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Non-Music Shit / Re: Things I Love

« on: September 11, 2009, 07:25:35 AM »

Third breakfast

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Music Shit / Re: Your Application for License to Form a Band: DENIED!

« on: September 11, 2009, 07:18:54 AM »

Utrillo has been keeping the best submissions to revolver now for probably nine or ten years. The box is pretty huge at this point and really it's just the cream of the crop. I started workng on a Christmas mix tape from the box but it was too overwhelming. 
Much of what ends up in this box is what we refer to as 'folder rock'. Anyone who has worked at a college radio station will know why we call it that.

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Music Shit / Re: Art for Spastics v. 235 ~ Let's Get Smart Again!

« on: September 08, 2009, 02:14:25 PM »

Oh it's a terrible name, but it's better than Racoo-oo-oon.

yeah, that one is terrible. It's impossible to say without making a joke out of it. Saying it in any seriousness begs ridicule.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Favorite JPEG/GIF

« on: September 08, 2009, 02:13:07 PM »

trans?

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Music Shit / Re: Art for Spastics v. 235 ~ Let's Get Smart Again!

« on: September 08, 2009, 01:44:50 PM »

I agree on the issue of NNF's records not always sounding as good as they could. And this record in particular is marred by that. And I do like this LP by Wet Hair better than the last one.

Same.  And I liked 'Dream' quite a bit.

Why does no one else think that Wet Hair is the worst band name ever? You could apply this same formula to like 30 other body thing and come up with something better: Clean Teeth, Dirty Clothes, Rotten Feet etc etc...

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Music Shit / Re: Ty Segall Adhesive Hipster Marketing

« on: September 08, 2009, 12:49:04 PM »

Am I missing something? I think I must have missed a previous topic or something.

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Music Shit / Re: Philip Garrido

« on: September 08, 2009, 12:47:43 PM »

kinda has maybe like an extreme/queensryche/dream theater vibe. Though the 'you are the one' song is a little catchy I'm sorry to say. Kinda what I wanted Gary War to sound like.
In the article I read about the guy who got these CDs, he said he was hoping to get these recordings out there and get the profits from sales to Dugard's cause or some other kidnappy-related causes. Wha?
So is he going to start Garrido Records? And if so, is it going to have the ok of Garrido? And if Garrido is involved, I kinda doubt the Dugard family would want any of that money. And if these did get out, would record stores really carry them? That's some CDbaby shit right there.
I'm more than a little dubious of this dugard do-gooder, especially considering how many of the people interviewed were paid to appear...

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Scrotum Poles LP, Mantles stuff, etc almost here....

« on: September 05, 2009, 05:43:19 PM »

Sucks to be you.
Just kidding, that's a bummer! Sorry if somehow that slipped through the cracks.
I'm sending you a pm now for details.
Thanks

I never recieved my Eat Skull/Ganglians split from you. Forgot all about it. Came to remember it when I read your post. Im from Denmark if that helps going throu your paperwork.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Scrotum Poles LP, Mantles stuff, etc almost here....

« on: September 04, 2009, 04:30:28 PM »

Hiya
Just got proofs for the Scrotum Poles LP cover today and the records are here, so it's really happening. FOR REAL. Been workin' on this thing goin on three years now, one roadblock after another, so I can hardly believe it.
I'm not gonna list it or anything til I have them all ready; just feel like sharing my excitement (I learned my lesson with that goddamn Eat Skull/Ganglians split -- which was not a bullshit preorder thing-- I just wasnt ready for the onslaught and had only made like 2/3 of the covers... dumbdumbdumb).
Full info soon, but if you care about them, you are going to be stoked! 22 songs, all unreleased and not live shows stuff. It's from three cassettes from before and around the time of their 7" - one is all bedroom recorded quiet stuff (cool low-key version of Pick the Cats Eyes out included) and the other two are live-in-studio radness. Sound is definitely scrappy but it's all from the original cassettes and spent forever and a buck cleanin up up so it sounds pretty rad. Cover is Crass-style fold-out thing. Keep you posted.
Also just got new Mantles 7" in today - it's a tour/mailorder only split thing between me and Slumberland - one new song recorded at guitar player's house and one song from LP session... Cover is pretty amazing if I do say so myself, pretty ridiculous. More info soon. Will have em on the Ty Segall/Mantles tour next week.
As some of you may have experienced, I am pretty shitty with email so please don't try to order these yet.
Cool....
 

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Music Shit / Re: Great quotes from the Grizzly Bear press release.

« on: September 03, 2009, 12:14:55 PM »

100,000 copies!  Of what format, how are they calculating this?
The  trend has been to count individual digital purchases as "one copy". so if you buy a song from itunes to check out what they grizzly bear thing is all about it counts as a copy. if you go back and buy the rest of the album, you just bought another copy. if you are internet inept and buy one track at a time and the whole album is 10 tracks, you bought ten copies. also as far as hard copies, copies of the cd, the record industry practice has always been to count the records/cds going out as sales and never revealing to the public the returns and giving a true sales number. the old joke about the Sgt Peppers soundtrack is that it shipped platinum and was returned gold. nowadays major major label acts struggle to sell 50,000 copies of anything. i doubt grizzly bear has sold more than 20,000.

Cracks me up reading Michael McDonald being described here. Please send private message if you'd like to know who Kenny Loggins is.
As for Grizzly Bear, I'd say they are more sub/post-Radiohead, and at least as boring, maybe like a more 'indie' Coldplay? They are not good; total Starbucks jams, right up there with Postal Service..
re: itunes... To be specific, when you get sales figures from itunes, if the album is over ten tracks, then you do get a full-album download figure in addition to total track download 'units', but how they are calculated is totally up to the label, so I'm sure desperate majors will go with the bigger number - 30,000 is a very different number from 3,000!
That said, Grizzly Bear is pretty fucking huge at this point, so I'm not sure 100,000 is entirely unreasonable. If digital is counted in there, maybe it's more like 50,000 physical. But if bands like Vivian Girls & Pains of Being Pure at Heart can sell upwards of 10 or 15K in just physical sales, maybe it's not that crazy...

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Music Shit / Re: Mind = BLOWN.

« on: September 02, 2009, 04:00:39 PM »

I hear a while back a homeless guy was spotted in SF wearing a Magic Carpathians shirt which is pretty rad.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

« on: September 02, 2009, 03:56:55 PM »

Digital Leather 'Warm Brother' album. I've been mixed on previous releases, but the first song on the new one is really doing it for me. The gurgly synth is still there but the kinda robot-y-ness & vocal effects are toned down (the rest of the record might be headed back that direction though), and at least this song seems headed more into dreary fuzz bummer pop territory, more like Space Needle or maybe MDID or something, maybe even a little Vic Godard in the vocal creaks...

Shit & Shine new one - some more directionless fucking around, but the heavy dirge numbers are tuff.

new Clean song - man, this started really good with the drums, sounded like it was gonna sound like one of their better mid-late jams, but then the vocals come in and whats that? Vocoder?? Shit, I hope not. I don't like that Air air album for a reason! That's for dorm girls! Keep those peas away from my corn. Gotta give it another shot I guess.

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Music Shit / Re: Paul McCartney: DEAD

« on: August 31, 2009, 10:59:22 AM »

Bono & Sting will outlive all of us.

I dunno about Bono, but I know Sting can go all fuckin' day.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

« on: August 31, 2009, 10:58:26 AM »

My god, someone at work just put on that new Grizzly Bear single with Michael McDonald on guest vocals.
That is not a joke.
Feel free to banish this message, but fuck me, I think irony is officially dead.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

« on: August 31, 2009, 10:47:54 AM »

BORIS "Pink" 2xLP  Such a great, original and heavy record-- one of the more enduring and significant records of the decade so far.

I actually sold my copy of that.  Probably could've gotten more for it if I went the eBay route, but it was in a trade to Red Light Books (RIP).  Most of Boris's recent stuff leaves me a little cold.  I would probably dig it a bit more, if not for the clean, stiff production and the whiny vocals.  One time I had 'Pink' playing in the record store when I worked there and someone made the comment that it sounded like Smashing Pumkins.  At first I thought that was a really ignorant and absurd comparison, but after listening more, and the more I think about it, that's not really that far off.  I did really like the one with the guitarist from Ghost, though.

Kinda more Soundgarden methinks. The only one I liked was that soundtrack thing - much less 'blackholesun'.