RecaPitulation: Dinosaur Jr., Marmoset, Iggy Pop, Spindrift

Quote of the day: "Kill them all" - When the CIA and Metallica collide.

We almost spat out our Cheerios this morning upon seeing one of the more unlikely unions that has breezed through our inbox: Dinosaur Jr. and Playboy. In a five-and-a-half-minute video on the sexy-time mag’s Web site, the band chats for a bit but spends most of the time strumming through a cover of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” Man, J sure is lucky to have (IndiePit pal) Lou and Murph again, ’cause if he didn’t, this could have been the most awkward encounter since Colbert roasted GW - he makes eye contact with the camera exactly zero times. Well, at least he didn’t strip or something. So I guess we’re linking to Playboy.com now. Ay yi yi. …

We admit that our interest in Marmoset was initially piqued because it’s the name of a song by Rapeman, one of the best side projects ever. But since we gave Marmoset the time of day, we’ve been obeying them like the Branch Davidians did David Koresh. They’re a million times softer than you’d expect from a bunch of guys who look like this:

No, we’re pretty sure that’s not Jeff Tweedy’s brother on the left. Anyway, getting to the point, the hushed, bare-bones crew has been re-releasing its catalog on vinyl since 2007 - on Joyful Noise, not original home Secretly Canadian. But now they’ve got a new one, Tea Tornado, coming August 4 - and we’ve got a couple of quick slices from it:

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And hey, look, Marmoset are even going to tour behind it, with a string of dates that starts August 21 in Bloomington, Indiana - where they’re from - and ends September 19 in Champaign, Illinois. As it turns out, there’s no L.A. date in the mix. OK, then, never mind, we don’t like you either, Marmoset. …

Hungry for another free MP3, you say? Why? not:

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Spindrift have done way more drugs than you have. That’s gotta be true - they sound like a bunch of intergalactic cosmonauts who tripped their way into a bluesy spaghetti western:

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Like what you hear? Good, phew, we’re on the same page. Well, the big news is that this septet (that’s seven members, bitches) just got announced as the supporting act for 11 Dandy Warhols shows in September. And their curiously titled The Legend of God’s Gun is due July 21 on Tee Pee, by the way. Dig it. …

This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen: Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins and (gulp) Alice Cooper are starring (gulp) in a new feature film (gulp) called “Suck: The Movie” (gulp) about some rock ‘n’ rollers who encounter vampires while on their way to fame (gulpgulpgulp). Sounds like a bad version of “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.” Budapest alt-rockers the Moog are trying to salvage this disaster-waiting-to-happen by chipping in ”You Raised a Vampire,” a song from their July 21 album Razzmatazz Orfeum (MuSick). We’ll spare you the “suck” jokes. …

But we will say that it must suck to be named “Jaicko” this month, given what the news has been obsessing over (it’s officially getting morbid). The poor 17-year-old from Barbados, who’s on Capitol, will never know what hit him. …

OK, this is turning one of the most entertaining news days ever. First Maynard started his own wine line. And now Whiplash, who are blowing out 25 candles this year, are making their own hot sauce. Yes, really. These guys:

Are hocking this:

Know when you have a million jokes you want to make at the same time but can’t decide which one to tell? That’s sorta what we’re feeling right now. Go here for more. …

Today’s quote of the day comes courtesy Every Time I Die spitter Keith Buckley (it was too long to put up top). En re: the band’s new album, September 15’s New Junk Aesthetic (Epitaph), he says, “It’s as if we have morphed from a single-celled bacteria straight to the guy with the dirt bike that will let you watch his older sister suntan if you steal him a smoke from your parents.” Man, we gotta chat up that dude, because he is hi-lar-i-ous. For more ETID 411, go here. …

Chunklet chief/Comedians of Comedy tour manager/bigger-badass-than-any-of-us Henry Owings tears what remains of Paste magazine to shreds. Pass the popcorn. … On the flipside, “Buddyhead vs. Mountain Goats” sounds like a plane crashing into a mountain but really isn’t that devastating of a video exchange. …

A year of probation for bursting Axl’s bubble? Hardly a steep price to pay for leaking an album no one bought. …

Shamelessly esoteric video of the day:

Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 by korzeck