Posts Tagged ‘music’

The Poet Laureate of the Internet

If you still haven’t picked up D.J. Earworm’s “Blame it on the Pop” and given it a listen, make a new year’s resolution to do so right now. There’s a lot of people out there doing mashups, but very few are able to effect the kind of poetry that DJ Earworm does. If you take [...]

Today’s Playlist

I Miss You – Incubus Wait – The Beatles Temporary One – Fleetwood Mac Be Still My Heart – The Postal Service I Believe In A Thing Called Love – The Darkness Simonize – Pete Yorn Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin I Belong To You [+Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix] – Muse The [...]

Muse: The Resistance

It is here . . . it is here. Praise be to the Muse. Part of what makes this band rock so hard is their unabashedly hybrid style. They draw from every corner of the music world and mix it all together with the sort of annoyingly casual ease that virtuoso musicians seem to be [...]

Hooray for the Hollywood Bowl

What a perfect night. Perfect weather. Cruising around L.A. loving the palm trees. The ribbon of asphalt under my tires. And a show at at the Hollywood Bowl, where you can look to the right and see the Griffith Observatory, look up to see the Hollywood sign, and look downward to see a gorgeous orchestra [...]

Indie From The Future!

I lurrrrrrrrrve my new shirt, made just for me by Raygun Robyn. I wore it to the club last night and it was so fun having a completely unique shirt. She’s getting my official endorsement as the fashion choice of robots everywhere. Humans, you need to wear this chick’s gear. How lucky that I stumbled [...]

Today’s Playlist

Spirit in the Sky — Norman Greenbaum Life Is a Highway — Rascal Flatts Chapel of Love — The Ronettes Pretty Good Year — Tori Amos Mr. Brightside — The Killers Losing My Religion — REM My Immortal — Evanescence Positively 4th Street — Bob Dylan God’s Gonna Cut You Down — Johnny Cash Wasted [...]

The Geeks Shall Inherit The Music

It’s a well known fact that guys start bands because they are too nerdy to meet girls on their own. In fact, the key to go from being a nerd to being cool is to somehow learn to take your nerdy skills and make them awesome. You like your chemistry set? Great. Learn to blow [...]