The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave

Good song. Good video.

He Man aftermath

I would like to think that my addition of this song to the he man mix of late prompted some research and this post.

Holy Hail

Video for "Cool Rock." Me likey.

GTTFD

Learn how the get things the fuck done.

I'm Not There Trailer

Biggest thing learned from this trailer: Bob Dylan used to be a poor Michael Jackson before bleaching his skin, molesting little boys, and moving to Dubai.

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #4

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

We've put together our third He Man Woman Haters' podcast. We're giving you fourteen songs at just under an hour of pure He Manishness.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download podcast episode #4).

Download the individual tracks as a ZIP file via this link (He Man Podcast #4 ZIP File).

Here's the track listing

1. Black Francis – Blue Finger
2. Jen Lekman – A Postcard To Nina
3. MSTRKRFT – The Looks
4. TacocaT – UTI
5. Hey Hey My My – Merryland
6. Alela Diane – The Pirate’s Gospel
7. Sunset Rubdown – The Mending of the Gown
8. Wolf Parade – Disco Sheets
9. Soho Dolls – Trash the Rental (Crystal Castles Remix)
10. Chromatics – Running Up That Hill
11. Matt & Kim – Yeah Yeah (Flosstradamus Remix)
12. Flosstradamus – Overnight Star
13. I Was a Cub Scout – The View
14. Calvin Harris – Disco Heat

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I had no idea they were filming me

(Update: Here's the MP3 of the song for you to enjoy)

Good news gentlemen

OiNK is coming back (kinda)!!!!!!!

New Music

Alright gentlemen, ever since the Event Without A Name (EWAN) earlier this week we've been seriously lacking in new and interesting music. I understand that we are all hurting inside from the EWAN but life must go on.

I suggest a new way of sharing our musical tastes. Here's everything that I've gotten in the last month. Most of it has been passed along by my fellow He Men so you've probably already got it in your library as it is. If you'd like to experience any or all of it, just let me know with an email (if you don't know it, leave a comment with a way for me to get in touch with you) and I'll happily "come over to your house and play it for you"

The Cool Kids - Totally Flossed Out
Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
Band of Horses - EP
Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
Little Brother - Get Back
Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Math and Physics Club - (Self Titled)
The Cave Singers - (Self Titled)
The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs
Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
MSTRKRFT - The Looks
MSTRKRFT - EP
WU-Tang Clan - Wu-Box: The Cream of the Clan
Spank Rock and Benny Blanco - Bangers and Cash
Black Francis - Blue Finger
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
The Poison Control Center - A Collage of Impressions
Tokyo Police Club - Smith

Our Geneneration's Iwo Jima

Sometimes, I love the internet: case and point. And seriously, why is Idolator scaring the shit out of everyone? I generally like the gawker media sites--they're snarky and more or less align with the remorseless anarchic philosophy so fancied by kids today--but Idolator marches to the beat of its own narc drum. Not cool.

Back from the dead(?)

For those of you in need of needing: STMusic.com

A Post-Oinkalyptic World

New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky

More evidence

My life is over.

Nnnnoooooooo!!!!!!!!!

It's only 7:45 here in New York, but we're already getting some bad news:

Oink.cd raided by police, shut down

Thoughts?

Sigur Ros/Mobb Deep - Untitled Shook Ones (Emancipator Mash-up)

Brad Sucks

Worst name for an artist/band is very easily "Brad Sucks".

However I'm a little obsessed with his/their song "Making Me Nervous". For a song that was clearly recorded on a laptop it's really good.

Brad Sucks - Making Me Nervous
Brad Sucks website (with other free MP3s)

Some Music Because I love You

Here are two ZIP files of music for all of you, because I like you my fellow He Men.

Band of Horses (three albums: Untitled EP, "Cease To Begin" and "Everything All of the Time")

Little Brother - Get Back




ENJOY!

This is where babies come from.

New YACHT, from a compilation (audio) called Worried Noodles, which GvB is touting.

The Ramones Come Full Circle (and I still hate them)

So. The music that the Ramones were tongue-in-cheek "impersonating" in the style of "punk" has now started to cover them. I love this. And by loving it, I do not mean that I want to listen to it. I love that finally the whole stupid project is out in the open (though every preppie shit who wants to dress in the style of "punk" still may not catch the nuance).

Please prove me wrong, because I wish I was wrong. It is hard being this right, all of the time.

The Moby Equation

The Washington Post has a great article today on what they called "The Moby Equation": or the mathematical formula for deciding whether or not an artist has sold out when they license their music to be used in an advertisement (or if you're British an "advert you stupid twat").

It's a surprisingly well reasoned equation which accounts for the status of the company, the artist's reputation, and the sacredness of the song being sold. Check it out and check out the article as well (just because).

The Moby Equation - Washington Post
How To Calculate Musical Sellouts - Washington Post

Sigur Ros Don't Understand What They Do

Remember when all those kids flew off that cliff in that Sigur Ros video? It was amazing, uplifting, and it made my day. If only they had planned that out! Apparently everything strummed, beaten, and yelled out by Islandic superstars Sigur Ros "just happens." I really like this band, and I will continue to like them, but everyone should watch this 5-minute NPR interview (which I imagine was slated to last considerably longer).

Help the Hype Machine

Hey, everyone's favorite music resource the Hype Machine needs our help. They're launching a new version of the site. But (and it's a big but) they want 10,000 people to be on the site at any given time. So go! Go already!

It's live updating so if you have a computer you don't mind leaving on, just leave it open in a tab and go about your business. Please. I need this.

The Hype Machine

Lovely.
Also existent is a version of "State Trooper" that doesn't do enough justice in the recording.

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #3

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

We've put together our third He Man Woman Haters' podcast. The theme for this episode is "The Forgotten Heroes". We wanted to bring back the songs that we were crazy about for a long time but haven't listened to in a long time. The intention is to reclaim how much we used to love these tracks and what they meant to us. We're giving you eighteen songs.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download podcast episode #2).

Download the individual tracks as a ZIP file via this link (ZIP File of Tracks).

Here's the track listing

1. Deltron 3030 – Love Story
2. The Presets – Down Down Down
3. Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer
4. R.E.M. – Pop Song 89
5. Kid ‘N Play – Ain’t Gonna Hurt Nobody
6. Elefant – Sunshine Makes Me Paranoid
7. Guided By Voices – You’re Not An Airplane
8. Hum – Stars
9. Le Loup – Le Loup (Fear Not)
10. Young Love – Discotech
11. Health – Crimewave (remix)
12. Shystie – New Style Remix
13. Ghostface & John Spencer – Holla If You Wanna Get Heavy
14. The Mean Reds – Octopus
15. Sex Mob – Mothra
16. Tom Vek – C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)
17. The Bravery – Tyrant
18. Ash – Kung Fu

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Mash Up

Hey, check out this country singer, born of Egyptian parents and raised in Oklahoma. His music is bad in the way that all saccharine mainstream country music is bad, which I guess means he has a shot at being successful. Oh wait. He's Muslim. And he plays country music. Sorry. My bad.

Casting Biggie

NYT article about casting B.I.G. Check out the slide show.

Thanks Jon.

New Jay-Z Track

Is this song even a new leak? How knows anymore. Here's a Jay-Z song. Guess who produced it? I'm looking at you Cold4thestreets



Jay-Z - "Roc Boys (and the winner is)"

The Floppy Album

Saw this story on BoingBoing and thought it was pretty cool.

"Trunkeret & Ikonisk" by Batch Totem (an alias for musician, Jonas Olesen) consists of 19 tracks, which are heavily compressed in the GSM 6.10 WAV format, at various bitrates. The album is on the Ristretto label, and can be bought online with PayPal.

"The idea is essentially to release an album on an almost obsolete medium that fits very well with the music on an aesthetical level," says Olesen. "Secondly, the scope of the project is to use heavy compression as a feature that shapes the music, instead of a limitation that reduces sound quality."

See I like to talk a lot about how CDs are going to be obsolete soon, but this is a great way to actually use that to make something interesting.

Band Releases Album on Floppy Disk

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

The Arcade Fire released a pretty cool interactive video for their track "Neon Bible" which is kinda cool. Definitely won't blow your mind or create a new model for the record industry or anything like that. It's just pretty cool.

Don't forget to click on stuff. That's what makes it interactive, stupid.

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Quickie

Ze Frank continues to make me happy

Let's build a social network for two

not relevant to anything, ever.

Music Wednesday

Hello fellow Hemen. I like you and so I will share with you some music.

No special reason. No mix. No real description. Just some stuff for you to listen and hopefully enjoy as much as I did.

By the way, we can all thank honorary Heman inductee, Ethman, for most of this.

With much love,
Whatevs.

Band of Horses - "Is there A Ghost"
The Wombats - "Let's Dance to Joy Division"
The Bird and the Bee - "Fucking Boyfriend"
Clipse - "Flashing Lights" (Benzi remix)
Of Montreal - "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" (p.s. just wait for the "Oooohs!" about halfway through)

I Ain't Nothin' But a Robo Hound Dog

I ran across a clip of Pop Lock and Drop It performed by animatronic animals that reminded me of childhood birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese. Apparently there is a subculture of people who bought these Rock-afire Explosion animatronic stages on eBay from the original creator and now make videos of the bands reprogrammed to perform current songs. In this clip, christhrash talks about the process of programming the robots. He doesn't go into tech, but talks about many of the movements that can be controlled with each character and his programming philosophy.



Rock-afire on Wikipedia

Other Rock-afire programmers on YouTube:
showbizpizza
looneybird78
dsfii
Snap1975

Radio Lab 9/25/07 music episode

Thanks to Mr. Whatevs for encouraging me to listen to the Radio Lab podcast from September 25, 2007. The topic is the connection between music and language, and I want to encourage everyone to listen to it in hopes that we will connect it back to our own appreciation of music.

Click here to load the podcast onto your iTunes.

Viva Radio

For those of you who sit around in an office all day trying to avoid being a productive member of whatever small society you are part, may I suggest Viva Radio. Really interesting shows, music, and a mix feature which has yet to let me down. I still prefer KEXP.ORG (see links on right), but this is good stuff. They are advertising in Vice (which is good and bad), and I take this to mean "we care."