One More Tool For The Interweb-Lived Life

This application allows you to grab free music from streaming audio sources, like iMeem, Pandora and Last.fm.

FreeMusicZilla

And to get you going, here's a bangin' RAC remix of Pull Shapes.

In case you're not inclined to follow links:

The Heavy

Holy crap, this is really, really great music! It's like Curtis Mayfield backed up with members of the Rebirth Brass Band and The Black Keys with production by RZA. And get a load of the album artwork! I can't find a single thing wrong with this. Plus, want to know how I found it? Their video just won best animation at London's Radar Festival.

I have dibs on this for any future He Mixes.

The Heavy - Great Vengeance & Furious Fire

A New Way To Search for Music

Sadly I wasn't able to find anything for our He Brother JBell's earlier request, but I wanted to alert the fellow He Men of the greatest thing for finding music: Share Miner.

Share Miner

It's super simple: all it does is plug in a search into google looking for links on websites that begin with "http://www.megaupload.com/?d" or whatever your favorite hosting site is, along with whatever band you're looking for.

It's imperfect and a little hit or miss but it might be a good alternative if you're locked out of what.cd or something.

New Fiest Video

Are you like me? Do you stay up many nights wondering to yourself, "you know what? I wonder what it would be like if the Fourth of July fireworks show wasn't synchronized to the Star Spangled Banner but instead to Fiest's 'I Feel It All' and she's just running around orchestrating the whole thing?"

Well my He Friend, your sleepless nights are over.

DJ Equipment of the Future

NYT article about the latest, greatest, shrinking turntables.

Top Ten Best Ever

From McSweeney's comes this very He Manly list.

Top Ten
Best Ever.

BY PETER FERLAND
1. "Standard" by Generally Beloved
2. "Obvious" by Everyone's List
3. "Understandable" by Debatable but Worthy
4. "Totally Obscure" by Feel Suddenly Inferior
5. "Universally Forgotten" by Curiously Vehement Reverence
6. Whole body of work by Your Ignorance Limits You
7. "Otherwise Underwhelming" by What Was Playing That Time Specific to Me When Everything Came Together Just as It Should Have
8. "Footnote" by Guess Which Were My Drugs
9. "Other-Culture Techno Trance Experience" by See How Well-Rounded I Am
10. "Children's Version of See Above" by We've Got Kids Now

A Brief History of Visual Music

via William Bowers.

Era of no music, yah, totally, not even birds and whales; music invented by primordial mucky ancestor of Lee "Scratch" Perry; shift from percussion to primitive wind instruments, maybe, by primoridal mucky ancestor of George "Caress" Gershwin; music somehow gets linked to visuals related to the performance of said music, and also to unrelated visuals/spoken & enacted audio--possibly religion's fault; composers make incidental music for Shakespeare plays and the like, plus opera is born around same time; militaries and schools and fascist leaders have "bands"; music accompanies vaudeville acts; live, and then recorded, music accompanies early "silent" cinema; music is composed for "talkies"; the "musical" evolves from its stage confines into a screen genre; vinyl allows "pure listenership," though many pissed-at-CD-&-mp3 folx will later claim that the big album covers served as visual accompaniment; television and advertising create unescapable music-filled juggernaut of talented players and vocalists hawking detergent & tobacco; Elvis, Beatles, the Who, et al, hijack fictional cinematic medium, around same time rockumentary is fashioned; The Graduate soundtrack births Scorsese & Wes Anderson, etc.; Waylon Jennings narrates "The Dukes of Hazzard"; music video brundlefucks the difference between music's promotional use in commercials/film; something about Pink Floyd's laser shows; film soundtrack CDs become either freestanding fetish pieces (rated "PG," as in Peter Gabriel/Philip Glass) or promotional mixtapes featuring songs very cynically "inspired by" the movie('s demographic potential); soundtrack albums come out for movies that don't exist; the iPod morphs one's life into the ultimate soundtracked movie, the exclusive contributors to which can be found via last.fm, etc.; Musicals make a comeback at the megaplex and on the album sales charts thanks to something Disney concocted about an undangerous Narnia high school; various indie artists release a "tribute" soundtrack to the film Two-Lane Blacktop even though it already featured period music; with the music industry in turmoil, and music writers bound by union contract to begin sentences about it with "with the industry in turmoil," Jay-Z straight-up inverts the paradigm like a faux-retired about-to-retire label-head should, by releasing American Gangster, a spontaneous, rushed-to-market, and best of all, uncynical "inspired-by" album re: a film, giving birth to the current marketplace trendbite for the relationship between cinema and music: "organic synergy."

No-Fi Soul Rebellion 'Sweet Teeth pt. 1' on Audiovisible.tv

1979 represents

Delta 5 "Mind Your Own Business" off Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftcentered Disco Classics 1974-1986.

Damn you, Truth!

Menomena - Rotten Hell

Why there isn't a whole genre and award for best choreographed food fight music video is beyond me.

If "Rotten Hell" is the 2007 winner, I think the 2006 champ would have to be:

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #6

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

We've put together our sixth He Man Woman Haters' podcast. This a another big one. With contributions from Ethman, Neff, Victor9000, Whatevs, Hathaway, and He Man Zero. It's 20 solid tracks. It's clocking in at just over an hour and 1/4. It's ready to change your life.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download podcast episode #6).

Download the individual tracks as a ZIP file via this link (He Man Podcast #6 ZIP File).

Here's the track listing

1. Calvin Harris – Clours
2. Wale – Good Girl (Cousin Cole Remix v 1.4)
3. Sharkey & C-Rayz Walz – Pain to the Picture
4. Radiohead – Up The Ladder
5. Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling
6. Sia – Playground
7. Bell & Sebastian – Expectations (Remastered)
8. Bon Iver – Flume
9. Yeasayer – Sunrise
10. Whalebones – Blood Bank
11. Wale feat. Lil’ Wayne – Nike Boots Remix
12. Oxford Collapse – The Boys Go Home
13. Radiohead – Unravel (Pocket Mix)
14. Sam & Dave – Hold On I’m Coming (DJ Nature Remix)
15. Bitche Bitche Ya Ya Ya – Fuck Friend (CSS Remix)
16. John Cooper Clarke – The It Man
17. Underworld – To Heal
18. The Books – That Shit Ain’t Right
19. Tulsa – Shaker
20. Crystal Castles vs. HEALTH – Crimewave


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The Moldy Peaches

Continuing the throw back trend that I seem to be on, I went ahead and used my iTunes gift cards last night to get the Moldy Peaches album from 2001. I fucking loved the song "NYC is like a Graveyard" (editor's note: the album was released on 9/11) and after I saw that they were included on the Juno soundtrack I knew that it was officially time to get the album. Here is the non-DRM'd version of it for your enjoyment.

P.S. Hey HMZ, they're from Port Townsend, WA

The Moldy Peaches - "The Moldy Peaches"

Skillz 2007 Wrap Up

It used to be that Jan 1st of every year became the stage for [Mad] Skillz's annual rap up - a look back at everything that happened musically and culturally the year before. Get it? Instead of a "wrap up" (like how people spell it) he's a rapper so he "raps it up" instead.

Well maybe I'm just turning into my father but this is so fucking pedestrian and enormously boring that I can't believe there was a time in my life that I thought these rap ups were clever. And this year he actually spent the time to make a music video for it for some reason. So now I get to look at his fat face and his Korny mustache (yes that's "Korn" as in the mustache on the 90-year-old singer from Korn) and "laugh" at his parody of Amy Winehouse being a drunk sociopath. Thank you so much Skillz for blessing us with this.

Hemanterview: HeMan to Walkman

So, on Saturday I was in DC, killing time before the he-man convention that was HMZ's nuptials in frosty Pittsburgh. I was in a DuPont bar, about to head into the loo when the bathroom doors opened and one Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of the Walkmen, walkmanned out. Seizing upon the opportunity to provide content for this blog, I thought I'd conduct an exclusive interview of my old schoolmate, which I herenow reproduce:

HL, looking quizzical, adjusting the zipper on his pants: Cold4thestreets? [ed's note: not my real name].

C4ts, feigining disinterest, refusing to be the first to recognize the other: Ham? Oh. Hey, man. What's up? How's it going?

HL: Good. Do you live here?

C4tS: No, no. I'm in the Bay Area now.

HL: Oh, I'm in the Bay Area all the time.

C4ts: Yeah, I think you guys played a show a couple of weeks ago. I was going to go, but I, like, you know, didn't.

HL, nonplussed: Yeah, I'm in New York.

C4ts: Yeah, cool...So, hey you guys are blowing up now. I mean, look at you [c4ts slaps HL somewhat more condescendingly than intended]--Spiderman 3 soundtrack, hunh? [ed's note: C4ts' tone might imply that HL is a sellout.]

HL, not pleased, turning to greet hipster girl in red wool coat: Yeah...Hey, what's up, Kitty? Where've you been?

Random guy to C4ts: Hey, man, are you going to use the bathroom or what?

C4ts: Yeah, sorry. I just bumped into this guy I know from high school. [Turning to HL] So, Ham it was good seeing you.

HL, whispering something to whispy blonde in red wool coat, distractedly: Yeah, see you, man.

Exit C4ts, begins to urinate.