Come on down for the Heathen Stomp! June 5th

Jun 2010 01 – Filed under art

I’ve darn got myself involved with Dismal. This Saturday, June 5thm, Y’all should come support Dismal’s Heathen Stomp ongoing creative missionary work by drink’n whiskey and having a good old time!

Also this Friday head over to the Syzygryd Gala Benefit at Cell Space to show your support for the artists of Ardent Heavy Industries, False Profit Labs, and Illutron who are making life more awesome with fire, lights, and 2.5 tons of steel!

Tired ..Fed up? Friends, What You Need is a Good old Fashioned …

HEATHEN STOMP!

Help support the ongoing creative efforts of
1st Church of the Buzzard’s
Holy Whiskey Missionary!!!

Saturday June 5th 8pm

Dismal is proud to present the world premiere of “The Last Round Up!” a film showcasing Dismal’s 2008 fiery extravaganza!

Boot stomping music: Hobo Gobbelins, One Man Banjo, and The Mighty Lynch-Pins! Dj Cactus and momo on the needle.

Midway thrills: Jack-a-lope ring toss, Face painting, Whiskey sip’n contest, poor-traits, pin the finger on Danger Ranger, Creamed corn Wrassling with the Dismal Ladies, and more!

$5 gets you in the door and 1 free Midway ticket! Additional Midway tickets and Raffle tickets available at the door.

Raffle Prizes await :: get your very own Tombstone in the Dismal Graveyard, dismal t-shirts, Dvds, & some Fancy Art!

Saturday June 5th 8pm …till we get sick of ya Varmints!

The First Church of the Buzzard
2601 Adeline @ 26th st. Oakland

now go’on an tell al yer friends!

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Bonobo “Black Sands” short review

Mar 2010 19 – Filed under art + life

Reposted from my twitter as I listened to Bonobo’s latest album Black Sands.

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Listening happily to Bonobo’s latest album Black Sands. I don’t like all of it but the tracks that are good are damned good. 24 minutes ago via Tweetie

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I miss Bajka from Days to Come. Andreya Triana is a good singer but she’s almost too smooth with nothing to grab your ear and pull you in. 8 minutes ago via Tweetie

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1009 is my favorite song on the album. Chill, yet glitchy and always feeling as if it’s on the verge of rocking the house. [audio embeded below as a youtube clip] 3 minutes ago via Tweetie

BTW for those of you in the Bay Area, Bonobo is playing at the Mezzanine, April 23rd!

Tailoring the Wax

Nov 2009 22 – Filed under design

As I tweeted ages ago, even though we are the age of the mp3 there is no reason for bands to produce subpar album art. Case in point, the cover art to Wax Tailor’s latest album “In the Mood for Life” looks like they gave a 6th grader a bunch of random images and fonts and set him in front of a bondi blue iMac with Photoshop 6.

Really as much as I love the album—and it is a damned good album—I couldn’t let this abomination of fonts and filters be seen in my iTunes coverflow. Thus, I went and made my own alternative cover art as I promised in the previously mentioned tweet. I didn’t have to do much work since Wax Tailor already had a much better recent illustration out there to work from. All I did was pick a font—a single font—to used for the band/album name.

I highly encourage everyone to buy the album but use the above cover art instead so as not to dirty their iTunes coverflow with bad photoshop.
All art is © Wax Tailor and has been modified without permission as a fan who likes his music but just hates the latest cover art.

MP3 clip provided by Amazon. If you buy the album by clicking on the link in the widget, I get a small referral bonus.

Musical “That Makes Me Think Of”

Oct 2009 28 – Filed under art

Thanks to the internet (namely YouTube) and our household varied massive music libraries, myself and @maledictive were able to play an impromptu game of musical “That Makes Me Think Of” while engaged in a NifNaks felting extravaganza In order of play and marked by who played which song (myself|maledictive) here’s our evening’s set list.

Prior to the impromptu start of our game, maledictive was on an 80′s Jock Rock kick (I don’t know ask her) which led to the first song of our game…

Cypress Hill “Insane in the Membrane”
Cypress Hill feat. Fugees “Boom Biddy Bye Bye”
Cypress Hill “Illusions (remix)”
Dr Dre
Outkast – “Atliens”
Dr Octagon “Halfsharkalligatorhalfman”
Lord of the Rhymes
The Gothsicles “Hey I Got That Font”
Screamin Jay Hawkins “I Put a Spell On You”
Screamin Jay Hawkins “Constipation Blues”
Nick Cave “Mack The Knife”
Cab Calloway “Minnie the Muncher”
Oingo Boingo “Minnie the Muncher” (from the Forbidden Zone)
Max Reebe “Sex Bomb”
Max Reebe “Mambo No. 5″
Max Reebe “Tainted Love”
Coil “Tainted Love”
Coil “Who By Fire”

Hope you enjoy the odd set that resulted. Anyway, it’s a fun game which I highly recommend.

More freaky beats from Cape Town, South Africa

Jul 2009 14 – Filed under art

via vids.myspace.com

Those Cape Town, South Africa, electronic musicians are freak’n weird I tell ya‚Äîweird in an awesome way but still weird. If you don’t believe me watch the above video for “Fred is Dead” by the Tone Deaf Junkies.

I haven’t really heard of the Tone Deaf Junkies until recently. The Cape Town music scene itself is pretty amazing: from Sibot to Watkin Tudor Jones to Markus Wormstorm, a lot of awesome music comes out of Cape Town and much of it is on heavy rotation on my ipod. The Tone Deaf Junky track “Fred is Dead is interesting because it’s a track used as in the soundtrack for a scifi novel set in Cape Town called Moxyland. That’s right I said a soundtrack for a book. If you buy it in ebook format the soundtrack (featuring all Cape Town musicians) is embedded which is pretty awesome if you ask me. I haven’t gotten the book myself yet but it’s on my wishlist. You can also get the Moxyland soundtrack separately if that’s your thing.

Posted via web from CatCubed’s Random Snippets