Billy (WAVVES)

I am going to the rehearsal.  I hope.

WE ARE PLASTIC ONO BAND on February 16 sold out immediately! Due to popular demand, a special dress rehearsal show featuring Yoko Ono and her core band (Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, and Cornelius) has been added. They have never done anything like this before and probably never will again. This will certainly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and while no special guest artists are slated to rehearse, you never know…

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

So my friend Statue of Liberty just sent me Die Antwoord. It absorbed 2 hours of my life straight.  Statue of Liberty said she screamed for 3 hours.  I am in love.  Yo-Landi Vi$$er is my new obsession.  She is a straight rave rat.  I was calling her a rave rat, being an old rave rat, and then she was holding a bunch of rats.  Her voice is fucking like eating a candy necklace.  Living in otherworld rave collective in Oakland, I saw these rave rats, that just seemed to be from no where and end no where.  It was like if you licked them it would be cotton candy and 2cb at the same time.  Her voice is 2CB.  Die Antwoord maybe have perfected club rap with grime culture.  South African accents are so fucking crazy.  Game changers…everyone step aside .  My hard drive just got wiped.

Just watch.

Listen to Die Antwoord first album here.

Here are some mixtapes.  For your stereos.

Download here at Mixtapeclub.

Download Mean Red Productions mix tape.

1976 vs. 1990

Lush the Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) have been been one of my favorite pop bands from the 1990’s.  They were extremely naive and great with melody.  I also like how Robin Guthrie took their rawness and produced them into a far away sheen.  After parting ways with Robin Guthrie, they never sounded like their classic records (Gala era).

Love their cover of Hey Hey Helen makes me feel like a morphine drip.

Check out the lyrics:  Total 2nd wave feminism.  I love them.

So at last you’re free
It’s the way you wanted it to be
And the price you pay
To become a woman of today
Is it worth the pain to see the children cry
Does it hurt when they ask for Daddy

Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
(Yes you can)

So you’re free at last
And beginning to forget the past
Does it make you sad
When you think about the life you had
But you’re right, you had to take a second chance
So you fight to find your freedom

Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
What’s the matter with you
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
Don’t you know what to do
(Yes you do)
(Ahah, yes you do yes you do)
(Ahah, yes you do yes you do)

Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
What’s the matter with you
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
Don’t you know what to do
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)

What the hell?  Thank you again Canada!

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.