December 2011
1 post
There has been considerable confusion over the past few hours as to whether the Senate — which passed the National Defense Authorization Act (FY 2012) — included a last-minute “waiver” to protect American citizens from some of the bill’s more outrageous and fascist elements, including the right of the US government to detain citizens — even those on American soil, and not charged with a crime —...
April 2011
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For the next week or two, site functionality will be spotty as I build this guy back out from from the ground up. But then, new coolness. Stay tuned.
November 2010
2 posts
Breakup jam I made a few months back. Listen below; D/L here. Chambaland - “Fuck You, I’ll Survive” (Gloria Gaynor vs. Cee Lo Green)
With no desire to be tastemakers, the good people @ AMFMPM have been up to other things lately. NAMELY: MRTIM has been holding down the internet-approved Our Valued Customers for some time now. Featuring only the best and brightest comic store shoppers, don’t hate- let Our Valued Customers do it for you! Left Handed Radio is a new monthly sketch show from your favorite New York comedy jerks....
October 2010
1 post
August 2010
2 posts
We’re in the home stretch of summer, New York, which means we’ve all got to do our part to start milking these fine-weathered weekends for everything they’re worth. Can’t be bothered to think of the work week ahead? Then come spend an air-conditioned Sunday night with the best FREE comedy show in town- now Brokelyn.com approved!
Nice!, the nicest comedy show ever is jazzed to bring you the most...
By far, the saddest shit I ever pulled to win favor with a girl was “aging” a note with tea water and wrinkles when I was in 8th grade in order to stage a Can’t Hardly Wait-esque “I’ve had this note forever!” moment. To her credit, she didn’t out-and-out turn me over to be (deservedly) mocked, but she did have some trouble understanding why there were...
July 2010
1 post
Hey, strangers- I’m Dan. I’m a comedian in New York. I used to run this music blog, but then I got tired of it, and haven’t touched it since March. In the last few months, I got really into making mashups, which I largely distribute via my Tumblr. Here are some of them. Genesis vs. Katy Perry - “Invisible Gurls” (Chambaland Mashup) Nirvana vs. Justin Bieber -...
March 2010
8 posts
Welcome to the working week, NYC. Had a pass at the admittedly well produced Ke$ha instru a few months back, to moderate success. Much more pleased with this go around, as we learn once again that all the headbands and pitch correction in the world don’t mean pop music has changed at all in the last half century. Except that Ke$ha is dreadful. Press release goodtimes back in swing tomorrow!...
Hey New York people! Come hit up Orson Welles’ Basement of Terror next Thursday night @ the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre! Written by Frank Hejl, directed by Chuck Dauble, and featuring the best cast this side of 1994 Mickey Mouse Club. There’s no laughter like terror laughter.
I’ve had 5-6 posts of new music goodness lined up for the better part of this week, but here’s the thing: traffic is down as brown at the moment since we don’t have any proper SXSW coverage, and it so happens to be one of the loveliest weeks out in New York in the last six months. So, a sunny day superjam I cranked out last night for now, and back to proper coverage later....
This is rough, but was super fun to make. Woefully inessential/just what the world needed. Happy Friday. Notorious B.I.G. vs. Rent “Seasons Of Juice” (Chambaland Mashup)
I don’t know what I like less about this Lady Gaga/Beyonce video: that title card “PRISON FOR BITCHES”? The hamfisted product placements for Virgin Mobile, Diet Coke, Polaroid, Wonder bread and Miracle Whip? The garish production design? Lifting the Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill and vague specifics from Thelma and Louise under the auspices that this video mirrors some aspect of those movies feminism?...
With Drew Barrymore, Alyssa Milano, and Jamie Pressly in its wake, it does my heart good to know that the Poison Ivy smut-thriller franchise is still chugging along, whoring up once wholesome actresses of youth. That is to say, YOU CAN SEE EMMA FROM DEGRASSI’S BOOBS IN THE DVD VERSION OF POISON IVY IV, YALL. In less wince-worthy alumni news, Jimmy is arguably the greatest hip hop breakout of...
It was somewhere in the middle of the last decade when the day came, as it does for the lucky ones, that I realized I had to quit fucking around with amphetamines. My friends and I had all taken to carrying micro-cassette recorders on our persons- the attempts at secrecy were pitiful as we documented and reported one another’s shit-talking; our collective paranoia a caricature as action...
In the interest of honesty, I’ve just out and out deleted (without listening to) any press releases I’ve received from Wakey!Wakey! in the last few months for the following reasons: 1. I’ve just kinda been doing that lately. Sorry. My Inbox is a fucking mess, and I hugely regret the time a few years back when I chose to consolidate my personal email and my email for press...
February 2010
16 posts
Not newness persay, but a cool, fun, flattering internet find: apparently, folks have been uploading mashups of mine to YouTube, creating neat album graphics for tracks. Speaking with Benjamin this morning about an upcoming series of his and digital content distribution in general, he pithily said “God the internet is great. 15 years ago none of this was doable.” And you know what?...
For all us New York media pricks who can’t wait for the Olympics to end so we can get back to NBC’s Thursday shows, a reason to keep your eyes on Canada this morning- Nova Scotia’s Rich Aucoin gives a song about humans performed by two robots a complete overhaul, building a flesh-and-blood Prometheus around Daft Punk’s synthetic skeleton. Somewhere between Brian Wilson and...
Scribbling their party-positive brand of Windy City flamboastin’ all over The Go! Team’s rah-rah anthem playbook, BBU- that’s Bin Laden Blowin’ Up or Black, Brown and Ugly- are primed to be playlist dark horses of 2010. Humboldt Park MCs Epic, Illekt and Jasson Perez constitute the crew (whose debut mixtape FEAR OF A CLEAR CHANNEL PLANET drops March 1 @ FOCCP.com), crafting real...
Newness from Mr. Tim over @ Monsterbunny!
Man-oh-Manischewitz. I cranked this track out in a few hours almost a month ago, and entirely forgot about it until it just came up on my own iTunes shuffle. Derp. Forgive that hiss; would that there were a clean DeRulo a capella out there… Jason DeRulo Feat. Imogen Heap vs. Phoenix “Nineteen Oh What” (Chambaland Mash)
Gross-out sketch goodness from the brand new Space Time TV this week; conceived and directed by the incomparable Veronica Osorio. Starring Benjamin Apple, Dan Chamberlain, Frank Hejl, & Rob Stern.
This past week, I watched the first episode of Full House I’ve seen since the mid 90’s- the one where Danny invites that Rusty kid to a Tanner family barbecue, and he writes a fake love letter to DJ supposedly from the paper boy she has a crush on. The love letter passes from set of wrong hands to set of wrong hands, and soon everybody in the Tanner household in convinced that another...
This one time, I was walking down 9th Ave. singing along to “Under Pressure” on my iPod a little more audibly than I should have been doing in public. Making eye contact with a homeless man, he glared at me, severely. “Poor homeless guy”, I thought. “My chirping this Bowie/Queen track must’ve been a crummy thing to see, him being homeless and all.” It...
In 2008, Warner Music Group collected roughly $2 Million dollars in royalties for “Happy Birthday to You”, a song of dubious origin first made record of over a century ago. The song will not enter the public domain until 2030. In light of Warner Music Group’s recent decision to no longer offer free streams of their music catalog online (this means Spotify, LastFM, Pandora), am.fm.pm...
I doubt many were expecting a contender for album of the year to drop eleven days into it’s passage, but Owen Pallett’s Heartland (available for streaming via Domino Records @ Soundcloud) is just that, and more- a lush, triumphant emergence from the chrysalis courtesy of the baroque pop movement’s most prescient instrumentalist. (The above free listen comes highly encouraged;...
Great googamooga! Have ‘yall seen the trailer for Freaknik: The Musical? The closest thing that us advocates of That Crook’d Sipp will ever get to a second chance at that series, Freaknik is an hour-long special paying tribute to the late, great Atlanta music festival with a syrup as fuck voice cast including T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Big Boi, Snoop, Cee-Lo, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins,...
We hear shades of The Flaming Lips’ deep-space ennui present in “Whiskey”, the latest from Brooklyn quintet Lowry, who begin their eight week residency at Williamsburg’s Spike Hill this evening. At a time when the label “indie” has blurred to include major label heavy hitters like Coldplay (much like the 90s “alternative” came to include Sheryl...
2010 Oscar Intro Montage Predictions
George Clooney looks out the window of an airplane and sees the house from Up. Paraplegic Sam Worthington wakes up in the body of a District 9 arthropod. Carey Mulligan is whisked away from her stifled 1960s home life and into the sexy, exciting world of Minnesotan Jews. Some Hurt Locker/Inglorious Basterds thing. You know, war and all. Sandra Bullock teaches...
With nu-skool nostalgia hat tippers The Knocks and Samuel in tow, Chinatown’s own Heavy Roc Music cooly planted their flag on the New York music scene in 2009 as a label with one ear toward mom and dad’s dance records; the other on the L train. Even their press photos have headbands! Stepping out confidently this year under the HRM label is Detroit’s Alex Winston, whose...
As the am.fm.pm betting pool for whose album will rule summer 2010 nears it’s final tallies, it’s increasingly difficult to reach a consensus. Who will it be? With new releases from The National, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, The New Pornographers- EDIT: Realizing that we have not, in fact, heard any of the much speculated albums in question, this year’s pool is canceled. All...
The thing about that Owl City motherfucker is that he’s just like Paranormal Activity. Whereas most naysayers bemoan some flawed authenticity, I’m 100% on board: I completely buy that Adam Young twinkles away on his SPD in a Minnesotan bedroom, yearning for a thousand hugs from a thousand lightning bugs between juice time and extended 4Him listening breaks, the same way I completely...
January 2010
2 posts
am.fm.pm will be back in full force this Monday, February 1st.
December 2009
7 posts
That fucking Ke$ha song, AMIRITE? The spelling made my skin crawl too at first, and I was all ready to make some Diddy reference/Ma$e joke, but now that Mr. Bad Boy has committed to doing the Chris Gethard Show it’s all good. Nonetheless, it’s been some time since I so loved a track’s production while so despising it’s lyrics- so I went and did something about it. Next week...
Merry Christmas, am.fm.pm. Below you’ll find our year end mixtape, an overview of classics & newness we’ve enjoyed this past year, all mixed and mashed for your consumption ease. Give a stream in the player below the album art, or D/L by clicking here. (Complete tracklist is in the comments.)
To begin, forgive the nothing out here this past month or so. I’m backed up 200+ press releases at the moment, and needless to say, January will bring a long overdue return to form ‘round am.fm.pm way. This morning, a taste of the Cache Vol. 4 mixtape, coming down in the next 24. Stevie Wonder’s ever versatile “Uptight” pella meets Jay Sean & Lil’...
Two holiday treats this Wintery Wednesday:
Dan Chamberlain & Brandon Scott Jones “The Christmas Shoes” (Newsong Cover)
& Dan Chamberlain & Brandon Scott Jones Feat. Mariah Carey “All I Want For Christmas (The Christmas Shoes Remix)”
There were a magical few years in my house growing up where the argument between us kids and my parents over what to listen to during dinner held prominence over all other discourse. As we saw it, my brothers and I were technically doing my parents a favor, who clearly didn’t understand how lame their taste in dining accompaniment was. There was Candlebox to listen to, after all. There was...
“Lie to me in four good power chords”? Are you fucking kidding me? That actually WORKS as a lyric? Okay Kittens Ablaze, nice try. Give me back my high school chorus trip breakup poetry and teach me the secret of your polyrhythms and let me be in your band and we’ll call it even. I can’t believe you tried to pull that shit on me on a Monday. Kittens Ablaze “Gloom Doom...
Forgive the nothing around here of late; been a little tied up with a show my buddy and I are putting up this Wednesday @ the UCB Theatre. Back up and live sooner than later, tatties.
November 2009
13 posts
I’ve roughly 20 minutes complete of the upcoming Cache Vol. 4 mixtape for the site here, and as it’s a decade ending, the mix is titled Last Century. Focusing on source tracks released before 2000 (with more contemporary fare mixed in), I find myself struggling not to drop “I Want You Back” at every possible turn- it’s like a 1900s cure-all tonic for laptop DJs unsure...
From directors Ferry Gouw and Jason Miller this week comes the video for Major Lazer’s latest, “Keep It Goin’ Louder”. An infinitely more obvious single from Diplo & Switch’s debut than “Hold The Line” and “Pon De Floor”, “Keep It”s housey hook is coolly surfed by club favorites Ricky Blaze and Nina Sky for a winter-break...
Its Gattaca by way of JNCO Jeans cover art notwithstanding, I get the queasy feeling that Chris Brown’s Graffiti will be moving big numbers when it ships December 8th. So take note, Ben Gibbard: if you want to beat the shit out of Zoe*, apparently six months community service and a viral wedding video is all the recompense needed to get you back in the public’s good graces. The site...
I admit that for a time, I avoided The xx for fear of having another Black Kids on my hands; another blog fetishized quartet of mixed gender twentysomethings, with an ear towards danceability and an eye toward Beacon’s Closet who ultimately failed to deliver in the sustainability department. Then, I pulled my head out of my ass. Maybe it speaks to the general cynicism I’ve developed...
Malice: …we care about it, man. We can do everything they’re doing now. I mean, we can put out an album in a week. We can do that. But I wouldn’t be happy with it. I think our songs, our albums, singles, even the mixtapes, everything is handcrafted. Pusha: Yeah, I think that stuff sucks too. Malice: [Laughs.] Pusha: All of that music I’m seeing every fucking day…all these 50,000 mixtapes....
No Mas and regular collaborator James Blagden present the animated tale of Pittsburgh Pirate Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. Flawless repurposing of audio; hugely original animation.
Eventually discharged from the Air Force for being uncooperative and “evidencing a dislike for the service”, Marvin Gaye went so far as to fake mental illness in his efforts to escape the mid-century war machine he’d so gracefully speak out against with his first post- Tammi Terrell output in 1971. Jokes to be made about the Gaye family and mental illness aside, it’s a...
Former Miss California Carrie Prejean visits Larry King Live, 11/11/09. Dramatized and interpreted by Dan Chamberlain and Brandon Scott Jones; featuring Rebecca Drysdale. RRRADIO.
When the BBC Sound of 2009 anointed Master Shortie’s debut LP came and went with little fanfare earlier this year, most suspected that there just wasn’t room for another kodachrome decked pop hip hopper here stateside. Top 40 radio only just tapped into Cudi, and four years since his debut STILL has no idea what to do with Lupe Fiasco- it just wasn’t time. I however, am of the...