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Andy Rourke (The Smiths)
and
Ole Koretsky

Bring you Jetlag @ Beauty Bar. Spinning rock, electro, indie, hacienda, new wave, post punk, etc…

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Beauty Bar
231 East 14th St. (btwn 2nd & 3rd)
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Millionaires – Just Got Paid

Millionaires – Alcohol

With so many dudes starting bands in their parents garages, and labels signing them quickly it’s not hard to wonder what’s going on? Seems like every kid with scene hair has a band these days. I can’t believe these chicks are actually in a legit signed band and touring the entire summer on Warped (do people even go to warped tour anymore?) If you can stomach to hear the songs above for more than 30 seconds, these chicks are completely talentless. The music is just horrible. To the point one wants to poke his own ears with an ice pick. The songs lyrics are just dumb and make no sense, “I just got paid, So lets get laid”. Just what every 15 year old girl should hear this summer. Listen for yourself , but be warned it’s NOT pretty haha.

Check out the 1:55 mark on the first vid. One of the many naked dudes in this video is rawkin a Mishka fitted.

I need to start a boy band asap and get paid. Im thinking “New Kids On The Backstreet”. Anyone want in?

BFF09 Week Edit pt. 1 from John Prolly on Vimeo.

I made two edits showcasing the riding and general jackassery that took place over the past week here in NYC. A lot of people came here for the 9th annual Bicycle Film Festival and since the fixed gear scene is so tightly knit in this great City, I ended up taking care of the out-of-towners.

BFF09 Week Edit pt. 2 from John Prolly on Vimeo.

Because of the weather, we really didn’t get to ride a whole lot, but that didn’t keep us from having a blast. That being said, make sure to check and see when the BFF is coming to your city!

Although you can’t see it in this video too well, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth was wearing a one-off shirt designed and created by my fisting-loving pal Chris Habib. Habib’s design moniker is Visitor Design and his work has spanned the past few decades of NYC’s underground and subculture art scene. He’s worked with Richard Kern and is highly sought-after by galleries and museums world wide.

Back to the story. VD has done a few tessellations of gay orgies in the past, in fact, he did one for the Mokinox logo. Mokinox is Habib’s noise side-project which was featured in the Sonic Youth film Sensational Fix. This logo is what adorned Thurston’s shirt and caused the small controversy. When Sonic Youth was performing on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, ?uestlove tweeted the following:

“thurston moore is wearing the riskiest tshirt ive ever seen on broadcast tv….gangsta move son”

Now you see the connection. Read more about it here at Visitor Design’s Shelf Life.

I might also add that VD has done a few pieces for me. One for Milwaukee Bicycle Co. which never went to any sort of production, although now I may want a shirt, and another for my website, Prolly is Not Probably, which is still too NSFW to make it to the blog header…

He did give me two stencils of my blog logo, so maybe I’ll make some shirts.

Coalesce – OX (2009) [Relapse] // Grade: A-

Hardcore? What hardcore? This is fucking above genres. Coalesce remains one of the few hardcore bands I still listen to. With Functioning on Impatience being their best work up to this point. The band seems to capture every moment of intensity they’ve ever had only to follow through with rib-crushing blow after blow. Sean Ingrams’ vocals once again sound like a humanoid pit bull begging to be let out of his cage. Coupled with the band’s ever evolving arsenal of beats and riffs, OX takes the title of “Best Coalesce Album”.

While Coalesce still holds true to their math-metal, metalcore, noise rock, and doom metal influences of the past, they introduce some new sounds into OX. Sounds you wouldn’t expect from the band and at the same time, aren’t surprised either at the execution. I’m talking about some blues influence in “Wild Ox Moan”, some chain gang-esque chanting in “In my Wake, For My Own” and yes even a sing-along in “There Is A Word Hidden In The Ground”.

If you’ve never heard of Coalesce before, this is your perfect introduction.

Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do (2009) [Downtown] // Grade: A

First things first. Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. His arm has since been replaced by a lazer rifle provided by the U.S. military and he splits his time between operating as a renegade soldier and Dancehall nightclub owner.

I must admit that the Major Lazer collaboration project between Diplo and Switch has been stringing me along for some time with an overwhelming amount of internet buzz, festival slayings and anthem track drops. Alas, I finally got a chance to listen to Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do the whole way through last week and was stoked to find out that not a single bit of my anticipation had been wasted.

This album screams hot weather with all of the necessary components including surf guitars, horse samples, auto tuned babies, drunken brass, lasers and of course, a grip of air horns. A lot of times artists take themselves so seriously that they end up sounding corny and unauthentic but not in this case. Major Lazer successfully creates an album full of hilarity and danceable party anthems. The combination of Diplo’s psychedelic electronic influence and Switch’s Baltimore sound collaborating on a Dancehall record is great: Incredibly crisp drum production with playful, spontaneous samples.

This album dropped just in time for the good weather and I am stoked to crush zombie vampires with the Major all summer long. It’s fucking Reggae dude.

Two years ago I did a half-assed comic called Party Monster that was in an full color comic anthology that came out a year ago called Typhon. A week ago I read the comic aloud while it was viewable on a not very large flat screen at the MoCCA building as part of an event that R. Sikoryak hosts called Carousel.

This video starts about three pages into my comic because the guy who filmed it was in the bathroom. He also cut out the part where I read the comic that I drew on the back of the comic. I had about 64 ounces of Budweiser during the opening forty minutes of the event and I was talking into the microphone so loud that it was cutting out. That’s where this video jumps in.

There is—buried within all the doubletalking jive—a really great idea lurking here.

Julius von Bismarck has developed what he calls the ‘Image Fulgurator’ with which one can project an image or images into—wait for it—another image. You may need to watch the video below a time or two to really understand that. The device itself is Wile E. Coyote Super Genius, as it takes regular camera parts and sort of turns them into a super-slick, flash-sensitive graffiti beam which can then be used to make art.

Or just piss off tourists. At Checkpoint Charlie.

Adding a little more updated info to Star Wars Horror Novel

I fucking LOVE Star Wars, so I lost my mind when I saw this. It may sound like the plot from some ridiculous zombie movie, but Joe Schreiber’s Deathtroopers is the real deal. It’s the first Star Wars horror novel!!

When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope seems to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back, bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours, nearly all aboard the Purge will die. And death is only the beginning. For aboard the Star Destroyer, amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising, soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.

Due out before Halloween ‘09, I am beyond stoked for this.