Eyedea's new side project sounds like Via, CatHead, other zeitgeist whiny wall-of-sound indie bands; somehow still pretty cool

The Minnesota freestyle virtuoso Eyedea, well known for his stint with Minneapolis rap group Atmosphere and current ongoing collab with DJ Abilities, released an album last year that sounds like, well, both the worst and best indie rock has had to offer in the shoegaze scene for the last half decade. And I will be honest, it's mostly the worst.

Now this is old news to those who've been paying attention, but I've been under a rock or in Canada or something for the past year or so, salivating over BackBurner and the Motherboard collective (both of which are cranking out some incredibly ill hyphy right now). Somehow what Eyedea was doing after his departure went without my noticing.

So I was understandibly uncertain what to think of a traditional-sounding indie band with Eydea at the helm. This is what it sounds like:








It's basically nothing amazing, but as a band I guess they could hold their own. The dude is much better when he's in his element, I say.

Some technical difficulties with the sound files. I'll keep working on it, I'm rusty.

Turbo pure hotnessz

Not local but killing it anyway. Cat's from Bakersfield CA... I got turned on to him through MySpace back in the day (before MySpace went the way of the blue leisure suit) and YouTube with the Street Fighter "Gigaton Punch" vid and everything he's done since has been super fresh.




He's got all his mixtapes up to download for free, go and download it and listen to it and scramble up because TSST is truth.

The Elektron Machinedrum

If anybody wants to get me something this season, I'd love to get one of these:




Ridiculous features include parameter lock for controlling parts of the sequence seperately, and effects that put some out-of-the-box DAWs to shame.

Bram Ambrose w/ Mark Hubing this Friday

Definitely not to miss, two talented singer-songwriters (me and Mark) plus an open jam. It's at the Java Dock in downtown Port Washington (the lake) at 116 W Grand Ave, from 7 to 9ish. Free admission, bring friends!

Hope to see you there.