The Truth is No Words

Could I be more excited about the upcoming Gorillaz record? In short, NO. Check out this Gorillaz ecard. I've spent alot of time on their website in the last few days. And while it's still not official, there is a good chance I'm opening my set at bluestate next week with M1 A1. I just picked up their debut album on wax and I'm itching to play it.

Also, i finally got a decent copy of their new track to share with everyone. Peep it:

I was lucky enough to grab an advanced copy of the Kasabian album to listen to before I go see them open for The Music tonight at the 930 club and I'm really liking it. The baggy revival, if it wasn't already on, is picking up full steam now. While their sound isn't necessarily groundbreaking, "band plays loud rawk music over beats and loops", it's fun to listen to and is much closer to Primal Scream as opposed to say...Lo Fidelity All Stars. Think Second Coming era Stone Roses mixed with the Idlewild of 100 Broken Windows with just enough New Order thrown in to keep your hips shaking. This is a good thing.
The thirteen tracks on the record provide the listener with a good range of tunes, with groovey, dance based tracks like Club Foot (think Burning Wheel on steroids), Processed Beats and the big UK single L.S.F. coupled with all out rockers Reason is Treason and Test Transmission as well as the dubbed out, downtempo chill of ID and Running Battle. In short, there is something for everyone here and I definitely recommend giving this album a shot when it's released on March 8th. Until then, it's the free download of the week at the iTMS (see sidebar) and you can download some great live MP3's and watch some videos from their US website.
I'm interested to see how these tracks play out in the live arena. Headliners The Music have a similar sound, albeit on a much grander scale, but Kasabian have better tunes so it'll be interesting to see which wins out tonight.

Related: This British Accents show sounds pretty cool. I'll have to remember to give it a listen on Sunday. I did a similar show on my college radio station back in the day with my friend Ed Bellafiore, only we called it Across The Pond.

Ummm...I've seen them, so take my word for it, don't bother. Total snoozefest.

There is a wealth of great live performances over that the Janice Long sessions archive.

Bradley's Almanac has a video from those pesky Arcade Fire kids. He's gonna be in DC next week for the whole Teenbeat shindig.

This looks interesting. [from LHB]

Also stolen from LHB, check out this Ted Leo quote and cower in fear! "My wife and I are both going to be 35 this year. If we're going to have a family, the window is closing. Things are amazing right now, and I can justify keeping things going. But there's just so many bands out there. And since I've decided not to go the route of a bigger label and radio hits and all that, (quitting) is something I'm going to have to face." Hard to argue with but not exactly what I wanted to hear.

This just in: Mr. Pink hearts Boston Market but is not so fond of the flash on my digicam.

Phil Spector murder trial to start in September.

Ha!

Amen brother.

Agreed. Smoking=no buzz.

Kid Rock charged with punching strip club DJ. Stay Classy.

Day three of DC Blog-gate. The DCeiver and Rob Goodspeed weigh in. Good thoughts both. I've said my piece on the subject (and I don't think they were explicitly calling out DCist) but their continued denials and lame excuses just confirm what we're all saying. If nothing else, hopefully it's showing these people that creating and maintaining a good blog is not as easy as it might seem.

Lastly, here are some new MP3's I added in the last few days:

Have a great weekend!