wanna hear a new Kiss song?

Fuck yes you do. Careful with that if you happen to be at work or have the speakers up loud. "Modern Day Delilah," the first single from Sonic Boom, streams automatically from that link.

i feel fine

Possibly the best use of Flash, ever. Turn those speakers on. It's The Beatles, man.

New Kiss album at Wal-Mart October 6th!

Details here!

Hell yeah. I can't wait to hear it. Now I know why I saw that M&Ms ad campaign that had those little dudes all dressed up like Kiss. I'm also kind of curious to hear the re-recorded classic songs. Getting 2 CDs and a DVD for $12 is really a steal, and Wal-Mart did a great job with the exclusive AC/DC album they had last year, so hopefully Kiss sees that kind of success this year.

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Cover!

Now that's great. And you can dig on the first single, 'The Fixer,' here.

Gene will kill you with his glare

Another thing I dug up this weekend were my Kissology DVDs. I popped in the second disc of the second volume. It had some Elder-related stuff that I really dig. And now you can too! You can thank me later.



They kind of look like an evil Duran Duran, don't they?

if you'd been a dog, they would have drowned you at birth

As I was moving, I located my copy of Radiohead's Amnesiac in a box with a bunch of my books. I hadn't listened to it since (probably) 2002, so this weekend I listened to it again. Holy shit, what a great album. I really didn't 'get' this and Kid A when they were first released. I was really getting too ahead of myself, since just a mere year before these albums were released, I was an unabashed metalhead. Now though, I'm really getting it.

It sounds like the era in which it was released- before 9/11; just shortly after GWB took office and hadn't had time to completely destroy the world as we knew it; and more than a little ambivalent. It was an album for the sake of art, going beyond a usual five-piece band, adding electronic somethings-or-others and Thom Yorke using his voice as another instrument. An interesting experiment that I doubt anybody but Radiohead could have pulled off.

It's not as satisfying as OK Computer or In Rainbows, but could ANYTHING be comparable to those? I remain doubtful.

got some

Wow, long time no post. Anyway, this happened a week ago, and it's Pearl Jam related, so I'm shocked it's taken me this long to post this...



It's a new song 'Got Some' from the new album due in September, titled Backspacer.