One of the things that I have not normally done is to go to web sites outside of the United States. I do not know why that is, but it is a simple fact of life. However, there are a number of web sites that are solid in their own right that are located in other countries. This revelation come forth to me a few days ago, when I viewed…
New Album Evil Urges (ATO Records) Out June 10th “My Morning Jacket is the best live band in the world” LA Weekly It’s about that time again: My Morning Jacket are gearing up to take their spectacle of a live show cross country. Those who were fortunate enough to attend the band’s SXSW performance saw the new songs fit seamlessly beside the now-classic older material. It will be an unforgettable…
The Burnt Library Volume 2, Issue #3 (March/April, 2008) / Free / 4L / No Contact I picked this up at Slacker in Pittsburgh, and this seems to be a Pittsburgh version of a scene magazine, short and sweet, and kept up to date through the small amount of material that needs to be present here. However short this zine may be, there is a decent amount of information present.…
The Jeff Corwin Experience – Season Two / 2008 Genius Products / 543 Minutes / http://www.animalplanet.com / http://www.geniusproducts.com / This season of The Jeff Corwin Experience sees Corwin take trips to the corners of the earth; Guyana, Morocco, Spain, Tasmania, and Costa Rica are just a few of the 13 different places that are given a thorough once-over by Corwin. While individuals that have studied animals or ecology at a…
You can tell by the way Earl Greyhound pistol-whip the middle of “Monkey” in chopped-up meter, “Black Dog” style, that they are here to get the Led out.” – Rolling Stone “Whether or not Earl Greyhound are the next big thing is irrelevant—watching them will convince you that they are.” – New Yorker
Madonna, the world’s nastiest sweetheart, has announced more non-stop treats for her legions of legendary and devoted fans. Following the latest news that “HARD CANDY” has debuted at Number 1 around the globe, it has been confirmed that Madonna’s “STICKY & SWEET TOUR” will begin (hip) hopping around the world on August 23rd in Cardiff, Wales with stops in major European markets through September including London (11-September) and Paris (20-September).
Joseph Campbell – Mythos II : The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition / 2008 Acorn / 282 Minutes / http://www.acornmedia.com / This PBS documentary culls together a number of speeches that Joseph Campbell presented around a number of topics dealing with eastern religions and mythology. Each of these talks provides individuals with a number of facts and musing about these facts by one of the most respected scholars in the…
The Adams Chronicles / 2008 Acorn / 13 Hours / http://www.acornmedia.com / There are very few bits of history that individuals can find interesting in this modern age of short attention spans and rapid channel-clicking. Sure, there have been documentaries about Jazz, The Civil War, and baseball, but it takes a special set of individuals – in this case, Paul Bogart and James Cellan Jones – to make a presidential…
The Bloody Irish Boys, who have garnered countless accolades and have pushed well over 2,500 copies of their debut album, “Drunk Rock”, are looking for a steady drummer for their act. The Bloody Irish Boys are looking to finish up the follow-up to “Drunk Rock”, and are itching to go on a national tour after the finished lineup settles down. They have a number of offers from bars, clubs, and…
On 5/20/08, Secretly Canadian will release the first 12″ in a series of vinyl releases by the band Music Go Music. Music Go Music have the simple syrup of pop extravagance running through their veins. These arena-sized songs are composed with such savage efficiency that you find yourself humming along before two bars have gone by. They are as assured and crafted as ABBA and ELO’s best songs of ’76,…
Planet Verge #4 ($2, Planet Verge, 15 Albert Terrace, Bloomfield, NJ 07003) This zine is laid out to high heaven. I don’t know if they use QuarkXpress or Adobe Pagemaker or Illustrator or what, but everything looks very sharp. The pieces in Planet Verge really go all over the place, from the Beverly Hills 90210 Brainteaser to famous actors who have not won an Oscar to a bunch of interviews…
Alaska’s metal pugilists, 36 CRAZYFISTS saw the EXCLUSIVE debut of their first single, “We Gave It Hellâ€, Saturday, May 10 on MTV2’s HEADBANGER’S BALL (at Saturday, 11:00pm EST). The band tapped director XD2X (Behemoth, Unearth, Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster) for the video. The track is off of the band’s Ferret Music debut, The Tide And Its Takers which releases on May 27.
With the laws in place now that provide problems to the owners of online casinos that still accept players from the United States, it is not surprising that a number of casinos have dropped United States players from their acceptable lists. However, there are a number of sites still open to United States players, and Best Casino Spot provides some sort of idea what sites those are. However, this is…
Make A Rising – Infinite Ellipse and Head with Open Fontanel  / 2008 High Two / 10 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/makearising / Make A Rising is an odd band. A track like “All One or None†is a track that has little more to it than a plinking piano and a falsetto vocal that imbues the track with a decidedly fifties flair. While the instrumentation does not have any easy referent,…
Festival – Come, Arrow, Come! / 2008 Language of Stone / 10 Tracks / http://www.funwithfestival.com / “Come, Arrow, Come†could easily be an album from the late fifties or early sixties. This is because the opening track, “Fair and Trueâ€, has a cultish/religious sound to it that will remind individuals of a mix of the New Christy Minstrels and the folk music that would come a few short years after…
Testament debuts #59 on Billboard Top 200; 11,556 Sold (only 13,000 shipped)! Testament highest first week sound scan numbers in the bands 24 year history + more incredible chart info and more…
                                                                                      Proving once again that they’re a band to be reckoned with, MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE (MSI) debuts on Billboard’s Top 200 Album Sales Chart at an astonishing #27 with their album if!Â
Gigantour 2 / 2008 Image Entertainment / 14 Tracks / http://www.image-entertainment.com / The second iteration of Gigantour took place in the summer of 2006, and featured 8 intense metal bands. These bands were further split into a main stage (Arch Enemy, Lamb of God, Megadeth, and Opeth) and a second stage (Into Eternity, Overkill, Sanctity, and The SmashUp). Imasge has gotten the rights to a number of the tracks that…
DNA Complete Series One and Two / 2008 Acorn / 344 Minutes / http://www.acornmedia.com / DNA was a series that was put forth on British TV in 2004. It starts Tom Conti (from Reuben, Reuben, Rabbit Fever, and Paid) as Joe Donovan. After coming from a very troubling time in eir life (ey broke down), Joe Donovan is tapped to head up the Forensic Investigations Unit in Manchester. It is…
Check out the all new Scarlett Johansson music video for her first single “Fallin Down†on her debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head in stores May 20th. Rhino Entertainment and Atco Records present Scarlett Johansson’s debut CD release, Anywhere I Lay My Head, on May 20. The album features 10 Tom Waits covers and one original track.