I think I'm going to change to tumblr

because they actually have an iphone app



http://dkrohn.tumblr.com

lollapalooza's 2009 lineup was just announced

Depeche Mode
Tool
The Killers
Jane’s Addiction
Beastie Boys
Kings of Leon

I sure am glad I got Bonnaroo tickets instead.

What happened?

I haven't seen something this pure in all my life. The worlds most popular band of all time playing like no one's opinion matters. It's always been mind boggling to me how a band this popular with such an absurd amount of fans was able to constantly make whatever kind of music they want and not let the pressure of their fame, fans or label get to them. They constantly pushed the boundaries and in a way turned their backs on everyone's expectations in order to exceed them. Maybe they just couldn't comprehend the magnitude of what they were doing. Here's the world's most popular band in a studio with anything imaginable at their disposal and John is sitting on the floor as if oblivious to the fact that the music that he is making is changing the world as we know it (even to this day).

Something clearly has been lost over the years. Musicians have become slaves to other people's expectations. How is anything ever going to advance in music again if all of the musicians keep writing music to appeal to everyone?

Curtians for the Pirate Bay

Today the 4 founders of the site The Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright infringement and sentenced to 1 year of prison and a £2.4 million fine in damages that they will pay to various labels however the founders would "rather burn everything they own than pay the fine."

You can read more about it here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10221943-93.html

It's a sad day for the music industry, simply because the labels won this battle. I'm all for the music industry's success, but attempting to stop a wildfire like piracy simply isn't productive. They can't continue trying to stop piracy by filing lawsuits if they want to get out of the rut that they are in, they need to adapt. It's happened before with cassette tapes. Labels tried to sue Sony for manufacturing a means of copying music. They could have tried all they wanted but it wouldn't stop people from copying cassettes, they had to adapt, come out with something more appealing to the consumer and impossible to duplicate: the CD. That lasted a few years and even when CD burners came out it still didn't effect the industry too much, until Napster came out. They need to reinvent themselves yet again and find something more appealing to the consumer than illegally downloading music. They need to find a way to make profit off of offering free downloads. Advertising, some kind of special 360 deals, whatever...they just need to start trying something new.


"The winners are the ones who embrace change"
-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar

When will they learn...

yet another group of pro football athletes have started a band
Presenting: the self proclaimed "heaviest band in the world" Free Reign
http://www.myspace.com/freereign

why is it that history always repeates itself?
heres a recap of the other football musicians:







the icing on the cake is the Free Reign's next show is with the glam rock band that KFB played with about a month ago, The Vettes

If you ever want to feel like a complete badass

I recommend walking somewhere listening to the album XTRMNTR by Primal Scream. What an album! It's about ten years old and was pretty ahead of its time.

Here's the music video for the first track "Kill All Hippies", the title is meant to be sort of sarcastic because its about how screwed up America is. If you watch the video you'll see a bunch of soldiers flying jets and athletes, it's a statement about America's views on war...I'll let you do your own interpretation...
Also it's kind of interesting that it was released before 911

Best Episode Ever.

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Speaking of the American Dream

Here it is:



mmmmm

I want to make something real...I want to make a Yaz record

I'm tired of people starting bands because they want all the icing on the cake to being in a rock band: booze, money, drugs and/or girls. The Stones may be known for their drug use or McJagger's absurd amount of illegitimate sons, but in their early years it was clear that they made music because they wanted to make something real and something new. All the girls and drugs were just a side effect. Now rock and roll is becoming more and more of a formula (pop sound + bad boy image + something that fans can relate to = sex, drugs, rock and roll and money....Nickleback??). As a result genuine heartfelt music is becoming more and more hard to come by. Even the Stones have crossed over to the dark side eventually (but you still gotta love them), but somehow people like Bob Dylan and Neil Young manage to crank out incredible music to this day because they simply can't stop, and they could care less whether or not you like it. It's not a pay check for them, it's an addiction. Now all the baby bands are filling the formula to reap the benefits. Kings of Leon could have reached paramount success by creating genuine rock and roll like they did in their earlier years, but Only By the Night was a huge shortcut. Sure they've been in the charts ever since the album came out, but now the people that used to make fun of "hipsters" for dressing like KOL are KOL's biggest fans....whats wrong with this picture?! Slow and steady wins the race, they could have stayed on track with their older more cutting edge music and gotten the same success with enough hard work (their original fans would respect them a lot more too) but instead they released the next Viva La Vida: a hybrid of Pearl Jam and U2 (and I quote from Chris Martin "It’s a plagiarist’s paradise. We used to just be able to steal off Radiohead. Now we can steal off everybody." If Coldplay is in it to make music, then I'm 4'6" tall). Has anyone ever read the Great Gatsby or any of the other countless books and movies about the American dream?! Materialism DOES NOT WORK OUT. Do what you love because you love it, not to make money or pick up girls...I'm talking to you Nashville!
I'll finish my absurd rant with this riddle...twenty years down the road who will you remember and tell your kids about: The Black Eyed Peas (the current #1 single) or Radiohead (hasn't had a single on the US charts in the last 12 years except for Nude making it to #38 last year)

Anyways sorry for the long rant...I don't quite know where it came from haha

reeeeeal original

the killers new live setup:


French DJ Etienne de Crecy


a rip off of a daft punk rip off...Etienne can pull it off but whats the point of seeing a band if each member is completely cut off from each other? they may as well just plug in an ipod and play a cool light show...

if youre a music nerd like me

you'll like this....

it's pretty long but really interesting
trent reznor is a pretty brilliant man, its a shame that NIN fans tend to give their music a bad name...if you give NIN's newer stuff a chance it's actually pretty amazing, especially ghosts (2 hours of instrumental music)
to prove that he actually has some decent taste here is his most recent playlist
http://blip.fm/profile/trent_reznor/playlist

If anyone has about $1000 laying around...

I sure would like a nudie suit...just imagine the possibilities:

Ahhh i can't wait

black rebel motorcycle club is working on a new album...what a badass...

30th Century Man

I saw 30th Century man at Belcourt last night. It was really good. The first half was more of a typical documentary feel and the second half was about Scott Walker's more recent studio efforts. I don't know how I haven't heard of him before. It's pretty mind blowing. He started out in the boy band The Walker Brothers and slowly progressed into something else. I've never heard anything like it before. Brian Eno is in it. he listens to an old Walker Brothers song and shakes his head and talks about how disgusting it is that music hasn't progressed since that in the last 50 years. The strange thing is that Scott Walker has done exactly that. I really recomend getting something more recent of his. The Drift is his latest record. It somehow touched the subconcious when you listen to it, I've never experienced anything like it throgh music, it's very bizarre. I don't know how he does it. I'll be honest, he has a really weird voice, which I don't particularly enjoy, but if you get past that it will blow your mind. He is the original NIN and Radiohead (I don't care what you think, NIN is the evil twin of Radiohead).
Here is Scott's earlier stuff

And here is something off his most recent album

Some Music Videos I've been enjoying lately

Department Of Eagles "No One Does It"
It's a pretty interesting interpretation of war...


UNKLE "Heaven"
Directed by Spike Jonze...one of my favorite directors. This one is beautiful. Watch it all the way through, it gets good about half way through. No CGI or special effects, it's all real. Apparently no one was seriously hurt, but it seems like a couple people got a little beat up. It was originally used in a skate video.

Heaven (Fully Flared Intro Video Remix)
by UNKLE_UK

Last but certainly not least
"Wrong" by Depeche Mode
who would have thought that they were still coming out with cool stuff, let alone still a band. Personal Jesus is a brilliant song by them. I recomend listening to both the Johnny Cash and Marilyn Manson covers of it. Talk about contrast in interpretation...I love creepy dark stuff like this video, I think its because it makes me feel an emotional connection to it. I've always found it easier to feel some emotion from something dark opossed to something happy. I'm not depressed or anything, I just find it more interesting. Anyways here it is:

They've done it again

Nine Inch Nails have released a new album today and released it for free. It called "Strobe Light". It's produced by Timbaland and will change your concept of music.

get it at www.nin.com/strobelight

(please don't sue me for using this picture Trent)

What a last couple days it has been...

Last night we played a show at ExitIn with Dear Future and Cool Hand Luke. It was a blast, I met a lot of cool people and the other bands were great. Turns out that Matt Kearney came to the show!

Tonight I was at a meeting with some people at PM and I saw Jack White and little Jack! I tried to play it cool because I was meeting with some people, but failed pretty miserably.

To top things off, I was exposed to this little gem the other day! Watch it all the way through, you won't regret it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1548365306623561800
my blog is so popular that the youtube video was taken off the day i posted it...