Anyone see the piece on the making of Cirque du Soleil's Love, featuring all Beatles tracks? Endorsed by everyone you'd think, plus George Martin brought his session tapes and some of those were incorporated. Really fun to hear different takes on songs, isolated vocals, lots of chatter and John's acoustic demo of "Strawberry Fields." You almost forget they were God-hating communist devils.

Rock gossip:

I was out last night with a friend of mine, John Petkovic, who's lead singer/main force behind Cobra Verde. He tells me he's also working on 4 other music projects. Two of them are fairly high profile.

He and J Mascis have put together a band called Sweet Apple. It's a glam rock sound. Which makes sense as Cobra Verde would be considered that as well. Look for a March release.

He's also working on a project with Pat Carney, drummer for the Black Keys. Says it sounds like Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell. That'll also be first half of 2010.

Sweet Apple sounds intriguing...

hey look at this:

Good news. Seeing Carney's side-project, Drummer, in October. Keep the side projects coming!

Most of the time, the method of hiding hidden tracks is an annoyance.

Relient K (lol) on one of their albums have a hidden track which to hear you have to rewind the first track as soon as it starts. That's my favorite way I've seen it done.

Umphrey's does that as well on their album "Anchor Drops". It's not a hidden song, though, it just says "I eat h-i-p-p-i-e-s."

Queens of The Stone Age did it too, on Songs For The Deaf.

They have a My Space profile.

Says they're unsigned but not the case any more, though I forget what label he told me.

Notable exception: Mercury Rev's "Car Wah Hair" on Yrself is Steam, where it fades out, counts upward to 69, and then spins into one of the album's best songs that sounds like awesomely washed out Flaming Lips circa Clouds Taste Metallic.

That's what's annoying. Why force fans to listen to 69 seconds of dead air, or 130, or 420. DAMMIT. That 'rewind' method is the ticket.

sounds okay

Santana is so fucking CORNY. In particular, any Supernatural or later release with amped up timbales and dorky caliente SCORCHING LATIN CROSSOVER ROCK is simply insufferable.

I once dated this chick who had nothing but late Santana, Blues Traveller and crap like Los Lonely Boys in her CD case. I will never forgive myself.

My sister's new boyfriend has the most bitchin party house imaginable, with a pool, horseshoe pit, enclosed trampoline and a bar/cabana outside w/ a pro sound system and even a disco ball and he played the same Eagles album 3 times in one night.

somone always has to find a way to mess up a good thing.

Seriously.

Yeah, kind of meh. We'll see how the album turns out. Mascis played guitar on a Cobra Verde tour a couple years back.

I'd have left the party after it started the second time. Once...ok, but...
Reminds me of audiophiles with only hand full of things they listen to.

http://www.rhapsody.com/-search?query=the%...htype=RhapTrack

Al Jourgensen threatens to make ’80s synthpop album

Ozzy's "I Don't Know," "Over the Mountain" and "Bark at the Moon" are all essentially the exact same song.

At least it would have to be pop that's good.

Wouldn't it?

I am in possesion of two turntables and a single microphone.

Early shit is good. Dude put the rest of the Woodstock to shame.

But yeah, turn of the millennium bargain bin Santana is about as corny as it gets.

Bryan Adams was 9 years old in the Summer of '69.

the drive by truckers are playing on some cbs procedural bullshit show right now. criminal minds, never heard of it, but whoa.

Avril Lavigne files for divorce from Sum 41 rocker
(AP) – 1 hour ago

LOS ANGELES — Court records show Avril Lavigne has filed for divorce from her musician husband after three years of marriage. Lavigne filed for divorce from Sum 41 singer Deryck Jason Whibley on Friday in Los Angeles.

The couple were married in July 2006 and have no children together. Lavigne cited "irreconcilable differences."

The 25-year-old punk-pop singer burst to fame with her 2002 debut album "Let's Go."

Lavigne is asking a ruling to block Whibley from receiving spousal support.

Court records show Whibley was granted a request to add Lavigne's last name to his name in December 2007.




This is consistent with the thrust of the song, is it not?

lol

The kid is in fourth grade, buys a six-string from the five and dime, forms a band with classmates, and watches his dreams of rock stardom dissolve when bandmate Jimmy quits and fellow 9-year old and fourth grader Jody gets married?

Well it is consistent with the first four lines anyway.

It's actually Patterson Hood off of his new solo album, the song is Heavy and Hanging. Good stuff!!!

I wrote a love song yesterday, going to record it this weekend and see how it sounds. It's pretty lovely in a sad way, hope it turns out.

That new Pearl Jam single "The Fixer" really sounds like Saturation-era Urge Overkill to me, both the vox and the guitar tones.

Also- the Foo Fighters' "The Best of You" is essentially a cut-rate also-ran track from Side-1 of Jawbreaker's Dear You

ah, i still have to get around to listening to that album. just listened to the b-sides record last week and had my socks knocked off.

good luck with your song, hope it comes out like you want it to.

Hey Viv, where did you guys park for that Hardly Strictly Bluegrass thing? Or did you BART it?

^ Fuck yeah dude.

I BARTed over to 16th Street in the Mission with my bike and then rode over. It was awesome.

Does anybody know -- on that Hootie and the Blowfish song, "I Only Wanna be with You," when he sings about how the dolphins make him cry, does he mean the football team or the aquatic mammal?

http://www.myspace.com/surferblood

You raise an interesting question. I always wondered why the dolphins made him cry. Must be some mean dolphins.

The football team. Dan Marino was in that video making a goofy face at that point of the song.
I assume Darius Rucker is a Dolphins fan and the Dolphins haven't really done anything of note since getting creamed in the '84 Super Bowl. Thus, the Dolphins make Darius Rucker cry.

I was at a local bar a few weeks back to see a friend's band. Odd looking character sitting across the bar and stepping outside for smokes. Looked familiar but couldn't place him. Now a friend on Facebook posts a pic of her with him. Damn if it's not Chuck Mosley of Faith No More and Bad Brains alive and well and living here in Cleveland.
Has been since the mid 90's according to wiki. Why didn't I know this?

Yeah, this song is not about 1969.

i just saw Bob fucking Dylan walking down the street in my own neighborhood.

Did he stop in anyone's yard?

^more info please . . . how'd you know it was him? were people crowding? what was he wearing? sunglasses? scarf? please tell me no scarf . . . . did he ask you for a match like he did my buddy who bumped into him?

also, this thing has changed my music listening life . . . SONOS

on second thought i think it was just one of those Uptown halfway house zombies that are all over the place.

Cops have been known to confuse Dylan with those folks.