This band will melt yr brain

Franchise is a 5-piece rock band that has just released their finest record! The band (which includes Dan: Vocals, "Gitfiddling pedal operator"; Matt: Guitars and pedals; Keri: Bass and pedals; Waylon: Drums) is described in their own words:

Influences: Anyone who worships the sun, or any other noise source.
Sounds like: Progressive cultural train wreck.
Record label: No Money Music

REVIEW:
This record, simply titled '3,' is all the best music Sonic Youth, The Butthole Surfers, didn't have the talent to make. The multi-layered, at times dense, record rewards on repeat listens. Let it envelope you with feedback, noises, screams. What makes the record work is a very strong musiclal backbone. The band may also draw comparisons to older material from Mercury Rev or The Flamings Lips, but they soar past those references and deliver something unique and stunning in the process.

RATING: 5 STARS
LINK: Franchise on myspace

Introducing…

From Mejo: Digi Graf with a wii remote

SOURCE: Mejo

Documentally: What's The Future Of Social Media?

SOURCE: Documentally

Free! Legal! Download every Beatles song

Oyvind sez, "Some weeks ago, NRK — Norwegian Broadcasting — signed a deal with music rights holder organisation TONO in Norway. The new deal gives NRK right to publish podcasts of all previously broadcasted radio- and tv-programs that contains less then 70% music. Podcast containing music may be up for four weeks, while our podcast without music stay up on our server forever. One result of this deal, is that we now can publish 'Vår daglige Beatles' - 'Our Daily Beatles' in English — as a podcast. In this series from 2001, journalists Finn Tokvam og Bård Ose tells the story of every single Beatles tracks ever made, chronologically. Each episode contains a 3 minute story about each track (sadly for our international visitors - in Norwegian) and the actual Beatles tune. This is — as far as we know — the first time you can download the Beatles’ music legally. Neither iTunes nor Amazon have The Beatles in their music stores." Last ned alt av “The Beatles” - og historien om hver enkelt låt (Thanks, Oyvind!)

SOURCE: BoingBoing

"The craziest science fiction movie ever made."

Liquid Sky (1982)

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.) Darkly funny and thoroughly weird.

SOURCE: IMDB

Thank you, Brooklyn Vegan

In the spirit of keeping it cheery

"BrooklynVegan is a NYC-centric mostly-music blog that focuses on reporting international music news, live show reviews, pictures, tour dates, gossip, tips, MP3's, videos, and just about anything else a music fan could want. Non-music news finds it's way on to our pages as well, and every post comes with an open exchange of ideas via the public commenting system."

For a perfect example, check out their wonderfully dynamic listing
of FREE shows, movies and other events here.

SOURCE: Brooklyn Vegan

New Year's Eve!

Blonde Redhead
Islands / Elvis Perkins

at Terminal 5
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Pelican — Lost in the Headlights

SOURCE: HydraHead

It's AntiPop time again!

November 13-16, 2008
Foundation Presents and Fighting of Orlando, Florida has put together a nice little line-up for Antipop. The most notable acts to me include Conor Oberst, Summerbirds In The Cellar, Black Lips, Pelican, Phosphorescent, The Aquabats, Mike Doughty, plus much more. This is one of those fests that takes place across different venues all in the downtown Orlando area, and you can get a pass that gets you into every show of the 4 days for $45.

SOURCES: Antipop, OhmPark

Little Joy and a whole lotta love…

SOURCE: PitchforkTV

President Barack Obama

SOURCE: CNN

Political Intolerance and Lemonade

Producer Katie Ball visits a child's lemonade stand in her Orlando neighborhood. After a cool drink and good-hearted conversation with the family, Ball notices that they had deliberately removed and/or covered their McCain campaign signs so as not to risk offending any would-be customers.

SOURCE: Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org)

SURROUNDED by Bold Hype

Friday November 14th is the
opening for

the next show at
Bold Hype,
entitled
"SURROUNDED"
and will feature
an all-local line-up of
the following artists:
Cake
Dolla
Patrick Fatica
Dennis Hansbury
David Hoskins
Charles Marklin
Phil Noto
Johannah O'Donnell
Dustin Orlando
Scott Scheidly
Andrew Spear
Pam Treadwell


Friday, November 14, 2008
6:00pm - 11:00pm
Bold Hype
1844 East Winter Park Rd.
Orlando, FL
407.629.2965
info@boldhype.com

SOURCE: BoldHype

You mean that Andrew Spear?

SOURCE: DewUnderground/FuelTV

Catching up with Adam Maeroff…

A Stranger in

Pennsylvania

Adam Maeroff was born in America.
He had what you'd call a fairly rough
childhood and adolescence during
which time he became interested in Graffiti,
spent a short time in the Marines and
decided to move to Israel.
Once there, he became a citizen,
worked at various jobs, served in
the military and most importantly, he painted.
Now back in America, with an Indian-Israeli wife, Maeroff reconstructs his memories of far-away places in painterly terms.
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ABOVE:
"Strip District Study"
by Adam Maeroff
(2008, mixed media)

SOURCE: Adam Maeroff

El Guincho released in the U.S.…

I mean, really… Notice of this release was back in
February, and we had it here back in April…What gives? The question will be
if all the hype was justified…
Count me in for "maybe" and grab the
Absinthe!

SOURCE: YoungTurks

Film as revolution

The Woodstock Film Festival awards ceremony reflects a heightened political sensitivity

The Festival terms itself "fiercely independent," one of its most popular awards is the Maverick, and the times being what they are, the tenor of the awards ceremony Saturday, October 4, was fiercely political with references to a variety of mavericks, honorary, honorable and...well, we know about that other one. Nearly all the honorees mentioned Barack Obama and the event's Maverick Award winner Kevin Smith brought it home when he bounded onstage and shouted "Boycott CVS!" MC Ron Nsywaner, screenwriter (Philadelphia, The Painted Veil, Soldier's Girl) and Woodstock resident, quipped that Smith is now "qualified to be a heartbeat away from being the leader of the free world."

SOURCE: TheWoodstockTimes

TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe covers Neil Young

"…and here's TV On The Radio's singer Tunde Adebimpe covering Neil Young's "Unknown Legend." Tunde's cover comes from Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, which stars a smiling Adebimpe. The spare, lonesome take on the Harvest Moon song's less cheerful, running in sharp contrast to the more mile-a-minute energy of TV On The Radio's current Dear Science focus "Dancing Choose." Pretty stuff."



Movie still via IMDB and Sony Pictures Classics
SOURCE: Stereogum

In Praise of the Hype Machine

Thrills and irritation about NYC’s music scene

"Most bands—even those with actual records and fans and local radio play and whatnot—seem resigned to (or find far more preferable) mere local fame, with no big tours, no Internet-ether buzz, no Making It Big. Which is, of course, in some ways, preferable to the insanity, the vapidity, the fickle schizophrenia of the hype machine, a deranged monolith that can declare the Black Kids sex on toast one week and an affront to all mankind the next." — Rob Harvilla

Photo of Brooklyn's Vivian Girls by Stefano Giovannini
SOURCE: VillageVoice