Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (feat. Kylie Minogue) - Where The Wild Roses Grow (live)
Coincidentally, this is my favourite song by the 2 artistes whom I don't really listen to very much.
She does this song live too. As a dance number, of course.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Freebass
The U.K. indie bassist version of G3, the guitar hero trio. Their MySpace page is here.
According to the official page, the supergroup which is driven by Peter Hook's ego.
Freebass are a Manchester band consisting of three bassists Andy Rourke (formerly of The Smiths), Peter Hook (formerly of Joy Division and New Order) and Gary "Mani" Mounfield (formerly of The Stone Roses and currently in Primal Scream), singer Gary Briggs (formerly of Haven), drums Paul Kehoe, programming / tour management Phil Murphy.
Interesting, ain't it?
Gary Briggs! Max recommended me Haven before and I loved their stuff. It's typical British indie rock but it's pretty good. Check out this video. Didn't know they broke up for good. Pity.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Artic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
I was never a fan. But I love frontman Alex Turner's side project The Last Shadow Puppets and the whole retro vibe. This new Artic Monkeys seems to reflect some lessons/ ideas which he took from that project. Pretty decent single from the upcoming album Josh Hommes(!)-produced Humbug.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Cover ready!!!
That will be the cover for our next album which is a remix project. Thanks to Teck Lee who designed it.
Yeah, we are calling it The Super Lard Bros OST like a soundtrack to a 80's style console game. The album will be out and free for download on National Day which is in 2 weeks' time.
See you then!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Big Star - Thank You Friends
Most people know their song but don't really know the band. They were one of the proto (or pioneer) power pop bands. Really good stuff. Alex Chilton and Chris Bell were like the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team of the 70's American rock scene but without the fame and money.
Their song 'In The Street' was recorded by Cheap Trick as the theme song to 'That 70's Show'. You can watch that here. Much of the original band members have left so Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer from The Posies augmented the band back in 1993. I love this tune 'September Gurls' and this version is a cover by Susanna Hoff's The Bangles.
I Met The Walrus
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Max & Robin - Rule The World
Max and Robin cover my favourite Take That song. I love this tune. It's part of the OST for the movie Stardust which actually showcased Claire Danes pretty nicely. Never had a thing for her unlike Billy. But now, I'm convinced.
I think we are going to get them to cover a Michael Damian or Tommy Page tune next. What should we do eh? I think I might run a poll on what their best covers are... Hmmm.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Bon Jovi
2 good friends of mine are getting married next year. Well, they already are but this is for their traditional wedding banquet. I don't really think I should reveal their identities yet but they are running a small indie label here. Ahem. That should give it away pretty much.
In any case, they are thinking of doing a small rock music festival as their wedding dinner. And it will be held in an open air area (Fingers crossed). How fuckin' cool is that? If the boys and I were ever invited to perform, I've promised the bride that we will do a Bon Jovi cover.
Now, I really dislike Bon Jovi. I know Noel is a huge fan. But they are a really boring band. Their music sound exactly the same but yeah, some tunes are guilty pleasures. Jon Bon Jovi makes no apologies for being a pretty bad lyricist. I mean, check out the first line of 'It's My Life': "This is a song for the broken-hearted". You can't get more straightforward than that. The fucker states the mission statement of the tune in the first line!
It got me thinking that if we were to perform a Bon Jovi song, which one should we do? Hmmm... These are my choices. What would be yours?
Living On A Prayer
Guitarist Richie Sambora actually uses the Talkbox pretty nicely most of the time. Gotta love him for that. And all his trophy wives. Nice.
I'll Be There For You
You Give Love A Bad Name
Keep The Faith
Probably their best tune ever.
Always
God, the first God-awful line: "This Romeo is bleeding..." Seriously...
And of course:
It's My Life
Bon Jovi tunes are like Jean Claude Van-Damme movies. They are cheesy as shit but everyone has a favourite one. What's yours?
District 9 trailer
Peter Jackson's protege Neill Blomkamp shot a short film a while back: 'Alive In Joberg' which is pretty good. Check it out here. It's pretty good.
He fleshed it out into a full-length feature. Hopefully, it's not those shaky movie cam kinda thing. My eyes can't take that shit.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Twilight Galaxy
A couple of my friends will be performing this Sunday 12 July at Central SOHO Sky Garden at 6pm. Actually, I'm doing a remix exchange with most of the performing acts anyway. Hahaha. So far, only Breakbeat Theory and amberhaze's are done but unmixed. Hopefully, Woei Yuan can get it done by this weekend.
Pam aka The Analog Girl is sending over some stuff this week while I need to firm down some stuff with the Cosmic Armchair which I've never met before. Probably, a good time to introduce myself to them this Sunday.
Galactica Lives!
Me and the guys (aka Robin, Woei Yuan, Yeeyong and Bryan) came up with an idea for a joke. We decided to form a band to write and record a short shoegazing EP within a day. We went to a pretty crap studio (we only found out how bad it really was when we were there) to do a live recording.
There was only a fuckin' track for the drums. Typically, there should be a few .wav tracks for the hi-hat, kick drum and cymbals. Well, I cheated; I pre-programmed the kick drum. So the band was reasonably tight. Hey, those can't drum, program the beats. So I played only the cymbals, snare and toms. Heh.
It was fun. Robin did lead vocals on all tunes. They were mainly inspired by our beloved space opera series BattleStar Galactica and Max who served as our muse most of the time for our nonsensical lyrics.
It was really fun. We talked about going back (not to the same crappy studio) to do a sequel to this joke. That'll be probably be the end of the year. If so, I will suggest the next 3 song titles: 'So That Was The Frakkin' Plan? They Never Told Me!', 'I Just Rammed BattleStar Galactica Into The Cylon Basestar. Woot!' and 'We Are The Final Five'. We probably should cover Bob Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower' as well since it was the trigger tune for all the Final Five Cylons. Hmmm..
Download Galactica Lives! here.
The track listing is:
1. Saul's Tighs
2. Gaius Is Crying... Again
3. I Wanna Be A Cylon
Monday, July 06, 2009
RazorTV: Do Nice Girls Finish Last?
I just found out that Noel appeared on last Friday's RazorTV episode where they discussed if nice girls finish last. Charmaine asked me if I were interested to go on, I have no idea what gave her and Sujin the idea that I was even knowledgeable about the subject.
But if I knew Noel was going, I probably would have gone. Then again, he's a true slut on such topics anyway. Though if I had gone, I would have missed KoFlow's great set at Zirca last Friday.
The rest of the episode can be found here.
8-bit Lard Bros
We've renamed the album. Read something about that here.
The Super Lard Bros OST is conceptualised as a soundtrack to an imaginary console game. The game is a rehash of games in the 80’s Nintendo side-scrolling classics such as Super Mario Brothers and Double Dragon.
Thanks to Teck Lee who is helping us with the cover. Thanks man! That is a test image for now.
Can't wait to see the rest of the stuff.
The Setting Sun
Looks like Ricks and April are moving into the whole record label thing a bit as well. They are putting out an album by Japanese sound artist (or soundscapist, whatever) Fjordne. It should be out on 1 August. His MySpace page is here. And Kitchen's website is here.
They have an aspidistrafly blog here. Contains quite a fair bit of photos off their Japan tour. Makes me kinda upset that I'm not there. Ahem. Hmmm...
They have Haruka Nakamura on their label. I'm kicking myself at times for not buying the album which he collaborated with Akira Kosemura on. And it's much cheaper than Kosemura's solo. Yeah, the cheapo Singaporean in me still reigns...
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Friday, July 03, 2009
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs trailer
Stars the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris and Mr. T! Looks pretty good. This other trailer is better.
Plainsunset + JBoss - Zoe Tay (live)
Shot on Channel 5's 'Live And Loaded' programme a few months back. I find it hilarious that the song went over the heads of all the kids who were there. This tune was pretty popular 10 years ago in the indie music scene.
There is no sense of music history in Singapore. But that's as with all kids to begin with.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
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