Okay folks, Episode 5 kicks off hard outta the gate with The Kills. If you haven’t heard yet this band, a Bonny and Clyde duo that goes by VV (vocals) and Hotel (instrumentalist) play a hot stripped down sex disaster blues! This band has been everywhere since getting their shit together to record the 2002 ep Black Rooster (I’m serious just go to their website and check out all the places they’ve been.) Well, it seems somewhere along the road these two musta made some sort of sex deal with the devil in exchange for some evil and seductive powers. This band travels light but you won’t forget them in the morning. Check out the opener “No Wow” off their new album of the same name and to end we got “Dropout Boogie” a song you’ll find on Black Rooster.
Ever had your thigh licked by Zeus or your head-zone blasted and smashed to pieces by the bass of Thor. If not, Seattle’s rock gods Akimbo will do it for you, and you don’t even need to ask nicely. Sometimes the gods have to wake up from a very deep sleep and come down off their mountain to be with their people; but then they get pissed when they see the people’s measly ways and the gods feel compelled to smash their little people with a music so massive it sits on their heads and crushes them to carbon-dust. This is called Retribution, and it has to with them having to wake wake up and travel so far…We recorded Akimbo at the Vera Project in February of 2004 and the music was so loud it broke one of our cameras-not really I just forgot to charge the battery. Don’t forget Akimbo has an album coming out this summer. Don’t know what it its called…why don’t you go ask them and submit to the will of the gods.
And then sometimes the gods are called lords (okay, okay! don’t get your panties in a knot ladies, all these so called gods were born from some Patti Smith or Jerbow-like mother goddess, and the gods, being good boys, would never forget to bow down in foot licking adoration)…anyways, lords are given dominion of odd corners of space that nobody wants and that you would only traverse after calling out their names and screaming and stuff. So in this case the place we’re talking about is a massive K hole in Siva’s 3rd eye and the lords of the place, the one and only Comets on Fire. This band churns and burns out an unending stream of insane garage psychedelia. Go to their land and learn a little something about “The Bee and the Cracking Egg”, and when you need some more just duck inside the Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop).
Also this episode, Live Eye Tv’s Film Labs presents a mind melting short work by Eric Ostrowski called “Spinart and Monoprint”. Just in case the shit hasn’t kicked in yet this hand painted 16mm film piece with it’s haunting and blaring violen/guitar score is sure to kick open the doors of your reality…Welcome to Burn-Out Heaven… >mr muscles
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- The Kills [mov + 10mb]
- Liveeye Intro [mov + 10mb]
- Low [mov + 10mb]
- interlude 1 [mov + 10mb]
- Akimbo [mov + 10mb]
- Interlude 2 [mov + 10mb]
- Comets On Fire [mov + 10mb]
- “Spinart and Monoprint” by eric ostrowsky [mov + 10mb]
- The kills 2 [mov + 10mb]