Filed under: Music, dance music, humor, reviews | Tags: atlantis to interzone, humor, Music, reviews, techno, the klaxons
so im listening to some techy random stuff and i simply cannot review it because i want you to listen to it and i swear to you by the power of thor or some other beatific god that you will like it alot. suffice to say i control the world and you along with it.
and you probably have hearded of this song anyways. its old ish. and if u havent well now its new! goodie!
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and then listen to the song JETSETTER and open your mind to its delirious amazing techno energetic sounds.
for that matter i also recommend this also godly band called the klaxons. now if the song i spoke or typed about doesnt get you well this will melt your chilly toes into dancing ones.
its called.
THE KLAXONS – atlantis to interzone
have you listened to it yet? if u have by now let me be one to say to you – wasnt it beautiful? Didny you feel the need to maximize the volume?
now the kalxons have a different quality of techno to it. its dance/rock/techno/new wave/ rave music. its just all that in a blueberry pie that everyone loves.
thank you and goodnight.
Filed under: Music, reviews | Tags: flowers for dorian, karma cancer, local chicago band, Music, review, song
Flowers for Dorian
song review
Artist: Flowers For Dorian
Song: Karma Cancer
Label: Indie – as far as I know.
Lyrics:
You reap what you sow. With karma cancer,
A dissapointment, they told me not to. Knowing bad judgement, they simply knew you. With major let downs, with slaps in the face. In my heart there is for you not a place.
You reap what you sow. With karma cancer.
Claiming true friendship, and just turned your back. Retalliation, with petty attacks. No chance to be rash, you hung up the phone. Have a nice life being alone.
You reap what you sow…
Its our fate.
Not to collaborate.
People contribute.
You contaminate.
Review: My first reaction to this song was the doubling of guitars that had a upbeat beginning that turns into a dance jam that one wishes they knew the lyrics to so they could sing along to the catchy lyrics. The song progresses with a consistant guitar and strong ranged singer pouring his lungs out to emphasis his point – you reap what you sow. Its definitly a song that is reminiscent of the band the Junior Varisty and the song ‘ Im mad for Madusa’ except with staggering guitars and fast paced drums. Yet theyre also hold the style of The Junior Varisty well enough to take a listen to the rest of the songs. This band is acutally pretty damn good.
!LINKS!
Listen here: www.myspace.com/flowersfordorian
Filed under: Music, reviews | Tags: are you bald?, cd review, dance, dance punk, dr manhattan, Music, punk, rock
Mayonaise Music
Creative Writing Blog
April 30 2007
Dr Manhattan Saves the World of Emo!
cd review
Artist: Dr Manhattan
Label: Vagrant
Album: Are you bald?
Favorite Song at the moment: ‘The Party’s Opinion’ & ‘Traceys Buns’
The cd was there. In best buy of all places.A far cry from buying it from the band members themselves on a jerky brown table with the singer looking like he was on some sort of Adderall. It was right next to the popular emo screamo band Drop Dead, Gorgeous. It had the shiny plastic covering and the yellow sticker on top. I slowly grabbed the cd and brought it closer for insepection.
I was a bit skeptic that the cover was very simple with a completely black cover and only white writing on it. American Typewriter, size 12 font and a slightly dripping look like too much fresh paint on it.
I half expected it to have somthing completely random. I completely expected it to have somthing crazy random on it. Perhaps a man in a chicken suit or a unicorn dying with its intestines forming the next upcoming shows like on one of the bands previous flyers.
The simplicity of the cd made it all the more mysterious. I was baffled. Dman is my favorite band of all time and every detail in thier new cd is important.
I walked out of the stores flanked by my two best friends and ran to the car. It was freezing outside.
I carefully peeled of the layer of plastic. I had been waiting for the cd for ages. The band had been mulling around the idea for a full length cd for a while and seemed to be teasing everyone. ‘ Its coming out soon – in a month i think’ was somthing like what they were saying till i heard from word of mouth of the keyboardist Andrew that yes the cd is really coming out and i was rediculously happy.
Thus the story:
two years ago i went to my old friends house and we were in her computer room. The sun was filtering in through the shades, the window was open and it was a hot summer. My other friend Jko showed me a band on the computer – he was excited about it.
The first song was Breath of an Epoch. I wasnt too impressed as in I was willing to listen to it a few times but what really caught my interest was the song ” to feel cozy surrounded by cats” (formerly known as to feel cozy surrounded by wolves” ) The beginning piano song and the odd lyrics of ” yes now mother you may now kiss the corner” after a fictional wedding in the song confused me. But then the song turned out to be amazing regardless.
The band was cool. I liked it, but only enough to have downloaded one song called ‘ Dirty, scandalous, dirty’. that night on a wim, we drove out to see Dr Manhattan at a place called The Village in Lake Villa. We double checked the mapquest. The house/venue/ what have you was surrounded by residential houses but when we saw a bunch of cars and kids around we knew we arrived to the show.
We felt young like cubs going into a lions den. Everyone seemed like scruffy college kids that listened to indie music. People were smoking, laughing, and gathering in theyre little circle of friends.
Eventually time dwindled and when we heard the music start up people would walk in and out of the house. The room was compeltey empty except for a table in the back when we got there and after watiing for a while the band was set up in the front. We listened to various bands and the last to go was Dr Manhattan.
It was a new home we were walking into. It was somthing bigger than going to big venues like The allstate arena or the metro or the riviera. It was bigger than buying cds at the best buy.
the band was untainted by any pressures except to play music. There were lamps in the room giving a dim yellow light and enhanced the feeling of stepping into a world of raw music.
I was at the front ( not that it was hard getting there) and waited for the music to start. Four tall and one short started to play. They played. And it was amazing it was so much better than just hearing it from a stream off of myspace. ‘Whose going to pay for the door’ was playing and i watched the band play.
They had a playful feeling about them. Like they really didnt give a shit about looking like a dork or somthing like that. To me of coarse that was somthing that radiated coolness anyways. it was oxymornonic. They played and you just knew that they loved the music they played too. They moved to the beat of literally theyre own rythm because they couldnt help it, they had energy from the music they themselves created. I couldnt help but feel the same energy coming towards me from the speakers amplified by the people who were infront of me ‘on stage’.
To my right i noticed that people were dancing. Not just jumping up and down or anything like that.
The synth sound mixed with a fast-paced beat that slowed in the right places for dramatizing the vocals that repeated the significant chorus raucously.
I felt baffled. The music had its own quality and was setting up for a different genre on their own. The music didn’t call for anything but
dancing and rocking out.
Everyone around me was dancing out to the song Minds Like Ours that had already seemed one of the more prominent songs because everyone started to belt out the lyrics. The band didnt sing but a bunch of kids came out from the middle and went up to sing it. ‘Dman’ had not only a unique sound but a friendship to the people around them as i soon found out after the show.
i was immediatly hooked. Now if i ask anything out of my friends i always as them to check out this band.
Let me put it this way. If you like the playful kids that were in Blink182 when they played a show, you’d like Dman. The energetic feeling of ‘We are the sleepyheads’ by Belle and sebastian combined with the build up of ‘Kc Accidental’ by Broken Social Scene you’ve got Dman.
The dance synth of daft punks amazingness? Dman. The indie feel of The Go! Team and Modest Mouse is dman. Theyre Dance Punk in the sense of Klaxons – a beautiful balance. They’d play ‘Dashboard” by Modest Mouse without problem. They could play with MIA and still be dance or the matches and still be punk.
But there is a line. They are definitely not the next Panic! at the disco if thats what your thinking. They’re not pop like that.
Maybe the next attitude in thier music is like the pixies. Wierd engergy thats demands your attention and your energy. they play with a happiness not unlike The unicorns or Vampire Weekend. Like Weezers Pinkerton Album but the rawness of the blue album by weezer.
They are many things. And maybe Im completely wrong on what the sound like. Correct me then by listening to them because this band is going to be on your playlist for a while. Theyre going to be staying for a long time. i can promise you that.
!LINKS!
Listen here: www.myspace.com/drmanhattan
Label Site: http://www.vagrant.com/artist/index/32
Heres said unicorn…
