what a day that was: 2012.04

2012-04-29

2012-04-28

D'eon - Thousand Mile Trench

This has been on repeat lately. Awesome.

Linking friends

I recently cleared out a couple of seemingly dormant blogs in my 'friends' list down the right side of the page.

Email me about link swapping, I'll be adding to the list in the next couple days.

2012-04-27

Prototype 2 Game Trailer, featuring a song by Johnny Cash: Colour me bored.

Sorry for the link bait in the title. Haven't had a 'hit' in a while.

As for the TV ad I'm referring to... I'm so tired of it being played ad nauseum. Doesn't make me want to play at all. The web trailer is way worse though, and I'm venturing into cranky old man territory when I say "is this the kind of crap that passes for games these days?" A topic for another day, for sure.

In any case, the TV spot, which has been playing during ad breaks on sports shows lately, features Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt".

Check out a great live rendition of the original here - best enjoyed in full screen:

^ that was a killer tour.

It's also not the first time that Johnny Cash has lent himself to a commercial.

Reminder: this was a real, actual thing that aired on television, and not a comedy sketch.

2012-04-26

The Daily Swarm - It's Not Easy Being The Houston Astros Stadium DJ...

Reminds me of the time I went on a tour of the audio facilities at the Air Canada Centre. Modern sports arenas have staggeringly sophisticated media systems as part of their infrastructure.

The ACC's audio system is linked to the emergency alarms, so it's a critical system. The audio control room even controls the sound level in the washrooms. Can you imagine the pranks you could play?

Cool concert neither you nor I went to alert: The Weeknd in Brooklyn

Report: The Weeknd in Brooklyn

Stellar photos at the link.

The guy is doing it the right way with a live band. There's so much more energy in the live performance when you have musicians in the flesh.

"When I found out I was starting my tour in New York, the city that never sleeps," he said during one of the show's few brief conversational interludes, "One song came to mind. I didn't look at it as a motherfucking gig. This is a motherfucking celebration". He then began gyrating-- seemingly involuntarily-- to the Beach House-sampling "The Party & the After Party", its live rendition supplemented with deep, rolling bass. Feeding off the energy of fans so devoted as to smuggle a set of balloons into the venue, Tesfaye seemed supremely excited to share each lyric, narrating his songs like he was telling a juicy story to a close confidant.

Sounds awesome, that would have been an amazing show.

The balloon could have been a clever plant... In any case, to that person, I say: "Classic move. Nice."

2012-04-16

New Major Lazer – “Get Free” (feat. Amber Coffman)

mp3: new Major Lazer – “Get Free” (feat. Amber Coffman)

2012-04-08

RJD2 - A Beautiful Mine

The Daily Swarm - Bone Pugz-N-Harmony Is Exactly What It Sounds Like...

2012-04-02

The Daily Swarm - Watch: 'Mad Men' May Have Been Joking, But The Stones Did Shill Some Food Back In the Day...

Florence + The Machine ft. Josh Homme - Jackson (MTV Unplugged)

Well this is pretty cool:

The album comes out next week.

[via AUX]

If Microsoft made the iPod

2012-04-01

Saigon Sunday pt 2

I decided I wouldn't leave on a sad note, so here's the obvious track to play today, a Canadian 80s classic:

Saigon Sunday

Here's a long lost track from Toronto's 1980s Queen West music scene, "Nyet Nyet Soviet". B.B. Gabor was kind of a thing back in 1980, getting nominated for a Juno and winning a "U-Know" (CFNY's piss-take on the Junos at the time, since revived as the CASBY awards). He was never able to repeat the success of his self titled album, and died of an apparent suicide in 1990.