The Bride Screamed Murder

The Melvin’s released a new album entitled The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac Recordings). Some of the tracks sound like Adam & the Ants with that sludgey Melvin’s edge that I happen to really like.

Here’s a description from a writer at Chicks with Guns magazine (CWG):

They’ve been described as sounding like an explosion in a machine shop, a drum set falling down stairs, a wolverine and a trout in a blender, ice cream and pickles, talentless geeks and a several other flattering epithets.
King Buzzo describes the Melvins music as Captain Beefheart playing heavy metal… I guess that’s a pretty good description.

If you’ve liked the Melvins over the past 25/26 years they’ve been playing you’re going to love this album.

Here’s a preview of the album I found on you tube:

Here’s their tour dates, hope there’s a show near you:
Jun 1 2010 – 8:00PM – Casbah – San Diego, CA
Jun 2 2010 – 8:00PM – The Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ
Jun 3 2010 – 8:00PM – Launch Pad – Albuquerque, NM
Jun 5 2010 – 8:00PM – Emo’s Austin, TX
Jun 6 2010 – 8:00PM – The White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX
Jun 7 2010 – 8:00PM – Warehouse Live -Houston, TX
Jun 8 2010 – 8:00PM – Spanish Moon – Baton Rouge, LA
Jun 9 2010 – 8:00PM – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA
Jun 10 2010 – 8:00PM – Bottle Tree – Birmingham, AL
Jun 12 2010 – 8:00PM – Bonnaroo Festival – Manchester, TN
Jun 14 2010 – 8:00PM – 40 Watt Club – Athens, GA
Jun 16 2010 – 8:00PM – 9:30 Club – Washington D.C.
Jun 17 2010 – 8:00PM – T.L.A. – Philladelphia, PA
Jun 18 2010 – 8:00PM – Webster Hall – New York , NY
Jun 19 2010 – 8:00PM – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY
Jun 20 2010 – 8:00PM – Paradise – Boston, MA
Jun 21 2010 – 8:00PM – Paradise – Boston, US
Jun 23 2010 – 8:00PM – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH
Jun 24 2010 – 8:00PM – Small’s – Detroit, MI
Jun 25 2010 – 8:00PM – Double Door – Chicago, IL
Jun 26 2010 – 8:00PM – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI
Jun 27 2010 – 8:00PM – House Of Bricks – Des Moines, IA
Jun 29 2010 – 8:00PM – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
Jul 2 2010 – 8:00PM – Sled Island Festival – Calgary, Alberta , CA
Jul 3 2010 – 8:00PM – Sled Island Festival – Calgary, Alberta , CA
Jul 5 2010 – 8:00PM – Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC
Jul 6 2010 – 8:00PM – Showbox at the Market – Seattle, WA
Jul 7 2010 – 8:00PM – John Henrys – Eugene, OR
Jul 9 2010 – 8:00PM – Blank Club – San Jose, CA

The Passenger

Some Iggy Pop and The Stooges, you’re welcome.

Nothing Compares 2 U

by Sinead O’Conner
I heard it on the radio this morning on my drive in and thought, “Damn this was a good song.”

“Nothing Compares 2 U” is a song written in the 1980s by Prince for The Family. Sinead covered it on her 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.

Pavement’s Spit on a Stranger

off of their album Terror Twilight.

I’ve always loved the cover of their albums and this one is no exception.

Criminal

by Fiona Apple off of her album Tidal.
It’s a really hot video.

Joanna Newsom’s thoughts on Lady Gaga

“I may have contradicted myself. My problem isn’t actually with Lady Gaga. But there’s not much in her music to distinguish it from other glossy, formulaic pop. She just happens to wear slightly weirder outfits than Britney Spears. But they’re not that weird– they’re mostly just skimpy. She’s fully marketing her body/sexuality; she’s just doing it while wearing, like, a ‘fierce’ telephone hair-hat. Her sexuality has no scuzziness, no frank raunchiness, in the way that, say, Peaches, or even Grace Jones, have– she’s Arty Spice! And, meanwhile, she seems to take herself so oddly seriously, the way she talks about her music in the third person, like she’s Brecht or something. She just makes me miss Cyndi Lauper. […] I shouldn’t have called Madonna a dumb-ass. Her music and she have just gotten so boring to me, this last decade. I think maybe she doesn’t hold her money very gracefully, the way some people can’t hold their drink. But one thing she is surely not is dumb.”

I pulled this quote off of the pitchfork article: Newsom Takes on Gaga, Madonna, The DJ’s from standing on the verge pointed this one out, you should listen to them on Wednesdays from 7 till 9pm at KRUI 89.7fm Iowa City.

Here’s Joanna, with an awfully pretty tune entitled Sprout and the Bean:

Downtown Train

Here’s Mr. Tom Waits with his track Downtown Train.

( I really like his little hat.)

they explode like two bugs on glass…

Here’s Holes From Mercury Rev off of their album Deserter’s Songs. I’ve been listening to this all week, it came out in 1998.

Here’s an interview with the lead singer Jonathan Donahue:

and finally here’s Goddess on a hiway. I love these guys quirky lyrics and sound, I think this song is a perfect example of that sound.


(my little PJ, taken by Heidi Hehnly).

I want you right now

by MC5, they brought you brilliance back in 1969 off of their album Kick out the Jams.

Ocean Breathes Salty

by Modest Mouse off of their album Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004).