Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Hana Maria covering Nine Inch Nails “Closer”

Wednesday, August 10th, 2016

In order to provide a break from the relentless book cataloging, here’s a fun acoustic cover of Nine Inch Nail’s Closer by Hana Maria (who seems to record under the name Hana Piranha). Song is NSFW, just like the original.

Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Slowdive (Purple Drank Shadows Remix)”

Sunday, August 7th, 2016

Been too busy with work, cataloging books, attending Armadillocon, etc., to seek out Sunday Shoegaze offerings. To make amends here’s a Slowdive remix named after the most ghetto of drinks and slowed down enough for the tempo to work as Slowcore or Doom Metal.

Shoegazer Sunday: Cranes’ “Jewel”

Sunday, July 10th, 2016

I would have thought I put up Cranes’ “Jewel” long ago in my Shoegazer Sunday series, but I do not appear to have done so, so here are two versions: a music video version that seems a bit flashier, and the more-stripped down album version.

Shoegazer Sunday: Novanta’s “Windows”

Sunday, June 26th, 2016

Milan-based Novanta seems to be on my Shoegaze wavelength with “Windows.”

Hat tip: Primal Music Blog.

“Shoegaze Band’s Pedalboard Becomes Self-Aware”

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

Heh. I missed this from last year:

Local shoegaze rockers and engineering hobbyists, Whale Coma, accidentally created the world’s first artificially intelligent band member when their pedalboard became self-aware Sunday night.

Guitarist Connor O’Hoolihan excitedly connected yet another pedal to the now-conscious tangle of cords the band has affectionately dubbed “SkyPed,” a functioning life form of questionable intent and motivation that has begun to formulate rudimentary yet coherent speech through O’Hoolihan’s Electro-Harmony-Vocal Synthesizer Pedal.

“I told him not to add a Rat Stink Fuzzy Big Muff™ when he’s already running two Fat Boy Moose Knuckles™ and a Red Bitch Psycho Trem™,” said Willy Bennett Dyson, the band’s third guitarist. “We’re playing with something we don’t fully understand.”

Shoegazer Sunday: Pastel Blue’s “Low-Key”

Sunday, June 12th, 2016

It’s been three years since I did a song from Japan’s Pastel Blue as the Sunday Shoegazer selection, so here’s “Low-Key”:

Shoegazer Sunday: Catherine Wheel’s “Crank”

Sunday, June 5th, 2016

I’ve tried sampling classic shoegaze band Catherine Wheel before, but until “Crank” nothing stuck.

Note: I believe this video exceeds the official limit of how many people may fit in this particular elevator safely…

Shoegazer Sunday: Star Horse’s “Stranger”

Sunday, May 29th, 2016

For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s “Stranger” from Stockholm-based Star Horse. Evidently today’s post is brought to you by the letter “S”…

Shoegazer Sunday: Catch The Breeze’s “The Shallow Bed”

Sunday, May 22nd, 2016

A shoegaze band named after the first Slowdive song I ever heard? How can I resist?

Brian Jonestown Massacre’s “She’s Gone”

Sunday, May 15th, 2016

I consider Brain Jonestown Massacre more of a psych than Shoegaze band, but this is the final song they played at their set with Slowdive in Austin, and that’s good enough for me.