What up what up what up!?!??!  Its late - I'm down in the basement.  All the machinery is whizzing away.  The washer is washing, the cooler is cooling, the dehumidifier is de-humidifying... Its quite loud.  Not as loud as The Kills were on Cinco De Mayo though!!!  2nd time me and The Wonderful Loving Fiancee caught The Kills at 1st Ave in downtown Minneapolis.  They put on a SHWEEET show for a two man get-up.  Or I should say one man and one lady get-up.  I'm not sure what is so appealing about a female lead - I was obsessed with No Doubt growing up and now many of my newest favorites revolve around female leads...  Anything Jenny Lewis touches, The Dead Weather (Alison Mosshart overload?!) Metric, Portishead, the Yeah Yeah Yeah's...   Men - you need to step your game up.  With that here are some snapshots from Thursday night:

Speaking about No Doubt get me all nostalgic.  I remember going down to Warehouse Music, 6 or 7 blocks down my street and picking up Tragic Kingdom  with Dane and Ben.  That album is a BEAST.  Seriously, go back an listen to that thing right now.  The horns, the funk, Gwen, its almost too much.  Tony Kanal's bass playing was something I'll never forget.  His bass jumps out of that record.  He's always moving and slightly changing his lines, its very 'Flea'.  Its the little changes that make the lines so great, an extra note here, dropping a note on that verse, a moving pattern before the hook drops.  Little moments in the music that make that one 4 second segment a little more special than the 2 minutes before it and the 2 minutes after it. 

ToneKrusher Smith occasionally does another podcast called "GrownMan Business" - He forwarded me an episode that I was apart of awhile ago so now I'm sharing it with y'all!  Its childishly funny.

Holy Moly Ole!  Status Reign had officaly dropped is solo debut "Brutally Honest"  In support of it he is going on tour with Analyrical!!

I'm sure there will be plenty of stories to tell and fun times to be had.  Meanwhile, I'm just hanging out in the basement.  I'm debating on doing an entire album in a blues/rock feel - maybe it will come out next Neveruary. 
I've been watching Daria on Hulu.  I forgot how hilarious that show was!!  Everyone knew someone like Trent in High School.  Sootable Roots (my high school band) recorded our first album with a guy that is an EXACT copy of Trent (Jane's older brother from the show).  His name was Fletcher - I used to be friends with him on Facebook... I wonder what he is up to now?  Last I knew he was making tunes with my buddy Danny.  Danny has a band now - he lives in LA - His band is called The LA Font - his music is superdopefreshawesome.  Their album is available HERE.

And on THAT note...  LOOK AT PHAUST!!!!

What up Ballers and Ballettes?!?!

Last night we had a fun get-to-gether at The Depot Coffee house up in Hopkins.  The place is super cool - old school video games, nice stage area, and lots of community things going on inside its walls.  It was really nice to see!  I kicked Analyrical's ass REPEATEDLY on Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 on the N64 - more importantly the show went off smashingly.

Big thanks to Audio Perm - Phonetic One - Wize Guyz - Mercies May!!!  Stat and ToneKrusher will be BACK at The Depot on March 25th - so bring the kids!

TQD will be spending some time down in the basement today - Finishing up ONE of his many projects he is slated to drop upon y'allzzzz. 

On that note......