Psychedelic Mike at Graffitis's

Psychedelic Mike, and Sarah @ Graffiti's May 5th

A few weekend's ago my friend Psychedelic Mike had the opportunity to jam out a few songs while someone played piano chords with him. A few other artist's followed with mostly solo acoustic sets, that in my opinion couldn't top the humor and atmosphere of the coming together of two musicians that have never met before.

You can check out Psychedelic Mikes band The Fancy Claps on MySpace and also on my site in the live music section.

The Fancy Claps will be playing a show on June 2nd @ The Last Temptation in Kensington. Doors open at 8Pm.

Spiderman 3 Soundtrack

Peter Parker must be into indie bands now, cause the soundtrack is fully loaded with exclusive tracks from the likes of The Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wolfmother, Snow Patrol and Jet.

I recently acquired this album through the miracle/curse of the Internet. I suggest you get your favorite Torrent Client fired up and hunt this one down, cause this one is a killer and I really think any fan of these bands would be missing out on something truly awesome.

Its cool to think that the Spiderman movies that are in the top ten most grossing movies ever made, feature music from these relatively small bands that are being introduced to a gigantic audience is too cool for words.

I'm hesitating to see the movie because I was told there was a tap dancing scene where Peter dances to My Chemical Romance (somehow available as a bonus track) This now leads me to believe that the Venom side of Spidy is an emo kid. But its all good because this movie really does appeal to a much larger fan base of all ages so it's understandable. I remember being really stoked to know that Sum 41 and Kerry King (dude from Slayer) was lending an old recycled masterpiece to the soundtrack for the first movie.

01 Snow Patrol: Signal Fire

02 The Killers: Move Away

03 Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Sealings

04 Wolfmother: Pleased to Meet You

05 The Walkmen: Red River

06 Black Mountain: Stay Free

07 The Flaming Lips: The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love

08 Simon Dawes: Scared of Myself

09 Chubby Checker: The Twist

10 Rogue Wave: Sight Lines

11 Jason Schwartzman (featuring Kirsten Dunst): Summer Day

12 Jet: Falling Star

13 Sounds Under Radio: Portrait of a Summer Thief

14 Wasted Youth Orchestra: A Letter to St. Jude

15 The Oohlas: Small Parts

Beastie Boys Announce New Album

Listen up party people, cause the most bad-ass band in the world is making more music. It took them six years to follow Hello Nasty with To the Five Borrows. So why did it take them half the time to release this one? I think it could'nt have come at a better time considering the fact that fading 90s punk band Bad Brains is releaseing a new album with the help of Adam Yatch (aka. MCA) in the role of the albums' producer.

From what I've gathered about The Mix Up is that it's an instumental record, with no vocals or samples everything played by live instrument's. This is a change from To The Five Borrows where the boys sat behind fancy computers and over produced the hell out of that record. The Beasties have said "There's more rock on there. If you know us you can trace the influences and they're no completely surprising. Someone who listens to us casually might think 'What the hell are these guys doing?' Keep in mind that the Boys are friends of Bad Brains and have a huge history of playing punk music in the New York underground venue CGBG alongside punk heros Agnostic Front, Reagan Youth, Bad Religion.

Beastie Boys will perform at Wembley Stadium with the supergroups of Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snow Patrol.

They will also be playing at the Sasquatch! Festival in washington with some other awsome bands.

Meet the Zimmers

The oldest and greatest rock band in the world - The Zimmers and their off the hook cover of The Who’s, My Generation. Stick around to watch the whole thing as you'll be rewarded with footage of old people smashing guitars, and flipping the bird John Cash style.

Lead singer Alf is 90 - it’s quite something when he sings “I hope I die before I get old”. While he’s not even the oldest - there are 100-year-olds and over in the band!
The Zimmers will feature in a BBC TV documentary being aired in May 2007. Documentary-maker Tim Samuels has been all over Britain recruiting isolated and lonely old people - those who can’t leave their flats or who are stuck in rubbish care homes.
The finale of the show is this group of lonely old people coming together to stick it back to the society that’s cast them aside - by forming a rock troupe and trying to storm into the pop charts.
Some massive names from the pop world have thrown their weight behind The Zimmers… The song is produced by Mike Hedges (he's the guy that produces "great" albums by artists like U2, Dido, Cure), the video shot by Geoff Wonfor (Band Aid, Beatles Anthology), and it was recorded in the legendary Beatles studio 2 at Abbey Road.
Look out for the single being released from May 21 - with proceeds apparently going to a good cause.

They are so cool they are on MySpace, check out The Zimmers.