Metallica

I got Death Magnetic from the library tonite, not sure yet what I think, its very strong, like straight whiskey, I been listening to allot of these guys recently, the Ride The Lightening sessions and the Re-Load album, I really dig it, do you dig?

The Formula, Dandy Warhols, Moby, Cold!!

I re-visited Tim Fry's Formula MySpace page tonight - to give yet another listen to the new recordings - and I see he lists the Dandy Warhols as a friend! Wow, cool, and now that I see it, I understand the connection, I wonder how long Tim and his gang have been listening to the Dandy's? Courtney Taylor used to play drums in Neros Rome, another PDX outfit from waaay out of the past, man, I never thought much of them at all, but they were popular, I guess. A rare example of a talented drummer re-inventing himself as a guitar slinger vocalist song writer and fronting a success full band. Anyway, in my humble opinion, The Formula leans slightly more towards Roky Erickson than they do the Velvet Underground or Lou Reed, but again, the connection has been made. For some reason, these clicks led me over to Moby's MySpace page and as I write this I am listening to the big wonderful arrangements that he composes, I have been listening to PLAY a whole bunch lately, my daughter likes it too. Anyhow, I am gonna go to bed, its soooo cooooold in my place, brrrrr. If you read this, please visit my web page, thanks, there is some new stuff up.

The Best MySpace Pages (Musicians and Music)

I really don't care much for MySpace. I was booted off in about 2005 or 2006 (somewhere in there) for no reason that I could ever determine, and anyway, I have always felt that most of the pages are ugly and or boorish. The only pages I give a hoot about are the pages that represent musicians and the musicians that I like .... and the free music rules OK (like the Dandy Warhol's used to rule OK). Anyway .... the best layout I have EVER seen EVER for a MySpace page now officially belongs to Cleveland's own KICKDRUMS, it's just, gosh, awe inspiring - head and shoulders above anything else I have ever seen. So just tonite I am putting them at the number one spot...here is my hot list:

1.) The KickDrums - Outstanding layout, clean sharp songsmanship. I liked IDIOT SAVANT right away when I heard it. They give it away as a download, looks like they give away loads of Dloads. This layout just shocked me with its sweet ass animation and clarity of concept.

2.) Jessica Lea Mayfield - Only a pretty good layout, nice CD ad header at the top, overall a distant second for layout. The only reason I put her second is that I really like these free recordings, and this is the girl who used to be Chitllin. Seemingly her tour schedule has been taking her everywhere and she is in tite with the Black Keys . (Note: Jessica and KickDrums have close to the same number of profile views 233,848 and 246,880 respectively. The Black Keys have MILLIONs more hits than either one of these two artists at 2,813,390)

3.) Tim Fry and The Formula - I am putting Tim's project in here at third because I just listened to the posted recordings tonite and I find satisfying large roomy retro grooves and attractive breadth, appropriately and softly surfish with that guitar and those lyrics wrapping themselves around the theme. (The Formula has 29,474 profile views)

4.) Megapuss - Yeah, this is fun musical stuff, arty enough that it might take you a listen or three to dig/get it. This is Devendra Banhart and all his pals, I found him while surfing for Natalie Portman, this guy was her dude for awhile, I can see why, and I just watched some Star Wars a few days ago, it all fits together, right? Nothing special about the layout here, it's really almost too wide, but features a cool BIG bw picture. If you go to the Megapuss website you can download the lovely PDF document that goes with the album. (Megapuss has 132,357 profile views)

5.) John Fegy - Hmmm, John has upped the ante in regards to the listenability of both his voice and his recordings, he spent time on these and they sound all spiffy studio perfection: These songs are dressed up for a night at a five star restaurant. Layout is good, the most basic kind of good. John has posted some video to this page, and he lets us know what is gwink on with him, apparently he is getting all smarted and networked up at school and landed a job in, uhm, Antarctica. (John is currently showing 12,634 profile views)


6.) Alan Medej - I have liked and continue to enjoy Alan's recordings, even if his profile layout clearly illustrates the I Have A Way Too Wide MySpace page concept. (Alan is showing 18,497 views)

Ok, enough for now.