Callville Bay Classic

Still working like a dog and trying to get some proper training hours in. I'm excited to finally have a race that I do not have to drive to LA to. This weekend brings racers from all over the country to Las Vegas for the three day stage race, Callville Bay Classic.

Friday: 12.37pm (Time Trial)
Saturday: 7:20am (Road Race)
Sunday: 9:15am (Criterium)

Races are pretty early in the morning, feel free to come by and support. We can drink mimosas lakeside afterwards.

BSS Returns

Please excuse my silence on here, do not take it maliciously. With a mixture of terrible sickness and MAGIC week, long work hours and painfully longer hours of staying up congested kept me from this.

Some great news to report. After five years Broken Social Scene returns!! This band means a lot to me and I get a warm nostalgic feeling when I hear 7/4 Shoreline. Feel Good Lost is still on heavy rotation when I need to unwind. The members of the Canadian indie collective had some success with solo projects (Feist did okay for herself. Apple is still writing checks.) and now they are presenting their follow-up to 2005's self-titled LP.

So album art, tour dates, songs, and news came out on their new album Forgiveness Rock Record and the cover art predicts something epic and wonderful. Click the pic to hear a new track.



I have so much more to post but I gotta ride over to the East Side Crit and get ready to leave for Dominguez Hills Criterium tomorrow. Cheers.

Parisian Love. Search On.

I had the idea to post this immediately after I saw the ad yesterday. But ISO50 beat me to the punch haha. I give credit where credit is due. Google's first ever advertisement on the Super Bowl may have gone unnoticed in many sports bars and parties. I for one was akwardly watching the game at my father's house accompanied by my Step-Mom, Step-brother and token step-friends. It went unnoticed.

This slow and quiet ad was quite unique to the usual loud, abrasive, and not-so-funny commercials seen during commercial breaks. Google has been running with these commercials for a bit. The birth of Batman and two friends making a makeshift Christmas-light-SUV comes to mind. This story follows a guy who goes to Paris, takes some classes, falls in love, marries, and proceeds to marital bliss...all with the use of Google search engine. Life is like that.

Everything, Everything

It was raining and I should have been hunched over my computer with coffee, listening to American Analog Set. Instead I was jumping around my room with crazed 90's techno blaring through my speakers. I re-discovered Underworld and I must have listened to "Born Slippy (Nuxx)" a hundred times. The absolute perfect soundtrack for climbing hills in the rain!

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ADT Velodrome will host Upgrade/Experience Builder Races this season for riders in Cat(-egory) 4/5. These races will fall on the last Saturday of every month. Nathan and I went out last Saturday to race. I took 3rd.

You Ruined It All

I've been on a metal kick lately. Exploring the deepest, darkest, and slowest spectrum of the genre. Terry West, a great friend of mine, started a blog dedicated to downer-psych-drone-noise-doom rock: You Ruined It All.
He is killing it! You must check it out!

Jónsi

Falsetto virtuoso Jónsi Birgisson fronts an Icelandic group Sigur Ros and on April 5th he will release his first solo record titled "Go". The album features his boyfriend Alex Somers and multi-instrumentalist Samuli Kosminen (Mum). Jónsi is known for singing in Icelandic or his own made-up language, most of Go features the vocalist using actual English words.

Alex and Jónsi also released an album last year, "Riceboy Sleeps", under the name: Jónsi and Alex. For the price of an e-mail address you can download a few of their track on their site. Strangely, Jonsi only makes one vocal appearance on this record but it is fantastic none the less.

Jónsi stopped by WNYC to perform a few songs from his upcoming release.
Listen HERE.

Ohh Dharma virtualmixtape04

01 Bibio "Kaini Industries"
02 Phoenix "Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective Remix)"
03 Tycho "Coastal Brake (Hatchback's Cosmic Caviar Dub)"
04 Fuck Buttons "Surf Solar"
05 Letting Up Despite Great Faults "In Steps"
06 Delorean "Seasun (John Talabot's Kids & Drums Remix)"
07 Lali Puna "50 Faces of..."
08 Cold Cave "Love Comes Close"
09 Los Campesinos! "The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future"
10 Curl Up and Die "Rich Hall (Runner Up In A Carson Daly Lookalike Contest)"

MEMORY TAPES

Dayve Hawk is a pretty interesting guy. He lives in South New jersey, doesn't have a cell phone, and doesn't drive. He simply hangs out with his four-year-old daughter and makes some of the most beautiful ambient-chill-wave-electronic music around. He is not a recluse though, he goes by a few different musical aliases but everything stems around MEMORY TAPES. Over the past few years he has done some fantastic remixes for some great bands, including an appearance on the ATL RMX. In 2009 he released his proper debut album "Seek Magic". The record got rave reviews and landed itself a #25 spot on my Top records of 2009 list. He has never played a show, but that is about to change.

After many requests he is finally hitting the road with...probably his laptop and venturing to the UK, doing a set at SXSW, and a few US cities. One lucky city happens to be right here...in Las Vegas...in the Hard Rock. A little strange and a lot a bit random. It's kinda like the time Air played at the Joint (4-26-2006 to be exact). My memory is a bit hazy, but I think I was out of town for that one. His style and sound definitely don't fit the Las Vegas-party-all-night vibe, and he is not one to 'rock the party'. So this should be one interesting evening. I encourage everyone to attend this concert and support people making art for the sake of making art.

February 16th @ Hard Rock Hotel

Treeship
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Yeasayer "Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix)"

RIP Jay Reatard

"It ain't gonna save me.
It ain't gonna save me, no how!"
-J.R

Memphis garage-rocker dies at the age of 29.
The story is all over the place. Look into it.

The Take-Away Show :: Phoenix

I first posted on la Blogotheque’s Take-Away Show when I shared an amazing one-shot video of Sigur Ros playing in a cafe. Vincent Moon's style is unique and highly admired by several of my film friends. In his Take-Away segments, he films indie bands playing acoustically in all sorts of public and intimate places: back of a moving pickup truck, New York subways, alleyways, or walking through whatever particular town he seems to meet the bands in. They all share an exciting and daring element.

I probably won't make it to France this year, but Vincent met up with Phoenix in Paris. They got a few songs in and the story behind it is worth the read. link

Frank Gehry

Feels like I have been building the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute myself. Everyday I see a new development as I pass by on my bike. The opening has been pushed back and back, but it looks like construction is close to completion. Gem of Downtown Vegas.

Blood Brothers Vinyl Re-Issue

The kids are still screaming, or kinda more like yelping, along to Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck. Now they can jam to the craze quintet from Seattle- The Blood Brothers on vinyl. Epitaph Records was kind enough to re-issue their catalog (minus Rumors Laid to Waste EP and their debut This Adultery is Ripe) last year. I got a chance to see these guys play a few years back with ...Trail of the Dead, before they disbanded in 07. They were completely chaotic but in the best kind of way. My to-buy-in-the-near-future record list just got a little bit longer.