(from alchemyindex.com) As promised, Thrice has followed up with their second installment in what is set to be a 10-part teaser series for the group’s upcoming Alchemy Index album, the first part of which is due out October 16. Unlike the first video, which featured a minute-long clip of Air Sonnet, the second clip features brief glimpses of the songs woven in between interviews about the freedom the band adopted in creating this album.
Interestingly, one of the commenters posted what is alleged to be the tracklisting for Fire and Water! Here’s the track list:
Fire Track Listing
01) Firebreather
02) The Messenger
03) Backdraft
04) The Arsonist
05) Burn the Fleet
06) The Flame Deluge
Water Track Listing
07) Digital Sea
08) Open Water
09) Lost Continent
10) Night Diving
11) The Whaler
12) Kings Upon the Main
Will keep you posted. I recommend checking out the other comments – one review goes through EACH SONG and gives a brief rundown.
Hahaha, this is the funniest video I’ve seen in AGES (and apparently the news anchors felt the same way). A cop calls 911 after he and his wife get fucking ripped on some pot brownies made with weed he confiscated from hoodlums. He goes into the whole “I’m dying” trip, freaks out, and asks for a response team to be dispatched to his house. The end of the clip has the man saying “I think we’re dead. Time is going by really, really, really, really slow”. The male anchor reading off the next story can’t help but reference the quote again to the infectious laughter of two adjacent female anchors. Funniest part? The cop wasn’t charged! HAHAHA!
He resigned, though. *shrugs* What a dumb ass. Too bad it wasn’t something a little more heavy, eh? Imagine if it were acid – “my wife’s head is sprouting snakes!” File under HYPOCRISY MEETS KARMA.
That’s right, Aesop Rock’s coming to Big D November 16 to the new Palladium Ballroom. I’m pretty sure I’ll be there…I’ve been hearing Aesop for years but have yet to see this Definitive Jux staple perform live. It should be well worth the price of admission. I haven’t had the opportunity to rock out at Palladium yet, so I figure this is a perfect first opportunity. He’s out on a fairly extensive U.S. tour in support of his upcoming (August 28) album None Shall Pass. I’ve got the tour dates for posted for you below.
Also, check this interview with between Aesop and an almost wholly incompetent interviewer. It’ll entertain you for about 10 minutes as you read about how Aesop used to skate and stuff. Then check out Aesop’s video for Fast Cars, below. It’s sweet.
This is a super old video, but I felt like posting it in case there are still some of you out there who haven’t heard of Eyedea or at least haven’t seen this battle. I’ll let it speak for itself.
(from antiMUSIC) If you don’t know what torrents are, or if you simply have a clean conscience you’ve probably been waiting for the works of Lennon and The Beatles to appear on iTunes for you to download. Not so much luck with The Beatles – some crazy dispute between two companies named Apple has been keeping them at bay – but now Lennon is downloadable and disposable throughout 16 different albums. As an added promo, for the first 30 days that these albums are on the market, exclusive video content will be included with the albums “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” “Sometime in New York City,” “Walls and Bridges,” “Milk and Honey” and the collections “Anthology” and “Working Class Hero.” I haven’t gotten around to listening to all of his other works, but I definitely can vouch for Plastic Ono Band. It’s a winner.
I must admit first and foremost that before today I had not heard of Michael Schenker. But this story really, really makes me feel bad…
I checked antiMUSIC today and saw that there was a headline titled “Schenker Rehab Intervention”. Most of us have a natural, morbid fascination with the shit others get themselves into, which explains the reason you say “Oh ANOTHER Pete Doherty story oh my god when is he gonna [insert phrase for 'make positive progress' such as 'get a life', 'grow up', 'die', etc]“. I am no different – I suffer the same curiosity. So I checked out the story to see who had fucked up this time. antiMUSIC reported that the ex-UFO and Scorpions member was performing awfully at an August 3 appearance midway through the Michael Schenker Group’s tour when his band appeared to huddle around and confront him onstage before thanking the crowd and cutting the set quite abruptly. The group’s drummer Bodo Schopf posted on his website that “a man who plays from his heart was really hurt in his heart”, but that he is “now in good hands”, presumably rehab, “where he gets a really good treatment”. The tour is obviously off for the band, but I wonder why the man wasn’t perhaps approached earlier about the issue, as fan/flamer comments on a Blabbermouth post about the show indicate that the problem has been long-running.
I hope that, unlike Lindsnort Lohan, this can be a new start for the man. It really is painful to hear him attempt such a weak solo after watching numerous other YouTube videos of him shredding like a maniac. I wish him well.
(from alchemyindex.com) I checked out Thrice’s official studio blog for word on the new album today and found a post dated August 7 (yesterday) by the title “The Alchemy Index Video 1/10″ containing a large box with a red X indicating that, perhaps, a video should be in its place. I’m no techno-tard, so I understand that this could just be my own technical limitation (I am, after all, reporting from the gelid depths of Willis Library’s own general computer lab-full report on this to come). So for those of you on computers that actually, like, work, stay tuned to Thrice’s blog. 1/10 likely means there will be 9 more to come. I just hope they don’t all look like red Xs. And be excited, for no more than 3 months stand between us and Thrice’s monumental effort (and I emphasize effort – the magnitude of the achievement has yet to be seen and, as with Vheissu, I’ll be fair in judging it in a very biased manner).
EDIT (8/9/07): The video is now up and running with a bullet list of enticing announcements from Riley. There will in fact be 10 or 11 video previews of The Alchemy Index (working title for the album, I suppose), one a week up until the album’s release. The clip on the website is an edited version of “Air Sonnet”, which is not the working name of the song, but the harmonies at the end are nothing short of di-fucking-vine (way to sacrilege the word, right?). I recommend checking it out. Also, Dave Eggers is NOT producing the artwork; Dustin instead will take up the task due to time constraints. Eggers, as previously mentioned, was the artist behind Vheissu’s brilliant vintage engraving-style decor. I’m interested to see what Dustin can come up with visually. Last, there should be some more news announced today (according to one commenter, it’s the pregnancy/birth of Teppei’s wife/child, but we shall see).
