Impulse post.  It’s well after 6PM on a Friday.  I’m done for the week folks, thanks for reading.

Links

Kasabian – Website / Myspace

posted May 29th, 2009 at 4:42 pm Uncategorized Kasabian

Today is May 29, 2009, and tomorrow I turn 29.  Garden update: the birds are busy cleaning out the worms.

My nephew wrote a Facebook message today that simply read “I need somebody…”  He can be pretty dramatic, love the kid to death.  My response to him?  This.

That video also goes out to my dear friend Kim (aka DANK).  She rocks, and if you see her around, let her know.

The feed:

Minnesota’s Pop Inc is Counting Down the Days to the Release of a New Video Featuring the Voice of Simon Jones – via Pop Inc Myspace Bulletin

Phil Spector Gets At Least 19 Years For Murder – Billboard
(Good.)

WAVVES meltdown @ Primavera Sound Festival last night – Brooklyn Vegan
(Pretty damn funny.)

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Working With Producer DON WAS on New Album – Roadrunner Records

U2 Manager: Free Is The Enemy Of Good; And It’s Moral To Protect Old Business Models – Techdirt
(This is worth a few minutes of your time… I think.)

posted May 29th, 2009 at 4:40 pm Music News News

I’m really not sure if this video is a parody of Dirty Dancing or just an excuse to kick apublicly  downed Michael Jackson, but its good for some serious laughs.  For some reason I really, really wanted the ahtletic suit guy to get pegged by a golf ball.  (sigh)  No such luck.

Peter Bjorn and John played the Fine Line earlier this year, but aren’t scheduled to return any time in the near future.

Links

Peter Bjorn and John – Website / Myspace

posted May 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm Uncategorized Peter Bjorn and John

Chicago’s Yourself & The Air is slated to play the Turf Club at the end of July.  These guys are busy crafting what some might be consider quintessential indie rock – a bit like The Killers, a bit like Bloc Party, a bit weird at times like… well, you know what band.

And although this is a bit late, it’s new to us.  So here’s a little video Yourself & The Air put together and released in January, an abridged version of their song “So You’ve Come To Mingle” from thier 2008 E.P. Friend of All Breeds.  Check for other concert dates below and do support our neighbors from The Windy City.  They’ll be joined by Cincinnati’s Pomegranates.

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posted May 29th, 2009 at 2:14 pm Concert Announcements, Uncategorized Yourself & The Air

What do you think of first when you hear the name “Slobberbone”?  Do you think of a great, big ole’ bloodhound slobbering all over a rawhide chew bone?  Yeah, that’s what I thought, but it was worth checking out.

Slobberbone is a trashcan kickin’ garage band straight out of the mid-90’s heyday, when many bright folks thought Pavement was the greatest band in the world.  Bands like this were a last bastion against the great sell-out, and like The Lemonheads, they were indie long before anyone knew or cared what the term meant.  Incidentally, I still don’t really care what the term means, because rock n’ roll is all we need.

Listen up!

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posted May 29th, 2009 at 1:32 pm Concert Announcements Slobberbone

Today is May 28, 2009, a grand day for gardening.  In case you didn’t know, the hardware stores are clearancing gardening goods like they’re going out of style.  Of course, they’re just going out of season.

The following is a rather awkward video I caught today of Mary Lucia from 89.3 The Current feeding a calf at the MN Zoo.  Aside from that Wah.. huh? induced after Mary mentions something about “sucking,” I also found myself going Oh no! when I noticed the unfortuante soul in the background licking his chops.  That poor guy (the cow, not the farmhand) wanted some milk from Mary too, but he just had to chill in his stall with nothin’.

Thanks for the clip Mary, very amusing.

Word on the street is:

Be In An Electric Fetus Commercial Tomorrow! – The Electric Fetus Myspace Bulletin

Local bands announce 8Hz collective – Culture Bully
(Thanks to Chris DeLine, for asking the good questions.)

Jeff Buckley Grace Around The World Hitting Stores Next Week – Anti Music

Queen to work with ‘American Idol’ loser? – NME
(This is very, very disappointing. Didn’t anyone learn a lesson from INXS?)

MySpace Music Mints A Messy Music Feed – Hypebot

Heliotrope kicks off today – Gimme Noise

posted May 28th, 2009 at 3:54 pm Music News News

PHOTO BY J.B. GALUSHA

Boston’s The Main Drag like to keep it fun and upbeat.  Their songs are crafted intelligently with guitars and keyboards, their rhythms are made  for dancing.  But just like borangs, they don’t take themselves too seriously, and we love it.  Just check out this little video they put together for their song “Jagged Gorgeous Winter.”

Absolutely could have been filmed in Minnesota.

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posted May 28th, 2009 at 2:50 pm Concert Announcements The Main Drag

Dredg played the Varsity Theater back on April 10, and though we were unable to make the show, fellow bloggers from Mind Inversion did capture some of the action.  You can read a review they wrote HERE, and below is posted some live footage.

Now Dredg will play Station 4 in St. Paul on August 9, a venue in my opinion more fit for the San Fran rockers.  However, the lead singer seems a little reserved live, not recommended behavior at Station 4.  Grain Belt, that’ll get him movin’. 

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posted May 28th, 2009 at 1:07 pm Concert Announcements, Uncategorized Dredg

At what points do electronic music and rock n’ roll articulate?  The new Presets video for “Kicking and Screaming” tackles this question pretty well, I think, and is rock n’ roll both musically and in its imagery.  These Aussie’s can’t come to America soon enough.  I’m digging on this, how about you?

The Presets – Website / Myspace

posted May 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm Uncategorized The Presets

The Black Keys‘ Dan Auerbach has released a video for “Heartbroken, In Disrepair,” off his latest solo album Keep It Hid.  In the video Dan and Co. are shown rocking out on the American Plains.  As someone who has trod upon more plainsland than the average American, I enjoy the video, if for nothing other than the beauty of the landscape.

You’ll probably be bored.  Dan Auerbach plays Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 9.

Links

Dan Auerbach – Website / Myspace

We caught this first on Culture Bully

posted May 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm Uncategorized Dan Auerbach