Poll: How Many NCAA Brackets Will You Be Filling Out This Week?

Simple, timely questions.  That’s what the TCM weekly poll is all about.  Mid-to-late March is part of what being a man is all about, provided you’re into basketball in any way whatsoever.  Part of part of being a man is filling out those NCAA brackets, and it’s less of a question of whether you will–it’s how freaking many.  So, what of it?  How badly are you overdoing it this year?

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Because Your Balls Want to Rock: What’s Coming In Music This Week [Now With Links to Music Downloads]

There are some busy days ahead.  Some great shows hitting the area and some really good releases coming on Tuesday, so let’s stop fucking around and get to it, shall we?

The White Stripes return Tuesday with a brand new CD called “Under Great White Northern Lights.” Apparently I’m not significant enough for Warner Bros. to send me a copy(I tried, I promise) so if you want a review you will just have to Google that shit.  For some spaced out experimental bliss check out “Planet Anthem” by Disco Biscuits it would be great if you were having a chick over for dinner.

Drive-By Truckers in 2008.

Light a candle and she’ll think you are all sensitive and shit.  You can check out Neon Trees new one “Habits” for a more 80′s New Wave, Interpol-esque experience.  The Drive-By Truckers are back with their new one “The Big To-Do.” It’s typical DBT, using the same aesthetics as past recordings but still a good listen for anyone into the Southern Rock/Indie groove.   I have two picks this weeks that are must-hears.  First it’s Metal legends Armored Saint with “La Raza“ which will take you right back to the late-eighties and that patched out jean jacket.  Last, but most certainly not least is Southern/Grunge three-piece The Whigs with their new one “In The Dark.” For me, The Whigs are somewhat comparable to the Southern Florida Post-Hardcore groups like Gunmoll. They have a strong rhythmic base, great melodies, and that lovely beer coated, gravelly, throaty vocal tone.

Live rock is alive and kicking in Cincy this week, which is a nice thing to see.  My pick for shows of the week is the jam-packed line-up The Southgate House on Monday with former Pedro The Lion member David Bazan playing solo in the Ballroom.  In the Parlour it’s laid back Alternative group Dead Heart Bloom from NYC.  The band has a definite Folk undertone laced with a great sound along the same lines as Band Of Horses.  Wednesday night get your wingtips polished up for Psychobilly rockers the Koffin Kats tearing it up at The Southgate House, and from Bowling Green, KY to the big time it’s popular Folk/Rock troublemakers Cage The Elephant playing at Bogart’s.

So that’s this week, kiddies.  Next week’s looking to be fairly entertaining as well, with more of a focus on local shows so be sure to check it out.  Rock on!

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Shut Up, Your Music Sucks

Despite the rain, for March in Cincinnati the weather has been pretty darn pleasant, and with the rising temperatures comes the rolling down of car windows and the blasting of music.

Call me old-fashioned, uptight, or just plain lame, but I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to hear bass thumping so loud that even though my windows are closed and I am listening to my own mix of tunes, somehow I can not hear them because of the turd at the light next to me. Or even worse, I can’t even see them and their music is so loud that we’re all bathing in the decibels at a stoplight.

C’mon, you don’t want to hear my twangy bluegrass songs any more than I want to hear your bass-heavy, trunk-rattling shit.

And in the gas station?

Really?

It’s getting to be an auditory assault, and though I sound like my father on this one, shut up.
I can appreciate rocking out to your favorite music because I do it all the time. My car is my own personal concert hall where I use music to tune out the world. But I don’t listen to music so loudly that it drowns out the other drivers’ choices.

Please, respect other motorists’ freedom to listen to their music of choice: driving around this city is bad enough without having one’s thoughts rattled by a  thoughtless jackhole’s over-active speakers. Music is a personal choice, and at the risk of sounding like some militia-crazed zealot, Don’t Tread on Me!

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Comic: If Vengeance Be My Destiny #43

If Vengeance Be My Destiny is TCM’s Sunday comic.  This is installment #43.  Inside, you’ll find much destruction and our favorite robot becomes a housecleaner.  You can catch up on the rest of the story here.  Comic after the jump.

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The Saturday Rock Box: Kaada

It’s not that often that I capitalize on a chance to be a total freaking snobbish prick with these music video things that I post on Saturdays, but I figured it’s been a while, so it was sort of time.  This week’s Rock Box is Kaada, a Swedish musician that you’ve probably never heard of but totally need to get into, as of like eight years ago.

So, sit back and enjoy some Kaada–it’s weird, smart, and mildly hypnotic.  Also, it doesn’t hurt that the guy’s done some work with Mike Patton. If you don’t know who he is, I can’t help you. Vids after the jump.

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The Saturday Dump Festival

The Saturday Dump Festival is TCM’s weekly linkdump of everything that was awesome on the Internet over the previous week.

• Not sure whether you missed this or not, because I haven’t heard any buzz anywhere but the Enquirer, but there’s gonna be a documentary on black metal made in and around Cincinnati over the next few months.  This is something that will either be awesome or terrible.  Either way, I’ll probably watch the shit out of it.
• From the “You’re Welcome” file: the entire archive of Popular Science is available online.
• Super-creepy slo-mo vid containing firecrackers and Stephen Hawking.  No, not firecrackers ON Stephen Hawking.  Jackhole.
• The chances are fairly good you’ve already seen it, but the Iron Man 2 trailer looks pretty awesome.
• Did you know we have a Facebook fan page?  Because we totally do.  You’d do well to fan us up about right now.
• This is hands down the hardest hockey hit I’ve ever seen, ever.
• These movie quotes-as-charts more or less made my week.  Can you guess them all right?
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists was on Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, and it was pretty awesome.
• So, a film about a vampiry goth metal band doesn’t sound appealing to me, but after watching the trailer and looking at those involved in the cast, there’s an outside chance I’ll go see Suck.
• Ever wonder how all those video game bosses you beat as a kid feel?  This sums it up quite nicely, methinks.

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