Cotton Jones "Paranoid Coccoon"

Check out this album - Check out this band!
May not be for everyone - kind of a relaxed vibe.
I believe this may be the first band I've gotten into from Maryland?
Frank Zappa's not a band and they are way better than Good Charlotte.
David Byrne's from Maryland but not the Talking Heads.
They will be performing at Calvin College Tuesday, Feb 24th.
Highly Recommended.

1 Up A Tree (Went This Heart I Have)
2 Gotta Cheer Up
3 Some Strange Rain
4 Gone The Bells
5 Photo Summerlude
6 Photo Summerlude
7 Cotton & Velvet
8 Little Ashtray In The Sun
9 Blood Red Sentimental Blues
10 I Am The Changer

New single from the Lonely Island

From the forthcoming album Incredibad.

"I'm on a Boat" featuring T-Pain

Listen to a sample here:

I'm On A Boat [Explicit]

Download the new Smashing Pumpkins song FOL

You can download the new song as featured in the Hyundai Genesis commercial here:

http://download.hyundaigenesis.com/RegistrationPage.aspx?downloadfilename=billy.mp3

Rolling Stone features Lotusflow3r Album Cover

You can read the article here:

Prince Unveils Plan to Release Three LPs Via Lotusflow3r Website at Private Gig

And while you are waiting for the album, check out some more new songs from it here:

http://www.lotusflow3r.com/

Gun, with Occasional Music by Johnathan Lethem

This has got to be my favorite book title of all time. Also, a great cover, so how was the book? Very entertaining- kind of like Philip K. Dick meets David Lynch and the two throw a party. This was Johnathan Lethem's first novel and was released in 1994. I plan on reading more.

Brian Vander Ark & Griff @ Charlie Foster's

I expected this to be an interesting show and was not dissapointed. Brian started out performing solo, and then Griff would join him off and on through the set to accompany on harmonica and vocals. Here is the setlist- I hope I've got most of the titles correct!

Little Man
Fit to be Tied
I Went with the Road (With Griff)
I Want All of You (With Griff)
Medicate Myself
1229 Sheffield
Lilly White Way
Cup of Tea
Penny is Poison
Mississippi Moon - cover (With Griff)
Surivival (with Griff)
What Happiness Is (With Griff)
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - cover (With Griff)
Who Do You Love - cover (With Griff)
The Freshmen
Colorful
Martyr Material
Out like a Lamb
Photograph
Never Let You Down (with Griff)
Veneer
Ice Cream Man - cover (with Griff)

I know he played Hero somewhere in there too (Don't remember when,) and Griff joined him on the as well.

What's on Tap? Grandville/Kalamazoo edition

Angie went to Kalamazoo this weekend to check Brian Vander Ark at Charlie Foster's (Seafood Restaurant.) They were doing dinner packages, but I had a couple of gift cards left from Christmas, so we decided to stop at Carabba's in Grandville on the way down instead. (After I seeing and smelling the dishes at Charlie's Fosters, I wish we would have opted for the dinner package - Angie & I are planning a return trip for dinner sometime!)

Carabba's sole local brew was Fonder's Pale Ale.
Charlie Foster's had a better selection: Kalamazoo's own Winter White & Two-Hearted, as well as New Holland's Poet & Arcadia I.P.A!