Madison and Pine

Psychedelica Maxima

It was only a matter of time until some bright spark at an ad agency picked up on "Oh My" from psychedelic rockers Mellowdrone , look for the new Nissan Maxima spots to air soon (rumour has it all new Maximas will now come from the factory with bubble lamp and oil projector lights, tie dye seat covers and Timothy Leary books on tape optional... JK)

Great track from a great band ... glad to see Mellowdrone getting the well deserved exposure!

RW

Underworld new music downloads

Continuing their direct sales strategy, on Monday July 10th Underworld rewarded those that have bought their prevoius music/art packages with a`free download - if you have purchased "lovely broken thing", "pizza for eggs" and "i'm a big sister" in a single account'

the new music is titled "The Misterons Mix" (tipping their hat to the puppetry of Gerry Anderson for those that missed "Captain Scarlet!")

It is of course a must for any Underworld fan.. and yes I do have it all 45mb!

rw

Vasco Era... Australian and dope!!

I'm getting great reports from last nights headline NYC show by Vasco Era, they opened for fellow countrymen Wolfmother at the Astoria recently and are apparently "really good" which I guess needs no translation does it?

They're now heading West so if you're in LA.... check em out, and let me know how it is!

Sun July 16th LA, CA
SPACELAND 10.00pm
1717 Silverlake Blvd.

Mon July 17th LA, CA
The Echo 12 midnight
1822 West Sunset Blvd.

oh and here's the official blurb and a glowing Aus review....

Hailing from Australia’s Victorian coastal town of Apollo Bay, Michael Fitzgerald (drums) and brothers Sid O’Neil (vocals, guitar, percussion) and Ted O’Neil (bass, backing vocals) formed The Vasco Era in 2002 while they were still in their teens. Their fervent touring schedule in and around their home country has generated devoted attention from the Australian music press. Melbourne’s Beat Magazine writes “The pure unadulterated joy inherent in the Vasco Era stems from the sweetly frenetic stomping blues-rock howl of pure pent up malevolent passion...  complete and utter brilliance. They are, in one word, perfection."

g-day sports!

Dinner with CSS tonight

ahhh and after a crazy soda fueled day at the office what better way to wind down than dinner with the fabulous Brazilians CSS. Of course there will be no mention of France or the world cup... strangely I believe the scheduled resturant is Italian... who knew?

oh and yes I like this band a lot!

Sugar is Sweeter

Just found an interesting new collaboration between ex Kidney Thieves Vocalist Free Dominguez and Kris Vanderheyden (the guy behind CJ Bolands classic "Sugar Is Sweeter") apparently the project also features Prince keyboard player Dr. Fink  and is called Insider

pic: Free & some random ninja!

Album due later this year

Live Coding... hardcore music

Just read this over at GarageSpin,

For anyone that's ever thought digital audio home recording enthusiasts were somewhat geeky, they should check out the DJs behind a new movement called "LiveCoding."  Get this, LiveCoders use Perl or homemade programming languages to create music from scratch, using raw code to generate audio for a live audience...while their computer screens are projected for the audience to see.

You can check out a (fuzzy) video clip of one such performance here.  A group called TOPLAP (temporary organization for the proliferation of live audio programming...or LAPTOP semi-backwards) currently has 200 members.  This can totally go mainstream...that is, as soon as PERL coding knowledge hits the masses.  Kinda cool either way.

one thought is that TOPLAP may be LAPTOP semi-backwards... but POTPAL is LAPTOP backwards, which may explain some of the mindset behind such a seemingly masochistic endeavor as Live Coding.... bless em for the innovation !!!!

Early Bird

Good morning all, I can't imagine why I'd have jet lag flying from LA to Seattle but it's before 6am and I'm already up n at it, cranking some tunes and probably annoying the neighbors. A couple of things of interest

http://www.purevolume.com/gymclassheroes

These guys are signed to Fueled By Ramen which as you probably know is Panic at The Disco's label, anyway "The Queen and I" was added to KISS in LA this week and Z100 in NY looks like they're on board, thought I'd share

I'm going to pop over to KEXP later to check out their "Positive Vibrations" show and catch up on some dancehall reggae and Jamaican tunes... perhaps this'll get me in a weekend frame of mind!

http://www.kexp.org/   they stream if you're out of the Seattle area

l8tr

r

wicked stuff

Hey there and welcome to my blog. I’m Richard, I just moved from LA to Redmond to do Artist Development and Music Marketing for Microsoft Entertainment & Devices, I’ve only been here a week but I’m already in the thick of things as you can probably imagine!

Anyway I’m getting loads of great music already and I’m always interested in new, upcoming and interesting artists, music and videos. Here’s a couple of my fave videos today

CSS are brand new on Sub Pop and are slated to tour with Ladytron later this year

http://media.subpop.com/downloads/free/Lets_Make_Love_and_Listen_to_Death_From_Above380.mov

and check out the Hot Chip video

http://astralwerks.com/hot_chip/default.html

wicked stuff.

r