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Get That Dirt Off Your Shoulder

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Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 04:15PM

THE DAVE FOLEY x ATHERTON EDITION.

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Concept Albums

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 12:28AM

So I moved recently. I had to pack up all my CDs. When I finally got settled I started sorting my collection. Now I have known some people who have done the chronological order thing for their collection. Most people do the alphabetical system. Basically I just put them on a shelf at random since I almost never listen to CDs anymore. While I was sorting the collection, I noticed two things. One was that I don’t think I have bought a CD since 2006 and the other is that I have a lot of concept albums.

Tommy, Mastodon’s Blood Mountain, The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks, there is a bunch more but that’s not the point. I came across three albums in specific. Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon and Danger Doom’s The Mouse and the Mask. I sat down that night and listened to them the whole way through. I used to listen to those CDs maybe once a day when they were first released. I like the idea of concept albums as long as they don’t become too self-indulgent (e.g. the love below). I also remembered that there was a concept album/compilation made about Dexter’s Lab (one of the greatest cartoons ever).

This isn’t a new idea. Rap has been doing this for a while. Handsome Boy Modeling School, Bobby Digital In Stereo and Raekwon’s Only Built for Cuban Linx are great. A big part of good music is good story telling. You just need some original characters and maybe a journey (see Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces). It writes itself after that. So since we have established that concept albums are legit, here are three ideas for people out there to consider as possible concepts.

The Seven Samurai:

I am surprised that the Wu have never done a full version of this but it would be epic.

Hurricane Katrina/BP Spill:

Yeah, I have seen the first season of Treme but why hasn’t anyone really done a full length album tackling the colossal cluster fucks that have hit the gulf coast? Granted one is a bit recent.

That episode of Seinfeld where they play Risk.

Does this need an explanation? Awesomeness!

It has been a while since I wrote on here so some quick notes:

-The C4 mix tape hosted by Christopher Walken is pretty good. Check it out.

-Chess is Gnarly. Its endorsed by both this site and RZA.

-Montreal is awesome in the summer.

From the desk of:

Andrew Morris

Head of Marketing & Acquisitions

Wilford Brimley Will Mess You Up!

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flight distance x sound of lions x acoustic

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Friday, July 9, 2010 at 01:09PM

"My Bloody Valentine" video made last week by members of the family.

check out flight distance and sound of lions at their respective internet homes.

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BURGER CONTEST

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Friday, July 2, 2010 at 07:44PM

YO FRIENDS,

I've entered Harveys name a burger contest over on the facebook and i think my name is good, great even.three reasons:

a) i think its timely after most of us got hit by an earthquake just recently
b) i think there's familiarity to it already as it sounds similar to Beef-Cake and therefore easily loved.
c) its just good alliteration.

"Harvey's New Premium Beef-Quake Burger"

alls you gotta do is "favourite" my
burger name here on --> FACEBOOK <--- so i can get that CREAM!

10.000$ if i win will make me a better rapper.

. BEEF-QUAKE BURGER!!! I'll buy you one I promise.

DOOOOO IT!!!!

ALSO the number one names are in the lead with only like 165 votes....so its easily doable.

top names are also lame -
1-The Liberator
2-All Star
3- The Harveys Epic
4- Premium Canadeh Burger
5- The Slapshot

no ooomf.

lets do dis.

-ATHERTON

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Warped Tour & Leather

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 03:12PM

About 2 weeks ago I got a call from my tiny boss manger Tony Caferro. He was biking somewhere in North Americas wilderness.

wilderness donuts.

He had good and bad news. I asked for the bad - he couldn't come play our NXNE showcase in TO (our manager doubles as tour DJ, that's right, multi-purpose). Bad news sure, not the end of the world though, I got a laptop and itunes and we flail our arms a bunch on stage so sometimes people forget to check if there's anyone behind those turntables. The good news though was in fact great news once i deciphered it. Tony on his two wheeler hit large patches of wind so he delivered some of the most exciting news of our careers to date in bits and spurts . "Dante just..pssshht..warped...psssht..7da...pshht..tes....Hartford...pshht." After trying to take notes and pick apart his staggered blurbs for meaning he decided he'd pull off to the side of the road and have a real person chat. "Congratulations! You're on Warped Tour buddy!" he said. "Boooyah kah sha! I thought, "booyah kah fuckin' sha."

This is something I've been trying to get on for eons now it seems. It's a big enough deal that even my mom knew what it was when I skyped to share my excitement. I mean she's hip and all but mostly about real pertinent stuff like Grey's Anatomy and E-Greeting cards with .gif Easter bunny images when its time for special occasions. Long story short, cause I view blogging as kind of a chore (see: infrequent updates) we're in for seven dates - two Can, five US. and we'll be rich and famous by the time we're through.

"here's that money you left in the couch crack last time you guys were over"