sys56 :: SWEETS AND JOY AND JOYNESS

All selling shoes and no obliterating zombies makes Matt a sad, sappy sucker.



1. The Pixies - "Trompe le Monde"
All Julia Roberts and no Natalie Portman makes Matt a deranged postal worker.

2. stellastarr* - "Move On"
All hem and no haw makes Matt an incorporated starf-----.

3. Green Day - "Poprocks & Coke"
All Jar Jar Binks and no comparatively dignified Wicket W. Warrick makes Matt grateful Wikipedia is around so he could make such an inane, dorked-out reference.

4. Jason Loewenstein - "Upstate"
All South Shore and no North Shore makes Matt a ... statist? Is that even a word?

5. Loudon Wainwright III - "Grey in L.A."
All cupcakes all the time and no walky-walky makes Matt more soap for the money.

6. Elvis Costello - "Kinder Murder"
All "The Shining" (ridiculous non-Stanley Kubrick version) and no "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick version) makes Matt Stephen King.

7. Faux Jean - "War and Peace"
All Faux Jean and no Journey makes Matt a satisfiedbutnotcomplete rocker.

8. Tom Petty - "Depending on You"
All "The Stranger" and no "The Outsider" makes not Matt a literay slob. But the French-language version of "L'Etranger" probably does....

9. Teenage Fanclub - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" [Creedence Clearwater Revival cover]
All CCR covers and no originals works every time 60 percent of the time.

10. Jason Steele - "Put a Banana in Your Ear" [MP3]
All interior design and no burgers makes Matt a question mark for daddy dearest. (Oh, man, I kill me!) (p.s. Best Friends Forever should cover this "Charlie the Unicorn" classic.)

11. Cibo Matto - "Sci-Fi Wasabi" [Radio Version]
All accent and no gruff makes Matt a disbeliever in Aussies or Brits trying to play Yanks.

12. Abstract Rude feat. Aceyalone - "Thynk Eye Can" [Haiku d'Etat Mix]
All scrapping and no handshakes makes Matt a toothless hick from the sticks.

13. Chin Chin - "Moments"
All archived CD reviews (like of Chin Chin's "The Flashing, The Fancing") and no new CD reviews makes Matt a burnt-out hack.

14. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "For You" [Bruce Springsteen cover]
All incense and no dusting makes Matt an Xbox 360-less fool.

15. Brother Ali feat. Slug - "Blah Blah Blah"
All "Joke!" Joke! Joke!" and no getting real makes Matt happy, others sad. (My interview with Ali is right here.)

16. Superdrag - "Cuts and Scars"
All cuts and no scars makes Matt ... in need of a blood donor.

17. The Deathray Davies - "Is This On?"
All shiny, plastic discs and no digital files makes Matt a made man. (Ha!)

18. Pere Ubu - "Sleep Walk"
All Mountain Dew and no Diet Mountain Dew makes Matt a diabetic-in-training.

19. Anya Marina - "Move You (Slow & Steady Seduction Phase II)" [Daytrotter vers.] [MP3]
All Grand Forks and Bismarck means no dance parties, sadly.

20. Adam Judd - "Rocks on the River's Edge" [Demo]
All literary classics and no throwaway-lit makes a lot of sense in the long run.

21. Stereophonics - "Local Boy in the Photograph"
All "Guitar Hero" and no live music makes Matt a confusing choice for an A&E beat reporter.

22. fun. - "At Least I'm Not as Sad (As I Used to Be)" [MP3]
All bizarre dreams about relative strangers and no divine late-night-walk moments makes Matt an unfocused soul.

23. Adam Ant - "Place in the Country"
All wheat and no white makes Matt an unsatisfied sandwich muncher.

24. They Might Be Giants - "Cyclops Rock"
All Yooper-left-me blues and no Yooper-here-to-harass makes Matt a disheartened individual.

25. Mother Banjo feat. Art Vandalay - "Green Jacket"
All 56 and no [CANCELED DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST] makes Matt stubborn as all get-out. (In other news, read my interview with Ellen Stanley/Mother Banjo and my review of Art Vandalay's splendid disc here.)

Thus concludes your fifty-sixth dose of SHAKE*YOUR*SHORES, the awesome mix tape series that could.

So, wearing socks with sandals IS a crime

You saw it here first, folks.

New Spoon single, reminder of Austin group's love for Low

SPOON: GOT NUFFIN
NEW SINGLE OUT JUNE 30
SPOONX3 July 9, 10 & 11 at Stubbs Amphitheater

On Tuesday, June 30th, SPOON will debut its first newly recorded material since 2007's universally acclaimed Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: Merge Records will release the three-song "Got Nuffin" single on CD and digital download beginning June 30, with 12" vinyl version following in July, exact date TBD.

"Got Nuffin" was recorded by Nicolas Vernhes at Rare Book Room. B-sides "Tweakers" and "Stroke Their Brains" were recorded by SPOON.

As previously announced SPOON will return to its birthplace to commandeer Austin's Stubbs Amphitheater July 9, 10 and 11 for SPOONX3, which will feature the live debut of new material from the band's forthcoming album as well as different special guests nightly, all handpicked by SPOON.

The lineup for the shows at Stubbs is as follows:

July 9 - SPOON, Quasi, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
July 10 - SPOON, Low, Dale Watson
July 11 - SPOON, Atlas Sound, the Strange Boys

For further information, check www.Spoontheband.com

~Information courtesy Nasty Little Man

Today's Moment of Zen: Yeah ... kiss it!

Sincerely, your former friend Matthew

New Beastie Boys album announced + 'Hello Nasty' reissued!

BEASTIE BOYS

HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 1 OUT SEPTEMBER 15

ILL COMMUNICATION & HELLO NASTY TO COMPLETE DELUXE REISSUE SERIES

INTIMATE AUGUST 6 CHICAGO SHOW TO PRECEDE LOLLAPALOOZA APPEARANCE

SEPTEMBER 24 HOLLYWOOD BOWL SHOW SOLD OUT

Summer Festival Domination Begun With Bonnaroo To Continue Through All Points West, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and more

New York NY -- June 23, 2009 -- The title, release date and complete track listing for Beastie Boys' eighth studio album have been confirmed: Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 will be released September 15 by Capitol in multiple configurations including a 5.1 surround mix and will consist of the following compositions:

1. Tadlock's Glasses

2. B-Boys In The Cut

3. Make Some Noise

4. Nonstop Disco Powerpack

5. OK

6. Too Many Rappers (featuring NAS)

7. Say It

8. The Bill Harper Collection

9. Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (featuring Santigold)

10. Long Burn The Fire

11. Bundt Cake

12. Funky Donkey

13. Lee Majors Come Again

14. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament

15. Pop Your Balloon

16. Crazy Ass Shit

17. Here's A Little Something For Ya

The first Beastie Boys headline date confirmed to follow the album's release, the band's debut stand at the famed Hollywood Bowl, has sold out. Further dates will be announced as they are confirmed.

Meanwhile, Beastie Boys recently began a summer festival mission with a set at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester TN that blew the crowd of 70,000-plus out of their Birkenstocks and caused devil sticks to spontaneously combust. The performance featured an appearance by Nas who joined the Boys for the live debut of the new record's "Too Many Rappers," as well as a rare appearance from Country Mike for an acoustic rendition of "Heart Attack Man."

The mission will continue throughout the summer and will include upcoming appearances at the All Points West and Lollapalooza festivals, the latter of which will be preceded by a just-announced intimate Beastie Boys show at the Congress in Chicago on Thursday, August 6.

Finally, the last installment of the deluxe, remastered, expanded and altogether awesome Beastie Boys catalogue reissues will be dropping in advance of the new record: the band's multi-platinum 1998 opus Hello Nasty will be given the 2-CD/vinyl box set/multi-format treatment beginning with an August 17 pre-order/digital release and will hit stores August 25. Preceded by the universal smash "Intergalactic," Hello Nasty crashed into the #1 spots of charts worldwide upon its July 1998 release, with first week sales of nearly 700,000 in the U.S. alone. Buoyed by the launch of the 360 in the round tour, Hello Nasty would yield B Boys classics "Body Movin'," "Three MCs and One DJ," "Remote Control," "Super Disco Breakin'" and more, win two Grammys, see the band presented with an MTV Video Vanguard lifetime achievement award, and ultimately sell some 7 million copies worldwide.

As previously announced, pre-orders for the expanded, remastered multi-format Ill Communication will begin July 6, with a physical release of July 14.

For a complete list of deluxe reissue configurations, as well as upcoming Beastie Boys festival and headline appearances, check Beastieboys.com.

~Information courtesy Nasty Little Man

Since when has the DECC had a train station?

Crazy Beck news!

BECK.COM
EXTENSIVE OVERHAUL TO FEATURE DEBUT OF RECORD CLUB
Beck & Friends Form Music Club To Re-Record Entire Albums In One-Day Sessions and Post a Track a Week

Beck.com will be undergoing an extensive overhaul in the next month. It will feature several new sections, including Record Club, a regular meeting of various musicians to record an entire album in one day. Due to the time constraints involved in recording a record in a day, an album will be chosen to be covered and used as a framework for the proceedings. Nothing will be rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track from these sessions will be uploaded once a week on Beck.com, as well as through the web sites of those involved in the project.

Record Club will be an ongoing experiment visitors to the site will be able to follow from week to week.

The first album attempted--one of the few everyone could agree on--will be The Velvet Underground & Nico.

Musicians involved in upcoming Record Clubs include Devendra Banhart, MGMT, Jamie Lidell and Nigel Godrich.

~Information courtesy Nasty Little Man