Tuesday, October 07, 2003

• Chicken & Beer- Ludacris
  
• ELVIS 2ND TO NONE - Elvis Presley (all the hits that reached #2 on the charts, plus remixes of "Rubberneckin'" and "I'm a Roustabout" that you've been hearing on car commercials. My question-- what's a brotha gotta do to get a remastered version of "There's No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car?")
  
• Dear Catastrophe Waitress- Belle & Sebastian
  
• Hold on Love - Azure Ray
  
• Countrysides - Cracker (Cracker songs in a country style, plus some anti-music industry tunes.)
  
• Get Born - Jet (I saw their video for "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" on MTV2 and kinda liked the song. They've got a sort of Stooges/Buckcherry/The White Stripes/The New York Dolls/early AC/DC thing going on.)
  
• Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie
  
• People's History of the Dismemberment Plan- Dismemberment Plan
  
• Out of Season - Beth Gibbons (of Portishead, don'tjaknow), Rustin Man
  
• Birth of a Prince- Bobby Digital (a.k.a. The RZA, don'tjaknow)
  
• Instant O in the Universe - Stereolab
  
• The Bootleg Of The Bootleg EP- Jean Grae
  
• Full Circle - Hieroglyphics
  
• Softcore Jukebox - Ladytron
  
• Evening of My Best Day- Rickie Lee Jones (features "Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Acts Now)," which I think is the first anti-Patroit Act song, but I could be way off base).
  
• Sonic Jihad - Paris (and speaking of being against The Patriot Act-- the Bush Killa is back!)
  
• West Koasta Nostra - Boo-Yaa Tribe (features some production work by Eminem and like a zillion guest appearances.)
  
• Seasons (w/ Bonus DVD)- Sevendust
  
• Nu-Mixx Klazzics- 2Pac (I put this down at the bottom because remixing old Tupac vocals to modern beats just seems like money-grubbing and grave-robbing.)
  

Monday, October 06, 2003

• A Tribe Called Quest To Drop New Album In Winter 2004
  Can I kick it? Yes, you can! I pray that's it good. It has to be good. Hip-hop needs a good ATCQ album right about now.
  
  
• Damien Rice Wins 2003 Shortlist Music Prize
  The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were robbed.
  
  
• Wilco, Dashboard Take It To The 'Bridge'
  This year's Bridge School Concert performers:
  Neil Young
  Pearl Jam
  Wilco
  Dashboard Confessional
  Counting Crows
  Willie Nelson
  Incubus
  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
  
  Oct. 25 @ Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, California. The performers appear in a randomly selected order, though Neil Young traditionally kicks things off with a song or two.
  
  
• Linkin Park Gets OK for Malaysia Concert
  But they can't wear shorts, scream or jump around. Sound a lot like what happens at The Bridge School Concert.
  
  
• Dungeon Family Tree
  A very good oral history of OutKast, Goodie Moband the Dungeon Family production crew. Criminally, there is no mention at all of Witchdoctor.
  
  
• A Guide To Music Changes In "WKRP IN CINCINNATI
  The people who syndicate "WKRP In Cincinnati" are to cheap to/can't afford to use the pop songs used in the background when the shows were originally broadcast, so all the music has been replaced. The above linked page tracks all the changes.
  
  
• Inside Whitney’s world
  Dateline NBC gets the skinny on what exactly is wrong with Mizz Houston. Even without an exclusive interview, the get more details than Diane Sawyer's infamous "show me the recipts" interview with Whitney. Apparently, Courtney Love missed the broadcast.
  
  
• Amazing Prince Paul Interview
  Long, but very worth reading. Buried way down in the the second part of the interview-- he and De La Soul are kicking around the idea of doing an album together again. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease make it so!
  
  
• Out of the aeroplane into the sea (Salon subscription or day pass required.
  Interesting Salon piece about how Neutral Milk Hotel released In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in 1998 and then left the hipsters hanging by never releasing a follow-up album. Let me just say this, as someone who heard that album twenty zillion times while I was on staff at SonicNet, I gotta say I don't miss 'em much.
  
  
• Funkenstein's Monster (Salon subscription or day pass required.
  Could and an artist like George Clinton and P-Funk emerge from today's music industry of tightly controlled playlists, beanc-ounters as A&R men and and music that's market researched down to the chord change? Probably not, and that's what really sucks for our culture.
  
  
• The Myth of Remastering
  Interesting articlle which points out that remastred CDs are not always all they are cracked up to be.
  
  
• The R.I.A.A. Prank
  Pretty funny look at what happens if you cal The R.I.A.A. or the record labels and try to pay them for songs you illegally downloaded.