#music Surge ft. Pyxis - Leech

Haunting vocals intertwine with deep bass in this video for the dubstep track "Leech" by Surge. The track features Pyxis, who is also the front woman for the rock group Kaleidofly. "Leech" is out now so if you like what you hear.... SUPPORT THE ARTIST and get it. I am sure we will be hearing much more from this artist soon. Surge recently did an interview (and guest mix) over at Kmag. You can check it out here @ KMAG







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Consumed Links - December 23, 2011

The holiday season is always a busy one so things tend to get missed. Here's a few things that you may not have seen.

Authorities nab 70 in a phony rap label sting. (rollingstone)


Davis Huynh interviewed GZA over at Hypetrak. (Genius)


Amazingly, a cat survived a ride under a car hood for a 200 mile journey. (aol)


The Sun (UK) is reporting that a woman swallowed a pen 25 years ago and that it still works. (sun)


So, Vevo wants to get into television.... is this a good idea? (NYTimes)


This is such a shame... a woman being held for attempting to murder her child. (JapanToday)


An ex-con has a nerve problem and well, prior to robbing a bank he had to... (huffpost)


Axl Rose kicks a fan out of show.... (clashmusic)


A 31-year-old man in Spain was arrested for leaking a Madonna song. (exclaim)


Scientists catch a rare pygmy hippo on camera. (bbcnews)


And finally... 


NPR takes a look back at some of the musicians we lost this year. (npr)

Consumed Links - November 9, 2011

Round it up! 


People will buy just about anything huh? Have you seen how much John Lennon's tooth just sold for? -- RollingStone


Electronic Musician recently interviewed Mastodon about making their latest album, The Hunter. - EM


Some of you may be surprised by what was found during a prison search in Mexico recently. -- HuffPost


At NPR they discuss the surgery that many singers have had to have due to damage. -- NPR


Public Enemy's Chuck D has announced a lawsuit against Universal Music Group. -- 1st Five


And finally....


President Obama plans to veto any attempt to overthrown the new Net Neutrality rules that are set to begin soon. -- thewrap

Consumed Links - September 23, 2011

It has been pretty busy for me and most likely for many of you. So, it can be hard to catch up on all the things going on . Without further ado, here are this weeks links. 


As many have celebrated the 20 year anniversary of Nirvana's album, 'Nevermind', URB magazine recently listed five other classic albums that should be celebrated. (5classicalbums)


Poor Joel Tenenbaum. First he was ordered to pay the RIAA $675,000. Then, it was slashed to $67,500. Now, it has gone back up. (CMU) 


Imagine being banned from the internet because of a single infringement accusation... Italy is trying to make this happen. (TechDirt)


Most times Consumed Links cannot be complete without a good list. Mental_floss has a interesting list featuring some very strange sea creatures. (8strange)


Wait a minute... There was a missing baby and the cops would not help the mother? (Wendyista)




And finally, for now... 




Rob Flynn from Machine Head teamed up with Metalinjection to discuss the forthcoming album, "Into The Locust", which is due out September 27th. 

Something For Your Ears - Dirtyphonics

Released in 2009, "Quarks" by Dirtyphonics, is a track that I feel will stand the test of time and will be considered a classic. Check it out below.





Recently, Knowledge magazine did an interview with the group. (kmag)


For more on the band.....

YOUTUBE

MYSPACE

SOUNDCLOUD

AMAZON(US)

BEATPORT

Consumed Links - March 11, 2011

Here we go, dear readers, with another round-up of things found around the web. 




LimeWire has settled with music publishers... so who is next? (billboard)


Duff McKagan has started a money management firm for musicians. (rollingstone)


Slipknot's Corey Taylor doesn't feel there will be a new Slipknot album. (nme)


Knowledge Magazine discusses what the most essential dnb tracks of 1994 are. (knowledge)


Some of you may recall the alternative for downloads for Napster in 1999... Epitonic returns. (mashable)


A rare Spider-man comic has sold for an amazing price. (contactmusic)


And lastly....


William Powell apologized for writing 'The Anarchist Cookbook'?  (mental_floss)


RIP Mike Starr

Consumed Links - June 9, 2010

Looks like there will be a sequel to the hit movie, "How To Train Your Dragon"....... Dreamworks

Did anyone else get to check out the interview with Bonobo by XLR8R magazine online?

Dummies.com put out a cheat sheet of sorts for upgrading and fixing PCs... dummies

Defected took a look at the Rise Of Robot DJs.

And finally...(for now)

Gigwise told us who they though were the 20 Worst Pop Acts Of All Time.

Consumed Links

Time for another round-up of things that you may have missed around the internet....


A woman in Florida is suing IHOP. The reason? How about something a little extra in her salad like a finger? The proof is in the pictures... - SG


One of my favorite magazines, XLR8R recently did an interview with Pete Hahn , the creative director of retailer Turntable Lab - xlr8r


Billboard gave five mantras for the new music business - billboard 


And finally, for now, Damian Kulash Jr., the lead singer of the band OK Go, recently contributed and article in The New York Times to discuss his bands videos vs the bands label, EMI. - nyt


Happy Reading!

Something For Your Ears – Infected Mushroom

 

Infected Mushroom is an electronic group who fuse rock and dance. They have been labeled psy-trance but I don’t believe in labels all that much. Here is a track that is quite catchy off of their release, “The Legend of the Black Shawarma.”

 

Infected Mushroom – Smashing The Opponent ft. Jonathan Davis

“The Legend of the Black Shawarma” is available now. (buy here)

For more info on the band check out their website. (infected)

Also, Artist Direct recently did a great interview with one of the members….

(ArtistDirect)

Items Of Note

Been browsing the 'net a lot recently and I thought I would share some articles and things I have come across:



Can free internet and musicians rights co-exist? That is what the FCC is being challenged with...
(FCC Faces Challenge)



LA Weekly interviewed Urb magazine founder Raymond Roker about his decision to put the magazine as print on hold. (LA)



Will it be a hit? Samantha Fox returns with a collaboration with Marc Mysterio. (beatportal)

Here's the link for youtube in case you can't remember who she is - SF



RIP to the Captain.... (LOU)



And finally, for now - Out Now -

Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83

Chris Cornell And Trent Reznor

"You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly YOU feel uncomfortable? Heard Chris Cornell's record? Jesus." -- Trent Reznor (twitter)



Recently former Soundgarden/Audioslave singer Chris Cornell spoke to The Washington Post
where he spoke about his new album, Scream -"I think it's pretty obvious. I did the math as soon as I made the decision to make that record.", the critics, Trent Reznor,- .."That's kind of childish. To be honest, if I wanted to go out to blast records that I hate, I would be sitting on Twitter 24 hours a day blasting 96 percent of what comes out -- maybe 98 percent of what comes out. (Laughs.) There's a lot of music that I don't like.", working with Timbaland, and Soundgarden.




It is unclear to me when exactly this interview occurred. However it does seem that there was some bitterness in it.



I am all for artists to continue to recreate themselves. I was willing to give the album a listen and give a little review here on the blog. I couldn't. I could not sit through the album. It made me uncomfortable.



I will leave this to all of you to decide.



In what looks like the final say in this matter......




We will always have Trent's April Fool's Day joke.

Recommended Reading

Here's a sweet little list....(a shout-out to great writing if you will)

Enjoy!

Not too long ago URB magazine posted a good interview with rapper Aceyalone. (urb)

David Grann discusses the truth about the lost Amazon tribe (huffpost)

What happens to your online life when you leave this world? solutions here (online)

And last but not least....

Headline reads: Man dressed like The Joker slain by police in park (washpost)

Interview

Taking the day off....while I catch up on some rest....check out the interview Billboard did with Axl ... AXL SPEAKS

Some Things...

I wanted to start my return with a few items I wanted to share....

FEARnet has a nice interview with Celldweller. FEARnet

This guy is not that smart....A British man who received disability payments after claiming he could walk only a few yards has been found guilty of deception after completing a foot race.

This just in......
Between ages 30 and 70, a nose may lengthen and widen by as much as half an inch and the ears may be a quarter-inch longer - due to the fact that cartilage is one of the few tissues that continue to grow as we age.

Eddie Murphy = The Riddler? Why? EM/Riddler

BURNLEY, England - Philip Holden, 72, admitted in court to supplying cannabis resin to elderly customers while he was on duty. The milkman pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis resin and supplying the drug between April 1 and July 18, 2008. Milkman deals to the Elderly

A Few Things....

Here are some things that I thought I would share:


Have you missed No Doubt? Well they have revealed plans to tour next year... NO DOUBT REVEAL TOUR

Michael Jackson/Sheik lawsuit ends in a "secret" agreement.

MTV announced that it will throw an inaugural ball for President-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 20 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington.

Billboard has a great interview with Interscope-Geffen-A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine where he discusses upcoming releases....the changes for the fourth quarter....- Billboard interview

Will studios go down with the rest of the industry? --Dallas Observer

Links And Things....

Every once in awhile I just like to recommend some things.....this is nothing different....

Has anyone seen the Ill Bill video that is out? If not.... Ill Bill

"What I'm thinking and wanting you to feel, you will feel, because I'm gonna create music that will make you feel it."--Pitchfork did an interview with Common that was pretty good....
Common Talks Control, Producers, Terminator, Obama


Evidence and Alchemist - So Fresh (Step Brothers)



Jim Jones Musical Trailer....

Artist Direct has a video interview up with Pendulum

The King of Bahrain's son is suing U.S. pop star Michael Jackson for about $7 million in London's High Court for allegedly backing out of a business venture. Here's the story: More trouble for MJ

And last but not least..... ILLA J LIVE @ FAT BEATS (full set)

Enjoy!

Stories and Stories

Why is Soulja Boy still around? Was there ever a time where he said something intelligent? See here: on slave owners

One more thing you may be able to blame Mom and Dad for..... all in the family

As you may know....Prince was sued (if you didn't see here)... Mike Masnick took a look at Prince and his music business.... good and bad not too long ago.... Prince: So Close, Yet So Far

And for those of you who want porn while you work.....it may soon end : Workplace

In A Hot Minute.........

It is that time of year where all of the hip-hop (good, bad , and downright ugly) all need to be released for the wonderful 4th quarter....and many of us music fans get disappointed by what we ended up with....

With that in mind here is what has been up in the hip-hop realm.....things moving quickly....

In the recent issue of Wax Poetics magazine, MF Doom is questioned about the rumors of "imposter perfomances". "I did some show, wrecked it, girls climbing up onstage and shit," says Doom."That was the first time that happened--but we was rocking, right? Somebody from the label was going to be there. I was like, 'Cool, he saw the show, and it was wrecked.'" Continuing he states, "Next couple of days, I speak to him, and he was like, 'Good show, but a lot of people are saying it wasn't you!'"

For the rest of the interview check out the current issue of Wax Poetics....

The reunion album for EPMD titled 'We Mean Business' now has a release date of December 9th. Guests mentioned are: Redman, Havoc (Mobb Deep), Raekwon, KRS-One, and 9th Wonder.

While some of us are just waiting for that new Common album to come and go....(originally titled Invincible Summer now called Universal Mind Control -out early Dec.)
Common is saying that 'The Believer' will be the next album....this was the album he started to make and then ....

DJ Babu's Duck Season Volume 3 will be in stores Oct. 28 via Nature Sounds.

“From the jump, my point was to put the spotlight on artists and songs that I felt needed more exposure,” Babu explains (interview here with HipHopDX) “It’s like a full evolution. Everything I’ve done solo and with my other groups has led up to this point. On this one I produced, and mixed everything.” Don't forget to check out the track "The Unexpected" (w/ MF DOOM and Sean Price).

That's all I can take for now.....more to come.

Queens of The Jungle

Beatportal, a music news (blog) page run by Beatport has done a superb interview with the one and only DJ RAP.
In the interview Rap touches on the lack of female producers/djs there appear to be in the list of top djs"Those polls are stupid and misguided.".... file sharing....her labels Propa Talent and Impropa Talent.....and a mention of future releases.... though short...it is a sweet article.....

Queens of the Jungle - DJ RAP