Anybody is a Star
Found this on Kanye's Blog:
Soulja Boy made $10 million and he's about to show you how he did it.
Is yo brainz shot through the yet?
Mine iz fashiz, B
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Found this on Kanye's Blog:
Soulja Boy made $10 million and he's about to show you how he did it.
Is yo brainz shot through the yet?
Mine iz fashiz, B
Roots of Cyberpunk Volume 1: Powerman 5000 = THE SHIT
Captain Pollution, YES!!!!
randy numens might be the wave of the future, but as far as i'm concerned these dudes are, like, the founding fathers of cyberpunk rock.
when i was 13, Spider One seemed like the ultimate rock star figure. in retrospect, he was basically a cross between his brother, Rob Zombie, and Captain Pollution. also, he wore awesome goggles like Horace Grant. i have nothing but praise for these guys at their late 90s peak.
Idjutt bocks:
Vid links:
"Supernova Goes Pop"
"Nobody's Real"
"When Worlds Collide"
"Drop the Bombshell"
"Creep" (live Radiohead cover)
My First Entry
Cooling Pie Records welcomes Justin Spees. Justin Spees welcomes Cooling Pie Records. I already gave a shout out to Cooling Pie on my blog. It's right here, and you should probably read it.
Julian stipulates that I be funny, so I will try. Mostly I think I'll just comment on posts that have been put up, or on things that Julian and Spencer do in their spare time that deserve eternal record. Does anybody else even read this? Sarah? Yeah I'll write about her too. And Pitchfork's new layout, which I do agree is sad and stupid, but they've made prominent again their list of the best singles between 2000 and 2004, which I've been looking for for some time. I think number one is "Hey Ya," which means they're very boring people. It's also vaguely insane to make a best of the decade so far. So just fuck Pitchfork. We'll try to get reviews up on Cooling Pie so the transition into making this the first site you check will be smooth.
Enjoy your day.
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Julian stipulates that I be funny, so I will try. Mostly I think I'll just comment on posts that have been put up, or on things that Julian and Spencer do in their spare time that deserve eternal record. Does anybody else even read this? Sarah? Yeah I'll write about her too. And Pitchfork's new layout, which I do agree is sad and stupid, but they've made prominent again their list of the best singles between 2000 and 2004, which I've been looking for for some time. I think number one is "Hey Ya," which means they're very boring people. It's also vaguely insane to make a best of the decade so far. So just fuck Pitchfork. We'll try to get reviews up on Cooling Pie so the transition into making this the first site you check will be smooth.
Enjoy your day.
dayfrights ravingz
Jesus Christ, Pitchfork just redesigned their main page and it is fuuuuggglyyy. Fuck, how come there's a big ad that eats up the ENTIRE front of the page? It also looks like Opera which looks like balls*. It updates Pitchfork's design to this decade for sure; it reminds me of the new Wal-Mart logo and the new Stop n Shop logo. I dislike the way that everything is trying to look like its designed by Apple now. Everything's white with shades of gray which is a cleaner look but it lacks in character. I actually stopped reading Silent Uproar over a similar qualm so we'll see if Pitchfork survives the great update of 09.
Oh I got a video of kc quilty playing a new song called "Supernova" from the other night. The sound sucks but that's because it's being broadcast DIRECT FROM THE 90s! WOOO!
Watch live video from Goodbye Blue Monday on Justin.tv
Thanks justin.tv!
*Disclaimer: I love Opera a lot, despite its ugliness and many deficiencies. It's like a retarded little brother that I feel bad for and thus keep around.
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Oh I got a video of kc quilty playing a new song called "Supernova" from the other night. The sound sucks but that's because it's being broadcast DIRECT FROM THE 90s! WOOO!
Watch live video from Goodbye Blue Monday on Justin.tv
Thanks justin.tv!
*Disclaimer: I love Opera a lot, despite its ugliness and many deficiencies. It's like a retarded little brother that I feel bad for and thus keep around.
kc quilty 3/4/08 @ goodbye blue monday, bushwick, brooklyn, new york, USA, earth
There's gonna be a kc quilty show at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick on Weds night @ 9 PM. We think it's gonna be killer and you should come out to join. There's going to be at least one TV show theme song cover, one crappy cover of a good song, and a whole bunch of "low as shit" guitars and shit. ITS FREE TOO!
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CRUST NEVER SLEEPS VOL. I
Here at Cooling Pie HQ, we're always brainstorming, racking our brains for the newest, freshest, most brilliant ideas. We usually hit the mark on all three of those things and this is no exception.
One dark evening (last night), in between searching Craigslist for a job, getting drunk, and eating some Kennedy Fried Chicken (the second and third activities always occur together for some reason), Spencer emerged from the Cooling Pie Records Idea Center™ and said something about a doing a Cooling Pie CONSTELLATION. "CONSTELLATION?! That's a horrible idea!" I screamed, doing a quadruple take and spitting out my cranberry-seltzer drink. "How could you say such a thing?" After banishing him back to the Idea Center™ with Six Demerits, I realized that he really meant COMPILATION and not CONSTELLATION. Then I realized we needed one.
So I've since let Spencer back out of his cell and we started asking bands and musicians and artists that we knew and loved to help us out. The main stipulation that we defined was that all songs be recorded specifically for the compilation. We would like to think that all these songs would never exist had we not bothered everyone to make a song for us. If a band couldn't do something specific for the comp, then we would accept something "unreleased", whatever that means these days.
SO FAR, CRUST NEVER SLEEPS is set to feature:
- A Brief Smile (NYC)
- Ramona Cordova (New Orleans/Alaska/Philly/NYC/Outerspace)
- several girls galore (Hastings-on-Hudson/Colorado)
- kc quilty (NYC)
- Orphans and Vandals (London)
- Jesse Miller (Los Angeles)
- Little Bear and the Bad Touch (NYC)
- Clayton Scoble (Cambridge, MA)
- Day Sleeper (Boston)
- Randy Numens (North Pole)
- Ava Luna (NYC/Japan)
You never know who might flake, but I feel pretty confident these people will be represented. There is still room though and we're hoping to pull through on a few nice surprises...some people haven't answered us, some people aren't talking to us, some people make crappy songs and so we didn't ask them. Do you think you should be on here? Are you really awesome? Send us an email @ coolingpierecords [at] gmail.com and tell us why!
CRUST NEVER SLEEPS will be released digitally for streaming and download on this site sometime in the next few months--let's say, March. Additionally, we will probably do some sort of homemade physical release and possibly even a 7" BEST OF. Kinda like that Nirvana/Radiohead/Other-bands-who's-backcatalogs-are-being-raped Best of the Box Set type of idea, except those are big label money making scam and this is a small label money losing scam. Take that Krist Novoselic!
TWOOTER
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.
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