tuesday wake up call

Alkaline Trio have released "The Temptation Of St. Anthony", the second lyric video from the band's upcoming record, My Shame Is True, out on April 2 via Epitaph.

tuesday wake up call

Milla Jovovich is in the new Alkaline Trio video for the track "I Wanna Be A Warhol" (directed by Rob Soucy.)



"I Wanna Be A Warhol" is from the band's upcoming full-length, My Shame Is True, out on April 2nd through Epitaph.

wednesday wake up call

New lyric video for "The Torture Doctor" by Alkaline Trio.



"The Torture Doctor" is from the band upcoming record, My Shame Is True, out on April 2 via Epitaph.

tuesday wake up call

Alkaline Trio performing a couple of oldies at Guitar Center in Hollywood.

"Hell Yes"




"Clavicle"

out this week

Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future
This album is perfect! Klaxons need to bring new rave to North America!!!

Totem on the Timeline [wicked-cool song]
Gravity's Rainbow [super-wicked-cool song]

buy Myths of the Near Future here


Alkaline Trio: Remains
This is a nice collection of rare b-sides and live tracks that most huge A3 fans should already be familiar with.

Queen of Pain [wicked-cool song]
Old School Reasons [wicked-cool song]

buy Remains here


Little Man Tate: About What You Know
About What You Know is a Libertines sounding record that deserves some attention.

This Must Be Love [super-wicked-cool song]

buy About What You Know here


Jamie T: Panic Prevention
Panic Prevention is a very unique and fresh sounding record!!! This album, along with Klaxons’ Myths of the Near Future, are must-haves!

Salvador [wicked-cool song]
Ike & Tina [wicked-cool song]

buy Panic Prevention here


Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder
Not a huge fan of this band... haven’t really listened to this one yet...

Satan Said Dance

buy Some Loud Thunder here

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you never lie but it's no fun to tell the truth

There’s a request to repost an Alkaline Trio song... here it is... enjoy!

Buried
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Buy the Mercy Me [Single] here.

halloween 2006

Who’s throwing a Halloween party this year? Well, I’m not; but for those of you who are, here is a list of music you should consider rotating:



Scott Walker: The Drift
This is one of my favorite records of the year so far. It is a 60 plus minutes journey of weird, dark, and vastly experimental music. You can read my review on The Drift here.

Cossacks Are [wicked-cool song]
Jesse [wicked-cool song]
Hand Me Ups [wicked-cool song]
The Escape [wicked-cool song]


My Chemical Romance: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
Vampires, murders, suicide, ghosts... a Halloween essential and MRC’s finest.

Vampires Will Never Hurt You [wicked-cool song]
Headfirst For Halos [super-wicked-cool song]


Alkaline Trio: Good Morning
All Alkaline Trio records are prefect for Halloween, but Good Morning deserves a mention solely for the violently opening track, "This Could Be Love".

This Could Be Love [wicked-cool song]
One Hundred Stories
Blue In The Face


Suicide: Suicide
I think I have mentioned this record, in particular the song Frankie Teardrop enough times on this blog… in case you are a new reader, go here to read about "Frankie Teardrop"... the absolute scariest song of all time!

Ghost Rider
Cherree
Frankie Teardrop [super-wicked-cool song]


Hilary Duff
Basically anything by Hilary Duff, she scares the crap out of me!


Boys Night Out: Trainwreck
This concept album disturbs the line between nightmare and reality, kind of like Lacan’s concept of real and reality... it involves killings, doctors, drugs, mental hospital... it’s like a scary/thriller movie, but only in music form.

Dreaming
Medicating
Relapsing


Franz Schubert: "Erlking"
Here’s a fascinating early Romantic opera by Schubert. The text depicts the quest of an evil Elves King and his hunger for a young boy’s soul.

Erlking [super-wicked-cool song]


Sunn 0))): Black One
Black One is loud, noisy, abstract, extremely creepy and haunting, prefect music for late night drives out to the middle of nowhere.

It Took The Night To Believe
Cursed Realms (Of The Winterdemons)

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hell yes!

Goddamnit Jesse, stop complaining about my recommendations... anyways, here’s one that will sure make you happy.
Alkaline Trio is planning to release a retrospective compilation titled Remains sometimes by the end of the year. The thing will be full of b-sides, covers, and rare tracks. The tracklist for the album has been released by Vagrant; and since Alkaline Trio is one of my favorite bands of all time, I have all the songs... and since I like to share, here they are... enjoy!

1. Hell Yes from Hell Yes 7" (2001)
2. My Standard Break From Life from Hell Yes 7" (2001) [wicked-cool song]
3. Dead End Road from Living Tomorrow Today : A Benefit for Ty Cambra compilation (2001)
4. The Metro (Berlin Cover)
5. Jaked On Green Bears from Atticus Dragging The Lake compilation (2002)
6. Queen Of Pain from Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Split (2002) [wicked-cool song]
7. While You're Waiting from Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Split (2002)
8. Rooftops (Hot Water Music Cover) from Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Split (2002)
9. Old School Reasons from Oil: Chicago Punk Refined compilation (2003) [wicked-cool song]
10. Warbrain from Rock Against Bush Vol 1 compilation (2004)
11. Fine Without You from Alkaline Trio/One Man Army Split Series Vol. 5 (2004)
12. Hating Every Minute from Alkaline Trio/One Man Army Split Series Vol. 5 (2004)
13. Dead And Broken from Alkaline Trio/One Man Army Split Series Vol. 5 (2004)
14. Sadie from Alkaline Trio/One Man Army Split Series Vol. 5 (2004) [wicked-cool song]
15. If You Had A Bad Time from Alkaline Trio/One Man Army Split Series Vol. 5 (2004)
16. Wait For The Blackout (The Damned Cover) from Alkaline Trio/One Man Army Split Series Vol. 5 (2004)
17. We Can Never Break Up from Time To Waste Single (2005)
18. Don't Say You Won't from Time To Waste Single (2005)
19. Buried from Mercy Me Single (2005)
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go buy Remains when it comes out

if columbus was wrong i'd drive straight off the edge

I just got back from the Alkaline Trio concert at the Kool Haus. It was the most fun I had at a concert in a very long time… actually, it was my first punk concert in over a year. As promised by the band on their website, they played their first album, Goddamnit in its entirety. Before the show, I told my friends that I’ll probably head into the moshpit as Goddamnit is my favorite A3 album! I haven’t been in a real moshpit in soooooo long!!! As the boys from A3 took stage with "Cringe", I waited for a few seconds, got a good look at the members, took my glasses off, and handed them, along with my cellphone and wallet to my friends and charged into the crowd. The pit was fucking awesome! Half way through Cringe, I tapped this tall guy beside me and gave him the international sign of "I want to crowdsurf, so help me get up", but he was like "no"... and I was like "WTF!?!?"... he must have thought that I was asking if he wanted to crowdsurf, goddamn amateur!! So, I moved away from that douche by the second song and asked another person who actually knew what I wanted and help me get up and I crowdsurfed for the first time in three years (I think)... it was so much fun!!! Oh, yea, I am one of those annoying person who crowdsurfs like a billion times at a concert and kicks everybody on the head (sorry) each time. Actually, I think I only crowdsurfed like three or four times at this concert... I am getting too old for that shit. A3’s set was remarkable; they sounded great and played an extremely long show... although I wanted more. Matt Skiba finished off the Goddamnit section of the show with a solo acoustic performance of "Sorry About That". He then played another acoustic song before switching with Dan Andriano, who also played two solo acoustic songs. I know that one of the songs played acoustically was "Blue In The Face", but I don’t remember what the other two were. Anyways, after that, the rest of the band came back out and played another set of songs from the other albums. Oh, they were amazing, especially when they ended with "Radio" as everyone sang along to it. I think I’ll stop my rambling now, I need to take a shower because I smell and have other peoples’ sweat on me... ew!