As spring sucks big time thus far, all one can do is to smell the flowers safely indoors. The specimen pictured above is one tulip out of fifty currently residing in a shiny champagne bucket in the kitchen at For The Sake Of The Song headquarters. Yup, ran cold out of bubbly. And as a soundtrack, here's a sweet-smelling musical six pack for ya. "Don't send me no flowers, I ain't dead yet..." Liz Phair - Flower The Breakers - Don't Send Me No Flowers Buffalo Tom - Sunflower Suit Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers Jacks - Uragiri No Kisetsu (Gloomy ...

First, the good news! Kool Keith’s latest album Love & Danger is set to hit the Earth planet on June 5 via Junkadelic! Now here’s the bad news: the album could potentially be Keith’s last. The veteran weird crazy rap man has laid out his plans rather plainly in a press statement . “This is probably my last project. You just got the last of the vocals of me. I’m quitting the game. Goodbye, rap,” Keith presumably dictated to a goat in a spacesuit with a Fischer-Price tape recorder strapped to its horns. On the one hand, Kool ...

- Frequenze news - Storia di un colpo di fulmine atto secondo. Quando il feeling viene certificato dai fatti - in una playlist radiofonica la band parigina snocciola gli ascolti della mia vita - allora si parla di vero amore. Aspettando l'album in uscita a momenti, che si preannuncia proiettato ad un electro wave noir a la Blue Velvet, i Tristesse Contemporaine sono lo scoglio su cui aggrapparsi per un inizio anno poverissimo di suggestioni. PLAYLIST : LEILA - Something URSULA BOGNER - Für Ulrich HUMAN WOMAN - Delusional (Kasper Bjarke Remix) Z Y X - Trust No Woman (Tristesse Contemporaine edit ) YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS - Include Me Out ...

Requested by Lena • Compiled by Those Were The Days 01. Bikini Kill - “I Like Fucking” (The Singles) 02. Guitar Wolf - “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (Planet Of The Wolves) 03. The Rolling Stones - “Where The Boys Go” (Emotional Rescue) 04. Mount Eerie - “Mystery Language” (Song Islands, Vol. 2) 05. Broken Social Scene - “Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl” (You Forgot It In People) 06. Blink-182 - “Anthem” (Enema Of The State) 07. Los Campesinos! - “Plan A” (Romance Is Boring) 08. Hello Astronaut Goodby Television - “Skate Or Die” (Pixelated Math Costumes) (Break)~~~~~~<====3 09. The Jesus and Mary Chain - “Just ...

The sixth annual Midwest Music Summit (MMS) taking place August 10-12 in Indianapolis, IN today announced a portion of its line-up for what is shaping up to be its best and most anticipated year yet, some of the acts include Dr. Octagon (aka Kool Keith), Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s, Mickey Avalon, Local H, Silversun Pickups, Jon McLaughlin, Russian Circles, Murder By Death, Virgin Millionaires, Early Day Miners, The Sun, The Elms, Wheatus, Laylights, Man in Gray, Page France and many more. Additional local acts confirmed include Mudkids, Extra Blue Kind, Stereo Deluxe, and America Owns the Moon. In addition to the lineup of national and emerging talent, the MMS features two days of panels and workshops covering a vast array of important music industry topics ranging from marketing, promotion, publicity, blogging, digital music distribution, A&R;, Touring and Music Supervision among others.

by Gumshoe • November 2011 There always seems to be one element out of whack when I go to a festival. It can relate to climate, band lineup, weather, surroundings, accompaniment, and even VIP-entry status (let’s just say I’m used to getting the royal treatment). When thinkin’ on Fun Fun Fun Fest , six things spring to mind: dust, drum machines, dust, close proximity between three stages, dust, and ____ (I think you get the point). Was it just a tad dusty? Yeah. I can tell you more, but nothing compares to blowing your nose after a day of scuttling ...

This Friday, when the three-day American version of the eclectic All Tomorrow's Parties festival kicks off in Asbury Park, New Jersey, British downtempo pioneers Portishead will be playing their first American show in three years. It's a big deal, because the trio from Bristol have released only two albums since their breakout 1994 debut, Dummy ( No. 47 on SPIN's 125 Best Albums list), which layered Beth Gibbons' spectral vocals atop booming hip-hop beats and lush orchestration, and they rarely tour. But beyond kicking off their first national headlining jaunt in 13 years at ATP, the bandmembers are ...

Requested by Regine • Compiled by nowhere man Sex in real life is exactly as described in these songs. Hope your education is satisfying, if not uneven. 01. Three Six Mafia - “Slob On My Knob” (Vol. 2-Club Memphis Underground) 02. Big Punisher - “I’m Not A Player” (Capital Punishment) 03. Dr. Dre - “Let's Get High (feat Hittman, Kurupt, and Ms. Roq)” (2001) 04. Ol’ Dirty Bastard -“I Want Pussy” (Nigga Please) 05. Ying Yang Twins - “Wait (The Whisper Song)” (U.nited S.tate of A.tlanta) 06. 2 Live Crew - “Face Down, Ass Up” (Banned in the U.S.A ...

New remix from Jason Drake (Cassettes Won’t Listen) under his Dfalt moniker. Drake is a renowned remixer having previously reworked tracks by the likes of Diplo, Gold Panda, El-P (featuring Trent Reznor) and Dr. Octagon to dazzling effect. Now Drake has turned his attentions James Blake...

Seit dem Beginn seiner Karriere als zentrale Figur der Ultramagnetic MCs hat Kool Keith ständig den Namen und die Gestalt gewechselt. Erst als Dr. Octagon, dann wieder als Kool Keith und danach als Dr. Doom. Man könnte noch ein wenig länger weitere Pseudonyme aufzählen – oder einfach feststellen, dass dieser Durchgeknallte eine Untergrund-Ikone sowie einer [...]

Today's Point/Counterpoint comes via local alt-rockers Soviet and Ft. Worth Star-Telegram entertainment writer Preston Jones via their Twitter accounts, in which the two parties debate the new Jay-Z/Kanye collab Watch the Throne as well as the problem with mainstream rap. @prestonjones : My review of the superb "Watch the Throne": dfw.com/2011/08/08/491… @SovietMusic : @prestonjones interesting review. I completely disagree. I feel that it's reviews like this that only further the idea that they are artists @SovietMusic: I would suggest that the lens which you and many other ppl see these two is tainted ...

Son Raw really hated it when Canadian rappers said they were from the “North Coast” Hyperdub, like Dr. Octagon, moves on to the year 3000. While the music press understandably wets its collective drawers for every Burial release, Kode 9′s label stretches miles beyond Will Bevan’s shadowy Garage by cultivating a balance between the experimentalist… Continue reading »

Wise words from Dr. Octagon, whose "Love And Danger" album drops later this year.

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"Diamond" Jim Greer is no stranger to the recording studio. As part of the Rondo Brothers duo, he's been involved with over 70 records to date. He was the lead writer on Galactic's "Heart of Steel", sung by Irma Thomas and listed by NY Times' as one of the "Top Ten Songs of 2010". Other notable projects to which he has contributed include: Yoko Ono, Tipsy, Dr. Octagon, York Dolls">New York Dolls, and more. With this much experience it goes without saying that Jim would have certain gear to help him achieve his trademark sound.