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New Alice In Chains, and it’s AWESOME. New album coming out in September called “Black Gives Way To Blue”.
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I have two important urgent news stories to share with all of you. First, Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died on Thursday. Despite his perverted, child-molesting pursuits, he was a highly influential musician and should be honored as so. I guessed that the music blogs would be buzzing about it, and I was right. Check out some great covers of his songs here.
Second news story- I’m gonna be in Alaska for 3 and a half weeks starting Wednesday of next week. I have not made any posts for those weeks I have been gone, sorry. I also doubt that I will get to it any time soon.
But since I will be in Alaska, I naturally thought that I should post some mp3s by Alaskan bands. Coincidentally, the two Alaskan bands on here are both currently based in Portland, Oregon. Anyways, here ya go.
Portugal. The Man is an indie/experimental band. They are indie in both sense of the word, musically and used to describe their popularity (an independent band). Many of you guys have probably heard of them, but I wonder if you have taken the time to listen to them? Anyways, here’s your chance.
Do You
Work All Day
Out and In and In and Out & People Say check out the rest of their site indieball.com
Bellies Are Full & Colors
Lay Me Back Down & New Orleans & Never Pleased & 1989
Sugar Cinnamon
Salt & And I & Hard Times
That’s the only first page of The Hype Machine though, there’s many more pages. But what’d you expect? Portugal. The Man, is, after all, a hip indie band.
The next Alaskan band on the agenda is not a hip indie band, though. You guessed it folks, they are a metal band (if you want to talk subgenres, then metalcore/post-hardcore).
Absent Are The Saints
The Heart and The Shape & An Agreement Called Forever
Enjoy.
(If I never get any posts up for the time while I am away, then farewell, and I’ll see you in a month. Well, maybe not; I may be able to post some hardcore on Tuesday.)
Ok, so I am going to break from tradition here and throw this classic gem up on the blizzog, partly because its interesting but mostly because after recently watching it again, it has been making me crack up at random times, like at my day job where my coworkers are starting to look like they my want to have me carted away to the looney bin.
But seriously, have you ever had a song or quote from a movie that would make you laugh no matter how many times you heard it? Well, this is mine.
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) is an American comedy/science fiction movie in which two slacking Metalheads travel through time in order to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation. It stars Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston, Esquire, Keanu Reeves as Ted “Theodore” Logan, and George Carlin as Rufus. Bill & Ted was a financial success, grossing $40.4 million domestically on a budget of about $10 million. It has become something of a cult classic, possibly fueled by the subsequent film successes of Keanu Reeves, and has an 81% freshness rating at Rotten Tomatoes. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure the 50th greatest comedy film of all time. It was also listed as number 24 on Bravo’s “100 Funniest Movies”.
The phone booth used in this movie was given away in a contest presented by Nintendo Power magazine (in honor of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Video Game Adventure), won by a boy in Mississippi.
Now go forth and be excellent to each other!
RELIANT6 out!
