I AM IRON MAN!!!

Next Wednesday!!! Woo hooo!!!!

Portishead in Portishead

One of my all-time favourite bands Portishead (One of my guitar heroes Adrian Utley and favourite drummers Clive Deemer play in the band) performs in the town of Portishead. The new album is coming out soon. I've already gotten it... somehow... ahem. But I will be buying it anyway. Still not feeling it though.

The Lard Brothers part 12

Ian popped by yesterday to lay down a bassline for 'Radio Station'. We just need to retrack the piano bits and we are done... Almost in the bag.

Stubborn Snails

Ann just started a new online company with Noel: Stubborn Snails.

Doing diaper cakes. What's that? Check out the website.

Propellerheads (featuring Shirley Bassey) - History Repeating

From the only one full-length they've ever released: Decksandrumsandrockandroll. Love it! The big beat duo with the penchant for spy movie soundtracks.

Paul Anka - Smells Like Teen Spirit (live)

Kinho sent me this video. We call it research for an upcoming cover. Here's his cover of REM's 'Everybody Hurts' and Soundgarden's 'Black Hole Sun'.

The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home (live)

Kick ass song from a kick ass album. I rikes. A lot.

Marry me, Leslie!

Vivian just sent me the link to Leslie Low's revamped website, designed by the man himself and Sean of Concave Scream. Pretty psychedelic. She calls it "a website for patient people".

It features an audio commentary track with him talking about his work. Very nice. And they were kind enough to link us too! Hurhur...

Roxette - It Must Have Been Love

Was talking to Irman of KLPHQ after Adlin informed me that I should check out more of Irman's 'Wild Parties' series in KL. Irman was telling me that they play a variety of hip-hop stuff, 60's pop and ALWAYS Britney. That rocks.

And they throw down some Roxette here and there. That's a name I've not heard for years... If you were growing up in the late 80's and early 90's, it's definitely a band which you have heard and probably liked for a while.

I don't know if they were still around. But hey, that's what Wikipedia is for. Anyway, it took me some time to choose my favourite song. Here you go.

Gingerbread

Adlin and his missus Ayu are spending time in baking stuff to sell. Some of the stuff looks damn cute.



Yeah, that's the gingerbread version of them. Hilarious.

And baking. Yeah, it's a good retirement plan for a rocker...

The Smoking Gun

Joe sent me a link. Apparently, "rapper" Akon is a fraud, in terms of boasting about his previous criminal activities.

Willy just got his new laptop! Time to bust da moves yo! says:
tt's how we hip-hoppers do it yo!
Koffkoff says:
lol
Koffkoff says:
all the fake shows lol
Koffkoff says:
do something like

"lard brothers were arrested for trafficking pork luncheon meat from china when it was temporarily banned in singapore"

Korean drummer

Got this from Benita. The drummer is damn emo! Hilarious!

Sleeveface

Got it off Joe. Great stuff.

The Lard Brothers part 11

Joe Foo aka Koff Koff recorded The Love Experiment (vocals and drums) for the For Good compilation track 'Orbit Around Me' 2 years ago. He's a pretty cool guy and an amazing singer. He does "brutal folk" or at least, that's what Bret, owner of metal label Mourning Sounds Records calls it.

Joe is the 4th singer on The Lard Brothers' cover of The Padres' classic anthem 'Radio Station'. I'm sure he'll kick ass. I'll love to hear how he sounds! Thanks, dude!

The Take-away Shows

The Divine Comedy - Lady Of A Certain Age

Got this off Nat's blog. There's this French music/ video blog which goes around asking bands perform on streets and all. REM appears on it too. Pretty nifty concept.

The Divine Comedy is one of my favourite acts. Neil Hannon is our generation's Scott Walker. Not that he's able to top the original but he's his own man as well.

Baby

Noel and Ann became parents for the first time. Drayden Rhys-Cruz Boyd popped out yesterday about 3+am. Yeah, just about the time when Uncle Willy finished drinking. Don't worry, kiddo. Uncle Willy is coming to visit you on Tueday... with shitloads of Pampers so that you can shit all you want!

Ahem...

The Lard Brothers part 10

Haykal came by today and sang on the Lard Brothers' cover of Humpback Oak's 'Circling Square'. It sounds really great. I'm just relieved that we are a step closer to completing the album! Probably, we will get Iliyas to do a post-rock-meets-hip-hop bassline for it.

Robin re-tracked his bassline for 'Plainsunset' as well. Hopefully, we can track some vocals for this in the coming week as well!

The Stormriders 2

Billy sent me the link. Concept art and all. Nice.

M83 - Graveyard Girl

The new album Saturdays = Youth comes out next Monday. I like the previous one which he did the ambient stuff. Nice.

Dentist

Just came back from the dentist.

Damn hardcore. My gums were bleeding. Apparently, it's all these years of tartar build-up and bad oral hygiene. And it cost me $140! WTF?!

I'll post a pic of myself at the dentist later.