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Monday, January 23, 2006

The Dresden Dolls in Paradise

The Dresden Dolls are Amanda Palmer (keyboards and Vocals) and Brian Viglione (Drums). Straight off the there amazing first album and an opening spot on the first NIN tour in four years, The Dresden Dolls Released there first DVD in November. From the blistering opening song Good Day to the Black Sabbath cover of War Pigs to the single Girl Anachronism the Dolls put on an explosive and manic performance the very few "traditional" bands can accomplish. Amanda seems like the crazy girl we all know. While Brian has a charisma that very few front men let alone drummers have. The DVD contains the performance from their home town of Boston and the incredible videos for Coin Operated Boy and Girl Anachronism.

At ten dollars or less this DVD is an amazing deal.
-RJK at 9:42 PM 0 comments

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Clear Channel destroys its own great radio station

The NEW 96.3 Star Country!! has eaten my favorite radio station, WMAD. I should've expected it when major alt-rock stations like WHFS in Washington DC and Y100 in Philadelphia have also gone off the air in the last year. What chance did my fun little Madison station have?
A lot of chance I though since WMAD was playing a great mix of current hits along with 90s alt-rock radio favorites. I could count on hearing System of a Down and "Underground" by Ben Folds Five in the same hour. But since it's a Clear Channel station, it was ultimately doomed.
I guess its really time I got my iPod fixed since I'm NOT going to suddenly listen to WJJO all the time.
-Zac at 9:25 AM 0 comments

Friday, December 02, 2005

Stapp fights 311

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AP and MTV report that in Baltimore on Thanksgiving night, former Creed and current butthole singer Scott Stapp got into a fight with the surprisingly still popular 311.
The whole things sounds pretty cool how Stapp was being a shit and threw the first punch but the 311 knocked him back. Its a shame they couldn't be met with arms wide open and he had to be taken down and things got all mixed up. Stapp won't serve any jail time, but he's got his own prison. 311 have sent a message loud and clear to him: dont tread on me. It sounds like a beautiful disaster happened in that bar, but thats his sacrifice.
-Zac at 6:30 PM 0 comments

Sunday, November 27, 2005

The Worst Band Right Now Is: Fall Out Boy

Every time I hear them on the radio I don't change the station, I just wave my fist and get angry. The band is dick.
Also, not as cool as the simpsons character they clearly stole their name from.
-Zac at 3:52 PM 2 comments

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Single That Time Forgot: "Love Spreads"

The Stone Roses were a fairly important band in the UK, but I didn't know much about except for hearing the song "Love Spreads" on WHFS and on 120 Minutes. I'll admit it didn't catch me 11 years ago, but it popped up on the radio when I was driving home in the rain late last week and I cranked up the factory stereo as loud as it would go. This was a pretty unapologetically rockin song. The first minute or so is all instrumental. Instead of lyrics, it was all a showcase for John Squire's guitar. The lyrics have some vague biblical symbolism, but it was all filling out the structure of great music as far as I'm concerned. It seems to end and turn into a different song at least twice and keeps the listening experience fresh.
Its a shame this wasn't a bigger hit, it would enjoy regular rotation as a classic cut on more radio stations.
Wikipedia entry
-Zac at 8:19 PM 0 comments

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Trapped In The Closet Chapters 1-12 DVD

Back in June, I wrote an article for the Baltimore City Paper about the first five chapters of R. Kelly's "Trapped In The Closet," shortly after the 5th chapter had been leaked on the eve of the release of the otherwise underwhelming TP3: Reloaded album, which also included a DVD of the video for all five chapters. At the time, there had been no official word about any future chapters, and I was pretty unsatisfied with the apparent final chapter's conclusion. But of course, the week the article ran, the news was announced that the R. was working on a whole bunch of new chapters, and while I had a little egg on my face, I was mainly excited about the continuation of the whole pulpy saga.

Earlier this month, a DVD of the first 12 chapters of "Trapped In The Closet" was released in stores, including 7 new chapters, a behind the scenes featurette, and a bizarre commentary track by a cigar-chomping R. In recent years, much of the praise for R. Kelly's music has been either ironic or squeamishly tentative, hanging on the question of whether, by enjoying his over-the-top music and public persona, we are laughing at or with him. If nothing else, this DVD should firmly establish the answer to that question as the latter. Throughout the behind the scenes footage, he's grinning and laughing at the bizarre plot twists of his own creation, and even singing upbeat party versions of "Trapped In The Closet" to himself.

And then, there's the new chapters 6-12, which (SPOILERS AHEAD) feature: a midget, a spatula, and a white woman voiced with a ridiculous trailer trash accent by R. himself. The genuine tension and drama of the early chapters was what drew me in to begin with, and I was initially a little turned off as the cliffhangers became sillier and more contrived. But by the later chapters, the dude is clearly just having a lot of fun with it, and I'm along for the ride. The seemingly arbitrary coincidences that are revealed at the end of Chapter 5 deepen and begin to add up to their own circular logic. As he continues to add characters to the story, he keeps coming back to the other ones and tying them together in ways you'd never anticipate. When he returns to Rufus, Chuck and Cathy in Chapter 12, it's a jarring but perfect capper to the insanity that takes place among the other characters. It's also, strangely, completely different from the chapter that R. performed at this year's MTV VMA's, which concluded with Rufus dumping Chuck and going back to his wife, although it remains to be seen whether that chapter does occur somewhere after 12. But I'll keep looking forward to every new installment that he sends our way.
-Al at 11:05 PM 1 comments

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Sony Virus

-Zac at 12:12 PM 0 comments