tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38161929928755104112012-01-19T13:51:00.315-05:00Gentleman FellerThis guy just never stops.Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.comBlogger3521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-12532039912076041632012-01-19T13:51:00.001-05:002012-01-19T13:51:00.387-05:00New Music: Santogold - "Big Mouth"<div class='posterous_autopost'><iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cxdQ_uD5IWk" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> <p /><div>Now this is something totally new for 2012. Eagerly awaited for, literally, years, the first single from Santigold's forthcoming <i>Master of My Make-Believe</i> is called "Big Mouth." </div> <p /><div>It sounds nothing like her first album, rules just as hard, and hopefully will find its way into the clubs so Santi can be a huge pop star. It's not gonna happen but a man can dream, right? At least we're finally gonna get a follow-up to the still perfect <i>Santogold</i>.</div> <p /><div>Download "Big Mouth" for free by singing up for Santi's mailing list at her <a href="http://www.santigold.com/">website</a>. (Worth it!)</div><div>Buy <i>Santogold</i> at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Santogold/dp/B0017T6FSY">Amazon </a>and welcome yourself into the year 2008. </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/new-music-santogold-big-mouth">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-1253203991207604163?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-83643636158838824452012-01-17T22:47:00.001-05:002012-01-17T22:47:22.103-05:00New Music: Orbital - "Never"<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/new-music-orbital-never"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Never</strong> by Orbital</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/new-music-orbital-never">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p><b style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost two years ago to the day, I posted a </span><a href="http://onestupidmop.com/orbital-halcyon-live"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">live version of Orbital’s “Halcyon,”</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> which has one of the greatest pay-offs in live electronic music EVER. Today comes the announcement that the Hartnoll brothers, Paul and Phil, are back together and have a new album on the horizon.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">“Never” is the first single from </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Wonky</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, due out in April, the duo’s first new album in eight years. That alone is exciting news. Even if the track feels a bit run of the mill.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I can vaguely remember seeing a video for the track pop up early fall last year but there wasn’t an announcement or news, just the track. The tapping beat and revolving melodies are what Orbital does best and, </span><a href="http://youtu.be/ZCi1CurRAVg"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">as the video suggests</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, sounds like a very late night drive home from a very late night.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing monumental from Orbital, other than the standard, high level of quality the Hartnolls have always maintained. But we’ve only heard one track, so there’s no telling what else they’ve pumped out of those brilliant bald heads. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Orbital’s </span><a href="http://orbitalofficial.com/"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">official website</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Buy Orbital’s music at </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orbital/e/B000APWUVW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1326857482&sr=8-3"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Amazon</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></b></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/new-music-orbital-never">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8364363615883882445?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-11930339882491261752012-01-17T13:56:00.001-05:002012-01-17T13:56:57.813-05:00Heems of Das Racist drops new album<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It seems that Heems, of Brooklyn hip hop visionaries* Das Racist, wants everybody to have a new album today, so he’s giving away a new one, called </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nehru Jackets</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, for free.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the email I just got, the album/mixtape includes members of the Queens, NY, community organization </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://sevany.com/">SEVA</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> which is working to raise awareness of redistricting efforts in the borough. Also included on the tape are Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Action Bronson, and Childish Gambino, all of whom were branded underground hip hop heroes via 2011 year-end lists.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grab the mixtape </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JN4YWK2B"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. I haven’t listened to it yet, or even downloaded it, but I’m sure it’s no waste of time...</span></b></div> <p /><div><span style="">But wait, here's a track from the tape: </span> <span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">"You Have to Ride The Wave” (ft. Danny Brown and Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire)"</span></div><p /><div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><object height="81" width="500"><param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F33681873&" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F33681873&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" width="500"></embed></object><span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/johnacruz/heems-you-have-to-ride-the">Heems - You Have to Ride the Wave (feat. Danny Brown, Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire)</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/johnacruz">jcrackinov</a></span></object></div><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*I’m calling them visionaries because </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Relax</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> got a lot of spins in my world. There’s a pretty good chance it’ll be on that slow-to-appear Top 11 of ‘11 I’ve been posting, but you never know...</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/heems-of-das-racist-drops-new-album">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-1193033988249126175?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-87572990982757031262012-01-16T16:44:00.001-05:002012-01-16T16:44:02.838-05:00Sleigh Bells - "Comeback Kid"<div class='posterous_autopost'><object height="81" width="500"><param name="movie" value="</div>https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F33106352&<span>" /></span></param></object><div>param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-</span><span>flash" height="81" width="500"></span></embed></object><span><span><a href="</span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/sleighbells/comeback-kid" target="_blank" style="">http://soundcloud.com/sleighbells/comeback-kid</a><span>"></span><span>Comeback Kid</a> by <a href="</span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/sleighbells">http://soundcloud.com/sleighbells</a><span>">Sleigh Bells</a></span></span><p /><div>New track from <a href="http://reignofterror.tv/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">Sleigh Bells</a>? I may have the day off work but this would make any day better. You can't beat Alexis Krauss over some new overmodulated guitar stabs and pounding beats. It sounds like they're going a little pop. Not that Sleigh Bells weren't a little pop before. Or maybe it's just that I'd like to see an Adele-like rise to superstardom for noise pop. Yeah, I know it's not gonna happen. This is one of those albums that has expectations high for 2012, and now the second single is as good as <a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/sleigh-bells-exclusive-hear-new-single-born-lose?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">the first one</a>.</div> <p /><div>I'm not sure what I'm more excited for, the mini-tour of Florida with Diplo (wooooooo Fort Lauderdale stop on February 11) or the new album, <i>Reign of Terror</i>, which is out February 21, and thus far is living up to the promise of the 2010 debut, <i>Treats</i>.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Treats</i> from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Treats/dp/B003P72KGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326749328&sr=8-1" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">Amazon</a>. And, maybe go see them <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/45058-sleigh-bells-announce-north-american-dates/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">in concert</a>.</div> <p /><div>(via <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/sleigh-bells-debut-new-track-comeback-kid,67726/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">A/V Club</a>)</div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/sleigh-bells-comeback-kid-15231">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8757299098275703126?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-78364359525651925882012-01-16T16:32:00.001-05:002012-01-16T16:32:48.982-05:00Sleigh Bells - "Comeback Kid"<div class='posterous_autopost'><object height="81" width="500"><param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F33106352&" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F33106352&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" width="500"></embed></object><span><a href="<a href="http://soundcloud.com/sleighbells/comeback-kid" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/sleighbells/comeback-kid</a>">Comeback Kid</a> by <a href="<a href="http://soundcloud.com/sleighbells">http://soundcloud.com/sleighbells</a>">Sleigh Bells</a></span> <p /><div>New track from <a href="http://reignofterror.tv/">Sleigh Bells</a>? I may have the day off work but this would make any day better. You can't beat Alexis Krauss over some new overmodulated guitar stabs and pounding beats. It sounds like they're going a little pop. Not that Sleigh Bells weren't a little pop before. Or maybe it's just that I'd like to see an Adele-like rise to superstardom for noise pop. Yeah, I know it's not gonna happen. This is one of those albums that has expectations high for 2012, and now the second single is as good as <a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/sleigh-bells-exclusive-hear-new-single-born-lose?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter">the first one</a>.</div> <p /><div>I'm not sure what I'm more excited for, the mini-tour of Florida with Diplo (wooooooo Fort Lauderdale stop on February 11) or the new album, <i>Reign of Terror</i>, which is out February 21, and thus far is living up to the promise of the 2010 debut, <i>Treats</i>.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Treats</i> from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Treats/dp/B003P72KGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326749328&sr=8-1">Amazon</a>. And, maybe go see them <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/45058-sleigh-bells-announce-north-american-dates/">in concert</a>.</div> <p /><div>(via <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/sleigh-bells-debut-new-track-comeback-kid,67726/">A/V Club</a>)</div></object> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/sleigh-bells-comeback-kid">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-7836435952565192588?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-55265785470380201162012-01-16T11:56:00.001-05:002012-01-16T11:56:28.535-05:00Weezer - 'Say It Ain't So' (Live on Letterman circa 1995)<div class='posterous_autopost'><iframe width="420" height="315" src="<a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8RFTB5vgV_4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/embed/8RFTB5vgV_4</a>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <p /><div>The reason there are so many people in their mid-20s to mid-30s who hate Weezer isn't because the band sucks, because they don't. The reason is because they were so good, putting out the blatantly perfect <i>Blue Album</i> and <i>Pinkerton</i> and never recovering - either from Rivers Cuomo's crushing depression that the latter didn't arrive with the same massive gigantic splash as the former, or because Matt Sharp just got sick of Cuomo's bull shit.</div> <p /><div>This, to be honest, is <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-rentals-sweetness-and-tenderness" target="_blank">an argument I've made before</a>, and will make until the end of time. Even now, there is no song on either album that fails to wake me up and lock me into whatever speaker it pours out of. Each of the 20 songs on the official, original releases of the album, and most of the b-sides from the era, are great songs with no explanation needed. The crunching, fuzzed guitar sound. Half-emo cynicism in the lyrics. For three glorious years, Weezer was a band apart.</div> <p /><div>"Say It Ain't So" was one of those early hits, and one of ten tracks on the <i>Blue Album</i>, that converted pretty much everybody to a fan. The hate is all about knowing that Weezer will never write songs as good as they did on those two albums. Well, unless Matt Sharp rejoins the band and shocks the world.............</div> <p /><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weezer/e/B000APYT4S/ref=ntt_mus_dp_pel" target="_blank">Weezer</a> put out deluxe editions of the <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weezer-Deluxe/dp/B0001JXQEM/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_12">Blue Album</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pinkerton-Deluxe-Edition-Digital-Booklet/dp/B0049289MG/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_15">Pinkerton</a></i> in 2010.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/weezer-say-it-aint-so-live-on-letterman-circa">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5526578547038020116?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-50986351827980111132012-01-12T13:12:00.001-05:002012-01-12T13:12:21.034-05:00Ted Leo on new music, Obama and OWS<div class='posterous_autopost'><img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="" src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.11NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMjYzOTE1MDIyMjImcHQ9MTMyNjM5MTUwMzg4MyZwPSZkPSZnPTImbz*1Y2U5NmUyY2MwMzY*Y2EyODk2MDMyYjI*/NzM*Y2ViNSZvZj*w.gif" /> </div> " /><object name="kaltura_player_1326391499" data="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_luptc4qt/uiconf_id/5590821" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" height="221" width="392"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="movie" value="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_luptc4qt/uiconf_id/5590821" /><param name="flashVars" value="autoPlay=false&screensLayer.startScreenOverId=startScreen&screensLayer.startScreenId=startScreen" /><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com">http://corp.kaltura.com</a>">video platformhttp://corp.kaltura.com/video_platform/video_management">video managementhttp://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/video_solution">video solutionshttp://corp.kaltura.com/video_platform/video_publishing">video player</object> <p /><div>There's no questioning that Ted Leo is true to his punk ideals. There's also no questioning that he's a great damn songwriter. This piece from ABC News, while not too deep, covers his thoughts on OWS, starting out in a new band, and writing new songs. If it wasn't on his <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TedLeo">Facebook page</a>, I'd have never seen it, so thank The Zuck for that great social timewaster.</div> <p /><div>Check out some of Ted Leo's albums at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Leo-The-Pharmacists/e/B000APR1YS">Amazon</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/ted-leo-on-new-music-obama-and-ows">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5098635182798011113?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-47779924500929260372012-01-11T22:30:00.001-05:002012-01-11T22:30:48.535-05:00The War on Drugs Bring "Missiles" to Fallon<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>(<i>Part two in an 11 part series to spotlight "Feller's Albums De L'annee" Unlike all those other bloggers, I refuse to evaluate the year until it's over. Also, I got kind of lazy in December. Full disclosure, you know? Enjoy...</i>)</div> <p /><embed width="600" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" src="<a href="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/dg11469/January">http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/dg11469/January</a> 9 2012 - January 15 2012/thewarondrugsfallon.mp4"><p /><div><a href="http://www.thewarondrugs.net/">The War on Drugs</a> hit up Jimmy Fallon last night to play "Baby Missiles," one of the tracks from last year's great <i>Slave Ambient</i>. I caught them at The Black Cat in Washington, D.C., last August and they filled a small room with rock and roll while the tightly packed crowd jumped and danced. The steady stream of PBR helped a bit too.</div> <p /><div>I'm partial to their first album, <i>Wagonwheel Blues</i>, just because it's great, but <i>Slave Ambient</i> builds on the airy rock and frontman Adam Granduciel's Dylan-like drawl and delivers on exactly what is great about that first record. Singing about freedom and the road and strange reactions to people, you (or I, obviously) get the feeling of being on the road, watching America crawl by through a bus or train window, as if running from or to something. And there is a lot to find comforting in that kind of rock album. Maybe I'm just itching for that kind of road trip. Which doesn't change how good the album is anyway.</div> <p /><div>Before hitting that show, though, I wasn't convinced enough to spread the word. The fact is, they jam, letting the songs fly, just as they do on Fallon's stage, with the help of ?uestlove there. If they come through a town I'm in, and I'm not required to see be somewhere else, I plan to occupy a space in front of the stage they're on. In the case of "Baby Missiles," I'm especially a fan of the harmonica. And that guitar sound during the solos. Mmmmmm. Good stuff.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Slave Ambient</i> at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Ambient-Digital-Booklet/dp/B005FH2S8A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326338164&sr=8-2">Amazon</a>. (It's only five bucks and worth every penny or more. Go buy it!)</div> <p /><div>The Jimmy Fallon clip is thanks to <a href="http://www.somekindofawesome.com/journal/2012/1/11/watch-the-war-on-drugs-baby-missiles-live-on-fallon.html">Some Kind of Awesome</a>, a blog all of ya'll should be reading.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-war-on-drugs-bring-missiles-to-fallon">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4777992450092926037?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-78065920826086168732012-01-10T13:47:00.001-05:002012-01-10T13:47:36.062-05:00Refused - The Deadly Rhythm (WOOOO! Coachella!!)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/refused-the-deadly-rhythm-woooo-coachella"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>The Deadly Rhythm</strong> by Refused</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/refused-the-deadly-rhythm-woooo-coachella">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The line-up for this year’s </span><a href="http://stereogum.com/919521/coachella-2012-lineup/top-stories/lead-story/" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Coachella festival </span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">was announced yesterday. The list is pretty amazing, what with Radiohead, The Black Keys, Dre and Snoop, The Hives and a very long list of bands and artists that are sure to have the festival sell out quick and fast.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Of the entire line-up, and it is a deep, deep line-up, the two eye-catchers come from bands that fans have long wanted to reunite, one of which has sworn up and down for more than a decade that they were over forever: </span><a href="http://fearlessrecords.com/atdi/" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">At The Drive-In</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><a href="http://officialrefused.com.preview.binero.se/" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Refused</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The post-punk heroes, each of which has had a somewhat profound affect on punk and music as a whole, will play their first shows together at the gigantic festival.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At The Drive-In gained popular attention once Grand Royal Records (AKA The Beastie Boys) signed them and got “One-Armed Scissor,” from their pretty widely loved album “Relationship of Command” on MTV. Then the band splintered into the prog-metal mindfuck of The Mars Volta and more straight forward rock of Sparta. While TMV will release a new album this year, Sparta hasn’t put out a new album since 2006, though they’ve been playing live recently.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ATDI getting back together is not the most shocking thing though since they’ve been teasing it for at least two years. The problem with the band was that Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez felt held back, so they left and formed another band, in addition to writing, recording and releasing about 10,000 projects a year.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Refused, on the other hand, imploded and swore they’d never come back after their ground-shaking </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Sound of Punk To Come</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> changed the face of hard music - at least in retrospect. </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The album turns from melodic to blistering hardcore on a dime, with a series of political statements that show the band’s preference for socialism over pure capitalism, and is universally lauded for sounding so unlike anything else at the time, despite hardcore not being a new idea. </span></b></div> <p /><div><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Check out “The Deadly Rhythm.” Yeah, hardcore from an album whose name is stolen from an Ornette Coleman classic (“</span><a href="http://youtu.be/LPaWRiX_254" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Shape of Jazz To Come</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”), and a song that samples Bo Diddley’s “</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,0,153); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/mm7gVvUuZkE" style="font-weight: bold;">I’m A Man</a>,</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">” but sounds like getting your face kicked in, rebuilt and then kicked in again. Punk. As. Fuck.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These bands matter, and now they have returned. This is a big deal people. Melodramatic enough for you?</span></span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/refused-the-deadly-rhythm-woooo-coachella">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-7806592082608616873?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-66307771305700009572012-01-09T20:24:00.001-05:002012-01-09T20:24:35.442-05:00The Shins reveal "Simple Song"<div class='posterous_autopost'><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F32881757%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-k0Rs7&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=a65b58" frameborder="no" height="166" width="100%"></iframe><br /> <p /><div>The first single from the long-awaited, heavily-anticipated fourth Shins album, <i>Port of Morrow</i>, has been posted as a stream at The Shins website. What's the best part of "Simple Song?" It sounds like The Shins. Considering that band leader James Mercer dismissed the entire band after its last effort, this could have been a crap shoot. Not really. Mercer was gonna write a bunch of great new songs, which is what he does every time out. Alas, we get what we want.</div> <p /><div>What's nice about The Shins maintaining a constant sound - not that "Simple Song" sounds necessarily like anything on the band's previous three albums - is similar, to keep with the indie sound, Spoon. Is anybody breaking new ground? Well, Britt Daniel has a tendency to do a few new things, but for the most part what you get is a new set of songs that sounds different from the old ones but completely like Spoon. That's what this is. I, for one, am thankful for that.</div> <p /><div><i>Port of Morrow</i> is out March 20. Preorder it from <a href="http://simplesong.theshins.com">simplesong.theshins.com</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-shins-reveal-simple-song">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6630777130570000957?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-37426633385106166052012-01-09T13:50:00.001-05:002012-01-09T13:50:29.378-05:00The Black Keys - Hell of a Season<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-black-keys-hell-of-a-season"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Hell Of A Season</strong> by The Black Keys</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-black-keys-hell-of-a-season">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Part one in an 11 part series to spotlight “Feller’s Albums De L’annee.” Unlike all those other bloggers, I refuse to evaluate the year until it’s over. Also, I got kind of lazy in December. Full disclosure, you know? Enjoy...</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One 2011’s biggest releases came toward the end of the year, from a band that has quietly become one of the biggest, most consistently great bands in the country - The Black Keys. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What the blues-rock duo has done over the last decade, without compromising anything, really, is evolve their sound from a somewhat derivative melding of the two music forms into a sound all their own. From their first album, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Big Come Up</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the Black Keys have become adept at writing more and better songs every year since, with their sound evolving to balance the blues based attack that made that gritty first effort so addictive. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The new album, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">El Camino</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, is the first to feature Danger Mouse behind the boards for every track since </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Attack and Release</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in 2008, and it solidifies the partnership as just enough pop has been added to what probably started off as pretty hooky rock songs anyway.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">El Camino</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> finds Dan and Patrick finding their groove, literally, on most every song. Even where the lyrical content is a little heavy, as it can be with these blues guys, the up tempo riffage has everything moving. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The consensus among reviewers was that </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brothers</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the 2009 blockbuster from the Black Keys, was a down record, this rediscovers their rocking side. I don’t quite get that, but whatever. Maybe everyone just wanted a party record. Considering all the influence on here, what with echoes of all sorts of pop songs, in a good way, this should be a party record.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Coming in on the second half of the album, “Hell of a Season,” covers both those sides: lyrically, it’s a bit heart-wrenching, but sonically it kicks your sad ass off that ledge you’re looking out from. Or maybe it’ll pull you back off the ledge. Either way, it’s good. And so is the rest of the album. There’s no great mystery to it: Just good rock and roll.</span></b></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-black-keys-hell-of-a-season">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3742663338510616605?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-4268718866751622282012-01-02T12:19:00.001-05:002012-01-02T12:19:26.264-05:00Diplo - Express Yourself EP sampler (ruuuuuuuuuuuuules)<div class='posterous_autopost'><object height="81" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F31675263" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <embed src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F31675263" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" width="500"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/diplo/diplo-express-yourself-ep">DIPLO express yourself EP sampler</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/diplo">diplo</a></span> <p /><div>Diplo is preparing to launch a short but useful tour with Sleigh Bells that will see the underground heroes trouncing the state of Florida by hitting all the important locations - Gainesville, Jacksonville, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Tampa. Much like his tourmates, the producer has a new album ready go. Based on the eclectic, exciting sample above, he's making sure Sleigh doesn't totally steal the shows. </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/diplo-express-yourself-ep-sampler-ruuuuuuuuuu">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-426871886675162228?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-50619834294263475062011-12-21T14:11:00.001-05:002011-12-21T14:11:18.375-05:00Game, featuring Tyler The Creator and Lil' Wayne - Martians Vs. Goblins<div class='posterous_autopost'><iframe width="560" height="315" src="<a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gODGcVSzh1U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/embed/gODGcVSzh1U</a>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /> <p /><p /><div>Good stuff, despite the fact that Halloween was two months ago. Tyler, The Creator is about six months and three guest verses from being the Next Huuuuuuuuge MC. Which will be a lot of fun to watch cause the crazy religious groups are gonna go nuts!</div> <p /><div><a href="http://www.oddfuture.com/webroot/index.php/">Odd Future</a>, members of which have been getting attention all year, are likely going to have a big big big 2012. Get acquainted now if you haven't already. It's worth your time, AND you'll look hip in the new year.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/game-featuring-tyler-the-creator-and-lil-wayn">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5061983429426347506?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-53982983808651814512011-12-14T13:32:00.001-05:002011-12-14T13:32:03.875-05:00Trent Reznor & Karen O - "Immigrant Song"<div class='posterous_autopost'><iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ljbBayiWglg" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> <p /><div>Hot on the heels of Trent Reznor <a href="http://www.thespacelab.tv/spaceLAB/2011/12December/MusicNews-029-Trent-Reznor-Nine-Inch-Nails-Songs-The-Girl-With-Dragon-Tattoo-Movie.htm#.TuEJSsXVqsg.facebook">discussing in an interview</a> that the full length debut from How To Destroy Angels is being mixed as we speak, and that 2012 may - MAY - hold the promise of something new from Nine Inch Nails, comes a video to match one of two Reznor-produced covers. (The other is U2's "Zoo Station," recorded for a tribute marking the 20th anniversary of that band's classic <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtung_Baby">Achtung Baby</a></i>.)</div> <p /><div>I wasn't sure about Reznor and Karen O, with production help from Atticus Ross, covering the Led Zeppelin classic "Immigrant Song," but it's grown on me a lot. The noise, her voice, the cold electro-ness of the whole thing. I want to suffocate in it. That's at least a little bit because their version of the song sounds like the soundtrack to a movie murder collage, but whatever. I'm sure Karen O would make it a fun way to day.<p /> </div><div>Instead, this somewhat frightening video, directed by David Fincher to open <i>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</i>, his new movie that opens next week, will have to do. Good thing it gets better with multiple plays - just like the song itself.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/trent-reznor-karen-o-immigrant-song">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5398298380865181451?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-53615248151296088162011-10-26T09:03:00.001-04:002011-10-26T09:03:13.701-04:00The Slow Death - Sorry Sam<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-slow-death-sorry-sam"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'>The Slow Death - Sorry Sam.mp3</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-slow-death-sorry-sam">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The number of bands hitting their self-deprecating, double-time punk stride is growing day by day. In fact, I don't know the last time I heard a new band do the mid-90s skate punk thing - it's almost like they've scaled it back to just blasting stuff out instead of trying to play as fast as humanly possible. </div></div> <p /><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I've got a bunch these kind of bands that'll be posted here in the next couple weeks, but today it's </span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Slow-Death/337016035978?sk=wall">The Slow Death</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> who bring together members of </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pretty-Boy-Thorson-the-Falling-Angels/34099976751"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Pretty Boy Thorson and the Falling Angels</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the Tampa-based Rest of Us, and the hugely-missed (at least by me)<a href="http://www.dorkrockcorkrod.com/"> The Ergs</a> as they rampage their way around the country.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m not gonna muck this up too much. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The album "Sorry Sam" comes from, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Born Ugly Got Worse</i>,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in all its 12-song glory, is a somewhat gruff pop-punk blast of catharsis. It works, you know?</span></div> </p><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pay what you want for The Slow Death’s new album, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Born Ugly Got Worse</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, at </span><a href="http://kissofdeath.limitedpressing.com/products/12911" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kiss of Death Records.</span></a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-slow-death-sorry-sam">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5361524815129608816?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-32542761354650332222011-10-25T22:38:00.001-04:002011-10-25T22:38:44.249-04:00Radiohead - "A Wolf at the Door (It girl. Rag doll)"<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/radiohead-a-wolf-at-the-door-it-girl-rag-doll"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'>Radiohead - A Wolf at the Door (It girl. Rag doll).mp3</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/radiohead-a-wolf-at-the-door-it-girl-rag-doll">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first song I heard in the car this morning was “Planet Telex,” the first track on </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bends</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Radiohead’s second album. I did not intend to post about Radiohead this morning. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet I found myself, this evening, flipping through their discography, from </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bends</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> itself, up through various b-side collections and finally to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hail to the Thief</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In Rainbows</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m not sure what I was looking for tonight, and I’m not sure if I found it, but I had a realization this afternoon that I spent most of my 20s being as lazy as humanly possible - this despite working 50- and 60-hour weeks at several jobs, being married and having three children, and working on and off on other stuff. Just because you are busy or working a lot does not mean you're actually accomplishing anything. I've done some stuff. I'm not sure I've gotten anything done though.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The on and off part is what bothers me too. That’s the part that isn’t good enough. Sure, I’m a bitter, ah, Millennial or late Gen Y or... It doesn’t matter. The point is, I’m one of these young people that isn’t happy. I know how much of it is my fault, and from the work I've done, I also know that the greedy schmucks a generation before me have sucked everything dry. I blame both, also knowing full well that if my personal version of lazy had not been so well engineered, I might be better off. </span></div> <p /><div style="background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not lazy on any level to work those kinds of hours. But if you're not meeting any goals, or enough of them, to push forward to some kind of larger something, then it's pretty much just life masturbation, no? </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So, as I let the Radiohead discography flow, the “what happened” of “15 Step” is the perfect alternative to “Just” insisting that “you do it to yourself.” But there’s more, because being lazy is not just something that magically happens, without you noticing. It’s that you let it happen, you let it consume you, and by the time you realize it, it’s done. </span></div> <p /><div style="background-color: transparent;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The reality is that you fight it or succumb in the hope that eventually you’ll come out of it. My 22-year-old self would be livid if I could separate him out, like the white from the yolk of an egg. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">I've heard that your 20s are made for this sort of thing, and nobody really gets serious until they turn 30 anyway. I don't know if it's true but suddenly I feel like a didn't milk a few years hard enough - and maybe that is as it should be.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“A Wolf at the Door” feels like cold water in the face. Or the alarm. Better yet, it's your car hitting the back of the one in front of you because you refused to look up from something far less important than driving. Maybe I've got Thom Yorke's lyrics all misunderstood and turned them into something for myself. I don't care, and hopefully he'll understand that I don't care.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Since the track is from </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hail To The Thief</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, everybody can sound like a Radiohead genius for knowing it, because so many love to dump on what was essentially a superb album completely unlike what people wanted to hear from the band. Actually, it’s better than that. I’m not going to make the case for </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hail To the Thief</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> at this point though.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyway, there it is. Thanks for the insight, Radiohead.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drag him out your window</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dragging out your dead</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Singing I miss you</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Snakes and ladders</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flip the lid</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Out pops the cracker</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smacks you in the head</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knifes you in the neck</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kicks you in the teeth</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steel toe caps</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Takes all your credit cards</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Get up get the gunge</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Get the eggs</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Get the flan in the face</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The flan in the face</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The flan in the face</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance you fucker dance you fucker</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't you dare</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't you dare</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't you flan in the face</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take it with the love is given</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take it with a pinch of salt</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take it to the taxman</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let me back let me back</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I promise to be good</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't look in the mirror</span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the face you don't recognize</span></p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Buy Radiohead’s </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hail To The Thief</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> at </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hail-To-The-Thief/dp/B000SXOK0A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1319593385&sr=8-2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Amazon</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/radiohead-a-wolf-at-the-door-it-girl-rag-doll">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3254276135465033222?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-80915085218825437322011-10-24T23:23:00.001-04:002011-10-24T23:23:23.532-04:00The Ettes - Red In Tooth and Claw<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-ettes-red-in-tooth-and-claw"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'>The Ettes - Red In Tooth and Claw.mp3</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-ettes-red-in-tooth-and-claw">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.theettes.com/">The Ettes</a> were not a new concept for me when I saw them at The Black Cat in Washington, D.C., on September 4. I had heard a few mp3s, watched a video or two on YouTube. You know, not an obsession, but certainly not a real familiarity.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The crowd, which felt to be about the same number of people from start to finish, though I was up against the stage the whole time so I can’t be too sure, stood through <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bam-Bams/129268340460249">The Bam Bams</a>, who were intense, especially their super-focused drummer who smiled through the entire set, and Friends, who channeled parts of the 80s I’m glad I wasn’t all that into during my single-digit years of life. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Coco, Poni and Jem finally took the stage after this mix and proceeded to pound the shit out of the audience. Like, whoa.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When it comes to pounding, really, Poni is an animal. By “is an animal,” I mean she has certain qualities that set apart her favorite drummer, Animal, from the rest of the pack. Hanging over her set, while abusing the kick drum especially, she supplies a backbone that most bands would kill for. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The bassist is often the sane guy in the band - Flea notwithstanding - and Gem covers that. His playing also often has a guitar-like quality. He looks like the coolest mother fucker in the room. The band obviously has something to do with it.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which brings me to Coco. When she howls, and her eyes roll back in her head before she starts pounding her guitar again, it’s hard not to fall in love for a second. The woman is fronting a ferocious punk band, and she sounds like the kind of “let’s fuck and move on” rock star that Robert Plant embodied. And like Plant, she’s got a few lyrics that cover that exactly.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This whole beat punk thing, that's their word, and which seems pretty accurate, finds the band’s albums progressively mellowing in speed, but maintaining heaviness. And everything is faster in concert anyway, resulting in a now two-month obsession over the full four album discography of The Ettes.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What I’ve come away with - full disclosure, I’m listening to their third album, “Do You Want Power” for the third time today, of which “Red In Tooth and Claw” is the first track - is that The Ettes, with Coco as their center-piece, are ahead of all the rock bands aping old sounds. They’ve taken from punk, 60s whatever, and country just enough to turn out a sound that doesn’t really sound like anybody else. Which is probably why their discography has remained on repeat since that night in DC.</span><br /> </div><p /> <div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Buy The Ettes album <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Do-You-Want-Power-Dig/dp/B002LMSWR8/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1319512355&sr=8-6">Do You Want Power</a></i>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+ettes&x=0&y=0">the rest of their discography</a>, at Amazon.</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-ettes-red-in-tooth-and-claw">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8091508521882543732?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-3769742786425234262011-10-21T09:30:00.001-04:002011-10-21T09:30:02.894-04:00Astronautalis & DJ Fishr Pryce - Mr. Blessington's Imperialist Plot (remix)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/astronautalis-dj-fishr-pryce-mr-blessingtons"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'>Astronautalis & DJ Fishr Pryce - Mr. Blessington's Imperialist Plot (remix).mp3</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/astronautalis-dj-fishr-pryce-mr-blessingtons">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>Let's get this show back on the road, yes? It's been a minute since the Mop has cleared a floor as your (not so) humble record pusher worked himself through a word block of sorts. I know writer's block is BS to people who don't write but when you're just writing the same thing over and over and even you stop finding it interesting, well... Anyway, having been kicked in the face for weeks as two of my closest people lay down some great words for the masses, I think it's time. There is nothing more inspiring for a writer to get at it than being surrounded by other writers. </p><p /><div>The first track back is a mixtape mashup. We've posted a selection from the mind-expanding mixtape Astronautilus and DJ Fishr Pryce dropped earlier this year, and this morning, on the way to work "Mr. Blessington's Imperialist Plot" spoke to me.</div> <p /><div>The original version of this track is bit softer and more menacing, where here, Gaga suggests a covert strategy for blackmailing oneself to the top of an office hierarchy: pa- pa- pa- poker face, pa- pa- pa- poker face.</div> <p /><div>That's the way it's done in real life, right? Step on everybody on the way up, and then step on them on the way down? Boots on the ground people.</div><p /><div>This is probably where I should use a superhero reference about getting back in action and making it happen but considering the subject matter of this first post back, I'm going with a villain: "This town needs an enema, and this mop has a long damn stick." Brace yourselves.<br /> <p /> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/astronautalis-dj-fishr-pryce-mr-blessingtons">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-376974278642523426?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-51739701249423157342011-07-08T15:13:00.001-04:002011-07-08T15:13:22.792-04:00DJ Shadow - I'm Excited (ft Afrikan Boy)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>Fears about the new album from DJ Shadow are slowly alleviating for me. "I'm Excited" features a bouncing, galloping, dancey beat and an infectious "I'm excited" refrain between verses from Afrikan Boy. This is nothing like <i>Endtroducing...</i>, which is finally OK, because this track is a place I actually like going to.</div> <p /><div>This is a wonderful Friday afternoon gift, if you ask me, cause it makes me want to leave work now and get the party started. Check it:</div><p /><div><a href="http://soundcloud.com/island-records-uk/dj-shadow-ft-afrikan-boy-im/s-DXUH3" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/island-records-uk/dj-shadow-ft-afrikan-boy-im/s-DXUH3</a></div> <p /><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"I'm Excited" goes on sale August 1, and the new full length, "The Less You Know The Better," is out September 5.</span></div> <p /><div>Buy more music from DJ Shadow at his <a href="http://djshadow.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">website</a>.<p /> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/dj-shadow-im-excited-ft-afrikan-boy">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5173970124942315734?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-63279922358606065772011-06-28T10:50:00.001-04:002011-06-28T10:50:22.982-04:00First flyer is out for the 23rd Annual Swing for Seniors Golf Tournament at Woodmont in Tamarac. We've got a new venue and lots of stuff on tap for this thing. Save the date NOW!<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/BqWye8FIQKtTIDajPJ3GaDo4lrf6lTYvI6yBbEuEfE2dhGLmsRJVfjl80kVp/Golf_Tourney_Save_the_Date_Fly.jpg"><img alt="Golf_tourney_save_the_date_fly" height="647" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/FD3cZaDxmBZPX6HDLOBjjnfntWAr4dH4qdh9XSTg2Z3AiuTsiB3oCJmYKt2N/Golf_Tourney_Save_the_Date_Fly.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p>The Aging and Disability Resource Center of Broward County, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that helps educate seniors on services and assistance they are eligible for (and also my employer), is gearing up for the 23rd Annual Swing for Seniors Golf Tournament at Woodmont Country Club in Tamarac, FL.</p><p /><div>Prizes and perks to be announced soon...........................</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/first-flyer-is-out-for-the-23rd-annual-swing">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6327992235860606577?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-1071627722133598042011-06-27T23:28:00.001-04:002011-06-27T23:28:02.655-04:00Turmtable.fm is calling out the Chromebook. Boom.<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/JrqGGihbsyGxjiDJfEGuqpaarCosIxHskHqFlxxlDkwcmuFtpCpFpefIwdnf/-1293081312.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="-1293081312" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/JrqGGihbsyGxjiDJfEGuqpaarCosIxHskHqFlxxlDkwcmuFtpCpFpefIwdnf/-1293081312.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/turmtablefm-is-calling-out-the-chromebook-boo">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-107162772213359804?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-63490864611928007362011-05-28T17:22:00.001-04:002011-05-28T17:22:46.325-04:00Now that is a well-dressed beer!<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/sUMWaX9cdZrvFUfLHyDrDqYuFOAGn6puANxBrMkgbLcS93fD8VhZ7kNAOsFz/IMAG0365.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0365" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/Ei0NYxVD3dFOIqDFgukY0kwkFGSsRVql7hkFSR49Q7TgyIgWNe2PF9QEADLi/IMAG0365.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/now-that-is-a-well-dressed-beer">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6349086461192800736?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-60854337410655715762011-05-27T07:39:00.001-04:002011-05-27T07:39:29.242-04:00The Lonely Island - Rocky<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-lonely-island-rocky"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Rocky</strong> by The Lonely Island</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-lonely-island-rocky">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>Comedy rap seems a little repetitive considering that a lot of the best lines to come out of any MC's mouth are the hysterically funny ones. In the case of <a href="http://www.thelonelyisland.com/" target="_blank">The Lonely Island</a>, though, since there's nothing serious about them, at all, and it works. Hard.</p><p /><div><i>Turtleneck & Chain</i> finds the boys of Lonely Island mostly rapping about being dorks. Weak dorks, at that. I mean, really, mom harassing you while you're trying to record bad-ass rap songs? Too shy to perform? A pimp who gets murdered by Rocky before AND after picking up men and women? Yeah, there's 19 tracks on this thing that sound strange in traffic. But when Rihanna sings the words "boner alert," you'll love the looks you get from other cars. That's a true story, by the way. Some guy in an SUV was really wondering about me while waiting to get on the highway. Awesome.</div> <p /><div>As good as the album is, you've got to respect Lorne Michaels for allowing Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer to use the album tracks for digital shorts on SNL. It's almost like MTV in the 90s where, before you grab the record, you've heard a few great ones. Unlike a lot of the shite that MTV pimped in the 90s, the rest of this album delivers too.</div> <p /><div>Samberg, Taccone and Schaffer have been doing, basically, well, this for more than a decade, starting when they were in high school. At this point they're really good at it. And though it's not lifechanging, <i>Turtleneck & Chain</i>, for all the seriousness behind Justin Timberlake suggesting everybody get down with everybody else's mothers, asks the most important question there is these days: Why so serious?</div> <p /><div>Buy The Lonely Island's <i>Turtleneck & Chain</i> at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Turtleneck-Chain-Explicit-Digital-Booklet/dp/B004YRCAEO/ref=tmm_msc_title_0" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</div> <div>And if you don't already have it, grab <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Incredibad-Explicit/dp/B001R91138/ref=pd_sim_dmusic_a_1" target="_blank">Incredibad</a> too. "<a href="http://youtu.be/VVPCz0W7Rm0" target="_blank">Natalie's Rap</a>," with Natalie Portman, is a revelation. For real.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-lonely-island-rocky">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6085433741065571576?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-1634178855197998622011-05-25T12:52:00.001-04:002011-05-25T12:52:02.503-04:00Beastie Boys - Crazy Ass Shit<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/beastie-boys-crazy-ass-shit"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Crazy Ass Shit</strong> by Beastie Boys</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/beastie-boys-crazy-ass-shit">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><p>I didn't detect any of the "have they still got it" or "have they still got anything" or "I fear it's going to suck really baaaaaaaaaad" in the lead-up to <i>Hot Sauce Committee Part Two</i>'s release three weeks ago. That's what I heard for weeks leading up to the release of <i>To The Five Boroughs</i> in 2004, and then "it's way better than I thought - like, really good" almost universally. After the release of two tracks on the <i>Super Surprise</i> EP last year, and especially "Make Some Noise," the potential for a good Beastie Boys album turned into an expectation this time around.</p> <p>More than one review has pointed out places that <i>Hot Sauce Committee Part Two</i> sounds like <i>Check Your Head</i> but it's hard not to hear echoes of <i>Hello Nasty</i> throughout too. For all the effects and live-playing a la 1992, what a lot of it adds up to is the bouncing, playful sound of 1998. The combination works well on an album that finds the Beasties sticking to a single subject: Just how bad-ass they are.</p> <p>"Nonstop Disco Powerpack" has a refreshingly familiar "Pass The Mic" vibe, and "Make Some Noise" is perfectly in line with "Intergalactic" and "Ch-check It Out" as lead singles from a new Beastie Boys album meant to get the party started. For any reminders of Beasties history, and, as always there are plenty, this is no rehash - and not even in the <i>Check-Your-Head</i>-and<i>-Ill-Communication</i>-sound-the-same kind of way.</p> <p>Aside from distorting their vocals way too often - I mean, really, it's going to take twice as long to memorize the lyrics now - this could be another instrumental album. Unlike the uber-jazz of <i>The Mix-Up</i>, this is a hip hop album in every way, from samples to scratching to outros that are often better than the beat actually rapped over in the song. Even if the rhymes weren't as referential as they are, and it's often references that are old school, or just old, but in a good way,<i> Hot Sauce Committee Part Two</i> is perfect for those hung up on the instrumentals of Madlib, Diplo or Oh No, among others.<p /> The only reason the Beastie Boys aren't still the tastemakers they were throughout the 90s is because it's been six years since their last album and this is a very different world. The Beastie Boys are still the Beastie Boys though, their universe is still vastly more cool than anything we live out here, and the occasional glimpse still makes some of us hope to get halfway there one day.<br /> </p><p>Buy <i>Hot Sauce Committee Part Two</i> <a href="http://beastieboys.com/" target="_blank">directly from the Beastie Boys</a>.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/beastie-boys-crazy-ass-shit">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-163417885519799862?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-85684299291787954782011-05-18T18:54:00.001-04:002011-05-18T18:54:35.767-04:00Seeing this drive at you is like seeing the face of God...<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/pS9zSGQOGATokteHJplmdFusXxRxROzWWuVqBowuBMPukwjSOl1acfT9Ha3M/IMAG0344.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0344" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/ABcXYiXCztsvkSs7JRgHIBjTpl2wIc8Cv3znSKVg9Jz5rZ0GNkNjtSb4OIKD/IMAG0344.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/seeing-this-drive-at-you-is-like-seeing-the-f">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8568429929178795478?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-82375175138849845922011-05-17T13:23:00.001-04:002011-05-17T13:23:41.484-04:00Goldfinger - Get Up<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/goldfinger-get-up"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Get Up</strong> by Goldfinger</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/goldfinger-get-up">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><p>I have a friend who bought the Sublime classic <i>40 oz To Freedom</i> on the strength of their cover of Bad Religion's "We're Only Gonna Die." He was disappointed in the record - the expectation was for hardcore, not the ska-reggae-punk hybrid Sublime did so well - and returned it to Sam Goody in exchange for the first Goldfinger album.</p> <p>While I came around to <i>40 oz...</i>, to the point that it's a desert island album for me, that Goldfinger album remains a top party record. That's a smiling, dancing, let's get moving kind of album. And there's nothing groundbreaking about Goldfinger. <i>Goldfinger</i> is some ska, some punk, and just poppy enough that the masses understood it enough to buy at least that first effort.</p> <p>As ska's few moments in the limelight faded, so did the attention lavished on Goldfinger. It's sad, considering that the band has continued to pump out great records, including 2008's <i>Hello Destiny</i>, which is what this track comes off of. In the meantime, they've become more involved in working with other bands (lead singer John Feldmann has worked with The Used, Story of the Year and Good Charlotte, among others), and they've got some social awareness now as well.</p> <p>"Get Up" is pretty clearly about animal rights, one of the bands chief causes. That being what it is, I think it's a pretty good rallying cry too, especially on a suddenly slow-moving Tuesday afternoon when a shot of espresso and snappy ska-punk track is the only thing that'll do...</p> <p>Buy <i>Hello Destiny</i> from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Destiny-Explicit/dp/B0017IZR48/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305652862&sr=301-1">Amazon</a>.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/goldfinger-get-up">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8237517513884984592?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-43780398261663791452011-05-16T23:59:00.001-04:002011-05-16T23:59:47.130-04:00DJ Shadow - I Gotta Rokk<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/dj-shadow-i-gotta-rokk"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>I Gotta Rokk (Lp Version)</strong> by Dj Shadow</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/dj-shadow-i-gotta-rokk">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div>For the most part, pop music has gone dance. That is, many of the pop "tarts" as they have been referred to for the last several years - that's artists such as Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Rihanna and especially Britney Spears - have started making their tracks either dance floor ready or braced for a mild remix that will finish the job of taking it from morning drive-time radio to boozy humping dance floor anthem. </div> <div> </div> <div>In the world of Josh Davis, it must be 1997. All the remixes on the <i>I Gotta Rokk</i> EP are drum 'n bass, as is "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkP4mzOJ98M">Def Surrounds Us</a>," which might as well have come off Plug's classic <i>Drum 'n bass For Papa</i>. "I Gotta Rokk" is the midpoint of the late 90s sounds of The Chemical Brothers and Prodigy: Heavy, live-sounding drums; samples buried in the mix; and power chords taking it a little metal. This could pass for early Propellerheads or Monkey Mafia efforts. I mean this all in a good way, though I don't know how many people still want to hear any of those names. Do YOU know anybody planning to buy that live Prodigy DVD out this week? Do you even know it was coming out? That's all I'm saying.</div> <div> </div> <div>I bet there are a lot expecting <i>The Less You Know The Better</i>, due out in September, a sound moored in that of "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apEuZsGeJ4Y&feature=related">I've Been Trying</a>," the second track on the <i>I Gotta Rokk</i> EP, which draws on the funk and R&B sampling hip hop Davis has built his legend on. There's a good chance the album is going to be split between that and the clearly techno-leaning stuff, which could be a good thing. On all of the new, bouncy-beat areas being explored here, the new track and two pseudo-new tracks (they were released last September), are dense and should not be easily dismissed. </div> <div> </div> <div>Scanning comments on posts and stories about this and the other two songs there seems to be disappointment already, which I can understand. But before writing this I listened to the first two albums, in full. While it's possible there's another <i>Private Press</i> in there, I can almost guarantee he'll never make another <i>Endtroducing...</i> Which is fine. These three tracks sound like Davis is trying stuff out again instead of contributing to a scene. Hyphy-be-gone, they sound like a DJ Shadow album. Excellent.</div> <p /><div>Also, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZC45HVq9QM&feature=related">his old drum 'n bass stuff</a> was pretty good anyway, you know? I think this is going to be good.</div> <div> </div> <div>Buy the <em>I Gotta Rokk</em> EP directly from the <a href="http://www.djshadow.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?">DJ Shadow website</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/dj-shadow-i-gotta-rokk">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4378039826166379145?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-78736104413420035242011-05-16T13:33:00.001-04:002011-05-16T13:33:45.325-04:00Queens of the Stone Age - Hanging Tree<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/queens-of-the-stone-age-hanging-tree"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Hangin' Tree</strong> by Queens Of The Stone Age</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/queens-of-the-stone-age-hanging-tree">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><p>I've spent a lot of time making the case that Dave Grohl is the bet drummer alive. Now, I know there are all sorts of metal drummers that have sick proficiency, and there are guys like Vinnie Paul, Travis Barker and this guy (and yes, the guy from Rush too), but give me a second here.</p> <div>From "Scentless Apprentice" to "Red War" (among others) on the Probot album to "Hanging Tree," Grohl has the technical stuff down. What he's got over all those other guys is a combination of luck and the ability to write, or at least play on, songs that capture well beyond the niche his band exists in, be it a pretty mass market rock band like Foo Fighters or a low-key display of love such as Probot, which is anything but low-key anyway. </div> <div> </div> <div>I can vividly remember several conversations in 2002 and 2003 that centered around QUOTSA's third album, <em>Songs For The Deaf</em>, and Grohl's work on it. The songs, from lyrics to grooves, are on par with <em>Rated R</em>, the universally-acclaimed predecessor to <em>Songs for The Deaf</em>. The big difference, though, is the man pounding the skins.</div> <div> </div> <div>Many of those conversations would start after the end of "Hanging Tree," the last 30 seconds of which is some fast pounding, not that the rest of the song isn't, but the whiplash from that part makes you look back over the former Nirvana drummer's career. At this point, ten years after "Hanging Tree" was even released, you've got Probot, several Foo Fighters albums, the Nine Inch Nails album <em>With Teeth</em>, and, possibly most notably, the self-titled album from Them Crooked Vultures.</div> <div> </div> <div>Teaming with QUOTSA's Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, the trio evoke images of all three of their primary bands, but when Jones started telling interviewers how much Grohl reminded him of playing with Zeppelin drummer John Bonham something became clear: Like most of humanity, that guy's day job isn't even what he's best at.</div> <div> </div> <div>Buy <em>Songs For The Deaf</em> from Queens of the Stone Age at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Songs-For-The-Deaf/dp/B000VZFTDW/ref=tmm_msc_title_0">Amazon</a>.</div> <div> </div> <div>And please, for the love of Lemmy, if you've got an argument on what living person is a better drummer, make it, don't just shake your head in disgust.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/queens-of-the-stone-age-hanging-tree">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-7873610441342003524?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-60861536290679061202011-05-11T00:53:00.001-04:002011-05-11T00:53:00.554-04:00I wish Yuengling made this year-round.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/2ICItu3MSqMgSYAtZpu3xp1PdtdRE1c0E5ibuKLJHKbbcze8qzL2OI774bY5/IMAG0318.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0318" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/nUrCkLgs6x2COqvGcGz2TuDXowtGexqAwwiWPArm9s2lbztV0KqzHKHY3CNg/IMAG0318.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p></p><p>Really. It's great.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/i-wish-yuengling-made-this-year-round">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6086153629067906120?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-82908968457450728572011-05-04T22:54:00.001-04:002011-05-04T22:54:53.544-04:00Black Lips - Modern Art<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/black-lips-modern-art"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Modern Art</strong> by Black Lips</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/black-lips-modern-art">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><p>The Black Lips are America's party band. Sure, most of the country doesn't know who they are, but nobody objects to the Black Lips. Nobody. Test it out. Put on a record and see what happens.</p> <p>My introduction, like many, I'm sure, was via their Vice Records debut, the exquisitely messy <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><i>Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo</i>,</span> - was a bit of a brilliant move cause the record sounds like a party, which actually makes their studio efforts sound livelier.</p> <p>This new track, the first single off the forthcoming <i>Arabia Mountain</i>, is notable not only for the rock and roll jangle and a saw as an instrument. It's also doing drugs and, it sounds like, enjoying them. To erase any doubt, they put it <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChuYpoajar0&feature=player_embedded">in the video</a>. </p> <p>"Modern Art" is a strong first single. Let me rephrase that - it's not like this is a Rihanna album and radio has to like it enough to play the shit out of it. This song makes me expect something good on June 7. </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/black-lips-modern-art">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8290896845745072857?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-8907093287376857352011-04-29T12:14:00.001-04:002011-04-29T12:14:08.777-04:00Why is this the first time I've seen that bumper sticker?<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/HVlbhV4deuXlC6jYE2bZeehajyRF7N49kPHxLClDaz3zdWpolGvndzfSbEas/IMAG0288.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0288" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/BfyupOhEROvJlpzCsXJQ8VO6j0v28SeoWp1pw3ryPFUX3q8hobBGNIgOJaCe/IMAG0288.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/why-is-this-the-first-time-ive-seen-that-bump">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-890709328737685735?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-57677924338595045982011-04-28T23:40:00.001-04:002011-04-28T23:40:52.132-04:00Almost A Memory - Not The Same Old Summer<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/almost-a-memory-not-the-same-old-summer"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'>04 Track 04.mp3</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/almost-a-memory-not-the-same-old-summer">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I don't know what it is but for much of the last decade Long Island has pumped out a stream of great punk bands from <a href="http://www.fightoffyourdemons.com/" target="_blank">Brand New</a> to <a href="http://www.lattermanband.com/news.html" target="_blank">Latterman</a> to <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bayside" target="_blank">Bayside</a>. Really, there's a killer scene out on the island, even if it gets slagged off by those hardcore kids who don't dig on melodies. I say those kids can suck it.</p><p /><div>That said, I can't resist posting a track from my brother-in-law's band, Almost A Memory. When I was up there for a visit last month, I got to watch them practice in a cramped basement bedroom, which makes the china in my in-law's living room rattle. Let me get this important point out of the way: If they weren't actually good, I wouldn't be posting them. Ain't no nepotistic bull shit going on here.</div> <p /><div>My first thought, because of lead singer Vicki, is the Paramore factor. AAM have it, cause the songs are good, and the band is better. Joe and Chris on guitar, John holding it down on bass and Daniel all over the drums, this is a solid band, and much more so than Hailey and the bitter boys she made stars. It's the voice that sells AAM for me, and I don't think she's come close to her potential yet. Somewhere in there, this chick has the kind of voice that reminds me a little of bands like <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tiltfanclub" target="_blank">Tilt</a>, that can knock people off their feet. Hailey has that voice, but - not that they sound alike - Tilt lead singer Cinder is a better example of someone who isn't holding back. Sometimes I think Vicki is. She's got more. But I didn't get to catch a show, so maybe it's just that she doesn't let it rage in the basement. </div> <p /><div>Of the handful of songs I saw in practice, "Not The Same Old Summer" stuck with me, just as it had the first time I heard it playing off a small boombox hours earlier. First, because unlike everything else at the PA-less practice, I could hear Vicki singing over the band, and, mostly, because I think people who don't listen to all sorts of punk-influenced pop bands would dig this song a lot. I've said before though that I'm a sucker for this kind of female-fronted band, and the acoustic to pounding look-back-on-summer-love, well, I'm a sucker for that too.</div> <p /><div>The 15-year-old me identifies with lyrics of frustration like "Fate Knows Your Name" and especially "Lessons Learned." That middle-finger-in-the-air has endeared a lot of bands to me that I probably should have forgotten, Green Day included. (Not that Green Day should be forgotten, but see most of <i>Dookie</i> for what I'm talking about.) Joe and Chris are banging out the power chords that have driven this stuff for two decades - it took a good 10 seconds for me to realize that "Lessons Learned" wasn't "Welcome to Paradise," which happens once a year anyway - and that works well too.</div> <p /><div>What AAM needs is time. If they get some time, and keep doing what they're doing, there's a good chance somebody who isn't spending the weekend sleeping in their practice space is going to listen to them at least half as much as everybody in my house has over the last six weeks. That, obviously, is a good thing.</div> <p /><div>Buy the debut Almost A Memory EP <i>Lessons Learned</i> from <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lessons-learned/id430865307" target="_blank">iTunes</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/almost-a-memory-not-the-same-old-summer">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5767792433859504598?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-13904894284784575572011-04-27T23:28:00.001-04:002011-04-27T23:28:04.322-04:00Squarepusher - Come On My Selector<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/squarepusher-come-on-my-selector"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Come On My Selector</strong> by Squarepusher</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/squarepusher-come-on-my-selector">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>Yesterday, I heard CJ Bolland's classic-to-me "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyO68rXJcJ4&feature=share">Sugar Is Sweeter</a>" on the Joe Shockley Podcast after, as Joe put it, it regifted itself to him on one of those wonderful shuffled playlists. I don't know how many years it's been since I heard the track, but it's definitely more than one, and probably closer to two or three or four. So as I piled mp3 backups to rip and load onto my Amazon Cloud, the site of Squarepusher on a playlist caught my eye. </p><p /><div>Like "Sugar Is Sweeter," "Come On My Selector" is one of those tracks that was first seen by my eyes on an overpriced import CD and later on a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxEb2FrQUbE" target="_blank">psychotic video</a> on AMP on MTV. It's not just the freaky Japanese girl in the video killing people that does it for me, though that helps, it's the fastest beats I'm pretty sure I'd heard to that point, the squelching bass lines, the actual bass lines, and the way it just twists and gets crazier. From "let the bass kick" to the climax after "come to fucking daddy" and gradual drop off end of the track, with a steadily tranquil bassline as it's guide, it's a mind fuck.</div> <p /><div>Every track on <i>Big Loada</i>, the stateside full length this comes on, is like this and crazy. What's really amazing is that Squarepusher, or Tom Jenkinson as his mother calls him, is a hugely talented bassist who, when he got several albums of what came to be called drill 'n' bass (sometimes the beats sound like drills, let's be honest here), turned to revolutionary jazz. Eventually, he combined the two and started triggering all his d'n'b samples through a bass. Yeah, revolutionary. I know.</div> <p /><div>While Aphex Twin wants you to actually go insane, and Luke Vibert wants you to get stoned and follow a groove, I'm pretty thoroughly convinced that Squarepusher was just looking for listeners to dance as though they're having a seizure. Frankly, it's the best seizure EVER.</div> <p /><div>(If you're not convinced, here's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mb4SPAPjpI" target="_blank">Problem Child</a>" from the same album.)</div><p /><div>Buy <i>Big Loada</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/512468-squarepusher-mp3s-big-loada" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>.</div> <div>Or, just check out the entire <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/37635-squarepusher-band/list_albums?sort_by=New&per_page=32" target="_blank">Squarepusher discography</a>. They're all good.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/squarepusher-come-on-my-selector">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-1390489428478457557?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-5520680699413250072011-04-27T18:14:00.001-04:002011-04-27T18:14:49.035-04:00Tuna burger, homemade french fries and edamame. YES!<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/SOCdxwTUCK7nUCTm4uaVCxUsJJuQl0nWG7SZbxA4gSlJfCMoDyQP6Rc7Bx6L/IMAG0282.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0282" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/5VDrAE8dOiRrONbCnYWBbxCmpGxmGYdifznQdlli8inbjrZYjsLLRjPcXNfz/IMAG0282.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/tuna-burger-homemade-french-fries-and-edamame">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-552068069941325007?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-38070874707932513512011-04-26T23:37:00.001-04:002011-04-26T23:37:26.818-04:00Times New Viking - Don't Go To Liverpool<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/times-new-viking-dont-go-to-liverpool"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Don't Go To Liverpool</strong> by Times New Viking</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/times-new-viking-dont-go-to-liverpool">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I've been crowing about how <a href="http://timesnewviking.net/" target="_blank">Times New Viking</a> was writing great, hooky pop songs and then playing them sloppy and distorted, with an extra layer of distortion put on to make sure you really wanted to hear what they were doing and were willing to put the work out. With <i>Dancer Equired</i>, I got my wish that they'd clear some of that slush out, but now I don't know what to think of it. </p><p /><div>After a few days of listening to <i>Dancer Equired </i>I couldn't remember what TNV had sounded like on their first four albums. When I went back, what I found sounded like a bad recording of a live show, which I know is what they had been going for the whole time, and now that I could hear their songs, suddenly this is an indie rock band, in the tradition of Guided By Voices or, what I really can't stop thinking, The Moldy Peaches.</div> <p /><div>I don't know how you go from Pussy Galore to The Moldy Peaches in one album. From straining to hear shit hot rock songs buried in noise and poor recording quality to just somewhat lo-fi recording and clear, endearing melodies (though none of the Peaches sometimes overplayed clever sarcasm). Tracks like "Don't Go To Liverpool," and there are several like this, remind me a bit of pop punkers Mixtapes, if the left out the skate punk parts. On a previous TNV album, there's be a huge, static-y riff on there, and part of me hopes they have one in concert.</div> <p /><div>If anything kills the momentum Times New Viking has gathered in the last two years, though, I don't think it'll be the shift in recording quality. Much as I've enjoyed the album, it sounds like a different band. Not bad, just different. For a lot of people other than myself, however, different equals bad. Give <i>Dancer Equired</i> a chance to warm up to you. The knowledge that there was a soul beneath all that feedback and static is reason enough.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Dancer Equired</i> from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dancer-Equired-Times-New-Viking/dp/B004WLFK6W/ref=sr_1_2_digr?ie=UTF8&qid=1303873977&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/times-new-viking-dont-go-to-liverpool">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3807087470793251351?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-46492334624046808992011-04-26T19:44:00.001-04:002011-04-26T19:44:09.328-04:00Just stared at this for an hour above our table at dinner. I think I know what I'm watching before bed tonight...<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/9elNwfw0Wp7BTeTeiSaY2Se0pZL6DxJVfGevG5gc6qcIrGPQB1VczZt8Z8lQ/IMAG0279.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0279" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/eIApNZKtKFoCQmh7aS0DQh193rvM5BqHSpRR50iF9f9USaZGuAuWY7ayxE9h/IMAG0279.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/just-stared-at-this-for-an-hour-above-our-tab">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4649233462404680899?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-84005907543247706972011-04-25T21:41:00.001-04:002011-04-25T21:41:20.990-04:00Sleepy Vikings - Calm<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/sleepy-vikings-calm"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Calm</strong> by Sleepy Vikings</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/sleepy-vikings-calm">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I could have waited for the PR company to send me <a href="http://www.sleepyvikings.com/sleepy_vikings/Home.html">Sleepy Vikings</a> debut album, <i>They Will Find You Here</i>, but after it got me to stop streaming the new Beastie Boys album (which is fucking stellar) for half an hour cause I just let "Calm" repeat over and over, I decided not to even bother emailing first and just this post tonight.</p><p /><div>My initial reaction to "Calm" was that the fast parts have a "Paint It Black" kind of feel and the melodies and chorus have a great easy indie feel like the best of stuff from Polyvinyl Records. The more I listened to it, thought, the more the track lines up with the Pavement and (latter-day) Sonic Youth comparisons that came on the emailed press release introducing me to the band. All the references to jangly guitars and southern shoegaze, a genre which may or may not actually exist, they match up too. </div> <p /><div>While I may sit on my tired-parent ass at the end of the day, swallowing beer and staring at the Internet, I bet Sleepy Vikings rip through songs like "Calm" in concert. Though they'll have to hit Fort Lauderdale for me to ever find out, and that's not on the itinerary, I plan to force a lot of people to listen to <i>They Will Find You Here</i>. If the awesome cover drawing of a barn on a fire is any indication, this is a another great album for 2011. </div> <p /><div>Keep an eye on the Sleepy Vikings <a href="http://www.sleepyvikings.com/sleepy_vikings/Home.html">website</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sleepyvikings?sk=wall">Facebook page</a> for where to pick up or download <i>They Will Find You Here</i> on May 10.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/sleepy-vikings-calm">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8400590754324770697?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-86066893799881587162011-04-22T19:55:00.001-04:002011-04-22T19:55:52.913-04:00Mastodon - Just Got Paid<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/mastodon-just-got-paid"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Just Got Paid</strong> by Mastodon</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/mastodon-just-got-paid">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div>It's been a whole week and absolutely nothing, not even one of those bonus tracks from Radiohead, has been posted here from Record Store Day. Not that I've got nothing sitting on the hard drive, but between the holidays and distractions, well... Let's rectify that right now.</div> <div> </div> <div>Mastodon is one of the hardest, heaviest bands around. I've heard the quip that they're "metal for hipsters," but they're sick, so suck it. In addition to shredding, they use classic literature such as Moby Dick for inspiration. Look it up - it's worth the effort.</div> <p /><div>"Just Got Paid" is obviously somewhat lighter in subject matter, and is a pretty straightforward cover of a pretty straightforward track by ZZ Top. The track comes from the bearded boogie boys second album, <em>Rio Grande Mud</em>. The cover by Mastodon was the a-side of a limited edition 7-inch put together for this year's RSD international event. The b-side, by the way, is the original. And yes, both of them kick ass.</div> <div> </div> <div>So, with all the off the wall stuff that came out on RSD, why this track? Well, why blow the whole RSD load so early, you know? Plus, this is a great track and it works for the best kind of Good Friday there is: PAYDAY! </div> <div> </div> <div>(Super cheesy, that is, but I'm just happy to go swimming through the room full of money once again! Feel free to rock and/or roll, people.)</div> <div> </div> <div>Buy music by Mastodon from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/26398-mastodon-band" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>.</div> <div>Buy <em>Rio Grande Mud</em> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/150628-zz-top-mp3s-rio-grande-mud" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/mastodon-just-got-paid">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8606689379988158716?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-91445868113923537942011-04-22T10:03:00.001-04:002011-04-22T10:03:36.493-04:00Best. Macaroons. Ever.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/g0nLuutOYS38IKa6KMPl9hRuVziysHJYrBrszoMqaLfO1QelfTzg67ZDNj9x/IMAG0275.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0275" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/i39oB6OfFGdULfEu1f3DAFxEJ2Ovi18jfOW2XQamIk0xOW7pWt6ovROR4uZr/IMAG0275.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/best-macaroons-ever">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-9144586811392353794?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-88024332611820754302011-04-21T23:53:00.001-04:002011-04-21T23:53:12.372-04:00Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Shadow's Keeper<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-shadows-keeper"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Shadow's Keeper</strong> by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-shadows-keeper">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>Why aren't <a href="http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/" target="_blank">BRMC</a> huge? Maybe their lack of a massive audience is just further proof that people don't want fuzzed out led-heavy rock and roll every day. Which is loss for them, cause this trio has spent the last decade alternating heavy and fuzzy with country-tinged and introspective, sounding like Jesus and Mary Chain had been ripped right out of the late 60s instead of the 90s, and melded with The Brian Jonestown Massacre and the occasional Stones reference (just like every other good band). Oh, maybe that's the explanation. It's a limited audience. </p><p /><div>For every track about a woman problem, there's one about the government or not being a doormat or just being a bad-ass. Last year's <i>Beat The Devil's Tattoo</i> was another solid album from BRMC, who have done a little label hopping but managed to retain the low-key focus they debuted to the world way back in 2001, when I'm sure Virgin Records figured this would be an easy garage sounding sale for the times.</div> <p /><div>Not long after their somewhat self-titled debut, <i>BRMC</i>, was released, I managed to get 20 minutes on the phone with main man Peter Hayes. Though I was half-drunk from a lunch that included multiple shots of Jagermeister, I managed to dial and speak. This wasn't the first inebriated interview I'd done by this point, and thankfully was prepared with the knowledge that both Hayes and fellow main man Robert Levon Been were a tough interview, so wasn't discouraged or worried he knew about my lunch coming from shot glasses. I just kept talking until he finally started. Which was good, cause that first album (and the second one) consumed a lot of my listening time and would have been seriously disappointing.</div> <p /><div><i>Beat The Devil's Tattoo</i> doesn't find the band pushing much beyond their boundaries, but rather continuing to find new ways to twist and layer grooving feedback-heavy chords on each of the 13 tracks found here. It's like a baptism by refreshing, that the masses thankfully could still care less about.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Beat The Devil's Tattoo</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/514948-black-rebel-motorcycle-club-mp3s-beat-the-devil-s-tattoo" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>. </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-shadows-keeper">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8802433261182075430?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-20356713469903507842011-04-21T00:10:00.001-04:002011-04-21T00:10:44.412-04:00TV On The Radio - Dirty Whirl<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tv-on-the-radio-dirty-whirl"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Dirtywhirl</strong> by Tv On The Radio</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tv-on-the-radio-dirty-whirl">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.tvontheradio.com/splash/">TV On The Radio</a> announced that <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1662395/tv-on-the-radio-gerard-smith-dead-34.jhtml">bassist Gerard Smith lost his battle with lung cancer today</a>. Before the release of the album, the band said that Smith would sit out at least part of their current tour in support of the band's just released fifth full length album, <i>Nine Types of Light</i>, while undergoing treatment for the disease. </p><p /><div>Though it was tempting to find a track from the band that somehow relates to death, that's too cliche and unlike this blog. More appropriately, "Dirty Whirl," the eighth track on <i>Return To Cookie Mountain</i>, the 2006 album that blew the doors open for the band from indie freak-outs (really, those of us in the know were having aural orgasms on a daily basis for two years) to pretty universally acclaimed awesome, is a swirling, beautiful song. </div> <p /><div>Like every TVOTR track, Tunde and Kyp's vocals are front and center, but it is Smith's guitar and bass work that turn it into a mesmerizing and hypnotic ode to somewhat willful destruction at the hands of a girl.</div> <p /><div>There is no doubt, based especially on the post at the band's website, that Smith went willfully. This is one of the best songs on an album full of best songs. The band loses a friend, and the world loses a great musician, as evidenced by "Dirty Whirl," and his work on tracks on each of the last three TV On The Radio albums. The reasons should be pretty obvious for why this loss is so great.</div> <p /><div>RIP Gerard Smith.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tv-on-the-radio-dirty-whirl">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2035671346990350784?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-42939637632099375922011-04-20T22:55:00.001-04:002011-04-20T22:55:00.588-04:00Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/bob-dylan-bob-dylans-115th-dream"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Bob Dylan's 115Th Dream</strong> by Bob Dylan</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/bob-dylan-bob-dylans-115th-dream">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div>After an inadvertent break for Passover - I'll blame the wine and leave it at that - my first thought on starting the week was to roll with a song that just keeps popping up on my shuffles. Actually, a bunch of Dylan stuff has been bubbling to the top of shuffles, but this song has played more than once and it got me thinking. </div> <p /><div>It's pretty likely the former Bob Zimmerman did not have a seder, considering he gave up on Judaism years ago, but this tale of Captain Kid checking out the New World just before Columbus rolled up made me think of the Exodus despite its complete lack of a real link. The search, for salvation in both cases, comes through for me though, even with the lack of biblical references in the lyrics. Really, "Highway 61" would have been a better pick. Forget that, though, here's a slightly less obvious track that I've grown to like a lot more most of the time. </div> <p /><div>The other thing I really dig about "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" is the way it starts - a studio misstep, and everybody sounds too stoned to really care. I'm only mentioning that part because it's April 20, and some will wonder why I didn't post "<a href="http://youtu.be/Sr0DnGJ5hQ0" target="_blank">Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35</a>." The simple answer, for anybody who listens to the words, is that it's not about drugs. At all. </div> <div> </div> <div>If the 60s had really been successful, you'd have smiling, large-bearded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg" target="_blank">Ginsberg</a>ian religious-looking figures davening to "<a href="http://youtu.be/GtW6crUOFQs" target="_blank">It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)</a>." Instead, everybody cashed in and only a phrase or two has continued in the popular lexicon, and that phrase is used about as much as the word lexicon. No shame, considering money is what makes things happen, but the words of that track are at least as useful as anything in a Passover Haggadah, if not the entire Bible itself.</div> <p /><div>Alas, here we are, a better nation and world, despite a lot of the American Enlightenment's failure, and I'm willing to bet that most people 29 years and younger currently alive haven't even heard these songs, or the albums they come from. You don't have to love it, but you should at least know it. Then again, that bit of bitterness comes from a guy who loves everything about Passover from the story to the wine to the screaming about who does and does not find gafilte fish jelly completely disgusting, so do whatever you want.</div> <div> </div> <div>Buy <em>Bringing It All Back Home</em> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/695773-bob-dylan-mp3s-bringing-it-all-back-home--2010-mono-version-" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>.</div><p /><div>(For the record, those versions of "Rainy Day Woman" and "It's Alright Ma" are not the album versions, and totally worth checking out if you didn't do so already.)</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/bob-dylan-bob-dylans-115th-dream">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4293963763209937592?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-1512426429131653152011-04-15T14:15:00.001-04:002011-04-15T14:15:07.468-04:00There are two cases of these sitting in my office. It's like they knew exactly what they were hiring.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/MaANb0dpd8fVVBtrSnNfQSqxVXCFVgSXrma07G53Xdj1DmcHMQ6la2ICrXJq/IMAG0244.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0244" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/j3NOiYcNiXW6xLqoFpqgtZBThcEg632j1ye74cAcjrqEbNKE7zY0qNrOlNCg/IMAG0244.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p></p><p>I'm a legal-speed freak, and this is the lull part of my day. Now I don't even have to walk smasher for my fix. This red one is pretty delicious.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/there-are-two-cases-of-these-sitting-in-my-of">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-151242642913165315?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-65131715090053077712011-04-14T23:27:00.001-04:002011-04-14T23:27:44.449-04:00Handsome Boy Modeling School - The Truth feat. Roisin of Moloko and J-Live<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/handsome-boy-modeling-school-the-truth-feat-r"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>The Truth</strong> by Handsome Boy Modeling School Feat. Roisin & J</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/handsome-boy-modeling-school-the-truth-feat-r">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>This song made it onto more than half the mix CDs I burned from the first CD burner I got in 1999 up through at least 2005, if not later. At this point, it's one of several hundred random songs that I just leave on iTunes and migrate from iPod to iPod and now from cloud service to cloud service. </p><p /><div>The Handsome Boy Modeling School album, <i>So... How's Your Girl</i>, took forever to come out. Magazines and whatever venues provided music news at that point - either I'm getting old and can't remember or we were just making shit up and saying it to each other - talked about the collaboration between Dan "The Automator" Nakamura and Prince Paul for at least a year before it finally hit stores.</div> <p /><div><i>So... How's Your Girl</i> is a long album, but with appearances from the Beastie Boys' Mike D, El-P, DJ Shadow, Alec Empire and Father Guido Sarducci, among many, many others, that long time flies by. </div> <p /><div>Roisin Murphy's voice purring over that bass heavy, plodding beat never, ever runs out of steam. J-Live has a great verse on there too, but that's a bonus to what makes this song great - and that, obviously, is Murphy singing. </div> <p /><div>I haven't tracked anything Murphy, the former vocalist for Moloko, has done, other than knowing that she's put out a couple of solo records in the last several years. Not that I'm not interested. I'm just pretty satisfied with this track. 12 years on, I guess I ought to look her up. Oh, and despite the fact that nobody talks about it, the Handsome Boy Modeling School efforts remain worthy listening.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>So... How's Your Girl</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/207057-handsome-boy-modeling-school-mp3s-so--hows-your-girl" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/handsome-boy-modeling-school-the-truth-feat-r">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6513171509005307771?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-3643751568352194422011-04-13T22:38:00.001-04:002011-04-13T22:38:45.066-04:00Prefuse 73 - The Only Lillies and Lilacs Pt 2<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/prefuse-73-the-only-lillies-and-lilacs-pt-2"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>The Only Lillies And Lilacs Pt 2</strong> by Prefuse 73</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/prefuse-73-the-only-lillies-and-lilacs-pt-2">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>It would have been easy to dismiss the new Prefuse 73 album during the first listen as ambient noise, almost the way Radiohead's <i>The King of Limbs</i> can easily be dismissed for not being loud at any point. Like the Radiohead album, I think that would be stupid. <i>The Only She Chapters</i> is a whole new plane of existence for Scott Herren and his main alter ego, however, to dismiss as minimalist what really is a complete redefinition and exploration of a new area actually feels like I'd be cheating myself. </p><p /><div>Though he first started releasing music as Delarosa and Asora in the late 90s, the first Prefuse albums established Herren's reputation for glitch-hop - chopped up MC's over static-y, stuttering beats - and turned heads immediately. In the decade that followed, however, the abstract producer has gone all instrumental in some parts, brought in vocalists and experimented with all manner of instruments beyond his sampler, and been all over the place while creating some ear-bending tracks, which makes the drawn out illbient-style productions of <i>The Only She Chapters</i> even more fascinating.</div> <p /><div>That i-word, illbient, was one of the first that came to mind as this album, from top to bottom, reminds of DJ Spooky's full length debut, <i>Songs of a Dead Dreamer</i>, some of the way out Future Sound of London records in the <i>ISDN</i>-era, and even the 16-minute bliss-outs on early Orb albums. On <a href="http://warp.net/records/prefuse-73/new-album-the-only-she-chapters-listen-to-sampler">the Warp Records page for <i>The Only She Chapters</i></a>, Herren refers to the album as a different way to get at his music. Far from a different way, I'd say it's a whole different mindset, despite some of the sampling sounding distinctly Prefuse.</div> <p /><div>There are only two ways to listen to this album: turned up really loud on a large stereo system, or turned up really loud on headphones. I've got the headphones route and been seriously rewarded because slapping cans on your ears blocks out any other noise, a good thing considering the voices, tones, and sounds Herren has woven into these intricate recordings.</div> <p /><div>Some people like to use drugs when they listen to music like <i>The Only She Chapters</i>. If that's your bag, go for it, but realize that this album, itself, at high volumes, is its own drug.</div> <p /><div>Pre-order <i>The Only She Chapters</i> (and check out a sampler of the album), or buy other Prefuse 73 albums on MP3, CD or vinyl, directly from <a href="http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=28289">Warp Records</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/prefuse-73-the-only-lillies-and-lilacs-pt-2">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-364375156835219442?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-46217409045380804162011-04-12T22:38:00.001-04:002011-04-12T22:38:40.246-04:00Foo Fighters - Walk<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/foo-fighters-walk"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Walk</strong> by Foo Fighters</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/foo-fighters-walk">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>It's been a few years since the prospect of a new Foo Fighters album really got me moving. Not that all the TV specials and live performances don't deliver - they do, everything single time. It's just that the albums, basically everything since 2002's <i>One By One</i>, haven't had me freaking out. And I know that Dave Grohl has more than once said he hated the album but "All My Life," "One By One" and "Come Back" are among my favorite tracks ever by the Foos. </p><p /><div>That said, there was no telling what would happen when Grohl got Butch Vig in the studio with him for the first time since recording the uber-classic Nirvana album <i>Nevermind</i>. That little fact has nothing to do with it though. What really made me sit up was the clip of "Bridge Burning," and then the video for "<a href="http://youtu.be/ebJ2brErERQ" target="_blank">White Limo</a>," with Lemmy driving and Pat Smear clearly being back in the band. "<a href="http://youtu.be/h4HBfvibVC0" target="_blank">Rope</a>" didn't hurt too much either. Actually, "Rope" ratcheted up the expectations even higher.</div> <p /><div>I've read and heard the sentiment more than once in the last week from people that have heard the album that it's not ground-breaking, mind-blowing or pushing anything toward the musical future. My question is this: When the fuck have the Foo Fighters ever done that? Really, that's never been their gig. Even that mind-blowing-at-the-time self-titled debut that came out of nowhere after being recorded entirely by Grohl himself. That album never gets old, but even that one wasn't any great leap for music, it was just really really good.</div> <p /><div>Dave Grohl is the best drummer alive, as he proved once again 2009 and early 2010 with Them Crooked Vultures. All I wanted this year was a solid, loud Foo Fighters album. After listening to it for the last five or six days, a lot, <i>Wasting Light</i> is the best album the Foos have put out in years. There's plenty of bitter, hopeful, angry, sometimes satisfied lyrics to go with the rock and roll. The songs are good, the drums are crashing, Bob Mould and Krist Novoselic are on it. "Walk" exemplifies all of that and represents it well. The truth is, this is a solid record. It might make me less of a critic but I'm satisfied.</div> <p /><div> Buy <i>Wasting Light</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/805389-foo-fighters-mp3s-wasting-light" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>.</div><div>Buy <i>Them Crooked Vultures</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/463282-them-crooked-vultures-mp3s-them-crooked-vultures" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>. (For crap's sake, this thing will kick your ass. Why don't you have Led Foos of the Stone Age? SERIOUSLY??)</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/foo-fighters-walk">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4621740904538080416?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-67647479806536223532011-04-12T10:08:00.001-04:002011-04-12T10:08:25.620-04:00Drawings outside the men's bathroom. Einstein doesn't surprise me. Whitman, however, does. :)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/5cfSpEMvsfjJFrVystpCpK3FQmcGC5TV6p8WogCyMhSyO3FtdwpVwBwCN2kJ/IMAG0241.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0241" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/PRlkSHswCjAx2Hlc4BXy7Tm8A5wAbkLtLXwpMzarL57JTebxeGN0172pDR8L/IMAG0241.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p></p><p>I own multiple editions of "Leaves of Grass," so this stands out to me as a good sign for the new job.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/drawings-outside-the-mens-bathroom-einstein-d">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6764747980653622353?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-32205016666682797272011-04-11T23:23:00.001-04:002011-04-11T23:23:50.632-04:00Blakroc - Dollaz & Sense (feat. Pharoahe Monch, RZA and The Black Keys)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/blakroc-dollaz-sense-feat-pharoahe-monch-rza"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Dollaz & Sense (Feat. Pharoahe Monch & Rza)</strong> by Blakroc</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/blakroc-dollaz-sense-feat-pharoahe-monch-rza">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I started a new job today. While I'm a big believer in paying your dues - that is, working hard at something for no money in order to gain skills with the expectation of gettin' that cheese at some point - this song just a good mantra for life. "If it don't make dollars, then it don't make sense," sings Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach between verses from Pharoahe Monch and RZA. Yeah, he's got a point. </p><p /><div>The Blakroc album, a joint effort between The Black Keys and Damon Dash, featured the Keys playing some heavy hip hop shizz and an all star roster of MC's flowing over top. It has aged well. All of it. After a day full of new people, new tasks and a new office, this album was an ideal come down from all the excitement. Combined with a listen to <i>Rubber Factory</i>, the third album from Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, this was the perfect end of day soundtrack. At least, it was that way for me.</div> <p /><div>Posting this track today is as much a statement on the new gig, despite my love of the old one, as it is a statement on life. You've got to love what you do and, eventually, you've got to get paid for it.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Blakroc</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/472582-blakroc-mp3s-blakroc">Shockhound</a>.</div><div>Buy <i>Rubber Factory</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/287332-the-black-keys-mp3s-rubber-factory">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/blakroc-dollaz-sense-feat-pharoahe-monch-rza">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3220501666668279727?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-15805776691278387012011-04-10T20:46:00.001-04:002011-04-10T20:46:43.514-04:00The Everglades are burning as we speak...<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/megeC7p9i0g53iwOcMXK5EBy25pImMNWYqMlF4v3mTpoYoPzNyv2GeeJwLmh/IMAG0236.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0236" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/AhLBVcFCLpnSxLqAzVMizHWJgZcjjqi6ZQ5QQCENWfodJvaVml8xYxmFY7D1/IMAG0236.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/the-everglades-are-burning-as-we-speak">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-1580577669127838701?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-56684419669592503822011-04-07T23:39:00.001-04:002011-04-07T23:39:07.973-04:00Skull Tape - The Invisible Hand<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/skull-tape-the-invisible-hand"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>The Invisible Hand</strong> by Skull Tape</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/skull-tape-the-invisible-hand">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>The new album from <a href="http://skulltape.tumblr.com/">Skull Tape</a>, <i>The Invisible Hand and The Descent of Man</i>, has been part of my regular listening most of the last month. I'm pretty sure these guys are my Surfer Blood for 2011 - out of left field pop songs that are catchy and I can't stop listening too. I fell in love when <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/41646-new-release-skull-tape-ithe-invisible-hand-and-the-descent-of-mani/">Pitchfork posted "Trans Anthro"</a> and, well, you just read those two sentences so you know what happened.</p><p /><div>The 12-track album flies by with a Tripping Daisy meets Parts and Labor fury of broken down Nintendo keyboard sounds, punk fast to psych slow and all in between rhythms with harmonies that often, for lack of a better example, sound like Blink-182 (not always, but enough that the thought crosses my mind several times throughout the album). </div> <p /><div>All of that adds up to something that fans of Atom and His Package and the three aforementioned bands should be able to agree on. They should agree, of course, that this album is a new obsession. On their <a href="http://www.facebook.com/skulltape?sk=wall&filter=1">Facebook page</a>, Skull Tape claims Sparks, Iron Maiden, The Wipers and YMO as their influences so hopefully my common man explanation doesn't offend them. To be fair, I can hear all those bands too. </div> <p /><div>Brad Breeck, formerly of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mae_Shi">The Mae Shi</a>, wrote these songs after that band broke up in between his work on commercials. According to the press release, <i>The Invisible Hand and The Descent of Man</i> was inspired by Breeck's obsession with a host of current events and it carries a loose theme of social darwinism, covering a wide range of issues the country is facing right now. Knowing this adds a whole layer of holy-fucking-shit to the album, which is catchy, personal and feels familiar from the first listen. I've got to say, part of me thinks that's a bunch of BS but, since this is indie rock and not some douche in a suit from EMI, I'll take the PR company and Breeck at their word.</div> <p /><div>There's enough punk rock on this album that I'm gonna qualify it as punk, and enough noise and jagged rhythms that it qualifies as art rock, the combination of which should bring it pretty close to perfect. Breeck has managed to craft songs just subversive enough that something beyond "here comes the girl" and "friendship is essential for life," themes that permeate many of these songs, might sink in when you're too busy bopping your head to pay attention.</div> <p /><div>Pre-order <i>The Invisible Hand and The Descent of Man</i> at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UVZS70/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_alp_CqZMnb0AVFEFF">Amazon</a>.</div><div>Also, Skull Tape made a video for their cover of Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair," which is a mash-up with the album track "Drowning In Blood." As you can see <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/19245991">here</a>, it's awesome.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/skull-tape-the-invisible-hand">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5668441966959250382?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-50983728335955259652011-04-07T14:15:00.001-04:002011-04-07T14:15:01.448-04:00They got me for a donation. Helping people is a good reason not to work though.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/AOFpzkiKO6bYObUdeTvRhKXAJwhGLAlNvaLfLYVDIyjwMuZ1dA5hLmp99YDa/IMAG0211.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0211" height="890" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/i9znIJ0n96ZL92g1d5vowcZjclWEia82imiPw0zknHFJgK00WjuDs6MuW1FB/IMAG0211.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p></p><p>And it's better than my usual excuse. :) </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/they-got-me-for-a-donation-helping-people-is">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5098372833595525965?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-31170076856814261992011-04-06T18:11:00.001-04:002011-04-06T18:11:42.099-04:00To anybody I know that thinks shutting the government down is an acceptable political tactic:<div class='posterous_autopost'><div style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><div><div style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">This comes from a friend in the military:</div></div> <p /></div>"Straight from the pentagon, if the government shutsdown, military will get 1 weeks pay instead of 2! You stupid F$&ks on capital hill better get your s@=t straight. You all go home every night to your families and never deploy....F%#K YOU!!! I don't go home every night and I spend months away from my family. Are you going to pay my direct withdrawals from my account and over the limit fees?"<p /><div><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Let's get this out of the way first - the last time Republicans shut the government down as part of some hissy fit to make a point, it backfired on them politically. So, from somebody who thinks you guys play dirty and don't actually have the best interests of the country at heart, thanks. This will help public servants who actually want to do something to move the country forward.</span></div> <p /><div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><div> <div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Compromise is not a one-way street. It's time for Republicans and conservatives to sit down and come to an agreement, rather than throwing a hissy fit when they don't get their way. Democrats and progressives in Congress do it over and over, angering their strongest supporters, in the hope that it will allow them to get more done. Unfortunately, that's never the way it works.</div></div> <p /><div><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">On the upside, the last time Republicans shut down the government, a Democratic President was reelected a year and a half later, the economy grew in unbelievable ways, and - shock - the federal budget was balanced as a result of all that tax revenue from the business success. Here's to hoping that the same thing happens now. </span></div></div> </div></div><p /> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">But more importantly, shutting down the government hurts actual American families. Not just the economy, but it makes life harder for people. You may say they're government jobs, but those paychecks are spent at actual businesses and contribute to the actual economy. Most notably, as my friend points out, our men and women in uniform, who put their lives on the line and follow orders given to them with the intention (hopefully) of protecting this great nation, are affected by this. </span></div> <p /><div><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">By shutting the government down you're hurting people and hurting America. Who's the real party of patriots now?</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/to-anybody-i-know-that-thinks-shutting-the-go">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3117007685681426199?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-26177652165914580352011-04-05T22:49:00.001-04:002011-04-05T22:49:15.084-04:00Nirvana - Drain You (live in Del Mar Fairgrounds, California in December, 1991)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/nirvana-drain-you-live-in-del-mar-fairgrounds"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Drain You</strong> by Nirvana</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/nirvana-drain-you-live-in-del-mar-fairgrounds">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>Today is the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. I wasn't going to post anything, but after watching things float across my RSS feeds, Facebook and, strangely, on shuffled playlists, I figured it was worth considering. Until I reread <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kurt-cobains-downward-spiral-rolling-stones-1994-feature-20110405" target="_blank">Rolling Stone's 1994 story on his death</a> and actually felt compelled to follow the herd. </p><p /><div>Like most people in their late-20s/nearing-30/in-their-30s-or-early-40s, I had a serious Nirvana phase. How could you not? This was the band that ushered in the idea of labels signing bands that didn't sound like the crap they were already pumping out to the masses. Alternative culture - yes, I said it - defined the 90s and made the idea of being whatever you want the mainstream thought for young people. Cringe if you like, but that started with Nirvana. This is the stuff that defined children of the 90s, whether we admit it or not. And as I've seen pointed out on more than one post, Kurt, Krist and Dave talked about the music scenes they came from and the music they liked and brought with them all sorts of bands that MTV and the masses had never come close to. It's important, though a lot of "adults" still don't get it.</div> <p /><div>In making music that was often raw, something the mainstream had lost for the most part in the 1980s with the synth revolution, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg" target="_blank">Smells Like Teen Spirit</a>" stood out - much more than "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGn2V7mgnN4" target="_blank">Mountain Song</a>" or "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs" target="_blank">Been Caught Stealing</a>," despite the pointing out of many that Jane's Addiction beat Nirvana to the mainstream. Which is true, but inconsequential. Perry Ferrell represents a mischievous fiend inside us all. Nirvana, though, with the raging guitars, and the pounding from Grohl on the drums, and Kurt's scratched howl, matched a dissatisfaction and bewilderment that American teens and twentysomethings were dealing with after a decade of American greed and decline (sound familiar?) was exactly what we needed. Kurt Cobain and his band woke people up in a way nobody else did. </div> <p /><div>I don't remember what day of the week it was, and I don't remember what I did that day - because I was 12 - but I do remember turning on MTV, which I had already developed a very strong obsession with, much like everybody else I knew at that point, and seeing Kurt Loder speak the words that were already crawling across the screen, interrupting Spring Break or something, that Cobain had been found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face. </div> <p /><div>I've had all the albums on repeat for years. I read and reread Kurt's notebooks, published by his evil widow, out of prurient and selfish curiosity. I've read and watched interviews with him, the band, the scenesters... And still I don't get it. I don't think I'm supposed to get it. Something was wrong in his head, much more so than any lyrics, save maybe "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv96yJYhk3M" target="_blank">You Know You're Right</a>," could let on.</div> <p /><div>There's no telling what would have happened with Nirvana, or if he'd be on Twitter, or what elder-statesman Kurt would have done. Certainly, the music would be interesting and <a href="http://www.barewalls.com/pv-377739_Nirvana.html" target="_blank">Mr. Corporate Magazines Still Suck</a> would be biting the hands that feed him. We would be lapping it up though because he was the icon. He fired the first bitter shot. He stood on the essential, though flawed, MTV, which had made him a massively rich success, and pointed out that it kind of sucked. For many of us, it was all we had. Hearing the members of Nirvana tell us that there was more than we were being handed was a big deal. Again, at age 10 or 11 or 12, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fALqCJciGV0" target="_blank">when they were on the VMAs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rukt8h7A7eA" target="_blank">in interviews</a>, spouting these things, it meant a lot.</div> <p /><div>His loss is just as infuriatingly sad now as it was 17 years ago. Maybe instead of Neil Young's "it's better to burn out than to fade away," Kurt should have ended that note with his own words, from the end of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," considering just how true they are: "I deny you. I deny you. I deny you. I deny you."</div> <p /><div>Buy the vastly underrated live collection <i><a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/7469-nirvana-mp3s-from-the-muddy-banks-of-the-wishkah" target="_blank">From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah</a> </i>(which the above version of "Drain You" comes from), or any of the other Nirvana albums you should already know by heart. These albums are among the bibles of a generation and are not to be underestimated. As always, I suggest <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/29433-nirvana-band/list_albums" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>. For all sorts of EPs, rarities and physical formats also head over to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nirvana/e/B000APW4NG/works/ref=ep_artist_tab_w?_encoding=UTF8&sn=d" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/nirvana-drain-you-live-in-del-mar-fairgrounds">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2617765216591458035?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-86310767899867824582011-04-04T23:38:00.001-04:002011-04-04T23:38:29.171-04:00TV On The Radio - New Canonball Run<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tv-on-the-radio-new-canonball-run"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>New Cannonball Run</strong> by Tv On The Radio</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tv-on-the-radio-new-canonball-run">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>It took a listen and a half to decide that TV On The Radio's fourth album, <i>Nine Types of Light</i>, would be the best album released this year. Yes, I know that it's only the first week of April. I'm also well aware that several really spectacular albums have already come out this year, and several more are scheduled for release in the next eight months. The fact is, I'm pretty sure this race is over. </p><p /><div>While anything could come out of left field, and despite just the greatness of the new Strokes and Foo Fighters albums, among others, this feels like <i>Return to Cookie Mountain</i> leaking eight months before it's actual release all over. I called it then, and I'm calling it now.</div> <p /><div><i>Dear Science,</i> also known as album number three, was good. Something felt off, though. Like the boys from Brooklyn were trying to satisfy some kind of expectation. Here, it sounds as natural as Dave Sitek <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tv-on-the-radio-take-los-angeles-with-nine-types-of-light-20110307">described the recording sessions to be in Rolling Stone</a>. </div> <p /><div>I can't find anything bitter about this album, and that's even with tracks about break-ups. It's all love and rocking out, which is kind of reassuring. You can hear the band finding a nice, happy place and doing what they do with the slow and mid-tempo grooves and the horns and the falsetto. Oh, that falsetto - it has to be the best thing in rock and roll right now. And when it runs atop what has now become the expected TVOTR harmonies, everything seems perfect in the world.</div> <p /><div>If this is the sound of one of the most adventurous and singularly unique bands of the 21st century maturing, we're in for a ride.</div> <p /><div><i>Nine Types of Light</i> has enough range in it to go from a spoken opening on "Second Song," and slow building of "Keep Your Heart" and "You." "No Future Shock" is the wake up call on the first half of the album begging listeners to "blow your top." </div> <p /><div>It's the second half of the album, starting with "New Canonball Run," that makes waves though. This track is the "Wolf Like Me" of <i>Nine Types of Light</i>, the one the band wants you screaming. "Repetition" works itself from completely still into a rolling frenzy that should work wonders in concert too. Maybe that's just cause I've found myself screaming at other cars while listening to it at red lights. </div> <p /><div>The last two tracks on the album, "Forgotten," which could be the not-so-distant cousin of the classic "Young Liars," and second single "Caffeinated Consciousness," a positively INXS-influenced song if ever I've heard one, are polar opposites that literally bring together everything perfect about this band.</div> <p /><div>There were points on <i>Dear Science</i> that felt like overreach and made one wonder if they had stretched as far as they could and each album thereafter would just be a reworking of parts. I hate to make the comparison, but think about this: <i>Nine Types of Light</i> is reassuring, because if Radiohead just wants to mess with our robotic heads (and <i>The King of Limbs</i>, at the very least, does that), TV On The Radio clearly just want us feel something. Album of the year is an understatement.</div> <p /><div>Pre-order a crazy awesome <i>Nine Types of Light</i> special edition <a href="http://www.tvontheradio.com/discography/default.aspx?pid=2935">directly from the band</a> (there's also an iTunes link there), or grab the deluxe edition with three bonus tracks on mp3 from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/804772-tv-on-the-radio-mp3s-nine-types-of-light--deluxe-">Shockhound</a>.</div> <div>Buy the rest of TV On The Radio's discography from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/44193-tv-on-the-radio-band">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tv-on-the-radio-new-canonball-run">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8631076789986782458?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-72512793123867356552011-04-04T19:01:00.001-04:002011-04-04T19:01:44.234-04:00FPG word of the day: I know a thing or two about this one :)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/fDLObfRXpykwLiFUt3aHJEo1lhG9cMcY2RsMESjhLb4hfHrU9TlYVTT9hKWu/IMAG0210.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0210" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/fs1a1lT6LgRKKHmH1uWf2mhxCRUAnsz31McCPp4po9nnPTDUt3Ha5zfJeIrw/IMAG0210.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/fpg-word-of-the-day-i-know-a-thing-or-two-abo">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-7251279312386735655?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-328991423752643902011-04-01T22:47:00.001-04:002011-04-01T22:47:23.372-04:00UNKLE - The Dog is Black (featuring Leila Moss)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/unkle-the-dog-is-black-featuring-leila-moss"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>The Dog Is Black (Feat. Liela Moss)</strong> by Unkle</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/unkle-the-dog-is-black-featuring-leila-moss">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>It took a few years, but I've stopped expecting <a href="http://unkle.com/">UNKLE</a> to come up with an album that sounds anything like <i>Psyence Fiction</i>, the debut full length from Mo' Wax main man James Lavelle which, at the time, was a tightly wound collaboration with the visionary DJ Shadow. It didn't last beyond that one album which, admittedly, has turned out to be more a collaboration than many of us assumed at the time. </p><p /><div>In 1997, it was easy to pin the whole thing on Shadow, because the man was in his effortless prime, and Lavelle was a visionary label head, but who could have predicted that, this long after the fact, UNKLE would continue to be putting out compelling music. Because <i>Psyence Fiction</i> is what it is, I (I'll speak only for myself here) have looked for that album over and over and been disappointed not to find it, despite how great <i>Never Never Land</i> and <i>War Stories</i> actually are.</div> <p /><div><i>Where Did The Night Fall</i>, the epically mesmerizing album that Lavelle released in an endless stream of ever more clever and expensive formats, completely changed that. Really, the artwork and packaging is stunning. But that's not the point or the reason I spent all day listening to <i>Only The Lonely</i>, a new five-track EP due out Tuesday. I'm just looking for epic production and the right vocalist, because it has become apparent that UNKLE can do that every time out.</div> <p /><div>This EP, released pretty quickly after last year's triumphant full length, which felt like it didn't get as much attention as it should have, includes the much written about collaboration with Nick Cave, "Money And Run." I'd be writing about it too if Ms. Moss didn't catch me. The lead singer of <a href="http://thedukespirit.com/">The Duke Spirit</a> howls over a dramatic pounding stutter for five minute track that makes me wonder if this is what the sirens sounded like in The Odyssey. I just think epic when I listen to this stuff, so why not go with the epic literature reference, right?</div> <p /><div>It's a good thing Lavelle turned out to be a lifer, because he's come back around to hit stride with a string of great releases. I'd say an EP like this every six months or so would create an army of worshippers but I'm sure he's got a way better plan then that.</div> <p /><div>Buy UNKLE's <i>Only The Lonely</i> EP from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/803626-unkle-mp3s-only-the-lonely---ep">Shockhound</a> on Tuesday, April 4.</div><div>In the meantime, buy other music by UNKLE from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/44463-unkle-band/list_albums">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/unkle-the-dog-is-black-featuring-leila-moss">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-32899142375264390?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-24743056414578768362011-03-31T23:32:00.001-04:002011-03-31T23:32:04.329-04:00Obits - I Want Results<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/obits-i-want-results"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>I Want Results</strong> by Obits</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/obits-i-want-results">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>The first album from Obits, a band that includes members of Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes, two longtime rock favorites of pretty much everybody who's watching the great indie rock underground, met high expectations because of the teaser 7-inch, "I Blame You"/"Get It In Writing." No shock, but it delivered. Hard.</p><p /><div>So with the mix of surf and garage rock set for a sequel, Obits decided to deliver again, this time harder, with <i>Moody, Standard And Poor</i>. </div><p /><div>This is the album you'll want to be dancing to. There's just no way around it. I mean, sure, the lyrics are a little bitter, what with the regrets and the giving up on dreams and begging for a break but hot damn are these some bad ass rock and roll songs from some bad ass rock and roll men.</div> <p /><div>"No Fly List," "Killer", and "You Gotta Lose" stand out for their shimmying in your face on an album full of such tracks. Even when Obits goes instrumental "I Blame Myself" or nearly instrumental on "Spot The Pikey" (which, for my money, is a surf-y "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdqMagYq2OA">Bankshot</a>"), <i>Moody, Standard and Poor</i> is the right album for the end of a long week.</div> <p /><div>Yes, it's still Thursday. Which means you've got time to make this the Friday soundtrack. See that, I've got your back. Or at least your ears.</div><p /><div>Buy <i>Moody, Standard and Poor</i> on mp3, CD or the all glorious vinyl from <a href="http://www.subpop.com/artists/obits">Sub Pop Records</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/obits-i-want-results">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2474305641457876836?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-2262539760384469472011-03-31T11:51:00.001-04:002011-03-31T11:51:38.124-04:00All I want is to do my time card but I got the RED SCREEN OF DEATH? Seriously, I've got six days left. I hope.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/ki6NBQ9bFWYEhiLWhMz0HGd9RU1iNLzmAb0n0zcnFILv7yMfVjg4emijpVeX/IMAG0195.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0195" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/gbBh7EB74fnPjXucM4KDY61oa2cqoKobdqzQmgnD4z2hD3MNLXMP2stTgYXb/IMAG0195.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/all-i-want-is-to-do-my-time-card-but-i-got-th">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-226253976038446947?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-41668803268104205682011-03-30T22:22:00.001-04:002011-03-30T22:22:21.051-04:00Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/death-from-above-1979-blood-on-our-hands"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Blood On Our Hands</strong> by Death From Above 1979</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/death-from-above-1979-blood-on-our-hands">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>For the last 24 hours, my Windows laptop has been uploading about 760 mp3s (about 4.2 gigabytes) to my Amazon Cloud Locker. Since I've been playing around with it, and did a very fast review of what was actually hitting the cloud, I ended up listening to very little new music today. </p><p /><div>(OK, the truth is I've been listening to the new TV On The Radio album all day, but I'm not ready to write anything about it yet, so just go with me on this. The album is stunningly mind blowing and on level with much of their greatest efforts. But really, I need to listen to it more before I pontificate.) <p /><div>The one full length Death From Above 1979 put out, <i>You're A Woman, I'm A Machine</i>, is a mind bender, and an automatic add to any iPod, cell phone or cloud service that I'm filling with music.</div> <p /><div>So what has me posting about DFA1979 is that while I thoroughly enjoyed that album while working on community news about traffic calming devices and city bus routes was <a href="http://www.spinner.ca/2011/03/20/death-from-above-1979-riot-sxsw/">the riot that happened outside their set at South-By-Southwest</a>, wherein the band played and people freaked the hell out. After the earth-shattering news that they were getting back together for a few big shows though, who could be surprised?</div> </div><p /><div>Enjoy the rock and roll. Buy this album is you don't already have it. For real, you need it. Now. Then you'll understand why, like me, you'd riot for these Sebastien and Jesse too.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>You're a Woman, I'm a Machine</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/110966-death-from-above-1979-mp3s-you-re-a-woman--i-m-a-machine">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/death-from-above-1979-blood-on-our-hands">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4166880326810420568?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-52798139373251735922011-03-29T23:17:00.001-04:002011-03-29T23:17:27.935-04:00Wagon Christ - Manalyze This!<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/wagon-christ-manalyze-this"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Manalyze This!</strong> by Wagon Christ</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/wagon-christ-manalyze-this">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Luke Vibert has two speeds: super fast jungle, which was mostly done under the name Plug, and which he really hasn’t done since the mid-90s; and everything else, which is just slower, and usually comes close to hip hop and techno, though often abstract and sometimes very danceable. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <a href="http://www.wagonchrist.com/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Wagon Christ</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, a great moniker if ever one has been created, has been home to abstract hip hop and sometimes ambient efforts for the full length of Vibert’s career. On </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toomorrow</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the first WC full length in seven years, it sounds like Vibert could bust out with Plug-style drum ‘n’ bass at any second. This album veers back and forth between dancey and laid back, but is never confusing and flows unshockingly well.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vibert is an evil genius, somewhere between Richard D. James and Tom Jenkinson for actually portraying evil, but all three are equally responsible with a few others, for creating the mind-bending and stupidly-named but none the less obsessive attraction of Intelligent Dance Music.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While recording Wagon Christ, Plug and a few other names, Vibert explored rhythms and sampling in ways that require the listener to want to be there, much like his contemporaries. Put on any of his albums and watch the room clear, leaving only those aurally adventurous enough to nod their heads and wonder how long that beat can continue for.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Manalyze This,” the third track on </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toomorrow</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, is almost a pure techno track, and wouldn’t sound out of place in the 90s. This new album deserves to sit comfortably on the shelf with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Musipal</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tally Ho!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It’s refreshing. Now if only Vibert would really drive us nuts with a new album from Plug, it would really feel like 1996.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Buy </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toomorrow</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> from </span><a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/790915-wagon-christ-mp3s-toomorrow"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Shockhound</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Buy other Wagon Christ albums from </span><a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/45269-wagon-christ-band"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Shockhound</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blow your mind with the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkFh5q7iIRs"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">classic Plug track “DBC.”</span></a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/wagon-christ-manalyze-this">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5279813937325173592?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-26788057867292881902011-03-28T22:01:00.001-04:002011-03-28T22:01:54.731-04:00Folk Implosion - Nothing Gonna Stop<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/folk-implosion-nothing-gonna-stop"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Nothing Gonna Stop</strong> by The Folk Implosion</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/folk-implosion-nothing-gonna-stop">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>My children like to go through my CD racks and pull out the albums that interest them. By interest, I mean whatever album art catches their eye. The four faces on the soundtrack to the 1995 movie "Kids" gets them every time. This time, I didn't put it away though and instead threw the disc in the stereo.</p><p /><div>Since Netflix doesn't even have "Kids" to rent on DVD, let alone stream, which is really piss poor, I couldn't immediately meet the urge to watch what is easily a favorite movie. And no, it's not a favorite simply because it offended and scared the hell out of so many parents and downright old people. "Kids" is entertaining. Though it was nothing like my real life at any point, I find it at least a little believable that it's a little like somebody's life.</div> <p /><div>The soundtrack, like so many others of the mid and late 90s, is exquisite. Two tracks from Daniel Johnston, two slow-burning and understated but no less significant ones from Sebadoh and Slint, and the handful of tracks from a then-unknown Folk Implosion, Lou Barlow's not really post-Sebadoh until it was post-Sebadoh groove-heavy hip hop influenced not-a-rock band.</div> <p /><div>The big hit was, and is, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYerwwTV5qc">Natural One</a>," which is simple and sneaky and undeniable in bassline and beat. Barlow is calm, or stoned, in his delivery. Like a teenager about smack to the shit out of somebody with the wrong side of a skateboard. Or at least like a different teenager carelessly spreading his AIDS throughout his filth-mongering drunken hoard.</div> <p /><div>"Nothing Gonna Stop," the third track on the album, is no less steady or hauntingly perfect than "Natural One." The Folk Implosion, as good as they were on the albums after the "Kids" soundtrack, were never as good as on these two tracks. Forgive me for basking in the 90s, but you're not gonna try to tell me this song doesn't feel like perfect teenaged bliss, are you?</div> <p /><div>The soundtrack to "Kids" is out of print, but you can buy it from Amazon, as well as lots of other Folk Implosion stuff. Do that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=folk+implosion&x=0&y=0">here</a>.<p /> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/folk-implosion-nothing-gonna-stop">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2678805786729288190?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-35267761695858556982011-03-27T15:19:00.001-04:002011-03-27T15:19:40.520-04:00Is that Donkey Kong on my banana? Wii!<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/4tDHjzyS8DoKBezf7bw4IBsj9pxI0LztsXz3mkSziJr2d9vvGKQeCKizYq3R/IMAG0190.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0190" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/e6KrwMfNkl4T5zs5DffVFMEtjzNCcZwhqlDzGCqvnylwjX9dSxDJRAdGUyAn/IMAG0190.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p></p><p>Now that's a clever bit of marketing. Gotta give the Nintendo folks credit for a good idea.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/is-that-donkey-kong-on-my-banana-wii">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3526776169585855698?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-24532030444400407002011-03-26T08:00:00.001-04:002011-03-26T08:00:17.573-04:00Screeching Weasel - What We Hate<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/screeching-weasel-what-we-hate"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>What We Hate</strong> by Screeching Weasel</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/screeching-weasel-what-we-hate">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.benweasel.com/">Ben Weasel</a>'s whole gig has been hating on everything. Last weekend at South by Southwest, he took it to a new level by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRmLoIsGq2A&feature=player_embedded">punching two girls in the face after getting heckled</a>, and the second one he hit more than once. As a result, his band has quit and pretty much nobody is accepting the apology. Look, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/03/sxsw-2011-screeching-weasel-singer-pelted-with-ice-throws-punches-at-two-women.html">that bitch who threw ice at him and then spit beer deserved to be escorted out</a>, but Weasel should be able to be a professional. </p><p /><div>I've loved <a href="http://www.screechingweasel.com/">Screeching Weasel</a> (and the Riverdales, and the solo stuff) since the first time I heard <i>Boogada Boogada Boogada</i> sometime in 8th grade. It's still one of my favorite records, and that and both <i>My Brain Hurts</i> and <i>How To Make Enemies And Irritate People</i> have never been off any iPod I owned because I crave them. I listen to their records all the time. I even follow Weasel on Twitter, despite the fact that he comes off like a douche bag most of the time - which has always been his deal. I don't agree with a lot of what he thinks, especially when it comes to politics and usually when it comes to music, but his music has always been pretty good. New Times summed up just what he's known for pretty well. <a href="http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2011/03/everyone_quits_screeching_weasel.php">Check it</a>.</div> <p /><div>There's a good chance I'll keep listening to those old records. There's also a good chance I'll talk a bunch of shit about Weasel while listening to them. What an asshole.</div><p /><div>Don't buy anything from Screeching Weasel. Steal it if you can find, but don't give that dickhead a penny.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/screeching-weasel-what-we-hate">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2453203044440040700?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-62307195885277050922011-03-25T08:04:00.001-04:002011-03-25T08:04:39.680-04:00Less Than Jake - Magnetic North<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/less-than-jake-magnetic-north"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Magnetic North</strong> by Less Than Jake</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/less-than-jake-magnetic-north">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I like to skank and drive, and with the discography of Less Than Jake taking up something like two-thirds of a gig on my cell phone right now, there's a good chance that I'm going to get some kind of ska-core thundering through the speakers of my unassuming Saturn and out the open windows into the world. Which means I'm gonna get some strange looks at red lights while bouncing around behind the wheel like a fool. </p><p /><div>LTJ formed and built their legend in Gainesville, Florida, the sprawling college town that is home to the greatest university on the face of the planet. (Full disclosure: I'm a Gator - Class of 2003. Deal with it.) Studio output notwithstanding, it's the live show that gets people coming back to the band over and over, even if they don't own a single, physical record. Every show is a party, as I'm sure the one I missed last weekend in Fort Lauderdale was, and once you've been to one, you NEED to go back.</div> <p /><div>"Magnetic North" comes from the band's Fat Wreck Chords debut <i>Borders and Boundaries</i>. In the best way I could possibly put this, it's another hard-charging pop-punk horn-filled effort from the band. There are a lot of songs on <i>B&B</i> about getting out of whatever town you're in or doing some vague something, and this is one of them.</div> <p /><div>Partially, I'm posting this song because I think it applies to everybody who lives in Florida, myself included, who complains about this ridiculous state. That said, I'm not gonna go too deep on the lyrical content though because, while they cover some stuff, I'm really posting this because I think the world could use a good skank to blow off steam. Watch the news for a second and you'll know why. For the record, I mean the dance, not the woman. Though I can think of a few people that could use that kind of skank too. Again, watch the news, you'll see a few of the people I refer to. Awesome.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Borders and Boundaries</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/3093-less-than-jake-mp3s-borders---boundaries">Shockhound</a>.</div><div>Buy other Less Than Jake albums from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/23523-less-than-jake-band/list_albums">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/less-than-jake-magnetic-north">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6230719588527705092?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-18448359533990198412011-03-24T09:08:00.001-04:002011-03-24T09:08:57.163-04:00I thought very seriously about trading license plates with this guy.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/5LDF1sihjwBHHn7lvQ7NcXNvwxl2RRqkpY9CkFpfYRK7w1Tgz1L4QwR5PlbD/IMAG0183-1.jpg"><img alt="Imag0183-1" height="381" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/YqLFHJo6pHyT68x2exmU5fFLJiI0Pu1JuqINXGMrzGoX3oiW2J9tEKfrzrDp/IMAG0183-1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/i-thought-very-seriously-about-trading-licens">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-1844835953399019841?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-23912448656209869752011-03-24T08:40:00.001-04:002011-03-24T08:40:57.541-04:00Pinhead Gunpowder - Kathleen<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/pinhead-gunpowder-kathleen"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Kathleen</strong> by Pinhead Gunpowder</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/pinhead-gunpowder-kathleen">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>Green Day put out a live album and DVD called <i>Awesome As Fuck</i> today. The album includes songs from every one of the band's albums, played faster and louder than any of the studio versions, with screaming fans shouting every word at them. I opted not to post a track from it because, aside from the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOa-lJWeQ4Q" target="_blank">videos</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql6sroLj9v0" target="_blank">they posted</a>, it seemed like overkill. Also, I've already <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/green-day-the-grouch" target="_blank">made my case for them</a>. </p><p /><div>Instead, here's a track from <a href="http://www.pinheadgunpowder.com/" target="_blank">Pinhead Gunpowder</a>, a band made up of Aaron Cometbus, Bill Schneider, Jason White and, obviously, Billie Joe Armstrong. They formed a few years after Green Day, in 1990, though they've obviously taken a back seat to Armstrong's day job.</div> <p /><div>Pretty straightforward, melodic pop punk, PG is probably a nice break for Armstrong because he's not the center of attention. Then again, Schneider and White both work with him in Green Day (Schneider is their tour manager and White is the "other guitarist" that tours with them), so it's not totally different from what he's usually doing.</div> <p /><div>Though they have put out albums sporadically in their 20 years of existence, Pinhead Gunpowder got a little mass attention in 2008 with the release of the <i>Kick Over The Traces</i> collection while the world waited for Green Day's follow-up to <i>American Idiot</i>, <i>21st Century Breakdown</i>.</div> <p /><div>From the first time I heard it on its original release on the <i>Shoot The Moon</i> EP, "Kathleen" caught my ear because of a well-used harmonica - which to me gives it a bit of Springsteen. Where the Boss comparison drops is that the song is supposedly about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Hanna" target="_blank">Kathleen Hannah</a>, the original riot grrrl and frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, wife of Ad-Rock (yes, that Ad-Rock) and the person who inadvertently named Nirvana's biggest song when she wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on Kurt Cobain's wall. She's a big fucking deal, and yes, I love her too.</div> <p /><div>The song is about a lesbian who saves the singer's life and how he'd like to love her but can't because he's a dude. It's weirdly romantic in an empty-headed teen punk way, and the harmonica kills. It's some next level shit as far as I'm concerned. And it's almost as good as "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qslpcknNrJM" target="_blank">Christie Road</a>."</div> <p /><div>Buy Pinhead Gunpowder's <i>Shoot The Moon</i> EP or their other albums from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=pinhead+gunpowder&x=18&y=19" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</div> <div>Buy Green Day's <i>Awesome As Fuck</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/795591-green-day-mp3s-awesome-as-f--k--deluxe-" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>. </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/pinhead-gunpowder-kathleen">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2391244865620986975?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-14396046453569770022011-03-22T23:15:00.001-04:002011-03-22T23:15:58.778-04:00The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-hold-steady-your-little-hoodrat-friend"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Your Little Hoodrat Friend</strong> by The Hold Steady</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-hold-steady-your-little-hoodrat-friend">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I spent much of my 5-day vacation on Long Island last week trying to figure out the right song to link to the trip. The problem, for my college-damaged memory, is that the year I spent there was the beginning of a stretch of pseudo-laziness, mostly in tracking and obsessing over my listening habits. I was head-long into turning myself into a community reporter. What the hell did I need to waste time on anything beyond just listening to great records?</p><p /><div>Regrets aside, what I remember is "With Teeth," "American Idiot," "The Empire Strikes First," "To The Five Boroughs," and an endless stream of burned mix CDs, though what, exactly, was on them is long gone. Until, that is, one of my absolute favorite tracks from The Hold Steady hit my iPod yesterday while running errands yesterday and it hit me: Two tracks from The Hold Steady, ripped from magazine samplers, spent a lot of time on repeat in my car while driving up and down the North Fork and around Riverhead during those 12 months.</div> <p /><div>As I've <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-hold-steady-cattle-and-the-creeping-thing">written previously</a>, I hold <i>Separation Sunday</i> up as the high water mark for The Hold Steady, despite how good an album <i>Boys and Girls In America</i> turned out to be. I'm hopeful that these guys can turn out another album that lives up to either. Maybe they should record it somewhere other than Brooklyn, just like those two classics. Not that I would blame them if they ignore the suggestion.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Separation Sunday</i> at <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/26387-the-hold-steady-mp3s-separation-sunday">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-hold-steady-your-little-hoodrat-friend">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-1439604645356977002?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-73878184012927804062011-03-19T20:25:00.001-04:002011-03-19T20:25:03.157-04:00The Strokes - Taken For A Fool<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-strokes-taken-for-a-fool"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Taken For A Fool</strong> by The Strokes</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-strokes-taken-for-a-fool">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I was on Long Island visiting family when <i>Angles</i>, the new album from The Strokes finally leaked. It was another 12 hours before I filled my ears with NYC's favorite sons on the plane back to Fort Lauderdale. What I got, from the first track to the last, is the best album the band has released since <i>Is This It</i>, and I loved <i>Room On Fire</i>. A lot.</p><p /><div>What I've seen in the last several days though, with the exception of a really strange review from Rolling Stone's David Fricke, is a bunch of overly bitter hipster critics telling the world that The Strokes sound bored and the album is mediocre at best. Are you guys for real? It's one thing when fans, who have been trained to expect the <i>Is This It</i> until they're told not to, express disappointment. In another week, when they're still listening to it, something will hit them in the face. That's fine. But critics, have you lost your damn minds?</div> <p /><div>Unless you hate The Strokes, and if you do then you likely haven't read this far anyway, <i>Is This It</i> was probably the first perfect record of the new decade and century when it came out. All 10 songs are flawless and, for the time, sounded like nobody else getting mass market attention. The follow-up, <i>Room On Fire</i>, was a progression, though slight, from its predecessor, and was referred to as a copycat album. The great irony is that on the third album, <i>First Impressions of Earth</i>, The Strokes tried to completely remake things and, though they were commended for the effort, the album tanked and the band took a much needed break.</div> <p /><div>Around the point that people started wondering if they'd ever be back together, because nearly all the members had been putting out solo albums and apparently not talking, word came that the band had started to slowly work on new stuff. Based on the interviews that have come out in the last several weeks, leading up to next week's actual release, <i>Angles</i> was not an easy album to write and record.</div> <p /><div>The big difference this time around is that rather than the other four Strokes building on top of frontman Julian Casablancas song ideas, everybody contributed and sort of worked together. What we've got, really, is an album that brings in all sorts of stuff from the first three albums - most notably that classic Strokes sound of the first two albums - that meshes with influences as disparate as reggae, 70s AOR and all sorts of 80s stuff. Like any great record, the more you listen, the more you get. And boy, is there a lot here.</div> <p /><div>On <i>Is This It</i>, there's a part of the band that sounds unsure of itself. On <i>Room On Fire</i>, they new exactly what they were doing and had the world in their palm of their hands. With <i>Angles</i>, it's almost like they're starting over, but they know that each of the band members has pushed each other to the limit and now its time to get down to business. Why else would we be "singing the same song for the last 10 years?" "Last Nite" wasn't that good of a song. Well, yes it was, but still, you see where I'm coming from.</div> <p /><div>I've been through this album at least twice a day since Monday. Every song sticks out, and the band doesn't sound bored. They sound just like they did on <i>Is This It</i> - flipping the bird to the world, effortlessly and with fake disinterest. What a great damn band.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Angles</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/795640-the-strokes-mp3s-angles" target="_blank">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-strokes-taken-for-a-fool">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-7387818401292780406?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-76928829564698906892011-03-19T01:18:00.001-04:002011-03-19T01:18:49.299-04:00Reaganomics - Chireland<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/reaganomics-chireland"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Chireland</strong> by Reaganomics</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/reaganomics-chireland">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I haven't posted anything from the new Reaganomics album, <i>Lower The Bar</i>, just yet but St. Patrick's Day seems as good a time as any because of this very song, which nails the fake Irish who think they've got a good reason to get wasted once a year. </p><p /><div>Aside from that, <i>Lower The Bar</i> is more of what Reaganomics has set themselves out as, snotty skate punk that's just a good listen. Yeah, I'm keeping it simple. Enjoy that green beer, posers. (I certainly will.)</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Lower The Bar</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/767051-the-reaganomics-mp3s-lower-the-bar">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/reaganomics-chireland">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-7692882956469890689?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-91296649466081453832011-03-18T13:32:00.001-04:002011-03-18T13:32:41.742-04:00I don't usually wade into the Israeli-Palestinian argument, but I can't help myself right now...<div class='posterous_autopost'>If you didn't know, some douchey prick <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/03/12/west.bank.family.killed/index.html?hpt=T2">murdered a sleeping Israeli family</a> last week. I'm not sure what kind of political statement this is supposed to make, but it's not effective. This cuts the Palestinian cause off at the balls. Israelis don't do this stuff either, so it's not like it's an in-kind retribution.<p /><div>Now, I know that Israel has had a hand in pushing the decades-long war the Palestinian leadership over land. It's kind of tough though to make a case murdering sleeping families is the way to push that battle forward. The goal of the groups who use - that's right, they use - the Palestinian cause is to eliminate the existence of Israel. It's about that one decision, in 1948, that created the state of Israel, and endless attempts to reverse it. Um, that's not gonna happen guys, so let's move on.</div> <div><p /><div>The other thing is that's bugging me is this <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/18/lorne-gunter-the-shockingly-brutal-murder-of-a-sleeping-israeli-family/">Israel Apartheid Week</a>. Well, let me point something out for those who think that Israel is engaging in some kind of apartheid-like practice: Palestinians have more rights in Israel than any other country in the Middle East. Oh, you didn't know that? Yeah, look it up. The only restriction on Palestinians in Israel is to not fucking kill people. Sorry, that's not oppression.</div> <p /><div>Regardless, it's piss poor that nobody is talking about these gruesome murders, because they should be. If you want a reason to be at least as angry about this I am, take a look at the reality: <span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://bit.ly/i65Sre">http://bit.ly/i65Sre</a>.</span><p /> </div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/i-dont-usually-wade-into-the-israeli-palestin">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-9129664946608145383?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-34559047224046040812011-03-17T13:19:00.001-04:002011-03-17T13:19:00.707-04:00Irish rainbow cake in the office. Sweet drunkards is that pretty!<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/Nq5ft8DAjhT8C9GeJtQQIHVyBGsWuJPNAtjTJydsMBubr2oj5dbIVPpm7DJz/IMAG0173.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0173" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/ezsrqeX1sDiR3g5uahRDUaJisPvkPtBBwjyuEJ39grY3jMRr7ZdvjbrlGaFt/IMAG0173.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/irish-rainbow-cake-in-the-office-sweet-drunka">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3455904722404604081?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-24980619647834535742011-03-14T17:26:00.001-04:002011-03-14T17:26:41.155-04:00Honor coins. Cool stuff.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/mGgoDkdSUYMyrS9XKyEB7fcQT4y4sRIiFAQYb2q1WI1djx9vdCmhCMa3moss/IMAG0165.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0165" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/rVzTDScxJIJq1wJb6LiOMhNpLsPMZJyJesuK1m3iUhe92g0TmoeE5aErKBjx/IMAG0165.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/honor-coins-cool-stuff">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2498061964783453574?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-21063527993288004812011-03-13T16:01:00.001-04:002011-03-13T16:01:33.524-04:00Watching Almost A Memory practice.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/6x1hQPQyFNnP7V2veFFdwaN5wPKJkX15yegNensyZMxsYZghBqdAFtnt0JXk/IMAG0141.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0141" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/LZ7kQp6AI7SFB0IHechXEqwLTj035lRVVkpAsvoRzU21agxWr7pxOYnKhgIz/IMAG0141.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/watching-almost-a-memory-practice">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2106352799328800481?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-66732496356059863812011-03-12T15:11:00.001-05:002011-03-12T15:11:52.374-05:00That's my girl.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/EJj6IoHtVQ76lNg5DzP3GqVmXP7A92z0oMNQXzswBR6proDVZLnKm9o1Cbp8/IMAG0138.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0138" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/dEnP10al0gFniGlFAOE8cEIU2H4xuPyAFckRJ0xRvfMOZxyZSt8fFnZqmUHx/IMAG0138.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/thats-my-girl">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6673249635605986381?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-43269974027624609382011-03-10T23:23:00.001-05:002011-03-10T23:23:59.265-05:00Red Dons - Enemy Ears<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/red-dons-enemy-ears"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Enemy Ears</strong> by Red Dons</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/red-dons-enemy-ears">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div>The Red Dons would have fit in perfectly in, like, 2002, with all the "garage rock" of the times. They're an outlier now, though, which makes it easier to get drawn in to a sound that is really easy to listen to. Scoring like Man or Astroman if they sounded a little more like both The Damned and The Hives, The Red Dons spend their second album burning through ten distinctly punk songs.</div> <p /><div>Released last July to rapturous review from <a href="http://icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.com/2011/03/at-this-point-more-history-than.html" target="_blank">bloggers</a> and <a href="http://www.reddons.com/?p=715" target="_blank">magazines</a>, <i>Fake Meets Failure</i> is a set of catchy, hard-charging songs don't let go. You shouldn't have to think about how much to listen to The Red Dons, I certainly haven't. Hence the simple review: Just set it to repeat. That way you don't have to hit the button again.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Fake Meets Failure</i> on CD from <a href="http://www.derangedrecords.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=27&sort=2a&action=buy_now&products_id=435" target="_blank">Deranged Records</a> or download it <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zfhwhjwxjzu" target="_blank">here</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/red-dons-enemy-ears">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4326997402762460938?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-83660895167047269872011-03-10T16:05:00.001-05:002011-03-10T16:05:06.230-05:00Rocky road cake? On a stick? Starbucks FTW!<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/5YUBeHj2FnBX2ZfuohkKZFS5nwVGyd1fDLkzMH7eOSySWvIFouQVojkDYVUw/IMAG0104.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0104" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/Kx0s0FPnnPNwlDpnZtTGjfqXKjp03IXUZ8F6AKhLhIhd1aYW0aEV3xyTYgTz/IMAG0104.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/rocky-road-cake-on-a-stick-starbucks-ftw">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8366089516704726987?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-55522577179807499592011-03-10T06:08:00.001-05:002011-03-10T06:08:34.533-05:00Blink-182 - Carousel<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/blink-182-carousel"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Carousel</strong> by Blink - 182</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/blink-182-carousel">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>If the bassline on Blink-182's classic "Carousel" isn't inspired, if not stolen outright, from the main guitar riff on The Cure's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_ux2H473I">Just Like Heaven</a>," then I am either insane or proving that there is a limited number of things that can be done with a guitar. Well, I'm pretty sure I'm insane regardless.</p><p /><div>There is a very good chance I'm completely insane, but at 9:00 this morning, after three cups of coffee, when this song came on the shuffle, all I heard was The Cure's biggest hit. (And I heard The Cure's version, despite my preference for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJLOr8S2d2E">the Dinosaur Jr. version</a> because, on the whole, I'd rather listen to Dinosaur Jr. That's another story though.)</div> <p /><div>That it's taken me 15 years to notice is a little disappointing, because I should have noticed earlier. Finding a similarity to a huge pop song, however, does not surprise me. In the early days, Blink was writing punk songs just poppy enough to lure in everybody who heard them. Literally everybody loved <i>Cheshire Cat.</i></div> <p /><div>Listening to that album now, it's no shock that two albums later, or three, at the most, Blink-182 would be one of the biggest bands in the world. Their lasting influence wasn't as predictable as, say, Green Day's 90s heyday, but the celebration upon their return last year proves that Mark, Tom and Travis were somewhat underestimated 10 or 15 years ago.</div> <p /><div>The other thing worth noting, especially about <i>Cheshire Cat</i>, if not the other albums, which I unabashedly embrace because they too were part of my teenage and college soundtrack, is that even the most elitist punk fan will admit that they cannot kill the soft spot they've got for that one album. No matter how hard they try to kill it, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZs88WWGDoo">M&Ms</a>," "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyBjzlGhr38&feature=related">Strings</a>," "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejuf7uJ2oXQ">Ben Wah Balls</a>" and "Carousel" (and the rest of the album) got stuck in their heads at some point and get them excited on the off chance they hear them now.</div> <p /><div>Buy Blink-182's <i>Cheshire Cat</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/119518-blink-182-mp3s-cheshire-cat">Shockhound</a>.<p /> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/blink-182-carousel">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5552257717980749959?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-67890209225915807002011-03-09T11:25:00.001-05:002011-03-09T11:25:02.483-05:00Does my office know me or what?<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/l7N3LXwlI5LVbNC1nvAzrtdh39nR3XifHfDicGyYrASlUPHQcTKnmZ6obQKp/IMAG0103.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0103" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/a7vJcxLG7EPaHnSTe6m3G5bY42COOmZb7PwAE9NVKUwXtE2Ywf9y8aVjGCcx/IMAG0103.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/does-my-office-know-me-or-what">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6789020922591580700?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-91051572915914452102011-03-07T21:13:00.001-05:002011-03-07T21:13:22.267-05:00The kids may sing during the day, but when they go to sleep then the characters have a drum circle without them.<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/9Cey78S0sFif23blMJpIyKVg45D9JmSX7d2sDm9vAFpzxK0wHYl5clyPJkyv/IMAG0073.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0073" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/1ho7mkqWQLRIJHYzfBCWQieCz6YAGrDCmodlwzm7tluhDiIQ6lsvMDvzFCgU/IMAG0073.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/eHBIJeYMSKkwB0teR3tuHIxFnllZTIdwEIEA0nVUOguBAyzMFlDmkIopZKOw/IMAG0075.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0075" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/qStZA7qa3dnycax8srWnX2BoOOZ7WvZLmMtt6eepNo7iDrFrKp1RyiwkJjiW/IMAG0075.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/Jj3NxOlTuYGDx8m2sRaVm4LLBmh3zc8ZNhdu0vXuM5XtB4NOGgaHvSzzvRjr/IMAG0090.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0090" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/3EBGkVadRNk8R1CXnqsDq9H0DxSQrZk6gThjKzRbCMcxhBDo0Rgyjo7DpZQm/IMAG0090.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/the-kids-may-sing-during-the-day-but-when-the">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/the-kids-may-sing-during-the-day-but-when-the">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-9105157291591445210?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-26134848190132764742011-03-06T10:53:00.001-05:002011-03-06T10:53:25.774-05:00Tricky - Mellow<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tricky-mellow"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Mellow</strong> by Tricky</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tricky-mellow">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div>It's been a while since I listened to Tricky's third album, <i>Angels With Dirty Faces</i>, and felt comfortable with all all of it. This morning, while attempting to clear a strange post-NyQuil haze with Red Bull and coffee, everything clicked into place like it hasn't since the first few times I listened to it the week it was released.</div> <p /><div>At his best, Tricky's albums are filthy sex albums. It doesn't matter what he's rasping on about, his best records are made for making the beast with two backs. (I could have just gone with the obvious curse word there but a childish euphemism seemed like so much more fun, especially considering the frame of mind I was in when this track hit my headphones for the first time at 7 a.m. this morning.)</div> <p /><div>There's nothing deep about this song. No meaning. No well-stolen sample or clever reference or anything but what it is - an ode to a woman who, ahem, takes care of her man.</div><p /><div> The rest of the album, while it seemed like a somewhat bloated overreach after two perfect albums that each had it's own blunted sexually violent tension, actually fits in well. <i>Angels With Dirty Faces</i> is grimy. It's the underworld that Tricky started touching on <i>Pre-Millenium Tension</i> and wished for on <i>Maxinquaye</i>. Amazing. Now I think I need a shower.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Angels With Dirty Faces</i> and the rest of Tricky's discography at <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/43930-tricky-band/list_albums">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tricky-mellow">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-2613484819013276474?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-216736338580322922011-03-06T09:35:00.001-05:002011-03-06T09:35:33.072-05:00Here's a clue why America is so fat and unhealthy. When's national fresh fruit and vegetable month??<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/IGDWF7EKWb5qNgxg4AX9eo0DTEQzD3TtHO5Wl8m0IOW6DzgK5dWA2Wg35ymF/IMAG0074.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Imag0074" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/OA2byD2N18SALt1eiTTCwrM817ATcZHeCQHRqK3oIfiRYgR8QP2GS022apjV/IMAG0074.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/heres-a-clue-why-america-is-so-fat-and-unheal">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-21673633858032292?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-90350961178900191352011-03-05T11:23:00.001-05:002011-03-05T11:23:16.547-05:00Beastie Boys - Here's A Little Somethin' For Ya<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/beastie-boys-heres-a-little-somethin-for-ya"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Here's A Little Somethin' For Ya</strong> by Beastie Boys</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/beastie-boys-heres-a-little-somethin-for-ya">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p></p><div>Last week, I gleefully punched a touch screen jukebox into playing "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1lFdNjwrs">B-Boy Bouillabaisse</a>." That, for the sorely uncultured among us, is the epic final track on the classic and underrated-no-matter-how-credited-it-ever-gets <i>Paul's Boutique</i>. I was less than sober at that moment, but stand by it, because it was, as always, the right thing to play.</div> <p /><div>Of late I've had a hankering for something outside the Beastie box. I was going to post something like "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4d-YYfNZc4">Skills To Pay The Bills</a>" or something forgotten like "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz2uhNoY3_c">The Move</a>," but you can just get off your ass and dig out the deluxe reissue of <i>Check Your Head</i> or any copy of <i>Hello Nasty </i>and grab them yourself. Instead, I went with one of the tracks from the super-limited to 1000 copies <i>Super Surprise</i> 12-inch pumped to select record stores last year on Record Store Day.</div> <p /><div>That special release has two tracks on it: "Lee Majors Come Again," which is the rhymes from a new track scratched over Daft Punk's "Da Funk," and this one, "Here's A Little Somethin' For Ya." Neither of them will sound this way on <i>Hot Sauce Committee, part 2</i>, guaranteed. Why would I dare guarantee such a thing? Because there's no way DJ Shadow is going to be cool with the Boys remixing and rapping over "The Number Song (Cut Chemist remix)." </div> <p /><div>There's <a href="http://www.mictomic.com/2011/02/release-date-for-new-beastie-boys-album.html">no confirmed release date</a> for the new album though, so this will have to do for the moment. And in the meantime, I'll keep terrorizing middle-aged drunks with classic late-80s white-boy rap references to legendary football players and rhymes about peeing between subway cars.</div> <p /><div>Buy the reissues of <a href="http://paulsboutique.beastieboys.com/purchase/index.html" style="font-style: italic;">Pauls Boutique</a>, <a href="http://checkyourhead.beastieboys.com/buy/" style="font-style: italic;">Check Your Head</a>, <i><a href="http://illcommunication.beastieboys.com/buy_ic/">Ill Communication</a></i>, and <i><a href="http://hellonasty.beastieboys.com/buy_hn/">Hello Nasty</a> </i>directly from the <a href="http://beastieboys.com/">Beastie Boys</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/beastie-boys-heres-a-little-somethin-for-ya">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-9035096117890019135?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-62896410621441537192011-03-04T11:14:00.001-05:002011-03-04T11:14:12.755-05:00Campaign - Old Haunts<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/campaign-old-haunts"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Oid Haunts</strong> by Campaign</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/campaign-old-haunts">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>I don't remember how I stumbled on the free download of the new EP from Atlanta post-hardcore five-piece Campaign. Aside from making me think about Hot Water Music, among other similar-sounding Gainesville bands, there's a lot to like about these guys. </p><p /><div>The songs are easy to listen to, and they've got a blog - <a href="http://www.itlikestoparty.com/">It Likes To Party</a> - which they use as a home base, mostly to give their music away. The latest EP, <i>Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!</i> is made up of four songs, each of which includes the word "old" in the title. It's a little weird, but the band is singing about combining cheap wine and old records for a more than satisfying night shutting out the world. I can dig that sort of thing, which should explain how they ended up on this blog.</div> <p /><div>My only complaint is that they're all wearing jean jackets on the cover of the EP. Come on guys, you can do better then that. Hit up Goodwill for some old t-shirts or something cause all that denim is really freaking me out.</div> <p /><div>Download <i>Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!</i> for free at <a href="http://www.itlikestoparty.com/">It Likes To Party</a>, AKA Campaign's band website.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/campaign-old-haunts">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6289641062144153719?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-70225918311695703902011-03-03T13:34:00.001-05:002011-03-03T13:34:30.128-05:00If nothing else is true about @CharlieSheen, this proves that he is #winning. And unstoppable.<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Sheeniswinning" height="596" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/2AGEleVQUbhS2TcZ4Qe3pBtBQw9XmhBpmYyWkXtskO7LVG4juKBugApN0n1i/SheenIsWinning.jpg" width="445" /> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/if-nothing-else-is-true-about-charliesheen-th">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-7022591831169570390?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-48862291430374029072011-03-03T10:20:00.001-05:002011-03-03T10:20:08.638-05:00Vivian Girls - Sixteen Ways<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/vivian-girls-sixteen-ways"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>Sixteen Ways</strong> by Vivian Girls</span> <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/vivian-girls-sixteen-ways">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p>One of the complaints about "modern" recording techniques is that they sound sterile. You know, they don't have the pops and clicks of tape, and they don't change over time, because they're not physical the same way that tape is. The arguments are the same for vinyl, because the recordings change (or breathe) over time, unlike on a compact disc or MP3, where they sound the same as the day they were recorded. </p><p /><div>Why am I mentioning this? Because Vivian Girls <a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/qa-vivian-girls" target="_blank">don't like how they're referred to as "lo-fi,"</a> the movement that critics and a lot of indie fans grabbed at desperately in the last couple of years. They think it's bull shit, which it is. Because there are only two ways you get the sound of a record that is referred to as lo-fi: Either by using shitty equipment, or by making it sound that way. That's it. That's how it happens.</div> <p /><div>For Times New Viking, well, they're doing that on purpose, which is a damn shame because they write some really great songs that you have to work to hear through all the static. (Which is exactly what they want.) In the case of Vivian Girls, who say they record in modern, beautific studios, I think this is just the way they sound. I'm not sure what the problem is, frankly. I like it. </div> <p /><div>Sounding a lot like a classic 60s girl group, these three chicks kick more ass then the label-controlled girl crooners of that time. The songs are catchy, melodic and I imagine that when they do this live, it's loud as shit. What more can you want? Oh, how bout that solo halfway through "Sixteen Ways?" Yeah, that's what did it for me too. </div> <p /><div>Stop hating on the critical buzz words and bury yourself in the rock and roll of Vivian Girls. </div> <p /><div>Buy the new Vivian Girls album, <i>Share The Joy</i>, from <a href="http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/store/index.php?id=1593">Polyvinyl Records</a>. (You'd be pre-ordering either a CD or vinyl album, and get an instant MP3 download of the album. Great deal, straight from a great label.)</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/vivian-girls-sixteen-ways">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4886229143037402907?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-86052069927234376722011-02-26T10:23:00.001-05:002011-02-26T10:23:50.596-05:00TV On The Radio - Will Do<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/b6isTBLsrlk91ro4ojVvM3RYPCGOFwkr2EN5i8OEcwFIO3iEl6yrDwxZsAmK/TV_on_the_Radio_Will_Do.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>Will Do</b> by Tv On The Radio <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/tv-on-the-radio-will-do' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/b6isTBLsrlk91ro4ojVvM3RYPCGOFwkr2EN5i8OEcwFIO3iEl6yrDwxZsAmK/TV_on_the_Radio_Will_Do.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>TV on the Radio Will Do.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(3437 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p>Over the last month or so, I've found myself listening to Dave Sitek's debut album as <a href="http://www.maximumballoon.com/">Maximum Balloon</a> because it's the closest to a new TV On The Radio album it seemed we'd have for a while. I've noticed a lot of things about the album in that time, aside from it being a very dance music kind of beast. Most of what I've noticed though leads me to think that he was just trying to fill time until his actual band got back together.</p><p /><div>All of a sudden, here comes an announcement that a new TVOTR album, <i>Nine Types of Light</i>, will be upon us sometime this spring, and then yesterday, "Will Do" was posted by the band and released to radio. It's a pretty straightforward love song, but Kyp Malone's falsetto, as always, takes it to the next level. And Sitek's always overly deep production, which just reveals more and more the louder the track gets on headphones, is impeccable.</div> <p /><div>The thing that makes Sitek, and indeed TVOTR as a whole, stand at the front of the Brooklyn experimental pack is that they can bring together soulful vocals and all manner of sounds into a complete package. So where "Will Do" could conceivably be produced and sung by any number of duos, the layering and complication is what makes it special. Danger Mouse's specialty is that he strips things bare, and has a sound all his own. Sitek goes in the opposite direction, though with a sound that even more his own. Starting out with what could be a mid-90s Massive Attack-style beat, the song opens into the type of melodic groove fans have come to expect.</div> <p /><div>Here's the other thing: "Will Do" tells us exactly nothing about what this album is going to sound like. All we have is another slab of soulful music. Three days ago, I suggested that the new Radiohead album was made for alt-sex romance. Scratch that. TV On The Radio wants you to feel actual emotion. They want you to roll with it. My answer? Will do. <br /> <p />Buy all of TV On The Radio's discography, or just the pieces you don't have, from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/TV-on-the-Radio/e/B000APUMEO/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1298604541&sr=8-2-ent">Amazon</a>. </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/tv-on-the-radio-will-do">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8605206992723437672?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-51882560077435735072011-02-25T10:48:00.001-05:002011-02-25T10:48:52.679-05:00Hit The Switch - The Everfading Afterglow<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/Yybe8KU52yRCuzsvjbSHCsYhfvtwTcvF90Q5JmCPR33M1JF4dMm7IBzkyeqL/a80685be9d4b151391f28ea0ba46a9.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>The Everfading Afterglow</b> by Hit The Switch <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/hit-the-switch-the-everfading-afterglow' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/Yybe8KU52yRCuzsvjbSHCsYhfvtwTcvF90Q5JmCPR33M1JF4dMm7IBzkyeqL/a80685be9d4b151391f28ea0ba46a9.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>a80685be9d4b151391f28ea0ba46a9ad.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(5652 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p></p><p>Until I started reading some comments on stuff about these guys, I never drew the obvious line to The Offspring. Not just because their viciously speeding 2006 album <i>Domestic Tranquility and Social Justice</i> was on Nitro Records, which is owned by Dexter and Greg, but something about the band reminds me of the early Offspring stuff, you know, before they stopped giving a shit.</p> <p>That said, you can hear some early NOFX and the faster Sum 41 stuff. Hell, bring up Strung Out, Diesel Boy, or whatever other mid-90s Fat Wreck stuff you want - this would fit in perfectly, but doesn't sound dated or ripped off.</p> <p>Hit The Switch has all the ingredients to be a huge Warped Tour-pushed skate punk band. Yet even with my interest, and demos that I've had on my cell phone for two years from their second album, <i>Observing Infinities</i> snuck under my radar because the band basically self-released it. There is <a href="http://www.punknews.org/article/35950">an explanation</a>, but come on, I bet Fat Mike loves these guys. Sign to Fat Wreck - it's an album at a time and nobody ever gets fucked over. At least, if it happens, nobody talks about it.</p> <p>Most of the first album was vague political messaging begging listeners to question, you know, everything, while pounding the shit out melodic-skate-punk-style. The second album is just as political, although I take this track as something personal, but that's me. There are solos on <i>Observing Infinity</i>, but the time shifts and stop-start on a dime skate-punk remains. </p> <p>These guys should be huge. Somebody send an mp3 to Kevin Lyman. Please.</p><p>Buy <i>Domestic Tranquility and Social Justice</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/24103-hit-the-switch-mp3s-domestic-tranquility-and-social-justice">Shockhound</a> or <i>Observing Infinities</i> from <a href="http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=32271&">Interpunk</a>.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/hit-the-switch-the-everfading-afterglow">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5188256007743573507?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-80500535355471407012011-02-24T11:21:00.001-05:002011-02-24T11:21:19.505-05:00The Ergs! - Hysterical Fiction<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/Py1lp52DmNID239Hwi4V8TQcu9o45bSSxoQ5zTfuEib7PUCm81DdG3iNBf2H/40096327910c360b4fc0ced05df187.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>Hysterical Fiction</b> by The Ergs! <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/the-ergs-hysterical-fiction' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/Py1lp52DmNID239Hwi4V8TQcu9o45bSSxoQ5zTfuEib7PUCm81DdG3iNBf2H/40096327910c360b4fc0ced05df187.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>40096327910c360b4fc0ced05df1879a.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(2899 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p><span></span><span></span><a href="/"></a>I'll never understand why bands break up. If your band is getting huge like, say, The Ergs, <a href="http://www.punknews.org/article/30341">why would you want to leave</a>? Isn't that the idea - for lots of people to fucking worship your music? </p><p /><div>The Ergs were a three-piece pop-punk band from New Jersey. I place their sound somewhere between Hagfish and Green Day but often faster, and the songs are almost always about girls and relationships. Is that an awful and boiled down description? You bet.</div> <p /><div>Drummer Mikey Erg's scraggly voice worked equally well on the fast punk tunes as it did on sad country songs like "Stinking of Whiskey Blues." That and the loud bass-playing of Joey Erg (which reminds me of Mike Dirnt every few songs), and well-written, melodic songs, are what made <i>Dorkrockcorkrod</i> and <i>Upstairs/Downstairs</i> thoroughly digestible over and over and over again.</div> <p /><div>"Hysterical Fiction," which thunders in halfway through the second half of <i>Upstairs/Downstairs</i>, brings in all these elements nicely. It wouldn't be out of place on the first Unwritten Law album either, but I like it better here because, strangely, it flows nicely into the aforementioned "country" song.</div> <p /><div>Apparently, <i>Upstairs/Downstairs </i>isn't available anywhere online (unless you want it <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Upstairs-Downstairs-Ergs/dp/B000OONPE0">on CD or vinyl</a>), so just go grab <i>Dorkrockcorkrod</i> from <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/84552-the-ergs--mp3s-dorkrockcorkrod">Shockhound</a> to start with.<br /> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-ergs-hysterical-fiction">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8050053535547140701?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-1852673003621915162011-02-23T11:09:00.001-05:002011-02-23T11:09:44.686-05:00Radiohead - Separator<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/1FXXed6RWVWza0tQm2bSJU6hXw7xW5QnNpALxZBdVhWFU19xQHM7ispGvgDD/08_Separator.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"> <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/radiohead-separator' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/1FXXed6RWVWza0tQm2bSJU6hXw7xW5QnNpALxZBdVhWFU19xQHM7ispGvgDD/08_Separator.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>08 Separator.MP3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(12664 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p>Radiohead has always clicked best for me on headphones, and usually not on the first listen. "Idioteque" blew me away, in the car, the first listen, on the way home from the record store. <i>OK Computer</i> and <i>Hail To The Thief</i> (let alone <i>Pablo Honey</i> and <i>The Bends</i>) never baffled me at any point. But overall, this is a band that demands repeated listens, through all manner of speaker: car, home stereo (and I mean stereo, not that tiny shelf crap from Wal-Mart) and headphones. <i>The King of Limbs</i> takes this requirement to new lengths. </p><p /><div>The range of reactions to this surprise album, a surprise because before last Monday the only thing we knew was that Radiohead was working on something new, has run the gamut, though nobody has embraced it full on. After listening to it about a dozen times in the last three days, I think I know why: They're too busy trying to have the first review, and get page views while the hype is high, to really let this thing sink in.</div> <p /><div><i>The King of Limbs</i> is an album of textures, many of them dark, and even more of them subtle. But by the third time I let the understated bottom end of the album, especially "Bloom," "Morning Mr. Magpie" and "Little By Little," because when you've got it on repeat, those tracks, which are the closest to bangers this effort comes to, the moody experimentation at work lays itself bare. These guys are pushing out, but not in the what-else-is-there-to-do that resulted in <i>Kid A</i> and <i>Amnesiac</i>. This time, it's different.</div> <p /><div>As the title implies, Radiohead is a band lost in the forest. There have to be more than eight tracks that came from the <i>Limbs</i> sessions. With <i>In Rainbows</i>, the band held back on the loud guitars. Where that album was about emotion, this is all about nuance, so there's not telling what else could come up. Thom and company want us to get lost with them - which is why I posted "Separator," the last track on the album.</div> <p /><div>Get yourself a drink and plug in some headphones. Even if <i>The King of Limbs</i> has already been taken off your respective music player and buried deep on your hard drive, put those cans on your ears and let "Separator" seep into your head. This is 3 a.m. come down music. It might be alt-romantic sex music. Whatever. By the fourth or fifth listen, you'll be revisiting the rest of the album to see what you've missed. "Separator" makes sense the same way as when you realize that "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" is the best track on <i>The Bends</i>. It's the revelation that makes every song before it that much better.</div> <p /><div><i>The King of Limbs</i> is already the most underrated album of the year because in the fast, faster, fasterest times we live in, nobody is giving it a chance. Radiohead is begging you to slow down and lose yourself in an album like the Internet never happened and the long-playing album never approached its death throes. Forget the reviews and let yourself wander. It's worth it.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>The King of Limbs</i> directly from <a href="http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/" target="_blank">Radiohead</a>. (Worth every single penny. But you knew I'd say that.)</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/radiohead-separator">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-185267300362191516?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-46655813574061038962011-02-20T22:31:00.001-05:002011-02-20T22:31:00.783-05:00Real lighters for Mama I'm Coming Home!<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/bXhQK61DY0GL3HEYIjZfh0TfFy0kjChzaCfIv8f6kJmsFPGERlM7pNK8GfN3/IMAG0049.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/gqZ9mp2lTUE1acLEFlZlOwDTPKFBBKvFwIsNnMte09k7yDCq69yUVt1vOUmk/IMAG0049.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="281"/></a> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/real-lighters-for-mama-im-coming-home">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-4665581357406103896?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-87280908439003021892011-02-20T21:33:00.001-05:002011-02-20T21:33:22.206-05:00Ozzy from box L318. KICK ASSSSSSSS!!<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/P5EirB3Rq7p7W5Tly2gjRecGLvWOaV8bu0HKqboZjBlSNCofBBW3KGDTmlTh/IMAG0048.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/3YmFWK8oiEabZaxMHjvDrNSjsQ4SzjtJjTUNSsl9UHg79GGADMQC72nLvIWY/IMAG0048.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="281"/></a> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/ozzy-from-box-l318-kick-assssssss">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8728090843900302189?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-63348207068118358632011-02-19T17:36:00.001-05:002011-02-19T17:36:09.661-05:00Marqui Adora - Everything That Makes No Sense<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/IQuJScIhbi56BteIukdSfeatICtnmjWJuACqIbgxKiVPSnkQCriV0zvYJ8Vv/06_Everything_That_Makes_No_Se.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>Everything That Makes No Sense</b> by Marqui Adora <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/marqui-adora-everything-that-makes-no-sense' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/IQuJScIhbi56BteIukdSfeatICtnmjWJuACqIbgxKiVPSnkQCriV0zvYJ8Vv/06_Everything_That_Makes_No_Se.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>06_Everything_That_Makes_No_Sense.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(10497 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p>So this will be a weird post... <p /> I'm typically pretty gun-shy about posting about music I'm directly involved in, but I'm in a good mood so fuck it! ;) <p /> I just finished my initial listen of Radiohead's "The King of Limbs" and it's lead me back to one of my bands songs from 2006. Well the song is a few years older than that actually, it started out with just John and I messing around with a Rhodes piano and playing a bunch of different live drum loops into Pro Tools some time in 2002 after the implosion of our Drum & Bass group, New Republic. Nonetheless, the song was finished with Marqui Adora and made the cut for our White Buildings EP in 2006 (and re-released in 2007). <p /> ANYWAYS... It's my favorite song from Marqui Adora's catalog. We never played it live, we were too lazy for that, but it stands out, to me anyway, as one of the songs where we truly achieved something different. Yeah, John and I we're linstening to a lot of U.N.K.L.E.'s "Psyence Fiction" at the time but when it reached the finish line with Danny's wall of Vocals and John's swerving Bass lines and Anthemic Guitars it felt like the song reached a whole new place. No one else might see it that way, but to me "Everything That Makes No Sense" raised the bar a little higher for what we were capable of and how much harder we would have to work to top it (take note of the lack of our output over the past few years). <p /> So now you're saying "That's nice Joe, but what's that got to do with Radiohead?" Yes exactly. The drums. Being a drummer it's what I pick up on first when listening to music. On "The King of Limbs" the drums for nearly every song are comprised of live loops of Phil Selway, and Thom Yorke I suppose, playing rhythms on top of them selves. I can relate because I've done it, although with far less reverb. <br />It's funny how new sounds can send you in all sorts of directions isn't it? <p /> Get more Marqui Adore <a href="http://www.marquiadora.com/MarquiAdora/Music.html">here</a> for free and enjoy your International Radiohead Listening Weekend! <p /> -Joe</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/marqui-adora-everything-that-makes-no-sense">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6334820706811835863?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-3988820954879522502011-02-15T14:45:00.001-05:002011-02-15T14:45:04.171-05:00The "retro" cabinet at the new Play N Trade in Coconut Creek. How many did you used to have?<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/cg9ZOKaQqo9jfaa0dR0sQyQaMFL47I0RfBbdHJjauQNp9UBaK5Y0L74yvOot/IMAG0025.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/nN3U1K7dkWTj0sL6m7cnlwug52Xfbf1E8NBpDLh75sR6BKyAkhVWMjintHZZ/IMAG0025.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="890"/></a> <p></p><p>Ahh, the days when I had time to play video games...</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/the-retro-cabinet-at-the-new-play-n-trade-in">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-398882095487952250?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-83409554603015082082011-02-12T11:56:00.001-05:002011-02-12T11:56:44.699-05:00Smashing Pumpkins - "You're All I've Got Tonight"<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/Nj6l9fC4Ewjy1Iwc6V6sl1usgAjO3uIfGKc8xzibU1QqxJCU0JlnHjP8CQYS/sp_-_tonight.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>You're All I've Got Tonight</b> by The Smashing Pumpkins <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/smashing-pumpkins-youre-all-ive-got-tonight' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/Nj6l9fC4Ewjy1Iwc6V6sl1usgAjO3uIfGKc8xzibU1QqxJCU0JlnHjP8CQYS/sp_-_tonight.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>sp - tonight.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(4481 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p>Former Smashing Pumpkins bassist <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/10/smashing-pumpkins-bassist-darcy-wretzky-jailed-arrested-horses-farm-michigan-ticket-failure-to-appear-bench-warrant/" target="_blank">D'arcy Wretzy was arrested today</a> for not taking care of a ticket on "Animals Running at Large." That is, she got a ticket because her horses got out, ran amok in town and she did nothing about the summons. That is completely INSANE! </p><p /><div>Actually, what's really crazy, is that she looks like a meth-head in her mug shot who's had some bad surgery done on her face. It's all pretty sad.</div><p /><div>This cover of the classic track by The Cars, "You're All I've Got Tonight," was originally included on the "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" EP which was released as the band was peaking. At the height of their powers, Billy and his backing band were among alt-rock royalty in the mid-90s. For some, covering this song is excess. For me, this was the track that made me go beyond the raging on MTV and actually listen to the albums. I had no reason whatsoever not to like The Smashing Pumpkins. I was protesting just because I could.</div> <p /><div>"You're All I've Got Tonight" is a great song. Of course, you could gather four random, instrument playing monkeys to do "You're All I've Got Tonight" and it would be awesome. What's interesting is that on top the Pumpkins not changing much of the song, it fits the band's catalog, and is really, really good.</div> <p /><div>There's no way to tell if the end of the actual Pumpkins - yes, without the original four, the actual Pumpkins do not exist and never will again - is responsible for Wretzky's downfall. It would be nice if somebody could go pick her up though, because for somebody who did some really cool stuff that meant a lot to people, it's a damn shame that she could down like this. If you're not sure, take another look at that <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/10/smashing-pumpkins-bassist-darcy-wretzky-jailed-arrested-horses-farm-michigan-ticket-failure-to-appear-bench-warrant/" target="_blank">mugshot</a>.</div> <p /><div>Buy "You're All I've Got Tonight," or the entire and gigantic <i>Rarities and B-Sides</i> which I'm sure is worth the $74.18, from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SY2GXM/ref=sr_1_album_1_rd?ie=UTF8&child=B000SY7KRE&qid=1297392135&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. Or just buy the tracks you like. Also, buy The Cars self-titled debut from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OB0VNK/ref=sr_1_album_1_rd?ie=UTF8&child=B001OAYVDW&qid=1297392300&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. Hopefully, you've already heard it. Several times.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/smashing-pumpkins-youre-all-ive-got-tonight">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8340955460301508208?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-80708434060387450192011-02-11T13:47:00.001-05:002011-02-11T13:47:15.789-05:00I'm confused. Don't crips wear blue? And they're farming now??<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/GKMyZEhv2pxl4wZMkrfmSsuiU0adZLsR39qkOl5qCdj2InFQ3fdt9RwnQ2YT/IMAG0001.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/stephenfeller/H4xLgScGlbN4QC1P0vXna3VxRe9kopmLVmBWNEB6ZVt5k1k7NJHFYbnaRBC2/IMAG0001.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="890"/></a> <p></p><p>Yes. I know it's spelled wrong.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/im-confused-dont-crips-wear-blue-and-theyre-f">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8070843406038745019?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-69773255743375244402011-02-11T10:19:00.001-05:002011-02-11T10:19:57.890-05:00Rye Coalition - Cigarette Catastrophe<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/zmnV37ZudDuFUwmrV2mqWYfW4y7LLC8i2mOduunslXRv9gAvxRcOEfDPZYOB/Rye_Coalition_03_Cigarette_Cat.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>Cigarette Catastrophe</b> by Rye Coalition <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/rye-coalition-cigarette-catastrophe' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/zmnV37ZudDuFUwmrV2mqWYfW4y7LLC8i2mOduunslXRv9gAvxRcOEfDPZYOB/Rye_Coalition_03_Cigarette_Cat.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>Rye Coalition_03_Cigarette Catastrophe.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(4836 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p>I really wanted to get to the new Bright Eyes album, which is better than I expected, and I mean that in a very good way as you'll find out in a few days, but needed something brash to blow my ears out with. Let's face it: It's hump day, which is tough for all of us, and the bottle of red wine I picked up on the way home needs to be matched on some level. </p><p /><div>The boys of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ryecoalition">Rye Coalition</a>, who have some of the most ridiculous sounding song titles in history, blessed my presence in a mp3Tunes shuffle. It's been a while since I just let <i>Curses</i>, their 2006 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grohl">Dave Grohl</a>-assisted hard rock masterpiece, play at full volume all the way through.</div> <p /><div>Getting it together since the mid-90s, Rye Coalition took the rock world by storm with their 2002 album <i>On Top</i>, produced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini">Steve Albini</a>. That album won new fans and attracted major label attention for <i>Curses</i>, which is part of how they got Grohl behind the boards.</div> <p /><div>What's important is that you've got a bunch of guys who love hardcore and AC/DC equally - you know, like normal people. The purists always hate a well-rounded band but for most of us, it results in amazing albums. What's great about "Cigarette Catastrophe" is that it's got riffs, screaming and a killer solo in the middle. Yeah, simple and great, right?</div> <p /><div>Rye Coalition lost a bassist in 2007. I don't know what's taken them so long to find a new one, but it would nice if these guys could get it together and put out another album. </div><p /> <div>Buy <i>Curses</i> at <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/69455-rye-coalition-mp3s-curses">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/rye-coalition-cigarette-catastrophe">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-6977325574337524440?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-56087850914927440382011-02-10T09:48:00.001-05:002011-02-10T09:48:55.247-05:00Datarock - Catcher In The Rye<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/pA0D6a4gc6ET57Nbdn19JQvSYtA6AW567rE5f8XPMcOL3Xv3NJrt6ZDzEhn5/datarock_-_Catcher_In_The_Rye.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>Catcher In The Rye</b> by Datarock <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/datarock-catcher-in-the-rye' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/pA0D6a4gc6ET57Nbdn19JQvSYtA6AW567rE5f8XPMcOL3Xv3NJrt6ZDzEhn5/datarock_-_Catcher_In_The_Rye.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>datarock_-_Catcher_In_The_Rye.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(7992 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p>The Talking Heads don't get enough credit. Maybe that's just because I feel like I hear them everywhere lately. </p><p /><div>On "Catcher In The Rye," the Norweigian duo <a href="http://www.myspace.com/datarock">Datarock</a> (that actually has six members) have channeled David Byrne in his prime, over what is effectively a disco beat and thick, thick bass line that makes me think of The Chemical Brothers - which isn't fair to the Chems, the 80s or, especially, Datarock. (Though it sounds completely different, I also hear <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMGKvSVohQ">this Modest Mouse song</a> in the bassline.) Datarock, they've always kind of reminded me of Talking Heads, if not something else from the 80s that I just can't place, so "Catcher In The Rye" is really just another drop in what I guess is a guiltily unknown pleasure. (That would be 80s dance music, because I feel no guilt for loving The Talking Heads and The Chemical Brothers.)</div> <p /><div>For their new album, <i>Datarock - Limited Edition</i>, the band has teamed with the <a href="http://super7store.com/">Super7</a> toy company to produce a toy that includes, on the inside, a USB stick with the "Catcher In The Rye" single, brand new <i>Music For Synchronization</i> full length, a concert film and 1,500 pictures. That's pretty cool.</div> <p /><div><i>Limited Edition</i> and everything else is out March 11 - more information <a href="http://super7.datarockmusic.com/">here</a>.</div><div>Buy music by Datarock at <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/artists/9651-datarock-band/list_albums">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/datarock-catcher-in-the-rye">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-5608785091492744038?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-38295495574049653542011-02-07T23:22:00.001-05:002011-02-07T23:22:30.969-05:00The Reaganomics - Semi-Productive<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/nWHnlZ2Et0TX943lZsHSsd6SFc91uqwAKu0j2Hz8o7C3gUhzoZYG6q77XfSC/Reaganomics_02_Semi-Productive.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>Semi - Productive</b> by Reaganomics <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/the-reaganomics-semi-productive' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/nWHnlZ2Et0TX943lZsHSsd6SFc91uqwAKu0j2Hz8o7C3gUhzoZYG6q77XfSC/Reaganomics_02_Semi-Productive.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>Reaganomics_02_Semi-Productive.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(3479 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p>There's a cover band called <a href="http://www.reaganomicsband.com/">The Reaganomics</a>. I have no idea what they sound like and I have no intention of finding out. Not since I discovered these four guys from Illinois, anyway. </p><p /><div>Conjuring the part of the attitude of Blink-182 that doesn't involve girls or anything serious, and also ditching the pop edge in favor of a Bouncing Souls playful-hardcore feeling and Off With Their Heads vocal growl that is actually two voices a la, well, Blink, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thereaganomix">The Reaganomics</a> are the new fun boys of punk.</div> <p /><div>New album <i>Lower The Bar</i> is due out on February 15, so all I've got is the 17-track, 21-minute debut <i>Get Lost Stay Lost</i>. It flies by faster than you can say "what the shit is that guy singing about." Listened to it four times today and twice last night. That wasn't enough, but I'll make up for it this weekend and next week.</div> <p /><div> Since it's Friday and all, the beer-and-television laze of "Semi-Productive" beat out the perfect piss-off-ness of "Smug Punx" and wouldn't-that-be-nice-for-life "My Best Friend Is A Bear." Really, I wavered between those three tracks. Come on, being friends with a bear despite the fact that he wants to chew your legs off, and noting that it's better than the real world? That's the stuff that superstardom is made of.</div> <p /><div>At some point, they're going to have to add some mental substance to the early-Fat Mike "eat me" of their lyrics if for no other reason than the perfect name. These guys are cynical and punk as fuck though so who cares. Enjoy.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>Get Lost Stay Lost</i> at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Get-Lost-Stay/dp/B002QWOUWY/ref=sr_shvl_album_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1296877873&sr=301-2">Amazon</a>.</div><div>Stream some of <i>Lower The Bar</i> at <a href="http://www.punknews.org/bands/thereaganomics">Punknews</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-reaganomics-semi-productive">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3829549557404965354?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-86327034804549796332011-02-07T22:19:00.001-05:002011-02-07T22:19:48.964-05:00The Get Up Kids - Rally Round The Fool<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div style='padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;'> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/EXPmQ8RnQw695h5grbtFgYRwXt2f1C89VrmU012TcyCDbFMW91XXSLeTZO8s/06-Rally_Round_The_Fool.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'><img src='http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png' style='border: none;'/></a></div> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"><b>Rally 'round The Fool</b> by The Get Up Kids <br/>Download now or <a href='http://onestupidmop.com/the-get-up-kids-rally-round-the-fool' style='color: #bc7134;'>listen on posterous</a></div> <b><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/onestupidmop/EXPmQ8RnQw695h5grbtFgYRwXt2f1C89VrmU012TcyCDbFMW91XXSLeTZO8s/06-Rally_Round_The_Fool.mp3' style='color: #bc7134;'>06-Rally_Round_The_Fool.mp3</a></b> <span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;">(9620 KB)</span> <br style="clear: both;"/></div> <p></p><div>The Get Up Kids used to sound softer. Nothing against any of what they did in the 90s, but <i>There Are Rules</i>, their first album in seven years, has caught my attention and now I'm reexamining their discography because there has to be some clue that they could be this interesting. I think I'm about to be obsessed with this band.</div> <p /><div>Half of <i>There Are Rules</i> sounds like a great effort from <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thefaint">The Faint</a> and the other half sounds like a great post-punk album, and together it works out really smoothly. From the jamming first track, "Tithe," to the jamming last track, "Rememorable," this is an album that moves, man.</div> <p /><div>It's got ups and downs, and what stood out, through all the other enjoyment, was the electronic inspection of somebody else's efforts and intent on "Rally 'Round The Fool." As much as the album strikes a new chord for the band, this track is really a new direction. Posting one of the pounding electro-tracks seemed obvious, and this one is not.</div> <p /><div>After all the disinterest, it's a complete deviation from their past that has me very interested in The Get Up Kids.</div> <p /><div>Buy <i>There Are Rules</i> at <a href="http://www.shockhound.com/albums/769476-the-get-up-kids-mp3s-there-are-rules">Shockhound</a>.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://onestupidmop.com/the-get-up-kids-rally-round-the-fool">One Stupid Mop</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-8632703480454979633?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816192992875510411.post-32488262477879908502011-02-05T16:44:00.001-05:002011-02-05T16:44:18.786-05:00The new Strokes single sounds classic, AKA like an "Is This It?" outtake<div class='posterous_autopost'>The band really wasn't kidding when they said it sounded like The Strokes. Check out the 30-second preview <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MDPI9Y/ref">Amazon</a>, where you can pre-order it for actual download on February 15. (Seriously? I bet it leaks before kickoff in the Super Bowl.) <p /><div>This has me excited. How 'bout you?</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://stephenfeller.posterous.com/the-new-strokes-single-sounds-classic-aka-lik">Stephen Feller</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3816192992875510411-3248826247787990850?l=gentlemanfeller.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02126519428700242855noreply@blogger.com0