At work, I’m kind of forced to listen to a lot of classic rock. I guess I could avoid it if I wanted to make a big deal out of it, but instead I’m just going to pick apart and rant about some of the worst songs you hear at your dentist’s office about 237,000 times per annual visit.
I never liked Green Day that much, but this mash-up of Get Up, Stand Up and Hitchin’ A Ride works perfectly. Video embedded after the jump:
John Hugar is a BEAST contributor who covers sports and music and a student at the University at Buffalo. We talk about music, movies, violence in sports, and lots of other random stuff.
I was looking over my music collection the other day and noticed that when I sorted it by date, the number of albums I have released over the past 3 or 4 years is much smaller than previous years. And an alarming number of the newer releases I have are from old groups. Last year I picked up new albums by such ancient bands as The Beastie Boys, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Flogging Molly, the Dropkick Murphys, Radiohead, Mogwai, Jane’s Addiction, Daft Punk, and Atari Teenage Riot. Sure, they all still make great music but they’re also all just a few years away from artificial hips and pill cases with the days of the week marked on them.
This could only mean one thing: I’m in danger of becoming one of those out-of-touch old people who doesn’t understand new music. Back when I spent way too much time seeking out new music I used to hate how older folks seemed proud of not knowing anything about music the kids listen to these days. It’s still annoying. Nostalgia is always overrated, but it’s especially the case nowadays when you can read tons of music reviews for free and hear samples of music without having to go to that one store that will let you listen to their used section on a CD player.
As an attempt to reverse this disturbing trend, I’m giving myself this assignment to write some short reviews of new albums every few months this year. So here we go.
Adam WarRock is a nerd rapper who releases a ridiculous amount of free content through his website. His newest album, You Dare Call That Thing Human?!?, was released just this week. We talk about nerdcore rap, comic books, sci-fi, ragequitting, politics, and his newest album.
You can buy his newest album here. Also, check him out on tour if you can.
Paul Wolinski plays guitar and keyboards in the instrumental rock band 65daysofstatic. Their most recent album is called Silent Running and is a soundtrack to the 1972 science fiction film of the same name. He also has a solo album under the name Polinski called Labyrinths. I catch up with him shortly after his tour of Japan. We talk about science fiction, music, songwriting, and how to avoid going mad with the power of being in an awesome band.
Jay-Z, left, warming Beyonce up to the idea of the pidder padder of little Antichrist feet.
You’ve probably heard from your jackass co-workers who read the tabloids that Beyonce gave birth to a human child this past week. But were you aware that this baby will one day reduce the human population of Earth to 500 million by instigating wars and spraying poison gas from commercial airplanes? IT IS TRUE.
So the Atari Teenage Riot single / reunion show turned into aniPhone app, and now it’s turned into a full tour and an upcoming album. There’s no name or tracklist or anything for the new album, but it’s going to be released on Dim Mak Records.
Here are the tour dates:
CERN’s secret project of starting a record label under the guise of studying physics has taken another step towards the scientists’ domination of all genres of music. First they conquered hip hop, and then they branched out into ambient drones. Now they’re going old school with a choir:
Atheist Hobos 