Murder Rebel Radio 31: If You Have A Gun….Why Not Use It?

Brandon was on assignment this week, so expect the dark side to come out. We talked about what I (Bryan) consider to be a very intelligent man who was fired for what I will refer to as Some Bullshit. There were dreams of money and broken bones. We talked about the gay senator, but got more material from a young man that makes crazy, rash decision http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/22727095/detail.htm Also, for the first time ever we agree with a judge.

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Murder Rebel Radio 29: 2 Brothers, 2 Lads

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Adam and Brandon enjoyed a treat from Big Boy Restaurant. It is The Brawny Lad, and 1 of them hated it. A guy bulldozed his own home, and Kim Kardashian outed a Federal Air Marshall. Axl Rose also had to be defended by 2 actors and Sebastian Bach.

Tags: Axl Rose, Big Boy, Bulldozer, Kim Kardashian, Sebastian Bach

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RethinkPopMusic Presents: Ambassadors, The Yes Way, Fugitive Souls, Emily Long and Dinosaur Bones – The Village Voice

A little RPM love over at The Village Voice camp. Reposted from: http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/rethinkpopmusic-presents-ambassadors-the-yes-way-and-dinosaur-bones-1655446/

“Five bucks, five bands, free booze” RSVP at http://www.RPM-RSVP.com to enter for only $5 and get a FREE download! RethinkPopMusic’s youngest band Ambassadors, is excited to announce that they are back and stronger than ever after a 2009 full of adversity. Ambassadors’ keyboardist (Casey Harris), who has been blind since birth, had to have a kidney transplant (from his mother) last November. The kidney disorder wasn’t discovered until he was a senior in high school and little is known about the disease because the correlation with vision loss is EXTREMELY rare. However, have no fear! Casey is back to 110% and the time off allowed Ambassadors to incorporate some new instruments into their already outstanding live show. The showcase at Santos Party House on 02/18 will be Ambassadors first since taking 3 months off following a very successful UK Tour and CMJ Showcase. RSVP and RethinkPopMusic will email you a secret link to download their first single “Tropisms” which was featured on mtvU The Freshman. Their self titled debut EP is slated for an early summer release.

Tags: 5 bands 5 bucks free booze, ambassadors, dinosaur bones, emily long, fugitive souls, RethinkPopMusic, santos party house, the village voice, the yes way

by: gregory

Murder Rebel Radio 28: It Was In His EYE!

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We talked about a guy that had a stiletto in his fucking brain. An awesome man with a bat becomes our hero. Adam and Brett are going to have a trivia contest. Brett might eat meat, Adam might eat pickles, and Brandon and Bryan are going to bust their balls.

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My Ridiculously Belated Top Ten of 2009…with an excuse for being late

Hey all, ace cub reporter of RPM, Ben Foxx here…for those that care, I am amending/changing my Top 10 of 2009 due to a disease which I’ve developed which made the first list come out wrong…ya’ see, last year brought endless waves of Taylor Swift and Jonas Brothers into my life and the results were quite devastating. Every time I heard these cutie-pie, tweenatic, marketing ploy, “Pop Artists” I felt the need to shelter myself from any new incoming music.

By the way, Taylor Swift, I’m onto you…Singing a duet at the Grammys with one of the greatest Female Vocalists in Rock history, Stevie Nicks? – it was embarrasing, quite frankly. Never heard so many flat notes from an “Album of The Year” winner in all my years!
Sorry you had to go through that Stevie!

Getting back to the task at hand…My disease, Swiftian Jonasplexia, made me slack on really listening to all the albums my Ipod  had been feasting on last year (shameless plug for Apple…wanna throw some Ipads our way?)

Anyway, My original Top 10 was (No Order)

Gallows- Grey Britain, Avett brothers-I and Love and You, The Mountain Goats- The Life of the World to Come, Pearl Jam- Backspacer, Mastodon- Crack the Skye, Other Lives-Self Titled, AC Newman- Get Guilty, Slayer-World Painted Blood, Muse-The Resistance, The Veils- Sun Gangs
Late 2008 entry…Fucked Up- The Chemistry of Modern Life

After some serious listening,  I’m sorry  AC Newman, Mastodon, and Pearl Jam
(Pearl Jam, thanks for pulling your embed codes, may have sealed the deal)…you have all been dropped down to Honorable Mention. Your albums are all amazing but I neglected some other albums, who after great moral reflection I needed to add.

Oh and also I gained the balls to put them in order…

here they are:

1. Wild Beasts-Two Dancers

RPM’s intrepid founder, Bob Berman, got this one right.

Melancholy, beautiful, mysterious, complex, challenging….shit my Thesaurus just broke!
Wild Beasts, welcome to an official RPM blog video repeat!!!

2. Gallows- Grey Britain
absolutely ridiculous punk band from England…safe to say their pissed…

3. The Mountain Goats- The Life of the World to Come
Here’s a really interesting video of lead singer & master storyteller John Darnielle:

4. Other Lives- Self Titled
Most underated album of the year…acoustic version of the opener

5. Royksopp- Junior
Get out your bowling shoes and put your pleasure suit on!

6. Jay Reatard- Watch Me Fall
Yes, I forgot to put him on my original list…yes, I feel terrible about it.
It was the disease, I swear!
Great talent lost…R.I.P. Jay Reatard

7. The Veils- Sun Gangs
Brilliant Songwriting…the most important part of it all…and drums…and a bass rig and a van…

8. The Avett Brothers- I and Love and You
Yeah, I didn’t get it either…I and Love and…oh just watch the vid!

9. Muse- The Resistance
OK, I know they are beyond huge at this point but this new album has full-on symphonies (no for real…in 3 parts!)

10. Slayer- World Painted Black
Really don’t want lead singer, Tom Araya kickin my ass…
He just cancelled the tour for back surgery and I’m pretty sure there’s no vid for the album, so he doesn’t need a pissant like me leaving Slayer off the list.
RethinkPopMusic wishes Tom a speedy recovery…hope his Surgeon has horns and a tail!

OK, so as a reward for taking in my late in the game choice of preferences, I give you another belated video tribute…my Late 2008 entry:
Fucked Up- The Chemistry of Modern Life:
To be that fat and hairy and still take your shirt off at every show you have to be great!
Oh and Moby’s a fan…

Tags: Fucked Up, Gallows, grammys, jay reatard, John Darnielle, Jonas Brothers, Moby, Muse, Other Lives, Royksopp, Slayer, Stevie Nicks, Taylor Swift, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, The Veils, Top 10, top 10 of 2009, wild beasts

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Murder Rebel Radio 27: Angel Dust, T.J.s and Randy’s

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We finally figured out why there is no longer a big market for bare knuckle brawling and demolition derbies. We found a nervous cop, and a down ass bitch who smokes weed for her back pain. So listen to the new show.

You can also listen live at around 8:00 on Wednesdays, and around 8:30 or 9 on Fridays at www.murderrebelradio.com/live. Get us on iTunes and vote for us on podcast alley. There is also content on www.murderrebelradio.com

Tags: Angel Dust, BAre Knuckle Boxing, Charlie Sheen, grammys, MTV

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Tab the Band play Bowery the Ballroom

Photo by Carl Timpone

After seeing TAB the Band at Bowery Ballroom rip through twelve songs I rushed home to listen to “Sticky Fingers” by the Rolling Stones. The songs on that album weave southern blues and pop rock together insanely well. TAB the Band seems able to do the same without sounding dated. On the contrary, their songwriting chops are fresh and deliberate. Guitarists Tony Perry and Lou “Lou” Jannetty obviously adore the blues, as is evident on their new single “She Said No (I Love You),” which they played live at The Bowery Ballroom.

It begins with Tony rolling through a heavy but twangy lick that reminded me of the beginning of “Over the Hills and Far Away” by Led Zeppelin. Adrian Perry’s (pictured above) vocals were Mick Jaggeresque but pack more punch, with great sustain, super fine high notes, and great yelping. This is their standout song for me. With measured verses and choruses, an interesting bridge that continued the momentum of the verse, and playfully smooth backup vocals, the song is great to dance to. Ben “Bun” Tileston provided percussion and rattled and thumped his way through the song, which has three distinct drum parts, each building on the song and opening it up.

The chorus of “She Said No” is delivered in call and response fashion, with Adrian singing a low “No” and Lou responding “I love you!” If Cream was left in a tropical jungle, and they continued to write music, and didn’t do smack, they might write a song like this. But who cares about Cream. “Secretary’s Day” by TAB the Band is also worth checking out. If you like “Saturday is Alright for Fighting” by Elton John you will love this song. Please check this band out. You can probably hear them if you roll down your window.

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Tags: carl timpone, tab the band, tab the band bowery ballroom

by: ian

My Daily Thread – RethinkPopMusic – B Sides: Live at The Village Lantern – NYC

Our good friends over My Daily Thread were kind to post about our new project ‘B-Sides’.  Check out the post below and be sure to head over to their site.

Industry innovators RethinkPopMusic are at it again. Known for putting artists first, the most recent project, B-Sides Live, answers the overwhelming need for NYC artists to debut new material, play acoustic sets or unveil side projects.

The weekly event will turn The Village Lantern into the artists’ playground, allowing independent artists to have full administrative control. In fact, participating artists can choose to play their entire album acoustically, collaborate or just play favorite covers for an hour. The only catch? This event isn’t intended for acoustic singer/songwriter sorts but rather artists already in a band with no intention of going solo.

B-Sides Live is scheduled to launch at The Village Lantern on February 4 and run every Thursday thereafter (excluding Feb. 18 when RethinkPopMusic will be holding its showcase at Santos Party House and March 18 when SXSW will be taking over everyone’s attention). Share the love grassroots style through word of mouth in the independent artist community. There will be no cover charge, no fliers and very little public promotion. Think of B-Sides Live as a living room jam session with friends…just a few more of them.

reposted from: http://www.mydailythread.com/mydailytracks/2010/2/2/rethinkpopmusic-b-sides-live-at-the-village-lantern-nyc.html

Tags: b-sides, my daily thread, RethinkPopMusic, the village lantern

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Grammys: That’s Not MY Music Industry

I have been following the writer of this article, Jason – http://www.jasonparkermusic.com/, on twitter ( @1WorkinMusician) for a few months.  You should check out his site here: http://oneworkingmusician.com/. Couldn’t agree more with this article, seems like there are two separate music industries; 1. run by suits who want to throw celebrity infused blah down the throats of tweens and make big bucks 2. independent musicians like Jason and probably everyone reading this post.
Originally posted at: http://oneworkingmusician.com/grammys-thats-not-my-music-industry

Watching the Grammy Awards tonight I was struck with one thought:they might call that the Music Industry, but that has nothing to do with what I do as a working musician. I have been a professional musician for 15 years, and it’s been my sole job for 9 of those years. But whatever that was on the TV tonight, that’s not even close to my world.

And you know what? Rather than that thought being depressing it is actually quite liberating. Just when I started to get upset about the things I was seeing I realized that the only reason for it to upset me is if it effects me, which it doesn’t. All that pomp and circumstance, all the tuxes and evening gowns, all the money that went into the production, all the out-of-tune and/or lip-synched performances, all the celebrity presenters – that’s a reflection of a completely different world than the one in which I live and work. Once I realized that I actually found myself happy for Taylor Swift when she won Record of the Year. She was the one winner tonight that seemed genuinely surprised and pleased to win. You go girl!

Like most musicians I know, I did at one time have fantasies of someday winning a Grammy. I will admit that when I was a kid I would practice my acceptance speech in front of the mirror in my bedroom, thanking my family and my as-yet-unknown record label. But I long ago gave up those fantasies, and I can honestly say that I wouldn’t change much about my music industry.

Sure, it’d be cool to have my music heard and appreciated by a larger audience. And to make a little more money than I do now. I’d love to have a savings account and a health-care plan that’s not the least expensive one I could find. I hope to one day buy a house.

But what’s great about my music industry at this moment in time is that all of those things are up to me 100%. No longer do I have to hope for a manager to take notice of me and a PR firm to help spread the word so that a major record label would take a gamble on me and loan me a ridiculous sum of money that I’ll never be able to pay back so that I can make an album that will hopefully get noticed by Rolling Stone and played on the radio and then sell millions of copies just so I can eat for a few years until the next guy like me comes along and takes my place.

Those days are over. Now, I can make the music I want to make, find people all over the world who appreciate it and are willing to support me, and live a comfortable and…wait for it…sustainable life as a musician.

That’s my music industry. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Tags: grammys, jason parker music, music industry, one working musician

by: gregory

Murder Rebel Radio 26: The Always Late Show

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We talked some sports. Brett loves Aerosmith, Bryan loves Kristin Bell, Adam loves Axl Rose, and Brandon loves saving his money

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