Triptych Cryptic

The Get Up Kids apologize for helping invent emo: 'If this is the world we helped create,' guitarist James Suptic said, after looking into the crowd at a reunion gig, 'then I apologise.'

Labels: music

22:48 cdogzilla

Friday, September 18, 2009

The King v. The Champ:

via RETrOZONe

Labels: music, pictures, sports

22:45 cdogzilla

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Monkey-friendly tunes shed new light on evolutionary role of music - Times Online: "The idea that human musical appreciation stems from the same evolutionary root as the vocalisations that primates use to bond and alert others to danger is not new, but it has always been hard to test because monkeys do not generally respond to music.

When monkeys have been played music, from classical to hard rock, they generally prefer silence. The sole exception has come from one experiment in which monkeys appeared to be calmed down by listening to the heavy metal band Metallica."
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Now playing on YouTube: The Specials - Monkey Man
via FoxyTunes

Labels: monkeys, music, science

07:08 cdogzilla

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Yo La Tengo Pretty Into This YouTube Thing -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine: Getting psyched for new Yo La Tengo. Big Day Coming: September 8 release date for Popular Songs.

Labels: music, youtube goodness

10:58 cdogzilla

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Music: Newswire:KRS-One writes 600 page hip-hop Bible; blueprint for rap religion:

Hip-hop legend KRS-One has never been afraid to court controversy and provoke strong reactions. Now the Boogie Down Productions legend has topped himself by writing The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, a mammoth treatise on the spirituality of hip-hop he hopes will some day become a sacred text of a new hip-hop religion.
Laugh if you must, but people laughed at Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard when they set up their own religions. They're still laughing, and pointing, and giggle-snorting so hard milk comes out their noses.

Not that the world needs another religion. Still, it's KRS-One. Takin' titles and breakin' idols.

Labels: atheism, music, youtube goodness

22:13 cdogzilla

Monday, August 24, 2009

Playlist - Yo La Tengo - Yo La Tengo, Listening to the Glands, Lambchop, Miighty Flashlight, the Move, My Bloody Valentine and Kurt Vile - Question - NYTimes.com
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Now playing: Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (remixed by Kevin Shields)
via FoxyTunes

Labels: music

19:29 cdogzilla

Friday, August 21, 2009

Trailer for Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, featuring Moore and some M.I.A. music.

Labels: movies, music

08:48 bone daddy

Monday, July 13, 2009

This ain't your daddy's Postal Service cover! | Music | A.V. Club: The video is ... meh ... but several of the comments make enjoyable reading while listening.

"I don't understand what the guy in front is doing. Is he being attacked by bees?"
"You gotta stay for 1:28 when the sensitive pretty-boy vocals come in. It achieves a surreal level of shittiness at that point. "
"Fred Dursts singing style has been hugely influential in today's metalcore scene. That's why music is doomed"
"i'm thinking your inability to find stamps and your refusal to go to the post office *may* be related." [There a USPS thread in the comments]

Labels: music, youtube goodness

20:51 cdogzilla

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Collectors of 78 R.P.M. Discs Have Those Hard-to-Find Blues - NYTimes.com: 78s have a small but special place in my musical memory. My grandfather had thousands of 78s in his music room and the living room of the house on Central Ave. Those thin, hissing, and popping recordings of blues, Texas swing, old timey Country & Western, and Big Band music seemed like the musical equivalent of dinosaur fossils to me back in the mid-1970s. How many people more than a couple years younger than me have ever heard or even seen a 78, I wonder?

One thing that sticks with me is how bawdy much of the popular music/novelty songs of the 1930s and 1940s were. I guess that could've been more my grandfather's sampling of the era than the era itself, but I got the definite impression as a kid that we were living a more censored and repressed, less rollicking era than our forefather's did. Of course, it's just as easy to see it from the other perspective and think that popular music has been getting progressively more lewd. The truth in this case is probably closer to things not really having changed all that much; maybe it's only the slang and vocal mannerisms that have changed with the whims of fashion.

Labels: music

15:57 cdogzilla

Blakk Rasta's Obama "Theme Song" In Ghana: Let's play predict the response of the ODS afflicted. Goes a little something like this, "Oh noes, teh Africans have infiltrated our Preznidensey and are singing about taking over America. This proves BHO is not a citizen. Birth cert in Ghana? Also must be a fake Christian since Rasta Muslims only sings about teh other Rasta Muslims. Good thing Palin bravely elevated self from AK governorship, was holding her back from investigating who Anti-C. is pallin' around with now."

Labels: music, Obama, youtube goodness

13:08 cdogzilla

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Buckshot w/ KRS-One - "Robot"
Glad to see KRS-One still working. Linked primarily for the auto-tune dis.

Shared via AddThis

Labels: auto-tuning, music, youtube goodness

20:28 cdogzilla

Saturday, June 13, 2009

FF X-Post Take 2

Labels: music, TV

23:32 cdogzilla

Friday, June 12, 2009

autAuto-Tune Community Reponds to the Death of Auto-Tune -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine: Hold the phone, you can't declare auto-tune dead when I just got around to making it a tag for posts here at TC! Plus, they use it in the rap game? Who knew? I thought it was just for Cher ("Do you..ou...ou belie.ie..ieve in life after love?") and the kids that do the news with it on youtube!

Labels: auto-tuning, music, youtube goodness

13:36 cdogzilla

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Sabali.mp3: Best song I heard today. La vie est belle avec Amadou & Mariam. I was also enjoying Flosstradamus's "Big Bills" on the drive to work this morning.

Labels: music

19:51 cdogzilla

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Tranzmitors � Listen free and discover music at Last.fm: Wow. Canadian indie super-group or The Jam tribute band?

Labels: music

16:14 cdogzilla

Monday, March 16, 2009

I Am ... Straight Edge -- Courant.com
I must be getting old. I wouldn't have thought it was possible to say you played in a band and lived "Straight Edge" without referencing Minor Threat. But, you can. And I've never heard of Parkway Drive. Life goes on without me.

Labels: music

13:00 cdogzilla

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Upon Further Review

Springsteen clearly didn't lip synch at the Super Bowl. He certainly brought the party, and muffed a few lines along the way. I say good. Something's missing when the halftime show and especially the national anthem come out of a can.

Jennifer Hudson sang a perfectly nice anthem. I've never heard her before and she certainly can sing, but what she (and others) do at the Super Bowl is perform while a recording of their voice from some studio is played. At a giant event like this, you no longer get the singer caught up in the emotion of the moment. I'd rather get some hesitation or shake in the voice that might be there in front of millions but not in front of some producer.

I bring this up because tape and instant review have also changed the way I watch football. Two Super Bowls in a row I've watched a spectacular game-changing catch by the team I didn't want to win and had no reaction beyond, "Oh, that didn't happen. They're going to overturn it." (Wrong both times, for the record.) We no longer really celebrate the moment as it happens. We have to wait to see if it's official, if it holds up on tape.

And the reviews don't always get it right anyway. As Bill Simmons points out, that Harrison run back at the end of the first half featured a glaring block in the back. I noticed on the fourth replay, and gave up hope that the announcers might refer to it by the fifteenth. Simmons also argues, and I agree, that Warner's fumble at the end was pretty clearly a forward pass. But they already overturned a "fumble" earlier. Did they not want to overturn the same call twice? (Same thing on the Harrison TD, actually. Big Ben had a TD called back earlier.) Did they now want the game to just happen? If they're still going to make mistakes, they might as well ditch review and at least let the game happen live.

Labels: music, sports, TV

11:18 bone daddy

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Top 6 Most Played Songs on My iPod

"Save it for Later," English Beat (28)
"Beat Surrender," the Jam (27) - My kids love this song. I'm afraid the "bullshit is bullshit, it just goes by different names" line is going to be a problem soon.
"Someday I Suppose," the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones (27)
"Come on Eileen," Dexy's Midnight Runners (26)
"I Confess," English Beat (25)
"Last Nite," the Strokes (23)

Not exactly a 2008 list since some of these songs have been on the 'pod since I got it a couple years ago.

Labels: 2008, Lists, music

21:06 cdogzilla

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Have you gotten used to alt, indie or punk songs showing up in commercials? Completely used to it?

Okay, then you must - must - check out this commercial.

How could they have missed using "Holiday in the Bun" as a tag line?

And I think playing Mr. Weasley in the Harry Potter movies should have kept Mr. Rotten in the euros.

Labels: movies, music, TV

12:40 bone daddy

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

For those of you who watched the debate:
Can I form a band called Joe the Plumber? Or is it too late?

Labels: Conservative Goons, music

23:10 bone daddy

Thursday, May 15, 2008

My Kinda Show

If I went, I would get soooooo drunk. :)~

Labels: local flavor, music, shadowboner

14:30 cdogzilla

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Stuck in the Middle
Fittingly for a band that pissed away so much of its potential, the Replacements still haven't really gotten the posthumous treatment they deserve. Rhino will be reissuing all the 'Mats albums, the Twin/Tone era is already out and getting good reviews. Rhino generally does a good job with this sort of thing and it'll certainly be better than All for Nothing/Nothing for All the greatest hits/B-side collection that was limited to only the major label years.

Still, a slew of reissues, featuring some bonus tracks looks more like a money gouge for those of us who already have the original and some boots. I can't buy a CD for one song. I just don't work that way. Sooner or later they'll get a boxed set. Every moron with more than six albums gets a boxed set eventually, are you telling me the 'Mats won't?

I recently finished The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting, An Oral History by Minneapolis rocker and writer Jim Walsh. Good enough, I'd even say it's must ... for the fans. A really great history of the Replacements would probably be interesting even to people who didn't like indie music. The youth - Tommy Stinson really was 14 when they started - the booze, the expectations, pissing away those expectations, playing the greatest rock songs ever written, playing so poorly you get things thrown at you. All Over But the Shouting captures some of it, but it's not the history they deserve.

Apparently the story about the 'Mats sneaking back into Twin/Tone to toss their master tapes into the river is true. Manager Peter Jeperson had made other copies, making the reissues possible. Smart guy.

Labels: Books, music

12:20 bone daddy

Monday, March 03, 2008

Jeff Healey dies at 41, apparently from the same cancer that took his sight.

Labels: music, obit

17:28 bone daddy

Friday, December 14, 2007

C-Dog's 2007 Faves

Albums

Dropkick Murphys - "The Meanest of Times": I can't imagine any Battle of the Bands format the Murphys wouldn't win ... and I'm not only imagining formats where the band members have to do shots of whiskey chased with Guinness between songs, where success is measured by the vivacity of the mosh pit, where the bands play in front of a soused crowd of laborers in the sweaty basement of a union hall, etc...

Tim Armstrong - "A Poet's Life" : I don't know if Armstrong is more than thirty years old but, even if not, he might want to take Mencken's quip to heart. As much as I like this album, the title makes me cringe. Once you get past his "I'm a poet and a sex-drugs-and-rock-n-rolling party man" posing, there's no denying the wickedly danceable ska-inflected groovealiciousness.

Books (Read for the First Time Regardless of Year Published)

Kim Stanley Robinson - "Sixty Days and Counting"

Nolan Dalla - "One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player"

Max Brooks - "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War"

Richard Dawkins - "The God Delusion"

Richard McEwan - "Atonement: A Novel"

Richard Harris - "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason": Did we need both "The God Delusion" and "The End of Faith"? Evidently, yes.

China Mieville - "Perdido Street Station"

Richard K. Morgan - "Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel"

Movies

The Bourne Ultimatum

Michael Clayton

Live Free or Die Hard

Eastern Promises

A more macho list of manly-men movies would be hard to imagine. I'm really not trying to exclude female filmmakers (nor authors, nor musicians) ... but, wow, take the Y chromosone out and you're not left with much here. Although, I actually thought China Mieville was a woman until I saw his picture in the back of "Perdido Street Station".

Labels: 2007, Books, Lists, movies, music, TV

09:32 cdogzilla

Thursday, December 13, 2007

"I understand Led Zeppelin's menorah totally sucks."
Yo La Tengo wraps up its Maxwell's Hannukah shows, all eight of them. Obscure covers and guests galore, just what Hannukah in Hoboken needs.

Labels: music

09:01 bone daddy

Friday, November 16, 2007

Love them Lists More music lists ... Blender picks the top 100 indie albums of all time. I always think 100 is something of a cop out. You can probably correctly guess about 60 of them. Not that it's a horrible list, just that this has been done before and, as always, I think New Day Rising and Zen Arcade should switch places. Same with Daydream Nation and the unlisted Sister. Most egregious ommission: Psychocandy. Seems like they feared being called too old. Is Arcade Fire that good?

The A.V. Club goes a little more original with a 21 item lists of good albums that would have been great E.P.s. Right off the top of my head I'd say Dinosaur Jr's Bug. I haven't listened to the whole album in about ten years. E.P. version: Freak Scene/No Bones/They Always Come/Yeah We Know/ The Post. And you could switch pretty much any of the other noise-fest songs for "Yeah We Know" if you wanted.

Labels: Lists, music

08:17 bone daddy

Saturday, November 10, 2007

You know the movie song
Here's a fun exercise: think of four songs you'd like to see made into movies.

Labels: Lists, movies, music

14:49 cdogzilla

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Carrie Brownstein of the great, now-defunct Sleater-Kinney has started a music oriented blog, Monitor Mix on NPR's site.

Labels: music

14:38 bone daddy

Saturday, September 08, 2007

"Romeo and Juliet" Covered by the Killers
Caught this on the "Live from Abbey Road" show on Sundance. Not included in this clip is the the band talking about how much they love Dire Straits, this song, and hoping that by trying to do it justice they can introduce some of their younger listeners to Mark Knopfler & co.

Labels: music, youtube goodness

15:36 cdogzilla

Gorilla on drums.

Labels: monkeys, music, youtube goodness

13:34 bone daddy

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

The Enduring Bond Between Huey Lewis and the Developmentally Disabled. A great article on why "retarded people love them some Huey Lewis." Not as cruel as it sounds, but as funny.

Labels: music

09:02 bone daddy

Friday, July 20, 2007

I Feel Like I Ought to be Appalled ...
But I really like the amped up version of Squeeze's "Goodbye Girl" in the Under Armour commercial. According to the website, Squeeze actually rerecorded the song. I'd like to hear the full version, not just the 30 second snippet.

Labels: music, TV

20:42 cdogzilla

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Christian Metal Band or Star Trek episode? A quiz.

Labels: music, sci-fi, TV

10:40 bone daddy

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Bands inspired by the Harry Potter books are probably busy right now. I actually have a couple of songs in iTunes by Harry and the Potters, but nothing by Draco and the Malfoys. Any girl group looking to form should grab the name The Weird Sisters before it's taken.

Labels: Books, music

16:03 bone daddy

Friday, June 22, 2007

Beatbox Français

via Ikram "The Dude"

Labels: music, youtube goodness

13:57 cdogzilla

Monday, June 18, 2007

The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith
Haven't watched it yet, just noting that it's out there.

Labels: music, youtube goodness

10:34 cdogzilla

Monday, May 28, 2007

Songs To Which Baby Girl Dances (And Doesn't)
My 1 year old daughter loves to dance. She's got two main dances: a sway with left leg lift, and a bummy bouncer. She likes to watch Jack's Big Music Show and pretty much anything Laurie Berkner but she also likes ska; Hepcat, Bigger Thomas, UB40, and the English Beat seem to be her favorites.

I was flipping through the music channels tonight and noticed that she really liked Howard Jones's "Life in One Day" ... but stopped cold and looked irritated when "Rudebox" by Robbie Williams came on. I'm not saying that makes one good and one bad, but ...

Summing up:
Dances to Howard Jones � Life in One Day
Irritated by Robbie Williams � Rudebox

Labels: baby girl dance, music

19:56 cdogzilla

Friday, April 20, 2007

Authentic Pop
The Monkees not authentic enough for you? What is?

Labels: music

09:46 cdogzilla

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Marvin Gaye sings the National Anthem at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game. Wow.

Thomas Dolby and Stevie Wonder tell the tale.

Labels: music

21:47 HD

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Yo La Tengo will take requests and sing cover songs live for $100 pledges to New York's WFMU radio station on Friday night.

Labels: music

20:55 HD

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Fugazi Live CD Series

Labels: music

20:53 cdogzilla

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Lots and lots of rock tattoos. Many of htem cool. Many of them so sad they must be real.

Labels: music

22:38 bone daddy

Thursday, February 15, 2007

I realize this is late and I'm not really much of a fan, but I'm endlessly amused that the Dixie Chicks won a bunch of Grammies for their song "I'm So Not Apologizing To You Twits."

Labels: music

11:03 bone daddy

Monday, February 12, 2007

I've put a finetune list together as well. Western Swing, Alt-Country, Honky Tonk type stuff. Looks like I've also migrated us to the new blogger. See how that goes.

I've turned the blogger comments on. They'll be moderated. I set it to me but I'd really rather not do it, I think I'd rather just drop the comments all together, so if another cryptonaut would like to take it over, please feel free.

Labels: admin, music

21:10 cdogzilla

Friday, February 09, 2007

I started using finetune, a internet radio/playlist site that lets you set up and then stream music. (To satisfy copyright law, you have to set up a 45 song list with no more than three songs from any one artist and it plays in random order. Also other people can see and listen to it.) They give you an "I'm lazy" button to fill in the rest of your list if you don't have the time to fill up to 45. So it only took me about ten minutes to set up this playlist, filled with that shoe-gazery stuff I occassionally push on unsuspecting visitors. I haven't really tested it out - i.e. played it while working on a bunch of other things or tested "If you like X try Y" tags - but it seems to be a nice alternative to iTunes radio.

Labels: music

14:21 bone daddy

Monday, December 11, 2006

Is this the way you remember the video for Sonic Youth's Schizophrenia? Maybe Sonic Youth have been around for longer than I thought.

Labels: music

23:18 bone daddy

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Sonic Youth will release an album of b-sides and rarities, probably the last thing they do for Geffen. I'm curious if they'll land at another major. I'm also curious about the b-sides. I just got finished reading Confusion is Next: the sonic youth story, detailing a lot of their side stuff, and Sonic Nurse continues to jump in my CD player on a regular basis.

Labels: music

23:52 bone daddy

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Sugarcube
I could've sworn I posted this before, but I don't see where I did ... so apologies if this is a dupe. Great song, hilarious video.

Special bonus: Tom Courtenay.

Labels: music

14:32 cdogzilla

Monday, September 25, 2006

What I Like Most About This Review ...
of Yo La Tengo's "I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass" isn't that it praises the album, which is praiseworthy if not one that I think would make new listeners love the band, rather it's how huge the picture of the reviewer is in the article.

I imagine this will be fixed, so if you follow the link and it's a normal sized picture, well ... I don't know what to tell you.

Labels: music

13:24 cdogzilla

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

A Message to You, Ska Fan
If you're jonesing for some fresh ska-dub-rockin' then you could do far worse than picking up a copy of The Stolen Records "Basement Songs" at CDFreedom.com. If CDFreedom sells out, try CDbaby.com. I don't know if you'll find it anywhere else, it's one of those little indie things not on iTunes ... nor even at Newbury Comics.

RIYL: Hepcat, The Slackers, Weaker Youth Ensemble, Steady Earnest.

Labels: music

20:47 cdogzilla