'Tabbed with Bloody Daggers

I was looking for some In Flames tab and found Songsterr [link], a site that combines midi + tab in such a useful way that it makes me think that I could ~almost~ get rid off all those LS/LArc/Deg/X tab books I've collected that are now collecting dust...

DT Chooses their New Drummer

Dream Theater are John Myung (b), Jordan Rudess (k), Jimmy the Cheese (v), Mike Mangini (d), and John Petrucci (g).

OF COURSE they're going to choose the New Yorker(ish) guy!

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live report: girugamesh @ crash mansion, nyc (2011.04.26)

Girugamesh
Crash Mansion (NYC)
2011.04.27

This is what I typed during the show:

Chinatown on the first hot day of the year, lots of police after the string of mahjong parlor robberies.

Did I know the drummer looked like he was out of the Dark Crystal? The bassist is looking better, he used to have a head like Frankenstein's Monster.

So, wow... Gilgamesh is on fire, and pretty tight. Even their crappy new songs, supplemented with too much prerecorded backing extras, sound decent live.

That might be the booze talking; instead of waiting in the surprisingly long entrance line we bounced over to Dixons for some "Dressing Rooms". Ask Thane.)

So I guess I had an okay time. The band performed competently musically, and engaged the crowd well (Ryo & Sat in mouths-agape mode, Nii and Shuu in brooding mode).

They just couldn't focus on their heavier old material anymore, so the songs they were playing were just a little to ~twee~ for me.

The venue sound was great and with a decent layout, good air circulation, nice lighting on stage and throughout the joint. I just wish the urinals weren't child-height! But maybe that suited the crowd Gilg drew...

rating: :/

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Luna Sea 3D in LA

All I can really say is "What did that mic stand ever do to you?"

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Dream Theater: The Reality Show

The search for Mike Portnoy's replacement...



Kinda thought this was a little tacky at first, but it does invite the fans in to see some of what is going on, and it's kind of a clever application of the reality show conceit...

On the other hand, it's sort of like watching your parents divorce and then start dating again, I imagine.

Predition: No fans are gonna go to the shows, ticket sales will dry up... and Mike will return and everything will be hunky dory come 2015, 2016.

thx E!

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review: v.a. | "shikkoku no hikari" (the daisuke tribute album) (2011)

shikkoku no hikari
v.a.
2011

One year ago Daisuke (Kagerou, The Studs, solo) died. And that was sad.

Now this VK all-star tribute album is out.

Because these are covers of Daisuke's own songs, they start from a handicapped position, and it's up to Daisuke's friends and fellow musicians to valiantly squeeze whatever juice they can from these rocks. Can they possibly succeed?!

"Greed" is Morrie-esque until any range is required, then it turns out it's just Wataru overextending himself from the might-as-well-be-defunct-if-they-aren't-already 12012.

"Gu" I kinda dig f or its full epic feesing, though even at just 4:14 it feels too long. Mental note: find out what band guitarist Nakayama Takashi is from.

Gara from Merry helps make "Chikadou" even worse than one would expect by singing with his jaw sticking out like Thurston Howell III ("Lovey!"). The song itself doesn't help; it doesn't seem to wake up til it's almost over, and still then it's groggy and asking for five more minutes.

The most lifeless "Hey!" chant you've ever heard (as if millions of Ben Steins suddenly cried out in boredom and were suddenly asleep) introduces "Dokusaisha", which not even Tatsurou from Mucc can save, though there is a quick, nifty, transitional rhythm stutter-chug @2:13, after the LOUNGE PIANIST BREAK that is the signature trick of all shitty VK songwriters...

"Sousou" features Kyo (Dir en grey) and feels like they were making it up as they went along, though the verse manages to get a little catchy (by accident?) around the 1:25 mark. But of course they instantly ruin that with a bridge that resembles a guy frantically shaking his car door handle after realizing he locked his keys in. [sad bill cosby]

Possibly the most eagerly awaited track is the Kagerou reunion that is "Uso to Meiro". Ironically it only gets good when Daisuke stops singing and the band enters the rocking middle section, where Aie dishes out an awesome solo and Yuana follows up with the sound of plates being dropped.

In short, this is definitely an album fans of Daisuke's music deserve.

rating: :(

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Nightmare continue their downward spiral

Anima (2006) was a really good album. Everything before and after it is SHIT. And the shittiness continues.

There's like one half-second before the song starts where you think "ooh this could be good!" and then song starts and it's the same unimaginative crap that TEN THOUSAND OTHER BANDS have already done A HUNDRED MILLION TIMES and your arms fall down to your sides and your face turns glum and you puff out a slow breath of depressed carbon dioxide...

via SR

At this point I'm getting ready for another Great MP3 Purge, and my Nightmare catalog will be reduced to the live rip (Kyotoku Symphony), the best of (Gianism), and Anima. Actually, maybe the live rip dies to.

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review: V.A. | "princess ghibli" (2011)

princess ghibli
v.a.
2011

Metallize some Studio Ghibli theme songs? Great idea! Two Three problems:

1. The bands -- Disarmonia Mundi, Blood Stain Child, and others even less well-known -- play INALLCAPSWITHNOSPACES, destroying the nuance and dynamism of the original tracks, and
2. The singers -- Yoko Hallelujah and others -- feel like they recorded their vocals a hundred years prior and a million miles away, completely dislocated from the rest of the music, giving the tracks a tacky lip-synced feel. The music gets harder but they sing the same; the music gets quieter but they sing the same, there's no awareness that other musicians are playing the song with them.
   
3. The whole play-the-main-theme-with-doubled-lead-guitars trick is overused.

Even their advertising is exhausting, can you imagine dealing with a whole album?!

In becoming metallized, the songs have had all their heart and emotion sucked out.

Having heard all these songs a thousand times (for Kate has every Ghibli and Pixar movie at her fingertips in WMC), I was looking forward to a good, solid Totoro theme and a touching-yet-heavy "Country Road".

But everything is just cluelessly FASTFASTFAST with no nod to rhythm or feel. I've heard MIDI tracks with more soul!

T-t-t-Terrible Terr-i-ble! Terrible, terr-i-ble!
Mori no naka ni, Mukashi kara sunderu...

rating: :(

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"Naptime"

I am taking a nap.

In my ear, Jack shrieks "DADDY!" He wishes to show off his dinosaur towel, which we've had for threeeee yeeears.

From the kitchen, his mother mutters, "Don't wake your father."

From the bathroom, Kate shouts, "Dad! DON'T WAKE UP!"

THE END

Yoshiki's Piano Auction Cancelled Because of You

The ~Victim~:

uh mah gaah

The Piano:

"The sonic properties of Plexiglass render it universally reviled by instrument makers and musicians alike."

The Auction:

Hmm, that jump from ONE million to TEN million isn't suspicious.

The Response:

Due to system overload, bidder confirmation procedure and other factors resulting from unexpected high traffic, “Crystal Piano” charity auction currently underway has been temporarily put on hold. [link]

Yoshiki is SO POPULAR that whenever he or his possessions appear on a website they bring it CRASHING DOWN.

"We apologize for the inconvenience."

"Apology accepted, Yoshiki. We can wait ANOTHER MONTH."

thx ryan, cliff, akuma, "and the rest"!

bill bryson's "at home" on BURIALS

In the middle of the nineteenth century, London had just 218 acres of burial grounds. People were packed into them in densities almost beyond imagining. When the poet William Blake died in 1827, he was buried, at Bunhill Fields, on top of three others; later, four more were placed on top of him. By such means London’s burial places absorbed staggering heaps of dead flesh...

...In 1859, when St Martin’s announced its intention to clear out the crypts, the naturalist Frank Buckland decided to find the coffin of the great surgeon and anatomist John Hunter so that his remains could be reinterred at Westminster Abbey, and Buckland left a riveting account of what he found inside.

‘Mr Burstall having unlocked the ponderous oak door of the vault No. 3,’ Buckland wrote, ‘we threw the light of our bull’s eye lantern into the vault, and then I beheld a sight I shall never forget.’ In the shadowy gloom before him were thousands upon thousands of jumbled and broken coffins, crammed everywhere, as if deposited by a tsunami. It took Buckland sixteen days of dedicated searching to find his quarry.

Many churches made most of their money from burials, and were loath to give up such lucrative business. At the Enon Baptist Chapel on Clement’s Lane in Holborn (now the site of the London School of Economics), the church authorities managed to cram a colossal twelve thousand bodies in the cellar in just nineteen years. Not surprisingly, such a volume of rotting flesh created odours that could not well be contained. It was a rare service in which several worshippers didn’t faint. Eventually, most stopped coming altogether, but still the chapel kept accepting bodies for interment. The parson needed the income.

Burial grounds grew so full that it was almost impossible to turn a spade of soil without bringing up some decaying limb or other organic relic. Bodies were buried in such shallow and cursory graves that often they were exposed by scavenging animals or rose spontaneously to the surface, the way rocks do in fields, and had to be redeposited.

Mourners in cities almost never attended at graveside to witness a burial itself. The experience was simply too upsetting, and widely held to be dangerous in addition...

Rated D for DUMB

NYT:

Last year the ESRB rated about 1,600 games, of which up to 30 percent were only online. A few years ago there were almost no online games to review. By contrast, the motion-picture board considers around 850 movies a year. (And most video games are far longer than the average film.)

TWICE as many games as movies come out each year!?! I never realized.

The human game classifiers who will soon be ceding work to machines don’t actually play the games. Instead they watch a DVD submitted by a game’s publisher that is supposed to include the raunchiest and most violent scenes, if any. So they have not been experiencing games as they are played.

That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Betrays such a lack of understanding of the medium. Not that I've ever once used an ESRB rating...

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And flaky darkness breaks within the east.

bbc:

Rock band The Darkness have reformed and announced that they will play this year's Download festival.

All four original members of the band have reunited and will record a new album in April and May 2011.

Month-old news but... Yay! :D

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VK Bassist Stabbed by Crazy girlfriend!

TBS via SR:

On the 17th April during the afternoon yanagi suffered a stab-wound to his back from a kitchen knife caused by his girlfriend, he is currently in hospital but his condition isn't life threatening, she has been arrested. Apparently she atacked him after he tried to break up with her. Their live which was due to be held on the 18th has been cancelled.

thx reitsu!

VK needs more exciting tabloid journalism like this. :)

Two free tickets to the 4/26 Gilgamesh NYC show if you can find pics of the girlfriend!!! (Seriously.)

(And I guess "Icantremembermyusername" will get the other pair since (s)he's the only one who submitted an idea! Congrats, Icant! Email me your real name, your tickets will be waiting at the door. See you inside!)

review: xodiack | "dan" (2011)

xodiack
dan
2011

The intro is thunderously locomotive. Blast it over a club's PA and watch the crowd froth!

"Deprival and Naturally" & "Meteoroid" are raging, guttural blasts of very deathy VK, while "Silence Mind" falls into more of a classic Under Code style, but thicker and more modern.

"Here's another song about sit-ups!"

This lineup changed recently, and though there's no quantifiable differences, it's also true that I'm not as blown away as I have been with past releases.

And I do wish to god these guys would hire an actual artist to do their cover art, the "wing it in photoshop" thing is getting OLD.

rating: :\

Free Tickets for Gilgamesh (Girugamesh) in NYC 4/26

Conteeeeestamesh!

Hey-o!

I have two pairs (a.k.a. "four") tickets for the NYC 4/26 Gilgamesh concert to give away! (Thanks to Tech9Music.)

First pair goes to whoever comes up with the best idea for a Gilgamesh contest.

Second pair goes to whoever wins that contest. (We'll do that Mon-Fri).

You have til Sunday at midnight to post your contest ideas here.

Go!!!

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bill bryson's "at home" on POOP

The English for a long time were particularly noted for their unconcern about lavatorial privacy. Giacomo Casanova, the Italian adventurer, remarked on a visit to London how frequently he saw someone ‘ease his sluices’ in full public view along roadsides or against buildings.

...

A French visitor to Philadelphia, Moreau de Saint-Méry, noted with astonishment how one man removed the flowers from a vase and peed in it. Another French visitor at about the same time reported asking for a chamber pot for his bedroom and being told just to go out the window like everyone else.

It was the boast of Versailles that it had one hundred bathrooms and three hundred commodes, but they were oddly underused, and in 1715 an edict reassured residents and visitors that henceforth the corridors would be cleared of faeces weekly.

...

Most sewage went into cesspits, but these were commonly neglected and the contents often seeped into neighbouring water supplies. In the worst cases they overflowed. Samuel Pepys recorded one such occasion in his diary: "Going down into my cellar . . . I put my foot into a great heap of turds . . . by which I found that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me."

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Some Things are Too Hilarious at 4:30 in the Morning

• "It's called Death Bed: The Bed that Eats"
• "You lie down in the bed, then the bed eats you."
• "Let's say you are a weary traveler, or sort of a horny-type person..."
• "The bed makes itself after killing people. Then it falls asleep and snores."

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Sugizo on the Ground

Me, 3/17: "I fully expect to see Luna Sea doing something LEGITIMATELY cool, like being on the ground and helping in some concrete way." [link]

Voila:

1 month... 1ヶ月。。。
by Sugizo Official on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 8:43am

1 month after then...
Everything has totally changed after 3/11.
We've learned many things in this unprecedented tragedy.
No, we are just in the middle of learning now.
The most important thing is reviving of the cities in Tohoku area
and stabilizing everyone's life in refuge.
The future of our country is up to the energy policy from now on.
This can even effect the future of the world.
We have to create our ideal city and society from now on after this pain.
However, above all, I can't stop praying the revival of Tohoku area as soon as possible.
We should try our best to do what we can do.

As I reported, I had been to Ishinomaki-shi in Miyagi prefacture
for volunteer work from 4/1 for 9 days.
I was a team member of PEACE BOAT on friendly terms with me for several years
and performed our task with about 100 brave members.
As I thought, the stricken area was so tragic that we can never imagine from TV or photograph.
Tremendous amount of sludge, dust, debris and offensive odor.
Crashed cars, a big ship onto ground of city.
Neverending siren of emergency vehicles and helicopters above us.
The member and vehicle of Self-Defence Forces in everywhere.
Terrible sight as a battle field where I can't stop my eyes turning from.
However, at the same time, the people are loving their hometown, struggling to recover here.
They are trying to stand up for reviving over the pain.
Since we keenly realized I want to help their emotion,
we tried our best for helping them as much as possible.
Removing sludge, debris or broken house in the city.
sorting and distributing materials, cooking rice.
There are too many work we have to do.
First of all, the most precious thing was the communication with the people suffered.
I have learned really many things.

We had the earthquake with a seismic intensity of 6 at night on 4/7.
We, the volunteer team, were camping on the ground of a university.
I had never experienced the shock like this in my life.
My body was just like blown away.
Immediate tsunami alert after the earthquake.
All 150 volunteers evacuated to 3rd floor of the school building.
A few minutes after, we felt strong scent of tide. I guess sea water came right here.
It was honestly awful...
Though the warning was canceled and we went back to our tent after about a hour at last,
we slept in the fear and strain of the aftershock.
I was so sorry for make everyone worried...

Anyway, this experience was really too shocking to describe with short sentence.
I would like to write various things from tomorrow
since I want to deliver lots of things to you all.

As a artist and a person, I would like to keep acting
to do what I can do as much as possible from now on.
And also I would like you to do
what you can do individually in your place by all means.

Again we had big aftershock yesterday.
The situation of the nuclear plant are actually so serious.
Please be sure to take care...
For creating our ideal future.

thx nui!

Sugizo was sleeping in a TENT on the fucking GROUND when that 7.0 hit last week -- he coulda gotten washed away by another tsunami!

Where was Yoshiki? In L.A. (enjoying some $1000 wine)? Tweeting links to his MTV interview? (http://twitter.com/YoshikiOfficial)

Classy.

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review: sammy hagar | "red: my uncensored life in rock" (2011)

Sammy Hagar
Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
2011

5150 and OU812 (and to a lesser extent, F.U.C.K. and Balance) are well-worn records in my collection, though I've gone yeeears without spinning them. And I tried but never dug any of Hagar's solo material.

But I always liked his easygoing personality, and I enjoyed this autobiography. It's short. It's interesting (meeting the Van Halen brothers, the intrigue with managers, dealing with drug-addled Eddie and attention-starved Roth, establishing the tequila company that would earn him MANY more millions than Van Halen ever did...)

It also harkens back to an earlier era, where record sales were important barometers and how an artist could own certain cities while being hated others (apparently he's big in Detroit, but New Yorkers despise him? Who knew!).


OTOH, It can also be boring -- he blabs about psychics and numerology and dreams (tellingly, one sentence about his manager goes "He was such a smart guy, but he never believed in the mystical..." Well, YEAH!) and he thinks his lyrics deserve more attention than reality would dictate.

But mostly it's worth reading/hearing, even if you're only tangentially a fan of his.

It should be noted that I went back and (re)listened to some more of his work -- with Montrose, Chickenfoot, and solo -- and even with all the new background knowledge I'd digested, I still found none of it compelling. Too old-fashioned!

rating: :)

review: amc | "the killing" s01e01 + s01eo2 (2011)

I was hoping AMC's The Killing, the US version of a Danish(?) show called [long impractical word that starts with an F and may contain some of those O's with slashes through 'em], was gonna be as painterly and dreamy as the Branaghlicious UK version of Wallander.

Detectives Grimace and Mopey have found their photographer.

Instead, it is very feminine, by which I mean full of ~Drama~ and focused on the interrelationships of all the characters and nothing ever gets done.

Also, not very painterly: it's flat and always rainy and all the light is either greenskinningly fluorescent or filtered through gray clouds. And it feels long, and almost like something they'd air on Oxygen or Lifetime. Not very noir at all.

I predict it will fail.

rating: :\

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Luna Sea's "Promise" for Sale on Amazon.co.jp & Amazon.com

Go here: http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_61682769_2?ie=UTF8&docId=3077071846&pf_rd_m=AN1VRQENFRJN5&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=0FK4JQ5EFRNPGPR4GTZN&pf_rd_t=4401&pf_rd_p=100231869&pf_rd_i=B000APRXG4 (this is not at affiliate link, as I am not THAT much of a dick!)

So go there, scroll down a smidge, choose how much you want to donate (¥200 or ¥500 or ¥1000, the song's the same no matter what), and then... that's as far as I got.

I assume the Amazon downloader kicks in, and I doubt this mp3 will count towards any storage increase with the new Amazon Cloud service... but it's for a good cause, right?

I'm gonna choose the ¥200 option, because I already helped out (and because I wasn't sure the download would work)!

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OOH! It's on Amazon.com as well: http://www.amazon.com/PROMISE/dp/B004VJY20U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1302389365&sr=8-1

...but for $5, but then it also seems to upgrade you to the 20gb cloud storage option for free, so I did that instead. :)

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Top 5 (+1) Best Current Podcasts (Spring 2011)

Over the winter I discovered 5by5.tv's podcasts, two of which I find FUCKING EXCEPTIONAL -- Hypercritical and Talk Show.

Both follow the two-friends-chatting model, but where 90% of such podcasts are full of mundane blather and obvious conclusions, Hypercritical and Talk Show also possess an "awesome professor" quality, either by combining previously unrelated pieces of known information, or illuminating common knowledge with a fresh perspective. And they do it concisely and intelligently, and don't belabor the point -- which is also rare in podcasting.

The ads have gotten less concise and more meandering lately, though, so I've started fast-forwarding through them guilt free.

Gone are most of the TWIT podcasts -- This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google -- which are shallow rehashes of days-old stories, crammed chock-full self-promotion and unfunny, oft-repeated in-jokes.

Only Windows Weekly remains, and it to is dying. Half of each episode is about the mostly uneventful Windows Phone -- when there's a MILLION TIMES more Windows PCs than Windows Phones out there. It's like if This Week in Dying focused half of every show on parachuting accidents instead of heart disease.

Kunstlercast -- another longtime winner -- continues to remain interesting and relevant, which is amazing because you'd think the peak-oil perspective, true as it probably is, would've gotten old by now, but it hasn't, not at all! But it may not be your cup of tea if you're the type that feels the world will never change.

Slate's also sorta cool. The Political Gabfest gets a little dry, and the Culture Gabfest is regularly snobbier than necessary, but I feel better informed about the world by the end of each 40-minute-ish episode. And the dude on the Culturefest is awesomest vocabulator ever walk earth. He speaks like writing!

More from Bill Bryson's "At Home" (2010)

In the Second World War, the American military invested a great deal of time and money in an extraordinary plan to arm bats with tiny incendiary bombs and to release them in vast numbers -- as many as one million at a time -- from planes over Japan.

There's also an ill-advised test run wherein "the bats were fully armed with live bomblets when released," but you'll have to read the book yourself for that. :)

review: nogod | "raise a flag" (2011)

nogod
raise a flag
2011

The title track's a touch too puppylike in its cheerful Nogoddy guilelessness, and I'm starting to think they're in a rut when it comes to churning out the A-side "hits" as I rarely spin them more than the few times required for a review anymore.


But "Suichuuka" is pretty gnarly, the guitars growling with attitude in the verse, and "Pain" (track three on the red single only) is like nothing they've ever done: Velvet Revolvery(!) in this sezzy slow-burn sorta way.

On the blue version of the single, "Pain" is replaced by "Keihatsu Furasutoresu":

me: Is that (フラストレス) "Frostless"? Like no frost?
wife: No... I think it's "Frustration-less"...
me: Or is Fura "Stress"... is that a thing?
wife: No... I think it's just "Frust" like in "FRUSTRATION"...

And Breen's J-Dir defines Keihatsu as "enlightenment; development; edification; public awareness; illumination; education; inspiration" -- so apparently "Keihatsu Furasutoresu" is all about how learning shit should be easy, which is ironic in this context (I can't figure out your god damn TITLE!")


"K.F.", as it shall forevermore be referred to, is a good song -- but very much in their traditional vein and by my estimation, that makes it less valuable.

If you can only get one single, get the RED one with "Pain" on it!

rating: :)

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Plinkett's Episode III Review is Up (and has been for a while, I guess...)

Once in a while you just gotta crash from 5pm til midnight, then stay up all morning in a glazed daze watching shit like the Red Letter Media Star Wars Episode III review. [link]

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Luna Sea's "Promise" Sounds Awesome

thx jigsawjohnny!

Intense sugar-coated cheese flavor, but AWESOME nonetheless. And Japan will want a happy song soon (if not right now).

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Anyone Give a Shiki?

thx Asari!

Kagrra's singer, Isshi, never really exceptional at his craft in the first place, has already moved to start a new band, Shiki. [shiki-project.com]

Being a "project" -- code for "the support musicians will be characterless and interchangeable and nothing will get released with any sort of regularity or quality control" -- does anyone expect anything good to come of it? No.

But there's a free mp3 available for download there on the news page, no linkbucks bullshit required. :P

Who knows, maybe it'll be A-MAZ-ING!

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Avoid the Web Day

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Top 20

Amazon just released a music-centric cloud player and storage system, 5gb for free, 20gb for the price of a single mp3 download ($.99 or less!)

This is big, and Apple and Google are sure to follow suit. (Here's a good primer by Andy Ihnatko: [ihnatko.com].)

So here's a thought experiment: do you think you could whittle down your music collection to a Top 20gb? (Not deleting the rest, just saying "these songs i must have backed up and available anywhere at all times, and these songs not so much.")

It'd be fun to try. :)

Amazon just rela~

review: sex machineguns | "37564" (2011)

sex machineguns
37564
2011

Anchang's exhumed hisself for yet another toot on the money pipe with a four-track single titled 37564.

. Me: What's this mean, wife?
. Wife: Uh, Mi na go ro shi...? "Kill them all."
. Wife's parents who are visiting from Tokyo: [furrowed brows]

The title track's got a post-Ozzy Sabbath intro that degenerates with alarming speed into a messy, punk-metal-ish series of noises attempting to represent riffs.

Sex Machineguns are some guy, Anchang (g/v) and some other guy.

The second track, "Machineger no A Theme" attempts to elicit the charms of a '70s giant robot theme song... dunno if it's an original or a remake. It's almost catchy, so it's a hard call. But so utterly not worth googling.

"Yellow Tube" is a lot like "37564," except that instead of yelling "3 7 5 6 4 ! 3 7 5 6 4 !" ("San Nana Go Roku Yon!") our hero yells "Yell-O Tube! Yell-O Tube!"

Then there's "Death Game (live)" -- the original is from 2009's Most Forgettable Album of the Year, 45° -- and this one is even more echoey and badly mic'd and yet still its lackingness shines through.

Perhaps this is why the official website makes no mention of this now one-month-old single? Even Anchang's blog, updated yesterday (3/31) doesn't mention it -- all he's got up are bass fishing snapshots!

Last night I was pondering what the fuck Anchang thinks he's doing. Does he just not care anymore, is he financially comfortable and has outgrown metal? Is he trapped and needs the money and is afraid to experiment? Were Sussy and Noisy responsible for the awesomeness of the first album?

The world may never know.

rating: :(

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Luna Sea NYC 11/24 !!!

via aziastreet

I am finally gonna sea all these fuckers on the SAME STAGE playing motherfucking "END OF SORROW" OR ELSE

EDIT: I FUCKING HATE AZIASTREEEEET >_<

EDIT2: wait, do they have April Fools Day in Russia?! I thought everyone there was supposed to be glum.

~http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v486/jrocknyc/2011/67601454.jpg