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a. A really nice video of El P performing and interviewed HERE.
b. BWE interviews Ben from Lost.  Asks him, where are you in the future??  HERE.
c. Our friend, Charles Glaubitz, blogs for Juxtapoz HERE.
d. New Wooden Hand song, check it out here.  Wooden Hand – Delia .
e. Faronheit has LIVE peter bjorn and john on the radio HERE.
f. Michael Moore talks about SICKO on Real Time (in a non polarizing way too.)  HERE.

Don’t ask me why I have been so nostalgic this week, first this POST and then this POST, I just can’t get enough of older music that I used to love. My next door neighboor while living in SF gave me the vinyl version of The Trans Megetti Steal the Jet Keys. Even though, I owned vinyl before this LP, I don’t think I ever really appreciated another record as much up to that point. I instantly, and have since, always admired this New Jersey indie rock band. They have since broken up and I hear they are possibly surfing around the world or something but please check out this incredibly melodic, dynamic punk influenced band. *also I realized that I had posted about this band before… so enjoy some more music from them..

The Trans Megetti – Gina, from Fading Left to Completely on.

The Trans Megetti – Mercitron , From Rent a Rocket 7inch.

The Trans Megetti – Return Ride , from Steal the Jet Keys.

The Trans Megetti – On the Monday , from Fading Left to Completely on.

The Trans Megetti – De Dig the Demons , from Soon be Seeing you Later EP.

Also check out their label, Gern Blandsten, they are a great NJ label. Please Support!

BUY OTHER RELEASES HERE. CHECK OUT MORE MUSIC FROM THIS ARTIST HERE. BACK TO HOMEPAGE HERE.

a. Now for a short time only, get Xo by Elliott Smith HERE.

b. Check out Who’s Driving the Bus, hosting Ryan Adams covering Alice in Chain’s “Down in a Hole” HERE.

c. GVB has a new / rare old Sufjan Stevens song, we all know how I FEEL ABOUT THIS ONE!!! HERE.

d. Congrats to our friend and frequent traveling Buddy, Chris Milk on his Director of the Year award at the MVPA awards, check out the pict below.

e.  Please stop telling me about LOST, I am watching it now!!!

So once again, I go to do a post about a band that I was nuts about a few years ago, check the Hype Machine and what do I see? Me and Can you see the Sunset from the Southside once AGAIN, being the only two geeks online posting about them… Oh well, I think he posted just one song… So here’s Boy’s Life, part of the 90′s Crank Records indie scene. They put out slow moving creepy landscape music (most of the time). And I loved it. Actually remembered using one of their songs in a photo exhibit I did in college. Anyway, Hope you like…

Boy’s Life – Twenty Four of Twenty Five. from Landscapes and Departures .

Boy’s Life – Radio Towers. from Landscapes and Departures .

Boy’s Life – Golf Hill Drive . from s/t .

BUY OTHER RELEASES HERE. CHECK OUT MORE MUSIC FROM THIS ARTIST HERE. BACK TO HOMEPAGE HERE.

a. Have you checked out Bryan Scary? Here are some dates for tour with an MP3. What do you think? My friend Todd, thinks he loves it!!

Bryan Scary and The Shredding Tears Live:

05/28 New York, NY Pianos
05/31 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
06/01 Chicago, IL Elbo Room
06/04 Portland, OR Rotture
06/05 Seattle, WA High Dive
06/06 San Francisco, CA Ebo Room

Bryan Scary – Misery Loves Company.

b. Check out unreleased The Game songs HERE.

c. Neurosis does a promo video HERE.

d. Voxtrot does Daytrotter HERE..

e.  El P live on Video HERE.

f.  CYSTSFTS has a live Dismemberment Plan HERE.

g.  Grab the entire Either / Or record HERE.

Check out these five songs from Mr. Ryan Adams recorded live in Austin TX, 9.29.02 :

Ryan Adams – To be Young (live)

Ryan Adams – Shakedown on 9th street (live)

Ryan Adams – Firecracker (live)

Ryan Adams – New York, New York (live)

Ryan Adams – Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones cover live).

BUY OTHER RELEASES HERE. CHECK OUT MORE MUSIC FROM THIS ARTIST HERE. BACK TO HOMEPAGE HERE.

I don’t remember where or how I came across Charles Glaubitz work first but I can tell you this, he was the first artist I ever commissioned to do work for me and he, might be, one of the nicest men I have never met. I have since bought at least 5 paintings from him and have referred him to at least two other people. Check out this interview I did with him over the internet.

What is your name?
Charles Glaubitz Gonzalez

Where do you live and work? How would you say that has defined you as
an artist?
I live and work in PLayas de Tijuana, Mexico. Right on the border
between Mexico and USA, it has made my work what it is…where the third
world meets the first with a flood gate and some fanatics with guns
called the minutemen.

How long have you been selling paintings for?
about 6 years

Do you have any exhibits running right now? Any future ones? What are
you working on right now?
Yes I do, HERE!

What is your creative process?
content, sketches, painting, sip of beer, painting, sip of tequila,
painting, finish.

What is your favorite medium?
right now is acrylic

What is your current favorite subject?
modern myths, esoterism, quantum physics, magic, indigo children, new
age, politics, environmentalism.

I know you are a family man, besides paying bills how does that effect your subject or your process?
It has changed my outlook on my work alot!instead of being angry and our
society for its stupidity and making paintings about it!I figured out
that two negatives just repel each other and don’t really make a change,
so my work ahs changed into sometime that hopefully has a different
positive outlook and that will have a larger effect than the negative.

How has that changed from your past paintings?
well look at this way, before I wanted to burn all McDonalds with
molotovs, now I understand that if I do that they will build more!!so
it is better for me to go to school, get a masters in business and work
myself to the top of the board and then bankrupt the damn mother fucker
with bad buisness decisions.

what have you been listening to most?Does it effect your process? why
and how?
I keep always going back to tommy guerrero, pink floyd, miles davis
bitches brew, art bell coast to coast, deepak chopra quantum healing,
dorren virtue, grant morrison….

How long does it take for you to finish a piece?
a little beer, a little tequila and some weed.

What has been your biggest accomplishment so far?
being a good husband(well thats my opinion) and a good father

How does your location effect your paintings?
they did in the beginning, but they don’t now!

Are there any contemporary artists that you love? Dead artists?
Jose clemente Orozco, Gary Panter, Lee Baxter Davis, Jack Kirby, Hiyao
Miyazaki,

What do you think of the current state of Art in the US / MEXICO?
The outsider art movement in the US to me is my favorite, it is honest,
sincere and what it is…it has no snobby pretentious attachments,
obviously the snobby art is what is in the art circles!!!in Mexico it is
all about Gabriel Orozco, a snobby pretentious artist.

Can we buy your paintings / sketches / prints anywhere?
Yes Checkout www.mrglaubitz.com as well as galeria h&h

Red or Blue?
both! they make each other stronger!

Anything that people should know about that we don’t??
Yeah!That a spoon full of salt in a glass of water makes the water
undrinkable and a spoon full of salt in a lake goes unnoticed.

Any last words?
the after proceeds the before always.

CHECK OUT CHARLES GLAUBITZ SITE HERE.

CHECK OUT MORE HERE.

Miles Davis – JOhn Maclaughlin

Tommy Guerrero – Post Primative

a. Check out the new LIVE free Black Keys EP HERE.

b. When the Willowz come to this area, see them live:

07/15 Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place*
07/17 Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber*
07/18 Washington, DC @ Black Cat*
07/19 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar*
07/20 Cambridge, MA @ T.T. the Bear’s*
07/22 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s*

Listen to them: The Willowz – Evil Son .

c. Check out some new Pelle Carlberg, a Swedish singer / songwriter:

Pelle Carlberg – I love you, you imbecile .

Pelle Carlberg – Clever Girls .

d. Check out another great Swedish band, Lonely, Dear, song here: Lonely, Dear – A few good Men .

check out their video HERE.

e. The Airborne Toxic Event, yeah I know, bad name, anyway, listen to them here: The Airborne Toxic Event – Does this mean you’re moving on? .

f. Check out the new Sage Francis video, Got up this Morning, at Epitaph’s site HERE.

g. Wilco tells Spinner they’re pissed that Entertainment Weekly said they sound like the Eagles HERE.

h.  Here’s your chance to finally download Elliott Smith’s whole first record without having to tell people you haven’t heard it.  HERE.

i.  Check out Paul Sheer answering questioning about the Human Giant marathon HERE.

j.  the Editors cover the Gorillaz at the Music Slut HERE.

k.  Check out a live David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) solo show at Bradley’s Almanac, that includes radiohead and dylan covers HERE.