love / a chink of light / between their bloody lips

Bullion

"beached as, bro!"

Came across Bullion over at Faux Pas and after a little research discovered his album Pet Sounds In The Key Of Dee which he did a few years ago; J Dilla vs the Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds. In doing so he's taken the almost preposterously deified J-Dilla (of "J Dilla changed my life!" fame) and used the sample-beat-hammer to craft an extremely effective take on one of the most famous albums of all time. Another really nice touch comes when Bullion puts in samples of what sounds like the producer's commentary ("take 18") over the top, but schyeah, excellent.

Bullion - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times

In other news...

- There's a new Yeah Yeah Yeah's album, It's Blitz. I'm not particularly liking it, lacks the driving guitar of the Is Is EP or even Cheated Hearts, but I'll give it a shot.

- Thursday night I played lead tambourine with Haze at MGGS; there's a video forthcoming, sure to enter some sort of musical hall of infamy. In the meantime check out their website www.myspace.com/cupidswounded (or as Whorian would say, "scope" it...)

- The Phantom Agents are playing a gig on April 18 (facebook site for the event) and a rudimentary stalk of their myspace comments reveals they're recording again soon.

- I bought a copy of the vinyl LP "Nancy and Lee" a few weeks back with the help of David Costar (don't ask). Black gold.