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Fat Creeps – Daydreaming [video]

gah… more like this… I’m assuming I followed a lead from Stereogum’s BTW feature where the drummer is wearing a great Spacemen 3 t-shirt, which I usually take to be a sign… Anyway, it appears that I have a tendency to find out about bands scant moments after they break up… Fat Creeps announced 1 month ago on their Facebook page that they’re “on hiatus”… ah well… they’ve got a 6-song EP, a split 12”, a split cst, and a couple other tracks up on their bandcamp page. This is their video for “Daydreaming”, this is just straightforward late-80’s/early-90’s indie rock sans affectation…

Program {Volcano Playground} – Waiting video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fq4s7iQCB4

Had a favorite track a few years back from a band named Volcano Playground. They had a demo up somewhere (bandcamp?) for free. Lead track “Waiting” was stellar. Then silence. Apparently the band has re-branded themselves as the considerably lamer Program, but Waiting supposedly debuted on vinyl tonday, with a full-length debut from Program in the wings. Here’s the video for Waiting, it = awesome. … not terribly dissimilar from something that might’ve come out on 4AD at their height in the 80’s, think Dead Can Dance mashed up with Clan of Xymox or something….

new shit coming out that probably sucks… state of comics 2013

flashback a bit … I quit paying attention to comics for the nth time around 2007 – Alan Moore’s America’s Best Comics imprint had folded, and Warren Ellis’ runs on Plantary & Nextwave were wrapping up. There just was not a lot to keep me interested in getting to the comic book store. Skip forward to about 2010 or 2011 and I realized somehow that I really like the vast majority of what Warren Ellis and Brian Michael Bendis had written. This kept me paying attention to comics for a while as I read a bunch of back issues, and managed to pick up on the awesomeness that entails Brandon Graham, James Stekoe, Colleen Coover, and the Immonens… However, Warren Ellis dropped out of the field about a year ago, and Bendis’ writing has seemed strained (as in “six-plus scripts every month and tapping out quickly….”) for the last 6 months or so… the “Marvel NOW” rebrand seemed like it’d be a step in the right direction, but it just managed to tank out everything. Kathryn Immonen’s Journey Into Mystery was a breath of fresh air at first, but now is embedding itself back into mainstream continuity and sort of not going anywhere :( Bendis’ X-men runs are particularly uninteresting, as if he’d lost interest in anything about anything (the obnoxiousness of those characters probably doesn’t help much either…) Fraction & Allred’s FF run has not panned out to be anywhere near as awesome as that lineup should be capable of. On the other hand, the Hawkeye book by Fraction & Aja is hands down the best thing that Fraction has done since Casanova, and is probably the best mainstream book since Ellis & Immonen’s Nextwave. The end result of all this is that I’ve massively lost interest in the world of comic books… still gonna be paying attention to the Immonens, Coover, Graham, Stekoe, Chris Ware, Matt Howarth, Darwyn Cooke and probably a couple others, but these people get books on the stands so infrequently… prob gonna stop commenting on comics regularly and trying to get back to the music thing… yay…