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

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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.

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SOURCE: YachtRock.com

Single-handedly…

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