Mutiny Universe Promotes Growth (Radio@MU #24)

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The grand irony is that this 30-second promotional spot ("commercial") for Mutiny Universe and the Radio@MU Podcast took the same amount of time as producing about three 30 minute podcasts.

Stay tuned for new Radio@MU episodes in February, with great music from great independent artists. And if the muse bites me (or is that a mosquito?), there will be more installments of Video@MU in the future.

Ryan's List-Worthy from Last Year List: Non-Podcast Rock Music

Other than spinning the fine music heard at Radio@MU, I haven't consumed much music in 2007. Early in the year, I cut demos to some of the Elan Vital soundtrack. In the middle of the year, my band The Society of Gloves recorded a couple of tracks. At the end of the year, and continuing to this day, I've been tracking music for the Elan Vital score. Instead of listening to new music, I've produced music and grooved to a bunch of classics released in previous years.

Anyhow, here's a sadly brief (but great-sounding!) list of three good songs released last year. They're not necessarily my top favorites from 2007, but each song comes from some of the new albums I spent a great deal of time to listen last year:

1. Radiohead "Reckoner" | Amazon.com MP3
BAD. ASS. You can't get anymore badass in 2007 than Radiohead's In Rainbows and the way it was initially for sale - and Mutiny Universe broke the news (at the same time as virtually everyone else), too! "Bodysnatchers" was initially my favorite track off the album, that is, until "Reckoner" got under my skin! Here's a video of a live performance of "Reckoner," and it is IMPERATIVE that you concur that the song is badass:

2. Eddie Vedder "Hard Sun" |
Into the Wild is a fantastic soundtrack/solo album by Ed. I haven't seen the film, but I've heard great things about it. I'm also partway through the book of the same name, and my brother (who read the book before me) says great things about it. Ed has written great songs, and continues to do so - but this selection is a cover song, which goes to show that Ed can consistently record great cover songs, with or without Pearl Jam: "Love, Reign O'er Me," "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," and "Last Kiss," to name a few. Here's a music video that promotes the film:



3. Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin "United States" | Amazon.com MP3
On paper, they're called the Smashing Pumpkins, but since they recorded the album Zeitgeist and their latest EP American Gothic with neither the two other original or the three new Pumpkins, they might as well stick to calling themselves BC/JC. Anyhow, Zeitgeist was a better-than-average comeback album that has been tainted by typical record company greed: Multiple versions and album colors, as well as Ford commercial airplay. Ironically, the previous Pumpkins album, Machina II, was a loud-and-clear F-YOU to the record industry, as the band gave the music away for free online. On any other list that involves new Pumpkins tracks, I would have written "Bring the Light" instead, but "United States" is a nearly-ten minute heavy rock epic, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin recorded the drum track in ONE TAKE and NO CLICK TRACK. Supposedly, there's one flubbed note in there, but I'll take a Jimmy Chamberlin flubbed note any day to my flubbed notes! Here's a live performance of the song:



So that's my short list. It's definitely missing a lot of good stuff from 2007, so I guess I'll have to catch up in 2008.

New moxy phinx Video

One of Mutiny Universe's favorite artists, moxy phinx has released a video for the song "silence." Check it out:

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We'll be back with regularly scheduled MU TV soon. By the way, did you catch the mostly-bearded late night talk shows last night? Dave sports a beard, and so does Conan. Even Jimmy Kimmel Live's Guillermo augmented his moustache with a goatee.

In case you're wondering where the mystery meat hyperlinks go:
favorite = Elan Vital blog;
artists = Right-click to download The Society of Gloves feat. moxy phinx "Time Lose Your Hold";
moxy phinx = moxy's MySpace profile;
MU TV = Episodes we've posted from Hulu. Unfortunately, FX has taken down episodes from the first season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, not because of copyright infringement but because they want you to buy the DVDs, as Hulu has the support of the bulk of the big media oligarchy.

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Radio@MutinyUniverse.com #22

The phone lines are open...okay, voicemail: (206) 309-0482. (Voicemail submissions become property of Mutiny Universe and may be used in a future podcast and/or elsewhere.)

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Ryan is thankful for this regular soapbox upon which to stand, rant, and sometimes shamelessly self-promote:

0. Johann Strauss II by way of yours truly "Künstlerleben"
1. The Society of Gloves featuring moxy phinx "Time (Lose Your Hold)"
2. moxy phinx "Centerfold"
3. Peter Chavez "Where You Stand"
4. Heather Donaldson "Honeybee"
5. ANTIQCOOL "Oh Mary"
6. Negatrude "Home"

Get ready for Saturnalia! (And those other winter holidays, too.)

Radio@MutinyUniverse.com #16

More thoughts on education from an increasingly incoherent Ryan.

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1. Midnight Run "Glorietta Park"
2. The Spaceshots "Greetings My Glorious Graces"
3. Pauline Boeykens (and Friends) "Dolomiten"
4. The Society of Gloves "Who Are Your Friends?"
5. Michelle Newman "Pay It Forward"

Notes: In Ryan's rant about math, he was trying to get at the everday usefulness of dividing half by two, but the otherwise lack of mundane uses for dividing half by half.

Radio@MutinyUniverse.com #15

Ryan rants about education. Seriously. Part one of three. Double seriously.

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1. The Sumner Brothers "The Man Can't Hardly Move Anymore"
2. Oliver Charles "Keep Walking"
3. Heather Donaldson "Alone in the Dark"
4. Midnight Run "Glorietta Park"
5. Negatrude "Go to Sleep"
6. The Society of Gloves "Time (Lose Your Hold)"

Ryan recommends these books, and has been recommending them throughout most of the summer:
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
My Ishmael
The Story of B
(They'll shed some light beyond the rant.)

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Social networking, anyone?

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1. Heather Donaldson "Damn Guitar"
2. Pauline Boeykens (tuba), with Barbara Jungfer (guitar) and Eric Schaeffer (drums) "Dolomiten"(Alexander Dannullis)
3. Jimmie Rodgers "Hobo Bill's Last Ride"
4. Starlight Cinema "Left Coast Cinderella"
5. The Outside "Blame You I Do"
6. The Society of Gloves "Who Are Your Friends?"

MySpace, Shelfari, LinkedIn, the list goes on and on...

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1. Act As If "On Your Hands and Knees"
2. S.L.U.D.G.E. "Fallen Youth"
3. Midnight Run "The 2000 lb. Man"
4. Chelsea Williams "You Don't Wanna Know"
5. Lythium "Say Goodbye"
6. Starlight Cinema "Left Coast Cinderella"
7. Moxy Phinx "Mirror Talk"
8. The Society of Gloves "White Rhino"

Concert calendar/show schedule (details):

6.02.07	Chelsea Williams @ Universal City Walk
6.03.07	Chelsea Williams @ Third Street Promenade
6.03.07	Starlight Cinema @ Fireside Room
6.07.07	Radio@MutinyUniverse.com #2
6.13.07	Lythium @ The Derby
6.14.07	Radio@MutinyUniverse.com #3
6.15.07	Chelsea Williams @ Universal City Walk
6.21.07	Radio@MutinyUniverse.com #4
6.22.07	Chelsea Williams @ Universal City Walk
6.22.07	The Flutterbies @ Kulak's
6.26.07	Chelsea Williams @ Port O' Call
6.28.07	Radio@MutinyUniverse.com #5
7.05.07	Radio@MutinyUniverse.com #6

Let's just play some records,
Ryan