I'm quoted in Details Magazine about the Jonas Brothers.
Hey, cool! A bunch of teens at my library LOVE the Jonas Brothers, but I didn't know much about them before reading that article. I like the idea of the bubblegum-as-espionage TV series, though I'm sure it's going to be dreadful. One line from the article that struck me:
Greenberg [then-president of Columbia Records] says he burned the brothers a CD of punk songs from the seventies and eighties
I'd think that admitting to
burning CDs
would be a big no-no for a record company exec!
Jonathan Coulton went from being just another "code monkey" to the Godfather of "Geek Rock.": [link]
Do the 13th Floor Elevators have any cool songs besides "You're Gonna Miss Me"? Their catalog is available on eMusic.
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"Fire Engine" is pretty great. Television used to cover it.
Heh. Cool song.
Did Television do the fire engine "sound effects"?
"Tried To Hide" and "Roller Coaster" are a pretty great songs, too, but I don't think those versions on eMusic are the album versions. I'm pretty fond of both The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators and Easter Everywhere.
Why do I keep forgetting that Prince is friggin AWESOME?
I was at a Fatburger yesterday, and Pink Cashmere came on the jukebox. I had to run home immediately and download it off iTunes. After taking a few hours to toally sex up S, 'cuz that's what you should do when you hear that song - sex somebody up as soon as possible.
I went to one of the best shows I've ever seen last night. Teeny-tiny show featuring Estradasphere [link] Jason Webley [link] and Amanda Palmer (!!!). And the conjoined twins Evelyn Evelyn [link] performed live for the first time ever.
The venue was the house/recording studio/performance space that Estradasphere lives in. The performance space was about as big as my living room and kitchen put together, and the audience was probably no more than 100 people.
Okay, so I'm searching teh interweb, trying to find information about, and a place to buy a CD of the self-titled album, by 70's Aussie electronica band, Cybotron.
Aside: if you go to their MySpace site, listen to "Sonic Overdrive", which is brilliant track from the album I'm looking to purchase.
So anyway, I found copy of their album, "Implosion", at Aztec Music, via Google. The site also has some other excellent Aussie music, so I'll probably spend more money than I can afford there, but what the hey!
So anyway (yeah yeah, I'm getting there! Trust me, it's gonna be good!), I'm scanning through the links on Google and I notice one that points to a Blogspot blog, and which mentions "Colossus" by Cybotron. I click the link and lo and behold, discover a link to a copy of the album. I set the process in motion, and once it's downloading, I head over to the main page of the blog...
OH. MY. GOD.
The Lime Spiders! The Huxton Creepers! I Spit on Your Gravy! The Hitmen! and soooooooo maaaany others!
I've died and gone to Aussie music heaven.
AUSROCK
