No Rock And Roll Fun: NME commits to a new future

heh. cuz old people are high-larious.

No Rock And Roll Fun: NME commits to a new future: "NME commits to a new future

"In this week's NME, Conor McNicholas makes it clear that we're living in a year zero:
The domination of skinny-jeaned, vest-wearing, jangly indie-boys is coming to an end ... Bands releasing their second albums of nice music for your mum [...] is very, very bad news.

Blimey. At last. The NME has decided the dull indie guitar band must die. So... what's the answer?

We've now got our answer:
NME to give away new Coldplay songs free

A free Coldplay 7-inch vinyl single will be given away with the issue of NME that comes out on May 7. The vinyl will include 'Violet Hill', a song that will appear on the forthcoming LP.

So, the nice-music-for-your-mum band is dead - long live the painfully-nice-music-for-your-Gran band."

Sin City = Dallas?

Back Talk Lakewood/East Dallas: Forbes ranks Dallas as one of greediest U.S. cities: "The folks at Forbes have complied a list of 'America’s Most Sinful Cities', based on the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride).
Dallas didn’t top any of those lists, but it was ranked as the seventh greediest city in the country. But that’s not necessarily a bad designation, according to Forbes journalist Elisabeth Eaves, because 'we need the greedy.' After all, greedy people help the economy by creating jobs.
You can read more about how Forbes used data to come up with these rankings, and read a complete list of all the sinful cities, at forbes.com."

dallas flash mob

how did we miss an East Dallas flashmob pillow fight?!


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kids behaving badly

bad kids - the black lips

Art Monday - Joshua Stone

Joshua Stone - Artwork
"In his youth, Stone spent well over a decade painting street graffiti and commissioned murals with other top artists of the genre.

This passion for public art led him to study fine art and graphic design at Oklahoma State University. For the past decade, he has worked for some of the top ad agencies and web design shops in the southwest, building brands for numerous fortune 100 companies, including American Airlines, AT&T, Blockbuster, Expedia, Motorola, Nokia, Pepsi and SONY.

Stone transitioned to producing fine art full-time in 2006. He will often paint under the name "WAVE", his former graffiti 'tag' or signature.

"I enjoy creating pieces that work on different levels. I want the viewer's experience to change when a piece is seen up close, and as they gradually step back. I'm combining graffiti elements with blocks of images, and like the randomness that the string overlay creates. This provides coexisting complexity of detail and simplicity of composition."

The Theater Fire @ Good Records Birthday Party, April 19, 2008

The Theater Fire @ Good Records Birthday Party, April 19, 2008
Originally uploaded by see emily play

this set was alot of fun.

The Theater Fire @ Good Records Birthday Party 2008

The Theater Fire @ Good Records Birthday Party 2008
Originally uploaded by see emily play

Good to Me, Scout Niblett @ The Cavern, April 18, 2008

Good to Me, Scout Niblett @ The Cavern, April 18, 2008
Originally uploaded by see emily play

yay, flickr video!

Scout Niblett @ The Cavern, April 18, 2008

Scout Niblett @ The Cavern, April 18, 2008
Originally uploaded by see emily play

GoodFest 2008 - Have You Hugged Your Record Store Today?

sets we won't be missing...
The Theater Fire 11am
John Congleton 3pm
Fight Bite 7:30pm
Record Hop 10pm
PPT 11pm
The Black Angels Midnite



GOOD RECORDS TURNS EIGHT/RECORD STORE DAY...THIS SATURDAY
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Good Records celebrated its 8th birthday on February 7, 2008. We decided to wait on the festivities to coincide with the 1st ever Record Store Day on April 19, 2008.

Record Store Day is a national movement to bring awareness of the awesome cultural emporiums still spreading the love of music in their local communities and changing lives, one customer at a time.

An eclectic line up of free instore performances has been assembled to entertain and delight your ears. This will be the biggest event in the history of Good Records.

There will be complimentary food and beverages throughout the day. Hot dogs and hamburgers for both the vegetarian and carnivorous type.

There will also be limited edition shirts and other special goodies specifically created for the event by labels such as Matador, Sub Pop, Touch & Go, Warner Brothers, Sony, Universal, etc...

Armhole will be making their famous t-shirt bar mobile and branding anything you bring with the Good Records logo and other transfers.

There will be a parking lot sale with CD's as low as a $1. Gracious heaping goodie bags will be given away with any purchase. There will also be a raffle for some very special memorabilia throughout the day. Make sure to ask for a raffle ticket at the counter.

Please join us in celebrating our journey that is Good Records...what a long strange trip it's been.

FREE LIVE MUSIC ALL DAY---Saturday April 19, 2008

Emcee will be John Freeman aka The Dutch Treats.
The Party: Sober, Select, Nature will be on hand spinning tunes throughout the day.

The Theater Fire 11am
Mom Noon
Matthew And The Arrogant Sea 12:30pm
Doug Burr 1pm
Sarah Jaffe 1:30pm
Fishboy 2pm
Mount Righteous 2:30Pm
John Congleton 3pm
Astronautalis 3:30pm
The Baptist Generals 4pm
LIONS 5pm
Robert Gomez 6pm
Red Monroe 6:30pm
Fight Bite 7:30pm
Frogboy 8pm
The Great Tyrant 8:30pm
Jetscreamer 9pm
Record Hop 10pm
PPT 11pm
The Black Angels Midnite

Good Records
1808 Greenville Ave.
Dallas, TX 75206
214-752-4663
www.goodrecords.com
www.recordstoreday.com

Scout Niblet @ The Cavern, Friday, April18

not sure what time, but she's way awesome to watch. a nice way to get warmed up for GoodFest 2008, starting 11a tomorrow morning.


Scout Niblett - Just What I Needed (mp3)
Scout Niblett - Dinosaur Egg (mp3)
Scout Niblett - Kiss (mp3)

everything is fine.

i have been so busy doing real lifestuff that i can barely keep up with internetstuff. i checked in with the world this morning to find Amy Winehouse holding an infant while drinking. good to know that it's business as usual.

roy orbison = opposite of FAIL

i heart ADR. miss houston.

British Sea Power @ The Loft last Friday

Not our footage, but it's pretty good.

salon.com - The punk stops here

The punk stops here
Forget the slick mall-punk that rules the radio. If you like your music chaotic and bratty, you need to hear Times New Viking and Be Your Own Pet.

By Jess Harvell

Apr. 15, 2008 | Fans tend to think of indie rock as a reliable source for punky guitar-pop tunes, but how often is that actually the case? From the folkie spawn of early R.E.M., to the egghead electronic jams of '90s post-rock, to the ongoing vogue for neo-psychedelia, indie's just as often gone loose and spacey as short and jolting. Currently, the big names in indie are often the loosest, and the spaciest; indie webzines like Pitchfork routinely bestow their most coveted accolades on artists like the Animal Collective's Panda Bear, whose excellent 2007 album "Person Pitch" featured more bongo drums and wordless hippie chants than power chords. So where does a hard-up punk fan turn when it's hipper to sound like sprawling prog rock vets Yes than one-chord wonders the Adverts?

Not to the radio, though poppy punk bands certainly persist there -- an endless, interchangeable stream of shaggy gentlemen peddling the sound that made Green Day and Blink 182 multi-bazillionaires in the last decade, a sound that's been shorthanded as "mall-punk." Last year's biggest mall-punk band was undoubtedly Paramore, a quartet of barely legal Christians with hook-heavy hits delivered a tempo that suggested dangerous energy drink abuse. But if bands like Paramore and the sightly artier My Chemical Romance are mall-punk at its computer-enhanced best, most of the groups in this genre are more blandly competent than endearingly chaotic. Snotty but sterile, they come encased in a kind of all-over digital gloss that makes listening to a steady diet of the stuff as headache-inducing for many over-20s as consuming a double-glazed album by Disney tween pop superstar Hannah Montana.

So finding the kind of punk that errs on the side of rawness still requires a little digging. But it is possible to locate those sharp thrills buried under indie's recent spate of flaccid folk and go-nowhere noise, to find the kind of bands that restore some of the raggedness that's been pressed out of mall-punk. For instance: Ohio's Times New Viking and Kentucky's Be Your Own Pet, two bands united by unwieldy names, hometowns off the hipster radar and the fact that they've released two of this year's best punk records.

Young @ Heart

I went to the screening of this last night and thought it was an amazing movie. Fun, funny, sincere, and sad, with a rockin' soundtrack. these people are seriously cool.

Young @ Heart Official Website

Young @ Heart Official Trailer
Young @ Heart in Concert - Coldplay, Fix You

Returning to the Fold | Pitchfork.tv

Returning to the Fold | Pitchfork.tv

Album Review: Man Man - Rabbit Habits | Breakfast On Tour

Album Review: Man Man - Rabbit Habits | Breakfast On Tour

(via pitchfork.tv)

Slashdot | Researchers Create an Automatic Backup Band for Singers

Slashdot | Researchers Create an Automatic Backup Band for Singers: "Researchers at Microsoft Labs are hoping to allow untrained singers to have their own automatic backup band in the near future. A new piece of software, 'MySong', promises to take a sung melody and using a probability computation algorithm, generate an appropriate chord accompaniment. There is also a video of the process on the Microsoft Labs website. ''The idea is to let a creative but musically untrained individual get a taste of song writing and music creation,' Morris told New Scientist. 'There was nothing out there that could take a sung vocal melody as an input and then generate appropriate chords to accompany it. [...] Since people rarely sing at precise frequencies, MySong compares a sung melody to the 12 standard musical notes. It then feeds an approximate sequence of notes to the system's chord probability computation algorithm. This algorithm has been trained, through analysis of 300 rock, pop, country and jazz songs, to recognize fragments of melody and chords that work well together, as well as chords that complement each another.''"

The Happy Bullets, Tah Dahs @ Space, Deep Ellum Arts Fest, Apr. 5, 2008

The Happy Bullets, Tah Dahs @ Space, Deep Ellum Arts Fest, Apr. 5, 2008
Originally uploaded by see emily play

FirstSounds.ORG

FirstSounds.ORG: "First Sounds

First Sounds is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and organizations who aim to make mankind's earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time.

Learn more about what First Sounds has achieved:

* First Sounds' research featured on page 1 of the March 27 New York Times
* Listen to the World's Oldest sound
* First Sounds featured on March 27 edition of NPR's All Things Considered
* Read press release about international debut of Scott phonautograms"

youtube-mp3 (via lifehacker)

Lifehacker Book Contest Winner: Record YouTube Music Videos to MP3: "Reader Matt grabs songs from YouTube videos the way we used to hit the cassette deck record button while listening to the radio back in the 80's. Well, not really. Matt does it by downloading the YouTube clip .FLV file and converting it to MP3. After the jump, get the steps and tools you need to do it yourself."