This month’s FADER Bowl is bringing the future-party noise of Restless People (featuring members of Tanlines and Professor Murder) and MNDR

Check out Brooklyn Bowl website.

What the hell?  Thank you again Canada!

I was thinking of records that really changed my perception of experimental pop music.  I was trying to recall records that effortlessly staddled both genres.  Then I remembered this cassette tape that my Triangle band mate (Brian Tester) left in my vehicle.  I would lose it in the vortex of the unknown in the subaru and then I would find it and leave it in my cassette player for monthes.  This record is OMD’s Dazzle Ships.  OMD’s Dazzle Ships (1982) is a concept record that includes pop perfection along with music concrete influenced sound scapes.  This complete work is a comment on The Cold War and Eastern Bloc politics.

Then after giving this record to Peter in the studio, he actually knew what a Dazzle Ship meant.  Dazzle painting, developed by marine painter Norman Wilkinson, was a style of geometric shaped camouflage painted on war ships in WWI and WWII.  This style of camouflage was not meant to hide the ships, but to disorientate the enemies perception of the ships direction and speed.

Also, I just discovered there were two different covers for this record.  Also, OMD is not just a prom dance.

Drilling A Hole Through The Sky:
30 Years Of The Haters

30 years of Haters

Paperback or Hardcover / 6 x 9 in. / 250 pgs. / B&W / CD inc.
Published By Helicopter

30th anniversary retrospective of The Haters includes exclusive interview,
extensive notes by GX Jupitter-Larsen on each documented performance,
reproductions of obscure printed matter and ephemera, amathopaedia,
bibliography, discography, videography, and compilation CD featuring archive
material, collaborations, and tributes by Aaron Dilloway, CRH. Draheim,
Glands Of External Secretion, Incapacitants, K2, The New Blockaders,
Damion Romero, Jarrett Silberman, Sissy Spacek, Sudden Infant, Torturing
Nurse, Frans de Waard, and Gerritt Wittmer. Essential for all fans!

ORDERS ARE BEING ACCEPTED NOW. THE OFFICIAL BOOK LAUNCH WILL BE
AT THE SMELL IN LOS ANGELES ON FEBRUARY 26, 2010. ALL PRE-RELEASE
ORDERS WILL BE SHIPPED THAT WEEK.

You can order the book from here.

The Mighty Hammer of Thor!!!

Another great LA band.

I had the most fun time at The Cake Shop for my interview with Sheena Beaston.  Dear, Miss Beaston I am ready to turn this city into glitter with you. Check it out here! MNDR interview.

Sheena Beaston’s blog is like living inside of a vegan cupcake..really yummy.  Thanks so much!

This is going to be so much fun!  I am bringing the lights and after midnight delights.

Check out write-up on Flavor Pill.

“I’m digging on a number of the NYC new kids on the block, if you will. If recalled correctly, together, they make up one of the largest chunks of beastly words. They are: Theophilus London, MNDR, Sleigh Bells and Zambri. Each are recording, some with full debut albums due out in 2010. Color us stoked.” -Sheena Beaston

Miss. Beaston let us chrome plate our lifestyles.

MNDR and Beaston

Here’s the link.

I really love Hecuba.  I think they are making the best performance art pop music in the modern era.  They never let me down.  They are my lifestyle choice.