Sunday, February 4, 2007

The Distillers: Hot Girl + Punk Rock = Good Times!

A band I would heartily reccomend if you like hard, aggressive music with a twist.

A Little Backround Info:
The Distillers was a punk rock band formed in 1998. They released their first two albums on Hellcat Records/Epitaph Records before moving to Sire, part of the Warner Music Group. The Distillers were originally formed by Brody Dalle and the lineup has changed significantly since then. Brody Dalle plays guitar and sings while Tony Bradley plays guitar as well. Ryan Sinn played bass, but left recently, announcing his departure on his MySpace page.

According to the Distillers' online message board, the band has broken up. Members Brody and Tony have formed a new band called Spinnerette.

Albums

EP


I really enjoy most of the stuff they have released, one of the few bands in the modern punk scene that isnt total shit, or really masquarading as punk and is actually pop fluff like Sum 41. Though if I had to pick favorite and suggest stuff as an introduction, buy Coral Fang and listen to "Here to Know" and "Drain the Blood". You wont be dissapointed. Hopefully the new band will be as good as the old, though they do give up one of the coolest band names in the process. Oh Well.

TomC

Somebody Finally Made a Funny Mooninite Joke


Now That He Has Retired from the Advertising Business, The Mooninite Plans to Throw His Hat Into the Sox Closer Ring!

More Amusement in this line here. This line of thought highlights two things:

1) I guess the terror scare in Boston from the other day is truly over. For the three people who havent heard about this, the Boston Globe story regarding the matter is here. Essentially, in a horribly concieved guerilla advertising campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Comedy Central hid the above lite brite looking thingys depicting the Mooninites on various places (under bridges, in subway tunnels, Fenway Park, etc) that one might expect to find a bomb if such things were planted. And not terribly suprisingly, people did. The rest of the afternoon the Boston PD spent the time destroying them as possible bombs before being made aware of the campaign. The national media has since made them to look like tools, but in the world we live in now, I am glad they responded as they did. Better to be safe than sorry.

and. . .

2) The Red Sox are in dire need of an established closer instead of THIS GUY!


ah, its nice to know life can go on. . .

TomC