Funky16 re-post

had to repost this Funky16Corner's blog about the LaFayette Afro Rock Band. the track shared, "Hihache," has been sampled by an extensive list of hip hop artists. good stuff. check it out here.

Hot Tub Time Machine

posted by VideoGum earlier today, the red band trailer for Hot Tube Time Machine. uh-maze-ing.

P.O.S. - purexed (video)

looking good P.O.S.

Cage video

twisted but i'm digging it. want to hear the whole album. picked up his last one when it came out simply for the Daryl Palumbo (Head Automatica, Glassjaw) guest appearance. digging F Sean Martin from hatebreed doing more hiphop/electronic stuff but really wanna hear a House of Blow album (Darly P and F Sean).

either way- enjoy the video. sick.



Cage play's Emos on Saturday with Yak Ballz. inside stage.

new Passion Pit video

enjoy.

talib, bun b... and Colin Munroe.

now don't get me wrong. i really dig Colin Munroe. his last mixtape, Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero, was solid gold. just seems like a random pairing, Talib Kweli, Bun B and Colin Munroe. like remember a few years back (ok, maybe it was like 8 or 9 years ago) when Nate Dogg was on EVERY new pop-rap track singing the hook. like "yo, you want a hit single, holla at Nate Dogg." hope that's not happening to Colin Munroe.

ayways, here's the track. "Don't Die" from the upcoming Beatnick and K Salaam mixtape.

Some Videos

Just stuff I came across this morning while doing laundry. Enjoy.

The Glass - "Wanna Be Dancin"



legos are cool and hip and they remind me of being a kid again, since i'm really just a late twenty something refusing to grow up, trapped in perpetual adolesence...

Peaches - "Lose You"



The video is kinda lolz, kinda low budget bizarre.
Nuff said - Big Stereo hit the nail on that head.

BACK

Sort of. I think. After not posting anything on here for a long time, I think I'm going to try and use this crazy thing again.

Starting.................................... now.

The Banner's Best Effort

The most exciting trend in metal/hardcore (uh, “metalcore,” if you will) is a return to the faster rhythms of older hardcore and punk. It seems that more and more bands are moving away from the near-death metal slow-to-midtempo song with all its cliché breakdowns and chug-chug-chuging to playing thrashy punk like it’s 1988 all over again.

Such is the case with The Banner. Frailty makes The Banner sound like peers of pioneers like Ringworm and Integrity instead of their bastard progeny. “IWIWD,” “Sphrenia,” and “Ratflesh” all display the 90’s hardcore meets 80’s thrash sound Ringworm nearly perfected. Hell, there’s even a semblance of a guitar solo in some of these songs. Damn – don’t hear that much in hardcore any more.

But with a southern doom intro like “Welcome Fuckers” and the devilish funeral march of “The Wolf” opening the album, The Banner let it be known from the get-go that they’re not all about thrash hardcore. In fact, when they’re not playing at breakneck tempos, much of The Banner’s music sounds like the slower, sludgier parts of Converge’s catalog. “A Hellbound Heart,” with it’s saw-grind intro, sounds like it was pulled straight from You Deserve Me. “Dusk,” likewise is born of Bannon and Co.

“On Hooks” may be the best The Banner has to offer. The track starts with a painfully slow wall-of-sound intro, moves on to a two-step NYHC tempo, and then the band just loses it, driving at death wish speed through an almost grindcore sounding rhythm. “On Hooks” is everything The Banner seems to love rolled up in one joint.

Signing The Banner was probably the smartest move Ferret made in a long while. Frailty is a solid blend of doom, hardcore, punk, thrash, and metal. Despite briefly disbanding in 2007, after their Ferret debut Every Breath Haunted, The Banner are back stronger than ever, and have released their best album yet.

mp3: "On Hooks"
myspace: www.myspace.com/thebanner

Nas' "Sly Fox"

No need for commentary - this video is great and the song is even better. I got a leak of the album too - shit is hot.