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Star Wars Cantina 2010

steve — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:34:39 +0000

This is seriously awesome and amazing. I love Ian and Noel flicking beer coasters from the back.

Back in the saddle

steve — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:24:42 +0000

Been neglecting the blog for a while but here’s an attempt to get back into the swing of things. Thanks to Ted Leo for the most excellent Tears for Fears cover.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World by tedleo

Hey, I didn’t say it’d be a long post.

Top Albums in 2009

steve — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:02:13 +0000

And the tradition continues…

My prized platters for 2008 and 2007 are right here on Quoperative and if you’re completely void of any motivation to do something productive with your time (why else would you be reading this?) then you can hunt through the Setbacks site for my album picks going back to a simpler time… when men were men and you could freely travel by airplane with a tube of toothpaste that had a capacity greater than 125 mL. But I digress.

What follows are my choice music purchases and acquisitions for 2009 (as always, most but not all were released in 2009). In no particular order…

Steel Panther – Feel the Steel (Universal Republic)
On pink vinyl, no less… Jade’s favourite of the bunch. Death to all but metal!
Death – …For the Whole World to See (Drag City)
Dumped by Clive Davis of Columbia Records in 1975 for not changing their name… finally released in 2009.
King Khan & BBQ Show – Invisible Girl (In the Red)
Stripped down, lo-fi, garage blues rock. What the hell did you expect?
Reigning Sound – Love and Curses (In the Red)
KISS – Sonic Boom (Universal)
Facking dorks… you can only buy the album at Wal-Mart and it wasn’t released digitally so I HAD TO STEAL IT.
Le Nombre – Vile et Fantastique (Blow the Fuse)
Doesn’t hold a candle to 2004′s Scenario Catastrophe… but honestly… that would have been impossible.
Them Crooked Vultures – S/T (DGC)
Priestess – Prior to the Fire (TeePee)
Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – Live at Masonic (Alive/Total Energy)
Triple shame on me for having my head up my ass and not including this on 2008′s list… whoops. Better late than never. $6.93 ON ITUNES FOLKS

I have a feeling I’m forgetting something. I hate that feeling.

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/love-and-curses/id318281958

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

steve — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:30:44 +0000

Oh yes… this is awesome.

Patto – The Man

steve — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:50:01 +0000

I watched Observe and Report the other night and this song comes up when the mall security team comes down the escalator in their “strictly business” pose. My man Bob pointed out it’s an extremely bad-ass track from Patto called “The Man”. It’s a long one but hang in there for the absolutely frenetic drumming during the closing climax. Jesus this kills.

It’s a fuckin’ dark comedy (if you dig Jody Hill’s other stuff like The Foot Fist Way and Eastbound and Down) and the soundtrack is absolutely killer — The Band, Dwarves, Yardbirds and a smokin’ Pixies cover. I figured they must have gotten Wayne Kramer to handle the music again since he’s done such a great job on EBAD but turns out it wasn’t him after all. Obviously Jody Hill puts a high priority on locating only the finest tracks to aurally accompany his work.

Modern Day Delilah

steve — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:51:07 +0000

The first track of KISS’ new studio album Sonic Boom (first one in 11 years) Modern Day Delilah came out this week. KISS claimed that they were going for a “classic Destroyer-era sound” and after a couple listens it’s not bad… but not as awesome as I was expecting after all the hype about vintage gear, no outside songwriters and Paul Stanley producing. Either way — looks like their won’t be a vinyl release initially but I’ll still be there at WalMart (barf) with my fellow KISS fans on October 6th to pick it up on CD.

P.S. Also… Gene… can you please make sure Vancouver is on the fall tour schedule? Thanks.

Bobby McFerrin brain hack

steve — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:29:23 +0000

The heat wave has pretty much melted my desire to blog lately but here’s a video I just had to post…

New Julie Doiron video

steve — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:26:03 +0000

Mmmm… digging this.

la$t.fm

steve — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:59:20 +0000

Well isn’t that the sweetest peach…

Hi stevepalmer,

Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is about to end. If you’re enjoying it, why not subscribe for only $3.00/month and continue listening to non-stop personalised radio.

http://www.last.fm/subscribe

I guess last.fm figured out a revenue model for their awesome and (until very recently) free service. I guess it’s worth $3/mo but geez… this is the first I’ve heard of a trial or that it would not be free someday. Thanks for the heads up guys.

One man can make a difference

steve — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:47:03 +0000

We saw this dance party literally explode out of nothing during Santigold‘s set at Sasquatch, but I had no idea it started with ONE GUY. The awesomeness of this is off the charts.