Introducing: Muxtape

"a simple way to
create and share
mixed-tapes"

Matisyahu

Trust

Osho Zen Tarot
29. Trust

Don't waste your life for that which is going to be taken away. Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside. And with trust, something immense opens up. Then this life is no longer ordinary life, it becomes full of God, overflowing.

SOURCE: Osho The Sun Rises in the Evening Chapter 9

April Fools

Find out if it's April Fools Day.
Click here.

With hope not hype…

…we await the new release
from Mills, Buck and Stipe.

If yr in the neighborhood…

Moby autograph signing in New York

The first 500 people to purchase Moby's new album "Last Night" beginning at 9am on Tuesday will receive a wristband to meet Moby and have him sign the new CD:

Tuesday, April 1st — 7-9pm
Virgin Megastore — Union Square
52 East 14th Street
New York, NY 10003
(212) 598-4666

SOURCE: moby

NEW BLOOD, Jordan Eagles

Jordan Eagles' "FK11 VFK"

Jordan Eagles preserves blood on clear and white Plexiglas within layers of resin, suspending the organic medium’s fluid forms under the resin’s glass-like surface. For nearly a decade, Eagles has been using and preserving blood in his multi-dimensional works as a method to explore themes of regeneration and metaphysical connections between body, spirit and nature.

SOURCE: JordanEagles

Who knew?

SOURCE: remhq

Foals, Foals, Foals!

Introducing: The Dodos

Photo by Jeremy Harris

More, please…

Siriusmo - Allthegirls EP (Exploited)

Siriusmo is Moritz Friedrich, Berlin-based producer, remixer and performer who has positioned himself over the past couple years into a bonafide auteur of revisionist electro-funk and disco—the kind that appeared right at the end of disco's reign and might have been sampled early on in hip hop by the likes of Grandmaster Flash.
Released 01.15.2008

SOURCE: 75orless, boomkat

Portishead…

…from All Tomorrow's Parties 2007.
The song is 'Machine Gun'.
Enjoy!

SOURCE: DrownedInSound

Veggies and meat

Plants and Animals
Parc Avenue
(Secret City; 2008)

Plants and Animals’ For/Avec EP has at least one surefire moment where one’s eyebrows find their hairline: when the listener realizes that three white dudes are covering a Nina Simone civil rights narrative.
Parc Avenue often strays too far into excess and departure for departure’s sake to enjoy the brand of a songwriter’s tour-de-force. “Faerie Dance,” “New Kind of Love,” and “Guru” all stray close to or north of seven minutes, often crashing through multiple songwriting ideas before settling on a coda. But as a fully realized and lovingly sculpted aesthetic, there may be few stronger full-length debuts waiting in this year’s wings.

SOURCE: CokeMachineGlow

Recommended: These New Puritans

My Bloody Valentine to headline Bestival 2008

My Bloody Valentine are the first headline act to be announced for this year’s Bestival.

The returning band will play the Isle of Wight event on the Friday night as a UK festival exclusive, as will Aphex Twin who head the Big Top on one of the nights.

The dates for the fifth Bestival, again at Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight, are Friday 5th until Sunday 7th September 2008.

SOURCE: DrownedInSound, Efestivals

Harp will be no longer

Seven-year-old Harp, the "sophisticated rock and pop magazine," is no more. In a statement written by editor-at-large Fred Mills and published on Pop Matters, Glenn Sabin, CEO of Guthrie Inc., the company that purchased the magazine in 2003, says "Harp's critical acclaim never translated into sustaining commercial success. Harp's lifecycle was ill timed with the precipitous decline of the music software industry, coupled with the consolidation of the consumer magazine newsstand business and rising paper and postage costs."

SOURCES: MediaBistro/Fishbowl NY, HarpMagazine.com

Dexter meets GGVegas

Hide the valuables and stash the liquor!

The legendary Dexter Romweber is greeted by
bon vivant and semi-retired guitar-orrist, GGVegas at a recent Dexter Romweber Duo show at a local club.

The pair exchanged pleasantries then proceded to handle snakes, speak in tongues and scare the locals.

PHOTO BY CARRIE WAITE
SOURCE: Hexbreaker

Happy St. Patrick's day!

[A MESSAGE FOR MY WIFE]

FOR TRANSLATION GO HERE

Because Mr. Nolan says!

Introducing…

Mr. Nolan (Jeff Nolan), guitar hero and all-around rock king, has gone to the mountain of rock, drank from the eternal fountain and made it back alive! From time to time we hope he'll share some insights, tall tales and stories that'll make a trucker blush.
Who knows? We'll see.
In the meantime, he's put together a list of cover songs that you may not have realized were cover songs.
Take that Cat Power!
Discuss…

• All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix (originally written by Bob Dylan)

• Summertime Blues — Blue Cheer (originally written by Eddie Cochran)

• Hallelujah — Jeff Buckley (originally written by Leonard Cohen)

• Hey Jude — Wilson Pickett (originally written by The Beatles)

• Respect — Aretha Franklin (originally written by Otis Redding)

• With a Little Help From My Friends — Joe Cocker (originally written by The Beatles)

• Love Hurts — Nazareth (originally written by Everly Brothers)

• My Back Pages — The Byrds (originally written by Bob Dylan)

• Crossroads — Cream (originally written by Robert Johnson)

• Black Magic Woman — Santana (originally written by Fleetwood Mac)

• Jersey Girl — Bruce Springsteen (originally written by Tom Waits)

• Black Diamond — The Replacements (originally written by Kiss)

• Because the Night — Patti Smith (originally written by Bruce Springsteen)

• Black Betty — Nick Cave (originally written by Ram Jam)

• Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers — Motorhead (originally written by ZZ Top)

What a fool believes…

YACHT ROCK

J.D. Ryznar and Hunter D. Stair devised the series after noticing similarities among bands such as Steely Dan, Toto, and The Doobie Brothers. In particular, members of those bands often collaborated with each other and with singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. For example, Loggins and Michael McDonald co-wrote several songs, including Loggins' "This Is It" and The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes." McDonald himself sang backing vocals for several yacht rock artists, including Steely Dan and Christopher Cross.

Instead of choking on its vomit in a Paris bathtub or overdosing on a Hollywood sidewalk, Yacht Rock simply told one last story about Steely Dan, then hoisted its sails and drifted away while a satisfied crowd waved goodbye from the docks, exactly one incredible year after its historical debut. Bye, Yacht Rock. We loved you.

[READ MORE]

SOURCE: YachtRock.com

Single-handedly…

…setting the Women's Liberation
movement back at least 40-to-50 years.

Wow!

SOURCES: From a game called Crayon Physics.
[via Jackson Fish Market via Amit Gupta's Blog]

Highly recommended!

SOURCE : The Ruby Suns

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

"When we recognize the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams and longings, our hopes and fears, we are able to see that we are all joined together in the great miracle of existence. When we can combine our tremendous inner wealth to create a treasure of love and wisdom that is available to all, we are linked together in the exquisite pattern of eternal creation."

SOURCE: Osho Zen Tarot

Zelo's Word-of-the-Week is: Bollocks!

"Bollocks" is a word of Anglo Saxon origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in English, as a noun to mean "nonsense" or conversely to mean "top quality" or "perfection", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, and an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless". The common phrases "Bollocks to that!" or "That's a load of old bollocks" expresses a distaste for a certain task, subject or opinion; "the dog's bollocks" expresses the opposite, namely admiration, pleasure or approval.

Perhaps the best-known use of the term is in the title of the 1977 punk rock album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. Testimony in a resulting prosecution over the "obscene" term demonstrated that in Old English the word referred to a priest, and could also be used to mean "nonsense".

SOURCE: Wikipedia

New kid on the block

Read a review here.

Does this album cover make me look fat?

While at SXSW, take a moment…

…to reflect about the recent passing of famed drummer and Austin resident, Buddy Miles.

George Allen Miles, Jr. (September 5, 1947 – February 26, 2008), known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 until Hendrix's death in 1970.

As a teen he gigged with his father’s band, the Bebops, and with Preston Love, Sr. and Lester Abrams. He first made it in New York, hooking up with Wilson Pickett. He jammed in the Village with Eric Clapton. His big break came when Michael Bloomfield plucked him for the Electric Flag, a blues-rock band Miles still considers the best he ever played in.

Asked how he would like to be remembered by the American music magazine Seconds in in 1995, Miles simply said: "The baddest of the bad. People say I'm the baddest drummer. If that's true, thank you world."^[6]

A memorial concert will take place on March 30 at Threadgill’s on Riverside Drive, South Austin.

SOURCES: Wikipedia, The Reader, news reports

File this under funny

PHOTO: Goldtoe

SOURCE: GoldToe.net

SXSW Interactive

Jemina Kiss
taps into
SXSW
and the
future.




SOURCES: SXSW2008, The Guardian

Idaho spells relief

Perhaps one can trace the proliferation of what's been dubbed sadcore to the imminence of the millennium, the bleak consensus that the twentysomething generation is destined to be worse off than its predecessors or the technology-accelerated breakdown in interpersonal communication. More likely, this oh-so-Caucasian progeny of the blues has found its niche because the only thing that feels better than complaining about your lot in life is hearing someone else grieve about the things that make his or her existence even worse than that. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: The Trouser Press,
IdahoMusic.com

Say hello to artist Joe Concra

Joe Concra
Inside the Kingdom
74" x 82" oil on canvas

From an article on the artist that ran in Chronogram magazine:

One Fine Day

…You never start with a good idea. You just start with working. The idea comes later. There's never a finished painting that doesn't have four or five paintings underneath it that were complete failures. If I hit one out of 75, I'm really happy.

SOURCES: JoeConcra.com, Chronogram

Of migraines and things…

Shaking It Off
By Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy is primarily known as the lyricist, lead singer and guitarist of Wilco, one of America’s most popular and critically successful rock bands. He is also a lifelong migraine sufferer whose headaches were for decades compounded by bouts of depression and panic disorder. In 2004, Tweedy suffered a collapse and entered a rehabilitation clinic in Chicago to treat his conditions and a resulting addiction to prescription painkillers. In Tweedy’s estimation, his new found ability to treat and manage his depression and panic has helped him to remain migraine-free for the past four years. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: NYT

BarCamp Orlando vision

Annual 3 Day A Cappella Music Festival

RESTON, VA – March 7, 8, 9, 2008 – Over 100 of the best professional a cappella singers from Germany, Austria, Canada and the United States will take the stage at South Lakes High School for the annual 3 day a cappella music festival, “CASA’s East Coast A cappella Summit” from March 7 to 9, 2008. The a cappella groups will use only their voices to perform leads, harmonies and to vocally imitate a virtual orchestra of sounds – including jazz trumpet, classical strings, distorted electric guitar and a full drum set. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: MMDNewsWire.com

Boy band mogul admits to being an idiot

Lou Pearlman, the man behind boy bands 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, is set to plead guilty to a $300m fraud scheme, prosecutors have said. In a plea agreement, the music mogul has admitted running scams that defrauded investors and major banks for more than 20 years. Mr Pearlman entered a not guilty plea last year, but is scheduled to reverse that in court in Florida on Thursday. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: BBC News

FROM PAZZ & JOP 2007: Grow Up Like a Rock Star

The "rock star," as we traditionally think of it, is scarce on this year's Pazz & Jop ballots. The mega-famous icon clutching a guitar and singing about heartache or fucking or partying or escape or revolution; the prophet whom we come to for concrete answers instead of riddles and viral videos and cryptic website codes. Maybe there's a dearth this year, given the lack of new offerings from Dylan, Beck, Green Day, System of a Down, U2, or Johnny Cash. Or maybe we're prisoners of our own self-awareness. [READ MORE]

— Christopher R. Weingarten

SOURCE: Village Voice/Pazz&Jop 2007

Roger Black

SOURCE: RogerBlack.com

Kelefa Sanneh, Ariel Levy Join New Yorker

New York Times music critic Kelefa Sanneh is leaving the newspaper to become a staff writer at The New Yorker, according to an internal memo distributed yesterday. (Radar had reported a rumor to this effect.) Also heading over to 4 Times Square is New York Magazine contributing editor and writer Ariel Levy, who has already posted the news to her personal web site.

SOURCE: The New York Observer

Bjork makes 'free Tibet' gesture

Bjork has a track record of courting controversy and surprising her fans The Icelandic singer, Bjork, has caused controversy among fans in China by shouting "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of a concert in Shanghai. The cry followed a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk of Tibetan independence is considered taboo in China, which has ruled the territory since 1951. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: BBC News

Blues guitarist Jeff Healey dies at 41

Legendary blues and jazz guitarist Jeff Healey has died, his publicist said Sunday. The Canadian musician had battled cancer his entire life."It was something he fought with considerable bravery," his publicist, Richard Flohil, told Newsnet late Sunday.
Healey, 41, had lost his eyesight to a rare form of the disease, Retinoblastoma, at the age of one. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: CTV.ca

Definitely NSFW

SOURCE: Murdog via YouTube.com

Where are they now?

Tyler Gray,
Senior Editor,
Radar Online

Had just been hired as a Contributing Editor at Radar 2.0 when it folded.

Straight.

Freelanced at US Weekly until Maer rescued him for Radar 3.0.

Wrote the "Is Your Baby Gay?" article in the new issue of Radar.

Oversees much of the website content. Rumored to be behind the Corynne Steindler hit and the open letter to Stephen Colbert about the gay baby article.

Wrote a column about dating ("Draw the Line on Matchmaking Mom," "Just Don't Call It A Mingle for Singles," etc.) for the Orlando Sentinel, after being a beat reporter.

Became outdoors editor at Men's Fitness in August 2004.

SOURCE: Gawker.com

Introducing Daytrotter (in their own words)

These fine people — as they’re traveling through America’s heartland — take two hours out of their travels between shows to stop in for a Daytrotter Session at Futureappletree Studio One in downtown Rock Island, Ill. The name of the city is not ironic. They use borrowed instruments, play with their touring mates, utilize an often unkempt toilet, eat some food and then cram back into their vans for the last half of the drive. What they leave behind is a pile of ashes, sometimes a forgotten stocking hat and four absolutely collectible songs that often impart on whomever listens to them the true intensity that these musicians put into their art, sometimes with more clarity than they do when they have months to tinker with overdubs and experiments. These songs are them as they are on that particular day, on that particular tour — dirty and alive. We want you to make this your new home as it is ours. We promise that you will love it here.

SOURCE: Daytrotter.com