Monday, May 7, 2012

RIP Adam Yauch

Three days ago the world received the news that one of the founding members of the Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch – better known as MCA – died after a long battle with cancer. I’ll not lie, it’s been years since I really followed the Boys’ music, however it was very important to me in my teens/early twenties and as musicians I will always respect them. Paul’s Boutique and Check Your Head will forever be modern masterpieces in my book, even though as I grew older (and so did the boys) I lost the ability to identify with aging men who gesticulate wildly while they throw out rhymes. Well, that’s not really fair to them because the fact is I just kinda lost the ability to identify with most rap, period. Nonetheless, last year about this time I went through a big revival with the BBoys for a few weeks and during that time I gave careful consideration to their 1992 masterpiece Check Your Head and came to the realization that if I was put on the spot to pick the album that I think best encapsulates the “alternative boom” of 90′s popular music it would probably be Check Your Head, an album that transcends their rap/hip-hop roots and really stretches the ideas of musicianship, creative process and good ol’ fashioned FUN (K).




My heart goes out to Mr. Yauch’s family, Adam Horowitz, Michael Diamond and the millions of people he affected with his music, and later his film production company Oscilloscope Laboratories. Below is a re-posting of the article I wrote about Check Your Head‘s place in musical history for Chud.com. I’ve tidied it up and expanded the piece, as MCA’s death has put me back in a state of contemplating his legendary band’s career.

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Godflesh - Slateman (live)

David Lynch 'Good Day Today' (Official Video)






I'm waaaaaay behind on this but kudos to director Arnold de Parscau and cinematographers Jonathan Bertin, Antoine Bon - not to mention the actors - for the winning video. Very nice

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Kevin Smith's SMoviola "Buckaroo Banzai" at the 49th New York Film Festival

Some New Live WEEN

Courtesy of Mr. Brown, setlist below.



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SETLIST

denver 12/29/11 first of 3 nights. they set a record for # of songs played. no song repeated on any night. (Mr. Brown adds that, "We just may have the next live disk set, they sound in top form." - yes they do my friend. Yes they do.)

did you see me?
golden eel
stallion 3
my own bare hands
spinal mengits
buckingham gn
captain
zoloft
mollusk
learnin to love
stroker ace
gabrielle
tick
object
roses r free
ice castles
final alarm
the argus
powder blue
richard smokr
pumpin 4 the man
I saw gener cryin in his sleep
put coke on my dick
shamemaker
band onthe run
homo rainbow
tried & true
someday
encore,
freedom76
your party
fluffy