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Sam made us a twitter account...I think I'm supposed to tell you that you can now follow us here.
Also, here's a huge picture of a pie:
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Also, here's a huge picture of a pie:
The Worst Music Video Ever: Gut Reactions
What in the hell is going on here? Why does the bald singer dude have a rat-tail? Why is there a man with a ponytail walking towards the camera? What is with this set? Who "directed" this? Why is the singer pretending to surf? Oh shit, it's nighttime. Why is there a snake? What the hell is with that tree? WHY ARE LIVE SUCH DOUCHEBUCKETS?!
I still like this song though. Fuck it.
Pocketknife
Spencer and Sarah and I went to Spike Hill the other night to see our pals A Brief Smile and they were great. This is absolutely no surprise to us. A Brief Smile is always awesome. Especially that one time up at ADP Coffee Haus at Columbia when DL (lead singer) had food poisoning and vomitted right at the beginning of the last song. Man, we liked that. But no, we write this screed to inform you of the other band we saw at Spike Hill on that fateful eve.
Yes, we loved another that night. After A Brief Smile finished, we sat at the bar at the back of the room and got drunk, like the good label executives that we are. We here at the jaded Cooling Pie "offices" are typically used to hating a lot of the random bands we see at bars. We fully expected every other band that night to suck. And yet as I ordered another Stella, something was different. The band playing sounded like....Can? We moved closer. The band was a three-piece, which is a rare occurence in the era of either duos with laptops or small armies of every instrument imaginable. The dressed as if they were the Beatles in 1964 and they were fantastic. We moved up to the front as the krautrock tune ended. Negative space. Deep groove without a trace of "funk". We were reminded of perhaps "A Ghost Is Born" era Wilco but with less of an eye on pleasing the NPR set. They traded their acoustic instruments for keyboards and then traded back again. They played a cover of "Imagine". It was less ironic than anybody would care to believe. We were sold.
These guys are called Pocketknife. We're currently trying to get them involved in our super-secret compilation project that we're working on. Hopefully there will be an announcement about that soon, but in the mean time, check out the above myspace link or Pocketknife's Last.fm page for more tunes. Hopefully, these guys will be popping up on this site real soon.
A Quick Cartoon Commercial Break #1
We're about to put a whole bunch of new music up: an Ava Luna album, the Kid Syndicate's lone EP, and maybe even a Randy Numens full length. In the meantime, here's a cartoon drawn in paint by our very own PJ Patil.
"Who Knows...What Might...Have Been?"
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"Who Knows...What Might...Have Been?"
INCOMING TRANZMIZZION...
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DECODING.....
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Martial Artz (It'z The Maximum)
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Game Over Man
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RANDY NEWMAN TO CANCEL TOUR, RANDY NUMENS TO ALSO NOT TOUR
Here's the big news according to my go-to favorite website of all time RandyNewman.com:
Randy Newman Postpones European Tour
— filed under: Concert
It is with great regret that Grammy and Academy Award-winner Randy Newman postponed his European tour on doctor's orders because of physical limitations and severe pain caused by stenosis in the lower back and neck.
Randy Newman says: "I deeply regret not being able to come. I like it so much in Europe and I've always been treated so well. I'll get there as soon as I can."
In conjunction with this news, CPR's own Randy Numens released their own statement:
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We're gonna be putting the Numens' debut full length up real soon, as soon as we can locate either one of them. The album's gonna be called Guillermo Wúz Here, or at least it was last time we talked to them. Updates on this sitch as we get 'em.
BO + Old Funkadelic + Jordan vs. Bird
TV guests had to lip synch back in the day...
From my childhood.
CP006 ::: DAY SLEEPER - DROP YOUR SWORD
Recorded and mixed by Will Radin in Cas' Basement Dungeon
Luke Pyenson - Drums
Justin Danforth - Guitar
Cas Kaplan - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Ferm - Bass
As promised (albeit a few days late), we present to you Day Sleeper's debut album Drop Your Sword. I like this album 'cause there's a buncha feedback on it and there's echoey tambourines and lotsa guitars and yet vocalist Cas sits pretty squarely in the center of the mix. It's like My Bloody Valentine if they turned up the vocals a little bit. I know people love the MBV buried vocal thing but myself, I prefer to be able to hear the damn singer. So yeah, you can hear him, just stream it!
Or click here to download the MP3s
Cooling Pie Records: An Adoption Agency or a Record Label?
The Kaplan family dynasty contiues with Cas Kaplan, brother of Wes Kaplan (of Craters fame). Cas' band is called Day Sleeper and we're glad to welcome them into the Cooling Pie family. And yes, now that they are part of the family, it means that Spencer and I are Day Sleeper's new parents. Make sure you guys do your chores or I'll take away your drum machine! Huzzah!
On a more serious note, Drop Your Sword will go up on this blawg on January 10th. Coincidenally, Day Sleeper's gonna be playing a show with some friends at the Middle East upstairs the same day to celebrate the release. The show starts at the rock and roll hour of ONE PEE EM (1 PM) so come celebrate lunchtime with Day Sleeper!
In the meantime, go check out Day Sleeper's myspace page and get excited about the FUTURE.
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