Mike Zorman West Coast Tour

Doing a major west coast tour in a few weeks.  Here are the details:

June 21st
Oakland, CA @ East Nile (1510 Eight St. at Chester)
Stag Hare
7 Feathers Rainwater
Selaroda
Mike Zorman
DJ Psychic Handbook

June 25th
Los Angeles, CA @The Handbag Factory (1336 S. Grand Ave.)
Mike Zorman
Positive Shadow
Human Hands
Rale
Wrong Hole

June 30th
Portland, OR @ 5524 NE Cleveland
Sound installations by:
ASSS
Maria Garcia
Betsy Pusack

Live performances by:
Wrong Hole
Redneck
Hostile Makeover/Lavas Magmas
Mike Zorman
Argumentix
Sissisters


Here are a few new "demos" of parts of practice sets I've been recording...
  Froggy by Mike Zorman
  Uncomposed by Mike Zorman

Ooops!

Kind of forgot about this accidentally.  I feel awful!  I've got this mania and a really short attention span so I tend to focus my energy on one or two things at a time and eschew everything else.  Anyway, I'm just going free form on this blog now.  I'm going to post more 45's that are rippers, but also music I make and other things I am interested in.  I am hoping this way I will remember to actually keep this dude going.

Julian Leal "Mad About You/A Fantasy"

Whoa! I'm back! I needed to take a long break from this blog. I was feeling overwhelmed from the rush of fame and fortune I was experiencing. Everything was moving way too fast, I didn't feel like myself anymore. After several long hot baths I feel prepared to re-enter the blog-o-sphere with a red hot single that totally embodies the spirit of this blog. Julian Leal provides us with 2 perfect examples of teenage lust. Lust for love, lust for sex, lust for life. Julian channels all the energy of every experience feeling so new and exciting into 2 sides of bubblegum pop punk. Killer solos, the dude has insane long curly hair, and this appears to be a privately pressed record. It all adds up baby!

PS: I intend to start doing this regularly again. I also bought a new turntable so the annoying buzz should cease to exist from now on.

If I could only hear you call my name.

More Live Magic

Doing happy hour at Tube again tonight. Every other Wednesday from now on. Same deal, $2 well drinks, $2 tall boys, cheap vegan food, interesting attractive people, cool drunk chicks, power pop, glam rock, new wave, hard rock, any song I think is good from 1975 to 1985... Come hang out!

Every Night is the Best Night of my Life

Come to Tube tonight for happy hour. I will be providing the soundtrack to your quest to hang out and get wasted. You will feel like you are going 100 miles an hour, no joke. $2 wells and tall boys. Plus it's my birthday!

11/18 @ Tube for happy hour

Prepare yourselves! This blog is entering the realm of reality this Wednesday. Well, I guess I've played records at parties and shows a million times, but I am trying to move into the bar scene. You get to get drunk for free and listen to exactly what you want to. Amazing! Tell all your friends, put this shit all over Facebook, come have an excellent time. Don't let me down.

The Godfathers "Birth, School, Work, Death"

Let's keep this hard rock bulldozer ripping. The Godfathers are giving us 100% huge balls on this white hot jam. Call and response riffing and leading is the name of this game, and if you can't take the heat then get the hell out of this kitchen. It's so easy to picture these dudes on stage, jaws clenched, beating those guitars as if they had somehow done something to deserve it. Solo after solo, chorus after chorus. And we haven't even gotten to the lyrics yet. Stark dismal reality presented with no regard to the blind and pacified. Drugs can't even please The Godfather's anymore, their souls have turned to dust and their eyeballs have hardened to stone.

I cut myself but I don't bleed

Eric Martin Band "Don't Stop"

Warning: This track smokes! I haven't exactly figured out what this song is actually about because that secret knowledge is buried deep beneath sexual innuendo. But it is getting me all worked up! Just kidding. Anyway, this song was merely a stepping stone to Eric's true destination, handling lead vocal duties for popular rock group Mr. Big. As I stand here banging my head to this song I see a thick cloud of fog. The music coming out of the speakers slowly clears the room and Eric's future comes into view, crystal clear. There was never any chance that Eric wouldn't end up behind the mic in front of thousands of crazed Japanese fans.

PS: I was initially drawn to this record because it has the same title as my favorite Franke and the Knockouts song, available elsewhere on this blog.

Push. Pull. Hot.

The Buckinghams "Susan/Foreign Policy"

Let's keep this kind-of-psychedelic free ride going with some less wild but equally catchy leftist rock. First of all, I have to admit that this record is really fucking warped. It looks like the devil pinched it and his super hot fingers created a lump in the edge. So the beginnings of both songs suffer in varying amounts. Foreign Policy kind of gets mangled but what doesn't? Anyway, Susan is one hell of a JAM! These dudes don't waste one second before laying down a hundred and one extremely satisfying melodies. Impressive work! Foreign Policy seems to contain some seriously political content! It's about peace and war and hunger and pain and all this heavy stuff. It also contains all these strings and horns and those big drums that you hit with mallets in an orchestra. Plus at the end it gets really weird!

Blessed with fertile thoughts upon our minds

Daughters of Albion "Well Wired/Story of Sad"

Whoa! It's been a WHILE. My bad. Excuses, I've got plenty, but I digress. Get your ears ready for some ridiculously overproduced psychedelic pop. Not really trippy, but there is a whole lot of music going on here. Like 20 tracks per song. Many many instruments are played. This is starting to sound a little heavy, but Well Wired is really catchy and light as a feather and a total jam. You'll be singing it at the dismay of your peers for sure! The other song is intense. Try not to shed a tear.

I'm going with a simpler format here. Less classy scans of the records, but smaller files and thus faster to download.

So alive in overdrive