MMTV

It's a known fact these days that MTV doesn't play music videos any more, they're more concerned about the latest celebrity fads and anything non-music related really.  Gone are the days when you could tune into one of the MTV stations and just watch some cool music videos.

MTV Rocks goes some way into making this better and with the likes of Kerrang!, Scuzz and NME stations in the UK, all is not lost.  But it seems even these stations show more adverts than music videos, but I guess they have to pay the bills somehow.  Still, the music videos they do play are all pretty dated, with the stations seemingly churning out the SSDD.

A few years ago I'd watch these stations a lot, channel surfing between them all and usually catching something cool or something new that I'd then check out more by the band/artist.  These days I tend to make my own music television by surfing the internet.  With websites like From The Basement popping up and Tom Green sticking his finger up at the commercial channels and hosting his own online show, it's now wonder that ratings have been dropping for these television stations.

If I were to have my little slot on somewhere like MTV, at this moment in time I think the following videos would be played.  Here's my MMTV (My Music Telly Vision), why not join me for twenty minutes and check out some cool tunes and videos, all ad free and ready to stream. . .

Streaming. . .

Since getting back from an awesome trip to New York a few weeks back, I've not had a chance to post much on here, but that doesn't mean I've not been listening to some great tunes. 

Three albums have been made available to stream online since I last posted.  You can read about them and stream them all below.  Hope everyone is alright out there in the land of the interweb.

Evelyn Evelyn

The debut album from Evelyn Evelyn is now available to buy for $6.66.  The album features Jason Webley and Amanda Palmer as Evelyn Evelyn.  The album has been getting press due to the guest vocals on a song called 'My Space' by Francis Bean Cobain (daughter of Kurt & Courtney) as well as Neil Gaiman (who is engaged to Palmer) and Weird Al Yankovic.

The album itself is a concept album, about sisters are parapagus tripus dibrachius twins, who share three legs, two arms, three lungs, two hearts and a single liver.  As you might expect, the album is a little weird, but well worth a listen.  Check it out below:

Out Of Our Minds (OOOM)

The new album from Melissa Auf der Maur (MAdM) doesn't get a physical release here in the UK until next month, but you can now purchase (and stream) the album as exclusive packages at the xmadmx website.

The album has been in the making for over three years and is part of a multimedia project, consisting of the album, a comic and a film.  The full OOOM and half OOOM packages at xmadmx consist of all three of these, but are a bit on the expensive side.

I originally wrote about the album back in 2008 here, at that time though I wasn't aware of the most exciting aspect of this project.  The album features a duet with Danzig (who has recently announced his first album in six years is coming out this June) on 'Father's Grave'.  This is the first time in his career that he has ever collaborated with anyone on a duet.  And boy was it worth the wait, check out that track, as well as the entire album below:

Women & Country

The new Jakob Dylan comes out in a couple of weeks time, but it hit the net over the Easter weekend.  I wasn't too wowed on my first listen, but having just given it a second virtual spin, I really like the album.

It's got a different feel from his first solo album, in fact it sounds more like early Wallflowers work than his last solo effort.  This could have something to do with a change of producer.  On his first solo LP Jakob had Rick Rubin producing, but for 'Women &Country' he has T Bone Burnett behind the desk, who also produced 'Bringing Down The Horse', the second Wallflowers album.

The record has a range of styles, many new to Jakob, but still manage to keep the same laid back and warm feel that we've come to know from him.  You can stream the album in it's entirety here: