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Posted on 06.22.09 by Widge @ 1:52 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own. This is the first song I came across from Icelandic band Sigur Rós. I have heard many more since but this is still so far my favorite. Here they are performing "Starálfur" live. Direct link for the feedreaders. That's all. Just thought I'd share. Good luck on your week. Keep us posted on your progress. Categorized as: Music
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Posted on 06.17.09 by Aaron @ 11:05 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  When someone asks you what you do for a living the answer is often simple. "I'm a postman", "I'm a computer programmer" "I scrounge off tax payer's money" etc. When I'm asked it usually results in a sigh of breath and a response of "It's kind of complicated." I co-host a mostly unknown podcast on QuickStopEntertainment.com called Cabin Fever. I'm also a desk monkey in an office for ten hour shifts a day to earn some money and have the joy of taking calls from angry members of the public. But neither feel like they make the statement of who I really am. I studied for three years in college to get a Higher National Diploma in Television production. I once directed a documentary that took me to Zambia. And despite all the failed attempts to make a wage off of it and all the rejection letters of application, when people ask me what I do for a living my gut reaction is still "I'm a director." Categorized as: Music
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Posted on 06.14.09 by Brian @ 7:22 am
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  Widge's Note: As threatened, here is Brian from Quick Stop Entertainment's Cabin Fever to let you know about his life with hip hop, as a gateway to he and his amigo Aaron doing semi-regular hip hop reviews for the site. Enjoy. Hip-hop 'n' Me I remember the first time I ever heard gangsta rap. It was the summer of 1995, I was 14, and myself and my friend Brian were playing Mega Bomberman in his room. This was the norm for us, and we had spent countless hours gleefully blowing each other up over the previous months when we should have been doing homework. I wasn't quite the lover of music I am now; I had dabbled in a little British indie like Stone Roses and Oasis leading to a lifelong hero worship of Noel Gallagher, and I had been known to make idiotic claims like Green Day were the greatest band ever (I was fourteen...what do you want from me?!). One day Brian popped in a tape his brother had given him a few weeks before. I remember laughing when he told me who it was--I mean what kind of name was Snoop Doggy Dogg? Could beagles sing? Despite my mockery he pressed play…and blew my mind. Categorized as: Music
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Posted on 06.14.09 by Aaron @ 6:24 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  Widge's Note: In addition to being one half of Ireland's ambassador team to Needcoffee, Aaron (along with his partner in crime, Brian, both of them from Quick Stop Entertainment's Cabin Fever) are going to be reviewing hip hop for the site. Why? Because we can. Here, he reveals his hip hoppity past and explains his own personal yardstick for the musical genre. Enjoy. Hi, my name is Aaron and I got into hip-hop because of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. I'm not ashamed to say it. It's not the most of credible starts I'll admit, but there was a time that they were considered part of the cool kids. Before the TV show, the movies and the "Big Will" moniker, The Fresh Prince played second fiddle to a highly respected hip-hop DJ called Jazzy Jeff. Back when De La Soul, Leaders of the New School and A Tribe Called Quest made a name for themselves by providing fun, clever and smooth rhymes/beats. Categorized as: Music
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Posted on 06.11.09 by Widge @ 1:51 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. The guy's name is Pogo and he's an Australian remixer of sound-things. Check out this fantastic bit, based on samples from Mary Poppins: Direct link for the feedreaders. Here's a slightly unrelated bit, but I realized it when we ran a contest for Mary Poppins a little ways back: the little girl is Karen Dotrice. I thought, "Huh. Dotrice isn't a very common name, I don't think...is she any relation to Roy?" Of course she is. It's Roy Dotrice's daughter. Roy Dotrice is perhaps best known to all of you as the dad in the Beauty in the Beast series with Ron Perlman. He was most recently the Elfin King in Hellboy II. And he read the audiobook of the first three books of A Song of Ice and Fire and rocked the house on each one. Anyway, there--your Widge-realized trivia bit of the day. Found via @Metaglyph. Pogo's MySpace is here. Another vid after the break. Categorized as: Music
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