Under The Dog

DOGCAST! Under The Dog Podcast #24

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Back with a vengeance and now 75% more music.

Hello folks, today I have a ton of music for you, 36 songs, over 2 hours of music with every sort of music besides Jazz and funk(maybe a little in the hip-hop). I also talk about attending school, Breaking Bad, Gangland, Anti-fa, ARA and Duafastock.

Tracklisting:

Trampled by Turtles – Wait So Long

Black Prairie -  Back Alley

Otis Gibbs – Where Only The Graves Are Real

Joe Pug – Messenger

Hank III – Rebel Within

Garfunkel and Oates – Pregnant Women Are Smug

Ween – DC Won’t Do You No Good

Surfer Blood – Swim

Foals – Blue Blood

Against Me! – I Was a Teenage Anarchist

We Are Wolves – Dreams

Tim Face Berlin – Lake

Get Up Kids – Keith Case

Woven Bones – If your Gold, I’m Gone

Necro – Sorcerer of Death’s Construction

Reggie Watts – F@ck Shit Stack

Oh No – Adventure

Ratatat – Grape Juice City

Sage Francis – Three Sheets To The Wind

Flying Lotus – MmmHmm

Edit – Crunk De Gaulle

DSL – J’m’en bats les couilles

Das Racist – You Outta Know

Kruger – Our Cemetary is Full of Strangers

Dillinger Escape Plan – Chinese Whispers

Rolo Tomassi – Unromance

Starkweather – Bustuari

Integrity – The Last Great Seance

This is a Standoff – You Won’t Pass

Defeater – The Bite and Sting

Symbol Six – Taxation

Sick of it All – Death Or Jail

Cancer Bats – We Are The Undead

Touche Amore – Always Running, Never Looking Back

The Vows – Speak To Truths

Exodus – Hammer and Life

DOGCAST! Under The Dog Podcast #23

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The Prodigal Podcaster returns with more music to get you through your day…

21 songs, 1.4 hours of music, Walter Schreifels related segment of songs. No podcast of twitter follower of the week. Because I hate them all. Just kidding.

Tracklisting:

The Radio Dept – Domestic Scene

Yeasayer – Ambling Alp

Built To Spill – Water Sleeper

Broken Social Scene – Sentimental x’s

Minus The Bear – Animal Backwards

The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang

Fanfarlo – Drowning Men

The New Pornographers – All the Things that Make Heaven and Earth

The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio

The Hold Steady – Hurrican J

Youth Of Today – Youth Crew

Gorilla Biscuits – First Failure

CIV – Boring Summer

Quicksand – Baphomet

Walking Concert – The Animals

Walter Schreifels – Don’t Gotta Prove It

Inside Out – No Spiritusl Surrender

108 – 18:61

Mouth of the Architect – Restore

Melvins – Youth of America

Exodus – Beyond the Pale

Links

Love Shack Baby

Pure, Unadulterated Punk, OR: Automatic For The Individual?

Tonight, I lie Under The Dog and address punk rock fashion(punk again? Yr an emo kid wishing.) So. Last week I messed up and forgot the sex pistols when talking about rebellion in rock music. How could I possibly pretend to have knowledge of this genre?

Answer? I don’t care if I mess it up. The Sex Pistols have more in common with the Backstreet Boys than Iggy Pop. I’ve been fairly clear on my stance on hXc versus ’77 styles. Either way though. Anyone can be a waster and rip their jeans. It takes a Jello Biafra to bring intellectual commentary(however much I vehemently disagree with his ideas) to the genre of Sid Viscious and Darby Crash(yes I know Darby had ideas, but he’s dead by his own hand, and his ideas were fascist, so he’s at least half idiot.).

I grew up in a stranger setting than most fans of punk music. As an outsider of everybody(For my christian youth group I was the freak who dressed weird and listened to *Gasp!* NON-CHRISTIAN MUSIC!!!!!!!!! And to the punks I was, a friggin christian. Duh.), I found the whole thing stupid.

The punk kids had patches and leather jackets and all that shit that everyone wore. I always thought they looked like the opposite of what they wanted to be. How rebellious is it to pick one of 7 hairstyles, wear the same clothes as all yr friends and smell bad?

I always thought Sonic Youth had it right. Not only did they not play what people were expecting, but they did it artistically and intelligently. Also NoMeansNo, who proved you can be expert musicians and still make challenging, fun and cerebral punk.

Why is it that certain bands are always on every punk uniform? I’ve always wondered why the misfits are on every jacket. They’re so overrepresented it’s silly, although I do like The SubHumAns’ Worlds Apart.

What am I trying to say? Think for yrself. Like music because you like it, not because of the genre it’s in, or if someone you look up to likes it. Being an individual means not having to look to anyone for anything. Being an individual means being strong and secure in yrself. Be yrself, dammit!

Stay out of the rain and under the dog!

Geoffro

Nomeansno – Rags and Bones

Subhumans – Get to Work on Time

Pure, Unadulterated Punk, OR: Automatic For The Individual?

Tonight, I lie Under The Dog and address punk rock fashion(punk again? Yr an emo kid wishing.) So. Last week I messed up and forgot the sex pistols when talking about rebellion in rock music. How could I possibly pretend to have knowledge of this genre?

Answer? I don’t care if I mess it up. The Sex Pistols have more in common with the Backstreet Boys than Iggy Pop. I’ve been fairly clear on my stance on hXc versus ’77 styles. Either way though. Anyone can be a waster and rip their jeans. It takes a Jello Biafra to bring intellectual commentary(however much I vehemently disagree with his ideas) to the genre of Sid Viscious and Darby Crash(yes I know Darby had ideas, but he’s dead by his own hand, and his ideas were fascist, so he’s at least half idiot.).

I grew up in a stranger setting than most fans of punk music. As an outsider of everybody(For my christian youth group I was the freak who dressed weird and listened to *Gasp!* NON-CHRISTIAN MUSIC!!!!!!!!! And to the punks I was, a friggin christian. Duh.), I found the whole thing stupid.

The punk kids had patches and leather jackets and all that shit that everyone wore. I always thought they looked like the opposite of what they wanted to be. How rebellious is it to pick one of 7 hairstyles, wear the same clothes as all yr friends and smell bad?

I always thought Sonic Youth had it right. Not only did they not play what people were expecting, but they did it artistically and intelligently. Also NoMeansNo, who proved you can be expert musicians and still make challenging, fun and cerebral punk.

Why is it that certain bands are always on every punk uniform? I’ve always wondered why the misfits are on every jacket. They’re so overrepresented it’s silly, although I do like The SubHumAns’ Worlds Apart.

What am I trying to say? Think for yrself. Like music because you like it, not because of the genre it’s in, or if someone you look up to likes it. Being an individual means not having to look to anyone for anything. Being an individual means being strong and secure in yrself. Be yrself, dammit!

Stay out of the rain and under the dog!

Geoffro

Nomeansno – Rags and Bones

Subhumans – Get to Work on Time

In Defense of the Insane Clown Posse and Juggalo Culture

Never did I think I’d be writing an article titled “In Defense of the Insane Clown Posse”. But here I am, about to make an attempt to empathize with something I’m not a fan of. So yes, let’s be clear, regarding their music, I am not a fan, but I have a few reasons to er… um respect them…

The first thing that needs to be understood is that it’s hard to be an outcast when you are surrounded by attractive and popular people. Societal structures today demand, no compel you to get an education and part of getting your education is that you find your place in the world.

I know some people will say that they did not let high school define them today, but it will be hard to argue that during those formative years, where you “ate your lunch” had a lot to do with how you viewed yourself at the time and the years after.

Some people didn’t have a place to eat at all. I went to a  school where the mascott was named after the Ku Klux Klan and I’m as Chicano as they come. Ok, so actually, I was pretty popular for a punk rock kid. But the point I’m getting to is that subcultures for the rejects or ciphers are a newer concept. Previous to punk rock I can not think of a single movement where being normal  was not pre-requisite. Don’t try and tell me hippies weren’t all pretense because I ain’t buying it.

Punk rock is/was/still is a place where you can be yourself and nobody cared. Self-expression was the point. The concept of “I don’t need anybody to make music or speak for me” or at the very least and alternative in the unfair market of mass media. A community was born and record distribution channels were created. I know people who press 500 vinyls and trade 5 of them with 10- 15 people for 5 of what they pressed and they bring crates of records to shows and parties and sell them for the price of being able to press another record.

But even beyond the business community of labels, distros, venues and most importantly, fans, was a personable recognition of like minded individuals who were willing to help. Punk rock doesn’t care if your homeless, it gives you street cred. Punk rock has a tolerance for making mistakes on all sorts of levels.

Some will argue that all of that dies somewhere in the 80’s and everything was corrupted, but the part that made punk rock authentic, was the community. Lots of scenes come and go, rise and fall. Friendships made and bonds broken. Jaded individuals that need to elevate themselves by bringing something down. Jaded punk rockers, hipsters, backpack hip-hop heads and the skateboard folks all pretty much equally despise the Insane Clown Posse and the devoted fans self-describing as “Juggalos”. But those oh so hated face makeup wearing kids with poorly done homemade hatchet man tattoos have something you don’t, a friend in every city in America, a festival to migrate to every summer and the mutual respect of your peers just for being into the same thing. Are you part of a community like that? Can you identify a burner and have their mutual respect instantly? Maybe at Burningman itself, maybe.

I challenge that the reason is not that the music is that awful, but that there exists a jealousy of the community of rejects and losers for making everything else out there completely irrelevant in their world. Sure we might not want to come to their party, but we aren’t respecting the hustle. These folks have built a community that is strong and accepting of it’s members. If you wanna be down with the clowns, you have an entire crew of friends till the end who will probably let you sleep on your couch just for having a juggalo hatchet man tattoo.

Just do a lil search on youtube and watch some juggalo kids talk about their friends and experiences with them. It’s almost like posi-core lyrics are just being read aloud. There is meaning in what they say and if you replace the words juggalo with homie, bro, friend, hipster, mate, dude or whatever people call each other or self-describe as, you will see similarities and that these “rejects” are human just like you.

So what if the kids at school who used to wear the t-shirts with loony tunes characters dressed up as gangsters or supposedly “funny” sayings like “back off” or “can’t sleep, clowns will eat me” finally have a community. Sure it’s kind of weird, but just because your scene became a coolness contest or passing fad gives you no reason to pass judgment on a group of who found somewhere they belong and don’t have to impress anyone but themselves. I know that’s hard to respect from your hamster wheel.

Social Distortion – Anti-Fashion

Operation Ivy – Unity

DOGCAST! Under The Dog Podcast #22

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Ok, Wednesdays is the official new episode day.

21 songs. 1.2 hours of music with alt-country, emo, punk set chosen by Dave Johnson From the webcomic Down on the Farm and a hardcore set + news and Twitter Follower and Podcast of the Week.

Tracklisting:

Lissie – Bad Romance

Bonnie “Prince” Billy & the Cairo Gang – Merciless and Great

Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground – Hey Momma

The Maldives – Blood Relations

Bill Calahan – Bathysphere

Breathe Owl Breathe – Saber Tooth Tiger

Cursive – Discovering America

Fig Dish – Seeds

For Squirrels – Mighty K.C.

Frank Turner – I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous

Radio To Saturn – (She Likes The Part) About Wolves(no links,old old old)

Robert Pollard – Cameo of a Smile

Face to Face – The New Way

Saves The Day – Bones

The Get-Up Kids – Man of Conviction

Zebrahead – Wake Me Up

More Than Ever – Careful Eyes

Damages – Love’s Labor

Keep It Clear – No Punches Pulled

Killing Time – Personal Hardore

Podcast of the Week

Superego  @gosuperego

Twitter Follower of the Week

Punchline Magazine @punchlinemag 

Links

Ipad

Corporate Taxes

Fascism #9

Down On The Farm Webcomic

Rebels With Or Without A Cause

Welcome, beautiful peoples of the expanding universe! This is your servant Geoffro, bringing you another Under the Dog Blog post. Today we discuss rebellion and it’s context within Rock And/Or Roll.

Rock & Roll has existed for around 55 years now, and the one thing that has shown up in all forms and eras is rebellion. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis are a good example, all three scandals to the established music of the time.

Obviously every generation’s music eats the old to create the next, which is fairly evident with bands like The Animals, and managed to still piss off parents in the late sixties. Then the triad of bands that started the modern rebellious music movement should be discussed.

Iggy Pop: punk before punk was a word, Iggy Pop is an idol to many of my friends and to most alt-rock(whatever that is) bands and punk bands. Whatever you do that makes you “crazy” or “chaotic,” Iggy probably did it first. How he got famous, I’ll never know.

The Who: arguably proto-punk, The Who brought a message that flew in the face of the straight-laced hawks that made up the parents of the day. When they said they wanted to die before they got old, they meant it.

The New York Dolls: I hate this band, but I can admit that they almost completely created the punk spirit. Admitted junkies, they used rebellion perfectly.

These 3 bands started it all, and when the punk rock movement started it’s own triad, they were influenced themselves by those three. The early 70′s were confusing times, with vietnam and Nixon etc. This spawned my subjective triad of original punk bands.

The Ramones: 3 chords, fun subjects, no solos. This band blew away most 70′s arena rock with that formula. They played loud, they didn’t dick around, they had fun. Pretty straightforward, really.

Devo: Yes. I’m putting Devo in here. They not only invented music videos and were rebellious in a very intelligent way, but their first album is more punk than many of the other 2 parts of the triad. I mean, they had a song called “Mongoloid!”

The Clash: classic, a little too close to reggae to my liking, they still brought the broken toothed singing sound into punk, which really became in vogue. I’m only not putting DK in here because more of their albums fall in hardcore punk.

We already kinda talked about hardcore punk on a recent blog post, so I’ll move on. Alternative rock in the early nineties, as far as I can tell, is the closest to a rebellious movement since then, at least that got to mainstream.

Imagine, if you will, a musical climate dominated by poison and guns & roses and michael jackson. Now imagine “smells like teen spirit” screaming into living rooms at a time dominated by slick stupid music like that. America almost relived the 1950′s in the 90′s, because the kids were surprised into rebellious music, and the parents had no idea what to do with this freakish music.

And it’s already turned into crap like puddle of mudd. Poison:Punk::Puddle Of Mudd:Alternative Music(I hate the term Grunge. Pearl Jam and Nirvana are not the same genre. Sorry.). Today, you don’t see weirdness like Shudder To Think, Ween and Beck getting signed to major labels.

It’s a different climate, and I know that. Now the major labels are deluding themselves, thinking they will continue to have relevance into an era where anyone has access to recording equipment, computer programs, cd duplication et cetera. Now anyone can make music, which is both good and bad for rebellion.

For instance, what is there to rebel against without major labels? It’ll be interesting to see whether that dynamic will change the nature of Rock N’ Roll. Hopefully kids will find something to be pissed of about. Hopefully hip-hop will have a revolution and Backpack will kill off crunk, and art punk will kill off modern emo punk/nu-metal.

Here’s hoping you stay out of the rain and under the dog, signing off:

Geoffro

New York Dolls – Frankenstein

Devo – Mongoloid

Beck – Satan Made Me a Taco

DOGCAST! Under The Dog Podcast #21

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I think I may just end the whole Monday is the official day thing. I can’t ever seem to hit my deadline.

Paper Heart, Princess Mononoke, Sweet weekend. Life and Times of Tim. Breaking Bad S3 EP1. 

21 songs. 1.2 hours of music with instrumental post rock, folk, typical weird indie and dedicated hardcore and metal segments + completely rambling news and Twitter Follower and Podcast of the Week.

Twitter Follower of the Week:

@copblock

Podcast of the Week:

Comedy Death Ray

Links:

Myspace is selling your infos.

Dubai jails Indian pair for ‘sexy texts’

Fat Mike feeds urine to crowd.

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-9cbf08e5b455f84eccd39b6159aa3951}

DOGCAST! Under The Dog Podcast #20 SOOPER DOOPER METAL EXTRAVAGANZA!!

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It’s a little late, but that because I had the flu:(

This week has no twitter/podcast of the week. Because I had the flu, and I made a metal mix and didn’t want to break it up. All new stuff from amazing metal/punk and hardcore bands this week.

Tracklisting

Suicide Pact – The Hunt Is On

Goes Cube – Goes Cube Song #0

Cloak/Dagger – Lower Eastada

Daughters – The Hit

NAILS – Obscene Humanity

Cult Ritual – Ugly Years

Recon – Viper City

Job For A Cowboy – Constitutional Masturbation

Yob – Breathing From The Shallows

Napalm Death – Time Waits For Now Slave

Breather Resist – Pretty Like Cancer

A Life Once Lost – Meth mouth

Harvey Milk – Probolkoc

Draconic – Murder The Distance

Martriden – Human Error

Beattrap – Nothing Left To Give

General Surgery – Violent Corpus Dispersement

Meshuggah – Bleed(live)

Dead Swans – Tent City

Killing the Dream – Resolution

Brutal Truth – Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs(Minutenmen Cover)

Sex Vid- 2 Footsteos

Immortal – Hordes To War

Burzum – Keliohesten

Oceano – With Leigons

Nile – Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld

Droids Attack – Blueshammer

Slight Metal Jacket

“I dance with the dead in my dreams.

Listen to the hallowed scream.

The dead have taken my soul.

Temptation, lost all control.”

So that little poem is fairly silly as poetry, Yet, in context with the band playing behind it, the power is palpable. Join me in looking at Metal, all the colors of the satanic rainbow! THE WITCH, THE WARRIOR, AND THE COOKIE MONSTER.

Thrash Metal: This is the genre that most people have access to thanks to bands I won’t even mention for fear of being sued. You know who I mean. Thrash metal has a weird relation to other genres. For instance, DRI. Are they thrash? Crossover thrash? Speed metal? Punk pretending to be metal? It’s tough to say for sure.

Thrash generally has punk roots, but can mix with other styles. Usually fast and solo-laden. Listen to the mp3 I put up for thrash metal by Exodus, it’s a pretty good representation. In the metal triad, thrash usually uses THE WARRIOR.

Black Metal: my personal least favorite in it’s regular form, there are still some good bands that dabble. Obvious bands in this genre include Mayhem, Emperor, and Dimmu Borgir. Tends to not down-tune and is very notey, also has a tendency to use drum machines, as most black metal was just one dude back in the day.

Black metal is well known for it’s tendency for actual satanism. Not as in Objectivism with the name changed, like LeVey, but full blown biblical satan worship. This seems pretty silly to me, Satan only exists in this form in the bible, and he loses in the end so… ? Uses mainly THE WITCH.

Death Metal: I’m a fan of death metal, which tends to be down-tuned, but not in a Nu-Metal way. This style is best represented by bands like Morbid Angel, Death, Carcass, and many more.

I also have to mention the band Dethklok, who is popularizing “extreme” metal to a huge extent. They have other elements too, but they’re fairly obviously melodic death metal. As you would hear with Dethklok, Death metal uses THE COOKIE MONSTER.

Now obviously you can’t shove all metal into three categories, there are other types, like Stoner Metal(It doesn’t fit perfectly, but I have to mention the Melvins, or Mastodon), Post-Metal(really! Bands like The Ocean Collective), Doom(which could be near stoner?), Experimental/math metal(which is my overall favorite, like The Dillinger Escape Plan).

Many people just throw metal out the window because of certain bands and a certain anti-intellectual quality of some metal, and that’s fair to a certain extent, but I find myself repeating the same thing with all genres: “Look for the Underground in all genres. You will find something worth yr time.”

Geoffro signing off, stay Under The Dog!

D.R.I. – Hooked

Exodus – Verbal Razors

The Dreaded Word: Or, The Devil’s School Counselor

Folks, most of you out there probably don’t know where the word came from. Many of you are thinking violent thoughts about followers of this phenomenon. In Mexico, they get treated like american homosexuals in the 70′s and 80′s, subjected to harrassment and physical assault.

What am I referring to? Emo. Emo, emo-core, screamo, &etc., and I bet you think you know what it is, too. Let’s be clear about one thing; lame is lame, and what these histrionic youth are listening to is L A M E.

I’m going to take you back to 1985, When Ian Mackaye decided he didn’t want to punch anyone in the face ever again. Shortly thereafter, in the DC area and elsewhere, punk bands started adding melody and heart to the hardcore they had always done.

A lot of purists dropped out of punk altogether at this point, or they switched to metal(like Gang Green). But there were a few bands who carved themselves a niche. Obviously the main bands I’m referring to are Ian Mackaye’s ‘Embrace’, and Guy Picciotto’s ‘Rites Of Spring’, which are some of my favorite bands.

Basically, Ian recounted a story where a guy called them ‘Emo-core’ because they were hardcore, but not afraid to express emotions(unlike the nihilism they had been used to).

This trend continued to the late 80′s and early 90′s with bands like Shudder To Think(a truly original and amazing band), One Last Wish, Nation Of Ulysses, Jawbox, and (my aforementined favorite) Fugazi. Yes, fellow underdoggers, these bands were called emo(by idiots).

Here’s where the story starts to get a little sad(see what I did there?). Bands influenced by those late eighties bands continued the idea in 2 different directions. There was the Pavement/Built To Spill/Modest Mouse side, and the Sunny Day Real estate/Mineral/Texas Is The Reason side. All those bands I like by the way.

Some of the more worthy of you out there can see where this is heading. This leads to bands like Cursive, Dashboard Confessional, and A Newfound Glory. And the fact that Pandora plays My Chemical Romance in the Cursive station, as if MCR has anything CLOSE to Cursive’s catalog… but I digress.

I certainly think that ‘Emo’ is NOT a word that needs saving. I just think that in music, as in everything else, you need critical thinking. Know why you think something, and being independent is the most punk thing there is, so as Dag Nasty says: “don’t trust them to tell you what is right, even when you’re a minority of one.”

Rites of Spring – For Want Of

Embrace – Money

DOGCAST! Under The Dog Podcast #19 + Geoff

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Back to normal and ON TIME! Something right is going on here.

Big Fan, Capitalism A Love Story. Observe and Report, Extract. Important Things With Demetri Martin 21 Songs Totaling 1 hour of music in 5 blocks with indie, metal, punk and hip-hop tracks + 4 songs by Geoff Parks.

Tracklisting

Drive By Truckers – Santa Fe

Shearwater – Black Eyes

Fredrik – Ava

Frightened Rabbit – Nothing Like You

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – One Polaroid a Day

dinosaur Jr – Over It

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck – Hollow Graves

Daniel Johnston – I Had Lost My Mind

Jaguar Love – Polaroids and Red Wine 

Sage Francis – Climb Trees

Weathermen – Made You Shit our Pants

Spank Rock 0 Coke and Wet

Souls of Mischief – Lickety Split

Black Flag – Rise Above

Flipper – Living For the Depression

Butthole Surfers – 22 Going 23

Dead Kennedys – Riot

Analog -The Rocking Chair Monologue

Thanatos – And Jesus Wept

A Hero A Fake – Swallowed By The Sea

Revocation – Existence Is Futile

Podcast of the Week

Hardcore History

Twitter Fololower of the week

Not At SXSW

Links

Steve Albini

Mississippi high-school prom

Bayer “Intentionally” Contaminated U.S. Rice

Holy Origin Story!

Hey there! Do I have a blog to get off my chest. My boss Jesse tends to focus on artists that are breaking ground and not towing lines, and I will do that too, but I listen to a lot of music, and 99.9% of it happened in the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s and 90′s.

Many artists are past their prime, have died or killed themelves. They obviously aren’t able to be covered by new music blogs, as Under The Dog is and has been. I just mainly wanted to give an Origin Story, with an obvious nod to superhero comics. This is because I’m a musical vigilante. Or whatever.

I mainly started out listening to metal very young, when I was 9 years old. I was a christian, so contradictions were still able to occupy my brain at the time. Then a certain obsidian colored album was released by my band du jour, which I hated. Hated.

Coincidentally, the same day I returned my copy to the store, I saw a certain music video hustling deodorant to the teenage youth, and was drawn into this type of music instantly. Now I find many people who argue with me about this band, but they had artistic integrity.

I was 9 years old. The blonde lead singer dressed a certain way, so I started cutting holes in my jeans and wearing tattered flannel. He talked about the bands Flipper, Butthole Surfers, The Wipers, Black Flag, so on and so I listened to them, and got into bands like Minor Threat, The Dead Kennedys, Which got me into Fugazi.

Fugazi was it. They are my true Origin Story revelation. Every Dischord band was now my favorite band. I think that underground music is good just for this branching quality. I love music and I hope you take the time to listen to the mp3′s here and branch yrself out.

If you like hearing my story, post a comment, find me on facebook, twitter, or my music on myspace. Signing off, this is Geoffro!

DOGCAST! Under The Dog Podcast #18

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The world is going to heck in a hand held picnic basket but the DOGCAST! keeps pushing on…

19 songs of some of the more challenging material that comes across my desk, some good ol fashioned punk rock and healthy dose of hip-hop on this weeks dogcast + 3 issues rants and new segments Twitter follower of the week and podcast of the week.

Tracklisting

The Mermen – Last Forever (The Current Sea)

Extra Golden – Fantasies Of The Orient

toe – Long Tomorrow

Henry Threadgill and Zooid – After Some Time

Yuka Honda- Robot Elephant Ears

Tyondai Braxton – Uffe’s Workshop

Zach Hill – Tick On

Junior Battles – Hotel Bibles

Alkaline Trio – This Addiction

Strung Out – Dead Spaces

Broadway Calls – Give Up The Ghost

Teenage Bottlerocket – Not OK

Polar Bear Club – Light of Local Eyes

Oddisee feat: XO. – Black Broadway

B. Dolan feat: POS, Cadence Weapon– Fall of T.R.O.Y.

Mils feat: Pigeon John– Upside Down

Wu-Tang Clan feat: Eyes Low, Buddah Bless– Real Nillaz

Bohemia – Punjabi Rap Star

Madlib feat: J Dilla – Young Guns

Twitter Follower of the Week

@beautypill aka Beauty Pill

Podcast of the Week

I Love Movies

Links

Google vs Italy

Facebook News Feed Patent

Apple Child Labor and Sub

Presenting: Under The Dog junior member starts (hopefully) weekly blog

Hello, UTD friends, my name is Geoffry Parks, and I’m going to be bringing you a (hopefully) weekly blog, focusing on rock music in all forms, rants on philosophy/politics, and classic/foreign films and directors. This is just an intro, my first full blog will start ina day or two. Look forward to hearing any feedback!

Rev. Geoffry A. Parks Jr.

What A Strange New Dillinger Escape Plan Video We Have Here

I already played this song on the Dogcast a couple shows ago, but now there is a video. Is it poorly filmed handheld footage seamlessly edited? Or is it done by an 11 year old? Hard to tell when there is no credit to the director. Maybe the info is in a myspace blog or in one of the 50 or so emails I get a day just for this site, The point is, I don’t have to be lookin up stuff about Dillinger Escape Plan. I need free interns!

But seriously, I am anticipating the eff out of this album. This one might be the one where they find the perfect balance of the palatable and acquired sounds that will catapult them into the fame they deserve and people will see how much better they are than Radiohead any day of the week.

Here is a live version of the mullet burden. See how much they’ve grown?

Dear Guru, Get Well Soon.

Hip-Hop is knowledge. Sure there are plenty of party songs and nonsense rappers, but a phase often uttered from the Temple of Hip-Hop is health, wealth and self mastery. I’m not saying Guru is directly affiliated with the TOHH, but I do believe he is fully aligned with the ideas of hip-hop as an art form with 5 elements…yadda yadda. Anyone reading this already knows enough about that.

I’m sure we’re all aware his recent health problems, so I just wanted to share my experience with him. A very close friend of mine was really into gangsta rap, and I would always play for him more conscious rap. I thought I was really schooling him on the finer points of hip-hop as an art form till one day he played the song “Betrayal” by Gang Starr and Scarface. Then I found out it was Dj Premier, who made some of my favorite KRS-ONE beats and a Biggie beat and so on.

While I wouldn’t call Gang Starr a “pimp trick gangster click” act by any means, I will describe them as having the crossover appeal that never seemed fake like other rappers trying to act hard while remaining artful lyricists. Hell, most gangsta rappers spit ghost written rhymes. Jay-Z is rumored to have ghost written for almost every ringtone rapper(exaggerating here). Yet this seemed to have street cred + and was now an opportunity to relate to other people about hip-hop who didn’t like the conscious stuff.

About a year after discovering Moment of Truth, I was still playing the album at least once a week, but unfortunately, I hadn’t taken Guru’s advice, and I was personally relating with some of the more somber songs about forgotten friendships and poor business deals. While incarcerated I used to repeat the whole album in my head to pass the time and I’d wish that I’d just have listened to Guru and taken some of his advice. Sometimes the only thing I had in common with the gang members I shared cells with knowledge of hip-hop. We’d take turns beatboxing and rapping songs we knew and we’d try to make up songs but I’ll be honest, they were whack. I once was separated from a celly because we made too much noise.

After those horrible experiences I changed my friends and left the drug dealing hip-hop scene and fell in with hipsters who loved conscious hip-hop and Moment of Truth became the gateway album to all of them appreciating all kinds of hip-hop. My friends and I would have never gave acts like Scarface, Three Six Mafia, MOP or E-40 a chance. While they might not be played all the time, it’s always great when it shows up on the jukebox.

So, Guru, get well soon. I still have more to learn from you and I’m sure you have more to share. In the meantime, I’d like to share this song with you. It’s a Gang Starr song and it’s one of my favorites and has some personal meaning to me. One lyrics (not saying which one) even brought me to an epiphany. So maybe you can learn a thing or two from Guru and Premier…

Gang Starr – JFK 2 LAX

DOGCAST! Under The Dog Podcast #17

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If you hear any funny noises in the background it’s my slushie I’m drinking!

WERE BACK!!!! 16 songs, no hip-hop this week but plenty of variety none the less…

Tracklisting:

Lucero – What Are You Willing To Lose?

The Gunshy Feat: Andrew Jackson Jihad – Thanks Buddy

Boy Eats Drum Machine – Gold In The Hills

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand

Look Mexico – I Can’t Today, I’m On Duty

Call It Arson – Here Comes The Flood

Burning Airlines – 3 Sisters

So Many Dynamos – Progress

End Of A Year – Red Tape Parade

Good Idea/Bad Idea – Como Estamos, John Stamos?

Quasi – Death Is Not The End

Jena Berlin – Sing Yourself To Sleep

Captain Beyond – Dancing Madly Backwards (On a Sea of Air)

Droids Attack – Dope Smuggler

HEARTS FALL FOR DANNY TANNER – Back Alley Prom Night Body Part Roundup

Here Comes the Kraken – Confessions of What I’ve Done

Links

US Government Poisons It’s Own Citizens

Alicia Keys Anarchist

IP Task Force

RE: Recent Silence

Yeah, I’ve been lazy and haven’t put up a new show in a few weeks. Sorry bout that. That’s the disadvantage of the one man show, it’s hard to take any time off.

I was going to do a show yesterday, but my plans were thwarted when one of the myriad of other clients hosted on the same server as me was DDOSed and they moved me to another server and changed the ip address thus causing time-outs for over 24 hours. But that is over now. YAY!

So a new episode is forthcoming, after I get off of work. It will be awesome. I plan on writing more articles as well.

So untill then google Captain Beyond and become familiar with one of the shows acts. In the meantime… Goodnight and good luck.

Dogcast! Under the Dog Podcast #16

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I’m sure by now you are noticing by now that the pictures are completely unrelated to the show:p

14 songs, 3 obituaries, a rant about elitism and boring drivel about books and tv. Indie, Hip-Hop, Doom and stoner metal. Enjoy!

Track Listing

Amenra – Thigl Fo Gniyd Eht

Devin Townsend – Quiet Riot

Adam Green – Buddy Bradley

Seabear – Lion Face Boy

Nick Jaina – Walking Into A Burning House

Prayers For Atheists – Psalm For St. Paul

Bike For Three – Lazarus Phenomenon

Gil Scott-Heron – Me and the Devil

Copywrite – The Fighter

Ahab – O Father Sea

Egypt – Dirty Witch

Food – March Fourth  (couldn’t find anything:( )

Cable – Be the Wolf

Fight Amp – Samhain