Noyes: Nuisance

Check out young alt/punk/garage band Noyes. The production quality is a little rough, but they've got a great combination of melodic vocals and super crunchy guitar and bass riffs and pounding drum licks that just don't quit. You can download their EP for free from Bandcamp.

I'm enjoying this sludgy, rough-cut group's no-frills sound. I think I'll go get me some more!

~DJ Naila~

Tall Ships: Words Are The Pegs Upon Which we Hang Ideas

Blink 182: All The Small Things

Blink 182: Adam's Song

I love this song, and not just because my name's in the title. ;-)

I love that they bravely took on the topic of depression and suicide ideation. 

I think that sometimes just having one's feelings acknowledged can make all the difference.

There's no shame in seeking help.

I struggled with depression and suicide ideation into my forties. The depression still comes on at times but I've learned to cope with it better and it seems to resolve more quickly. I don't take medications. I think learning good coping skills is key, but I would certainly never put down anyone who feels that they need medication. Taking medication in no way makes you a weak person.

One size does not fit all, each of us needs to find the way that works!

Love,

DJ Adam

Linkin Park: She Coudn't

Beautiful deep cut from Linkin Park with this melancholy power  ballad.

~DJ Spectra~

DJ Scary Carrie's Saturday Pick

Come listen to This Wild Life's album "Concrete" via the playlist.

This duo hails from California. Their sound is reminiscent of sitting around with friends, playing some tunes about real life. Their lyrics are gritty, their sound is smooth. I'm really enjoying their fresh, no-bullshit approach to music.

You'll find no auto tune, flash, hype, or fame-whoring with This Wild Life. What you will find is just simple, good, honest music at its best.

~DJ Scary Carrie~

Robyn Hitchcock: Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl

DJ Wanda sometimes wishes she was Dr. Frank N. Furter. She would live a life of wild abandon, creating hunky men for her pleasure in her creepy mad scientist castle and basically not giving a flying flock of seagulls what anyone thought. She also wouldn't have to worry about crap like working a regular job, and if her car broke down, she'd just call in a Satanic Mechanic.

~DJ Wanda~

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uuup myself in the shower

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uuup myself in the shower

Been on my own so long

I can't tell left from wrong

Bloody red bats squelching offal

Foaming mutilations in the kiss of death

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could upppp myself in the shower

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uuup myself in the shower

Been on my own all night

I can't tell left from right

Baby come back, give me fever

Cauterize this passion with a blood red kiss

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uppp myself in the shower

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uup/ stab myself in the shower

Sometimes I wish I was a

So I could

Ray Toro: Isn't That Something?

Folks, not all new music is bad. Sometimes you get gems like this one, which was released just last year. Of course Ray's been around a while, so perhaps my argument is somewhat rendered moot.

~DJ Thalia~

Psychedelic Furs: Heaven

Heaven, is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart
Yeah, Heaven, is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart

There's too many kings
Wanna hold you down
And a world at the window
Gone underground

There's a hole in the sky
Where the sun don't shine
And a clock on the wall
And it counts my time

And Heaven, is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart
Yeah, Heaven is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart

There's a song on the air
With a 'love you' line
And a face in a glass
And it looks like mine

And I'm standing on ice when I say
That I don't hear planes
And I scream at the fools
Wanna jump my train

And Heaven is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart
Yeah, Heaven is the whole of ours hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart

Yeah, Heaven
Ah, Heaven
Yeah, Heaven

Three Days Grace: Overrated

Guano Apes: Quietly

Armchair Scientists Club: Venus Transiting

 This was a trick used to see Venus transiting the sun on June 5, 2012. He has other such videos on his You Tube channel. How do people come up with stuff like this? I've never been that clever.  

 Here's a favorite song for accompaniment.

~DJ Wanda~

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Khel 666

The Netherworld

Morrissey: He Knows I'd Love to See Him

It's not part of the A to Z, I just want to play some Morrissey!

~DJ Helena~

Edison Glass: In Such A State

Lyrics:
In disclosed we speak the truth, discovering dependency.
Let's turn this ship around, I'm starting over.
We fight our hearts for the control, wrestling our tendencies.
Let's turn this ship around, I'm starting over.

In desperation, a celebration, of time well spent alone with you.

I'm in such a state, I need you here, I need you near me.

As the sun will rise and set, so I will keep you close.
As the stars illuminate, so I will hold you near

Burn the exits, theres no escaping from love eternal, limitless.

I'm in such a state, I need you here, I need you near me.
I'm in such a state, honestly, transparently speaking

An American Snoop Dogg in Paris

This reminds me of a little tale from many years ago in the mid-nineties. It probably won't be of much interest to anyone but me, but I'll tell it anyway. I went to see Public Enemy and U2 in concert. Before the show started, I was standing near the back entrance to the arena and who but Flavor Flav should walk by with his three older kids and their mother. I decided against saying anything to him as I didn't want to bother him when he was with his family. 

It's really too bad that Flav screwed things up so much between himself and his older kids. Guy's got issues. Regardless, Public Enemy always puts on one hell of a show, and I try to see them whenever they're in town. To be honest, although I love U2, I really thought that all the props they had onstage was overkill. Bono also seemed to really distance himself from the audience. Music-wise it was a push. Performance-wise, I actually preferred Public Enemy's performance. They seemed much more accessible.

About ten years later, my son and I went to a talk given by Chuck D. We went up afterwards and got his autograph. He's a true gentleman and really seems to have it together. 

Just a couple fun memories from back in the day. I enjoyed the recollection.

~DJ Cheesy~

New Pornographers: Joseph Who Understood

Merry Xmahannukwanzyule from your KHEL 666 and Undead in the Netherworld Krew!

The Veronicas: Everything I'm Not

Caedmon's Call: Manner and Means

The heart is a lonely thing to lose in the dead of night
The heart is a sad thing to lose in the throws of a fight
The heart is the match to the fire
And the embers of desire, to keep it burning

I am a shell of the manner and the means
Mine is a story of nothing as it seems
But when we have come this far
And still don't know who we are, does it keep burning?

When it's over, and you see it with your eyes
Would you rather have the truth or a lie?

I call for angels to breathe holy on this rust
I call the snakes to come out slowly from the brush
I need a massive overhaul
A revival to fall, to keep it burning

The heart is a costly thing to sell in the prime of the years
And my heart is thinly veiled in the usual fears
The heart is the dream, and the kiss
That there could be more than this, to keep it burning

Joel Geleynse: My Best Try

www.joelgeleynse.com

Kings of Leon: Fans