Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
VISITORS
footage of commuter trains + footage of a weird (and frankly awesome) swing dance competition = music video. done.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
YOU DON'T NEED SOMEONE NEW
i've posted this video before, but i just pulled out my 12" single of this song the other day and i've been playing it non-stop. i'm kind of obsessed with the early 80's liverpool music scene and with this wild swans spin-off band in particular. as you may already know, the wild swans were founded by ex-teardrop explodes keyboardist paul simpson in 1980, releasing one excellent ep (the revolutionary spirit) and a radio session recorded for john peel before splintering into the lotus eaters and care (featuring simpson and future lightening seed ian broudie). the lotus eaters released one full length album (no sense of sin) in 1984 that i'm DYING without.
while i'm at it, here's a video of the wild swans from after they re-formed in 1988 (dig the drummer!) and a video of care that i've posted before and am also OBSESSED with...
interesting side note: all three bands continue to be massively popular in the philippines. good taste over there, i guess...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
JERK DREAMIN'
i had a vivid dream this morning that i was on the hunt for jamaican food with my friend paul (i assume we were in or around toronto). we were looking for some fabled "best jerk chicken spot" deep in the bowels of a dark suburban shopping mall. when we finally found it, the line up of people and the smells of curry and spice wafting from the back signaled that we had indeed found something special. it was one of those dreams where you can never quite get what you want or get where you're trying to go, so in waiting and ordering and waiting some more, the chicken was always just out of reach. at one point a man came out from the back with a huge tray of fresh fried "johnny cakes", which were snatched up in a frenzy by all the people waiting. i have no idea if they were really johnny cakes or what they were, but they looked like large flat donuts with some sort of intoxicating curry gravy oozing out. i woke up soon after, never having tasted my dream chicken. now i have a hunger- nay, LUST- for jamaican spice with no other option but to try and make it myself. i'm venturing off into new kitchen territory here folks, wish me luck!
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
BLOCK OF WOOD
"and it doesn't look good
and i'm feeling like a block of wood
so take me away
i know not where..."
Monday, November 26, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN
i'm wearing my skin-tight latex outfit and tassle mask and dancing around in my living room right now!
THIS IS THE DAY
well you didn't wake up this morning
because you didn't go to bed
you were watching the whites of your eyes
turn red
the calendar on your wall is ticking the days off
you've been reading some old letters
you smile and think how much you've changed
all the money in the world
couldn't buy back those days
you pull back the curtains and the sun burns into your eyes
you watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky
this is the day your life will surely change
this is the day when things fall into place
you could've done anything if you'd wanted
and all your friends and family think that you're lucky
but the side of you they'll never see
is when you're left alone with the memories
that hold your life together like
glue
you pull back the curtains and the sun burns into your eyes
you watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky
this is the day your life will surely change
this is the day when things fall into place
this is the day Your life will surely change
Monday, November 19, 2012
RETURN OF THE MACK
a club classic, obviously. i've been jamming this track hard in my head for the last week and i've watched the vid easily 20 times. there's just something about british r&b...
Saturday, November 17, 2012
MOON OVER MARIN
The crowded future stings my eyes
I still find time to exercise
In a uniform with two white stripes
Unlock my section of the sand
It's fenced off to the waters edge
I clamp a gasmask on my head
On my beach at night
Bathe in my moonlight
Another tanker's hit the rocks
Abandoned to spill out its guts
The sand is laced with sticky glops
O' Shimmering moonlight sheen upon
The waves and water clogged with oil
White gases steam up from the soil
On my beach at night
Bathe in my moonlight
I squish dead fish between my toes
Try not to step on any bones
I turn around and I go home
I slip back through my basement door
Switch off all that I own below
Dive in my scalding wooden tub
My own beach at night
bathe in my moonlight
There will always be a moon over Marin.
Friday, November 16, 2012
MEDUSA
what is the deal with raccoons?
i'm familiar with the "devil may care" attitude of city raccoons and their complete lack of respect for the usual human being/wildlife code of conduct, but what's up with these country fuckers? did you know that raccoons all shit and piss in a communal "latrine"? that's what they're called, latrines. i googled this shit. there is a giant stinking pile of raccoon shit directly behind my house. there's even a small stack of raccoon-related trade journals beside the pile. maybe a little raccoon graffiti on the tree. what made them choose that particular spot? privacy? they just liked the vibe? did they have a meeting about it where they put it to a vote? they also like to hang out on my roof at night, just walking around, doing who the fuck knows what. weirdos.
and what are these dudes eating? seriously, it looks crazy back there.
anyway, seinfeld...
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
TESTURE
i don't wanna sound like a total fucking loser here, but i have some serious mixed feelings about the neil young and crazy horse concert i went to last sunday night. if i can say anything for sure about it it's that i haven't stopped thinking about it since. i am a fan, obviously, and knew going into the concert that a. neil young and crazy horse had just put out a new record and were touring in support of it and b. crazy horse jams it out live. that being said, i guess i just assumed that neil would be playing a few new songs and then doing a greatest hits set of all the songs i love and wanted to hear. well, the set was pretty heavy on new material and frankly, i wasn't feeling it. don't get me wrong, neil's guitar playing was completely insane, his voice was perfect and the band did exactly what they do best, but... the new songs felt weak to me. and unfortunately kind of cheesy. and they jammed them out FOREVER. can i blame neil for being a creative and amazing musician well into his sixties and wanting to showcase new material rather than just "trotting out the hits"? nope. not at all. the problem with the concert was me and my expectations, for sure. truthfully, i don't really know anything off any album after sleeps with angels and he's released probably 15 albums since then. the classic songs were for the most part absolutely incredible, jammy, but that's to be expected. songs like powderfinger, cinnamon girl, mr. soul and my my, hey hey (into the black) were absolutely mind-blowing to me. and i seriously almost shit my pants when the band went into perhaps my all-time favorite (and most self-relatable) crazy horse song fuckin' up. but then they went and jammed it out in the longest, weirdest and most goofball way imaginable, turning it into a bloated grunting viagra sex-fart. i dunno. but after everything, i didn't leave feeling disappointed. i left feeling stoked that a guy like neil young can pack out a huge fucking stadium and do exactly what he wants to do as a creative musician and not have it seem like a "fuck you" to his fans (like me) who just wanted to hear like a hurricane. the whole thing was simultaneously punk as fuck and as completely unpunk as possible. and i respect that, god damn it! plus it was his birthday and getting to sing happy birthday to neil young with fifteen thousand people was pretty special.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
EVIL EYE
LADYHAWK - Evil Eye - 2012 from Jeremy r. Jansen on Vimeo.
here's another vid made by the jer-bear...
RUB ME WRONG
LADYHAWK - Rub Me Wrong - 2012 from Jeremy r. Jansen on Vimeo.
here's a vid our friend jeremy made!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I'M A WITCH
here's an awesome video our dear friend sipreano made for us. bonus points for naming all the album covers he used...
Sunday, November 4, 2012
"LOW-RENT NICKELBACK" COMPLETE TRANS-CANADIAN TOUR
here are a couple new vids for some of the jams on our new album. more coming promptly...
so anyway, we just completed our "big" canadian tour with baby eagle and the proud mothers and it was a blast! good times. thanks to everyone who came out and rocked out and fell over and sang along and cried and sprayed us with beer or champagne or "natural champagne". just kidding. being sprayed with stuff kind of sucks, but i understand and appreciate the spirit behind it. i don't wanna get all ian mackaye about everything.
just sitting here at home listening to the milli vanilli "girl you know it's true" 12" single i picked up in toronto and thinking back over the last couple weeks. it's all such a blur, seems like forever ago that we played that first show in victoria on a quiet tuesday night back in mid-october. all the shows were good in their own way, some were busier than others, but at every one of them the people were there to PARTY (props to the joy road crew for representing and rocking the house at the otherwise zombie-fied kelowna show!). i have made no secret of my overall dislike of touring in the past (and present and future), but it was awesome to see so many stoked people in so many places after not playing there in such a long time. and then there's toronto. for whatever reason, people go completely bonkers at our shows in toronto. it's actually pretty hilarious. very flattering, really. but seriously, we're just an emo band, we're not fucking black flag. ha! looking up and seeing some dude completely upside down and some girl literally flying through the air while geysers of beer erupt in my face and bottles smash against the ceiling is pretty surreal (and actually kind of terrifying). as long as everyone is having a good time and nobody gets hurt it's all good to me. again, i don't wanna get all ian mackaye, i just want the front of our shows to be as inclusive as possible, know what i'm saying? anyway, toronto gets the gold ribbon for rocking the hardest as always. so what's next? who knows? nothing? we shall see...
for now, i gotta get back to dancing around in my sweat pants to this dope-ass kashif record i scored in a bargain bin. more on that to come shortly...
p.s. sorry to any and all ladyhawk fans in the states, we just straight-up ain't coming down there. nothing personal.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
PETER GREEN: MAN OF THE WORLD
amazing documentary about the greatest british blues guitarist of all time.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
YOU READ MY MIND/THE BEST OF THE BEST
check out this cool video! thanks, todd!
we should have an actual video for this and a few others from our new record coming up quick, so stay tuned...
Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
THIN LIZZY - BEHIND THE MUSIC
phil lynott, gone but never forgotten.
be sure to check out the brand new deluxe reissue of thin lizzy's first album out now on light in the attic records. available online or wherever you buy records (duh.)
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/728-thin-lizzy
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE
been jamming on 10cc a bit here, obviously. i've never really gotten into their post-godley/creme era much, but it's interesting that they had some of their biggest hits after the original songwriters left the band. anyway...
Thursday, August 2, 2012
MORE THAN THIS... THE ROXY MUSIC STORY
i'm one of the few people out there who thinks that roxy music got better after brian eno left the band...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
NEEDLES//PINS - 12:34
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
COPKILLER (A.K.A. ORDER OF DEATH 1981)
um, INSANE!
watch the entire film:
Corrupt Lieutenant by crazedigitalmovies
props to dangerousminds.net
Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
VINYL (2000)
Watch Vinyl (2000) - Alan Zweig investigates the wacky world of record collecting in Lifestyle | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
collect records? wanna feel depressed about it?
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
MUSIC WITH ROOTS IN THE AETHER: TERRY RILEY
skip to the 1 hour mark if you wanna just hear the music...
Monday, June 18, 2012
YOU ARE IN MY SYSTEM (X2)
i'm not sure if robert palmer's versions of these songs are better than the originals, but i think i might prefer them. maybe it's just his vibe, maybe it's the suit, i dunno...
Friday, June 15, 2012
GIMME! GIMME! GIMMIE! (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT)
or before 10:30, been hitting the hay early these days...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
EPISODE 89
here's a live all vinyl mix i did recently for my friend the stunt man's radio show.
hope you likey!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
A NORTHERN SOUL
unrelated, but apparently the stone roses just played their first show together in 22 years! more to come, hopefully...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
THE MARK OF CAIN (2001)
this is a truly fascinating documentary about the russian prison system (known as "the zone") and the complex and beautiful symbolic language of tattoos used by the prisoners.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
CAR
anybody remember the fisher-price pixelvision camera? maybe the coolest toy video camera ever. it shot super grainy black and white footage (see above) onto regular audio cassette tapes. i always wanted one, but never got one. and now this emotionally raw early 90's indie rock has stirred up all those old unrequited pixelvision desires/feelings...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
RE-MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN
all raps should be performed shirtless while hanging upside down from trees.
i used to have this tape back in the day and this song will forever be associated with mowing my parents lawn and listening to my yellow sony sports walkman. fuck i used to hate mowing the lawn. my dad had an electric mower that you had to plug in using a series of extension cords. you had to be really careful not to run over the cord (which i did several times) while also being careful to not step in dog shit from the neighbor's dog (which i also did many times). there were also numerous hidden anthills that would erupt when i ran over them, sending streams of furious ants up my legs and over my entire body. the only thing that made the whole process even remotely bearable was blasting early 90's british rave shit (not that i had any real idea what raving was) and trying to drown out the relentless whine of that fucking lawn mower. oh the good ol' days...
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
i recently listened to this album front to back and i gotta say, i was FEELING IT...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
TAKE SHELTER (2011)
this is one of the best movies i have seen in a long time, maybe ever. i can't recommend it highly enough.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
RADIOACTIVE VOMIT
"FUCK YOU! DIE!"
vancouver's finest black/war metal onslaught.
new cassette "witchblood" out now! seek it at your peril...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
BIG CAR
if you happen to be in toronto this weekend, ladyhawk is playing MATTYFEST 2012 at THE SHOP in the basement of PARTS & LABOUR. gonna be nutso...
Monday, February 6, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
PLANET OF VAMPIRES
hey, check it out! somebody made this cool little video using my song and the trailer for mario bava's awesome 1965 sci-fi flick PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES. must be somebody i know...
anyway, you can watch the whole film on youtube and i highly recommend you do (for the amazing leather outfits alone!)...
p.s. i think you can still order my album from triple crown audio recordings of canada if you're so inclined...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
THE KING
i love this dude.
if you find this as interesting as i do, there are 7 more parts to this talk...
Monday, January 23, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
EVERYBODY EVERYBODY
i have a vivid memory of hearing this in a clothing store, sitting on a chair near the change rooms while my dad tried on suits...
HEARTBURN
just picked up a dope reissue of scottish factory records band the wake's super gloomy first album today! psyched to go home and put it on while visions of cold post punk britain dance in my head...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
BURNING FOR YOU
have i ever expressed to you just how much i FUCKING LOVE blue oyster cult?
i FUCKING LOVE blue oyster cult.
(and charles grodin)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
THE LUCKY ONES
the title track from pride tiger's 2007 major label debut. yes, the video's a little goofy, but the song is undeniable. a true homage to their admitted hero, thin lizzy's phil lynott. as they say, if you're not dancing then there's something wrong...
Monday, January 9, 2012
LET ME BE SEDATED
so, i know that this isn't as horrifyingly cringe-inducing to anyone who isn't me, but this beautiful looking, well made, well edited documentary about us recording our last album is kind of hard to watch. kind of like paint drying. this was a pretty unhappy (and clearly very bloated) time in my life, but here it is, captured for posterity in all it's glory. the day after we finished recording and filming this we flipped our van in the snow before heading out on tour. good times...
SWEET DREAMS
we were jamming HARD this weekend to one of the best vancouver bands of all time.
R.I.P PRIDE TIGER!!!
Friday, January 6, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
2012
make no mistake, this movie sucks. but it also kinda rules. perhaps cusack's best work since BETTER OFF DEAD and ONE CRAZY SUMMER...
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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