Happy Monday! Here’s a present, Buddyhead readers: The Verve just posted a new “non-album” track on their website called “Mover.” Click here to download it from them, or skip that horse shit and download it from us below. Either way, you win.

(The Verve - “Mover”)

I wasn’t too impressed with the slightly dorky, sample-heavy single they thew out on the internet last week, “Love Is Noise”. But I can’t complain because I’m glad to have them back together. Plus, since I’m the one who actually got the band back together via “The Secret” I’m taking full responsibility for this one. So here is your new guitar-based Verve track “Mover,” which might not blow minds, but destroys that other single. At least we know Richard still “can’t sleep at night.” (Yo dude, it might be the cocaine.) Thankfully, he isn’t gotten arrested for trying to work with the children while he’s way too high lately…

Buddyhead needs a little help from our friends….. that means you talented people!

As I mentioned a little while ago, we once again have something of a staff here at Buddyhead. Some of them are old school names you might remember from the classic days, like Nate Cavalieri, and some are fresh and exciting new ones, like Meathead and Sonny from GSL. We’re going to start putting together monthly, bi-monthly or whenever-the-fuck we-feel-like-it “issues” of Buddyhead, kinda like we used to do back in the day. Yes, we’re building a time machine. In addition to a bunch of features and interviews, we’re gonna give you, the way-back readers of Ye Olde Head, what you’ve been asking for: Gossip. (Cue soaking of panties and popping of nerd boners.)

Since love is a two way street, here’s where you come in: We’re recruiting foot soldiers in the multi-media empire of tomorrow. Particularly, we’re seeking the following.

– People who shoot, edit or produce video
– Web designers
– Accounting and record label managers (Fred’s heading back to France)
– Rock journalists with good taste
– Someone to sells internet ads
– People who can make fine baked goods, who want to promote events, who do odd jobs (like groom the hair around Aaron’s weenie) and who love music, art, film, cool shit and like to write about it.

If you read the above and think “Shit, they’re talking about ME!” send an email to nate@buddyhead.com, and copy travis@buddyhead.com and meathead@buddyhead.com. Explain why you wanna work for Budyhead for free, what you think you can offer and some samples of your work. We don’t even have money to pay ourselves at this point, so if you’re looking for a paycheck, look elsewhere. Hopefully this comes off the right way: the vibe we’re going for is PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) and we want to be very up front and make sure all possible helpers know about our financial situation: its a kinda scrappy now, but we’re sure to lighting cigars with burning C-notes in the days to come.

Ok…. now I gotta go fill out insurance forms. Party time.

Love,
Travis

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The past week could be summed up with three quotes: “When it rains it pours”, “shit floats” and “Axl Rose has no sense of humor and sent us a cease and desist!”

Fockin’ hell has it been hot! I checked the weather channel at one point last week and it said that it was about 250 degrees here in Los Angeles. Which is really ideal when you drive an old car (like I do) that doesn’t have AC or power steering (it’s a 73 and they invented power steering/windows in 74). To make things even worse some idiot-lady (who was looking at her cell phone and picking her nose) plowed into the back of my car going about 40 miles per hour while I was at a dead stop. Fun times! And this was only three days after I’d gotten it back from the mechanic’s shop where it had been for three months. I must have done something bad… cuz that’s some fucked up car karma. But things could be worse, at least it still drives and at least I didn’t get hurt. Anyways, now that I’ve broken the ice with all this weather talk, let’s snuggle up and talk about how two of my favorite British bands have new records on the way! FUCK YEAH!

First off… on August 18th (in the UK), or August 19th (if you’re teeth aren’t crooked and you live in North America), The Verve are releasing their fourth album cleverly titled “Fourth”. It’s their first record in 9 years and it’ll be out on their own imprint “On Our Own” (which happens to be one of my favorite songs by them). Check out the first single “Love Is Noise…

(The Verve - “Love Is Noise”)

And here’s the tracklisting. If any of you little record stealers out there find it out there on the interweb, email me them shits…

The Verve - “‘Forth” Tracklisting:
1. Sit and Wonder
2. Love Is Noise
3. Rather Be
4. Judas
5. Numbness
6. I See Houses
7. Noise Epic
8. Valium Skies
9. Columbo
10. Appalachian Springs

The Verve Tour Dates:
06.27 Cornwall, England - The Eden Project
06.29 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
07.04 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
07.05 Bobital, France - Bobital Festival
07.11 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park
07.16 Livorno, Italy - Italia Wave Festival
07.18 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
07.19 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
08.09 Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08.10 Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08.16 Weston Park, England - V Festival
08.17 Chelmsford, England - V Festival

Metallica high on cocaine talking about Oasis and Blur

Secondly (and way more importantly), on October 7th, I will be running to the record store (if there are any by then) to pick up my copy of the seventh studio album by the greatest current rock band in the world…. OASIS! They’re sticking with the four word title just like the last record and calling this one “Dig Out Your Soul”. The first single, “The Shock of the Lightning,” will be released one week earlier on September 29, 2008.

(AA Bondy - “Hey Preacher”)

(AA Bondy - “I’m On Fire”)

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Tune into Indie 103FM (or listen here online) sometime around 9am today, because I’ll be on “The Morning Show with Joe Escalante” talking about cool shit like Buddyhead, Jubilee and whatever else Joe wants to rap about. I’m bringing Mike from Jubilee / Queens of the Stone Age with me because it’s so early I need a sidekick in case I’m so tired I can’t remember how to talk. I’ve heard Joe’s show a few times and it’s pretty funny… my favorite part is David Lynch doing the weather with “The Cabin” by Josh Freese in the background.

Update: Someone recorded part of the show we were on and here it is as an mp3, enjoy. Thanks to Joe Escalante, Mark Shovel and everyone at Indie 103FM for all their support.

Travis & Mike on “The Morning Show with Joe Escalante”

Jerry Casale (Devo and Jihad Jerry) on “The Morning Show” (03.07.07)

Speaking of Devo and (their drummer, and everyone else’s too) Mr. Josh “I Don’t Know How To Call Travis Back” Freese… check out his latest youtube creation. Someone please give this man a multi-million dollar budget and let him make a full length feature film. If David Lynch gets to, Josh should too. Anyhoo… we now give you…. Josh Freese Presents: “We Are Devo And We Are Shell Boy”

Later tonight I’m DJing what sounds like it’s gonna be a really cool party down south. The soiree is celebrating the launch of Vestal’s newest collection and is being held @ the Vestal HQ (730 West 17th Street Costa Mesa, CA 92627). Some band that I’ve never heard, called Dark Meat is playing. I’m told they are a 17 piece psychedelic rock “collective”… I tried listening to them on their myspace page but it kept freezing my computer cuz they have so much shit on there, but they did have this photo on there so even if they totally suck balls it looks to be a fun party anyways. Plus I’m bringing Casper Adams and he said that if the party starts to drag and the beach bunnies aren’t into us he’ll whip his dick out and put in the cake. But I have faith that’ll it’ll be a zinger cuz Derek from Vestal told me that doors are at 8pm, it’s all ages, there will be “free absinthe bars and shit”, a preview of the 2008 Fall/Holiday Vestal line and many special guests (which I’m guessing is going to be Oasis)…. plus I’m DJing. Show up if you’re in neighborhood.

Vestal Music Minute Interview: Jesse “Boots Electric” Hughes

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Arthur Magazine, one of the only music publications in the modern world that actually doesn’t suck and matters, needs a cool $20,000 or “it will die”. So if you’re a rich guy with bad karma, here’s your chance to straighten that shit out. If you’ve got that kinda coin laying around, sent it over to these hippies so they can keep writing about cool music and art. Good luck dudes! Love, Buddyhead.

Here’s what they posted on their site explaining their situation:

One year ago I ran up my credit cards and borrowed money from friends and family in order to buy out my ex-partner in Arthur. Since then I have maxed out my personal and business credit cards to service that debt and to start up publication of Arthur again. We have worked very hard with very little resources: some of us could afford to work pro bono, others could afford to work at well below market, still others couldn’t afford to work for Arthur but did it anyway.

Still, we have bills to pay, and debt to service. Starting up again costs money. And my credit cards are now maxed out.

On the heels of lower than expected ad sales (although they are trending up), increased production and distribution costs (higher quality printing and paper, higher fuel costs, increased printrun), and an “under-performing non-magazine product” (the Living Theatre dvd, for which we’ve sold less than 25% of the printrun since launch, received zero reviews or notices, etc), spiraling debt service payments (now $2k a month) on startup costs, and most importantly ZERO NEW BACKERS… we’ve finally reached the point where

WE HAVE NO MORE MONEY.

If we don’t obtain at least $20k in the next six days, ARTHUR is done. Our long-term prospects are good, if we are fortunate enough to make it through this rough patch.

Please help. No donation is too small.

Our preferred method of payment is Paypal. It is a free service to buyers, and enables you to pay directly By VISA, MASTERCARD, AMEX, DISCOVER or from your checking account or debit card. You can also convert foreign currency to U.S. dollars. Signing up only takes a few minutes.

Please use PayPal to make a donation to editor at arthurmag dot com

Thank you.

Jay Babcock
Arthur Magazine

Link: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2932

I’m sure if you could spread the word somehow on your blog or whatever, you could REALLY help to get them to pull through, and hence why I’m emailing you about it.

Take care,

-Adrian

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It’s a fact, look it up.

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(All photos by Dean Torrance)

UPDATE: I’m reposting this article/interview for a few reasons. First off I wanted to let you all know that “Pacific Ocean Blue is now out and in stores! So, go buy yourself a copy. It’s a ledgendary record, the “new” songs are killer and the packaging is nothing short of amazing. I also wanted you all to check out this really cool EPK the label put together… hopefully they’ll end up doing a full length feature documentary after this. It’s a great story that needs to be told… plus I’ll direct it! Let’s do this!

Now that the record is out and in store, I re-posted the two tracks I originally wanted you guys to hear. Check out “River Song” and “Under The Moonlight” down below. Oh, and check out the “numbers” this baby has already done… pretty surprising and impressive I think. Congrats go out to everyone involved in this…. Gregg Jakobson, John Hanlon, Jim Guercio, Taylor Hawkins, everyone at Sony/BMG/Legacy and the man himself…. Dennis Wilson. RIP.

# 4 ROCK RELEASE ON AMAZON.COM DAY OF RELEASE

# 8 DEBUT ON BILLBOARD’S CATALOG CHART

# 2 BEST SELLER AT AMEOBA RECORDS IN LOS ANGELES

# 16 DEBUT ON THE UK ALBUM CHART

I’ve got some good news music fans, check this…

On June 17, 2008 Dennis Wilson’s critically acclaimed solo opus, “Pacific Ocean Blue”, will be re-released, expanded and titled “Legacy Edition”! Yes, that was a collective “FINALLY!” you just heard from fans worldwide. Lemme explain a bit, not only have 20 new tracks been added to it but this album has been out of print for almost 20 years now! It’s now considered a “lost classic” to pretty much everyone who’s heard it. My favorite music magazine, Mojo, champions it every chance they can. Example: they listed it as one of “The 67 lost albums you must own!”. You can pre-order the new 2xCD for $23 bucks from Amazon by clicking here. I dare you to buy this amazing record RIGHT NOW. As Rollins might say… “DO IT!”

(Dennis Wilson - “River Song”)

(Dennis Wilson - “Under The Moonlight”)

You can also go to http://www.pacificoceanblue.net/ to hear short streams.

Released (only a month after I was born) back in August 1977, “Pacific Ocean Blue” made Dennis Wilson (who was known in some circles as the “troubled alcoholic drummer”) the first Beach Boy to release a solo record. Think that hurt a few egos?

Not only was Dennis first but he proved he could make really good records on his own as well. To me, “Pacific Ocean Blue” sounds way more like California than “Pet Sounds” or any other Beach Boy’s record does. It was produced by Dennis and his close friend & writing partner Gregg Jakobson. They co-wrote songs for The Beach Boys in the past including “Forever” (which is on every best of I’ve ever seen), “Baby Blue”, “Celebrate the News” and “San Miguel”. “Pacific Ocean Blue” shot up the U.S. charts and “peaked” at #96 (and was on them charts for 12 weeks). It went on to sell almost 300,000 copies (which out sold all those whack disco records The Beach Boys were putting out at the time) and then it went out of print for about 20 years. I’ve seen the cd on ebay for as much as $250…

Gregg Jakobson and the album’s original engineer, John Hanlon, went back into the studio this past year, brought up all the old tracks and finished what Dennis left unfinished. They are the reason this new re-issue comes with 20 previously unreleased tracks including some that were supposed to be Dennis’s follow up album which he was working on when he died…

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Sorry I’ve been a tad AWOL from this site… but I’m just a human, a victim of the insane. And I’ve just been super busy dealing lots of really positive stuff over in Buddyhead / Jubilee-Land. But that’s a whole other post I’ll throw up soon…. (Photo of me taken by Troy Boy)

UPDATED:
THURSDAY NIGHT = I AM DJING @ BAR CHLOE (SANTA MONICA)

Tonight June 26th 2008, and every Thursday, I will be DJing @ Bar Chloe with my friend Ian Rogers (Topspin/FISTFULAYEN) from 8PM till Midnight. We’ll be playing our favorite rock n’ roll, blues, soul, R&B and whatever else fits the mood. Songs that makes us (and hopefully you) happy. Ian wrote about it here on his blog.

By the way…. everything on their menu is amazing. I highly recommend the artichoke and the burger. Check the menu with prices - http://www.barchloe.com/

Bar Chloe
1449 2nd St (between Broadway and Santa Monica)
Santa Monica, CA
90401-2301
map

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So, here ya go, the “Rebel Hiss” video… Our first venture into the whole “music video” realm. This is basically just a retrospective glimpse into what our first tour… And first shows… That we ever did were like. The gigs from which Travis captured most of the footage took place in January across the UK. The rest of the footage was supplied by some of you courteous folks out there. We thank you kindly for that. We’d also like to thank Brian Giberson for putting this whole mess together, and going beyond just polishing a turd, but spray-painting it gold.

Or click here to watch it on Vimeo, it’s actually looks allot better over there.

What else is new? Well, in a week or two, our 2nd single, “In With The Out Crowd” will be available in a digital format… That is of course if you’ve already signed up for our yearly subscription here: Jubilee.LA . The single will be available to those who haven’t signed up for this service a little later than those who have, and in cd and 7-inch vinyl formats even a smidge after that. Actually, if ya sign up for the subscription before we release the single, you’ll still be able to get in on the action earlier than everybody else.

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The remix came out so good that Meathead threw together this kickass music video here for it. I smell a TRL smash hit kids! This one is gonna top the charts! FUCK YEAH!

Here are the lyrics:

Buddyhead rock right, axl know
Fifteen years in the fields of blow
Hair so tight, white boy corn rows
True rock shit, Real rock n roll (Oh)
Slash stay drunk at house of blues
Slash stay drunk, toss back some brews
Duff play bass don’t give a damn
Duff still mad at Scott Weiland

Buddyhead remix, emo know
Tight pants silverlake homos
Still hate Durst and that’s a fact
Travis snucked in and rocked ya hat

Welcome to the jungle, Axl rose
Paradise city going up your nose
Indiana boys now malibu
N word drop for a chosen few
Slash half black shoulda whooped yo ass
Slash ain’t know, he was in the flask
We love yall true rock n dope
Rock star lives under microscopes

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Aloha,

Topspin came out of stealth mode and they’re finally starting to tell their story… check it out @ http://www.TopspinMedia.com.

The cool part (aside from the fact that their software is gonna flip the music world on its head) is it has something to do with us. Jubilee was the first band to use it @ www.jubilee.LA. Somehow it always comes back to us, huh?

For those of you who don’t know what Topspin is… read the site, but basically it allows artists and musicians to sell their own music, video and photos on their own site with a digital subscription as well. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Attention any douchebags at actually still have jobs at major labels… start looking for new gigs now!

They also happen to be on cover of the new issue of Billboard. That’s Shamal on the left, one of my oldest and best friends Ian C. Rogers on the skateboard and Peter Gotcher (he invented a small program called PRO TOOLS you might have heard of) on the right

Finally I’m excited about something again. Congrats guys…. can’t wait to see what the future holds. If you happen to be coming to the Topspin party in Venice tonight I’m DJing from 8:45 to 10:15. In the meantime I’m heading to Malibu to go surfing. Shaka.

Love,
Travis

PS. Sorry for the lack of updates here but I just finally moved into a room (couch surfing tour of 2008 is finally over) and have been adjusting to sleeping in a nice big bed. Thanks Danny, I love ya. We’re also busy putting a few things together that I think you will all be excited about… one being a “relaunch” of this old time machine of a website. If you think you have something to offer us in the way of writing, web design, video editing, shit shoveling or whatever. Please send our new “Editor In Chief” Nate Cavalieri an email at nate@buddyhead.com with what you have to offer us and why you wanna work for free. Cuz we ain’t got any money to pay nobody. It’s called doing it for the love dudes. Anyways…. this ramble is way too long, check out Topspin.

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Hi, I’m Meathead. Have you checked out the latest edition of Rolling Stone magazine? Why? Well, anyway, you probably noticed Mr. Gwyneth Paltrow posing on the cover this month, trying really hard to look like a genius. Seriously, look at him. Hate to break it to you, Chris, but wearing a stupid-looking jacket that you got from Michael Jackson’s yard sale and looking thoughtfully into the distance doesn’t change the fact that you’re the singer for fucking Coldplay. Quit kidding yourself.

Don’t tell that to Rolling Stone, though. Interviewer Brian Hiatt keeps his lips firmly attached to Chris Martin’s genitals for so long that you’d think they were conjoined twins. The cover alone is bad enough: Before I edited it using the magic of Adobe™ Photoshop­­®, it seriously read “Coldplay’s Chris Martin: Confessions of an Anxious Rock God.” What? Christ Almighty, just how far down has the bar been lowered that motherfucking Chris Martin, whose music can frequently be heard playing over the speakers at Bed Bath & Beyond, is considered a rock god? Correct me if I’m wrong, but in order to even qualify as a rock god, don’t you have to actually rock first? I’m pretty sure Kenny Loggins is further up the list than Chris Martin. I can’t say with any real authority how many times the devil horns have been thrown at a Coldplay concert, but I’m going to make an educated guess here and put it at around zero.

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Hi, I’m Meathead. As you’ll know once you’re finished reading this sentence, I’ve been extremely busy lately, repeatedly running over old ladies and Hasidic Jews with a fire truck in the hot new computer game Grand Theft Auto IV. Therefore, I don’t have a whole lot of time for other activities like leaving the house, showering, urinating and defecating in the proper receptacle (the toilet), and/or writing useful and informative articles for Buddyhead.com. However, I felt I could take a little break today in order to address an important subject.

I’ve been getting quite a lot of emails from people all over the world asking me to teach them how to draw former Chicago frontman Peter Cetera. Understandably so, as he’s quite a strikingly handsome man. Naturally, I ignored them, because I’m an asshole, but after nearly eleven years of this and no forseeable end in sight, I think it’s time to finally put a stop to this. Today, at long last, you will learn a quick and easy way to draw Mr. Cetera. I hope you will find this information useful and that it will fill that gnawing empty void in your life, at least for a few minutes.

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Welcome visitors to Party Mountain!

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Oh-man-oh-man do I ever love Memorial Day!

I love it cuz I get the day off work so i can… oh wait, I don’t have a real job and I live on a couch and I’m a “struggling artist” or as my dad likes to call me as… A loser. Now that I think about it, Memorial Day totally blows in my book. All it is are BBQ’s full of people you really don’t wanna be around watching football games on televisions. I’m not a big fan of that shit. Which is why I’ll spend today Listing to the new Wire record, sleeping, maybe see a movie and at some point eat Blueberry pancakes with a very attractive female. Those are my only agendas. Yeah, aiming for the fuckin’ stars today… and I’m going to sleep now at 9am.

Like I said about we’ve got a new Wire song to listen to, so I guess Memorial Day 2008 is a little better than the average M.Day I guess . As if our lives couldn’t get any better, Wire (the rock band) are giving their new song away for free on pinkflag.com! Fuckin’ A right? Free music! Hurry before they change their mind! The song is called “One Of Us” from the album “Object 47″, which has a release date of July 7. Buy it from Posteverything. I can’t wait for the the reason of the record…

Wire - “One Of Us”

Once you download this bad boy…. Dime this baby all day because chances are tomorrow you have to go back to your shitty job you hate but allows you the comforts of a bed, your own room and not living on Aaron North hours. Live it up porky cuz tomorrow will be here soon. Might wanna bust out the camera so you can remember what happened.

By the way, what do Buddyhead readers do for jobs? And where do you live? List in the comments please. I must know.

It looka like Wire lost a member since their last record, cuz now there’s only three old dudes who think soccer is called football in their press photo. And it doesn’t look like they’ve made a video for “One Of Us” yet, because when I searched Youtube all I could find was ABBA doing “One Of Us”. Hey guys do you need me to manage you? Come on, ABBA sucks and if they can pull it together to make a video for “One Of Us” back in 1981, then Wire should be able to make it happen in 2008! Get your ass in gear you shirtlifters!

And what the fuck dudes? And are you guys every gonna come back to the US? The last time you guys played @ The El Rey in Los Angeles it was AWESOME. But, It’s been five years! I mean come on… I’ve been to England, they’re aint ANYTHING going on there except rain and shitty food. So get in the van and get over here.

In case you’re a normal person and don’t check random English band’s websites all the time like I do, you might wanna check out “Read & Burn 03″ that they recently released. And if you missed 2003’s “Read & Burn’s” 01/02 and their full length “Send”, buy those from Posteverything.

Wire- “23 Years Too Late” (Radio Edit) (from Read & Burn 03)

Wire - “In the Art of Stopping” (edit) (from Read & Burn 01)

Wire - “Trash/Treasure” (from Read & Burn 02)

Wire - “The Agfers Of Kodack” (edit) (from Send

Another thing you can play with this holiday is Grooveshark Lite. Basically you can instantly stream any song and somehow the artists get paid. I’ll read up on it and explain it all later in a post when I’m not so tired. But for now, just let it blow your mind like it blew Danny Lohner’s…

Start by taking a spin with “1970″ by one of my favorite bands, The Stooges. There is no “Fourth Stooges Record”. That didn’t happened and it’s being deleted from the history books. No more of “The Weirdness” guys. Knock it off, don’t blow the legacy, just play the rad songs you wrote when you were cool and young. But Iggy… I’m never forgiving you for doing that Sum 41 song/video. You and your A&R guy (David Walters) might as well of put out a video of the two of you deep throating everyone in The Spotlight on a Saturday night. Fuck, it was tough trying to tell peoeple you were cool when that song was getting shoved down everyones throats. The only good thing about that was… NO ONE CARED. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And now I gotta go to bed.

Later dudes and dudettes, enjoy the Wire jams. I have been.

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I love Tumblr. Thanks to it along with friends with good taste in music I’m finding out about some stellar bands. Last night I came across San Francisco’s Girls. Surprised the name wasn’t taken…

“Morning Light”

If you dig this they’ve got a limited 500 run of the Lust For Life/Morning Light seven-inch which comes out July 5 via True Panther. Apparently the first 100 pre-orders get a custom-made corsage as a bonus. At least now you’ve got something legal to give those highschoolers you take to prom.

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Hi, I’m Meathead. Since I could count the number of times I’ve visited the Pitchfork website on one hand even after a hypothetical horrific, bloody woodshop mishap, I’m not really “up” on all the latest “rock and roll” bands that “kids” are “listening to” these days. Of course, this isn’t much of a problem, seeing as most new music that is created today “blows goats.” Unfortunately, every now and then I catch wind of one of these god-awful pseudo-bands, despite my best efforts not to. And more often than not, they end up opening for Nine Inch Nails soon after. But I guess my ever-growing distaste for contemporary music is just another sign that I’m getting old. I’ve also been watching a lot of Matlock lately. I can’t believe I’ve never noticed how much this show kicks ass.

Have you ever seen a band name that’s so mind-blowingly retarded that it makes you want to roundhouse kick a nun right in the face? Like, for example, “As I Lay Dying”, “Panic! At The Disco”, or “Darryl Hall and John Oates”? I recently had the opportunity to experience this tingly sensation, although in this particular case, the word “band” is used in lieu of “whiny putz with a keyboard.” It’s easier to just type “band.” Imagine my delight the very moment I became aware of the existence of yet another one of these atrocities. To my chagrin, there was a noticeable lack of nuns nearby to attack indiscriminately at the time, so I had to settle for local Cub Scout pack #418. I tell you, it just wasn’t as satisfying. You’d think it would be, but it wasn’t. So it goes. Nevertheless, I was still stuck with the cold, unchanging reality that someone is actually recording and performing music under the moniker Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Holy Christ.

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Creation Records Documentary Part1

I found this cool documentary on Creation Records and Alan McGee. He signed Oasis. He wins.

Creation Records Documentary Part 2

More related clips here.

Seeing as how Alan McGee is currently managing The Charlatans and they just gave their new record away for free. You should crank up “The Only One I know” from their new disc “You Cross My Path. I posted about this record a while ago you can buy it from Amazon UK or US. The more I listen to this record the more I like it. Don’t be a twat, buy it

The Charlatans - “The Only One I Know”

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Not sure if it’s because of the new Cure single, or the A. A. Bondy bonus tracks I recently acquired, or ’cause this weekend I spent the entire day up in the Hollywood hills catching some sun, pool side, staring up at the Hollywood sign — but I’m feeling a little inspired right now. I’m sure it’s a combination of these things, but none the less, life is good right now and I couldn’t ask for anything else.

So, great news for all you Cure fans out there — they’re planning to release their 13th studio album on September 13th. Yeah, The Cure are still around making records for all you little girls (and boys) wearing 8 layers of eye liner, dressed in all black, wearing mesh gloves. Not that I can really knock those kids too much, since I was one of them when I was in 4th grade. Yup, that’s right — I was one of those kids who wore Doc Martins and hated color. I actually had a Cure t-shirt for every day of the week. It’d be accurate to say that I was a little obsessed. But it wasn’t a bad thing. I was luckily enough to be introduced to a lot of killer bands at a young age: Christian Death, PIL, Bauhaus and Sabbath. I must’ve been the coolest little kid in LA and didn’t even know it.

But that was a long time ago, and I haven’t been into The Cure for quite some time now. Disintegration was probably their last record that meant anything to me. Came out in 1990 and was huge. You might wanna check out a song called “Fascination Street.” That album would probably make my top 100 album of all time if I had such a thing. But anything after that I really couldn’t get into, at least up
until now.

The Cure - “Fascination Street”

Their first single “The Only One” (released on May 13th) includes a b-side “NY Trip” and from what I’ve heard so far, the new record is way better than their last couple of turds. Especially their last record, self-titled release in 2004, which was produced by Ross Robinson (we can thank him for a few other wet farts like Limp Bizkit and Korn — and for turning the last At The Drive In record into a steaming pile of nu-metal mall pussy shit, but that’s another story).

The Cure - “The Only Ones”

The Cure - “NY Trip”

AA Bondy - “Some Summer”

AA Bondy - “Hey Preacher”

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This video of Bill O’Reilly losing his mind is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Aaron and I watched it about ten times in a row yesterday morning. It gets better with each repeated watching.

Bill O’Reilly Flips Out

I can’t decide which is the best, the original video above or this Dance Remix version of it here. You can also download the mp3 of the audio.

Bill O’Reilly Flips Out (Dance Remix) [mp3]

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I was just spending some quality time on the World Wide Web™ before going to stupid work, and stumbled across something that I felt needed to be shared with my friends. But since I don’t actually have friends, I’ll settle for sharing it with the readers of Buddyhead instead!

If, like me, you’re a die-hard fan of The Golden Girls, Ice Station Zebra, and controlled substances, today’s your lucky day! For your viewing pleasure, here’s a video that’s sure to put a smile in your pants, starring Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson. In it, the two manliest actors of the 20th century sing an up-tempo duet about nearly every illicit drug in existence. Unfortunately, they never bring up my personal favorite drug, black tar heroin, but nobody’s perfect (except Ernest Borgnine).

Oh yeah, don’t do drugs.

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