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The Krakan - Learn

The Krakan - Learn The Krakan Link J Ralph - One Million Miles Away http://weheartmus... Remember? Remember that guy from "Judging Amy"? (Remember when you knew him even less?) Remember ... Footnotes [1] From The Krakan's Myspace Blog

In celebration of Cristina's return^[W♥M], I give you: The Krakan.

No, we're not talking about gigantic sea creatures (those are Krakens), we're talking about the New York rapper.

His debut CD, Dawn Of The Krakan, was released fairly recently (August 21st) and his "The Conviction" song (which can be heard on his myspace) is the third most added song on the College radio charts.^[1]

How does Cristina related to The Kraken? Well, my favorite track from the rapper is called "Learn", which uses "One Million Miles Away" as the background soundtrack (a song that Cristina wrote about earlier this year).

So check out some of the mouthful of lyrics, keeping pace with the sweet violins:

so I pray for resolution
for this total confusion
but I know what I knew
could not be married in humans
Just like a sponge
I absorb the good and the bad

The whole song goes on like that, with a break whenever the woman on "One Million Miles Away" steps in to sing the chorus.

So enjoy!

 09/24/2007 21:43:59  vu my♥posts [email protected] www.thekrakan.com

Soda Stereo Announces Final Tour Date

The end has smacked right into us, dear friends. All Soda Stereo tour dates have now been announced -- 19 shows in all. Drummer Charly Alberti confirmed it in a MySpace bulletin:

Hola a todos.

Finalmente , con la confirmación de Miami, se termino de confeccionar la gira.

Una vez mas queremos agradecer la gran cantidad de mensajes y cariño que nos transmiten en los mismos.

Gracias por compartir con nosotros este gran momento de nuestras vidas.

Charly
Soda Stereo

 

Besides LA, the recently added Miami will be the only other US city on Soda's map, which doesn't exactly surprise me. Since last month, there have been minor rumblings about whether the band would choose between Miami or NYC, if they were even scheduling another date in the States at all.

Tickets for the Miami show go on sale on October 1st, but keep an eye out for a presale code. Your best bets for obtaining the code are befriending Soda Stereo on MySpace... and googling. Good luck.

As always, if I read or hear anything of importance, I'll be sure to post it. That includes the wretched code. (But, really, don't I have enough Argentines to wrestle for some good seats without worrying about you guys?)

 

Disco Eterno

Soda Stereo

19/10 Buenos Aires, Argentina
20/10 Buenos Aires, Argentina
21/10 Buenos Aires, Argentina
24/10 Santiago, Chile
27/10 Guayaquil, Ecuador
31/10 Santiago, Chile
02/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina
03/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina
09/11 Monterrey, México
12/11 Guadalajara, México
15/11 D.F., México
16/11 D.F., México
21/11 Los Angeles, CA, US
24/11 Bogotá, Colombia
27/11 Panamá, Panamá
02/12 Caracas, Venezuela
05/12 Miami, FL, US
08/12 Lima, Perú
15/12 Córdoba, Argentina

Almost not disgusted by the circumstances, Cristina

jaklumen jaklumen replied to Cristina’s comment: Sep 24, 2007 6:22 PM

Not necessary... I just thought the thank yous were pretty sweet. I was going to translate how I read it, but thought at the time I'd do a bad job of it. I'll try anyway-- let me know if I got it right:

Hello everyone--

Finally, with confirmation from Miami, we've finished putting together the tour.

Once again, we'd like to to thank you for the huge amount of messages you've sent us and the support (affection) expressed in them.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful moment in our lives with us.

Charly
Soda Stereo

The Coral - Jacqueline

Audio The Coral - Jacqueline The Coral Albums [Jul 2002] The Coral [Jul 2003] Magic & Medicine [Jan 2004] Nightfreak & The Sons of Becker [May 2005] The Invisible Invasion [Aug 2007] Roots & Echoes

There is a lot of buzz for Liverpool's The Coral, who recently finished up touring with the Arctic Monkeys^[W♥M].

Tour 2007 10/08 Nottingham, Rock City 10/09 Bristol, Academy 10/11 London, Roundhouse 10/12 Manchester, Academy 1 10/13 Leeds University 10/14 Birmingham, Academy 10/17 Southampton, Guildhall 10/18 Sheffield, Octagon 10/20 Glasgow, ABC1 10/21 Oxford, Academy Special guests The Metros Band Members ♥ James Skelly (singer, guitars) ♥ Bill Ryder-Jones (lead guitar) ♥ Paul Duffy (bass) ♥ Lee Southall (rhythm guitars) ♥ Nick Power (keys) ♥ Ian Skelly (drums)

They have a new single out on October 1st called "Jacqueline", and will be getting ready to headline a new tour for that month.

I should also mention that if you preorder the single, you also get a limited signed artwork (which is always a nice bonus to get extras!)

Although I say a lot of hype for this band, they've been around since 1996 and have released five albums already! And they were considered by many to be the first guitar-driven band that's all the rage now with the kids.

Their first album reached number 5 in the UK charts and one of their singles "Goodbye" reached number twenty-one on the top 40. Unfortunately, they never quite reached the American audiences.

I recently saw this band as one of the spotlighted bands on myspace (which probably meant that the record company threw some cash at Tom.)

Anyroad, I did like this new single. It sounds very British and the acoustic guitar reminds me of an older 60s sound. There's not too much lyrics and it seems like a really short song.

 09/23/2007 03:10:01  vu my♥posts [email protected] www.thecoral.co.uk

Hello Saferide - Long Lost Penpal

Hello Saferide [May 2005] My Best Friend [2005] If I Don't Write This Song Someone I Love Will Die [Sep 2005] Introducing... [Dec 2005] Long Lost Penpal [Jun 2006] Would You Let Me Play This EP 10 Times A Day? [May 2007] I Was Definitely Made For These Times Säkert! [Jan 2007] Vi kommer att dö samtidigt [Feb 2007] Säkert! [May 2007] Allt som är ditt Live Band Members ♥ Annika Norlin ♥ Andreas Söderlund ♥ Maia Hirasawa ♥ Fredrik Hultgren ♥ Jens Lagergren Footnotes [1] From myspace.com/saferide

 

 

Hello Saferide - Long Lost Penpal

I really should let someone else (Jason) write about Hello Saferide because everyone seems to know more about her than me. I've only really discovered her recently through another voxer.

Hello Saferide is from Stockholm, Sweden, and is really just Annika Norlin. The name was inspired by "inspired by an intelligent bus driver in a drug-addicted small town" from Willimantic, Connecticut.^[1]

Regal Recordings, who's probably most famous for picking up Lily Allen, have decided to release Hello Saferide in the UK, their first 7" single is "I Was Definitely Made For These Times" with "The Quiz" as the flipside. It's marketed as a double A-Side.

Norlin is currently involved in another project, called Säkert!. They are only recording Swedish language-only releases. If you speak Swedish, you can read about them on Razzia Records. (Maybe someone can translate for me).

The song that I really like (from what I've listened to) is "Long Lost Penpal", featuring Firefox AK (Andrea Kellerman) singing the penpal part. The song is very sad and I believe might be based on actual correspondents.

I really identify with this song on more than one level. You know, before the internet, people wrote letters and we had penpals. At the height of my bedsit days, I had over forty penpals, and I'm still friends with some of them to this day. Although we don't write traditional letters anymore.

There is one woman who I dearly miss and wonder what she is doing these days. Her name is Silja R from Finland. She's an artist, loves Sparks and Davie Bowie. This is one of her envelope (I don't live there anymore).

We used to make FBs (Friendship Booklets) and send each other mix tapes. I sometime wish I could get back into letter writings and sending/receiving packages, but with my schedule as of late, I don't think I could have the time (and not to mention the costs associated with postage).

Some of the envelope art that we'd send each other were pretty creative, and I remember spending hours and hours putting just the right touch of hidden words and art. Those were the days, weren't they?

In order to save money on postage, there is a trick we used to do. We'd coat the postage stamps with a small film of glue. When we receive a package, using just a little spit, you can wipe away the canceled ink. We'd then send back each other's stamps and, of course, we'd never re-use the stamps that much, it gets suspicious after a while.

 

 

�09/22/2007 10:57:38� vu my♥posts [email protected] www.hellosaferide.com myspace.com

You like coffee, i like tea.

Me Me Me - Hanging Around

Me Me Me

Milk, no sugar, thanks...

Saturday morning, supposedly doing another pesky university assignment, what better choice of music is there than the most cheesy of cheesy music available. Of course, crooners singing the classics (Ice Ice Baby, Wonderwall, etc) has its element of comedy, but what's more comedic than a group of grown men who produce music, I'm assuming, not meant to make you want to vomit just a little bit.

Let's see, 1996, I was 16 and at my heights of love for Britpop (for want of a better word). My favourite band was blur and I thought the most gorgeous and obtainable (yes, I was delusional) guy on the face of the planet was Alex James. Which brings me to my point.

Me Me Me consisted of three guys:

• Alex James
• Justin Welch
• Stephen Duffy

A band formed soley to write a theme song for a film can't go wrong! Hanging Around, a short film written and directed by Damien Hirst (a friend of Alex's; you're probably familiar with his artwork) starring Eddie Izzard, which i must admit, i haven't seen, but by the sounds of it, the theme song is quite a fitting introduction to the plot.

The band, for obvious reasons, did not release anything other than Hanging Around (with 2 equally cheesy b-sides). I often wonder why no britpop dj's have this song in their collection. Maybe this is why I never made it in the dj-ing world.... (that and and my incredible laziness). Perfect for a pointless jig around the room after a glass or two of your finest, tea that is.

See also: Fat Les - Vindaloo (although it's probably best you didnt)

ok, back to it! Have a spendid day!
sally
Come on my safari

AA Bondy

Tour 2007 09/21 The Basement - Nashville, TN[2] 09/22 Rudyard Kipling - Louisville, KY[2] 09/24 Lake Shore Theatre - Chicago, IL[2] 09/26 Horshoe Tavern - Toronto, Ontario[2] 09/27 Cabaret - Montreal, Quebec[2] 09/28 Lizard Lounge - Boston, MA[2] 10/16 Southpaw - Brooklyn, New York[3] Verbena Albums [Mar 1997] Souls For Sale [Jul 1999] Into The Pink [2003] La Musica Negra AA Bondy Albums [Sep 2007] AA Bondy Footnotes [1] From Big Hassle [2] With Fionn Regan [3] With The Felice Brothers

A.A. Bondy - American Hearts

AA Bondy came highly recommended by a reader to W♥M. There really wasn't a whole lot of information on AA Bondy, most of information online are fictional. Even his record company's website has very little information on him.

The AA stands for "Auguste Arthur", according to the fictional biography written by Roman Moore, who met the stranger and spent all day "sipping bourbon and blowing up anvils".^[1]

The truth is that Bondy's real name is Scott Bondy, who, I think, was the leader singer from Verbena, a band from Alabama, Tennessee. According to Wikipedia, they attracted Dave Grohl (if you were just born yesterday, he's ex-Nirvana and Foo Fighters singer), produced their second album Into the Pink (1999).

Verbena broke up in 2003, but Scott Bondy continues on with his solo project, under the name AA Bondy.

What I really like about this debut is that there is this theme throughout the album. It feels as if all the songs were written in the late 1700's or in the Wild West.

Especially in this song, "American Hearts", which makes reference to the Gadsden flag with its lyrics, "Don't tread on me".  At one point in this folky song, the harmonica breaks in and I instantly thought of Bob Dylan.

The album was released Sep 4th, and can be heard streaming on www.superphonicrecords.com. Songs worth checking out: "How Will You Meet Your End" and "No Man Shall".

 09/21/2007 20:41:20  vu my♥posts [email protected] myspace.com

Livingston - One Good Reason

You know I love Midasuno, and I went to see them play in my home town Leeds on Tuesday. They were great, even though they had to play to one of the smallest crowds I've ever seen. Also on the bill were some young whippersnappers who looked, and sounded, like a cross between Hadouken! and Slipknot. If that sounds wrong, then believe me, it was. Ohh how wrong it was...

Luckily, sandwiched in between the two were a surprisingly good band. Perhaps the greatest support band I've ever seen play. And that's not an easy feat when you're playing to all of three people. Yes, three. Count em, I did. One, two... and me. Well so much for the musical taste of Leeds' youth. Anyway, I'll get to the point... Livingston is what they called 'emselves. Had funny accents like they were from India or somewhere but looked Australian. And apparently, although it didn't look it, they are quite big. Here's a video of them playing at MTV somewhere, though don't get your hopes up. They're a great live band, but the recorded stuff I've heard on their MySpace ain't so good. Ah well. Here's to all bands around the world playing to crowds numbering less than the band members themselves.

Livingston - One Good Reason

- Christopher ( pepsi_max2k)

Richard Cheese

Robin, my news correspondent, sent this in story about how Blur's Alex James, has a cheese-making company and apparently blogs about it in "the Cheese Diaries"!

Audio Richard Cheese - Three's Company Theme Richard Cheese - Ice Ice Baby Mark Jonathan Davis - Star Wars Cantina (Barry Manilow) Richard Cheese - SomebodyTold Me Farewell Tour 09/29/07 Phoenix, AZ - Private Function 10/05/07 Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones 10/07/07 Los Angeles, CA - Private Function 11/11/07 Las Vegas, NV - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 12/29/07 Las Vegas, NV - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 12/31/07 Las Vegas, NV - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Band Members ♥ Mark Jonathan Davis (Richard Cheese) ♥ Louis Allen ♥ Noel Melanio ♥ Brian Fishler

This brings me to Cheese... Richard Cheese (or as people like to say, Dick Cheese).

If you're not familar with Richard Cheese, he basically takes Top 40 hits and "loungified" them. Unlike Nouvelle Vague, Cheese's version is often played for jokes ... however, it's just more swanky.

As far as I know, Cheese started off as Mark Jonathan Davis^[1], a massive Star Wars geek. He wrote and recorded "Star Wars Cantina" song, which became a big hit on the Dr Demento Show in 1997.

Trying to recreate the success of "Cantina", he went back to record "The Phantom Medley" with his new group The X-Swing Fighters, in May 1999. Unfortunately the song was never quite as popular as Cantina.

Since both of these songs were never released because no one was able to obtain permission from the original music publishers, I will have to direct you to download these songs at Docking Bay 101.

Davis reinvented himself as a lounge artist, and in October 2000, released Lounge Against the Machine.

I would hazard a guess that his most popular song is "Down with the Sickness" because it appeared on the remake of Dawn of the Dead - and that basically crossed over to a more mainstream audiences.

Anyway, Cheese has a new album coming out October 23rd, 2007, called Dick at Nite. The concept to this album are television theme songs, Cheesified.

It looks like the digital album (available on iTunes since August 2) beat the physical CD in release dates, probably due to production and pressing?

Albums [Oct 2000] Lounge Against the Machine [Oct 2002] Taxicity [Apr 2004] I'd Like a Virgin [Mau 2005] Aperitif For Destruction [Feb 2006] The Sunny Side of the Moon [Oct 2006] Silent Nightclub [Oct 2007] Dick at Nite [N/A] Bootlegs / Unreleased Material Footnotes [1] Mark Jonathan Davis website

I normally recommend waiting for the CD, but in this case, the digital version looks a little more enticing anyway, since it offers three extra songs: "American Idol Theme", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Theme" and "Scooby-Doo Theme" and probably cost a few extra bucks cheaper.

It also seems to be that this year will be his retirement from live appearance. The note on his website reads:

Seriously.

These will be Richard Cheese's Final concert performances with his Lounge Against The Machine band in these cities. He might play a few shows in Vegas in 2008, but don't count on it!

See him now while you can!

Check out WB Mook's Spreading the Cheese as well as other voxers.

You can find even more clips of his songs on Richard Cheese's media page. They include the music video on youtube and various public appearances.

Check out "Insane in the Brain" song on Howard Stern on that media page.

 September 20, 2007 6:33 AM  vu my♥posts [email protected] www.richardcheese.com

Incredible Short Animation Tragically Named After Lame Dance

W. B. Himself

What with Vu hauling Aeon Flux* out of his collection, I got to thinking about some of the other fantastic shorts from Liquid Television, back in the day when MTV still didn't play music videos but still seemed to have its head out of its ass somehow.  To tell you the truth, it's something I do a lot.  Still, there is one morsel that I haven't quite gotten around to putting out on the table: Running Man.

Fully half the length of an entire episode of Liquid Television, Yoshiaki Kawajiri's "Running Man" told the story of an obviously disturbed competitor in a high stakes, far future version of NASCAR that, truth be told, even I could be conned into going to see.  It was a shoo-in for fans of Aeon-- inexplicable future, inexplicable characters, totally gorgeous and incredibly bizarre animation style.

The Running Man - by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Part 1)

The Running Man - by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Part 2)

Our musical selection, however, comes from another piece of animation entirely: Ralph Bakshi's Cool World.  Honestly, I've tried to love Ralph Bakshi, I really have.  Comic book and film enthusiasts far more discriminating than I rave about him as though he's a god.  But, let's face it.  In spite of Gabriel Byrne, Kim Bassinger (remember when she was t3h h0tn3ss?  *choke* *splutter*), and Brad Pitt, Cool World had the artistic vision of a dirty limerick.

Sex On Wheelz

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

It is, however, the song that was used in the MTV commercial for that season of Liquid Television.  How's that for useless application of memory.

*Special characters omitted out of laziness

500!!

W♥M 2007 Award Nominations

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If you feel your favorite band is not represented here, please get four of your friends to mark ...

 

 

The Smiths - This Charming Man

Celebrating our 500th post!!

I actually planned on doing a bunch of "500" songs, but I didn't think that would really represent W♥M. So I thought back and remembered that we sort of had a contest about which songs were your favorite.

As it turns out, the clear winner is Stars' "This Charming Man", a favorite here since we've mentioned them several times now.

So let's take a look at why this song is good? First of all it's a Smiths cover song, so instantly there's something to be liked. Then there is Stars' unique take on the song, mixing melody with a dance beat.

When you add it up, it's a very excellent song!

Stars - This Charming Man 14 people have marked Stars - This Charming Man “a favorite”

France Gall - Laisse Tomber Les Filles 11 people have marked France Gall - Laisse Tomber Les Filles “a favorite”

Dolly Parton - Jolene 10 people have marked Dolly Parton - Jolene “a favorite”

Dean Martin - Sway 9 people have marked Dean Martin - Sway “a favorite”

Jonathan Coulton - Baby Got Back 9 people have marked Jonathan Coulton - Baby Got Back “a favorite”

 September 18, 2007 12:05 AM  vu my♥posts [email protected] www.weheartmusic.com