November 2009
Damon Albarn Confirms Gorillaz LP Title, Cameos by...
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It’s been four years since Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett and company’s second Gorillaz LP, Demon Days, sold millions of copies and topped dozens of “best of” lists, but the animated, genre-bending group aren’t planning to rest on their laurels anytime soon. In an interview with the Guardian’s Paul Morley, singer/songwriter/producer Damon Albarn confirmed rumors about the third...
Cartoon: That's What Friends Are For (via...
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Settling in. That was a really brutal move. What was supposed to take six hours took over eight and ended up costing almost twice as much as we were quoted. The crew we had were polite, but overdid it on packing stuff and charging us for it — my drums really didn’t need to go in boxes, they never had before — and I don’t feel they really worked quickly. The last time I...
Blur documentary out in 2010! File under “Yes, please!” What looks to be an official Blur documentary, No Distance Left To Run, is coming out next month and I can’t wait to see it. I loved the biography, Blur: 3862 Days: The Official History, since it shows the band isn’t afraid to look at themselves in an unflattering light, and i suspect the movie will continue in that...
Moving day… We’re into hour seven of a move they estimated would take five. Ugh. On the positive side it looks like our fears of the place being too small were totally wrong!
Gobble gobble! Enjoy eating your meat / tofu based feast today!
Obama to Robots: I'm Watching You...
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Real Life Comics - The Online Comic ©1999-2008...
via reallifecomics.com Honestly I don’t care one way or the other about Twilight — who am I to question people’s movie tastes* — but this IS funny. *Seriously, ask Mich sometime, I may act all highbrow but I have some real stinker in my “greatest movies of all time list” (Armed And Dangerous, anyone?) Posted via web from Tankboy’s...
Pre-move freak-out. So yesterday we stopped by the new place to get a few measurements and I almost completely lost it. Allow me to preface this with a little background. It was raining and I got drenched on the way home. Gal Pal had been running errands in a ZipCar in shitty traffic caused by said rain. Once we got to the coachhouse I couldn’t get the door open with any of the keys, so by...
FREAK OUT!
via images.warnerbrosrecords.com ZOMG! $10-$20 tickets AND The Flaming Lips performing Dark Side Of The Moon? I wanna go! Posted via web from Tankboy’s posterous | Comment »
Dollarshort: The difference between Twitter and...
What’s the difference between Twitter and blogs? Well on Twitter I would have posted: “Had a nightmare about Corey Haim dating my mom — I’m still a bit traumatized by it.” and chuckled at my brevity and wit. But instead, on my blog, I’ll write: “The other night I dreamt that my mom and I bumped into the two Coreys at some sort of coffee shop in Los...
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
– Albert Einstein (via tmblg) (via davidkaneda) (via wearethedigitalkids)
See, I don’t agree with this 100%, but that’s because I always credit my inspirations / sources. Maybe I shouldn’t?
Internet Vices
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Suffering For Their Art
By Daniel Costello More than half of artists have seen their income fall in the last year, with nearly 18 percent of respondents reporting an income loss of more than 50 percent during the recent recession, according to a new study. Incredibly, many artists also said they were inspired by the hard times, with some reporting they were happy to have more time to...
The quiet lapping upon the shore before the storm. It’s always a bit weird to start typing seconds after stepping out from under the covers. The cold wood means you’re feet are probably more awake than your head yet you still are vaguely aware of fingers hitting keys and words flickering across the screen. And then, in a blink, you’re aware again. Clarity settles in, your typing...
Thank goodness for the short holiday work week! Man, what a bust weekend! Friday I packed and then shot Peaches and Amanda Blank at Metro, Saturday I DJed until 5 a.m. (check out the awesome setlist of what got played), and that left me pretty useless on Sunday while GalPal started to pack her stuff up. So while I try to get back on track why don’t you enjoy this video of Pickle the Kitten...
Macha & Bedhead covering Cher...
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Believe - Macha & Bedhead
Macha & Bedhead covering Cher, which somehow I’d never heard before. The autotune is so hilarious I can’t handle it and I think how incongruous (and thereby kind of awesome) it seems here (on a sleepy ‘indietronica’/’slowcore’ track circa Y2K) points out just how accustomed + oblivious we’ve gotten to hearing that on female vocals and more...
Packing sucks. And my girlfriend hates me. Happy Friday!
How Big Star let me down. Look, here’s my number one pet peeve in the restaurant business: you do not close your kitchen early. Ever.
I’ve worked in the service industry. I managed a restaurant that was one off the few late night eating destinations in Chicago at the time. Yes, on a slow night the kitchen would start closing up and cleaning everything early, but if we closed at 2...
Will Everyone Please Stop Freaking Out Over Ayn...
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More thoughts on the Monitor Mix Roundtable
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Just got around to reading Carrie Brownstein’s Monitor Mix major indie label roundtable already discussed here (I got this quote via The L), and this really stuck with me:
Carrie Brownstein: Aside from putting out good music, what’s the single most effective thing a label can do to get people to buy their music? Matador: Not sure what the single most efficient thing would be...
I was so blissfully clueless until now. GalPal and I were talking the other night and she noted how funny it was that I was so well informed when it came to some thing, and so clueless when it came to others. I’m well rounded when it comes to current events and a reasonably solid worldview, and of course I’m pretty much a walking encyclopedia of music … so what else could there...
Yes, another Lady GaGa post from someone that is not a seventeen-year-old nor an actor nor an art major (but was all of those things at one point). I swear to you this site has not turned into some Lady GaGa fansite. Especially since the Fame Monster EP shows “Bad Romance” to be an interesting hiccup instead of the harbinger of a bold new direction. (Sonically the EP hews incredibly...
“I feel like full iPods are an illustration that a large part of the population...”
– Carrie Brownstein hosts a roundtable discussion about ‘The Role of the Record Label’ at Monitor Mix. (via MBV) (via chainofknives)
A whole lot going on… I know, like what else is new? More later but for now there’s a pretty good comment thread starting up on Rob’s “worst movies” post, and my review of the new album from Them Crooked Vultures is up.
The Who Tapped to Rock Super Bowl Halftime Show
According to Sports Illustrated, The Who will play the halftime extravaganza at the NFL championship game on Feb. 7 in Miami. The Who is something of an odd choice considering there are still half a dozen 80s megastars still alive who haven’t been asked. Indeed, the rumor mill has it Bon Jovi were the organizers’ first choice, though perhaps as owner of the Philadelphia Soul in the...
Big ol’ rock show tonight! In a different time, I was primarily known as a dude who booked venues in Chicago. I put together a LOT of shows, worked with a LOT of awesome people, and had a LOT of fun. As time passed, and the field grew more crowded I sort of let that part of my life mostly fall away. Once it became a JOB job, I lost the pleasure I took in doing it, and decided that I would...
Would you like to work for the same awesome...
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Checking in. I was in the midst of writing something about how excited I was to go to Lincoln Hall for the first time tonight when I was informed I was bumped from the list. It seems as if one of the bands playing needs the space for friends and family so that’s cool, I understand.* I’d rather had pals at my show than some dude from the press I’ve never met. It just means...
Friend Sandwiches better with mustard
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It’s funny because it could be true. Heh.
“It unnerves me to think that skepticism is maybe undesirable from a strict...”
– Rob Harvilla, from yesterday’s my-tenure-at-Idolator postmortem in the Voice.
(Normally I would shy away from trumpeting nice things that have been said about me — everyone has been so nice over the past 36 hours, for real, and it rendered me almost unable to speak in a non-blubber for a good...
My romance with GaGa. Man, it’s looking like video week around these parts, ain’t it? I resisted posting this — not like you can’t see it a jillion other places — but man, if you haven’t seen it, or at least heard the song, you really should. Lady GaGa is just getting weirder and weirder — just check out her unrestrained vocal tics and overly mammered...
Them Crooked Motherfucking Crushing Vultures. The much anticipated Them Crooked Vultures debut leaked yesterday so the band did the right thing and decided to just stream the whole thing online. Here’s the first track of the album, “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I.” It starts off with a bluesy boogie riff, and while I dig it I worried slightly that the album would continue...
Educational Monday: Om nom nom. Consider this a history lesson. In other news, The Hood Internet dropped their latest mixtape this morning. Now, I’m gonna pat my own back for a second and point out that I’m the dude that gave the dynamic duo their first show. So I’ve watched with a bit of pride as they’ve grown from being perceived as sort of a novelty into being two...
DJ Tankboy + Old Oak Tap = Friday funday! It is the first Friday of the month, so that means I will be curating the music within the walls of the Old Oak Tap this evening. It’s supposed to be a relatively nice evening, so come on out and enjoy it before the weather turns icy and you find yourself hunkered down on your couch with only the television (and possibly your partner if you have one...
My inner ten-year-old’s hormones just went into overdrive. Princess Leia and her stunt-double catch some rays. In other news, check out my review of the new Prairie Cartel album, and don’t forget to catch them at Angels & K [photo credz]
Happy birthday Dad! What, you never knew him? Get to know him at least a little bit.
Obligatory “Sorry for the skimpy posts” post. So I’ve got this thing where I force myself to do at least one post a day during the week. I’ve been doing it for years, and it helps keep the gears churning, even in dry periods. I am currently not in a creatively dry period, but I am in the middle of a time-strapped stretch. So yes, you’ve seen more photos and videos and...
