Interview w/ Trey Spruance on Right Where you Are Sitting Now

June 12th, 2008 by kenscanna

www.sittingnow.co.uk

Trey Spruance

In this weeks episode we talk to amazing musician and composer Trey Spruance. Trey has been part of some of the most diverse and influential musical projects of the last 2 decades (in our opinion), including Secret Chiefs 3Mr BungleASVAFaith No More and Faxed Head. in this, the first part of two, we talk with Trey about recording Xaphan the new Secret Chiefs 3 recording, working with John Zorn, Secret Chiefs tour plans and bieng a part of ASVA. Enjoi!

Background songs taken from Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws - Secret Chiefs 3 (Mimicry Records)

Included songs - Clips from Secret Chiefs 3: Xaphan - Book of Angels Volume 9 (Tzadik Records), Secret Chiefs 3: Owl in Daylight - Book of Horizons (Mimicry Records), ASVA: Kill the Dog, Tie them up, Then take the Money - Futurists Against the Ocean (Mimicry Records)

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

Weird version of King for A Day

June 12th, 2008 by trebla

Here’s a link to a goofy cover of ‘King for a Day’ called ‘Fool for a day’ by Hentai Rock Cartel. Interesting/Disgraceful… Hopefully will upset hardcore FNM fans… :) http://www.myspace.com/hentairockcartelviolence

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

Trey Spruance on cover of Rock-A-Rolla

June 12th, 2008 by Sal

Trey is on the cover of the latest issue of Rock-A-Rolla magazine
website here: www.rock-a-rolla.com

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

A Blast From The Past

June 11th, 2008 by Andy

Thanks to Donna for uploading this and to Dave for bringing it to my attention.

Angel Dust Re-released

June 6th, 2008 by Andy

Levi Peckham just sent this in:

Angel Dust is going to be re-released (and half-speed mastered) on 180g VINYL by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab:

http://www.musicdirect.com/product/82853

Also limited edition GOLD CD:

http://www.musicdirect.com/product/82847

Since I believe Angel Dust was an all-analog recording, the half-mastered vinyl should prove to be very faithful to the original tape(s).

Street Fighter IVs “Epic” Trailer

June 1st, 2008 by Andy

Joystiq just posted this to their site:

The font of incredible trailers continues to pour from the bounteous spigot of CAPtivate ‘08 — the above trailer for Street Fighter IV went live rather subtly last night, only to deliver a patented E. Honda “thousand hand bitch slap” to our unprepared senses this Sunday morning. It even includes one of our favorite songs to sing from Rock Band: Faith No More’s “Epic”. We don’t know why seeing Blanka go all sparky to the disjointed vocals of Mike Patton gets us so hyped, but our excitement for the revivification of what many would argue is the greatest arcade fighting series ever has just increased tenfold.

Check out Joystiq for the original article.

Patton on Metalocalypse!

May 21st, 2008 by Andy

Metalocalypse

Yes, you read that right. Mike Patton will be appearing on Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse as reformed rocker Rikki Kix. The episode is set to air on Sunday, July 21st on Cartoon Network. Don’t miss it!

“A Perfect Place” Trailer & Changes to the Site

February 8th, 2008 by Andy

Alan Smithee left a comment on the last post that said:

The trailer for Perfect Place, and you can hear some of Mike’s Soundtrack.
http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/36/26336.php

This brings up an issue I see a lot. People post cool things they’ve found in the comments of completely unrelated articles. So unless you read through all the comments, you miss most of the “new” news that I haven’t either heard about or just not got around to posting.

I converted CV from a custom built web app to a standard blog to encourage a community so people could write their own stories and submit them. However, I can’t just leave it open for anyone to publish unmoderated due to the obvious spam that would soon take over the blog. Plus, honestly I just don’t have time anymore to check every submission, especially when WordPress doesn’t even notify me when I something to moderate. So I have been struggling with what to do with CV lately. Should I just kill it? Do people even really care anymore? The bands that CV was supposed to be about are long dead anyway.

But I was fortunate to grab a short domain name, so unless I get offered an ungodly amount of money, I have no plans of getting rid of it, so what to do with the cv.org web space? I could create a site for my canned vegetable collection, but that doesn’t seem all that interesting either.

The other day I had an idea. What about a setup like Digg? Allow people to post whatever they want, completely unmoderated, and then people vote on the stories to promote them or bury them if they are inaccurate or just plain crap. Plus, it would allow people to easily link to and promote their own sites. It would be take the burden off me and allow the CV community to control what they find cool and interesting. I think that would solve a lot of the problems and once again give CV a purpose. I’ve always wanted CV to be a community driven site and I think this may be the best solution.

So I think that’s what I’m going to do. In a few days, I will take this blog down (and archive it somewhere) and replace it with a community publishing system. Let’s see how that works. If it bombs, I can always fall back to my canned vegetables idea.

Update: I’ve decided against the community voting route. This site just doesn’t have enough traffic for that to really work. So I’m going to keep the blog going. I found some old stuff I thought was long deleted that used to be hosted here, so maybe I’ll get some of that back up here before long.

Bizarre Mash Up-Stripsearch meets Im A Flirt

October 22nd, 2007 by augustagein

I don’t know if this is the best or the worst thing I’ve heard recently, but Claude Reigns has done a mash up of two artists reknowned for pissing on their fans, albeit in different contexts.

Its R. Kelly’s summer smash “Im a Flirt” mixed with Faith No More’s lost classic “Stripsearch”.

It’s strangely compelling!

http://www.myspace.com/claudereigns

Secret Chiefs 3 arrange & record John Zorn “Masada Book Two” CD

October 10th, 2007 by posty mcposterton

Secret Chiefs 3: Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9 [#7364]

Spectacular arrangements of Masada compositions by mad alchemist Trey Spruance, mastermind of Secret Chiefs 3 and one of the most brilliant musicians around. Drawing upon an astonishing array of musical styles from Exotica and Surf to Ethiopian Funk and Gypsy Swing, Trey ’s colorful orchestral arrangements perfectly compliment the lyricism and dynamic rhythmic complexity of Zorn ’s evocative Book of Angels. Featuring some of the best musicians from the Bay Area, LA and Seattle scenes, this is one of the most compelling installments in the entire Masada series.

Due out in Fall ‘07 on Tzadik.