more tame

alright, so on my way back to Mainst Reem, i came across a few greater-known animals to bring you. these are quite tame since they've been closer to the busy hustle and bustle of sell-outs and risings starlets. although tame, they are still wild animals, and have been known to dig through the garbage of yesteryear, sampling some of the delicacies that have been left to rot.

you can pet the music, but please remember that when you take them home, be gentle. they're in need of some good owners.

the Silt
You Say Party! We Say Die!
the Rebel Spell
Quadra
Meligrove Band
the Hidden Cameras
Cuff the Duke
the Ladies and Gentlemen
the High Dials
Million Dollar Marxists
Ultimate Power Duo
Sailboats are White
We are Wolves
the Diableros
the Paper Cranes
They Shoot Horses, Don't They
Wintersleep
Decomposure
Falconhawk
Great Lake Swimmers
Great Aunt Ida
Two Hours Traffic
the Deadly Snakes
Mood Ruff
the Maynards
A.C. Newman
Camoflauge Nights
Panurge
The Lovely Feathers
the Salteens
Run Chico Run
the Neins
the Organ
the Russian Futurists (i love this name :P)
the Heavy Blinkers
the Dept.
Catlow
the Golden Dogs
Greenfield Main
Klark
Mcenroe
Dragon Fli Empire
K'naan
OK Cobra
Balthazar
the Subhumans
Bontempi
the Evaporators
Konceit
Christine Fellows
Clark the Band
the Violet Archers
the Immaculate Machines

some of these beasts are very wild, although living mighty close to the suburban Sell-Outs of Mainst Reem, the tamer ones are reaching out to the wild ones and teaching them the way. it's very noble, although very money-making. nah, i'm kidding, if bands make it big, good on them. but i prefer wild, exotic animals for my menagerie.

here are some of the more exciting ones:

(the Sounds of) Kaleidoscope
the Clinetele
Lali Puna
Kid Dynamite
the Line
the Stems

more to come later!

the exotic New Music

All right folks, fans, and fellow music-hunters, i haven't posted in a while, and that's because i've been out hunting the wild New Music (latin: wonderous musicalius). in my desperate search i came across the ellusive virgin music. this music spends it's short life living in the dark recesses of basements and garages, almost never getting out to see the light of day. while i was wandering off the beaten path, a street commonly refered to as Mainst Reem, i came across a few terrible specimens, but with every bad, there is always good. these new and exotic Songs and Bands i have gathered, stored, and have now deemed them safe enough to release to the public. Stand back.

MUSIC!
the Hurricane Lamps
Love is Chemicals
Up, Bustle and Out
Kid Koala
Bonobo
Jaga Jazzist
the Very Most
the Unicorn Feather
Hooverville
Wrinkle Neck Mules
Lazarus X
Social Sponge
Tribes of Revolt
High Frequency
Calexico
Ever We Fall
Rufio

all right, that is all i'll give you for now. there will be more to come, but first i have to tame them, and make sure that they won't be biting.

good ol' posting

Ok, thanks to the people who have been replying both on this forum and in other communticatory mediums! Feedback is awesome, and thanks to wichita_gunman for his Feist input.

Keep it comin', folks. I have big plans for this to be a huge multi-art meduim for those looking for the next big thing. i want everything you've got!


new music:

J. Mascis & the Fog
GB Leighton
New Buffalo
Cocteau Twins
Over the Rhine
Cave In
Down
All
Modesty Panel

artists:
Justin Bua

films:
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"Heart of Gold" (Yes, folks, this is a new Neil Young movie. I'm not even kidding).
"Revolver"

all right, folks (third time this update!), that's about all i've got for you, but please, keep the requests, information, demands, and input coming!

amazed

i am so friggin' tired, so this is going to be a short and sweet post!

new music:
Cracker
The Gris Gris
The Red Walls
Doyle Bramhall II & Smokestack
Cathy Davey
Emergency
the Cherry Valence
the Makers
the Village Green

all right, now off to cure what ails me...

cache-ing in

ok, i've been thinking about it, and sooner or later i'm going to run out of updates. bands will cease to be new, and there will be a lull. right now there is an overflowing, a flood, an excess of new music, which is why i made this site. should i store up for dry spells? or should i just put down everything i know and hope that there will always be new bands or songs to report?

it's all going down, i'll face the future when it gets here.

music:
Seachange
Preston School of Industry
Matmos
DeadMeadow
Cornelius
Mission of Burma
Pretty Girls Make Graves (a great song by the Smiths, too)
Guided By Voices
Joe Jackson

new music:
the Apex Theory
the Jam
New Radiant Storm King (Small Broken Words is an amazing song that one must hear, and please note the Mearns poem that is sampled)
Steve Wynn
the Lost Patrol Band
Askeleton
Barcode
Mary Timony (On the Floor is a worthy song)
Therapy?

films:
Brick

well, there you go. that's all i've got for now, check up tomorrow for another fix of the good stuff.

look! stuff...

ok, quick post here:

movies:
"Thank You For Smoking"
"L'Enfant"

music:
the Golden Virgins
Reeve Oliver
Pillows
Catfish Haven
Weird War
the Adored
Diamond Nights
Comet Gain
Soft Canyon


i have to say, the previous night's concert was amazing! the Adored are spectacular and very open people, and Diamond Nights were genuinely stage-masters. I got to sing into the mic! also, i've mastered the art of eye-fuckery, and am officially an eye-slut. if looks could impregnate, there would be a bunch of budding musicians all very unhappy about the current bun-in-oven situation.
the Living Things portion of the show was possibly the second-greatest. the greatest being the extremely social interaction with every member of every band, except for the bass player for the Adored. i spoke to him, but failed to introduce myself (i was needed over in the drummer-section, and yes, they pool together). also, i got a drumstick from the bass player for the living things, Eve, who was gorgeous, male, and talented. Bosh already said i could have it, and gave the nod. bosh is the drummer, they're brothers with Lillian, the singer. read about it somewhere, they're great up-and-comers.
THE BUZZCOCKS ARE COMING TO VANCOUVER!! if you know me and my musical history, you'll know that the Buzzcocks were my first favorite punk band that i knew of and researched. they were big in '78. well, as big as they got. but yes, now they're coming to my city! they've been touring the UK with the Adored, which Ryan, the lead singer, told me. I know i'm nae-dropping band members like crazy, but that's because they were so damn nice and open and friendly that i really want to talk about them.

ok, i'm done, and this post was much longer than i thought it would be.

your fix

ok, i know i'm a little late on this one, but there's a new foreign flick in town, and it's called "Goodbye, Lenin" and it's so remarkably symbolic and touching that it made me want to dance a happy German dance.

something in the Falco/Hasselhoff variety.

new music:
theSTART
Dimitri from Paris
Ocean Colour Scene
the Islands
Diamond Nights
Ariel's Pink Haunted Graffiti
the Adored
the Pleasure Club
the Cherry Valence
Tiger Saw
Young and Sexy
the Sea and Cake
Emergency
Catherine Wheel
Convoj ("RAMJAC" is best for songs)

all right, folks, that's all i've got for now. i'm going on vacation, and i hope to pick up new bands while i'm down where i go when i go for vacation!

new favorite

i know this is sort of old news, but Wolfmother is an amzing band. "Mind's Eye" is so amazingly...i want to fall into it. i really just want to crank this song all the way up and fall into it.

yes, they are that awesome. in fact, if i could call up robert plant and tell him who his predecessor was, it would be Andrew Stockdale. mind you, if i could just call up robert plant, i wouldn't be here sitting on my couch watching The Surreal Life 6.

or would i?

robert plant, call me. you know the number.

Also, if you're going to go wandering for Wolfmother stuff, make damn sure you get Vagabond, too. this would have to be my second most favorite song by them. ever.

and that's the end of that chapter.

create all way. always.

Groupies want to mate with creativity, not the man or woman behind the guitar or mic. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a band that’s famous, if even if you’re just a budding guitarist, both females and males react to the creativity. When the soul, the subconscious feels that vibe of creativity, or is even aware of it through the conscious they respond with the most primal and animalistic urge there is, to mate with it, have sex, make love, fuck. Groupies everywhere, in most countries throw themselves at musicians, artists, and even writers. There is something about creativity, and fame also, that drives people to want to let them be taken by the spontaneity of creation. Maybe they want to create, also. Sex is the ultimate form of creation, and it’s only our recent creations that prevent creation. Birth control stops creation. Usually. The birth of creation is often overlooked; people think that it just comes. Everyone wants to be a muse to someone. For someone. We all want to push ourselves on the willing, we want to have sex with people in a position of creation. We could be responding to that with the need to create something ourselves, a new life, a new soul to create. People could be thinking that they want to become part of that fame, but the fallacy of fame is only left to those who aren’t in groupiedom for creation, but greed. Greed is the cause of war, the opposite of war is creation. Destruction of greed versus the creation of war. I want to destroy greed. Greed has nothing to do with creation in its simplest forms: art, music, literature, peace.

update

ok, i've decided to dedicate this site to my perpetual love of music, and post only new bands+songs that i love, or think other people will. so yes, sorry folks, but this is going to be a mainly music/arts/film/dance/music/literature site. call me bohemian. viva la vie bohem.

new bands!

The Booda Velvets
Fallwater Project
The Special Goodness
Craig's Brother
Wolf Colonel
Men, Women & Children
The Black Grapes
The Kim Band
Glovebox
From Fiction
Elefant
Editors

alright, these are most of my updates, and yes, i know that some of these are older than they need to be, but if you want to talk about great old bands with awesome songs, get Ian Dury and the Blockheads's "Rhythm Stick"

great music!

All right, i'm going to list off a whole bunch of awesome bands, and reccomended songs that you should find or pick up:

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Dresden Dolls - Coin-Opperated Boy
Big Old Eyes - I am Not a Gentleman
Architecture in Helsinki - Frenchy, I'm Faking
Archive - Fuck U
Babyshambles - Fuck Forever
Man Man - Engwish Bwudd
Espers - Hearts and Daggers
Marlango - Automatic Imperfection
The Go! Team - Panther Dash
The Figgs - The Trench
Simian - La Breeze
The Shout Out Louds - 100 Degrees
The Go - It Might Be Bad
The Slackers - Tonight
The Jessica Fletchers - Magic Bar
Ariel Pink - Good Kids Make Bad Grown-Ups
Elwood - Dive
Say Hi To Your Mom - The Key of C
Zero Seven - In the Waiting Line
We Are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
Robbers On High Street - Hot Sluts (Say I Love You)
Oranger - Haeter
Her Space Holiday - Japanese Gum
Minus The Bear - Lemurs, Man, Lemurs
Devendra Banhart - Long Haired Child
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
Tresspassers William - Lie In the Sound
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde
Supreme Beings of Leisure - Truth From Fiction
Supper Furry Animals - It's Not the End of the World?
The Streets - Not Addicted
The Spill Canvas - Your Evil Soul
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
Sons of Pioneers - Cool Clear Water
Skankin' Pickle - Skafunkrastapunkska
The Robot Ate Me - You Smile
The Pogues - Fiesta
The Party Andersons - Cocain
Nick Cave - Red Right Hand
My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus
Mr. T Experience - Love is Dead
The Libertines - Good Old Days
Mates of State - Fluke
Joshua Radin - Winter
The Joel Plaskitt Emergency - Clueless Wonder
Infected Mushroom - Deeply Disturbed
I am Kloot - Twist
Ikara Colt - Sink Venice
Horrorpops - Misstake
Controller.Controller - Watch
Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah - Tidal Wave
Cat Power - Baby Doll
Bloc Party - Price of Gasoline
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Shuffle Your Feet
Artic Monkeys - Riot Van
Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine


Needless to say, this list is of the newest bands that I have discovered in the last little while. some are from years ago that really need more play on people's players, and others are just amazing finds. Trust me, i went through a lot of crap to get these precious few amazing songs. Now go buy all the albums and support struggling musicians everywhere!

We're #1!

my first post should be a great one to remember, one that will be spoken about for ages to come so that even my children's children will be stopped on the the internet highway to be complimented on being my great offspring's offspring.

gee, sometimes it's nice to dream.

for all those out there, this blog will be one of randomness, mostly containing my feelings towards music, people, and the contents of my life. yes, this is extremely generic, but i like this font, and i like all of you, so i'm going to keep typing, no matter what.

unless i get bored, then i fully expect all of us to move on to better and more fonty things.