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I get it. Around 75% of my visitors and readers are friends of mine, or at least people that know me or follow me on twitter or something. With that reasoning behind me, I think I’ll try doing a new thing where I start posting segments about local bands in Nashville that I feel are worth a damn. If you live in Nashville (if you’re reading this review then you more than likely do), or especially if you don’t live in Nashville and are a random visitor to the site, then you should definitely check out these unknown bands. The first I will mention is a band called H-Beam. Their album was just released and it’s pretty awesome.
H-Beam is the Frank Zappa/Mike Patton fix that you’ve been needing for the past 5 years. Their music is spastic, eccentric, non-sensical, and terribly amusing to the point where you find yourself chuckling in your car-seat while on a business call. Their debut album, Useful Box Of Hair, has the Dune Review Seal-Of-Approval and is certainly something to check out. When I say its a mix between Zappa and Patton, I mean just that. But in NO way is that a bad thing in this situation. I’ve heard bands influenced by Zappa and Patton before, and it sounded like absolute garbage. When bands try to pull it off it sounds tried and unoriginal, but H-Beam pulls it off so well that it makes you wish Frank was still alive so that he and Patton could do a double-album together.
Don’t be fooled; I’m not just going to be praising this album or this act out of bias or favor, there are things about this album that I am not too fond of. The vocals are spread out so much in stereo sometimes that the alignment seems off, out of personal preference I’d enjoy more snare, and other simple things that all come from me being overly critical. These minor complaints, however, are not enough to dislike the music. It’s not a major label act; it’s two guys from Nashville creating a monster of an album with a low budget, so don’t get excited thinking that it’s a production masterpiece. The album sounds amazing for what it is, and The Dune Review feels you should give it a listen.
Head over to their official WEBSITE, or check them out on their MYSPACE in order to grab a listen. You’re welcome.
I know, I know. That headline was cheesy and fucking stupid. Deal with it.
I’m angry! Do you know why? It’s because either Fox or Comedy Central won’t pay the voice-over talent of one of my favorite cartoons enough money. I don’t know the details, so it actually may be the other way, with the talent asking for an absolutely horrid amount of money, but I’m angry at the situation. Futurama has been signed on to come back for 26 episodes on either Comedy Central or Fox, but since the talent and the network can’t agree on a salary, the talent has left, which means the returning episodes of Futurama will have different voices. Each character will have his/her own individual douche-bag trying to recreate the voice perfected by the person before. It’s going to sound tried and awkward, ruining the show for the fans. It’s not going to matter if the jokes are good, or if the stories are good. Without the original voices, the show is shit. Pull it together, Matt Groening! Fix this bullshit!!!
Stupid People and Their Comments
Misc 2 CommentsOne of the better perks of having this blog is that when people leave a dumb or insulting comment, I get to know a little more about them as a person. So congratulations to a man going by the name A.G.E. He was quite angry about my little tidbit I wrote about B-Real having a new album out.
“What a fukn tool of a reviewer “gives you autism” grow up you stupid fuk and stop writing ridiculous comments”
Let’s take a fun look at this. Not only is this simply a run-on sentence with little to no grammatical accuracy, but he insists on misspelling the word “fuck.” Where is this guy even from? Perth, Australia? I mean, how would I even know that he is, in fact, writing from Perth, Australia? It’s not like I have his email and IP Address, right? …(age1985@netspace.net.au, 220.253.163.250)
If you read my spot on it (you can view it HERE if you want), you’d realize that no, I didn’t actually review the album. Instead, I just thought it was funny how iTunes had to label his album as being by “B-Real of Cypress Hill,” because, unless you are a fan of Cypress Hill, you probably don’t know who the hell he is. I even posted a picture of B-Real with the caption “pot gives you autism” written under it, linking it to the line I wrote about how B-Real sounds like he has autism. I’ve not really a big fan of neither Cypress Hill nor B-Real as a rapper, primarily because I stopped doing drugs post high school.
Thanks, A.G.E., you certainly gave me a smile. With love and autism,
-The Dune Review