Something Great for Saturday

That was just a note I left for myself, telling me "don't forgot to post this awesome song by Memphis May Fire," and the note worked great...   I just got lazy with the title.    But ya know? I'm drinking and having a good time.   Thought isn't really a priority for me right now.  Besides, I'm all spent from having just watched this new MMF video "North Atlantic vs North Carolina."

This is my defense and I'm sticking to it:

How 'bout Something New?

Maybe not the best idea to promote new music on a weekend, but since when have I been credited for coming up with good ideas?  

Our next band on the playlist is This Romantic Tragedy, a post-hardcore band hailing from Las Vegas, NV.  With only an EP under their belt, and their first full-length album set to release in 2010, these guys are already making quite an impact with music fans.   Though short a bassist and vocalist at this time, they continue writing and searching for the right members to help their founding members, David Diaz and Kyle Huender, finish what they've started.

This is a video for their song 'The Worst Part is Waking Up':

Saturday Skate Starter Pack

Probably the best street skater to live, Rodney Mullen is to street what Tony Hawk is to the half-pipe.   His tricks make you scratch your head and say "how in the hell did he just do that?"   Funny thing is... his tricks from YEARS ago make you say that, still to this day.

Switching things up today, I'm going to let Rodney Mullen set the stage for the Skinny's Saturday of Something.  The first video is of course another Saturday Skate vid, hence the title (genius... ain't it?) featuring Powerman 5000 and their song 'Bombshell'.  Enjoy:

Folkemo, an Emerging Genre - Part VI

Meet the band that may have started the whole folkemo thing: Neutral Milk Hotel. Their members have moved onto new projects and NMH has been on hiatus for the last ten years, but this Athens, GA, group was perhaps five years before its time. In the Aeroplane over the Sea (track #2 on the 1998 album of the same name) exemplifies their pioneering sound.

Folkemo, an Emerging Genre - Part V

I posted a Shins video earlier this year, but this Portland band is so good, I couldn't resist posting another. Watch for them to break out of cult status in 2010 or 2011. In the meantime, listen to them perform Turn on Me (track #7, Wincing the Night Away, 2007).

Folkemo, an Emerging Genre - Part IV

Hmm, Seattle again. There seems to be a pattern. Minus the Bear is another Seattle folkemo band. Pachuca Sunrise is the song. Look for it as track #6 on the 2005 album Menos el Oso.

Folkemo, an Emerging Genre - Part III

The Walkmen grew up together in Washington, DC, and are now based in New York City. This is the video for In the New Year, a single release this past February.

Folkemo, an Emerging Genre - Part II

The Silversun Pickups hail from Los Angeles and are doing shoegazer variations on folkemo. Here they are with Substitution, from this year's album with the same name.

Folkemo, an Emerging Genre - Part I

In the past few years, more and more bands are crossing into the mainstream with a particular sound. I think it is still an emerging genre: it takes the third wave of emo with all of its high-pitched, quirky, unison vocal styling and lays that on top of reverberating alternative folk-rock music. The general sense of fashion the bands follow is lumberjack grunge, with a lot of the guys sporting full, bushy beards. Since I can't find a name coined for this genre yet, I'll call it folkemo here today.

First up is Seattle trio Band of Horses with Is There a Ghost?, the lead track from Cease to Begin (2007).

The Thrash Finale

Great band by the name of Warbringer.  If you haven't seen them before, well then today is your lucky day.   These guys set the pace of their music at balls to the wall.   If the song Severed Reality doesn't get your head moving, well then I can't help you.  

Another Video Without a Video

But it's my favorite Nevermore song...  what else am I supposed to do.   I remember when I used to make fun of this kid in my gym class who always wore a Nevermore shirt, because I thought he was a total fucking nimrod.   Finally one day I gave the band a listen to, and liked what I heard.   I don't know why I brought up that kid, because I still ended up thinking he was a nimrod afterwards, but at least now he knows he was partially responsible for me giving them a sampling.

Check out the song The Death of Passion...  and go stare at something.

More Old School Nuclear Blast

This time from notorious metalheads Anthrax.   Always loved Scott Ian.   Got to party with him when he was in town with Stormtroopers of Death.   I had a blast, getting smashed while my then-girlfriend gave him a lapdance (and she was quite the pro...   I'm sure he had a good time too.  She had, uh... "quite a way" with people.)

Here's a song from them entitled What Doesn't Die:

The Return of the Thursday Thrash

I don't think I've posted anything from Exodus since I took some initiative and started posting music here on Thursdays.   I guess there's a first for everything, huh?

Let's start ourselves a little mayhem with Riot Act this morning:

Get Down With It

Jackie Gleason had a variety show that aired from Miami in the 60's. While clubbing in the area one night, he discovered Wayne Cochran and The CC Riders and they soon became regulars on his program.

The Gleason Show exposure opened doors of opportunity for the band and while touring the country they would sometimes appear in clubs here in the Dayton area. They were one of my dad's favorites.

Wayne tells the story of finding a Bible on his tour bus and using it to lay out lines of cocaine. One day he decided to read it. After perusing it from cover to cover he declared, "I believe that!" and became a Christian.

Soon after he became a minister and pastored a church in Miami. I ran into him at a conference a few years ago in Charlotte and told him that I had seen him on TV when I was a kid and how much my dad enjoyed his nightclub act. He seemed to be an extremely nice guy and didn't have the wild DA hairdo you'll notice in the video.

Here he is making his television debut on the Jackie Gleason Show.

Now That You Are Gone

While doing a Google search of my old band's name, The Last Remains, I found this video. I have no idea who they are, but it's a decent tune and performance.