Lady Gaga Releases Official ‘Judas’ Music Video - Watch

The wait is over.

The suspense has been building for a month.

There have been rumors, and we have seen snippets.

We have all heard the song a hundred times already, and yesterday the official Lady Gaga music video for her latest single “Judas” was released on YouTube and Vevo.

The traffic was initially too much for YouTube to handle and there were times when the video was unavailable or ran slow. In just 24 hours it has been viewed almost 3 million times. The video site Vevo was also overwhelmed for the first 12 hours after the release.

And for good reason. It is awesome.

While less bizarre than “Born This Way”, it does hold on to that religious overtones that Gaga herself has been putting out there for the last month.

It has crowns of thorns, bikers named John and Peter, crosses, a huge cast of dancers, lots of weird makeup, guys kissing, and an interesting part where Miss Gaga explores her fetish of water.

Or only criticism is that you can clearly tell she is lip-syncing through some parts of it due to the extreme camera angles and close-ups.

We also still think it sounds a lot like Madonna's "Express Yourself". So much in fact, we think the allegations of plagiarism may hold some merit.

But overall we love it.

Watch Lady Gaga Official “Judas” Music Video


Gaga also visited with Ellen DeGeneres last week for her first live performance of “Judas” that gave us a sneak peek of what to expect with the new video.

Watch Lady Gaga Perform “Judas” on the Ellen Show


Related: Watch Lady Gaga Official Video “Born This Way”
Related: Weird Al Yankovic covers Gaga “Born This Way”
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Lady Gaga Takes Big Fall on Stage During Live Show – Video

You know what they say, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall”.

Lady Gaga took a bad spill on stage during her life show tonight.

She was standing with one leg on a piano and the other on the piano bench, when – boom.

She fell off the piano and landed on the stage while singing the song "You and I" in Houston.

It was all caught on video and word is the Ms. Gaga is fine and the show continued without any other problems.

Watch Lady Gaga Fall Off Piano Video

Charlie Sheen Live Shows Sellout in 18 Minutes

Charlie Sheen is taking his nut show on the road next month.

In another strange twist to his media saturation, Charlie Sheen has announced he will be performing two sold out live shows in April called “Charlie Sheen Live: My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option”

The performance is expected to be a stage show but few details about the content are known. But fans didn’t seem to care as Ticketmaster says the shows both sold out in twenty minutes.

Performances are scheduled for April 2 & 3 in Detroit and Chicago but after the unexpected sellouts Uncle Charley has vowed to add more shows to his series.

In an act of giving, Sheen agreed to give $1 from each ticket to the Red Cross to assist in the Japan Earth Quake and Tsunami efforts. What a guy.

Sheen tried to explain it in his own “warlock” words:

“I’m going on the road। Live. Will there be surprises? Will there be guests? Will there be mayhem? Will you ask questions? Will you laugh? Will you scream? Will you know the truth? Will there be more? This is where you will hear the real story from the Warlock. Bring it. I dare you to keep up with me.”

Ticket prices ranged from $35-$70.

After an almost three week media blitz that never included a live audience, we hope Charlie is not disappointed by his fans reactions to his shows. He needs to be ready for a hostile crowd reaction if his words change little between now and April 2.

We’re not sure if these “fans” purchased their tickets to see a funny show – or to be front and center in the next phase of Sheen’s epic melt down.

I’ve seen every interview and read every story, and I got to tell you… I’m still not really sure what Charlie is trying to tell us. But then again, I’m not sure he knows what he is trying to say.

Sheen also launched his official website last week complete with a nut ball rant video and logo image.

Stay tuned.

Jimmy Edgar and Schematic for LSD/DSL!

Hey everybody, I'm not going to be around much this week because there was a death in my family, but I will post the lossless version of the Miles Davis box set on Friday at the latest. That said, Rom wanted me to let you all know about a show coming up very soon if you're in the Miami area. Jimmy Edgar will be playing the first LSD/DSL show at EVE on February 20th and so will Rom, Jacque Polynice and eight more, all to kick your ass and have a good time! So if you're in the Miami area you've gotta get down there and check 'em out! All the info you need is on the flyers so grab 'em, bookmark 'em, print 'em, whatever you've gotta do just as long you're there!

Robert Fripp - Live at Café Campus, Ste Foy, Quebec, 8/16/79

Awesome bootleg recording of Fripp doing a Frippertronics show in Quebec, 1979. He solos all over the place throughout this set.

I got this show at Dime and it was originally uploaded by kingfrippson, so credit goes to them. I did a little work on the files afterward, putting all seven back together, normalizing the complete show, trimming the cuts between tracks so they're not as obvious and then cutting all the files back into seven individual tracks, but that's all. I've got a lossless version of my edit that I can share upon request, but you can still get the original files over Dime along with tons of other great Fripp shows.

UPDATE: Sorry guys, but Fripp's lawyers are becoming mighty feisty regarding his solo material. With that said, I'm not going to be posting any Fripp for a while, but I may post this again down the road as part of something special. Keep an eye peeled!

Robert Fripp - Live at Café Campus, Ste Foy, Quebec, 8/16/79

01 1756 / Under Heavy Manners
02 1753 To 1755
03 1752
04 1751 To 1752
05 Red Two Scorer
06 God Save The Queen
07 The Zero Of The Signified

My Bloody Valentine - Loom: Live In Vancouver 1992

This is an incredibly clear recording of MBV live in 1992, touring for Loveless. While the whole thing is great, the high point is the seventeen minute finale of You Made Me Realise, where the band goes into one of their legendary noise freak-outs and scares the crowd shitless. You should read Mike McGonigal's excellent contribution to the 33 1/3 series which is all about Loveless and features lots of interviews with Kevin, everyone else in the band, Guy Fixsen, other interesting folks from the Valentine's circle and a stripper who danced to Sometimes. Seriously. It's an awesome book and it talks about the mind altering experience that You Made Me Realise is live. This recording probably doesn't do it justice, but it's a great example of how unique Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine are live.

Tune in tomorrow for post number three, the contents of which should keep everyone entertained for the weekend!


My Bloody Valentine - Loom

01 When You Sleep
02 I Only Said
03 Only Shallow
04 Slow
05 Nothing Much To Lose
06 Noise
This isn't a song, but it's not really noise either. Who knows what the band was doing but there is a lot of feedback and keyboards.
07 You Never Should
08 Feed Me With Your Kiss
09 Soon
10 To Here Knows When
11 Honey Power
12 You Made Me Realise

Schematic Records On Tour!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Schematic Records are on tour right now! Ay from Ken Rei, Joe Lentini and my man Rom aka Takeshi Muto are going to be performing live starting tomorrow through the 24th. Here is a list of tour dates:

Schematic Records Summer Tour
Dukes of the Stratosfear

July 13th Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light
July 14th Cincinnati, OH - Mayday
July 15th Chicago, IL - Co-Prosperity Sphere
July 16th Detroit, MI - The Old Miami
July 18th Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
July 19th Columbus, OH - Skylab
July 20th Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks
July 21st Buffalo, NY - Soundlab
July 23rd Boston, MA - Asteroid M House
July 24th Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly Loft

I was really hoping to go to the Grog Shop show but I don't know if it's gonna happen, but hopefully I'll still be able to hang out with Rom and company maybe on Saturday. Regardless, I believe Ay, Joe and Rom will be spinning sets at each tour date and they're gonna be excellent so make sure you get yourself down there! You can find more information about the shows here and here, Schematic in general here, and Ay and Ken Rei here and here. GET THERE!!!!!

for my brother...

though anyone else is welcome to download this as well! This was given to me by a friend that said it was posted on a popular, private website. All I did was edit a few minutes of near silence off the beginning of the original wave file which makes this start just as Girl Talk starts his intro. Trust me, you're not missing anything, this is still the complete show. Enjoy!


Girl Talk - Live @ Binghamton University, 5/1/10

Frank Zappa - Warts 'n All

I pulled the downloads from most of my Frank Zappa posts awhile ago because I wanted to respect something Gail Zappa wrote, but in retrospect I think it was unnecessary because I'm not sharing anything that's being released and all of the content is available elsewhere. On top of that, I still stand by my statement that I will pull anything down if I'm requested to do so, and since there was no request from anyone, I'm going to put those Zappa downloads back online. Before doing so though, I want to share a hell of a find that I received from the Zappateers community.

Apparently Frank was compiling a very large live album for release named Warts 'n All, presumably in the very early eighties. As Frank had a habit of assembling very large albums, it's no surprise to find that this one never came out, at least not in it's original form. Some of the tracks ended up on Tinseltown Rebellion and the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar series, but the grand majority remain unreleased.

One very important thing to understand about this post is that the version of Warts 'n All presented here isn't necessarily the finished version that may have been released, and there may not be a finished version either. As this collection has been presented and shared with fans, it appears to be organized for a seven sided vinyl release. A lot of speculation has been made about this odd number of sides and it is generally assumed that Frank may have created a test version of the album for his and other folks examination, possibly to have some of the content released if not all of it, but the only people living who might know are Joe Travers and the Zappa family, and that most likely would be based upon any data they found in the vault. What we do know though is that all of these recordings were assembled, edited and mixed by Frank himself, and even if they weren't 100% ready for prime-time, they're still pretty damn fascinating.

So, for your listening pleasure, I present all seven sides of the proposed Warts 'n All album. I've split this into two zip files and labeled each side as it's own disc, although if you listen to the whole thing you'll hear fade-outs at the end of what would be each side. On top of that, if you'd like more information on this project and the sources of the recordings, you can visit The Zappa Patio's Unreleased Records page for all that and more. There is lots of incredible information at The Zappa Patio and if you're a fan of Frank, you'll be wonderfully entertained by the copious amount of detail contained therein!

And in regards to the reposts, there will be a very simple, no frills post here, probably tomorrow, that will contain links for those items previously removed and a few other gems I dug out. Hope you enjoy them!


Frank Zappa - Warts 'n All

Sides 1 through 4

Side 1:
01 Band Intros
02 Dead Girls Of London
03 Suicide Chump
04 Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

Side 2:
01 Thirteen
02 Magic Fingers
03 Ancient Armaments

Side 3:
01 Ms. X
02 Little House I Used To Live In
03 Lobster Girl
04 Thirteen (Keyboard Solos)

Side 4:
01 The Deathless Horsie
02 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
03 For The Young Sophisticate
04 Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More


Sides 5 through 7

Side 5:
01 Conehead
02 Jumbo Go Away
03 Mo Mama
04 Persona Non Grata

Side 6:
01 Bamboozled By Love
02 I Ain't Got No Heart
03 Easy Meat

Side 7:
01 Dance Contest
02 A Pound For A Brown (Solos)
03 Rubber Girl
04 Peaches III


PS - This has nothing to do with the above post but I wanted to say RIP to Guru of Gang Starr. On top of that, FUCK SOLAR, his controlling methods will soon lead to the unravelling of his so-called career. Whatever he is, it will be revealed soon enough. And to anyone bothered by the venom in these words, my apologies, but I'm so upset by the blatant abuse caused by this fool which probably assisted in Guru's death that I had to say it and let anyone who cares know my position. Okay, rant over.

Bob Dylan - Live at The Isle Of Wight Festival 8/31/69

So I'm a bit of a recent Dylan convert. For the longest time I thought he was simply a joke whose best days were behind him, but after reading a bit about the Basement Tapes I was rather intrigued. The Basement Tapes are simply aural bliss, which led me to find the Tree With Roots collection, which led me to listen to his early works. I now recognize how blind I have been all these years. Generally I think I have a very open mind when it comes to music, and not to make excuses for my ignorance but when you grow up with the surrounding culture mocking someone, if you don't know any better it just kinda sinks in. Yeah, that sucks, but I acknowledge my errors when I make them. Okay, I try to at the very least. That said, I'm not saying that all of Dylan's stuff is gold, and the level of respect bestowed upon him seems based purely upon his early successes, but that doesn't mean he's not worthy of it.

Anyway, in researching his late sixties, early seventies output, I came upon the rather confusing Self Portrait. I enjoyed it, although it's clear that the general consensus is pretty divided on that one. Some of my favorite bits from it were the four songs recorded at the Isle Of Wight festival in 69 which led me to find a copy of the show. Dylan was backed by The Band at this gig and the overall vibe is very good, making it a keeper. So why didn't they release the whole show? Yes, it could still happen, but it's still odd, especially when Sony/Columbia seems satisfied to squeeze every dollar out of Dylan's catalog, released and unreleased.

I'm disappointed to find that a high quality copy of this show is not in circulation, especially with it having been recorded for potential release, but a decent audience tape has existed for quite a while. The version presented here is "remastered" by someone named JTT from what may be the actual master reel, and again, it sounds good for an audience recording, so props to JTT and anyone else responsible for the circulation of great gigs like these. With the bootleg industry finally dying, and record labels going with them, maybe people will release great quality recordings more often rather than hoard them in their private collections. Or not.

Okay, more plausible expectation... Maybe the industry will get with the times and begin releasing more fan-oriented releases in lossless quality digital packages with limited physical equivalents available upon request, similar to the NIN model. OR NOT.


Bob Dylan - Live at The Isle Of Wight Festival 8/31/69

01 She Belongs To Me
02 I Threw It All Away
03 Maggie's Farm
04 Wild Mountain Thyme
05 It Ain't Me Babe
06 To Ramona
07 Mr. Tambourine Man
08 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
09 Lay Lady Lay
10 Highway 61 Revisited
11 One Too Many Mornings
12 I Pity The Poor Immigrant
13 Like A Rolling Stone
14 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
15 Quinn The Eskimo
16 Minstrel Boy
17 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Elton John & Billy Joel - Live In Cleveland 5/23/09

First things first, man is that an old photo! They look NOTHING like that anymore! Now back to the regularly scheduled program already in progess.

Oh boy, do I feel lazy. I know I don't post everyday like some blogs to but if I don't post every other day I feel like I'm a real schmuck. That said, I don't post every other day either so I already feel a little schmuckish to begin with, but until this becomes my job, which I'm sadly certain it won't, there will be long breaks and short breaks between posts, although the long breaks are probably not all that long be regular internet standards. Anyway, there will be another post this coming weekend about an album very dear to me and my woman which has never seen release. Pretty damn convenient since that's what this blog is all about, eh?

Since I'm beating myself up for not posting regularly, I'm giving a little gift tonight that I posted for some friends at another site. This is Elton John and Billy Joel's show from this past Saturday. I was at this show in what would normally be called the nosebleed seats, although they were more like the aneurysm seats due to the position of the stage in regards to my location. That said, we had a very good screen and the sound was great so I didn't miss too much.

I've seen Billy Joel several times over my life, dating all the way back to 1984 at the Richfield Coliseum. I've always loved his music and I don't give a damn what elitists have to say about his pop-music career, he's a great songwriter and doesn't get the credit he deserves. He's also a great entertainer and makes it a habit to talk to the audience and keep them involved. I can't say the same for Elton John though, as he barely spoke to the audience, didn't introduce his band, played a number of songs that only die-hard Eltonites would know and took many of his songs to an attention breaking point by making them last forever. I like Rocket Man as much as the next person but it doesn't need to last nearly fifteen minutes. I'm sure you can tell which part of the show I enjoyed more, although I must note that when Billy and Elton shared the stage and vocal duties on each others hits, they were amazing. The finale of Candle In The Wind and Piano Man was simply beautiful.

I know this isn't much of a review but I'm tired and I've been working all day. That said, I am pleased to present to you the complete show and hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Also, unlike my Wilco post, while this show is split into multiple files, these ones are independent of each other, which is to say you can unzip each on it's own. So, please feel free to indulge yourself in this wonderful show.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5