Look at that hair!

Imaad Wasif is probably the kind of guy you wanted to punch in high school because he was pretty cool, could play guitar, and dressed sort of wacky. Plus there’s all that weird magic type stuff. Regardless, he’s had a run as a touring guitarist for the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, he worked on the Where the Wild Things Are score, and he’s coming out with a new album soon.

He talks about the soundtrack here with Paste, and you can hear a new track from him titled “Priestess” here.

They were a rap group

If your name is David and you’re an editor for a quarterly magazine and you live in Dayton, then you’re stoked.

If you’re me, you’re too busy deciding if the new Mos Def is awesome or just meh and wondering if you’ve ever heard a Goodie Mob track before (is that the one with Cee-lo?).

Great Lakes’ Glockenspiel & Big Black’s Songs About Fucking

Sometimes a good album needs a good beer. Sometimes a good beer needs a good album.  Sometimes you just need the closest beer at hand and whatever’s already in the stereo.

Just watch the ants

We don’t have any great exclusive deals with labels or bands or the capacity to host our own video service here at Ghettoblaster, but we sure do have access to the embed codes from everywhere else!

Anyway, Deerfhoof are weird. I like it when the blonde is doing dishes. The spinning crane is a bit much though.

SAYS – And In It I Could

When I was in high school, I played around with a guy named Mike who was an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist. I coudn’t really play crap, and this fella went on to play in a lot of pretty solid bands.

Fast  forward through my college career, and Michael Warren has a new album out as a collaboration with Max Serota. The two take classic pop song structures, build them over acoustic guitars and a combination of live and programmed drums, add in a funbox of auxiliary instruments,. and the result is something worth blogging about.

Ghettoblaster recommends you give the song “Garden Girls” a spin, but you can check out the whole album streaming online at SAYS’ bandcamp site.

You think soul-crushingly dick-ish reviews might have anything to do with this?

Hartford, Connecticut is a picaresque small town full of charm and insurance companies. Elisa Ambroglio of Magik Markers has fond memories of where she came up, and some killer advice about where to go and what she missed out on.  The band released Balf Quarry on May 5th, 2009, and are currently coordinating their band’s operations from opposite sides of the country, but they both came up in Hartford, and are ready to share fond memories.

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Orenda Fink made a name for herself in Azure Ray and Art in Manila.  Now, she’s working with beat maker Scalpelist (also known as Cederic LeMoyne of Remy Zero) for their new project, O+S.  Their new album was recently released through Saddle Creek Records, and though the band is based out of Birmingham, Alabama, Ms. Fink took the time to tell Ghettoblaster all about Omaha.
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Somewhere in between Bay Area crust and Norwegian death metal, Lord Mantis has been making a name for themselves in Chicago. With members from Indian, Avichi, and Nachtmystium forming a majority of the band, the group is set to release Spawning the Nephilim through Seventh Rule Records at the end of April. Bassist and vocalist Charlie Fell gave us the dope on the band’s hometown.

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Michael Lerner’s straightforward indie-pop project Telekinesis hails from Seattle. With his album Telekinesis! coming out in early April through Merge Records, Lerner revealed the mystique about Seattle that keeps him coming back for more.

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