++Boy Yannick Noah's kids sure did win, when it comes to the gene pool.
++Love this headline. This is also a great long-ish read about Matty McConaughey's career revival, long lost Mira Sorvino and dead wooley mammoths.
++CGloves plays the Wiltern on July 30th. No word if he'll be bringing the 99% with him to flash mob it up, Morello steeze.
++Keep printing romantic stories like this and you're gonna lose out on potential perfume ad sales, LA Times. (Related?)
++Good grief, Ryan Boldt's voice is making me swoon... and when his bandmates first join in on harmony? Perfection. Listen to the crispness of the guitar, especially at the 4:20 mark.
Ya figure if Beer Nuts is sponsoring you, you must be doing something right. They're in danger of flying too close to the jammin' sun at the end there though. Rein it in, boys!
++Ooh, loving the brightness of this tune by British duo Bluebell and the clearly enunciated vocals of Annabel Jones, above. Normal Heights ain't too shabbs either. Very Eurythmics.
++If we're talking gender roles though, really the only way for a woman to be a true rebel these days is to eat a ton of food.
++It's one thing to write a compelling book about the physical series of tubes behind the Internet but one could argue that maybe it's more of an accomplishment to write a review to make such a book sound fascinating.
++I ain't never been to the Annenberg Space for Photography, but heard that KCRW will be hosting a music series there. With a name like Annenberg Space for Photography and the promise of 3D glasses I would go in with the expectation of viewing their photos like, bam! or whatchow! Or how-bout-we-zoom-in-on this?
Will likely be disappointed to get there and find anything less.
++Was trying to decide if I want to start watching that one TV show Revenge, because if there's one thing I need in my life it's yet another distraction. And there's an actor named Max Martini, which I thought like Victoria Justice has to be a stage name. Nope, both names are real. Anyway, Max Martini is an avid skydiver and speaks three different languages which are things I think you would have to do to live up to the name Max Martini.
++I'm a little intrigued to see what happens when Alan Parsons works with Jake Shimabukuro. (2:47 mark)
Was perusing more of Maura from Village Voices picks since we have largely similar taste (luv her!). Anyhow I was reminded of Foe who I wrote about *ages* ago! Foe can be hit 'r' miss. She (they?) should lose the colorful pop and definitely stick to dark and demented heard in the song above which is like metal shavings in your ears, in a good way.
Ugh, the lyrics from this Rosebuds song from last year are chilling me down to the bone, like a wet New York wind that gets through the holes of your parka. Here's some blurbage about Ivan and Kelly, the couple behind the band (Insert Behind the Music sound effects here.):
But Loud Planes Fly Low, The Rosebuds’ fifth and most inventive album to date, is a sad-eyed and bright new start for Kelly and Ivan, beautifully born of the struggle to define their relationship as bandmates—and more importantly, friends—outside of the context of marriage. It wasn’t easy. Written and rewritten, recorded and re-recorded in fits and starts, Loud Planes Fly Low allowed Kelly and Ivan to have the very conversations about their relationship that they’d long avoided.
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I like a spontaneous, positive You Tube comment once in a while. Last summer, the Vaccines asked fans to submit Instagram pix* to be used for a video for the full bodied song Wetsuit. Top reply.:
Watching this video makes me happy and feel young again. I'm 45 and I do miss youth, but I'm also very happy with my life, my son, and all things that I have experienced ... both good and bad. Like the song says, "we all got old at breakneck speed". It's true. If I can offer anyone watching this video advice, it's to live your life to its full extent ... explore, learn, travel, fall in love, but be sure to absorb every ounce of it. It's the greatest time of your life. Don't let them go. EVER!
I've long contended that John Frusciante was the driving genius behind RHCP's old stuff (no diss to Kiedis who is the nicest man you'll ever meet.) Or that I like Joe Walsh more than the rest of the Eagles. Now Black Book states that Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson(Say that 5x fast!) is responsible for all the band's hooks? This must be investigated!
It's a good thing that Action Jackson fell for "the chicks" or else he might be somewhere as an assistant occupational therapist being mistaken for Walter Mathau.
Fast forward to the 2 minute mark, his new album is out July 7th.
++Ooh this track In Dreams by Tomemitsu is dreamy. Needs a video, pronto!
++Great. So some of the commenters on You Tube are comparing Nick's narration in Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby to Ted Mosby's in How I Met Your Mother and now I can't Baz Luhrmann un-hear it.
++If given the chance, I might've bought tickets to go see this?*
++I've been pondering the resurgence of the saxophone for a couple of weeks now and how bands must have to think it over and exercise caution before adding it to a song. It's a bold choice, like cayenne pepper. It's being used mostly ironically these days, as a nod to the 80s, but it can also be the perfect element when used seriously and in tiny doses.
Here's a good example, an old video by Strange Boys who I wrote about last year.
