Music Report

Welcome to the sanitarium that is The Music Report. We can’t stop, won’t stop delivering the straight dope on vocal and instrumental artists.

Pacific Division might be described as the West Coast Cool Kids thanks to their throwback style.
Instead of the traditional mixtape, in mid-2006 Pac Div released a blend tape called “Sealed for Freshness” although the two formats are virtually indistinguishable. No word on any East Coast shows in the near future but, when they do come to town, word on the street is their stage show is packed with dance moves Tupac-with-Digital-Underground style.
http://www.pacdiv.com
http://www.zshare.net/download/37237807dcb11e/

The last show of the season at the Museum of Natural looks to be another doozy. Appearing live and in person on Friday, June 27th are Talib Kweli, Pete Rock and Buckshot along with dinosaurs who are appearing neither live nor in person. $20 advance tickets only (which includes complimentary screenings of the Space Show “Passport to the Universe” and a museum pass for future use).
http://www.amnh.org/rose/specials/

Girl Talk’s new record “Feed the Animals” is now available with a pay-what-you-want system. $5 or more gets higher quality FLAC files and a one-file seamless album mix; $10 gets you a packaged CD, with a sweet piece of cover art. Unlike Radiohead, if you opt to pay $0.00, it will allow you to do so but make you feel guilty by asking why you’ve opted for that option. Must have been designed by a Jew.
http://74.124.198.47/illegal-art.net/__girl__talk___feed__the__anima.ls___/

I didn’t really believe it until I heard it either but the new group The Explorers Club sounds like they’ve put out a new Beach Boys album. Hey, why not? If the Beach Boys or Genesis or The Beatles refuse to put out new material, who am I to criticize someone else, in this case a sextet from Charleston, South Carolina, for stepping in and filling the void left by their stubborn or dead predecessors?
http://www.myspace.com/explorersclub

Bomb the Music Industry plays old fashioned punk rock music, with a touch of ska thrown in for flavor, modeled after the greats: The Clash, Bad Brains, Rancid, etc. When Sum 41, Good Charlotte and their ilk hit the scene claiming to be punk rock, real fans and musicians went back underground to enjoy the music and the scene to the way it was meant to be. Also, one of the members when to sleepaway camp with my buddy upstate. Next show, June 24 at the Knitting Factory, then Irving Plaza with Rancid August 17.
http://www.bombthemusicindustry.com/

On the video scene, witness “Three Thug Mice” featuring cartoon rodents as they chase tail, do drugs, rob people, and generally get into trouble in an NYC populated by gun toting asian ducks, streetcorner preaching lizards, knife-fighting felines, and worms who are awesome at breakdancing.
http://www.threethugmice.com/