via youtube.com
This kid is on to something. :)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The Skofflaws - William Shatner
So I was going to write about Dax Riggs this week, but <a href="http://www.bemorewithless.com/2010/10-ways-to-simplify-your-music/">after reading this article</a> I was inspired to 1st clean up my iTunes library a little bit, you know just for about an hour or so. Well 3 hours later I had reached Art of Noise and I was exhausted; fatigued from rating, renaming, categorizing & deleting files. Dax was gonna have to wait.
Think about it, do you realize how many albums Aphex Twin has?
To cleanse my pallet a bit and switch tasks around the house I started importing a few old CD's and came across The Scofflaws - Ska in Hi-Fi.
I was never a hugh Ska fan, I came up during the 3rd wave of the Ska movement which was more Ska-punk than ska, but I still to this day have a soft spot for those ska groups that were more of the classic 1st wave Calypso meets R&B meets Jazz vibe and 2nd wave 2 Tone vibe. The Scofflaws fit somewhere between that 1st and 2nd wave.
A lot of their songs are pretty goofy, Including William Shatner, but they feature great musicianship and are lot of fun to listen to. I saw the band live once in '95 or '96 and I remember a lot of the kids not getting it. Their sound wasn't punk enough, but the Ska purists, they got it and loved it.
More on the Scofflaws: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scofflaws
Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Robert Plant's Band of Joy and their Monkey (cover).
Nestled in the mix of Banjo laden covers and bland country ballads is this gem, a brooding cover of Low's "Monkey". It's just brilliant. The take would of fit perfectly on the Cure's Pornography or Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. It's dark, menacing, spooky and oozes that tribal gypsy vibe that Robert Plant does so well.
Such a surprise.
Enjoy!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Today's fortune was pretty accurate... Apple & Ping.
Some how the fortune cookie new what would come today from Apple. Crazy.
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