Ah… foursquare! The epic games I played as a wee-lad back in the 70s and 80s, that I brought back to teach my own girls and various neighborhood kids in the late 90s! Those were good times. Pitty-pats, bustops, volleys, and I had the most viscous spin known to all 80s humankind.
Yeah. Suck it.
Well, our good friends over at We Listen For You got together with The Pass and built a brand spankin’ new viddy for their song “Walk Away” and just as you come to expect from their collabos, this is some tight-ass foursquare goodness!
Though… I do question the use of dress shoes and slams. Slams were never fair…. Knives, on the other hand, were up to whoever was in A.
Oh and look, the Pass is getting around! Though, what they have against Columbus, OH… I have no idea.
Jan 27th St. Louis Old Rock House
Jan 28th Memphis Poplar Lounge
Feb 1st Los Angeles The Satellite (Spaceland) *w/ Marvelous Toy
Feb 2nd Santa Barbara TBA *w/ Marvelous Toy
Feb 3rd San Francisco Milk Bar *w/ Marvelous Toy
Feb 6th San Diego Soda Bar *w/ Marvelous Toy
Feb 9th Austin TBA
Feb 10th Dallas City Tavern
Feb11th Fayetteville Smoke and Barrel
Well oh well oh well, this is a long time coming, it seems, but here we are, Septemberonis two-thousand and tens and we finally have the long hyped, long bloggerined, long We Listen For You obsessed album by The Pass called Burst.
I kinda feel like they’ve been part of our collective blog consciousness for the entire span of this blogs life, between the EP singles, the videos, more videos, and I think another video, more singles, and now the album, proving my theory once and once again…. I would not want to be in a band. It’s exhausting just being on the receiving in of hype-maintenance — coincidentally, the name of my new mp3 blog aggregator “Hype Maintenance: So many blogs, someone’s got push the jizz mop.
*NOTE: To all you internet kids out there, a jizz mop was the mop at this ancient and extinct place called “an adult theater” that the janitor used to use to, uh, clean up after the sceezy patrons. Eventually, they were replaced by a piece of Kleenex and an internet connection… WHICH, for all you environmentally aware “green” peeps who are watching Jesus’s footprints in the carbon sand, saves on gasoline!
*NOTE ON THE NOTE: Really, does anybody really rent “adult movies” from the back room anymore?
Anywhozaldoozals, today we aren’t hear to talk about jizz mops, believe it or not, nope we are here to discuss Burst by The Pass — but now that we have talk about jizz mops, the word “burst” takes on a whole new meaning, eh?
So………… How is the album? I’ve got three words for you: Eff You In!
For those not able to follow along, FUN!!!! Like, super fun! Like really super fun — there, three words again, jeez!! Electro-pop shake your booty good times. I know what you are thinking, “electropop” & “dance”, really T? Does it have the legs to stand the test of time? Who cares! Just turn it on, turn it up, shake your ass, maybe grind up a smidgen to the unfortunate soul standing nearest you.
Just don’t forget the jizz mop.
REMINDER: FOUR MORE DAYS TO ENTER OUR FAN-SIGN CONTEST! WIN MONEY!
Okay… it is Labour Day, it is our day off, so we are going to keep this short. I will say, last night we had us a little BBBBBQQQQBBQ (the extra B’s are for boooooze and the extra Q’s are for Quality!) with some of our crafty peeps, local BFFs, and two bustown music bloggers – our friend Katie from Heavy Percussion & Jack In The Pocket & new Columbus transplant Jen from Tympanic Transplant, and it was all chill good times, full of drinks & grub & (as always) nipples!
Oh yeah… work it baby!
Not only was it a perfect time to hang out, meet up, and photograph nipples, it gave me the perfect opportunity to test out today’s epic — and I mean EPIC — mixtape! You may remember a week or so ago when we shared Recently Vol 1 from 2006, well, the other morning Baby & I found & shaked our money-makers to a good portion of the finale to the woo-ing trilogy, Recently Vol 3, so much so, that I had, HAD, to share some of it with you.
Unfortunately, while some of the mixtape was booty-rumpadumpin’ good times, some was a bit too chill for booze & bbqin’, AND it was just too short. So yesterday, I took volume 3, divided by 4, multiplied it times 2, then squared the shit out of it!
The results? Let’s just say, the BBQ went long & I’m hurtin’ pretty good today!!! So, here it is for you, for all your labours, enjoy as…
And we here at TSURURADIO, the whole paper crane collective, just want to say a big fat and delicious thank you… thank you very much! I hope you are enjoying what you are reading and spreading the good times yourselves to you and your’s. We really appreciate you comin’ around, takin’ yer shoes off, and sittin’ a spell. Until next time!
Well… mostly. You see… well actually, before we go further, quick related side note.
I’m often asked by people going into bloggerin’ for advice on “how to be a successful blogger”, the first thing I usually tell them is to NOT name your site something that people can neither spell or pronounce. Yeah, yeah, it’s unique, whoop-dee-fucking-doo. Hooray for you, you made a new thinger.
English 101: S’s come BEFORE T’s, when a word goes “Ts..” people have no idea what to do. This means that, outside a little word o’ mouth from people who have stumbled upon us via Hype Machine or Elbows or, now, Shuffler, the only other way to get here was by searching for Tennessee State University radio and accidentally coming here — man, you Tennesseers must’ve been coooorn-fused!
But… I expect more from my friends, more from my nose, but not more from my friend’s nose — which I do enjoy picking. So, you can imagine my excitement to see “my reference” in the Pass video and, when my .027 seconds of viral fame came up, I saw this:
T-U-R-S-U-RADIO… right at the 0:47 second mark. See for yourself:
Here’s how it goes……… All you have to do is send in a Fan Sign photo! Yep, a photo of you, or your boobs, or someone, or something, or you neighbor’s dog, or… well, you get the idea, holding up some sorta fan sign with “TSURURADIO” in it AND SPELLED CORRECTLY!!! Kinda like what Drew is doing up there at the top of this post. You have until FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17th to enter by sending the photo (or hell, the video? why not?) to tsururadio (at) gmail (dot) com.
Then, we’ll pick our favourite and the winner will win…………………………….
WOOOOOOOT!! Right out of my pocket and into yours! So…. between ol’ Zach & myself, that’s a chance to win $80!!! Not too shabby. Can we get an applause?
Thank you.
So, get photographizin’!!!! BUT, before you run off to grab yer cameras, how about we check in on the intertubal interconnections of love potatos and see what’s going on out there in music land. That’s right, my friends, it’s time once again for………
TSURULOOSIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man, TSURURADIO (that’s T-S-U-R-U-R-A-D-I-O) is the gift that keeps on giving today! Looks like a lot has changed in hot & hyped land since our last tsuruloosie post, so lets check in and see what’s what. As always, I rate songs out of a possible 5 wheelies!!! Let’s pull up our front wheels and hop to it!
Just learned this is the guy from Gnarls Barkley. No kidding, eh? Nice song! Outside the fuck angle, it’s really just a sweet fun retro-goodness song. And I like that. here’s the vid that’s been floating around.
Yes, the “fuck” trend is getting old, wonder if they are regretting that name yet? Oh well. Song? Kinda reminds me of The Pass a smidge, actually…. That’s a good thing! YAY! Shake my booooo-tay!
Last one! Sufjan’s a tough act to follow… Ooo… I like this!! Sounds like Grant Lee Buffalo with a bit more push, more oomph! Nice!!!
Woo! That was fun!!! We haven’t had that much tsuruloosie success in a long time!!! Either I’m hip or you guys are just finally in my happy place — what took you? Let’s do it again sometimes? Until then, GO TAKE SOME FAN SIGN PHOTOS!!!!!
Cheers!
Tsuru
P.S. Zach, my friend, I know you were just making fun of the fact that no one can spell “tsururadio”…. I love you, man! I wish you nothing but success with WLFY and The Pass!
A few weeks ago the up and coming Louisville electro pop band The Pass told me their idea to create a found footage or unofficial video for each of their songs to act as way for people to stream their new album BURST (out Sept 21st). Instead of going on myspace and streaming the album, you would go to youtube and be able to watch eleven videos and hear the entire album (see the first track video stream HERE).
I immediately told them I wanted to take a crazy dream I had and put it into moving images. The dream consisted of me showing up at a crazy party to find that all the people are life like takes on the names of music blogs. As you know, there are a lot of clever names for music blogs and the goal of the video was to transform the name of music blogs into human/prop representations. An example of this would be the music blog “I Guess I’m Floating”…you would see a guy floating and then shrug with indifference.
To make this even more fun, I’m holding a contest to see who can identify the most music blog/music site references. We managed to reference over thirty sites. To prevent people from listing every blog they know, if you guess a blog that isn’t featured in the video you get –1 points….one right you get +1. The person with the most points win. E-mail to answers to guesstheblogs@gmail.com. Please don’t use the comment box to guess…they will not count.
The winner will receive a 50 dollar gift certificate to Insound and a cd copy of The Pass debut BURST. If someone manages to get a perfect score, I might throw in something extra. This was a lot of fun to make and I hope you have as much fun watching what has to be one of the craziest house parties ever.
WORD! So get your pen & paper ready & get watchin’ then go get winnin’!!! Hell, you already got one with the screen shot at the top of this post.
Interesting to note, even friends & fellow bloggers can’t spell TSURURADIO right.
“Almost six months ago we introduced you to Louisville, KY’s The Pass and their brand of indie pop hat marries Manner‘s synthesized fervor and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix‘s endearing warmth. Over the last six months, The Pass has released an EP and worked on their full-length debut Burst with mixing engineer Alex Aldi, whose latest works include Suckers’ Wild Smile, Passion Pit’s Manners, Harlem Shakes’ Technicolor Health, and The Walkmen’s You & Me. Well, Burst is all wrapped up and almost ready for you to devour.” – Pretty Much Amazing
TOUR DATES
Jul 30 2010 10:00P COSMIC CHARLIES Lexington, KY
Aug 7 2010 8:00P SPLASH BASH! – A POOL/DANCE PARTY Louisville, KY
Aug 11 2010 7:30P Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia
Aug 12 2010 9:00P ATHENS POP FEST Athens, GA
Sep 24 2010 8:00P MidPoint Music Festival Cincinnati, OH
Yeah, I’m busy, but that don’t mean I’m not dancing!!! So, let’s dance! Specifically to “Treatment Of The Sun” by The Pass made by the boys over at We Listen For You! WOOT!
Our friends over at We Listen For You have not only posted, but also directed the new video “Colors” by The Pass saying..
“I’m really excited to share the music video for The Pass – “Colors” from their 2010 EP of the same name which is available HERE. Not only is the band amazing, but they were nice enough to allow me to direct the video. Really hope you enjoy and thanks for watching.”
Oh… watch we will in (as requested) 720 HD! WOOOOOOOOT!
Alright my friends, it’s about time for this bird to take a day off and go see Mama & Sister Tsuru down in Flo-Ri-Da! But before I do…. RIDE UPDATE!
Did you see that the TSURURADIO SUPER AWESOME NO-FRILLS BIKE RIDE for BREAST CANCER on APRIL 3RD has been updated with Maps & Routes??? That’s right! The routes are solidified! Here’s what we’ve got…. We’ve got a lovely riverside bike path 10 miler, a slightly more challenging 20 miler, then the epic 50 miler for the experienced and seasoned riders! Going to be EPIC!!!! Are you riding with us? I hope so!!! If not, then wherever you are, get some friends together, bring $10, $20, whatever a pop, put it in a pot, go for a bike ride and send it to your favourite charity! That’s the whole point! Anyone can do this. You don’t need to wait for a Lance Armstrong to show up, or the American Diabetes Association to put on a ride or a run or a whatever, you can do this anywhere and at any time! BUT, if you are in Columbus on April 3rd and you got a bike, I sure hope to see you at mine!
Now unfortunately for these gams o’ mine — NOTE: need to sing a parody of Guns & Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” but cycling version that goes “Sweet Gams O’ Miiiiiiine” at my next group ride — there won’t be any riding this weekend for me as I’m not about to try to pack my bike for a tiny 3 day trip to Tampa, but seeing the family (including my snowbird Canadian in-laws (two birds, or make that about 5 birds, with one stone!)) more than makes up for it, eh? I think so too. Time off tomorrow means a busy day today, so what do you say we get right on to los musica, my little going away present to you, and man it’s a doozy! 2.1 hours, 26 songs of new, less than new, and pretty darn old songs that have gotten stuck in my mind, my ears, and in my heart, all laid out in proper listening order, packaged up, labeled up, zipped up, & uploaded just for you.
*smooch*
So let’s do this! Get ‘er loaded up on her player of choice and have a wonderful weekend! I’ll see you all on the Twitters, the Facebooks, &/or our Society this weekend but if all that’s not your cup o’ tea, well, then, I guess I’ll see you back here on Monday. Until then, enjoy as…
As a boob-lover & connoisseur, I’m extraordinarily offended! Not only is this very anti-women, anti-choice, anti-fucking-everything, it’s just asinine! Because some sick blokes get off on kids, you are going to block a grown ass woman from expressing her sexuality as she sees fit because she’s an A-cup? To continue working in the adult industry would mean a move from Australia or a boob-job?
Aussies…. c’mon. Seriously. C’m-the-fuck-on!
We, and I mean ALL of us, must celebrate the boobie! Big ones, little ones, droopy, perky, large nipples, small nipples, pink, and brown! Small breasts are wonderful, super-sexy, and a great break from all the ballooned tittied air-brushed Playboy/Baywatch Barbie dolls thrown at our faces constantly by the media.
To my wonderful Australian readers, wake up & rise up! Don’t let this banning/censoring occur!
Breast cancer knows no cup size, effect all women, from sub-A’s to quintuple-Zs. AND it looks like we have a start location! We’ll make it official in March, but it looks like we will be starting at the Columbus Park Of Roses! This will allow the 10 milers to stay on the Olentangy Bike Path, the 25er’s will venture off the path a little bit, and the 50 will take the path up and out, head into Delaware Country and loop their way back down! Just working on a final route for the 25ers and we’ll be all set!
Ride for your sisters, your moms, your neighbors, your friends, and for yourself! We’ve got some boobies to help save!!!!! Can’t wait, and hope to see you there with $20 bucks in your hand and a bicycle between your legs!!!
WOOOOT!
Okay, music….. It’s Twofer Friday today (why not, eh?) and before we get to the album stuck in my head, I think we need to get some tsuruloosies out of the way, take a look around the intertubal superhighway of love and see what’s hot!
Alright! This time around, I had the foresight to upload my wheelies to give these guys some proper ratings! WOOT! As per usual, the rating is out of 5 WHEELIES!
But enough with the jibber-jabber, let’s get on with it (I feel so out of the hype-loop lately)…
End on a “Zzzzz”??? You thought we were done?!?! HA! Wait… did you? I mean, it says right up in the post title Twofer Friday and the album we are going to review. Seriously, if you didn’t know this was coming, I’m going to start worrying about you.
Yep, Tunng’s And Then We Saw Land! Quite nice… basically classic folk-rock with bits and pieces of electronical goodness here and there. At times it reminds me of that Sufjan guy with it’s sweet orchestral pop, other times it sounds like it’s pulled from right out of the late 60s/early 70s, other times, it’s sounds like the future. Yeah, it’s kinda like that. But aesthetically, it all fits together into a lovely way to wrap up a rather interesting and long week and that’s really all I got to say about that!
Just enjoy…
01 Hustle 02 It Breaks
03 Don’t Look Down Or Back
04 The Roadside
05 October
06 Sashimi
07 With Whiskey
08 By Dusk They Were In The City
09 These Winds
10 Santiago
11 Weekend Away
There you go! Have a great weekend everyone and for all you in & around Columbus, don’t forget this weekend is Couchfire’s Touchy Feely show Saturday night at the Ohio Art League Gallery .
Baby & I both have a piece in the show, her’s is a hand embroidered piece called “NSFW” & I’ve got my “Scratch-N-Sniff Sharpie Porn”! Hope to see you there! Until then….
Cheers,
Tsuru
tsururadio. The musical obsessions, meanderings, and field observations of Aaron (aka Tsuru) most often presented in mixtape format, the way the good lard intended!
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