Category — music

Listen to promo for “Far Cry”, due to hit radio stations shortly.

Album tracklisting:

1. Far Cry
2. Armor and Sword
3. Workin’ Them Angels
4. The Larger Bowl
5. Spindrift
6. The Main Monkey Business
7. The Way The Wind Blows
8. Hope
9. Faithless
10. Bravest Face
11. Good News First
12. Malignant Narcissism
13. We Hold On

As reported around (for example), Nine Inch Nails has a new album coming out that they are promoting via a constellation of web sites and phone numbers. Each, apparently, spirals you deeper and deeper into the story line behind “Year Zero.”

Sadly, NIN, I have zero patience for clicking through un-usable websites to learn more about something that I don’t really care about.

The sites … 1, 2, 3 (there’s more in the first link above or here) all remind me of another band with a mixed-up sense of what a web site should be: radiohead.

I really don’t care much about NIN … so I’m not going to spend time figuring out a web site that’s purposely hard to use. I can’t muster the willpower to learn how to use radiohead’s site … and I love listening to them.

Here’s the odd thing for me, though.

A DJ told me to dial 216.333.1810 to hear another part of NIN’s marketing campaign. I did. And I cracked up as I listened to a recorded scene where a hysterical woman screams and shouts as she’s murdered.

Don’t tell me why I called, or laughed, but in this case, picking up the phone and listening for a minute was much easier than trying to figure out what to click on.

Lentine’s Music closing its doors

Though it’s been about 10 years since I lusted after guitars and guitar gear, I still remember the fun of wasting hours plucking away at Lentine’s.

It’s the store that introduced me to the “Eddie Van Salesman” type: The long-haired sales assistant who wanted nothing more then to be asked “What guitar should I buy?” so that he could pick an axe off the wall and shred through scales and solos as quickly as possible, riffing on Van Halen, Yngwie or Hendrix. I saw several of these guys at various Dream Theater concerts — air guitaring away with the best of ‘em.

Sweet: New Rush album in stores May 1

(Add a Rush to the list of bands way past their prime that I will spend money on this year, following Van Halen, Smashing Pumpkins (What, is it 1996?) and, worst of all … Genesis (If Gabriel signs on))

Props to Eric for alerting me the latest on Rush.

Michele has been listening to Again and Again by The Bird and the Bee almost non-stop since we got the single in December.

This song will no doubt be featured in an upcoming The L Word episode (if it hasn’t been already, I stopped watching this season).

Check it out:

the bird and the bee player

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Once again, the internet + tv = goodness

1. Watch jawdropping performance on Letterman: Rodrigo y Gabriela.
2. Finish laundry
3. Goto emusic.com and download duo’s album (samples) and move to iPod
4. Goto sleep knowing Tuesday morning commute will rock out with new tunes.

Here’s what I know about Rodrigo y Gabriela: Heavy metal flamenco.

The copyright notice at the end adds just the right zing of irony.

And I have to link to his raunchy classic: f%@k her gently

I couldn’t find the VW ad featuring Nigel Tufnel, so rock out with Slash.
(Again, advertisers: Yes, I saw your ad on TV. Now I’m in front of my computer. Why isn’t your ad anywhere to be found on your web site?)

And I can’t resist: Do VW’s with guitars go to 11?

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Marijuana and hot dogs.
The Q smelled like marijuana and hot dogs as Roger Waters led a sell out crowd through “Dark Side of the Moon” Wednesday night in Cleveland.

Unlike his 1999 tour, tonight rocked.

Highlights: “Set the controls for the heart of the sun” “Sheep” all of Dark Side, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part II”

Dark Side is very enjoyable live — the only thing that would have made this show better would have been hearing “Echoes,” the song that lulled me to sleep every night of my first year in college.

Great sound, strong visuals and only a few minutes of 80s cheese. Good stuff.

Roger Waters - The Dark Side of the Moon Live (2006)