Good new shit

So, I made my sort of yearly visit to one of my favorite record stores on the planet...Aquarius Records (in San Fran). The guys there are really great and the selection is excellent. Anyway, some awesome new stuff came out that I wanted to share:

Danava - I am a HUGE fan. I know that some of you aren't. Your loss. Prog/Glam.



Black Son Of Nexus (B.SON) - sludgy and heavy with scary vox. Best CD packaging ever. All metal, brass or something. [edit: at first, I wrote "best cd" instead of "best cd packaging" ooops]



Earth - the masters of slow are back...but this time, unplugged? It is a weird one, but really good. some distortion but mostly piano and clean. The tiniest pinch of country fried. I know, weird...but it is really good...if you like Earth.



Black Cobra - It is fucking Black Cobra. Enough Said.



Radar Bros - dreamy and pseudo psychedelic. Pink Floydish...kind of. Pleasant. I love these guys.



Middian - offshoot from one of my faves, YOB. really good record.



Mammatus - slow, heavy and psyched out. YOBish, Perry Farrellish vox. I like.



Saviours - Heavy and thrashy...like the Sword. I know...you probably dont like the Sword, but whatever. There are days where I wish there were more SoCal thrash bands in the world and these types of bands fit the bill for me. Guitar-y and produced.



Magnetic Fields - haven't made it all the way through this one yet..but I mean, it is the Magnetic Fields...right? I will let you know.

Feb 10

Looks like a good Providence+ show tonight.

Note to Jeep Shop: beware glass shards on the floor.

Toste Vs Straight Ticket

Jeff Toste is hoping to ditch Straight Ticket voting, and is looking for your help. Go to the link and sign the petition...if you like.

“Straight-ticket or straight-party voting allows voters to make one pull, punch, or mark in order to vote for all candidates of a single political party. Straight-ticket voting originated to simplify the voting process and improve voter turnout. Unfortunately, the result of straight-ticket voting is an unfair advantage for major political parties.”

5ive tonight and some PsychProg

For those experi-metal sludge lovers out there, 5ive is playing tonight in Boston at Great Scott with Hackman and Never Got Caught. 21+ 9pm $9.00



5ive
Hackman
Never Got Caught

I am talking to those guys about booking a show in Providence soon, so if you can't make it, hopefully there will be one right in your back yard soon enough. To Great Scott:


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Gauze the Savior, J. and a show

Once again, Gauze saves the day. While tech support at my webhost was fumbling along, Brian IM'd me and had me up and running in about 30 seconds. He the man.

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J. Mascis was at my office today. He came in and played Rock Band. He sat down at the drums, loaded up Blitzkreig Bop and got a 92 out of 100 score on Expert. He should be in a band or something.

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This Friday at AS220 for B-Sharp night...
The lineup keeps a changin' but Megasus is playing with Dave n Steve!! , Robot Dick and new band The Ram. I haven't seen Dave n Steve before, BUT;

I hear they rock...
they are from the Woon...
and they like the metal (as you can tell from their Myspace).

Cant go wrong, right?

Listings are down today, 1.30.2008

I know...I am on the phone with tech support to try and fix it.

Ipod repair...if you care

So, after only a couple of years and just one accidental trip into a toilet about a year ago, my Ipod Video died. The weird thing is that it was working totally fine just moments before. Then I got some BS sad Ipod screen and warnings that the battery was dead. After the folks at the Apple store tried to convince us that it was dead and "time to buy a new one"...it came back to my house for a little exploratory surgery.

I am sure that tons of you have Ipods and many of you have had issues. I did my typical thing that I do with broken gear and took it all apart, gave it the stinkeye and puhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gift it back together. Guess what? IT WORKED! I did some research and found that many people have done this same thing. There are tiny little ribbon cables that come undone and a simple reseating makes them work again.

YES! Victory. Apple will not get my money (at least, not until they make some awesome new thing which I will buy the moment it comes out, only to have it crap out 1 year and 1 day later).

Here is the link on how to take that sumbitch apart:

IPOD SURGERY

Rockband Featuring You

I found this today as I was driving around in the morning. This is the Penalty Box on North Main Street, Providence. I have seen Karaoke and live bands billed here before, but never Rock Band (the most recent video game that I have made).

Pretty funny. I think it is going on tonight...maybe I will go check it out.

Rock Band...featuring me.

Picto-Review of Corleone DVD

Corleone Records were kind enough to send us copies of some of their wares, and so it is review time. For starters, we are taking a pictorial look at the Corleone DVD collection entitled "CORLEONE 10yrs EVERYTHING I OWN IS BROKEN OR BENT DVD". Maximize your browser window for full awesomeness and click here or the preview below to see the entire review.

OSS photos, finally

HUZZAH! Some photos surface form the Machines With Magnets show! Elliot Clapp, one of the many photogs shooting that night, has sent me some images and I wanted to share.

Olneyville Sound System