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Music Shit / Re: ART MUSEUMS- any chop?

« on: June 08, 2011, 02:11:47 PM »

What about 'Puff'?

TVP/Magnetic Fields rip...Guess I don't need this, then.

I don't hear Magnetic Fields. TVPs, sure. But why don't you just take ten seconds and listen to a song? Both sides of the single can be streamed on the band's bandcamp site. If you don't like 'S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G.', you don't like music.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: TEENAGE PANZERKORPS - 2 TAPES AND TSHIRTS!! + RAPE FACTION FUTURE BRAIN

« on: June 07, 2011, 01:04:29 PM »

Thread hijack!

Just want people to know Horrid Red's FIRST show is in SF on the 17th. If you care about TPK at all this is a big deal, as it's the WORLDWIDE debut of the core TPK/Horrid Red guys.

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Music Shit / Re: Death Grips

« on: June 07, 2011, 11:09:42 AM »

As for the actual music though, not bad... The itgoesitgoesitgoes thing is the best part and the production and weird pauses are really what I like about it. Yeah, a little digital hardcore, kinda Third Eye Foundation or something too. But from the tracks I checked out I'm not totally blown away by the dude's actual rhymes. This could be kinda big though I'd think - except that it's from Sac!

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Music Shit / Re: Death Grips

« on: June 07, 2011, 11:04:46 AM »

hahaha forgot about this guy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZegHBU-ffQ&NR=1&feature=fvwp


Jesus God kill me now

worst dude

God, this guy's mannerisms are excruciating!! Totally reminds me of the college
radio dudes I worked with who went on to be music writers, which is exactly what this guy is. Everyone knows a dude like this, am I right?

The way he pushes up his glasses is the worst part.

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Music Shit / Re: ICEAGE - new Danish postpunk sensation

« on: June 05, 2011, 07:57:06 AM »

I heard Scion wants to make an ICEAGE car.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: cassette to mp3 recording trouble

« on: June 05, 2011, 07:53:52 AM »

I'm probably not the right guy to answer this, but in my experience one of the best things about tape  is that you can hit it HARD, putting shit way in the red without (digital) clipping, which is indeed an awful sound. So if what you're going for is to have the whole mix loud and blown out, youre going to want to have the tape in two steps - tracking AND mix down. Then you take that mix and dump it to CD or GarageBand or whatever.

I remember Lisa on here talking a while back about going a reverse process of GarageBand first then dumping to tape, probably to achieve the same thing with only one tape deck.

But again, I don't really know what I'm talking about, mainly just from watching people and being kinda picky.  Our LP was done 16 track 1 inch ---> cassette which seems weird but it worked.

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Cities / Re: San Francisco

« on: June 03, 2011, 11:54:05 AM »

Anyone looking to rent a day in their practice space? My friend is looking for a practice space to start a band/store minimal gear. I don't know anyone who has a vacancy right now.

Where are the band farms in this city again? I know there's a big one near where Caesar Chavez meets the 101, but I don't know where exactly or what it's called.

Secret Studios. We're in there with a thousand other bands.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Office Worker totally flips

« on: May 31, 2011, 09:55:16 AM »

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Office Worker totally flips

« on: May 31, 2011, 09:54:03 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

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

« on: May 30, 2011, 06:33:12 PM »

re: John Otway....

Though I haven't hunted down all the records, he single-handedly stole the fucking show in the Urghh! A Music War movie. That performance of 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" where he is a raving madman doing fucking somersaults on the stage had me totally speechless (or lets, say, the CORRECT version of 'nonplussed') and wondering why the fuck I had never heard him before.

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

« on: May 30, 2011, 06:30:47 PM »

TV Ghost, Mass Dream.  It clicked today.  I love it.  This is the sort of record I want to hear.  Mature beyond their years, these guys.  The lyrics are good, creepy little noir vignettes.  The singer's sounding like a young Ian McCulloch minus the romanticism.  Great arrangements.  Tense and eerie and, I s'pose, "dystopian." 

Man, I really wanted to dig this. Not digging. Definitely more interesting than the last one, and liked some of the arrangements and production, but I have to admit that the first thing that came to mind was the GSL label, circa 2001, which really is not what I want to be thinking when I listen to anything new.

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

« on: May 30, 2011, 06:26:14 PM »

Nodzzz - Innings

Perfect simple shambling pop songs, more of the same but they've refined things a bit. A+

The reviews so far have kind of said the same thing -'more of the same' - but I thought it was kind of a departure. I mean, it's not black metal, but the tone is way different, no longer jokey and a lot less obviously SILLY. I really like it as well - the lyrics and guitar leads are way better on this one.  I was worried reviewers would shit on it for being different and too serious, but they seem to miss that shit altogether.

when your record starts off with a song called always make your bed and you've got a voice like that then consider it impossible to shake the jokey tag.
For whatever it is worth, I've listened to the record a few times and just can't get into it.  It probably is as good or better than the first record overall, but I can't find a song that killed me like that "Is She There?" song did.

I definitely put them in band-with-silly-voice genre, and for me, that means Great Plains, Crucifucks, Half Jap, and BMX Bandits, bands I love and that have merit beyond the silly voice - whether you like it or not - so it doesn't necessarily mean I think of them as a silly band. But yeah, I mean Nodzz are perhaps THE most divisive band. They can alienate more people than the harshest of hardcore bands. But for me, I just feel like if you can handle the vocals, there's more in there - he can write some clever-as-shit songs that I don't think he necessarily gets credit for because people can be so immediately focussed on the silly vocal thing. On the first record, it was the less goofy songs like 'Losing My Accent' that actually have lasting power, and the same goes with this one - 'Heyday Past, Heyday Due' is pretty great.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Allergic Reactions

« on: May 30, 2011, 06:10:51 PM »

It's really tough with allergic reaction because it could be anything. I could be a specific thing that you ate, or it could have been the combination of a bunch of things. Might not have just been the Aleve, but the Aleve in combination with beer or something in the chicken you ate.  Could have also been related to the weather, or stress, or any number of things. I've gotten hives from just being too hot, and I've gotten them from drinking beer, which I am mildly allergic too but drink all the time anyway. It all depends on so many different factors that you may never know.

When I got really bad hives, they gave me a shot of adrenaline and then Benadryl, so you definitely did the right thing (might also have suggested a cold shower, putting ice on the hives and puffy parts). As for Benadryl, YES, it can totally fuck you up. That type of antihistamine is the most powerful antidote to allergies, but the reason why people don't take it all the time is because it will knock you the fuck out, especially if you don't use it much. The stuff in Tylenol PM or basically any over-the-counter sleep pill is the same shit. Works great but it makes you feel super groggy in the morning, and if for some reason you get woken up, you'll feel super crappy. That's why people take Ambien!

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

« on: May 27, 2011, 08:33:32 AM »

Nodzzz - Innings

Perfect simple shambling pop songs, more of the same but they've refined things a bit. A+

The reviews so far have kind of said the same thing -'more of the same' - but I thought it was kind of a departure. I mean, it's not black metal, but the tone is way different, no longer jokey and a lot less obviously SILLY. I really like it as well - the lyrics and guitar leads are way better on this one.  I was worried reviewers would shit on it for being different and too serious, but they seem to miss that shit altogether.

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

« on: May 27, 2011, 08:16:52 AM »

TV Ghost, Mass Dream.  It clicked today.  I love it.  This is the sort of record I want to hear.  Mature beyond their years, these guys.  The lyrics are good, creepy little noir vignettes.  The singer's sounding like a young Ian McCulloch minus the romanticism.  Great arrangements.  Tense and eerie and, I s'pose, "dystopian." 

Ok, gave this a whirl as well. Definitely more ambitious than the last one, but one thing got to me and haven't been able to get past it. I feel like it's not good if the first thing that comes to mind is that this record sounds most like a GSL release from 2001. Just me?