NEW MY MORNING JACKET VIDEOS Our favorite country-fried rockers My Morning Jacket were on Conan last night and their performance of “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream (Pt. 2)” rang to high heavens. We also have a video here of MMJ at Bonnaroo with Kirk Hammett from Metallica, so check it folks!
My Morning Jacket on Conan
My Morning Jacket meets Metallica
MMJ = Fucking Metal. ******************************************************************** NEW HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR VIDEOGod’s gift to disco-lovers everywhere, Hercules and Love Affair have released a video for their single “You Belong” off their self-titled debut. Check it peoples! You Belong
******************************************************************** TERROR THURSDAY – EATEN ALIVE Terror Thursday is back at Cannibal Cheerleader! This week’s screen-gem is from the twisted brain of Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s overseer Tobe Hooper. Eaten Alive is the story of an insane hotel owner and his penchant for murdering his tenants and feeding them to his pet crocodile. Ridiculously bizarre acting styles by all involved in the film and enough gore and guts to keep the audience on their toes. Definitely a weird one, but deserving of four out of five bloody pon-poms nonetheless. ******************************************************************** FEED THE WIKILast off today we have a funny little phenom – seems as if people on Wikipedia are trying to decipher all the samples from Girl Talk’s new mashup Feed the Animals. From the looks of it seems like they’re being pretty successful so far, but does anyone know what they’re missing? Comment and let me know! See everyone next week!
To celebrate the release of Cruiserweight’s newest release Cruiserweight Rocks the Moon (available now on iTunes) here’s a live video of their single “Balboa” from the EP. Check it out below people, shot and edited by yours truly, and be sure and purchase this Cruiserweight EP (only 2.99? you know I got mine!).
TRYOUTS – GIRL TALK’ FEED THE ANIMALS The new Girl Talk album Feed the Animals has officially crash landed onto the Internet and the same level of mashup-badassery we’ve come to expect from the Pittsburgh native. On a first run-through I heard samples from Kanye, Nirvana, M.I.A., Salt ‘N Pepa, Twisted Sister, Sinead O’Connor, Kelly Clarkson, Daft Punk, the Cure, T.I. Soulja Boy, that annoying theme-song from Dawson’s Creek, and innumerable hooks and riffs that I had definitely heard before but just couldn’t place. Seems like that’s just the way Girl Talk operates, finding the nuanced, inspired moments in pop music and combining them into an entirely new and increasingly original musical template. The difference between this release and Night Ripper is the quality of the layering of the samples, no longer a simple mish-mash of cool songs but a definitive new creation, segueing seamlessly not only between songs but through movements in each track. On a precursory examination, Feed the Animals definitely makes the team. Keep a lookout for it, because word is it’ll be available on a pay-what-you-want platform soon.
Correction: Feed the Animals is available on on a pay-what-you-want platform now, so swing on over to the Illegal Art website and download a copy immediately people!
Sometimes when you go and see one of your favorite bands play, however good the show may be, you find yourself strangely disappointed, either because the set sounded too stagey and planned, the group didn’t play any of your favorite songs, or the crowd was just not feeling it. That was definitely NOT the case with Rilo Kiley’s set last night at Stubb’s here in Austin. Blasting through a set of stone cold classics (”Pictures of Success” AND “Better Son/Daughter”?? No way!) and amazing newer tracks (”Dreamworld”, “Breakin’ Up”, “Close Call”? Awesome!) on this one of the band’s last stops on their “Under the Blacklight Tour”, Blake Sennet, Jenny Lewis, and the rest of the gang mounted an indie assault with loose flair in front of an incredibly receptive Austin audience that would soon forget! More pictures and the setlist (as best as I can remember it and a little bit out of order) and more pictures below!
Setlist: “Close Call”, “Moneymaker”, “Capturing Moods”, “Dreamworld”, “Breakin’ Up”, “Ripcord”, “The Absence of God”, “It’s a Hit”, “With Arms Outstretched”, “Does He Love You?”, “Better Son/Daughter”, “Silver Lining”, “I Never”
Encore: “Pictures of Success”, “15″, “Portions for Foxes/Spectacular Views”
According to the Stones Throw website, before J Dilla’s untimely passing he collaborated with none other than our favorite emcee MF Doom as well as the infamouse Ghostface Killah on a variety of tracks using samples from his swan song Donuts (some of these tracks ended up on Fishscale, while the Doom tracks have never surfaced).
Now, Stones Throw will be releasing two of these Dilla/Doom/Ghostface tunes exclusively through their website (they’re called “Sniperlite” and “Murder Goons”). You know as soon as we get wind of these tracks we’ll let you readers in on a listen, but let’s just all salivate at the possibility of Doom’s awesome flow over a J Dilla beat. Sweetness!
According to this interview with Pitchfork, Gregg Gillis AKA Girl Talk will be releasing his newest album via ‘the Radiohead/NIN/pay-what-you-want model’ before the end of the week! That’s good news to us as this mashup-artist’s Night Ripper was one of our favorite pop wonderworks of yesteryear so we’ll be waiting with bated breath for Feed the Animals (not Food for Animals mind you, haha). Also check out the Girl Talk Myspace for the dronetastic prep-track for the album. Weird stuff man!
Comments anyone? Anyone at this Rilo Kiley show get any better pictures?
Our favorite country-fried rockers My Morning Jacket were on Conan last night and their performance of “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream (Pt. 2)” rang to high heavens. We also have a video here of MMJ at Bonnaroo with Kirk Hammett from Metallica, so check it folks!
God’s gift to disco-lovers everywhere, Hercules and Love Affair have released a video for their single “You Belong” off their self-titled debut. Check it peoples!
Terror Thursday is back at Cannibal Cheerleader! This week’s screen-gem is from the twisted brain of Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s overseer Tobe Hooper. Eaten Alive is the story of an insane hotel owner and his penchant for murdering his tenants and feeding them to his pet crocodile. Ridiculously bizarre acting styles by all involved in the film and enough gore and guts to keep the audience on their toes. Definitely a weird one, but deserving of four out of five bloody pon-poms nonetheless.
Last off today we have a funny little phenom – seems as if people on Wikipedia are trying to decipher all the samples from Girl Talk’s new mashup Feed the Animals. From the looks of it seems like they’re being pretty successful so far, but does anyone know what they’re missing? Comment and let me know! See everyone next week!
Sometimes when you go and see one of your favorite bands play, however good the show may be, you find yourself strangely disappointed, either because the set sounded too stagey and planned, the group didn’t play any of your favorite songs, or the crowd was just not feeling it. That was definitely NOT the case with 
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