Switchblade Comb

Holy crap, that’s awesome.

LOST returns February 2.

Not sure how funny this is without seeing The Room, but regardless . . .

Digital Leather
Warm Brother
Fat Possum
2009

1. Crown
2. All The People
3. Photo Lie
4. Your Hand, My Glove
5. Homesick For Terror
6. Kisses
7. Bugs On Glue
8. Hurts So Bad
9. Modern Castles
10. My Fame
11. Not Now
12. Gold Hearts

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Lo-fi guitars, drum machines, and synth driven punk from Omaha-by-way-of-Arizona’s Shawn Foree. Under management from Jay Reatard it’s easy to hear a lot of Jay’s influence on Digital Leather’s sound: pop hooks married with old fashioned raw rock ‘n roll.

Digital Leather – “Your Hand, My Glove”

Digital Leather – “Not Now”

Digital Leather – “Bugs on Glue”

A weekly look at the Minnesota concert calendar from your friends at Switchblade Comb. The full list can be viewed HERE.

30 – Friendly Fires + The XX (Triple Rock)
01 – Melt Banana (7th St)
01 – Municipal Waste + Off With Their Heads + Phobia (Triple Rock)
02 – The Hidden Cameras (First Ave)
03 – Unknown Prophets [Album Release Party] (First Ave)
03 – Jeremy Messersmith + Zoo Animal (7th St)
04 – Soul Asylum (First Ave)
04 – Red Pens (7th St)
04 – Eyedea & Abilities + Themselves (Varsity)
04 – Lookbook (Sauce)
05 – The Swell Season (State Theatre)
05 – Doomtree Blowout V (First Ave)
05 – Zero 7 (Epic)

Drunken Post is a feature on Switchblade Comb wherein The Joe and RichmanVA get wasted and post nonsensical / non topical videos or musings at very early hours of the morning.

Rich and I have had discussions over the last few days following Paste’s Best Comics listing (was it Paste?), so here’s my current drunken Switchbladecomb mindset in response. . .

THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE

10. Brian K Vaughn’s Runaways
9. Grant Morrison trio: We3/All-Star Superman/New X-Men Vol. 1
8. Jimmy Corrigan
7. Black Hole
6. Alias
5. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
4. Warren Ellis’ & Mike Carey’s Hellblazer
3. Garth Ennis’ Punisher MAX
2. Planetes
1. Planetary

*this has repeatedly been changed under different drunken circumstances. It’s the list that keeps on listing*

Did you really think someone wasn’t gonna mash these up?

I wish I could provide some information for G-Ampere, a pretty decent rock band, but I can’t find anything. I can’t even remember how I found out about them in the first place. But anyway, good stuff. For more of their songs, check out “Teardrop” and “Yellow Butterfly.”

G-Ampere – “Outer Fung”

Drunken Post is a feature on Switchblade Comb wherein The Joe and RichmanVA get wasted and post nonsensical / non topical videos or musings at very early hours of the morning.

Ever since I was in high school one of my favorite things to do has been to get drunk and listen to straight edge hardcore bands. I don’t know why but there’s just something about being at a party with a 40 oz. in your hand and singing along to “Straight Edge” by Minor Threat that is one of the funnest things in the world to do. So that’s what I’m doing tonight. Getting drunk and listening to straight edge bands. You should too so here’s a short mix tape of some of my favorite straight edge hardcore songs. Enjoy it. I know I am.

Oh, also a quick couple funny hardcore facts.

1. Ian Mckaye was the only straight edge member of Minor Threat. Everyone else in the band drank and did drugs the entire time they were together… and after.

2. One night many, many years ago I was getting wasted with Ari, lead singer of Lifetime, and we were discussing regrettable tattoos. He pulled up his pant leg to show me his “Straight Edge Till Death” tattoo and called it the biggest mistake of his life.

Note: Not all of the songs are specifically about being straight edge but they are all performed by straight edge bands.

Minor Threat – “In My Eyes”

7 Seconds – “Young ‘Till I Die”


SSD – “Glue” (live – sorry, the quality sucks but I fuckin’ love this song)


Dag Nasty – “Can I Say”

Youth of Today – “Positive Outlook”

Redemption 87 – “The Plague” (I prefer “Can’t Break Me” but this is the only youtube song I could find)


Good Riddance – “Waste”


Refused – “New Noise”

H2O – “What Happened” (feat. Lou Koller and Matt Skiba)

Jud Jud – The Demos 7″ (The greatest straight edge band ever)

Sober Post is a feature on Switchblade Comb wherein The Joe and RichmanVA are awake and sober for no particular reason and post nonsensical / non topical videos or musings at very early hours of the morning.

Films coming soon to the Twin Cities area Landmark Theatres.
(CAPS=new additions)

December

04 – Up in the Air (Uptown)
04 – Oh My God (Lagoon)
11 – Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Lagoon)
11 – Invictus (Lagoon)
11 – The Strip (Lagoon)
11 – Me & Orson Welles (Edina)
18 – William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (Lagoon)
18 - The Maid (Lagoon/Edina)
18 – Young Victoria (Edina)
25 - Broken Embraces (Uptown)
25 - Nine (Lagoon)
25 – A Single Man (Lagoon/Edina)

January

08 – CRAZY HEART (Uptown)
08 – The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Lagoon)
22 - The White Ribbon (Uptown/Lagoon)

February

12 – ST. JOHN OF LAS VEGAS (Lagoon)
12 – Rashomon (Lagoon)
12 – The Last Station (Edina)
19 – Oscar Nominated Shorts (Lagoon)
26 – 44 Inch Chest (Lagoon)

March

05 – North Face (Lagoon)
12 – A Prophet (Uptown)
12 – A Town Called Panic (Lagoon)
12 – ART OF THE STEAL (Edina)
19 – Fish Tank (Lagoon)

APRIL

12 - Police, Adjective (Lagoon)
30 – WARLORDS (Lagoon)

There are few things in life that I love more than VHS. I just sold off my Jaws DVD because I can’t stand watching it on anything other than VHS, and I feel the same way about films like Citizen Kane, Rear Window, and Halloween. Some films just don’t feel right to me on anything but that medium. I love the look, the limited re-watchability, the obscure titles that’ll never hit DVD, and of course, the box art.

This last one makes me ridiculously excited for the upcoming book Portable Grindhouse, which reprints some of the most decadent artwork to ever grace a VHS box while cultural historian Jacques Boyreau narrates the story of the medium. Some of this brilliant essay can be read in the preview over at Amazon, of which this is an excerpt from -

“The curt take on VHS is that it’s a dead format, a quaint and sham way to watch a movie. Regardless, to date, there are quantities of VHS titles not available on DVD, and that may never be. But, beyond itemizing the available, I want to talk about the synergy that VHS and film enjoyed. More than any technical feud, the chasm between VHS and digital is that VHS does not threaten the traditional movie experience of seeing film projected as film. On one hand, digital offers to restore film, but also to discredit it through unneeded ‘improvements.’ There is a point where digital restoration becomes inner theft, if, having taken control of the stuff – the movie – it poisons the well, i.e. the movie theater. I am referring to the rise of digital theaters, which I see as a final straw in an aberrant Oedipal kill-off of the film experience.”

Also, this line rules -

“Saying digital is like film is like saying a speculum exam is like sex because they both involve entering the vagina.”

Portable Grindhouse is released December 31. Read the essay and pre-order the book HERE.

The dynamic duo of Sound Unseen and the Trylon Microcinema come together for the first of a monthly series with La France.

[A] WWI troop movie with the soul of a troubled nation and the heart (and tune!) of a Beach Boys album…. Bozon’s film channels the hooks and melodies of ’60s sunshine pop while evoking the frontline grit of Fuller and the formal austerity of Bresson – a work of startling originality and charm.

La France
Wednesday, December 2
Trylon Microcinema
7:30 PM l $8

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