Caught the above song as a promo between episodes of Little Einsteins on Disney Channel this weekend -- we could hear that voice three rooms away. The blonde hair threw us for a second, but 10 seconds of Googling brought confirmation and youtubage. Visit Hanleyboard for links to iPod-ready video-download links, plus confirmation that Kay's audience is now grownups with kids. (OTD: guilty as charged.) My Friends Tigger and Pooh debuts May 12.

The theme song was written by Jellyfish's Andy Sturmer, "so when Disney approached me, I was like 'Where do I sign?'" Kay emailed us yesterday. She's also got vocals on a couple of segments in the first round of episodes: one's called "Think Think Think" and the other's called "Super Sleuths." More from Kay on this subject can be found at her website, including (we can already hear Sharon telling us we buried the lead) how Disney paid for her to get her hair did by the same lady who got Reese Witherspoon ready for the Oscars.

Disney nerds will recall that Kay isn't the first Boston-associated female singer to crawl into bed with Pooh and the gang. James Taylor's exwife Carly Simon, of course, contributed the songs to Piglet's Big Movie. As for Kay, she's been blowing up the kids-bop pop shit for years, albeit in under-the-radar type ways -- a smart move for anyone who wants to keep their career-career. Google "kay hanley josie pussycats" and "kay hanley generation o" for more of what we're talking about. Speaking of which, if you're one of the people we've raved to about Generation O over the past three or four years, good news: the discography is back online. Burn this for your nieces and nephews immediately.

DOWNLOAD: Kay Hanley, "Damp Sheets" (mp3)
[download the entire Generation O discography here]

4/30/2007 8:52:14 AM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

WATCH THE TRAILER: Silver Jew, Sunday and Monday at the Independent Film Festival of Boston

Though it's not reviewed in our roundup of the Independent Film Festival of Boston, we'd like to draw your attention to Silver Jew, which is not your typical rockumentary or even your typical earnest indie-band profile. Yes, it's about the Silver Jews, who are probably worth something earnest, historical, and discographical. Someday, we're sure something like that will land in your Insound checkout cart. But this here is even stranger: director David Tully follows along as Silver Jews' reclusive leader David Berman takes his cult band on tour in Israel, in what becomes a film as much about the terrain as about the tour. Click the trailer above for a sample. Screens tonight at 10:15 pm at the Coolidge Corner Theater and Monday at 9 pm at the Somerville. Visit www.iffboston.org for more info.

4/29/2007 11:25:07 AM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

Lizzy Borden

Metal Blade 25th Anniversary Jam

Unearth

Cannibal Corpse (with Trevor from Black Dahlia Murder)

The Red Chord

Job for a Cowboy

Goatwhore

Shai Hulud

Demiricous

The Network

Hallows Eve

Beyond the Embrace

The Architect (Note to singers playing NEMHF: if your drummer throws a stool into the audience, the audience very well may throw it back and hit your singer in the head, thereby forcing him to complete the set in a bloody mess and then repair to the hospital afterwards for stiches. -- C.M.)

New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, Day Two
April 28, 2007
The Palladium, Worcester
Photos: Carina Mastrocola

4/29/2007 8:36:49 AM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

 

VIDEO: Devil Music, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (excerpt)

Boston's own DIY-art-punk group turned film-accompanists Devil Music started out playing basements, but since they began touring the silent-film circuit four years ago, they've taken to hitting big-time cultural institutions from Washington DC's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to the Museum of Fine Arts. Their next big step: a full-fledged European tour next month behind their brand-new score for the 1920 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. DM leader Jonah Rapino is especially jazzed for the UK dates, since the film was shot in London, and he expects most denizens have never seen the rarely-screened reels. Regular Devil Music drummer Tim Nylander can't make the dates, but filling in is veteran percussionist Dan D'Errico, whom Phoenix readers will know as part of the fabled intellectual-party-music crew Beat Reasearch, where he performs as Kid Did alongside the award-winning DJ Flack and DJ C. D'Errico's also well known in Boston's world-music scene as the drummer in the BatukAxé and Samba Tremeterra Brazilian music groups. Here's the schedule; and look for a local performance of Jekyll and Hyde June 21 at the historic Regent Theatre in Arlington.

4/28/2007 9:06:39 PM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

Dimmu Borgir

Behemoth

Bury Your Dead

Devil Driver

Walls of Jericho

3 Inches of Blood

Kataklysm

Skinless

Despised Icon

Still Remains

Devil Wears Prada

Revocation

Nora

Skeleton Witch

Thy Will Be Done

December Aeteralis

NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL 2007
April 17 at the Palladium, Worcester
Photos: Carina Mastrocola

4/28/2007 9:15:57 AM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

Our dude David Day has been talking about bringing big tings to big rooms for about a year now, and now the shit is finally starting to pop. In a let's-get-the-whole-scene-under-one-roof-and-give-it-a-name enterprise called Basstown Productions (useless trivia: Basstown was the rejected first name for David's "Circuits" column)a bunch of people are responsible for round one: a bonkerlicious night at Axis with local metallicafont headbangers Hearthrob and official DFA dj Tim Sweeney, whom webternerds (and any other people who prize Carl Craig remixes of Junior Boys and so forth) will know from his indispensible terrestrial/webcast radio gig "Beats In Space." It's the first place we check for secret DFA remixes that no one else knows about -- and may we add that the prospect of DFA giveaways tomorrow night is enough to get us there. Email the basstown kids for $5 off admission.

Here's Sweeney's winter-07 contribution to the DFA Radio Mix Series:

DOWNLOAD: Tim Sweeney, DFA Radio Mix 2007 (mp3)

Tracklist:

4/27/2007 8:46:44 PM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

VIDEO: U.V. Protection, "Animals"

Thanks again to everyone who sent along videos for Best Music Poll. We tried to get them up on the ballot page, but the ballot page wasn't having it. So we're gonna try rolling them out OTD-style. If we're lucky, clicking above will get you the awesome video for UV Protection's "Animals," which reminds us of something by Numbers, although it turns out UV Pro have never heard Numbers. No matter. This kills.

DOWNLOAD: U.V. Protection, "Chemicals" (mp3, via Phoenix Band Guide)

4/27/2007 3:32:24 PM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

This, dudes, is going to sell out quickly. We'll have VIP tix to give away eventually, but do you really want to rely on OTD's spotty blogging schedule to get into this?

FNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll Concert 2007
June 6 at Avalon, Axis, Bill's Bar, and outdoors on Lansdowne Street
Tickets $32.50

Bloc Party
CYHSY
Kings of Leon
The Bravery
Silversun Pickups
Say Anything
Shiny Toy Guns
Cinematics
Snowden
+ winners of 2007 Boston BMP Poll TBA

DOWNLOAD: Bloc Party, "I Still Remember (Unplugged, live on FNX)" (mp3)
[download more from this session]

DOWNLOAD: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, WFNX interview (mp3)
[download more from this session] 

DOWNLOAD: Silversun Pickups, "Lazy Eye (Unplugged, live on FNX)" (mp3)
[download more from this session]

DOWNLOAD: Say Anything, "Alive with the Glory of Love (Unplugged, live on FNX)" (mp3)
[download more from this session]

4/27/2007 12:25:56 PM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

Chris Cornell
April 19 at Avalon
Photos: Carina Mastrocola

As you can tell from the setlist, Cornell is playing shit from all phases of his career -- Temple of the Dog?! -- but that opening/closing with prime-era Soundgarden ish has us hungry for a reunion. Kim Thayil, where you at?

4/20/2007 1:10:05 PM by On the Download | Comments [3] |  

Between reading Cam's rhyme book and listening to new Avril, Hillary, Trent, and Arctic Monkeys -- don't even get us started on that Amerie joint and the Bjork/Timbo collabo -- we haven't had much time to blog.

We recommend the following fine remedial material, blowing up a summertime near you soon:

1. Finally, Tim reached into the goodie bag and delivered the goods. Sheesh.
DOWNLOAD: Timbaland, JT, and Jay-Z, "Laff at Em" (mp3)

2. Teenage bubblegum summerschool rap song of 2007:sixteen-year-old hypes every cosmetics boutique in the mall, discovers magic product that brings the boys to the yard, has teachers asking her for beauty tips. Best video with hallways/lockers/lunchrooms since Britney.
DOWNLOAD: Lil Mama, "Lip Gloss" (mp3)

3. In case you didn't listen to us last week, here's some more Cousin Cole ridiculosity: the skeet-tastic "More Models" remix he destroyed E-Room with on Friday, and the only Peter Bjorn and John white label you'll ever need.
DOWNLOAD: Cousin Cole, "More Models/Make It Rain Remix" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: PB&J, "Young Folks (Cousin Cole Re-Edit)" (mp3)

4. In what we can only hope is a teaser for Piracy Funds Terrorism 2, this Diplo-fied kuduro-laced rework landed on the Mad Decent blog:
DOWNLOAD: MIA, "Chicken Noodle Flu (Mad Decent Remix)" (mp3)

5. Climbing aboard the Amy Winehouse bandwagon . . . now. Remixes by Hot Chip and Pharoah Monche, the latter of which namechecks our fave tabloid catastrophes from Britney to Lindsay.
DOWNLOAD: Amy Winehouse, "Rehab (Hot Chip Remix)" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Amy Winehouse feat. Pharoah Monch, "Rehab (Remix)" (mp3)

6. Speaking of Lindsay Lohan, her twat looks like a baby rat. So sayeth the unstoppable duo of Pase Rock and Amanda Blank, whose Sexy MF digital EP you should PayPal immediately right here:
DOWNLOAD: Pase Rock and Amanda Blank, "Lindsay Lohan" (mp3)

4/19/2007 4:34:57 PM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

That whole DJ Drama mess spooked the crap out of mixtape DJs, to the extent that hometown hero CLINTON SPARKS done closed up shop on Mixunit, started a blog, took a day job at VH1, and is giving away his entire mixtape library for free.

Latest: a collabo with . . . Tommy friggin' Lee?

We give you Hip Pop Rock Star. As amusing as it is to hear Fatman Scoop and Mr. Pam compete for cheesiest drop of the week, we caution: this is not Clinton's finest hour. The concept (Justin and PCD top-40 over MTV rock) is juicy but not new, and the execution is pretty spotty. Most of these blends are the kind of barely-synched shite you hear on Kiss 108's "mashup mafia" show, which is generally not how our dude throws down. Notable exception: Beyonce's "Ring the Alarm" over AC/DC. Bey-Bey obv. wanted to get some screamo out of her system on that one anyway, and surprise: it sounds way better with Angus guitars. Superproducers please take note: R&B divas + hard rock = fire. Always.

Clinton's been busy smashing spring break parties, so he hasn't been home in a minute -- matter of fact, sometimes it feels like Tommy Lee DJs here more than Clinton does. So make your plans early: Sparks returns to Boston with a gig April 29 at Mantra.

DOWNLOAD: Clinton Sparks and Tommy Lee, Hip Pop Rock Star (.zip mp3s)

4/19/2007 1:38:22 PM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

"Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying"
-- "96 Tears"

Even as the details get stranger and stranger in the case of Cho Seung-Hui, the student poet/playwright turned Virginia Tech mass murderer, one particular non-sequitor stands out, at least to students of Michigan rock and roll. According to Cho's roommates, he sometimes insisted on being called by the name "Question Mark." As CNN attempts a close-reading of Cho's manifesto, focusing on the inscription "Ax Ishmael," garage-punks know they're missing a reference: after all, there's only one Question Mark. He's the man who was born Rudy Martinez (or Ted Cohen, depending on who you believe); who claimed to be a space alien; who, decades before Prince went all symbolic, managed to legally change his name to "?"; who started a tex-mex rock-n-roll band named after a Japanese sci-fi turkey in 1960s Saginaw, Michigan; and who eventually had a #1 hit with a song that more or less created garage-rock's obsession with the Farfisa (which, as some purists still claim, may actually have been a Vox Continental). The song, which your grandmom probably made out to, is "96 Tears." The band was ? and the Mysterians. They still show up at Cavestomp-like oldies shows; Question Mark, who has long walked the line between eccentric and certifiably loony, raises yorkies and recently had his house burn down.

Tonight, do not ask for whom the tears toll: they toll for thee.

WATCH: Question Mark and the Mysterians, "96 Tears":

4/19/2007 12:27:17 AM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

Awww.

PREVIOUSLY: Sanjaya makes Unsexiest Top 10.

4/18/2007 10:07:49 PM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

Unsexy's back.

Some of the in-house folks we polled for this year's Unsexiest Men list were incredulous that Chuck Klosterman wasn't a transsexual. Mr. Chuck came in #17 on this year's poll -- a poll, we hasten to add, which kept us from blogging for most of last week. Also, the nor'easter flooded our offices -- which are on the third floor! We have other excuses, too, but we're saving them for the next time we miss deadline. (Editors don't read blogs, do they?)

Remedial update post and resumption of full-blast OTD coming soon . . . shortly after we get the Best Music Poll ballot fixed. Our computers really, really hate us this week. Apologies to anyone who's been trying to vote, our monkeys are coding as fast as they can. If you're having problems, please add to our bug list by emailing bmp@phx.com. Big announcement on the Best Music Poll Concert coming soon, lots of videos and mp3s to post as we hit the home stretch.

4/18/2007 6:29:10 PM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

Geez, these venue fees are like some new form of date rape. Hope you brought yer calculators. Makes you want to root for Ozzy . . .

The Faint at Avalon
Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are $18.25 adv. and $20.00 d.o.s.
On-sale Friday, April 20 at 10:00 am

Dolores O'Riordan at Avalon
Monday, July 9, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Tickets are $30.00
On-sale Friday, April 20, 2007 at 10:00 am

Vans Warped Tour '07 Lucky 13th at The Tweeter Center
with the Unseen, Killswitch Engage, Boys Like Girls, Big D And The Kids Table, A Static Lullaby, All Time Low, Amber Pacific, As I Lay Dying, Bad Religion, Bayside, Biffy Clyro, Bleed The Dream, Bless The Fall, Chiodos, Circa Survive, Coheed And Cambria, Confession, Cute Is What We Aim For, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Envy On The Coast, Escape The Fate, Evaline, Fabulous Rudies, Family Force 5, Flogging Molly, Gallows, Hawthorne Heights, Hot Rod Circuit, Jonezetta, K-OS, MC Chris, Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster, Meg & Dia, My American Heart, New Found Glory, POS, Paramore, Parkway Drive, Pepper, Poison The Well, Revolution Mother, SoTheySay, The Almost, The Fall Of Troy, The Fold, The Matches, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Rocket Summer, The Spill Canvas, The Starting Line, The Toasters, The Vincent Black Shadow, Tiger Army, and Underoath
Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Tickets are $24.00
plus $6.00 venue charge and applicable fees per ticket
On-sale Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 10:00 am

Ozzfest at the Tweeter Center
with Ozzy Osbourne, Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Lordi, Behemoth, Mondo Generator, Nile, Ankla, Circus Diablo, The Showdown, 3 Inches of Blood, Daath, Chthonic, and In This Moment
Monday, August 20, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Free online ticket vouchers available May 12 via:
www.livenation.com/ozzfest
www.monsterenergy.com
www.jagermusic.com
www.fye.com

Squeeze at the Bank of America Pavilion
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $25.00, $35.00 and $45.00
plus $5.00 venue charge and applicable fees per ticket
On-sale Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 11:00 am

Mika at Avalon
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are $20.00
On-sale Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 10:00 am

Def Leppard, Styx, and Foreigner at the Tweeter Center
Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are $25.00, $35.00, $55.00, $75.00* and 4-pack lawn ticket special for $75.00
plus $7.00 venue charge and applicable convenience fees per ticket
plus $21.00 venue charge and applicable convenience fees per 4-pack
Tickets go on-sale Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 10:00 am

Dave Matthews Band and Xavier Rudd at the Tweeter Center
Wednesday, August 1 and Thursday August 2, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are $40.00 and $65.00
On-sale Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 12:00 NOON

4/17/2007 5:59:03 PM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

Well, it's nice to see that even when blessed with an excess of talent, the Rumble still finds a way to suck yak balls. Some things never change. And yet . . . and yet it could've been so different. Looking at the semis lineup last week, it seemed so promising. Or maybe the judges just got wind that if Protokoll, Eli Reed, and Age Rings had made it to the finals, they were going to perform a single 90-minute collaborative set. Which would've been the coolest and most memorable Rumblefuck of all time. Alas. (Disclosure: Age Rings guitarist Will Spitz is a friend/contributor/etc.)

Here's three or four reasons why they picked the wrong bands.

WATCH: Protokoll, "DNR"

DOWNLOAD: Eli "Paperboy" Reed, "Am I Just Fooling Myself" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Eli "Paperboy" Reed, "Take My Love With You" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Age Rings, Live at SXSW (mp3)

4/17/2007 1:03:44 PM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

 

THE LOCUST

The Locust and Daughters
April 12 at the Roxy
Photos: Rev. Aaron

4/13/2007 1:04:57 PM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

IF YOU GO:

Cousin Cole & Certified Max
Friday the 13th at Enormous Room
10 pm, $3

Cousin Cole is THAT DUDE. We've been geeking out on his shit for a while now, starting with his genius/hysterical/blog-meme-creating B-more-ish rework of the "Atlantic Records, T.I. Clearance" drop. But his new TOUGHER THAN FEATHERS EP on Flagrant Fowl is freshly-dropped and completely ace: if we DJ'd, we'd be dropping his Ignition-remix-remix every damn night. Check his older shit here. Download newer stuff Here.

DOWNLOAD: Cousin Cole, "Chicken Moose Rhino Monkey Pt. 2" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Cousin Cole and Pocketknife, "Flagrant Fowl Mini-Megamix" (mp3)

4/13/2007 12:25:57 PM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

Elvis Costello at Avalon
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Tickets are $55
On-sale Saturday, April 7, 2007 at NOON

Velvet Revolver at Avalon
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Tickets are $55.00
On-sale Saturday, April 7, 2007 at NOON 

John Mayer and Ben Folds at the TD Banknorth Garden
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $49.50 and $59.50
On-sale Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 10:00 am

4/3/2007 10:12:46 AM by On the Download | Comments [1] |