Updates/Announcements

Hey everyone, just wanted to drop in and note some happenings and make an announcement or two.

1) All of the interviews I've recently mentioned are coming soon. David Williams and I are talking regularly and he's providing further details about the recording sessions for Crazy Wisdom Masters. We're taking things a bit slowly because there is some potentially huge news around the corner regarding the Jungle Brothers, but we'll wait on discussing that. When the interview is posted I will be uploading a lossless copy of The Payback EP and some other JB's ephemera from that era which I'm sure everyone will enjoy. Really good stuff and all from excellent quality sources!

2) I've shared a few e-mails with Steinski and I'll be posting a brief interview with him soon. He told me it's alright with him to share his rarer remixes and tracks that he isn't selling on his site so I'm going to try to get a very thorough compilation of his works that aren't featured on What Does It All Mean? together.

3) If everything goes right I'll be conducting a brief interview with Alex "XXXChange" Epton on Wednesday night. I'll try to get that interview up as soon as possible. We'll be discussing his new project, Win Win, and I'm going to ask him about some of his previous collaborators like Amanda Blank and Spank Rock. If this interview doesn't happen I'll let you know, but it's on as of right now.

4) I've hinted that I've got a project I wanted to start for a while and here is the announcement: I want to curate a compilation of covers of unreleased Prince songs. I'm going to cover one myself but I really want to get a diverse set of musicians who would like to participate. This is going to be a free project, there is no money involved whatsoever and no permission has been given to cover these songs, but you're free to do whatever you want with your recordings when we're done. My intention is to post these tracks as a free download in lossless FLAC and MP3 formats. I'd like to get them online by this summer but I don't know if that's possible. Regardless, I've got a number of songs I can send you to sample from if you'd like, so if you're interested please drop me an e-mail. You can find my e-mail address in my Blogger Profile.

5) I've got more backlogged stuff to post but I've also got a pile of Warner Bros. comps that I want to share. At this point I believe I have all of the Trademark Of Quality compilations and several other bizarre promotional use collections and I intend to post them all in the next week or two. It probably sounds kinda dull but they're all pretty cool and most of them have a lot of otherwise unavailable tracks.

6) I'm starting a project with some friends called the edits. It's kind of a band but not really. We're not just about music, but that's mostly what we're working on now. I've got another site that is dedicated to the edits and it will be updated with stuff to check out as it becomes available. Regarding our sound, we don't really have a firm direction, although if pressed I'd say it's punk-hip-hop-noise-balladry, or at least that's the spirit of what we're doing. I'm making beats occasionally and it'll later be decided whether there is singing, rapping, chanting, noise or whatever atop them. Just for kicks, I might follow through on a threat and make the Metal Machine Mixtape, a tribute of sorts to Lou Reed's album, albeit with more humor than you'll find in the source material. More details to come.

7) Anyone know how I might go about presenting a television project to potential collaborators or investors? Anyone know how to find potential investors? If you want to know more about this, whether you've got suggestions or just want to know what it's about, drop me an e-mail and we can talk. It's definitely not a normal television program by any standards.


There are other things going on but more will be said when the time is right. For now, the new job is going alright and it looks like a company I could definitely stay with for awhile. There are a few musical happenings I want to mention.

Craig Wedren, the lead singer for Shudder To Think and a frequent musical collaborator with The State, has a new record coming soon named Wand. It'll be accompanied by a short film of the same name which I believe will have videos for each song on the album, but don't quote me on that. If you head on over to his site you can learn more about the new record and see an extremely ambitious interactive video for the first song from the album, Are We. It's a 360 degree video and features A LOT of members The State. I love me some Shudder To Think and The State so this looks pretty sweet! Check it out at Craig's official website.

Also, I'm on pins and needles waiting for J Rocc's new record, Some Cold Rock Stuf, to be released! Play This Too is the first single and it's incredible! Seriously, check out the stream below:

J Rocc - Play This Too by stonesthrow

You can find more info about the album here on Stones Throw's official site. They've also got J Rocc's appearance from Benji B's show on BBC Radio 1 streaming and available for download. You can download it here, although the stream is below. This is some seriously awesome sounding stuff!

Exploring Future Beats: J Rocc previews Some Cold Rock Stuf on BBC Radio 1 by stonesthrow


Last but not least, I was going to ask if anyone had ever seen a few rare tracks and might be able to share with me so I can share them with everyone. The only one I can think of now though is Double Dee & Steinski's remix of Tony Touch's I Wonder Why? He's The Greatest DJ. Seriously, does anyone have that? PLEASE!?!?!?!?!

Oh yeah, anyone know what pornstars listen to? Seriously, anyone?

Everybody have a good rest of the weekend and I'll see you all tomorrow or Tuesday!



Dave3, The Unheard

Important Information/Liz Phair - Phairities

Hey folks, just wanted to drop you a line and let you know some things that are kinda important that I've hinted at here.

First off, the thing I mentioned a few days ago, the first (maybe?) annual Unheard Music get-together thing, I want to re-create the Flaming Lips' Parking Lot Experiments. I didn't get a lot of responses, which is probably because I didn't come right out and say what I was talking about, but what I got was very promising. I really want to try this and hope to pull it off in early June if I can get an appropriate number of people to participate. There will be no fee to participate and I am not asking for funds or donations of any sort, just to be 100% clear. I don't have all the details about where this will occur worked out yet, and I'm trying to contact the Flaming Lips to get their permission to use tracks from Zaireeka for the event. Hopefully, since there is no money involved, it won't be a problem, but until I hear back you never know. So, if anyone is interested in participating, let me know and we can discuss adding you to the list of participants. Apart from that, this project has quite a ways to go before it's ready for prime time. I'm going to post flyers at several of the colleges in my area, try to hype the event to college radio stations in the area, and there will be a website for further details when they start to solidify.

Second, Imaginary Records, the "sister" site to the Unheard Music, is going on hiatus after four posts. Yeah, I know, kinda lame, but it's not working out. It may eventually return, but for now it will no longer be updated.

Third, I haven't actually gotten around to posting any videos like I talked about at the beginning of the year (or was it the end of the year?), but I still hope to do that, I've simply been very busy, so don't give up hope, it will happen!

Fourth, lots of things I've been holding back will appear in March, including Beck, the last Zappa post for a while, a WaxTrax! Records retrospective, and the triumphant return of Miles Davis! The Miles post is going to be crazy as it contains the near-complete sessions for one of the greatest jazz recordings in history and some interesting details surrounding the pseudo, incomplete, and totally unneccesary reissue of them since it's missing TONS of content, but at least it didn't claim to be "COMPLETE" this time! There are a bunch of other things I'll be posting, but those three are pretty cool so be on the lookout!

Finally, this is the last Liz Phair post, at least for now. I have exhausted my findings so now we have to wait until some lucky soul (hopefully me!) gets to interview Liz and ask her about the third Girly-Sound tape. This collection though features lots of rarities and non-album tracks and has been named Phairities by some clever collector(s). Unfortunately, my copy, which I've had since who knows when, comes with little information about the track sources, so apart from what I know and can confirm, some of the stuff here is a bit of a mystery, but I'm sure you'll find it quite enjoyable regardless. You know, this might not be the definitive last Liz post for now as I have an upgrade of two tracks from this collection that I should post, and I may post that in March, but this will most likely be the last CD-length post for the known future. And hey, it's always a good excuse to post more sexy photos of Liz!


Liz Phair - Phairities

01 White Babies (Answering Machine Version)
02 Rocket Boy (from the Stealing Beauty soundtrack)
03 If I Ever Pay You Back (Live)
04 Hurricane Cindy (Live on KCRW)
05 Wasted (Live)
06 Carnivore (a-side of the Carnivore single)
07 Never Said (Live, 120 Minutes)
08 Beginning To See The Light (Live)
09 Don't Have Time
10 Oh My God
11 Shirley MacLaine (with Ashtray Boy)
12 Infidel (with Ashtray Boy)
13 Divorce Song / Emotional Rescue
14 Six Dick Pimp (from the Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy soundtrack)
15 Sometimes A Dream (Live)
16 Ride (Live)
17 Mesmerizing (Live)
18 6'1 (Live, 120 Minutes)
19 Away With The Pixies (Ben Lee cover)
20 I'll Get You High (Live)
21 Support System (Live)
22 Fuck and Run (Live)
23 Carnivore (Raw) (b-side of the Carnivore single)
24 You Have No Idea (Live)
25 Wasted (Live on KCRW)
26 Combo Platter (Girlysound) (b-side to Supernova)


And now for more sexy photos of Liz!












Okay, now I do feel a little perverted. Too many hot pics of Liz? Promise, this won't become a standard of the site! Enjoy the music!