You might have heard me rave about Revolver Modele before, you can check out some sounds on their website, but better yet, show up to see them live: 1 Oct 2005 at the Turf Club, St Paul MN. They put on a Fantastic live show.

Also check out the video for ‘Les Diaboliques’ in which Xtina and Myself cameo, and possibly the only video you will see of me wearing White. (Tis True.)

-C

The official press release:

The long awaited debut full length from Revolver Modele has arrived. All new recordings that are more energetic/danceable than previous tracks if you can imagine that. Produced/Recorded and Mixed by Brad Kern primarily at Third Ear.

Join us Oct 10th at Oak Street Cinema in Mpls 5pm for the screening of Spectrum MN Sountracks Vol. 3 DVD – Sound Unseen Music Film Festival www.soundunseen.com  Revolver Modele’s video “Les Diaboliques” is on the DVD.

The Jagged Spiral song “Let It Out” has been moved from this blog to the band website, somewhere on www.jaggedspiral.com or you can probably still hear it on the Jagged Spiral MySpace page: www.myspace.com/jaggedspiral

Colin – Rhythm and Lead Guitars
Yusef – Lead Guitar
Josh – Drums
Zero – Bass, Yelling, Grunting, and Whispering

Blog on,
-CZ

[2010 Update: Transmission has moved from Hexagon to Clubhouse Jager.]

Checked out Transmission last night at the Hexagon Bar. A decent place, although it wasn’t shaped like a Hexagon. Ran into local fashion “yes”, Miss Anna Lee. Revolver Modele opened, and as always a great show. The free parking and free cover for live music is a big plus. You won’t find awesome free music like this in LA or NY!

BTW: The host, DJ Jake Rudh spins audio coolness.

The headliner was Mark Mallman, who plays keyboards, is completely insane, and completely all-out-rock-and-roll showman. He actually stood on his own organ! Yikes! Imagine Billy Joel, Elton John, Meatloaf, and Ted Nugent combined. Just try. That’s right, you can’t imagine it, you have to see it. Check it out, he is in the middle of a seven straight day series of concerts at the Hexagon…

Blog on,
-CZ

Here are some lovely musician jokes to brighten your day, complements of the Neurosturgeons…

• Young Child:  “Mom, when I grow up I’d like to be a musician.”
• Mom:  “Well honey, you know you can’t do both.”

• Q: What’s the difference between a banjo and an onion?
• A: Nobody cries when you chop up a banjo.

• Q: What’s the difference between a folk guitar player and a large pizza?
• A: A large pizza can feed a family of four.

• Q: What’s the difference between an oboe and a bassoon?
• A: You can hit a baseball further with a bassoon.

• Q: What’s the difference between a dead chicken in the road, and a dead trombonist in the road?
• A: There’s a remote chance the chicken was on its way to a gig.

• Q: What’s the difference between a bull and a band?
• A: The bull has the horns in the front and the asshole in the back.

• Q: How do you define a perfect pitch?
• A: When the accordion lands in the MIDDLE of the dumpster.

• Q: How do you get a guitar player to turn his volume down?
• A: Put sheet music in front of him.

Blog on,
-Z

I don’t hate Nickelback, but I don’t like them either and I can’t stand to see any band change the lyrics to their own song and try to pass it off as ‘new’.

Download and listen to this mp3, the left side is one Nickelback “hit” and the left side is the other “hit”:

http://www.riserock.com/xmas/nickelbacksucks.mp3

Both these songs get rammed down the throat of terrestrial radio daily, so  Nickelback has managed to turn one successfully mediocre song into two.

No doubt their label has more to do with this than the band itself, and I bet if you were under a multi-million dollar contract you would do exactly what Nickelback did – “Write another hit, just like the last one, only change the lyrics a bit.” So I guess this song makes fun of the music industry more than Nickelback.

-Z

Patrick@93X,

The song by Cold you played earlier today (has lyrics “…I didn’t mean to be so cold…”) was just awful. Anybody can mix together bass+drums+powerchorddistortionguitars, but when the lyrics are pussy+whiny+”I feel”+”I want”+”I need” it really puts a damper on the song. It turns an otherwise decent band into a rocked-up version of Dashboard Confessional; possibly the worst lyric writing of all time.
I believe the style of music (in it’s unplugged, coffee-shop form) is called Emo for emotional, you probably know more about it than I do. There are bands that pull off Emo/Rock well (Outside by Staind, for example) and those who don’t, and they are easy to pick out by counting the number of times they say “I” in the first ten seconds.

Now that I have pointed it out to you, it will drive you nuts…

Sorry,
Conrad Zero