Aqualads

Here's to another new release...

I've recently rekindled my love for surf music after getting indigestion from stuffing myself on an all surf diet a while back. Don't worry I only have 1 Hawaiin shirt left, the original. While listening to the Devlar surf sessions on live365.com ( http://raydukes_1.tripod.com/ ) Ray, who still plays 3 SumpPump monkeys tracks, played an old Aqualads track. So I decided if Aqualads had a viable site other than the now deceased MP3.com, and they do! ( http://www.aqualads.com/index.html ) AND they have a new CD, to make sure you know what type of music it is, titled "Surf!, Surf! Surf!

The startup page has a pretty awesome image of their new CD cover (which I may buy a t-shirt of)
I think I may just get all of their CD's. I better start making a list too.

Now to another Aqualads subject. They are pretty awesome. But I seem to remember them being younger for some reason. Sort of how old the Stingrays(where did they go?) were back in the day, the glory days of mp3.com that is. Well to my chagrin I found out that they are another typical late-middle aged surf band trying to rekindle a cool youth that they never had. I guess the "lads" reference in their name is just a sick joke on my imagination. But alas, their music is awesome.

P.S. Slacktone playing "Miserlou" is insanely awesome.

Hey, here's some stuff I've been listening to, as one year ends and the next one starts. If you're into any of it too, let me know, and if not, try checking it out.

Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven. - It's on Ghostly International, (or Spectral, whichever you wanna call it) which is easily one of the best lables around. I can literally buy anything they put out and instantly love it. It's nice melodic electro. Some cool vocals. Kinda mysterious and a bit dancy and dark. It's like a tight black t-shirt. I put it on when I'm getting ready to go out, and I feel 100 times sexier.

Dani Siciliano - Dani Siciliano likes... - on !K7, again one of the best lables on the planet. She's Matthew Herbert's wife, but she's awesome in her own right. This album is all over the place, but it's always melodic and catchy and jazzy and right-on in every way. I'm especially into her version of Nirvana's Come as You are.

RJD2 - Since We Last Met - on Definative Jux - He's pretty much a genius. Normally a hip-hop producer, providing beats for Soul Position and others. This is his second solo project and it's decidedly less hip hop than the first. There are no vocals for one thing, but don't let that scare you away. He's at the top of his game here. If you're a fan of DJ Shadow, you'll like this better.

Jeans Team - Gold Und Silber - Kitty-Yo -it's just an EP, and it came out in 2002 but it's going to take a miracle to get me to stop playing it. It's the most infectious music I've heard in a long time. Or well, since their self-titled full length came out in 2000. If there was a scene in Tron where the characters went to a sexy German disco with pulsating lights and a pumping sound system this would be the music they danced to.

And you know, whatever, I'm listening to a million other things too. Beans- Shock City Maverick and whatever I can find by the Crown City Rockers. Any 7heads reissue I can get my hands on. And blah blah blah, lots of other stuff. But I guess it can all wait for another post. For now, I'm off to put on my tight black t-shirt...

The Mars Volta

Well I just found this out...

The Mars Volta have a new CD coming out titled "Frances the Mute" to be released on March 1st, 2005.

From Billboard.com:
"the new set features 77 minutes of music spread across five tracks, three of which contain multiple subsections."

Jam

They have the track list on Billboard too, which is pretty neato.

Here is a further article (better than the article referred to above):
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/10887.html

Here's a link to a new single:
http://www.marsvolta.com/ecard/#