Weighing It In: Pan-Pot

The Good: Their album, Pan-O-Rama, is one of the best of the year.

The Bad: While this is just my opinion, the music and lyrics are simply laiden with encouragement to do drugs...hard drugs.

The Good: This podcast, which was recently done for Ibiza Voice (hot "Charly" kick about 25 minutes in).

The Bad: Let's face it, the day they come to America, I will probably be old enough to have children. Looks like I'll just have to try my best to boooook them...

Tracklist = 1 pan-pot-ape shall never-mobilee 2 false- fed on youth- voices 3 aural distortion- plasma( peter dildo rmx)- tsuba 4 the skull- all you booty shakers- kindisch 5 marco carola, feel it- plus 8 6 Samuel L Session- the stick( sls rmx)- klapklap 7 pan-pot- charly- mobilee 8 adam beyer- china girl- madeye 9 wacker & zittrich- rough collies( anthony collins rmx)- meerestief 10 plan tec- espias psiquicios- jonas kopp rmx 11 jitzu- cyclette- anna rmx 12 pheek- orage solaire( tim xavier rmx)- archipel 13 marek hemman- lowdown- raummusik 14 mountain people- mountain04- word and sound

Verdict: Yes, moaaar plz.

Audible: Pan-Pot - "Ibiza Voice Podcast"
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/panpot

Guerilla clockmasters / Your Baroness / Say Yea to Yeasayers

Badass story of the millennium goes toooo:
Paris - Four members of an underground "cultural guerrilla" movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France's cultural heritage, were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco. [read more...]

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Baroness, from Savannah, are playing the Middle East Down, opening for Witchcraft from Sweden this Friday. 18+/$10 ADV/$12 DOS

Red Album and First are two of my favorite discoveries of 2007. I am thrilled to hear that Baroness has been making its way into the year-end Top Ten lists, as well as having found coverage and publicity throughout the year. They deserve it, and have been signed to Relapse. Good home for them. Progressive is a word thrown around all too often in rock music, as no one knows what to make of it anymore. Baroness stays true to the term, both in their technicality and thematics. I hope to see them advance to the fame of Isis and beyond.

MySpace: Baroness

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Also, word of mouth has brought me to Yeasayer. I feel a bit behind on this, seeing as the people I am hearing it from are telling me that they have been slacking themselves. Admittedly, this morning was my first encounter with their music, but I am no doubt into this music. Actually, I'm not even quite sure what to make of it yet...

MySpace: Yeasayer

MOAR: Coke Cakes / Two-Headed Cats

The prior is something we're totally over, and the latter has NOTHING to do with music. Also, I'm tired and busy so here are some quicky additions (linked headlinezzz).

Is it impolite to ask if you've been to powder your nose, Amy Winehouse?



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Meet the cat with nine lives and two faces



"When he purrs it is like he is purring in stereo," the cat's owner said.

Ooof.

Tweak Bird / Bloc Party = Sex Party / No Music!

First off, WHERE did this band come from?

Ok...Los Angeles.

The genre isn't particularly new, and the demographic is achingly male (in that Battles kind of way), but all three songs on their myspace are very different and interesting. Worth a listen, and slight addiction. I do hope to see them out in Boston, or hear that they get picked up by a great label and tour with their long-lost godfathers, Queens of The Stone Age.

Did I mention that they're brothers?

MySpace: Tweak Bird

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Bloc Party's Kele Okereke has revealed that the band were forced to leave the stage during a gig in Utrecht earlier this year after a couple in the audience started having sex.

According to the band’s frontman the couple’s liberal display caused a chain reaction amongst the audience in Holland.

"There was a couple having sex in front of us in Utrecht, I climbed up into the balcony and they were doing it on the floor. I said something into the mic and everyone started cheering,” Okereke told the Mirror. [read more...]

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Today is No Music Day.

So really, the fact that I am listening to an old Say Anything song on my co-worker's iTunes while updating my music blog at my music industry job I guess I, err...fail.

Website: No Music Day

Ola Podria Video: Lost & Found (& Insane) / Racism @ Harper's Ferry

By far one of the strangest low-budget music videos I've ever seen. I've always known of David Wingo to be an interesting character, but the addition of Ivan Rolonglastname raises the bar. I wonder if this guy is that crazy off-camera? I'd put money on that...



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Also, Basstown posted a scandalous story about a recent incident at Harper's Ferry:

This past Tuesday, Bus Driver (Regan Farquhar) was scheduled to perform with Daedelus at Allston's own Harper's Ferry. What would have been a refreshing dose of hip hop was turned sour by a racist comment from Harper's sound guy that eventually caused the cancellation of the entire performance. [read more...]

Ooof.

War Cries Of The Mega-Nerds

Though Drumline isn't a film I'd recommend to everyone, it's a pretty cool look into an obsessive, intense activity and subculture that many of us don't have a hand in. No denying...it is pretty fun to watch.

But THIS...pairing a drumline from UC Berkeley (one of the oldest in the country) with 16-bit classics?

Muy bueno.




Website: University Of California Marching Band

Amy Winehouse, the drug addict

What's the matter, can't even make it through a song for an off-stage bump? Jeez.



I didn't even bother to watch this with the sound on.

Editor's Note: From the Daily Swarm

Troubled Amy Winehouse has been dealt another blow today after her tour manager quit amid drugs accusations.

Thom Stone walked out on the singer just a day after she had a meltdown during a gig in Birmingham, swearing at fans and falling over on stage.

Mr Stone confirmed he had quit after it was said that he found working with Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil who is currently behind bars, was harming his health.

The last straw was when Amy, 24, and Blake were arrested with cannabis in Norway last month.

The Sun reported today that doctors found heroin in Mr Stone’s system after he inhaled it passively on Amy’s tour bus.

The tour manager is said to have produced a doctor’s note which revealed traces of the class A drug in his blood.

“He insisted to the management team that the only way that could have happened would have been through inhaling it from Blake and Amy. Thom just had it up to here. It was a nightmare job,” the paper reported.

The Pipettes : Could They BE Any Cuter?

RiotBecki, Rosay and Gwenno, the three lovely ladies of The Pipettes, have decided to put together a series of videos to help teach you a few of their dance moves. Their instructional dance clips will help you perfect your “shoop shoop,” “finger wag” and “shocker.” The last one in that bunch must have a whole different meaning across the big pond, so we’ll cut them a little slack. Enjoy their instructional video below:



I love my boyfriend, but I'd waste my kisses on them anyday.

MySpace: The Pipettes

Yeah, like, THAT Bush

Bush - the supposed Nirvana successors that didn't succeed at doing so, but instead had a lead singer smart enough to marry the 2000-2005 Miss Next Big Thang to keep his/his band's name afloat - has covered Joy Division's "In A Lonely Place."*



Final comments: Ha ha ha ha ha ha...ew.



*fwiw, razorblade suitcase is a really fucking good album.

Editor's Note: Chris = total loser

Where the F*** Have I Been?

image found at Lost At E Minor

I suck.

There.

I said it.

I love this blog. I love my readers. I love the idea of giving you the newest, coolest, most secretestest techno remixes (like this one, shhhh).

Lately, I've had my fingers in so many pies. Basstown has been thriving since David Day returned, and became the new Music + Arts editor of the Weekly Dig. The downfall of OiNK has been a discussion taking up much of my Internet time wasting where I'd rather be going through my press releases (yes, publicists, I do look at them!) or lurking on MySpace. On that note, though, I have been using my driving time productively to listen to WMBR - hands down THE best college radio station in the city (WZBC comes in a close second!). I absolutely love the Late Risers' Club, and considering I have such a difficulty waking up in the morning, I've been one to listen to it more often lately. Through them, I discovered the Red Dons from Portland, OR.



Truth be told, I've been weaning myself off of coffee and onto more rock music. For a while I was listening to nothing but techno, techno, techno and drinking cup after cup. No sleep. Lots of drinking. You can do the math...

But starting with great indie bands like Health, which lead me to revisit Lightning Bolt and somehow dropped me off in Tom Waits-ville at the Alice General Store. Add in the Red Dons plus a screening of Control (incredible, incredible film), and you've got me listening to rock music all over again.

PHEW!

Man, that felt good...

P.S. I still love you, Boston <3