Black Hearted Brother is a project featuring Slowdive’s Neal Halstead. Here they are with “(I Don’t Mean to) Wonder”.
Also, evidently the Judge Dredd remake has some impressive slow-motion set-pieces…
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Shoegazer Sunday: Black Hearted Brother’s “(I Don’t Mean to) Wonder”
Sunday, September 14th, 2014Shoegazer Sunday: Skip Skip Ben Ben’s “Last Light”
Sunday, September 7th, 2014Here’s “Last Light,” a pleasant little ditty from Taiwan’s Skip Skip Ben Ben:
Bold New Frontiers in Cattle Rustling
Friday, September 5th, 2014I think these guys could be in a Joe R. Lansdale story…
Jellybelly Cover’s Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”
Sunday, August 31st, 2014And the Slowdive cover kick continues, with Indonesia’s Jellybelly doing their cover of “Machine Gun” in a jangly live performance.
RIP: SNL Announcer Don Pardo, 96
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014Longtime Saturday Night Live announcer Don Pardo has died. I think he was the last person who worked on the inaugural season of SNL who stayed on with the show for it’s entire run. (Lorne Michaels went away for five years before coming back to the show.)
He was a great announcer, and he did a lot of work in radio and on TV game shows like Jeopardy.
Here he is on why script writers should use short words:
Don Pardo passed away yesterday. But he will receive some lovely parting gifts.
— John Walters (@jdubs88) August 19, 2014
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Golden Hair” Live
Sunday, August 17th, 2014Since their reunion, Slowdive seems to be a vastly better touring band than they were in their heyday. I think it helps that they’ve brought on more touring musicians to fill out the sound. According to the band on Twitter, it’s just the original five members.
Here they are covering Syd Barrett’s “Golden Hair” (from that post-Pink Floyd recording session here he never played anything the same way twice). The Barrett original is some two minutes long, and the original cover Slowdive did was four minutes long. This version is eight minutes long, and ends with one of the most beautiful, multiguitar Shoegaze solos ever recorded. (No wonder that one woman in the audience looks like she’s having a religious experience…)
This was recorded at the Best Kept Secret festival in The Netherlands on Saturday, June 21, 2014.
Shoegazer Sunday: Alcian Blue/The Antiques Cover Slowdive’s “Primal”
Sunday, August 10th, 2014The sound quality is not the best, and the vocals pretty much suck, but this cover by Alcian Blue (AKA The Antiques) is still the best live cover of “Primal” I’ve heard from anyone (including Slowdive, who only played it at early shows, and not particularly well).
Like I’ve said before, anyone doing good cover of “Primal” will get linked in this space.
As for Slowdive, their new tour shows their live shows have improved considerably, as we shall see next Sunday…
Weird Al Brings The Grammar
Wednesday, July 16th, 2014I bet every high school English teacher in America will be showing this to their class come September…
Shegazer Sunday: Tripwires’ “Cinnamon”
Sunday, July 6th, 2014For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s UK psychedelic shoegaze outfit Tripwires (not to be confused with Midwestern frat rock band Tripwire) with the short, high octane “Cinnamon.”
I think the video features footage from Alejandro Jordowsky’s Holy Mountain, which includes some very brief nudity.
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
Sunday, June 22nd, 2014The auteurs of The Asylum are Roger Cormen is at it again. Are you ready for Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda?
Coming August 2nd to (of course) The SyFy Channel.
At this point I’m thinking I ought to file a trademark for my Slothacconda idea…