Watched Division Day for their record release party and Mae Shi.

Here is how OC Weekly viewed them, “Division Day. Were. Awesome. So awesome, in fact, that they could be considered awesome awesome, deserving of far better praise than this meager college rock fan… could ever dish… I dug Division Day the most for unabashedly mixing my favorite things—a preference for Dismemberment Plan-style awk-rawk over the too-obvious Moving Units post-punk-white-boy funk, soft vocals from a dude who can actually sing, (and) a drummer who looks like Dennis Wilson (pre-alcoholic downfall) and plays like him too (if Dennis Wilson were a robot with precision timing)…”

I thought they sucked but i have been promised the album is much better and i have to say some of it is ok. Listen to it on their myspace page here.

Mea Shi is from los angeles and you kind of get the sense that things are not loud enough for them. it was a loud and live (like real people jumping on the stage) show. good job. check out the single ‘run to your grave’ on their myspace page here.

on to Datarock tonight.

Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions has just released for free to download 13 cds, bonus tracks, and never heard before songs!

http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/

Get it while there are seeders, I’ll leave Azureus on all week.

And here’s the myspace http://www.myspace.com/markvidlerGHP

The boys from FM are having a party this Thursday and they’re introducing us to a special drink straight from Asia! Whiskey Green Tea. Hmm…sounds kinda good to me. You can sign up for the guestlist here: www.openanimalhouse.com.

Click on the above for the DJ HAPA interview - the first feature of issue 002!

The Social Trust takes some amazing pictures, 530 Media Lab, do some amazing design work. Come on out to celebrate the official strategic partnership, who knows what their kids will look like.

Hot damn… I’m one happy camper.

From Radiohead’s blog:

Hello everyone.
Well, the new album is finished, and it’s coming out in 10 days;
We’ve called it In Rainbows.

Love from us all.
Jonny

A friend of mine called me out for not posting about this sooner. Check out the video below!