Tarbox

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May Bootleg List

- Bob Marley & The Wailers - Jamming (LIVE)
- Justice vs Simian Mobile Disco - We Are Your Friends
- Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men
- C2C - The Road
- Purity Ring - Fineshrine
- Atoms for Peace - Judge, Jury, & Executioner
- The Uncluded - Delicate Cycle
- Robert DeLong - Global Concepts
- Allen Stone - Sleep
- Of Monsters and Men - King and Lion

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May Iowa: Unsigned Update List

- H.D. Harmsen - Teetotaler
- Gadema - Salute the Sun
- Ira Grace & The Bible Belt Prophets - Old Train
- Aeon Grey - Milk & Bullets
- Ladysoal - Sunshine
- Maxilla Blue - Perfect Mal-F
- Parlours - Dreamers
- Blocko feat. MC Genetics - Leave it Alone
- Holy White Hounds - Black Sun

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My Current Jams

Uncluded - "Hokey Fright"

As soon as something is described to me as "quirky" I'm out...I can't hang. I immediately picture the most ironic of hipsters praising their latest bootleg of Tuvan throat singing while wearing some obnoxious pastel t-shirt announcing to the world that they "run on puppy power...quirky indeed

This record will probably be described as quirky by the blogosphere but please friends, do NOT let that turn you off.

This is probably the most lyrically well-crafted album to grace my ears so far this year. Kimya Dawson's gentle, quasi-innocent words dance around the gruff verbal maypole that Aesop Rock has firmly planted into a musical landscape that could easily be straight from the pages of the brothers Grimm.

Humor twirls with sadness, introspection bows to sharp observation, minutea has meaning...this record is deeper than it appears yet it can easily be put on as background music to make heads bob.

TLDR? - Magic words from Kimya Dawson and Aesop Rock.

My Web Traffic Goes Here:

120 Minutes Archive - An internet temple to the best show on television
Hacked IRL - Another phunny photo blog in the vien of failblog, photobomb, etc.
Pimp That Snack - Bigger is Better...especially when you are talking junk food
South Park Studios - All The Episodes Streaming Online For Free
Joystiq - Video Game Rumors & News
Cracker at 80/35 - Great Recording of a Great Show
WuChess - Flex yo Mentals...
Interrobang - Art Fest Film Fest
LOLCats - I'm kind of a softie...
Pitchfork - Snobby Music News
Aint It Cool News - Film/TV Junk
Perry Bible Fellowship - Got Oxygen?
Iowa State - Go Clones!!!
IGN - NERDS UNITE!
NME - British Snobby Music News
This Is The Daybreak - Fan Site for The Best Band EVER
Metacritic - Critics Blow...So lets put all their numbers together!
Juice - What do all the cool kids in the D-S-M do?
DMMC - Tour De Force in Local Music Promotion
Internet Archive - Lots of Great FREE Live Music MP3's
Heavy Metal - Best Magazine On The Planet Hands Down
Mid Iowa Rollers - The Toughest Chicks You Will Ever Meet...
Supersized Meals - Tubbiest Blog in the WORLD
The Consumerist - Stick It To The MAN - Retail Insider Info & Tips
Projekt German - German Auto Dorks - Scheiße!
Boulevard Ink - DAGO IS THE BOMB!
The Soundfarm - The Recording Studio of The Century
The Dead Milkmen - One of the best bands of all time
AskMen - You Say Men's Interest Sites are for wankers? Well Wank Away!!!
Banksy - Grafitti is cool...Tag Away
Texts From Last Night - People are funny
Cyclone Fanatic - Where Iowa State Fans congregate to bitch about minutea
Daytrotter - Great tunes in a great atmosphere

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Monday, May 06, 2013

NO ONE'S EVER GONNA STOP US (NO ONE'S EVER GONNA STOP) TONIGHT

Atlas Genius KILLED it on Lettermen

Click the pic for video of the down under duo performing, "If So"

Fun Fact #1 - Koala's are not true bears.

0.9 Minutes Aspartame Free
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Friday, May 03, 2013

..THAT A BROKEN HEART IS BLIND...

Seriously - Amanda Bynes ( @AmandaBynes) is winning Twitter this week.

All with a few haggard selfies with vague commentary and retweets from even stranger dudes and dudettes - she has singlehandedly unified everyone (even the people who share NOTHING in common with those of us on the programming side of things) at New Rock Headquarters with water-cooler discussion about her misadventures.

Here are a few of my favorites so you don't have to go dig em up:

Yezzir - I think she is indeed the man. For a full AB is Awesome gallery click HERE

Fun Fact #1 - Amanda Bynes father was a dentist that also did stand-up comedy.

45 Hours Sydney White Free
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Thursday, May 02, 2013

MY BOUNDLESS HAIR HAS GOTTEN GREEN

I attended the inaugural year of the North Coast Music Festival and had a buttrubbing blast out in that funky-ass park in Chicago over Labor Day weekend in 2009.

Chemical Brothers, Paul Van Dyke, Disco Biscuits, Nas & Damian Marley, De La Soul - it was hella hella fun.

Well, this festival just announced their first round of bands for Labor Day Weekend 2013 and it certainly does not suck, sir.

Wu-Tang Clan (performing Enter the 36 Chambers)
Afrojack
Big Gigantic
Laidback Luke
Purity Ring *more on them later!
Nas
Disco Biscuits
Capital Cities!
K-Flay

and more to come...

This is a relatively cheap festival ($135 for three days - VIPs are only $220) with some really good production and easy access to beer and bathrooms (two big factors when weighing all the festival variables against one another). Lineup and tix info HERE.

You saw me mention Purity Ring above? This Canadian two-piece have been on constant at my house and even here at New Rock headquarters for the last couple days.

Look em up and give em a shot....I dig the hell out of these kids.

Fun Fact #1 - More than a few breaths of Chlorine in concentrations of 1000ppm will typically kill you.

7 Decades Fresh Wipes Free
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

TAKE A PICTURE YOU COULD NEVER RECREATE...

In preparation for my great move west, I began packing up my records and other goofy minutea and kitch last night. I dug up some real gems from YEARS ago during my time as host for our local show, now Iowa: Unsigned.

They were albums from bands long gone, bands that have done so much then anyone ever thought possible and bands that, to this day, I hold dear as friends.

It really took me back and lead me to look up some goofy online video documenting some of the most interesting and eclectic Iowa artists of the last ten years: