Friday, May 18, 2012 at 01:21PM Join me this Sunday inside the new Google Offices for the Venice Art Auctions. I will be showing a painting with a majority of my idols. Ed Ruscha, Laddie John Dill, Robbie Conal.....just to name a few:
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 01:28AM My buddies in The Imps of Marge and Fletch are undertaking an epic project and need your help. If you wanna have a direct impact on an art project DONATE HERE and they'll send you something rad:
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 01:00PM I didn't sleep last night....when I finally did it wasn't a drift.....it was a heavy fall (underated).....a deep drop....Then a sequence of very very real dreams/nightmares....the kind you swear are real.....I won't go into any details....Teddy Roosevelt said, "People who talk about their dreams are boring people..."....Typically i agree. Coffee, workout, eggs, newspaper, update music....Then my commute to the studio....Was I still asleep? One of the most eerie covers of Neil Young's opus "Into the Black" came on.....Who is this? The Chromatics cover a lot of ground on "Kill For Love"....Originally a noisey punk band....The Chromatics have drastically matured into a high pop/dance beat atmospheric/clean produced/well oiled Portland rock machine.....They've ditched the lo-fi and embraced an adult outlook on indie.....The rest of my ride to work felt like floating and I enjoyed it.......
LISTEN HERE:
Chromatics "Back from the Grave" mp3
Chromatics "Into the Black" mp3
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 10:41PM The late 1920s/early 1930s built the foundation for what would become FM radio. Big Band hits/ragtime/western story time....ahhhh pre-televsion era....Prohibition was ending and radio was hip....mashed potatoes, 5 scotches a night, 12 Chesterfields, then bedtime stories...that's right...you got to behave like a wild man...with your family!!! How did we get here?...How can I turn on the radio now and it sounds like aliens fucking...Like a rusty blender....Just absolute crap....By the 1950s the radio began to shake...to have a little reverb....a backbone...Doo-wop, soul, R&B, and the earliest onset of rockNroll was brewing.....Nick Waterhouse is that exact era....This kid is suppose to be 25?? No way...There is no way he was born in 1987...Just no way....Waterhouse somehow heard that 1950s radio....He has channeled it....Buddy Holly was a hipster. Nick Waterhouse is a hipster. Any DJ on FM radio today is not a hipster because they are not 'hip'.....this is retro/doo-wop/vintage soundin' rock/fun at it's finest:
LISTEN HERE:
Nick Waterhouse "(If) You Want Trouble" mp3
Nick Waterhouse "Say I Wanna Know" mp3
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 04:23PM Whewwwww....man.....Mark Lanegan's new video from his 4AD Sessions is baaaadace: