Welcome to Under the Dog. This is a musical webzine with a focus on the more abrasive styles of music(read:metal/punk/hardcore), along with some interesting videos and links that generally fall in the WTF category. We post full bootleg concerts every Wednesday and have new mp3s on the weekdays. Click here to goto the main page.
I dunno which I love more, the video or the song. Junior Senior is something I like to call “Alternative Techno” or something because it’s not something you will hear very much at your next warehouse banger or club excursion, but rather is something very different. Think Justice(not the hardcore band).
Anti-Folk artist Hayden from the wonderful land of Canadia where they don’t lock their doors and no one dies from guns is one of my all-time favorite artists. Some of his music can only be described as intense as you can get with just an acoustic guitar. Just check the video below to get a taste or find the song “skates”(if someone ask I’ll host it for you). Some people say he’s depressing but I call it genius. Sometimes he practicaly screams and sounds almost like Adam Sandler but don’t let that put you off.
The blog Herohill has posted a live set from Denmark (at least I think that’s where Copenhagen is). So go ahead and hop on over there and download the wonderful goodness that is hayden
David Allen from Gang of Four and the blog Pampelmoose posted this interview with Thom Yorke about how Radiohead came up with the pay as you go business model.
From the interview:
Byrne: And letting people choose their own price?
Yorke: That was [manager Chris Hufford's] idea.
So much praise goes up all the time for Radiohead and how they came up with this “new idea” and how the industry is going to change. But the real praise (if any) goes to their manager.
Coming strait from Yorke’s mouth is this:
It’s not supposed to be a model for anything else. It was simply a response to a situation. We’re out of contract. We have our own studio. We have this new server. What the hell else would we do? This was the obvious thing. But it only works for us because of where we are.
Without the name of Radiohead you would never get the kind of response that Radiohead did.
Radiohead is band that I really liked up untill the Amnesiac album and then I felt they kind of dropped the ball. Most will disagree but as the saying goes, “it takes all kinds”.
Radiohead has taken advantage of nearly every web-based marketing solution out there, but the band is taking things to the next level with a New Year’s Eve performance. New Year’s Eve isn’t the only “eve” that’s being celebrated here. “In Rainbows,” Radiohead’s upcoming album, is being released on Jan. 1, 2008, in North America via TBD Recordings/ATO. So Radiohead’s performance is using the turning of the year for a twofold purpose.
The pre-recorded set is an hour long, and will premier New Year’s Eve on both the television an the Internet, according to Billboard. Current TV and Current.com has the honors, and will begin airing the performance starting at 12 a.m. ET on December 31, and will rerun the program another three times throughout the day.
So, if you have nothing to do on NYE, might as well watch the performance at current.com.
Now why anyone would want to make a speed racer movie is beyond me. But hey it’s being done, by the Wachowski Bros no less. Starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Matthew Fox.
One of my absolute favorite blogs in the whole wide world is ghacks. In fact if you go over there you will see that I am using their theme.
Martin at ghacks posted a neat little web app called Mucelli. It takes the soundtracks from youtube videos and plays them in your browser. It has the UK, German and European charts all in one page along with a your own playlist and most importantly, a search function.
I tested out the search function and it was not easily stumped because youtube has a ton of freakin videos.
Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he’s retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.
“When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them, so admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing,” the 36-year-old actor-comedian says in the British newspaper’s Friday edition.
“It is like saying goodbye to a loved one. It is hard, and the problem with success, although it’s fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I `get’ with Borat again, so it’s a kind of self-defeating form, really.”
Baron Cohen brought Borat Sagdiyev — an anti-Semitic buffoon in search of Pamela Anderson — to the masses last year with his smash comedy, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” He first introduced the character on “Da Ali G Show,” which was carried in the U.S. on HBO.
“It’s much easier for me to be in character and it’s a lot more fun,” he says. “If I’d done the entire promotional campaign for (the `Borat’ movie) as myself it wouldn’t have developed in the same way.”
Sad, but considering how many times he almost got arrested and all the lawsuits I can kind of understand.
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