The Death of My Ears

I stabbed my eardrums simultaneously with two ice picks after hearing this, so it could be the end of this blog. We'll see. Its three strikes YOU OUT!

Fresh Turd: The Streets

Man was the turn-around on this quick. The Streets, who often produce music I hate have Twittered a song about a subject which pisses me off. Woo hoo, Fresh Turd material! I think if we ignore this flu it will go away, I only hope the same is true for The Streets. Okay, the video is cool because I like zombies.

This Creeps Me Out

Fresh from some alternate universe I hope to never visit, is a program called Microsoft Songsmith.  This is for lazy musicians, i guess, because all you do is pick a style of song and then start singing and Songsmith will do the rest of the music for you.  You might ask, who needs this?  Well, as the video below demonstrates, a guy who needs to write a jingle for a glow in the dark towel and some other absolute freaks.  Then check out the Beastie Boys classic 'Intergalactic,' if you dare.  

Microsoft Songsmith

Beastie Boys 'Intergalactic'

Indescribable!

Billy, Billy, sweet little Billy boy.  What have you done?

Flaming Awesomeness

Most of us should remember decades old Oklahoma City freak psych-rockers The Flaming Lips.  The ones who begin concerts by surfing the crowd in a giant inflatable balloon and blow their confetti all over the place?  The ones with exorbitantly long and ridiculous song titles such as 'Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles?'  the band who were one hit wonders in the mainstream and used it to leverage a performance on Beverly Hills 90210?  Anyone?  Anyway, they are inundating the indie music scene with indescribably awesome news lately.  Well, okay, I'll describe it.

First, back in March, Wayne Coyne, lead singer of The Lips trashed The Arcade Fire in an interview with the Rolling Stone.  A few choice quotes (Stereogum):  "Whenever I've been around them, I've found that they not only treated their crew like shit, they treated the audience like shit.  They treated everybody in their vicinity like shit."  Followed by "I don't care if it's Arcade Fire or Brian Eno.  If either of them walked into a room and treated people like shit I'd be like, 'Fuck you, get outta here."

Arcade Fire's Win Butler responded: "I hope I was less of a "prick" then telling Rollingstone that a bunch of people I don't know at all are really assholes."

So this was obviously going to escalate to something awesome, right?  Possibly an onstage battle of the bands triggering a minor apocalypse?  No.  Wayne told entertainment weekly that he wished the incident had never happened and took it back.  Somewhat of a letdown, but Wayne comes off as a super nice guy.

In slightly more absurd news, The Lips had their song 'Do You Realize?' nominated for the state song of Oklahoma, which was voted in by Oklahomans.  All that had to happen was a majority by both the state senate and house, but the uptight power hungry representatives voted it down because bassist Michael Ivins wore a shirt with a hammer and sickle and because of the bands foul language.  "Their lips should be on fire" quoth one douchey representative.  Well, governor Brad Henry put his foot down for the lips and signed an executive order.  Good for Oklahoma.

Now for the clincher, an update on the new album!  It was recorded in Steven Drozd's empty, for sale house and may be called 'Embryonic.'  According to Wayne, "It's free rock.  Free freakout rock.  It doesn't really have a song underneath it, it's justfreaking out."  Lets hope the Lips return to their early glory days.  Well, not the really early days, but the ones more like 'Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.'

To top this all off, here are the one and only Flaming Lips with a cover of 'Seven Nation Army.'  Enjoy:

Fresh Biscuit: Matt and Kim Video

In one of the best music videos ever, a lo-fi, BF/GF, indie-pop keyboard and drums band Matt and Kim show NYC times square what its all about with their video for 'Lessons Learned'.  The song is good if you can get by Matt's slightly emo sounding voice.  Kind of like how Kim is hot if you can get by her haircut.  I definitely can.  Watch for the small unsuspecting girl at 2:06 who gets a nice view of "the business."  

Lessons Learned

Save the Music

In stunning near Cinco de Mayo news, an upcoming tour featuring Deerhoof and experimental Japanese band Cornelius traveling through Mexico and California has been cancelled due to a certain highly publicized strain of flu.  The tour had to be cancelled because of "increased governmental travel restrictions."  Well, I guess on the upside I learned about this band Cornelius due to the recent pandemic, so I'm labeling the swine flu as break-even.  Check out their Myspace and the song Gum.  

This damned flu has already hit way to close to home by affecting the Milwaukee Brewers slightly racist chorizo racing sausage.  WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!