the other having a more yelly, masculine voice, and they pull it off amazingly. They have two full length albums. The first being their self-titled albums, which is amazingly good, with incredibly catchy songs like 'Deformative' and 'King's Dominion'; but then they found perfection when they released their second album, Cough, two months after their disbanding. It's a difficult listen at first, but when you ease into it, you see how incredible it is.</span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Eyes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Last.fm</span></span></a></p><p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/blackeyescoughcough"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Myspace</span></span></a></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mwlzlmyymye"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Self-Titled</span></span></a></p><p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zclmwyanqgz"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Cough</span></span></a></p><p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qn-ME7ajsrc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qn-ME7ajsrc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6885902633136031061?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-2617434438694499322010-01-20T19:56:00.008-05:002010-01-21T00:28:21.200-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/Turtleman387/talktothewalls.jpg"><br /><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 252px; " src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/Turtleman387/talktothewalls.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Ko Xinyi, a one-girl-band from Singapore, has an alter ego: talktothewalls</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">And boy is her smile infectious!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gTMIj0ItNDI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gTMIj0ItNDI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">Her music is ideal for fans of NeverShoutNever!, Terra Naomi, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">and other similar singer-songwriter types.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">The lyrics are light, and don't force too much thought, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">but at the same time they create a certain, relatable bond with the listener.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">Ko's voice is what I enjoy most, in her songs.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">It's reminiscent of a young Hayley Williams (It never belts out at you, though).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">It does, however, keep a constant, and sweet solidity to it.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">She draws most of her attention from YouTube, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">where she's been recording covers of artists including;</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">- The Knife</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">- Surfjan Stevens </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">- The Decemberists</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">- Death Cab For Cutie</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">- Hellogoodbye</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">and others...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">There are also originals, including this one.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V_D4cP6ENAY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V_D4cP6ENAY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">which also happens to be my favorite, so far...</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">You can also check her out on MySpace, and Last.fm!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/talktothewalls">MySpace</a></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/talktothewalls">Last.fm</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:medium;">Note: The Last.fm account currently has no playable songs, but hopefully that will change soon!</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-261743443869449932?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ColorTheLifelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513262696688820363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-90165605055477136092010-01-20T17:54:00.004-05:002010-01-21T00:29:09.530-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://themusicslut.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/rev-kimya_dawson.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 338px; height: 360px;" src="http://themusicslut.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/rev-kimya_dawson.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Look at that hair!<div><br /></div><div>Sorry I'm not one of those special people who knew Kimya Dawson and the Moldy Peaches before Juno. I wasn't old enough to be that cool in 2007.</div><div><br /></div><div>So Kimya Dawson used to play and write and sing in silly lo-fi band the Moldy Peaches. Then the Moldy Peaches broke up and that other guy Adam Green started writing chamber pop with the same silly vulgar lyricism. Kimya Dawson kept similarly simplistic instrumentation but with newfound stream-of-consciousness heart-on-sleeve lyricism. I generally regard Remember That I Love You as my absolute favorite album because it lyrically outshines the rest of my collection. Her most recent release is a children's album called Alphabutt. I will make my baby brother listen to it in the near future.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.kimyadawson.com/">Official Site</a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/kimyadawson">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Kimya+Dawson">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I'd definitely recommend her most recent standard studio albums (Hidden Vagenda and Remember That I Love You) over her older stuff. It took her a while to grow out of the Moldy Peaches.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?35ym1zonjxb">I'm Sorry That Sometimes I'm Mean</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tmfk20nrytm">Knock Knock Who?</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gknik2jmjim">My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rg1zln15lyx">Hidden Vagenda</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?oavjnyitq2w">Remember That I Love You</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uwzedxytmfm">Alphabutt</a></div><div><br /></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gl-YrFucQjs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gl-YrFucQjs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-9016560505547713609?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-76237088514606295032010-01-13T17:01:00.003-05:002010-01-13T17:14:28.989-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://westofwabansia.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/jayreatard.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 500px;" src="http://westofwabansia.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/jayreatard.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>I discovered this man's music early in my musical taste development. This was back when I still used <a href="http://www.pandora.com/">Pandora radio</a>. I think it came up on my station for the Hives. Oh, I loved twelve-year-old me's music taste.<div><br /></div><div>So Jay Reatard's 2006 album Blood Visions is a fantastic piece of garage punk - lo-fi, energetic, catchy, and reminiscent of the Ramones - as the best punk rock should be. I highly recommend it to all fans of the genre. He released his sophomore record, Watch Me Fall, last year. I haven't checked out it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then he died last night, in his sleep, at age 29. The cause is currently unknown. Rest in Peace; you will become the punk rock legend that you deserve to be.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/jayreatard">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jay+Reatard">Last.fm</a></div><div><a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/37575-rip-jay-reatard/">Pitchfork article on his death</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?w4wfqmokgqd">Blood Visions</a></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/h02r8IiXdkI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/h02r8IiXdkI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-7623708851460629503?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-6367093926865495332010-01-10T21:23:00.006-05:002010-01-13T17:00:54.449-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://theblogthatmademilwaukeefamous.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/metric.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://theblogthatmademilwaukeefamous.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/metric.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div>Hi, this is my first post, so I'll try to keep this solid cycle of previous posts going strong.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'd like to introduce Metric, for those who aren't already familiar.</div><div>Their music is a little difficult for me to pin down to one certain genre, but in my opinion, they use elements of New Wave, and slightly synth-y styles, along with (vain I be by saying this) "Indie" Rock.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hailing from Canada, they have been quite effective in making a noticeable footprint on American soil in the recent year (and a well deserved footprint, might I add). Having been a band since 1998, they continue to remain strong. They've released 4 EPs, and 4 full length albums over the course of their career.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/metric">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Metric">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I've posted some of my favorite tracks below:</div><div><br /></div><div>Gimme Sympathy</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:10px;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LqldwoDXHKg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LqldwoDXHKg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div><div>Sick Muse</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:10px;"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BEz8N8AT-yo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BEz8N8AT-yo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">Combat Baby</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:10px;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6rMfPvv3BMs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6rMfPvv3BMs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-636709392686549533?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ColorTheLifelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513262696688820363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-2384864165778391962010-01-06T13:19:00.006-05:002010-01-14T00:03:43.097-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/25463229/Native+ap_promo.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/25463229/Native+ap_promo.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>This is Native, a badass Math Rock/Post-Rock/Experimental Post-Hardcore band from Indiana that's gotten some real rep in the underground hardcore world for their new album 'Wrestling Moves'. They're bestest musical buddies with other great Experimental Post-Hardcore band La Dispute, and I saw them both play live together. They sound even more incredible live than they do on this jawdropping album. I'd definitely suggest checking them out and supporting them. I knew I had to when I listened to them, which is why I paid to see them and bought their merch.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://native.bandcamp.com/">Native Bandcamp</a></div><div><a href="http://nativetimes.tumblr.com/">Native's Tumblr</a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/nativein">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Native">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?w5k2gmmm1ne">We Delete; Erase EP</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mzvqmitgm2m">Wrestling Moves</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:13px;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="100"><param name="movie" value="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer.swf/album=2636214761/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="allowNetworking" value="always"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><embed src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer.swf/album=2636214761/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" width="400" height="100" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></embed><noembed></noembed></object> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-238486416577839196?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-5322737201476437792010-01-05T22:49:00.004-05:002010-01-05T23:03:43.695-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/18805/Chotto+Ghetto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 341px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/18805/Chotto+Ghetto.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I found these guys out while looking at QuoteUnquoteRecords.com, the Label that the dude from Bomb the Music Industry! owns. I expected these guys to be little cutesy ska-punk or folk punk, but I was extremely surprised when I downloaded 'Walk is Godlike' off of their website and found a Progressive Hardcore album that blew my mind, with talent and composition all over the map, I'd definitely suggest this to anyone.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://quoteunquoterecords.com/qur026.htm">QuoteUnquoteRecords Page</a> - You can download it for free, here. Please do. It's a lot easier, faster, still free, and shows the artist that you care.</div><div><a href="http://chottoghetto.com/">Chotto Ghetto Website</a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/chottoghetto">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Chotto+Ghetto">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?myyr3mt2lze">Walk is Godlike</a> - Here's the link to Pirate them on Mediafire, but you might as well download off of their page on QuoteUnquoteRecords. It's still free, it's faster, AND the band can see that you care and are interested in their work.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j_0jMH0FMbo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j_0jMH0FMbo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-532273720147643779?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-139750757571437352010-01-05T22:34:00.003-05:002010-01-05T23:01:38.193-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/33997653/BrotherGhost+5810_807648543915_23405826_481.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 453px; height: 604px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/33997653/BrotherGhost+5810_807648543915_23405826_481.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>I saw these guys in Austin, opening for Native and La Dispute. And I must say that these guys are my favorite Post-Rock group that I've heard ever. I just wish I could've known about this album earlier, so I could fall in love with it sooner and put it in my top of 2009 list while it was still 2009. These experimental post-rockers/shoegazers are incredible, and succeed at putting as much emotion as they can in every single note they play, keeping it all genius at the same time. Simply incredible. A definite must-listen, then please please please buy from these guys!<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://brotherghostband.bandcamp.com/album/black-ice">Bandcamp</a> - You can stream/download for free/buy the album and/or tracks here.</div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/brotherghostband">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Brother%252FGhost">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?qqeytmkgtzw">Black Ice</a> - Here's the album on Mediafire, though I REALLY suggest you at least download it at Bandcamp for free if you want to pirate it. At least that way the band knows people are interested. (Just enter 0 in the price after clicking 'Download')</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="100"><param name="movie" value="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer.swf/album=2889381410/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="allowNetworking" value="always"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><embed src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer.swf/album=2889381410/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" width="400" height="100" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></embed><noembed></noembed></object> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-13975075757143735?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-44007054970184209822010-01-04T02:50:00.005-05:002010-01-10T02:20:27.408-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5044456/Casiotone+for+the+Painfully+Alone+n517578352_417187_6671.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 453px; height: 604px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5044456/Casiotone+for+the+Painfully+Alone+n517578352_417187_6671.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>There are a lot of lo-fi indie mopey bedroom folk singer-songwriters. They sing awkwardly personal lyrics and the tape fuzz is a more prominent instrument than the acoustic guitar. (Old stuff by the Mountain Goats is the best example of what I'm talking about.) Yeah, Owen Ashworth (a.k.a. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) basically does that except with synthesizers and drum machines instead of acoustic guitars. These are his three most recent studio albums. My favorite is Etiquette, even though its variety of guest singers destroy the flow, I like all of the songs individually. The Ashworth-sung tracks on that album make an excellent EP-like playlist. The other two albums are sung entirely by Ashworth.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?3j5t1ooahzk">Twinkle Echo</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?nymlz4zim0z">Etiquette</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?m2nddzmyjmy">Vs. Children</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cftpa">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.cftpa.org/home.htm">Official Site</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Casiotone+for+the+Painfully+Alone">Last.fm</a></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SSYsqvvw8as&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SSYsqvvw8as&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />I would normally try to not post fan videos but cftpa suck live.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-4400705497018420982?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-18317089163048766532010-01-03T15:16:00.006-05:002010-01-10T02:23:07.119-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/16813361/Frankmusik++2009.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 749px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/16813361/Frankmusik++2009.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />This guy, Vincent Frank. One day he decided to put together a bunch of random synthpop samples and make awesome music. This dude has to make the best synthpop / electronica I've ever heard, and to be honest, he's not too bad of a looker, either. In my opinion, this guy seems to be a genius. One of my favorite British artists, and definitely made my favorite synthpop overall. He recently released his debut full length album, Complete Me. Apparently he's releasing an acoustic album called 'Completely Me', gonna try and look for that. Check this out, dogs.<div><br /></div><div>EDIT: Found the Acoustic album, and it's pretty good. The dude can sing, without a doubt. </div><div><br /><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/frankmusik">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Frankmusik">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zjojdjzdmry">Complete Me</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?lzyzii00wey">Completely Me (Acoustic Album)</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(100, 95, 94); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7588430&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7588430&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/7588430">Frankmusik 3LittleWords</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2616174">Jillian Ong</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AaIMT5OukTY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AaIMT5OukTY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> </span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-1831708916304876653?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-21094278266744362402010-01-03T15:04:00.007-05:002010-01-13T16:53:11.443-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thesecrethistory.org/images/d/d2/HUGS.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 389px; height: 287px;" src="http://www.thesecrethistory.org/images/d/d2/HUGS.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">These guys are kind of a mystery. No Myspace page, no known pictures, hardly any recognition whatsoever, even in the underground screamo world. But I was able to find this wiki page on them on this underground music wiki page. They used to be a part of the Post-Punk band Sender/Receiver, then released an alright ST and their incredible full length, and 3/4ths of the band went on to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Racc-oo-oon.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> These Chaotic screamo dudes only released one full album in 2004, which is The Tarpit, produced by Waking Records company. But this one album, in my opinion, is better than the big screamo giants like Hot Cross and Saetia combined. This quartet has an amazing dual vocal system, and their instrument technical proficiency is beyond amazing. Definitely one of my top albums ever. It makes me glad that we're now the only blog that I know of to share these fellows, and I hope more follow suit.</span></span></span></span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.thesecrethistory.org/index.php/Hugs">Seeeeeeecret Wiki</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hugs">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dxmzgmnedeh">Hugs ST</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?nzjt4znmqzz">The Tarpit</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2109427826674436240?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-63472151924279927082010-01-02T18:15:00.014-05:002010-01-10T02:26:16.825-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/26385039/Matty+Pop+Chart+IMG_3583c.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 750px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/26385039/Matty+Pop+Chart+IMG_3583c.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />This guy's name is Matt Tobey, he was in bands like Abe Froman, Canine Sugar, and Good Luck. This is his solo project which basically involves him playing either guitar, piano, basic drum, or some sort of bell. This has to be the single most adorable music project I've ever heard. It gives me the warm fuzzies all over, and I would suggest it to anyone who likes being happy. I definitely think everyone should listen to this. He also did a Split with Kimya Dawson, but the songs are just on later albums. But if you're somebody who really likes to hear Demos, I'll upload it later.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Matty+Pop+Chart">Last.fm</a></div><div><a href="http://www.plan-it-x.org/artist/matty-pop-chart/">Label Page</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jydtdtdymyq">Self Titled</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/mediafire.com/?cmycwjemkj2">Everyone Does Everything</a></div><div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/mediafire.com/?mgjtkajyghn">Good Ole Water</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6SSlvcpjM44&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6SSlvcpjM44&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Edit by Bugger: I put the second video here because I feel like it's an excellent representation of the "atmosphere" his music creates.</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6347215192427992708?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-60107889345620631982010-01-02T17:28:00.004-05:002010-01-02T17:37:20.661-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28189027/Chalk+Talk+l_94beed3682b74afea4391c8e878c.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 453px; height: 604px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28189027/Chalk+Talk+l_94beed3682b74afea4391c8e878c.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Chalk Talk are a pair of guys (one from Connecticut, one from Massachusetts) who sing ridiculous lyrics over loud Kinsella-influenced punk rock. I'm probably the only person on the internet making this comparison but they bare some similarities to a band I previously posted: Japandroids. Their debut release Killing Spree came out last year and it puts smiles on the faces of teenage boys. <div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?3jzoxlnknxq">Killing Spree</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/chalktalk69">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Chalk+Talk">Last.fm</a></div><object width="420" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Gs-5kaKPvk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Gs-5kaKPvk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="340"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6010788934562063198?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-11238006516075758592010-01-02T17:17:00.006-05:002010-01-14T00:03:54.799-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/26359461/1994+94.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 334px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/26359461/1994+94.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Yeah, this is a Math Rock/Emotional Hardcore band from Pennsylvania. These guys are really good, and really fast paced. But at the same time, it's kind of chill. This is something that would be great to listen to when just relaxing. If there was such a thing as stoner-screamo, this would fit that description. They did an LP called Thank You Arms and Fingers and just recently released a split with Spires.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/1994theband">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/1994!">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?m4tnhn1i1bg">Thank You Arms and Fingers</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zo0zygykwym">1994!/Spires Split</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gOxB1JkEWn0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gOxB1JkEWn0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></div><div>EDIT: Just found out they're making a documentary of this band, even though little people actually know them. This is awesome. Here's the preview.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o0ESqb_MsMA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o0ESqb_MsMA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-1123800651607575859?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-28732344662587563252010-01-02T16:49:00.007-05:002010-01-04T23:42:26.623-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Blues-Clues-tv-01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 445px; height: 291px;" src="http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Blues-Clues-tv-01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>This guy plays psychedelic indie pop now. Yes, I'm serious. He quit Blue's Clues because he heard The Flaming Lips' album The Soft Bulletin at a party and was immediately inspired to become a musician. Then he got help from Flaming Lips members to put together his debut album Songs for Dust Mites. Steve Drozd (drummer) assisted with arranging, Michael Ivins (bassist) engineered it, and David Friddman (usual Lips' producer) produced it. It's the most inspiring story I've ever heard. He has a new EP coming out soon called Deep Sea Recovery Efforts, which I hope to purchase.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dn012koy2z2">Songs for Dust Mites</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Edit by Bugger: Just got <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mgggcntilay">Deep Sea Recovery Efforts</a> and it's awesome.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/steveburnsofficialmyspace">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Steve+Burns">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FUexmqhUhqI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FUexmqhUhqI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2873234466258756325?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-24654320781833836952010-01-02T16:38:00.004-05:002010-01-02T17:18:06.560-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/77/l_292d11af782041a798a539627e1a558a.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 334px;" src="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/77/l_292d11af782041a798a539627e1a558a.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>These guys kinda recently broke out into the screamo world straight from Oakland. Though they're getting a lot of fame and making splits with awesome other screamo bands like Mesa Verde and 1994! They released an epic LP called Flowers and Fireworks. Really good chaotic stuff with some post-rock influence definitely seen. Check 'em out.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/spiresatwar">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Spires">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?z5izmqdzmjw">Flowers and Fireworks</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zo0zygykwym">Spires/1994! Split</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2465432078183383695?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-80224614121149699292010-01-02T16:19:00.008-05:002010-01-14T00:04:13.499-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/15117683/La+Dispute+IMG_7692croppedsmall.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 334px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/15117683/La+Dispute+IMG_7692croppedsmall.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>I thought I'd kick off the New Year with La Dispute. These guys are an awesome Michigan-Based Post-Hardcore band with influences from all over the map. From neat art rock, to classic Post-Hardcore, to even emotional hardcore and screamo. They've released a bunch of EP's, and currently only one Full Length, which is Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair.<div><br /></div><div>They've recently released an EP to their Hear, Here series, which is more Spoken Word and minimalism that shows off their lyrical beauty and poetic side of the band. I also wanted to post this since I'm seeing them tomorrow live in Austin with Native. Whoo!</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, and if you want, they give all their albums for free on their Bandcamp site.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://ladispute.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> - Here you can buy/download for free/stream to their entire discography</div><div><a href="http://andtothegloriouspast.wordpress.com/">Wordpress</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/La+Dispute">Last.fm</a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/ladispute">Myspace</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?t2jujvmkmdh">Vancouver EP</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zyktjziatj5">Untitled 7"</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mynyq0gulyg">Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4emfzmdmmm2">Hear, Here III EP</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I didn't post a couple of Demos and the other two Hear, Here EP's, but you can go to their Bandcamp site or demand them if you really do want to download them.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="100"><param name="movie" value="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer.swf/album=1269113033/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="allowNetworking" value="always"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><embed src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer.swf/album=1269113033/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" width="400" height="100" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></embed><noembed></noembed></object> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-8022461412114969929?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-64654182013753296262009-12-30T13:56:00.003-05:002009-12-30T14:03:13.487-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.punk4dummies.com/img/groupes/102.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://www.punk4dummies.com/img/groupes/102.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>A Wilhelm Scream are probably the best remaining SoCal punk band. Technically proficient and frantic as hell, there's no lack of energy in their short bursts of melodious hardcore punk. The self-titled EP they released this year exemplifies these traits to the greatest extent of any of their recordings thus far.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?gmzeiqjnggy">Ruiner</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zyjzimtvnxg">Career Suicide</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?3leyujabrij">A Wilhelm Scream</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/awilhelmscream">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.awilhelmscream.com/">Official Site</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/A+Wilhelm+Scream">Last.fm</a></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cYmMQuwv4ms&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cYmMQuwv4ms&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6465418201375329626?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-7049228023444005692009-12-28T17:41:00.006-05:002010-01-02T18:12:24.832-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/8016825/Andrew+Jackson+Jihad+jihad.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/8016825/Andrew+Jackson+Jihad+jihad.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />These guys are so cool, not gonna lie. Andrew Jackson Jihad is this Folk-Punk group from Pheonix, Arizona. They recently released an album earlier this year, 'Can't Maintain', where they experiment with more electric guitar, and it definitely works well. They constantly are switching members except for these two shown in the picture. Their most well known album so far is 'People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People in the World'.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://andrewjacksonjihad.com/">Website</a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/andrewjacksonjihad">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Andrew+Jackson+Jihad">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?daz1eqfmw0o">Can't Maintain</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zmxmlymznlm">Only God Can Judge Me</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zlhrlx0ydmf">People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People in the World</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ft3qnmt4ljd">Split with Ghost Mice</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c0cxrA3dTv4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c0cxrA3dTv4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-704922802344400569?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-56313143248447291462009-12-28T12:54:00.005-05:002010-06-26T22:47:17.982-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tribulationstrials.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dirty_projectors_2008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 505px;" src="http://tribulationstrials.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dirty_projectors_2008.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>So these people are the Dirty Projectors. I initially discovered them through their 2007 album Rise Above, a cover album of Black Flag's Damaged. Then their album Bitte Orca was incredibly acclaimed this year, for good reason. It's a pretty awesome album. Not entirely sure how I would describe their sound to someone, though.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?iz3mzkkzmtz">The Getty Address</a><br /><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?y1cembmmnyz">Rise Above</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?nuozzyxewum">Bitte Orca</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dirty+Projectors">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><br /><object width="425" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YMPF6lpM0XM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YMPF6lpM0XM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="340"></embed></object><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qtXtgHGrL9E&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qtXtgHGrL9E&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5631314324844729146?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-81573962811392008622009-12-28T00:58:00.003-05:002009-12-28T01:01:08.646-05:00<a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/"><img alt="toothpastefordinner.com" src="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/111205/hipster-trap.gif" width="450" height="362" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/">toothpastefordinner.com</a><div><br /></div><div>My new favorite webcomic is this.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-8157396281139200862?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-9933680550176403482009-12-24T01:19:00.007-05:002010-01-02T17:11:23.868-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://popmusicology.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/japandroids.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://popmusicology.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/japandroids.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>I figured I should post my album of the year. This is two Canadian twenty-somethings yelling about girls for eight loud, lo-fi tracks. It's pretty bad ass. "Young Hearts Spark Fire" is better than any other song to come out this year. Oh, and since they are a hipster band, they're likely to get pulled off this blog. (Basically get it while you can.)<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dymmdin4nqt">Post-Nothing</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ndyltzyzumz">All Lies EP &amp; Lullaby Death Jams EP</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/japandroids">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/store/index.php?id=894">Buy This Assholes</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Japandroids">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jOoHAbnhxNI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jOoHAbnhxNI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />IDONTWANNAWORRYABOUTDYINIJUSTWANNAWORRYBOUTTHEMSUNSHINEGIIIIIIIIRLS<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-993368055017640348?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-23357179130839279222009-12-24T01:02:00.004-05:002009-12-24T01:18:00.837-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/347398/Choking+Victim.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 420px; height: 278px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/347398/Choking+Victim.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Choking Victim were one of the more popular bands of the Crack Rock Steady scene. They're obviously pretty rebellious because they sing about smoking crack and Satan and stuff. Their bassist kicks ass, too. Here's what I have by them:<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?moydbx2nygz">Crack Rock Steady &amp; Squatta's Paradise</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?i5y3lzmdg3y">No Gods, No Managers</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/chokingvictimofficial">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Choking+Victim">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Nk_b0VYbic&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Nk_b0VYbic&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2335717913083927922?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-51540856450142337172009-12-22T17:05:00.004-05:002009-12-22T17:25:30.474-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_znJECLHX7eM/SzFDqVfo6II/AAAAAAAAAAc/1S3yJKxSzd0/s1600-h/Buck-O-Nine.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_znJECLHX7eM/SzFDqVfo6II/AAAAAAAAAAc/1S3yJKxSzd0/s320/Buck-O-Nine.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418186221306833026" /></a>There's not too much to know about this band. Buck-O-Nine is a southern-Californian ska punk band (surprising to see them here, right?) from San Diego. They were one of the first bands I liked when I first started listening to ska punk on Pandora radio two (or three I lost track) years ago. There's some obvious Joe Jackson influence, which I love. This is the only album I currently own by them, but I'll find more if anyone wants more.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ln2miywtdoz">Twenty-Eight Teeth</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/buckonine">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.buckonine.com/">Official Site</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Buck-O-Nine">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ykn4pbV6JBA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ykn4pbV6JBA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5154085645014233717?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-11335822642787030472009-12-20T20:26:00.003-05:002009-12-20T20:37:27.706-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.peta2.com/oUTTHERE/page/SuicideMachines1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://www.peta2.com/oUTTHERE/page/SuicideMachines1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Another band in the mid-to-late-nineties wave of ska that achieved minor, minor success. (Inclusion on Tony Hawk video game soundtracks.) They were probably too energetic for the mainstream mass to handle. I have three albums of theirs. The latter two are solid skacore releases, but Destruction by Definition is a must listen. They disbanded in 2006 after the release of War Profiteering is killing us all.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mytdwbmzcmj">Destruction by Definition</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?rmfqxytyyki">Battle Hymns</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jtzdnj4yjmu">War Profiteering is Killing Us All</a><br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thesuicidemachines">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Suicide+Machines">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0IASTUbcELA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0IASTUbcELA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-1133582264278703047?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-58296667091264916712009-12-18T20:44:00.013-05:002010-01-04T02:48:16.972-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://b3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00277/34/03/277513043_l.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 421px; height: 282px;" src="http://b3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00277/34/03/277513043_l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> I do believe I have the honor of posting the first screamo band on this blog. This band, Off Minor, was formed by 3/5ths of Saetia after they broke up. It seems like their goal is to make as much controlled, beautiful chaos as they can out of these three instruments. They have progressed the sound of screamo and are one of the biggest in the genre, thankfully.<br /><br />Be sure to get their stuff and check them out! These guys are amazing!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/offminor">Myspace It</a><br /><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Off+Minor">Last.fm It</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?juuwjzymyzw">Problematic Courtship</a><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mxjjawzjwic">The Heat Death of the Universe</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?innmnnql3yi">Innominate</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mtoyhvhzmyt">Some Blood</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mtoyhvhzmyt"></a><br /><div>Edit by Bugger: <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?z53tztazvz5">Off Minor / Killie Split</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?z53tztazvz5"></a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5HRqbGoz2EI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5HRqbGoz2EI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5829666709126491671?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-25328565251564048312009-12-16T20:11:00.005-05:002009-12-22T17:26:39.716-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/10326843/The+King+Blues+Lets+Hang+the+Landlord.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 364px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/10326843/The+King+Blues+Lets+Hang+the+Landlord.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>The King Blues were, at one point, underground. Then their sophomore release Save the World, Get the Girl got mainstream attention by the British media, and they began touring with "punk rock" (pfffft) bigwigs like Anti-Flag and Rise Against. (You know, those mainstream bands that claim to be rebellious.) Despite its incredibly "mainstream" status, their newest album is an enjoyable mix of ska and pop, and their first record is a hodge-podge of folk, ska, reggae, and punk rock. Here are both of their full-lengths:<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?m15mhzmdy1e">Under the Fog</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yno4in4qktl">Save the World, Get the Girl</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thekingblues">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.kingblues.com/">Official Site</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+King+Blues">Last.fm</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KQeHbMSqRxU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KQeHbMSqRxU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-2532856525156404831?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-66562033276386311082009-12-15T21:27:00.006-05:002009-12-16T00:51:19.348-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/92/l_6bc0c03b6b017d869c90835e13a5518d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 337px;" src="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/92/l_6bc0c03b6b017d869c90835e13a5518d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>These dudes are seriously awesome. They're an influential Experimental Post-Hardcore band that was around for about 10 years. They're most known for their mixture of chaotic dual vocals (Jordan Billie is deeper, and Johnny Whitney sounds like an abused 5 year old, in the best sounding way possible) and their off-beat and unorthodox guitar by Votolato. They started out as a mixture of Mathcore and Hardcore-Punk, then as they progressed, they became more and more similar to Post-Hardcore, with more poppy and experimental moments. Though that doesn't make them bad, they're still an amazing band, throughout every single album. I really recommend you check them out, or better yet you buy their recently released reissues of all of their LP's.<br />(The Reissues have all of the original content, plus some B-Sides, Live Content, and DVD's! Each is only for $8! I really recommend buying these and supporting them)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebloodbrothersband">Myspace</a><br /><a href="http://www.kingsroadmerch.com/epitaph-records/artist/?id=153">Buy It</a> (Please Do)<br /><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Blood+Brothers">Last.fm</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yemj25whfbq">This Adultery Is Ripe</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?co3yixz3jyh">March On Electric Children</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?omiuaznvjvj">Burn Piano Island, Burn</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?co3yixz3jyh">Crimes</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?gy4dy2c3m1m">Young Machetes</a><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XCRsJKnLppU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XCRsJKnLppU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-6656203327638631108?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-48769157498119786662009-12-14T20:20:00.007-05:002009-12-16T02:13:59.846-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TWDlZm7f9Rw/Sybl9aOYlLI/AAAAAAAAABM/8qWQ0oiUahY/s1600-h/bandphoto.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TWDlZm7f9Rw/Sybl9aOYlLI/AAAAAAAAABM/8qWQ0oiUahY/s320/bandphoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415268445134034098" /></a><br /><br />An eclectic mix of Grind,Ska,Jazz and plenty other shenanigans<br />Le Scrawl can throw in. Hooked after listening to the first two tracks on <span style="font-style:italic;">Eager To Please</span>.<br /><br />-Orwell<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LFKLRglfjQQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LFKLRglfjQQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?tbmhermz4uz"><br />Eager To Please</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dhjjk0duum1">Q</a><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/lescrawlofficial">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Le+Scrawl">Last.fm</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-4876915749811978666?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Orwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-86346417111163317542009-12-14T20:16:00.005-05:002010-02-17T18:25:01.127-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/23590697/Bomb+the+Music+Industry+upBurn_music_ind.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 460px; height: 409px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/23590697/Bomb+the+Music+Industry+upBurn_music_ind.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Bomb the Music Industry! are one of those ridiculously D.I.Y. hardcore bands. Even though they offer all of their music for free, I shelled out $15 to see them (awesome) and $10 for Album Minus Band on vinyl. It made me feel like such a punk. I usually don't feel like that. Since they offer all of their music for free download on their site, I'm not going to post my own links for them. <div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/bombthemusicindustry">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://bombthemusicindustry.tumblr.com/">Official Site</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bomb+the+Music+Industry!">Last.fm</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-8634641711116331754?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-59471504570423278042009-12-13T19:51:00.003-05:002009-12-14T20:31:21.346-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Reel-Big-Fish-ska-582050_400_312.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Reel-Big-Fish-ska-582050_400_312.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />One of the most popular bands of third-wave ska, they hit it big (big for a ska band, anyway) with the single "Sell Out." In recent years their quality has dwindled, but back in the height of their popularity (and when they play live) they're masters of what they do. I have two studio albums and one live album (the latter being incredible). If anyone wants me to post more, I'll be glad to do that.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2mwdjw3zwdz">Turn the Radio Off</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dyznozkyqei">Why Do They Rock So Hard?</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zmnmzygymn0">Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/reelbigfish"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Myspace</span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.reel-big-fish.com/">Official Site</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Reel+Big+Fish">Last.<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">fm</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5947150457042327804?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-51600712060873733282009-12-13T15:21:00.003-05:002009-12-14T20:32:27.502-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_znJECLHX7eM/SyWX04N5ikI/AAAAAAAAAAU/wFHC9CqYrI0/s1600-h/BATS.PNG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_znJECLHX7eM/SyWX04N5ikI/AAAAAAAAAAU/wFHC9CqYrI0/s320/BATS.PNG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414901061682563650" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Alright, so this band is BATS, a Progressive Post-Hardcore band that sings about science and anti-theism. They have pretty cool releases, and in my opinion <span style="font-style: italic;">Red in Tooth &amp; Claw</span> is the album of 2009. They're awesome and one of my top Post-Hardcore bands.<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/leatherbeatsfeather">Myspace</a><br /><a href="http://www.richtercollective.com/?page_id=7&amp;category=2&amp;product_id=9">Buy It</a></span><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bats">Last.fm</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mwavnfmlmzm">Cruel Sea Scientist EP</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?g0k3nywnouv">Red in Tooth and Claw</a><br /><br /><object width="400" height="220"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6965942&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6965942&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="220"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/6965942">SHADOW FUCKING</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1830510">Digital Beast</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><br /></span><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-5160071206087373328?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PirateSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134282755654927864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7863785569118405974.post-41164277430909829182009-12-13T13:02:00.001-05:002009-12-13T20:47:32.654-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://beattrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/streetlightmanifesto.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 569px;" src="http://beattrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/streetlightmanifesto.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I don't know whether or not this really basic first choice makes my blog "cool." However, I do know that they're of super-duper quality. It's likely that, if you're here, you've heard (of) this band. They're supposed to be releasing a cover album soon, called <i>99 Songs of Revolution</i>, but their label is giving them some sort of crap. Damn record labels. Here's all of their studio material:<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yt2lnimmhmy">Everything Goes Numb Demo</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2ztmz2yzmmt">Everything Goes Numb</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2jnrzrnen4j">Keasbey Nights</a></div><div><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ncl4zijj0z5">Somewhere in the Between</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/streetlightmanifesto">Myspace</a></div><div><a href="http://www.streetlightmanifesto.com/">Official Site</a></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Streetlight+Manifesto">Last.fm</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7863785569118405974-4116427743090982918?l=skankingtothebeat.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tom Rustmann Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16689771866591109160noreply@blogger.com0