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SNEAKPEEK, “Walk All Over Me”
I enjoy this kind of shoegaze – the kind blended with a little bit of face-melting guitar work – but I wonder if they could pick up the pace just a tad? Maybe it’s the amount of caffeine I’ve consumed in order to stay up all night in order to write this* or something, but there’s something about each of the four songs over at SNEAKPEEK’s Bandcamp that makes me think they would rock ten thousand times harder if they snuck just one extra beat in every minute. But, hey, they rock pretty well already. It’s not my band. Jeez, get off my back already.
The above track, “Walk All Over Me” is a bit of a monster. Simple riff, vocal harmonies reminiscent of the Breeders, and, as mentioned earlier, some screamin’ hot steel (that, honestly, came out of nowhere; did Ron Asheton get lost?). Hope to hear more like it on the upcoming EP.
*Uh … and do other things. I didn’t stay up all night just for eight sentences.
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Go Get Accordion Crimes to Make Their Record →
Hey, remember that bunch of posts I did on intelligent thugs Accordion Crimes a while back? Jeez, I hope they’re cool with me calling them thugs, by the way, since this is the second time I’ve done it, and I’ve never even met them.
Anyway, if you do remember those posts, you know they fucking rule.* If you don’t, go check them out. Back? Great. So, you want more, and you can get more, and the way to get more is to pledge on their Kickstarter. They’re making a full-length, and if the stuff I’ve heard them do in the past is any indicator, it’s going to knock your block off. They’re doing all those neat fundraiser-type things for varying pledge-levels, so even if you’re a busted sack of crap like me, you can get something awesome outta them for not that much money.
And if you’re a bit more gifted monetarily, you can force them to cover a song of your choosing. Think about having that kind of power. Just imagine it. If I could, I’d have them cover some awesome/dumb shit like Billy Childish, the Minutemen, or “Roundabout,” but, at least for now, I’ll have to leave that for folks like you, who have a spare $250 to huck their way.* Now, how much to get them to come play New York?
So get over there and pledge, and reserve yourself some fancy colored vinyl in the process. And let me know when you do, so I’ll feel like I’ve done something with myself! See ya later.
*If you don’t like Accordion Crimes, I don’t even know why you’re here. Hit the bricks.
**Heads up, potential robbers of An Uncontrollable Urge: I have about that much, total, in my bank account right now. So, better luck next time. Hey, what do I have to hide? Oh, and by the way, if I can afford to drop some bills on this, so can you, you cheap piece of shit wonderful and reasoned individual.
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The Young Rascals, “I’ve Been Lonely Too Long & Come On Up”
Okay, right off the bat I feel like I need to say that I think the Rascals are great. So let’s not have any arguments on what I’m about to say, because I mean it in the most positive way possible (which I know seems odd).
Watch this video, and tell me the guitarist and the tambourine player don’t look like complete jagoffs. For the first number, it’s mainly the guitarist. He’s all smiles and goofy faces, and it’s great.
But then, once they start “Come On Up,” tambo grabs a second skin, and goes off. I’ve never seen someone do what this guy does as a serious demonstration of ability, and basically, it’s the whole reason he’s in the band. He’s a professional dickhead.
Okay, like I said, I think this is awesome. I know basically every word I just used to describe these guys is most often thought of as negative, but I don’t mean any of the negative parts. They went all out with no regard for how completely silly they looked (or, I guess, would look in 50 years, since I imagine they didn’t look like a pair of horse’s asses in 1966 or whatever) and that’s great. And, above all else, they fucking rocked. Dino Danelli on the drums blew my mind. Why is nobody freaking out over how nasty that guy is? He’s like Keith Moon and Mitch Mitchell’s weird buttbaby.
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The Downliners Sect, “Now She’s Dead”
This is one of the weirdest songs I’ve ever heard. It’s so oddly dark in a way that I don’t think will ever happen again. I can’t imagine a mindset where you want to write a seemingly upbeat ’60s rock ballad, one that sounds like they would sing it with smiles on their faces if they were performing it on TV, but with lyrics like this. And those vocals, of course, are both haunting and goofy at the same time.
Just another reason to be a Sect Maniac.
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Battles, “My Machines”
So this new Battles video is pretty great, right? Four minutes of a guy falling down an escalator - how could it not be?
I will say I am a little bummed that it looks like it’s not all one take, but I guess the guy might actually die if he had to really keep falling down a flight of grooved steel steps like that for that long, and they made it better with their editing and effects magic, so, fine then.
Song’s pretty great too, and the video really uses it well, especially toward the end of the video. The power! You’ll know what I’m talking about when you see it.
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Fucked Up, “Queen of Hearts”
I hate to be all “new media marketing” right now, but this is an awesome video. Making a music video for the web … you don’t really need to have the song in it at all, do you? That can easily be found through other means. The best way to get people interested is something like this, something that takes the song and does something creative of its own right with it. People get interested in the video because the video’s interesting. You don’t necessarily need to be out for new sounds - it’s just a good idea for a short video. But it makes use of the song in a new way, so if you are a person more interested in music than your average YouTube jerkoff, you’ll find something rewarding here too. Real well done.
Ahh, shut up, me. Anyway, I don’t see how anything could beat David Comes to Life for record of the year. I can’t stop playing this thing.
Here’s another video (“The Other Shoe”), not interesting in the same way as the one above, but it’s five minutes of some of my favorite sound ever. So, that’s pretty interesting (to me).
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So, I'm doing another podcast... →
My sister and I have started a podcast. Check it out!
Of interest to the An Uncontrollable Urge follower are these interstitials…
“Good Man“ by Heavy Trash
“Stand By Your Manatee” by Future of the Left
“Lover” by Fela Kuti
Of course, there’s also discussion of pooping, if that would push it over the edge…
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Self Promotion (eh ... kind of)! →
So, obviously there’s not been a lot going on at An Uncontrollable Urge. I’ll be honest: for the past several months, I’ve either been too poor to leave the apartment, or (now) too gainfully-employed to do anything else. At the moment, I’m working a couple of jobs. One of them does involve things that may be of interest to a follower of this blog, so I figured I may as well point you toward those things, until I’ve got more time to come back to Urge.
I’m working part time as a blogger and podcast host for Raditaz. The first episode came out last Friday, so check it out. I produced a few segments for it, and they are:
- An very basic overview of Fela Kuti and the Kalakuta Republic, including several excerpts from awesome Fela tracks. I also show off my awesome junior high-style essay skills.
- A playlist of songs having to do with break-ups, including some music I would normally never go anywhere near, but it did involve some audience suggestions, and how else would I have been able to come up with a playlist that wasn’t all punk-rock fury and the 13th Floor Elevators? That kind of thing should be saved for this blog. Anyway, this was more fun than I thought it would be.
- An interview with Bobby Matador from the band Oneida about being on the road, and whatever! Bobby was a lot of fun to talk to, and I picked up some great recommendations of music from him, including the Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby, which is currently blowing my mind. There’ll be sort of an extended cut of this interview going up within the next day or so, which includes Bobby listing off the records he’s been spinning recently. Some insane slabs in there.
The podcast comes out once a month, and I’ll keep you posted here as to when, more specifically, that is. For now, here’s Dorothy Ashby:
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An Uncontrollable Urge Episode 2: Rock and Roll Kills the Blues
This week’s episode of the podcast, punk rockers and rock’n’rollers playin’ and singin’ the blues. And, y’know, killin’ it.
Press play, or you’re next.
In case you missed it, check out the first episode: An Uncontrollable Urge Goes Surfin’, which went up last week. The show’s in iTunes now, so subscribe to it there, or use this handy RSS feed, if iTunes ain’t yer thing.
Playlist after the jump. Now jump!
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An Uncontrollable Urge Episode 1: An Uncontrollable Urge Goes Surfin’!
Update (6/2/11 5:18 p.m.): It’s in iTunes. Subscribe to that shit right here.
Things have been a bit slow-going here in An Uncontrollable Urge-territory. Let’s try and change that, how about? Here’s the first episode of a new podcast. Some day in the distant future, there will be a wide range of shows in the feed, not just music, so you’ve been warned. But for now, music it is.
Episode 1 is all surf music, in honor of it being hot and sweaty in New York for the past week or so, perfect conditions (I imagine) for hittin’ some waves, if one was so inclined. Episode 2 will not be surf, but there will be more of that to come.
Listen to the episode here, subscribe to the podcast with this feed, or find it in iTunes (soon, hopefully). Whatever!
Playlist after the jump, sucka.
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