Music

There are lots of names that would be great for bands… Let’s make a list of them here. Submit a Comment with any you’d like to see added! Continuously updated. Thanks Jay and others for helping with this list!

Gabriel and the Almighty Slap

Extruded Plastic Dingus
Tender Nipple Buds
Dolphins of the Barnyard

Man Up, Nancy!
Emotional Clods
Locking Loins (and, the spin off “Banging Ass”)
Infested with Art Students
The PCs (Pretentious Cocks)
Obviously Derivative (a cover band, naturally)
Pre-Fab Chaos
God’s Comic
Little Burn-Faced Midget Boy and the EMTs
Corpse Dogs
Unkle Al and the Green Jeans
Man Mayo
Little Burn Face Midget Boy & The Shriners
Harmonious Breath
Cupid’s Firey Shaft
Meddling Monkey
Athenian Swain
Female Ivy

Mac Dang and the Ripple Creek Fairies
The Flung
Hillbillies on Crack
Morbid Obesity
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I asked my friend Karin, lead singer for the band Over the Rhine, how their recent tour was. I specifically said, “How is the road?”, and she replied as follows… 

the road is:long, bumpy, sometimes smooth and straight, but every now and then a slow curve is welcome. it is lonely and yet overcrowded, always interesting and different and still somehow familiar, narrow and harrowing, deadly and alluring. addicting and intoxicating. stimulating and mind-numbing. always going to be there, impossible to ignore, harder to run from, and in my blood.

I think she summed it up very nicely! I’m glad they had a good tour and made it home safely. If you get a chance to see Over the Rhine, I strongly suggest that you do so.

My buddy Poulw designed and built his own multiple guitar stand for less than $30. Similar stands go for upwards of $100. He posted how to build your own, complete with pictures, here. Dog not included.

If you’re a person who needs such a thing, this is a good route!

From the creators of the Musical Genome Project comes the following:

Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?

It’s pretty darned neat.

Reprinted from Boing Boing.

Today is Dean Grey Tuesday, a net-wide day of protest over Warner Brothers’s attempt to censor a stupendous noncommercial mashup album called American Edit that remixes Green Day’s album American Idiot.

For today, websites across the Internet are mirroring the American Edit album and/or turning their page-backgrounds grey. Mashup albums don’t hurt the sales of the albums they sample — at worst, they have no effect on sales, at best they can promote them. Artists who are signed to major labels can avail themselves of labels’ legal departments when they want to remix others’ work and get their samples cleared. Indie artists, hobbyists and fans don’t get legal assistance from labels’ high-priced fixers. This is pure patronage: in the old days you couldn’t make art unless the King or some bishop granted you permission; today you need permission from a studio executive.

The labels admit this. Last year, EMI made headlines by censoring DJ Danger Mouse’s Grey Album, which remixed the Beatles’ White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album. I raised this with an EMI representative at London’s Creative Economy conference and she shrugged it off: “What’s the problem? We later hired Danger Mouse to make a mashup album for us.”

The problem is that copyright law is supposed to decentralize the process of making art, moving the power to authorize art from royalty to the marketplace. Labels have no business setting themselves up as arbiters of what art can and can’t be made.

Happy Dean Grey Tuesday. Up yours, Warners. Link

To celebrate the release of OHIO, their new double-CD release on Backporch Records, Over the Rhine did an in-store at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Hyde Park this afternoon.

Over the Rhine’s Karin Bergquist & Linford Detweiler

They played a few songs — the ones I can recall off the top of my head were Fever, Hometown Boy, Suitcase, Show Me, Ohio, The Seahorse, and certainly a couple others I’m forgetting — and chatted a bit about the new release before signing autographs for the large assembled crowd.

It was nice to see so many people at the in-store. The place was fairly crowded, and I felt fortunate to have a nice bench close to the band. I saw Dan T., Margarita, Debbie, and Bruce, but the rest of the folks were new faces, which makes me happy because OTR is getting some long-overdue new blood in their crowds.

The new CD is quite good. Do check it out!