Musings and Music

Weezer is coming out with a new album?! Really?! On June 17th? This year? Really? What about that whole "Rivers-Cuomo-Being-Crazy" thing? Oh, crazy-awesome? Sweet! 

Anyway, the new single is out today [EDIT: er, uh, by today I mean April 22]. It's called "Pork & Beans" and I haven't heard it. There is a clip you can listen to here, but it's not long. I'll probably find it on the series-of-tubes in the near future and link to it for your listening enjoyment.

Also, for you Weezer obsessees, drummer Patrick Wilson (not the dude from Little Children) has a online thingie-majigger.

As for other new-album news, The Dandy Warhols appear to have a new album, Earth to the Dandy Warhols coming out on May 5th. They also have a series of youtube videos on their website with snippets of songs. I have included a thingie here. I don't really know what it is -- it sounds kind of like future-music you hear in movies when they enter the future-mall and it's future-lame, but I'll reserve my judgement until the actual album is released. Their last album, Odditorium was 40% awesome, 60% lame-o. Let's hope they at least flip those percentages for this new one.

Earth to the Dandy Warhols. May 5th.

Actually, it just sounds kinda like bad 70's porn. At least until the theoretically-an-actual-song-clip at the end. This "pimp" for the new album is cooler. It has a space-suit. I like shiny things.

Even cooler is a video on Current about my other favorite Portland band, The Thermals. They explain their new album, The Body, the Blood, the Machine, while walking around the perpetually overcast reaches of town. There's some sweet performance video. Also, I think their bassist is cute. Cute in the "she plays bass, and she's a chick - totally cute!" kinda way. Anyway, you should check out the video, because it explains the album and has some sweet tuneage.

Also, for you Los Angeles children out there, I'd like to point you in the direction of The Long Blondes, who are playing at the Troubadour on June 4th. They are grood, and I plan on being there.

And on a final note, sadly, Electric Six are no longer touring, at least until October. In a "please understand that if we keep touring we will spontaneously-combust"-type post, they reveal that their new album will come out in what will now officially be called Rocktober of 2008. And that lead singer/songwriter Dick Valentine has discovered a new love that will take him away from his band-mates.

I can't speak for what my bandmates will do with their time, but I have recently discovered Las Vegas. I had never been there before last month (our show last year at the Beauty Bar doesn't count) and now I want to move there forever. I intend to fly there twice a month, by myself, hanging out for days on end, by myself....in Vegas. This is how I'm going to spend my time off. I always wondered what I'd do when I take time off from the band. The answer: I'm going to Vegas by myself. A lot.

And whatever happens there, let it inspire a Dance Epidemic.

-RoboNixon