Sunday 26 April 2009

valleys pubs in NYC?


Lyndon wade is NYC photographer who shoots for really famous ad agencies. His pictures are mostly in the style of still frames from weird fucked up movies, I love them! Check out his series here called the birds which features kids that look like they have just stepped out of silent hill and not the shitty film they made, the original dark as fuck computer game.





Lyndon wade being from new york has never been in a pub in the welsh valleys before however one of his pictures (below) suggests otherwise.

Oh for the love of fuck what the hell is this?


Is this the start of me getting old and saying things like "In my day musicians played instruments" because I seriously do not fucking get this......... like at all! I did laugh at the bit where the guys in the "band" scream in the faces of girls dancing like they're in a 50 cent video. Le sigh.



sexy fight club? Check this out! Here.








Pop unknown were one of my favourite bands on deep elm. From austin texas the band consisted of Tim Lasater (vocals/guitar), Gabe Wiley previously in mineral (drums), Joel Ganucheau (guitar), Matt Breedlove (guitar) and Casper Echols (bass). The band toured with bands like jimmy eat world, the get up kids and pedro the lion eventually disbanding in 2002 after their side project band, kissing chaos, took over and ended pop unknown. The august division was the bands last studio album and in my opinion their best! All the songs on the record are so fucking catchy and have influenced bands (been ripped off) time and time again.



Tuesday 21 April 2009

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS FUCKING GOOD IN THIS WORLD LET THIS NOT HAPPEN.

My photoshop skillz is dope.

Your just jealous because we're young and in love



Wow Alex prager you are a genius! Every photo I've seen has been amazing, her work is super vivid and saturated, retro yet also contemporary. Alex's photos also have a dark twisted undertone too, which reminds me of David lynch's dreamy, surreal, yet dark style. Alex Prager lives and works in Los angeles where she has been taking pictures since her early twenties. Her first book, The Book Of Disquiet was published in 2005 and since then she has displayed her work in numerous galleries, including the michael hoppen gallery in London and more recently in new york.

A friend showed me these old Dharma initiative ads the other day check em out here.

Ahhhh Cap'n jazz like the best band for druken sing-a-longs ever, fact, you can't look at the sky without looking right throooooough it! Cap'n jazz were only around for a little while but in that time they made such a huge impact and influenced so many muscians plus they have the best named album ever......ready.... it's called [burritos, inspiration point, fork balloon sports, cards in the spokes, automatic biographies, kites, kung fu, trophies, bananna peels we've slipped on and egg shells we've tippy toed over]....or shmap'n shmazz for short. After cap'n jazz broke up the band formed loads of other amazing bands including american football, ghosts and vodka, owls and Joan of arc. Favourite songs of mine are in the clear, we are scientists!, oh messy life and troubled by insects. I'll only post the 1st cd of their analphabetapolothology if anyone wants the 2nd cd leave me a comment and I'll post it!


Cap'n jazz- analphabetapolothology cd1

Monday 20 April 2009

CATS AND CATS AND CATS AND TITS?

I'm not sure where I found this pic or who it's by but naked women and cats are a winning combination.

I'm a massive arrested development fan so with the news that all the actors are now doing the movie (Finally Michael Cera you douche) I've started getting really fucking excited! But that 's at least a year away so to keep my mind occupied till then I've been watching better off ted which is in a similar comedy vein as AD and also stars portia de rossi. Here's some links to the first 5 episodes The pilot isn't that great but stick with it.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

I started off my first post with the awesome band native and following on a mid-western tip here are the reptilian. The reptilian from kalamazoo Michigan are touring buddies of native and play a similar style of emotional math rock. There's no uk release for their e.p. entitled boys life but you can order it from their record label website here. While your waiting for your CD to be shipped to you here is the e.p. in digital format, remember though to BUY THE CD!!!!

The reptilian - Boys life

Sunday 19 April 2009

li wei what the fuck?




Seriously how does this guy take these photo's?


Li Wei is a 37 year old performance artist from beijing who has traveled all over the world creating his amazing death defying photos. Check out his work here.

I work as a sound engineer for a well know music venue chain in the uk ( I'm sure you can work it out there is only one after all!). This is an awesome job MOST of the time as I get to listen to loads of bands meet awesome people and take time off whenever I want. However there is a down side, this being the fact that 80% of the bands that I have to listen to and engineer are complete shit and wonder why no sound will come out of their guitar amp when they have plugged into the bass amp next to it (I shit you not this actually happened!) So it's always awesome when I get into work thinking that I'm going to have a shit shift, due to the fact I haven't heard of any of the bands playing and I find a new band I fucking love.
Strange news from another star are a three piece band from Cardiff which combines refused style riffs with off beat at the drive in drums and early future of the left style vocals. Their live shows consist of boiler suits, an elevated bass player (he stands on a stool) and guitar thrashing dance moves. The e.p. double denim: full frontal is awesome however it doesn't really capture the raw energy this band gives off in a live performance so buy the c.d and definitely catch them live!

Strange news from another star- letter from the queen

Tonight I'm mixing Mc lars, Failsafe and a new day who are awesome check em out!




A new day- koko ni dare mo imasen

Saturday 18 April 2009

I want the blindingly cute to confide in me......




So I'm going to be posting some music/films/pictures that I think are fucking awesome, for no other reason than, they're fucking awesome and you always have room for some more awesome shit in your life! The photo above is by San Fran based artist and photographer Merkley??? I first discovered this guys work after he did the press shots for one of my favourite Dj/producers Claude vonstroke which you can see here.
Merkely??? creates his amazing supersaturated images using nothing more than ordinary cameras, available lighting and the magical photoshop. His artwork is even more surreal than his photo's and I literally have spent hours just staring at his website which you can find here.





Native from eerie Indiana combine kinsella style riff tappery with youth crew shout alongs and dance worthy basslines. To put it simply these guys fucking own. Their debut e.p. we delete; erase, has not left my c.d. drive since I got it (over a week ago) and I have been eratically shouting their lyrics at my computer screen all week. They're on sargent house records (These arms are snakes, daughters, this town needs guns) in america and big scary monsters records (pulled apart by horses, tubelord, meet me in st.louis) will be releasing "We Delete; Erase" on April 20th in the UK and Europe. If you like the track below please buy the record from big scary monsters webstore as record sales in the uk will greatly increase the chances of the band doing some uk shows and I for one definately want to see these guys in my town.

Native- Ride the tide