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I made it out on Friday night to TT Reynolds to catch a slice of the DC area's goth music scene. I specifically went to see 51 Peg, as I've been a fan of their music for a few years but never got around to actually seeing them live.

The opener was a band called Chrysalis and they kicked my ass. Their music was awesome and their stage presence was outstanding. A plus for me is that they play this music live with Telecasters and a hollowbody Gibson. I wish they had a better online presence than the MySpace page...with a common name like 'Chrisalis', it makes them hard to find. They're opening for Powerman 5000 at Jaxx on 6 Oct and Margo and I will probably be there.

23 Rainy Days came up next. Interesting and well done. They call what they do "post punk dance metal." Their MySpace page goes on to describe them as a mixture of emo, melancholy new wave and modern rock, which I think fots better. They're also the only band of the night with a bass player. I dunno if it's quite my style yet, but I'm keeping an open mind. The thing is that the other two bands had a heavier sound which made it hard for me to get into. Will keep listening. They do have a live video online: 23RAINYDAYS "Fire in Tokyo"

51Peg closed the night out with a really short set. The set was all killer and no filler though. I'm just sorry I hadn't seen them earlier. I'm sure I'll see them again and again though. They have a unique sound anchored by their singer and hard, driving synths. While they're electronics-heavy, I never lost the feeling that they're a hard rocking band. There's quite a few live videos of them out there on the net. The one I'm posting below is on their Myspace page. It's the best quality out there as it's a produced live music video rather than the camcorder in the crowd kind of video.

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If I had one of these setups and fast keyboard hands, I'd lock myself in a room and do this all day long. Someone would knock to try to get me to eat...I'd turn the volume up and keep going.

Moot Booxle has a Myspace.

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If it wasn't for episodes 15 and 65 of the SMtv podcast, I probably never would have heard of Izzy Cox. Even if I had heard of her somewhere, I would have seen the "voodoobilly jazz" description, dismissed it as 'way not my style' and moved on.

My style or not, I find her music to be fascinating in a way I find hard to describe. It has a vintage style to it but it's hard for me to pin it to one particular era...20's, 40's, 50's or whatever the new modern is. Her voice is raw and full of personality. I see her music described by saying "she has a style of her own" and I definitely agree. Someone posted some video clips of a live performance to Youtube, so you can figure it out for yourself. One of them, called "Devil, Devil," is embedded below.

Izzy's MySpace page has a link back to CDBaby where you can buy her music if you like.

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I love Freezepop and I love Guitar Hero. I love keytars too. Good thing they come together...even if it is a bit odd that a band with no guitar is in a guitar game.

Less Talk More Rokk is one of the bonus tracks on Guitar Hero 2. When I'm just playing around, it's one of my go-to songs behind Jordan. Freezepop just put out a video for it...It's watchable below. Fun stuff.

Freezepop "Less Talk More Rokk"

Also, the new album Future Future Future Perfect is up for pre-order at Newberry Comics

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It made me smile.

Updated: Here's the original. Also makes me smile.

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This thing almost beats Bullitt for gasoline-fueled adrenaline in film.

Imagine if you will, strapping a camera to a high performance sports car and handing it over to a Forumula One driver and have him tear it up through the middle of Paris. No permits, no closed streets...that means traffic, pedestrians, pigeons and all of the other road hazards that one would expect while driving through Paris...except a hell of a lot faster. I'd love to find a DVD copy of this to run through a proper home theater. I yelled, I cringed, I got goosebumps, and that's with a 2-inch screen and one iPod earbud.

Wikipedia has an entry on Rendezvous, of course. It states that during the film, the car never got above 85mph, and that while the car was a Mercedes 6.9L, the sound was overdubbed from a Ferrari 275GTB. It still looked really dangerous, and the sound and camera angle make it look a lot faster than it was.

Whew.

Via Digg

Update: Should have read some of the Digg comments for that video. Car and Driver has the video for sale here: Rendezvous DVD

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I am constantly fascinated by odd cultural phenomena that could only happen on the internet. One of those is the Numa Numa Guy (Gary Brolsma). Is there any way that a kid with a camera and a habit of videoing himself lip-sync'ing could become world famous without the internet? I don't think so. Millions of people know who this guy is.

Gary's rise and fall are chronicled elsewhere on the net. Wikipedia's a good place to start. It's probably hard to deal with the fact that you're relatively famous in a way that you can't really make any money from.

Did anyone else know that Gary's back?

Looks like someone's figured out a way to make money on this after all. There's a New Numa site with a New Numa song and video. I'm wondering why there's no mention in the site anywhere of the original video and music. Maybe a rights issue with the label that put the song out? It looks like Dan Balan was at least a little bit involved in what's going on this time so maybe the New Numa song was made especially for Gary and the New Numa site.

It looks like it's pretty well sponsored. There's some merchandising (headphones, ringtones, shirts and mugs). There's also a contest with $45k in prizes.

I think it'll be interesting to see what happens to the Numa Numa guy in round 2. Here's the new video:

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NumaNuma

Create Digital Music posted a link today to a collection of videos that Ableton has been posting on Youtube lately.

Some of them are videos that have been on the Ableton site for a while (like the Kid Beyond one). Some of them are demos of new functionality in the just-released Live 6.

There's a lot of interesting stuff in these videos. Lots of ideas and they show how various artists use the software. It's good for getting the creative juices flowing. Live's an interesting piece of software. Live 6 definitely sets the bar higher.

I've been thinking about what DAW software I want to start using. I've been looking at Logic, Cubase, and Live, and I'm starting to lean towards Live these days. I just wish I could afford NI Komplete too.

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Haack: The King Of Techno - The Documentary Channel - Google Video:
Interesting documentary about Bruce Haack...a pioneer of electronic music. I've never heard of him before, and I don't think I've heard of his music. But it's interesting. Here's a guy in the 60's building his own gear and played it his own psychedelic way. Oddly, it looks like he spent a lot of time making albums for kids. The video's a little more than an hour long, and is worth a look.

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