One of the bands I've been digging lately is Daft Punk. Such cool stuff. Love the techno, retro thing they have going on. I found this cool video of Daft Punk doing Harder Better Faster Stonger live. Check it out if you are into Daft Punk

Gojira is one of those really heavy bands that I am thankful that I stumbled upon. Check out this live footage of them performing The Heaviest Matter of the Universe. Very cool song. If you haven't yet, do yourself a favor and check out Gojira.

One of my all time favorite CD's is Sonic Youth Dirty. Love it. If you don't have it in your collection, there's a problem. Pick it up. Here's one of the songs from that record performed live on Jools Holland. Sonic Youth Sugar Kane. Sweet.

Here's a classic Black Sabbath video from 1973. It's a video for the song Sabbath Bloody Sabbath from the album of the same title. Pretty cool stuff, didn't know they even made videos back in 73. Cool footage...great song. I've been on a huge Sabbath kick since the Heaven and Hell tour.

Sunny Day Real Estate is one of those bands that I got turned onto early in there career. I was lucky enough to catch a couple of back to back, early in their career, shows in the 7th Street Entry. I saw them numerous other times as well. But the 7th Street Entry shows really stand out in my head as historic shows.

Diary was one of their best records in my opinion. In Circles is the opening track, a killer song and the video is cool as well. If you aren’t familiar with Sunny Day Real Estate, do yourself a favor and pick up Diary.

I’m such a sucker for music from the eighties, it’s kinda sickening. One of the bands, I loved when I was a kid was the Police. I wouldn’t vomit on a sting record if I was paid, but old Police stuff is killer. I love Stewart Copeland. Very talented.

The Police re-united at the 2007 Grammy awards. I was very excited to see them perform. They, of course, did Roxanne but I’ll let that slide. The afformentioned Stewart was sporting some old man glasses, and the other “two guys” looked quite a bit older. The crowd really went wild, it was pretty cool.

Last night flipping through the channels I came across something heavy…something really heavy. Suddenly after my heart skipping a beat, I noticed it was Lamb of God. Holy crap. What is the world coming too, first Slayer on Jimmy Kimmel then Lamb of God on Conan O’Brien? Is the world starting to appreciate metal?

Yes, granted it’s on late night, etc. But this is NBC for Chrissake. At first I thought it was Saturday Night Live. But once they finished, Conan came out and shook their hands. It was a pretty rocking performance, sound could have been a little better. But, it’s metal…on TV!!! They played the song “Pathetic” from their new album Sacrament.  read more »

Being married, I sometimes have to watch crappy movies. This weekend we watched Devil Wears Prada and Employee of the Month. I didn’t mind staring at Jessica Simpson, but I thought Employee of the Month was pretty lame. I thought with Dane Cook, Andy Dick, Harlan Williams and the guy who played Pedro would be enough to keep me laughin, not so.

Anyway, as lame as the movie was, there was one scene that I found interesting. It’s where Vince and wingman (pedro) break into the boxboy’s house. There are a few shots of a Melvins tour poster. It was shown very prominent a few times. At the bottom it had Trevor Dunn’s band listed as opening.

I thought this was cool. Props for the Melvins. After 25 years they’re finally getting some recognition.

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Slayer made their first ever network television appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, January 19. As usual, I forgot to watch it. Sounds like they played 6, yes 6 songs. A little mini-concert. They only broadcasted one song.

1. Eyes of the Insane (broadcast on ABC)
2. Jihad
3. Mandatory Suicide
4. War Ensemble
5. Dead Skin Mask
6. Raining Blood

According to blabbermouth.net: Kerry went into a back alley and hung out with about 20 fans and took pictures and autographs. He was really nice and made sure to stick around long enough so that everyone could meet him and get his autograph. The rest of the band showed up around 5:15 and started doing their soundcheck and rehearsal shortly thereafter. It was also about that time that the line began to grow to a few hundred people. During soundcheck [the band] treated the fans to full versions of ‘Jihad’ and ‘Eyes of the Insane’ (each was played in full with vocals twice and and ‘Jihad’ was played all instrumental once). At around 6:15 they started letting us all in and it took about two hours to get the whole line in, which looped all the way to Hollywood Blvd. (about 5 blocks). There’s a lot more to the story at blabbermouth.net. Pretty interesting actually.

I love the fact that Slayer is on network television, 12:30 at night, but hey it’s still ABC. Gotta give Kimmel some credit for having Slayer on his show. Awesome.  read more »

Back in the 80’s I was really into thrash and punk. One night, I was lucky enough to experience a blend of both styles of music, served up by a band called the Crumbsuckers. I still look back at this show with legendary memories. Awesome night!

I still listen to the Crumbsuckers on a regular basis. I was just browsing the web and what did I see, that the Crumbsuckers are back together and are touring! I don’t know who exactly is in the band now, but man is this exciting.

And even more exciting they are touring with the Accused. Wow! The bad news is, they are only touring in Europe. Let’s hope the Crumbsuckers and Accused stay together and do a US tour. Please guys!

The Crumbsuckers will be playing the following tour dates in 2007:

*All dates are in February of 2007

THE CRUMBSUCKERS + THE ACCUSED

• Monday 05-02 Uk
• Tuesday 06-02 France
• Wednesday 07-02 Belgium
• Thursday 08-02 Holland
• Friday 09-02 Holland
• Saturday 10-02 Germany
• Sunday 11-02 Germany

THE CRUMBSUCKERS + THE ACCUSED + EXTREME NOISE TERROR + DRILLER KILLER

• Monday 12-02 Germany
• Tuesday 13-02 Germany
• Wednesday14-02 Germany
• Thursday 15-02 Austria
• Friday 16-02 Germany
• Saturday 17-02 Suisse

So all of us American’s are hoping the Crumbsuckers will visit our little country. Bring the Accused with you, please!
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Just watching some TV today, I heard a familiar song. But yet, it sounded bastardized and watered down. I turned my head towards the TV, I noticed it was a commercial. An American Express commercial. And they were using Spinal Tap’s Gimme Some Money as the background music. Ugh.

Did Spinal Tap sign off on that? And it wasn’t even them it was some watered down sounding version. I love Christopher Guest and Spinal Tap, but this just made me sad.

Waiting For Guffman is one of the best movies ever! I know it’s not really rock related, but it rawks! I guess it could be rock related Christopher Guest aka Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap is the genius behind it. His other claim to fame has been Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. All of which are mockumentaries.

Brilliant! Waiting for Guffman is the classic small town celebration musical that shows you the low level artsy performer’s inflated view of reality. That didn’t make much sense, but watch the movie anyway.

Christopher Guest plays Corky a homo, transvestite, broadway geek, tater tot-eatin, my dinner with Andre watchin, Judy Tenuta loving dork. But he has two classic lines “You’re all bastard people” and “I hate you and I hate your ass face.”

Not to mention there are the usual Guest crew like Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, to name a few. Eugene Levy is awesome, as usual, in this movie. Gotta love Dr. Pearl. The songs are catchy and the choreography is…amazing.
Waiting For Guffman makes me laugh every single time I watch it. Check it out if you like good comedy…documentary style.

“I’m gonna go home and bite my pillow, that’s what I’m gonna do.”
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My friend recently turned me on to a cool band…Between the Buried and Me. The CD is called Alaska. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

I was blown away at first listen, which is really hard to do nowadays. I have not been this excited about a band since first hearing Dillinger Escape Plan, Mars Volta or Mr. Bungle. Between the Buried and Me are all over the board stylistically.

They go from cookie monster death metal to dreamy sounding rock. The guy can actually sing. The riffs are not the usual metal riffs either. Very refreshing. The tempo is sometimes mindboggling. It almost sounds a bit like jazz metal to me. Almost as if it’s being improvised.

I’ve only listened to the disc a few times, but I already love it. If you like your metal aggresssive at all, do yourself a favor and check out Between the Buried and Me’s Alaska disc.
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