New Animal Collective Guys:

Graze, off the new EP Fall Be Kind. 3:13 is where the song really picks up, and it is gooooooooood.

-iceonthetrail

[via Stereogum]

Some classical for all you wonderful people:

Choral Version:

-iceonthetrail

now is not the time to start talking about KMD, although I’d love to discuss them.

here are a few facts I know are true about KMD though:

KMD stands for Kausing Much Damage, or A Positive Kause in a Much Damaged Society

They where a hip hop group in the early 1990′s.

Launched the career of Zev Love X, also known as M.F Doom.

The group only officially released one studio full length “Mr. Hood” in 1991, although they recorded “Black Bastards” in 1993 for a intended release.

They’re music is notoriously hard to track down.

It may be some of the best hip hop I’ve ever heard.

I think you’ll agree.

KMD – What a Nigga Know

KMD – Gasface Refill

KMD – Plumbskinzz

-lionsteeth

I found out about this young guy from fecal face.

I was going to start this article out by saying, “Hey, I’m not a big art guy but…” and then I thought about it and, of course, I am a big art guy. In fact I’m pretty much a big anything guy, except for maybe a big snake or big genocide kind of guy. When it comes to art I claim to love realism, yet I love Pollock. I like old skate art, yet I hate this new gory skate art scene that has emerged from it. As much as or possibly more so than music, art is subjective. I like what I like, you like what you like… But we all probably like The Group Of Seven and that sweet Edvard Munch with the scream bro. Every now and then, without looking for it I find an artist that punches me in the stomach with how awesome he/she is. Thanks Henry Gunderson, I’m winded.

So lets talk about Henry. From what I was able to gather from his Fecal Face interview, young Henry is well… young! This dudes only 18 years old. When I was 18 all I could think about was bumming smokes and trying to get my 19 year old friends to buy me beers to drink in the parking lot. Somehow Gunderson has seemed to over come that young age obstacle and create some of the best art I’ve seen in a long time. Judging from the art one is able to gather that Gunderson was really into skateboarding as a youth, it’s in there whether you can see it or not. I mean come on, he’s from San Fran, skate-bombing hills is the only other thing to do besides this.

I’m not sure what to make of his art however. Most paintings include animals, if not all. Most of them jaggedly cut and spliced into others in some sort of mad science experiment done through painting… with awesome geometrical shapes and colours thrown in for good measure.

As I see this style of art becoming more and more popular, I also see certain artists such as Gunderson, Mel Kadel and Jeremy Fish emerging more as masters of the form. As stated before I dont know much about art so here’s my art correspondent in the feild and current Emily Carr student L. “Too Many Names” T.W on the work of Henry Gunderson:

“Yhese paintings are a cacophony of postmodernism. The use of semiotics is complemented by seemingly random organization of his collaged elements. The illustrative quality of the paintings brings about histories of storytelling and mythology.”

Good one L.T.W… I’m done talking about this, lets see some more cool pictures shall we:

this one scares me a bit:

-lionsteeth

We’ve all heard the old adage that the only thing that will survive a nuclear war is the cockroach. Spawned from the fact that cockroaches are notoriously hard to kill with most other methods, it does seem like a plausible scenario. It turns out however, that they are actually pretty bad at not dying to gamma radiation. It takes roughly 600-1000 rads to kill a human and, while it takes much more to actually kill it, a roach becomes sterile after ~1000 rads itself. So as the last human inhales his last breath before being irradiated to death he can comfort himself in knowing that the infamous pests are soon to follow.

Then he could exhale in a scream knowing that the true inheritors of Earth are freaking parasite wasps. Habrobracon, a member of the Braconidae family is our current having-your-atoms-ionized-without-experiencing-a-horrible-death champion ringing in at 180,000 rads before dieing. “But wait” you say, “if this wasp is a parasite wouldn’t it’s hosts just die and by proxy the wasp would perish as well?”. Unfortunately, we aren’t off the hook that easily. One of the other insects I’ve been able to find radiation stats on is the fruit fly which can stand up to a respectable 64,000 rads. If you take a look at the favoured hosts of the Braconidae, you’ll notice fly larvae in there amongst many other insects (all of which are reasonable at surviving radiation on account of their cells not dividing constantly like vertebrates).

How do we know that these wasps take this ridiculously high amount of radiation to kill? 180,000 rads is a lot to be throwing around the lab unprotected and making a big lead shield is way too obvious. Pay attention, because this is why I love the human race. What we did was put them inside a screen, put the screen inside a rocket, blasted it into orbit, then bombarded them with gamma radiation, just to see what happened.

Speaking of seeing what happened, imagine being up on the international space station when the nukes start flying and everything on earth is hit almost uniformly with ~170,000 rads. You jump (float) into your space shuttle and head back to earth  to survey the damage. As you step out onto the brown and barren Earth, you can hear nothing aside from the whistling of the wind and the buzzing of the wasps.

-Wolverox

Just an example of how real “shit” gets

and that should bring us right up to date

We love cover songs here at Bluegrassish.com, so we’ve banded together to pick out a couple of songs each for you to enjoy. Also there is talk of a Bluegrassish Podcast being made. I personally am a avid podcast listener so this seems to be a good way to break into that media form. If you have an interest or suggestions for the podcast please do drop us a line.

Thanks!

Artandstars:

Taken By Trees – My Boys (Animal Collective Cover)

Solange – Stillness In The Move
(Dirty Projectors Cover)

Cadence Weapon Ft. Final Fantasy – Mini Tv”s (Chad Vangaalen Cover)

Rock Plaza Central – Sexyback
(Justin Timberlake Cover)

Lionsteeth:

The Constantines – Don’t Be Denied (Neil Young Cover)

Devo – Satisfaction
(Rolling Stones Cover)

Anthony And The Johnsons – Crazy In Love (Beyonce Cover)

Broken Social Scene – Love Will Tear Us Apart
(Joy Division Cover)

Slobby:

Electrelane – I’m On Fire (Bruce Springstien cover)

The Glimmers – Physical(Oliva Newton John cover)

The Shins – we will become silhouettes (Postal Service cover)

Iceonthetrail:

Bonnie Prince Billy & Tortoise – Cravo e Canela(Milton Nascimento Cover)

Grizzly Bear – Owner of a Lonely Heart(Yes Cover)

Nina Gordon – Straight Outta Compton(N.W.A. Cover)

No, not the 80′s sitcom featuring the esteemed acting of Scott Baio. I’m referring to one of the most incredible composers in the history of Jazz music, Charles Mingus.

A brilliant bassist and a gifted band leader, Mingus was a prevalent figure in the jazz of  the 40′s, 50′s, and 60′s. Thats right, three decades. He had a reputation as a passionate and sometimes hot-headed musician, unwilling to compromise on his integrity, which is something that rings very true after listening to the music. It is like a kiss that makes your head explode, it comes from somewhere deep and it is beautiful.  If you are a fan of Jazz or even Classical music, well, then you’ve probably already heard of Charles Mingus. But if you haven’t, or maybe you like Jazz but don’t know a lot about it, then go check out his biography at www.mingusmingusmingus.com.

Taurus In The Arena Of Life – Charles Mingus

-slobby

Tonight we will reach the nadir of western civilization sometime around dinner

victoria prince

For modern music fans, the choice of how to play your audio has come down to either Ipod and/or record player. Sadly, your high school boom box that played CDs and tapes is obsolete. We all know this and accept it, but few know the finer details of making all the new double Orange 180gm records in gatefold jackets that are filling up their collections.

Who really cares about the finer details of an MP3? Not me! This is because my job is to make vinyl records at Vinyl Record Guru. The process of making a high quality record involves a large number of companies all over the continent, and it is quite a task to keep them all on track and on time. With a lot of fine tuning, we have got this down to a science so we can stand by our products. Since we are a Vancouver Island based record company, you might be surprised to see some of the records that are handled from the nerve center in my boss’s basement. We sit in a small room all day  listening to records(strictly vinyl) with his cats, coordinating the finer details of vinyl records by likes of Willie Nelson, Metric, and the Bad Brains.  I have managed to land this  job out of complete luck (and maybe a little charm); I was his bartender.

With 25+ years experience in the music business, my boss has some great stories of touring with the small-time early metal bands. He also has a first-hand account of the dying days of vinyl, the “resurgence”, and the evolution of records. One of my favourite stories  is of when he lost the lathe (a machine that cuts audio into a blank record) at his plant in New York and it was sold to the Church of Scientology. They bought it so they could cut all of L. Ron Hubbards speeches into copper disks, so as to withstand nuclear blasts… !? But I digress.

So if you have ever dreamt of putting out a record and have questions about the process, understanding pricing, or can’t seem to find what you want, drop us a line. We love what we do, and we always have time to answer a few questions.

Thanks Brent!

Heres a song from Brents band Los Tycoons, who will hopefully be preforming somewhere close to you in the new year.

Los Tycoons – Streamlining