Hey can you guys do me a favor and help bring this Kickstarter project over the finish line? It’s not my own project, but I really dig all the comics this guy has created over the past 15 years or so & I’d like to see him make a lot more of them soon! In case you need some convincing, here are 5 awesome panels that link to 5 awesome stories on the Electric Sheep Comix site. So come on and cough up a few bucks and be a part of INTERNET HISTORY already, OK!?! Thanks!
Got some new musics for you guys. First up is Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve which I first heard in this neat documentary about surfing in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands:
I guess they do a bunch of remixing, but I dug around for awhile & found their album which includes the track from that video. Since it doesn’t appear to be in print anyplace, I’ll just link the whole thing here:
Hat tip to @brainpicker on Twitter for the link to that documentary, btw! Next we have some weird/nerd rappers called Das Racist that I found out about via the always excellent Nation of Thizzlam. I am absolutely astounded by the density of cultural references that these guys include in their music. It sounds kind of like the internet *itself* wrote some of these tracks. I’ve listened to it about 3 or 4 times now and I’m still picking up new stuff each time. Here’s a sampling:
That A1 commercial where a guy says “It’s you right here and right here…”
And I’m pretty sure that’s all from one song. Madness! Normally I’m not too into nerd-core rap, but unlike MC Frontalot or whatever, these guys can actually pull off dropping all those references without making me want to punch the glasses off their face. Anyway, you can download their album for free thanks to the awesome guys over at Street Boners and TV Carnage.
They say rock and roll is the devil’s music, but there sure are a lot of rock songs about Jesus. In honor of his (re)birthday or whatever this weekend, I put together this far-from-complete list. It was originally much longer, but then I deleted all the songs that were just called “Jesus” or “Jesus Christ” and that made it much more manageable. And improved the overall quality of the compilation! Well, I guess I left in the one by Woody Guthrie, but that’s only because it’s so great. Anyway, click on this link to launch a new browser window/tab with a streaming player or you can download a ZIP file with all the individual MP3s.
Tracklist:
Lou Barlow – Mary
Wilco – Jesus, etc.
Pulp – Dishes
Beulah – Me and Jesus Don’t Talk Anymore
Spiritualized – Walking With Jesus
Nirvana – Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For a Sunbeam
Gavin Bryars and Tom Waits – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
