Cigarette In Your Bed

Possibly one of my favorite youtube videos ever, made by a fan of the band. This video for My Bloody Valentine's, Cigarette In Your Bed, simply shows a lot of clips from movies, with people smoking. It's alright, maybe a bit artsy fartsy, but what the fuck ever. I think this is one of MBV's best songs, because of the contrasting guitar and percussion. The song changes from a very wavy out there feel with softer guitar, and barely there percussion, to tough booming guitar, and blasting drums. Truly shoegaze, at its finest. Enjoy.

Lazy Thursday

Awesome Daft Punk.

Tobacco

Tobacco- Fucked Up Friends


No not what you smoke, it's the artist from Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tobacco. Tobacco and Black Moth are both Pittsburgh based music makers, with a unique sound. If you like electronic music than this will be your shit. Tobacco had a debut album Fucked Up Friends, which is almost entirely looping, and was recorded only on analog equipment. Though he does go back to his Black Moth roots, and uses the vocoder on many a track. One of the interesting tracks Dirt, which features hip hop artist Aesop Rock. Listening to this track shows the potential Tobacco, has for being a real producer. He really brings the stoner element back to life with his music , the beats are very trippy, but are still friendly on the ear. His beats are good, and original enough to get some recognition, I believe. Anyways listen to the albums FUF's opening track, see what you think, Enjoy.

Street Trash - TOBACCO

February 10th 2009 Show

Garfield Artworks


Live from Garfield Artworks on Penn Avenue comes headliners Mi Ami, with former Black Eye's members, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Depreciation Guild, and South Seas Sneak. I'm at the show with a few friends as usual, if you've never been to Garfield, it is a total indie scene. New art lines the walls, shows are cheap, and obscure bands are always playing. While I could hate this place, it seems to be a bit special, regardless of the fucking heat. If the venue gets packed, you will do nothing but sweat, not that awesome, buzzkill really. Really though it has a great starting off bands feel, original music, sound quality isn't amazing, but it is damn loud. Really though there isn't much more I could ask for.

To start the show we see local band South Seas Sneak, I think it was a local band. Two older men mid 20s?, come in guitar and drums. Solid percussion and guitar, the music was a little lacking though. I can't hate on innovation, the set was mostly instrumental, some screaming in one of the tracks. It ended fast enough, it was alright.


Depreciation Guild


Next up comes a complete surprise shoegaze/electronica band called, Depreciation Guild (free album below). These guys just fucking ripped, if you're someone that is into shoegaze. They immediately showed signs of My Bloody Valentine, with their drowned out vocals, and loud guitars. They really had a unique shoegaze sound, not just using guitars, but the use of Nintendo noises. As lame as this sounds, they had a controller onstage with a synth, but really this made the music what it was. A strange darker sound, eerie singing, good drumming, and odd visual effects. They had a manager I believe, putting up odd color squares behind the band, they also used strobe lighting for breakdowns. This band fucking blew my ear out, but it was awesome, surprised me how well they sounded. I was right up front jamming, I was very welcoming to hearing some shoegaze, as was the crowd around me. Interestingly enough, the lead guitarist/singer from this band was the drummer in Pains. I talked to him after, he was a pretty nice dude, stressed about how the sound kinda fucked up, he was welcome to some props for playing a great show.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart


Next was the band I really came to see, Indie poppers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. These guys came out with a very band look, tight jeans, sweaters, hoodies, warm colors, had a walk to them as well. The crowd recieved them warmly, and really this was the part of the show that was the most packed. Again I was up front ears ringing, and the music was awesome. The vocals were lacking which sucked, no fault to the band though, it's Garfield after all. The four piece band rocked the place with their awesome Smiths like songs. Good singing from the male lead, and the female backup. This band is all about about upbeat music, which a lot of the time is a nice refresher. Upbeat, fun, lovey lyrics seem to make the band who they are, with songs ranging from "Come Saturday" to "This Love is Fucking Right' they killed it. The instrumentation was great, short poppy songs, rocking guitar, background synth, groovin bass, solid. Pains really seemed to be into the crowd, and seemed to enjoy the venue as a whole. The fans were into it, the band was, and so was Manny (owner). They played a good 45 or so minutes, and left with smiles and congratulations from the crowd. I ended up purchasing their record for the price of 10 dollars, which for vinyl is a steal. Hopefully they come back, since they enjoyed themselves it seemed.

Mi Ami


The last band who I really didn't know, and was too tired to really stand up for, was ex black eyes member influenced, Mi Ami. They were a trance type band, but with banging drums, and screaming. Don't mean to really cut this one short, but they seemed pretty good, played about 5, 12 minute (or so it seemed) songs. They ended up having a smaller gathering than Pains, but with the pitchfork review I guess anything can happen.

All in all, it was a very good show. It started off a little weird, but the middle was amazing, and actually ended pretty well. I can only hope that Pains, and Depreciation Guild come back in the near future. They rocked the crowd, myself, and that's really I was hoping for. I am going to go listen to the vinyl. Enjoy

Depreciation Guild

They have a free full album available for download, go to this site Depreciation Guild, hover over album, and you will find a link to the download. This 10 song shoegaze album is great, and best of all free. Enjoy

Concert Pains

Depreciation Guild

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Saw The Pains of Being Pure At Heart last night, at Garfield Artworks. Surprisingly enough, one of their openers called Depreciation Guild, is very good as well. If you werent aware Pains is an indie pop/rock band, and Guild is a shoegaze My Bloody Valentine type band. Both were very enjoyable to watch, and played a great show.

The Game

The name says it all, hate it or love it. 50 actually being decent, The Game at the top of his game, and solid beats. Random post just thought I'd get this one out there, sick.

Smashing Pumpkins new track

If you weren't aware, The Smashing Pumpkins revealed a new song,named FOL, during a Hyundai ad, that played on Super Bowl Sunday. This song is free for download, at the Hyundai link at the bottom of this paragraph. While I am not really a huge Pumpkins fan, though I enjoyed most of their earlier music. This seems to really try to be a remake of their older songs. It reminds me somewhat of a more produced Zero, or even Bullet With Butterfly Wings, with how intense it attempts to be. It really ends up just sounding as though, they are trying too hard to be well dark again. Corgan really in my mind, has lost this whole dark image, the song brings mediocre guitar, lyrics, and overall production. It isn't good, but I think most of the fans agree they are taking a huge nose dive at this point in their long music careers. While I am not attempting to be too critical, just listen to Zero and FOL, and see how they stack up side by side, I think it's simple to see what has happened. Selling out sucks for everyone.

FOL

Zero - Smashing Pumpkins