Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Cover
Posted on August 7, 2008
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There’s a rumor going around that you have to wear vests without a shirt underneath in order to enjoy the Scissor Sisters. Well, that’s only true on Friday nights. During the rest of the week, we can all enjoy this disco dance sensation.
This cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb helped put them on the map, along with the jam Take Your Mama which was featured in Fifa 2007.
The Scissor Sisters are from New York City originally, but seeing as that almost noone in the US knows that they exists, they spend most of their time overseas. They have been especially big in the UK, where their single ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancing’ was a top 40 single for 27 weeks. Not too shabby.
Two of the three original members, Jake Shears and Ana Matronic, met at a Halloween party, where they were dressed as a Late Term Back Alley Abortion and an Andy Warhol Factory Reject respectively. Sounds like quite the shindig.
So are the members of the Scissor Sisters gay? Well, the band’s name comes from a girl-centric sexual pose, so… no. Though Jake Shears once worked at a strip club called IC-Guyz, so… yea.
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The Music - Welcome to the North
Posted on August 7, 2008
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The first and most popular single off their self titled debut album, which dropped in 2002, just a few years after these guys graduated high school.
Originally from Leeds, The Music has headlined sold out shows ever since, especially in the UK, where this album reached number 4 in the UK Billboard Top Ten.
They went through a short hiatus while singer and guitar player Robert Harvey dealt with his drug usage as a teen. He’s since dealt with those inner demons, and The Music is now back, releasing catchy progressive rock anthems, and rallying their avid followers in the UK. Good to see you back. Now, hope to see you in the US some day.
Lighter sound: Mew - The Zookeeper’s Boy
Grittier sound: The Sunshine Underground - Put You In Your Place
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Posted on August 5, 2008
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The Handsome Furs is a musical side project for Dan Boeckner, who also plays guitar for Wolf Parade. The band consists of him on guitar, drum machine, and vocals, as well as his wife Alexei Perry on synthesizer and drum machine.
The Handsome Furs got their first taste of stardom while opening for Modest Mouse.
If they continue coming out with songs like this one, The Handsome Furs could become Dan’s primary project.
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Posted on August 4, 2008
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Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 in Issaqua, Washington by Singer/Guitarist/Vocalist Isaak Brock, bassist Eric Judy, and drummer Jeremiah Green. As one can see from this picture, their lineup has doubled over the last 10+ years, as they experiment with new sounds. Most notably, Johnny Marr of The Smith joined the band in 2006.
Modest Mouse attributes its name partially to the Virginia Woolf story ‘Mark on the Wall’ which reads “I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.”
This story is a lot more compelling than that of Motley Crue, who put those two words together because they thought it sounded cool, and who added accents on the letters because they thought it looked cool.
This jam Florida comes from their latest album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, recorded in 2006 with their current lineup.
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Gentler, Softer Sound: Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers
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Posted on August 3, 2008
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club sounds almost too much like The Jesus and Mary Chain, a prominent alternative rock band that was at its height during the mid 80s and early 90s. Never the less, BRMC’s bluesy spin on garage rock is worth checking out. They’re almost a more somber version of G Love and the Special Sauce.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is a collaboration between two guys that switch between bass, guitar, keyboards, and vocals - Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been. They met in Lafayette, CA, near San Francisco, but have since moved to LA. They’re current drummer, Leah Shapiro, grew up in the UK.
This live version of Ain’t No Easy Way is a solo performance by Peter Hayes.
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Posted on August 1, 2008
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Mike Skinner is back and this is the title track off of his upcoming album Everything is Borrowed.
Its nice to listen to new tracks by The Streets who have seen their relaxed wordplay copied by many recent artists, such as Just Jack.
This is a new style of Hip Hop that has emerged over the last couple of years. Run DMC must be turning over in their graves somewhere - possibly at their lawyer’s office, wondering why all of their loans are defaulting and why their once trophy wives have half of all of their earnings.
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