Weekend Vid

Lootpack - 20 Questions (feat. Quasimoto)/Whenimondamic

Amazing hip hop I'm horribly behind on.

For the Weekend

In case you're in the Boston-area this weekend rather than attending the Flywheel's 2nd Annual Record Fair, may I recommend you check yourself into the following events?

APRIL 12TH

PISSED JEANS 2X SHOWS

Show 1
Oxfam Cafe
5:30 PM FREE, ALL AGES

Pissed Jeans
New Lows
Waste Management
Rival Mob

Show 2
The Middle East Upstairs
9 PM $9, 18+

Pissed Jeans
Gerty Farish
Reports
Tinsel Teeth

APRIL 13TH

Milky Way
9 PM $8, 21+

AIDS Wolf
White Mice
Neptune

Hold On To Yourself.

So how great is that new Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album? I'm personally really excited to see Mister Mustache returning to the dirty, ugly noise of the Birthday Party & the first couple of Bad Seeds records (Tender Prey & From Her To Eternity, holler!), first with that ridiculously good Grinderman album last year, now with Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! Additional props for keeping Warren Ellis of the Dirty Three on board. The cover art is kind of an affront to the eyes, but I won't subject Sir Cave to the shame that comes along with a write-up in the Cover-Up (aka WMUA Blog's Cover Art Hall of Shame), not just because he kind of scares the shit out of me.

In honor of Nick Cave generally being awesome, here is perhaps one of the best musical cameos in recent cinematic history: "From Her To Eternity" in Wim Wenders' excellent Wings of Desire (circa 1987).

Irrelevance.

I don't know why I'm posting this, considering it has been sold out for quite some time now. I guess if it really matters to you, you can head over to Craigslist & start begging for tickets, but a bunch of other people have already beaten you to the punch.

I Recommend This Show

Saturday, April 5 (THAT'S TODAY!)
at CHURCH
Kilmarnock St. in Boston

The Have Mercys
The Coffin Lids
Lyres!!!
Corolla Deville

Show starts at 8 PM. $10. 21+, kids.

Buy Some Damn Records.

2nd Annual Flywheel Record Fair! Saturday, April 12th from 10am-4pm. A fundraiser for Flywheel in the Eastworks Building in Easthampton. This event will have 30+ vendors selling all types of records and CDs. It's made possible by Turn It Up records, The Marketplace at Eastworks and The Valley Advocate.

Three Things

There hasn't been much music new released this year that's got me excited so far this year, so here are three from the past.

Buzzcocks, in general


Funkadelic's "Super Stupid" from Maggot Brain, which is super sick. The below video is a Naked City live version with Yamatsuka Eye howling. Not quite the same.


Death From Above 1979, in general. A disappointment and blessing that they only had one full length to their credit (I don't count the Romance, Bloody Romance compilation), but the beast is fucking classic.