MEDICATION: A BUDDYHEAD BLOG

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No Girl In My Plan

I'm feelin' this song right now... I swear there's something in the air. It's either that or Andy Weatherall and his band, Two Lone Swordsmen, are reading my mind again. "No Girl In My Plan" is gonna be coming out soon on their new record called "Wrong Meeting" (which is killer by the way). if you didn't check out the last full length "From the Double Gone Chapel" you might wanna get on that immediately, they cover The Gun Club's - "Sex Beat". These guy win.

(Download - "No Girl In My Plan")

More blah blah... Andy also just put out a solo record called "The Bullet Catcher's Apprentice" on the label Rotter's Golf Club, click here to buy it. If anyone's got that email me, I haven't heard it and I'm broke. Do it. Also hit up http://myspace.com/twoloneswordsmen. 

Sneak peek at the new Queens Of The Stone Age

Happy fuckin' Saturday... I'm in a killer mood and I'm pretty sure it's due to the french press coffee.

Here's a youtube clip previewing snippets from the new Queens record... it's really short but if I remember correctly Aaron told me he was still able to burn rope to it. It's gonna be called Era Vulgaris which if you move all the letters around spells Rad Vagina... I think. It's gonna be DROPPING in record stores on June 7th and from what I heard they're doing it hip hop style with guest spots galore... expect to hear Julian Casablancas from The Strokers, Trent Reznor from a small band named NIN, Mark Lanegan from the Screaming Trees and um.... Queens Of The Stone Age and Billy Gibbons from ZZ top in some form on the new record. I'm hoping for a killer bee type song with all of em that kinda sounds like "Triumph" by Wu tang Clan. That song was killer and I don't even like hip hop. Fuck I miss Ol' Dirty. Anyways, hit QOTSA dudes on the web at www.myspace.com/queensofthestoneage and www.qotsa.com.

Liam wins...

Rod Stewart - When We Were The New Boys

My friend Sam asked me if I'd heard this Rod Stewart covers record he recorded in 1998. Of course I hadn't... but to my pleasant surprise when I did Rod turns out some pretty killer covers of "Cigarettes and Alcohol" by Oasis and "Rocks" by Primal Scream. Rod takes those songs and makes em his own. Rod rules. He also covers The Faces song "Oh-La-La" which he never got to sing cuz his disco career was taking off and homeboy didn't come into the studio. Totally worth the $2 bucks youre gonna pay for this when you find it in the used bin. DO IT!

(Download - "Cigarettes and Alcohol")

(Download - "Rocks")

Also, as of today you can stream two songs from the new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club record "Baby 81", which I've heard and it's going to be one of the best records of 2007. It fuckin' smokes... hit up their website @ http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/ to stream "Weapon of Choice" and "666 Conducer".

Speaking of Oasis.. Lily Allen can't party with Liam... click here.

The Cassettes American tour 2007 part 1

Start the countdown cuz the Cassettes are heading out on a good old fashion American tour in two days! They'll even be busking on the street in some cities and selling Cassettes tea at their merch booth! When was the last time you heard of a band doing that? I can't wait til they hit LA... If you haven't checked them out yet, download the two tracks below. You can get their new cd 'Neath The Pale Moon from your local record store or from one of the online services below. You might wanna also pick up the reissue (with bonus tracks) of their second record O'er The Mountain which features members of Dead Meadow as the backing band. The singer of The Cassettes, Shelby, produced their first two records. But the DM dudes aren't in the band anymore, it's a full new and improved lineup now... for more on The Cassettes visit their myspace page @ http://myspace.com/thecassettes, their website @ http://www.thecassettes.com/ and Wikipedia page @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cassettes.
    17 Feb 2007 Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar - Charlottesville, Virginia
    22 Feb 2007 Brillobox - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    23 Feb 2007 Art Hospital - Bloomington, Illinois
    24 Feb 2007 The Brick - Kansas City, Missouri *note: new location!*
    25 Feb 2007 Hi Dive - Denver, Colorado
    27 Feb 2007 Rock Coffee - Spokane, Washington
    28 Feb 2007 Towne Lounge - Portland, Oregon
    01 Mar 2007 Funhouse - Seattle, Washington
    02 Mar 2007 Diablos - Eugene, Oregon
    03 Mar 2007 Blue Lamp - Sacramento, California
    04 Mar 2007 ... busking/recording... San Fransisco, California
    05 Mar 2007 ... busking/recording... San Fransisco, California
    06 Mar 2007 ... busking/recording... San Fransisco, California
    07 Mar 2007 Bottom of the Hill - San Fransisco, California
    08 Mar 2007 The Echo - Los Angeles, California
    09 Mar 2007 El Cid - Los Angeles, California
    10 Mar 2007 Hotel Cafe - Los Angeles, California
    11 Mar 2007 The Tangier - Los Angeles, California
    12 Mar 2007 Modified Arts - Phoenix, Arizona
    13 Mar 2007 Club Congress - Tucson, Arizona
    14 Mar 2007 The Bean - Las Cruces, New Mexico
    15 Mar 2007 SXSW - The Blender Balcony Austin, Texas
    16 Mar 2007 SXSW - Austin, Texas
    17 Mar 2007 307 - (tentative) Lafayette, Louisiana
    18 Mar 2007 ... back porch busk... Lafayette, Louisiana
    19 Mar 2007 Opolis - Norman, Oklahoma
    20 Mar 2007 Outland Ballroom - Springfield, Missouri
    21 Mar 2007 Vaudeville Mews - Des Moines, Iowa
    22 Mar 2007 The Casbah - Ottumwa, Iowa
    23 Mar 2007 Turf Club - Minneapolis, Minnesota
    24 Mar 2007 South Union Arts - Chicago, Illinois
    25 Mar 2007 Lager House - Detroit, Michigan
    27 Mar 2007 Cafe Nine - New Haven, Connecticut
    28 Mar 2007 Middle East Upstairs - Boston, Massachusetts
    29 Mar 2007 Cake Shop - NY, New York

Download "Lady Faire" (mp3)
from "'Neath The Pale Moon"
by The Cassettes
Buddyhead Records

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Buy at Napster
• Buy at GroupieTunes
• Buy at Insound

More On This Album

Download "Headin' Out" (mp3)
from "O'er The Mountain (plus bonus tracks)"
by The Cassettes
Buddyhead Records

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at Napster
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Buy at GroupieTunes

More On This Album

Oais on the brit awards

Oasis won the Award for Outstanding Contribution To Music. Check out the drummer of the Chili Peps (or is that WIll Ferrell?) losing his mind to "Cigarettes And Alcohol". Shit yeah.

The Duke Spirit - Souvenir

Music bootleg DVDS...

If you're a fan of rad live music bootlegs on DVDS like we are, you might wanna check out this killer site we found called "Alt List #2 Bitch!". It's some dude who's selling everything from rad old live Guns N' Roses, Oasis, Bad Brains, Nirvana, John Lennon, Hot Snakes, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Slayer, Sonic Youth, Strokes, U2, Mars Volta, Beatles, Dylan, The Who and many many more all on DVD for pretty killer prices. Check out the site at http://www.geocities.com/templisting/video3.html and email for shootspeedkill@gmail.com for more info.

Some Might Say...

This is either gonna make your day... or ruin it. You're welcome.

Force Of Nature

I haven't updated this page in a week cuz I've been doing shit... but you might wanna check out these two live version of "Force Of Nature" and "The Hindu Times". Shit yeah.

How Does It Feel To Feel?

How does it feel? It feel's fucking great cuz today is Friday. Holy cow do I love the weekends. Just for the record I'm on auto pilot mode today, which means I got nothing to say. But here's Ride covering The Creation's "How Does It Feel To Feel?" along with the original. Smoke on these champ.

(Download Ride - "How Does It Feel To Feel?")

(Download The Creation- "How Does It Feel To Feel?")

Ride promo video from 1994

Andy Bell from Ride is now in Oasis... you like how it all comes back to Oasis? Speaking of Oasis, check out this kid butching a little single you might have heard of called "THE HINDU TIMES". It's a bummer.

Some kid "covering" The Hindu Times


Oh since today is covers day or something... here's The Raconteurs covering The Undertones "Teenage Kicks" live at Rock City, Nottingham (2006-10-23). How come Jack White's super cool and super rich yet he still dresses like a total retard? You'd think either he'd figure it out by now or he'd hire someone to figure it out for him...

(Download The Raconteurs - "Teenage Kicks")

In case you didn't see the news on our front page, gossip page or myspace page... We're pretty excited over here at Buddyhead because a band on our label from Philly called The PoPo (Pops Ghostly-Jahan Zeb Malik, Hamstar-Hassan Ali Malik, Blue Bishi-Shoaib Malik & Fullscreen-Michael Edward Collins) will be opening up for Nine Inch Nails on their European tour here in a few weeks. If you happen to live over there, make sure get to the shows early so you can check these dudes out. They will not disappoint you. They'll also be playing as many of their own shows as they can, those dates will be announced soon. Hit up their myspace page here to stream their songs or click here to buy their debut on Itunes.

10 feb          lisbon, portugal @ coliseum
11 feb          lisbon, portugal @ coliseum
12 feb          lisbon, portugal @ coliseum
14 feb          madrid, spain @ la riviera
15 feb          madrid, spain @ la riviera
16 feb          bilbao, spain @ pabellon de la casilla
18 feb          barcelona, spain @ razzmatazz
19 feb          barcelona, spain @ razzmatazz
21 feb          paris, france @ olympia
22 feb          paris, france @ olympia
23 feb          lille, france @ zenith
24 mar          berlin, germany @ columbiahalle
25 mar          berlin, germany @ columbiahalle
26 mar          stuttgart, germany @ porsche arena

Shat's also on tour right now in America. Shat across the USA. I have to mention that here as well cuz if I don't Jeff Wood calls me 400 times today crying about how we don't ever promote Shat. There's also a good chance he could possibly hurt me once he gets to LA.... with that in mind... Jeff Will be on the Red Peters show on the Howard Stern 101 station (Sirus radio) tonight at 7pm, if anyone can record it and send it to me somehow that'd be tits. Check out Shat's myspace @ http://myspace.com/shatband for tour dates and songs and their website @ http://jeffwoodofshat.com/ for way too much Shat info. Try and make it out to a live show of this band... you've never seen anything like it... I promise.

Spiritualized - Abbey Road EP & videos

I had a long drive today so on the way out the door I grabbed a stack of cds, one of them just happened to pull out The Abbey Road EP by Spiritualized  which I haven't listened to in a long time. I forgot how good this little nugget is. I guess Jason "Spaceman" Pierce has recovered from his near fatal case of Pneumonia and is currently making (or has already has made) a new record and it'll be out "early 2007"... can't wait for that. I haven't seen it yet, but from what I hear there's an interview with Jason about recording the new album in the new Mojo with The Beatles on the cover. Shit yeah! So here you go... three tracks from it and a few later era videos that rule the school too. Jason's girlfriend (or wife or life partner or whatever he calls her) made em. " Sometimes have my breakfast right off of a mirror and sometimes I have it right out of a bottle... Come on!" Yeah!

(Download - "Home Of The Brave" live)

(Download - "Come Together")

(Download - "Broken Heart")

Do It All Over Again"

Stop Your Crying

She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit)

Don't you know that you can count me out... IN!