in our cups

Being Ernest: Sea Change by Fritz Liess

A growing trend in popular music is for bands to cover entire
albums by other artists. For example, The Flaming Lips recently released a cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

Now, Santa Cruz, California alternative rock band Being Ernest has jumped on the bandwagon with their latest album, a cover of Beck's Sea Change.

Sea Change is the band's third studio album and their first
recording of work by another artist.

As with Beck's Sea Change, the album was released with four different album covers and hidden messages under the CD tray.

one: just call

death cloud: number

dead center

beacon in the city

the watchers

inland cove: the hospital is closed

listenear

listenear, the band that hears you, is ready to record.

flying

snowflake and candle: Baby

mirage

stepping: which over

zha zha rubber tub

mt: phonebook text

snowflake and candle: cattle wax

We're not sure what cattle wax is, but there's much lowing on these tracks and even the occasional use of bellows.

say you love me: love signs

say you love me issues love signs just in time for Valentine's. There's nothing more romantic than a fantastic marketing ploy.

perty: impossible

impossible is here. perty sings about it in the thrilling way only perty can.

put on your lipstick again
please put on your lipstick again
please let me trace
my tongue on your taste
put on your lipstick again

doublecross Buddha

From South Padre Island, the hotel lobby band that made "snatch a twinkie" famous, doublecross Buddha, has found the time to produce this tribute to Gary Snyder.

Please note: Other explanations for this album were not forthcoming, and we are not sure that this explanation means much.

the sound council road show

unctious

petals of a dead wind

unindustry

Moved out to the country to get away from you,
But you always show up, like Iago, like Javert,
To terminate the new, and ruined and running,
Called myself Jonah, but the name Ishmael will do

the wrong side of poolside

cheesdip: all party

cheesdip gives us all party, music that doesn't drown out conversations with DEA and CIA and FBI, music that keeps on giving, even in federal court.

plate of grapes: The Burt Bacchus Tribute

Lyre, cymbal, and shoe shine kit,
We eat the cheese of the ancients.

teacup of whimsy: honey hive

The band that features the hand whistle is back.

rage paints a smile: neon glue gun

Check out the band with the hot squish sound!

shuffle off this mortal coil

The long-awaited second album from shuffle off this mortal coil is here: zipper longue. Take a listen to the machine inside the bag.

lava lovers

Featuring the smash hit single "volcano god," this album begs you to take the virgin chance and do the virgin dance.

the sweet warts

BC/AD

running wall

carnival george

flesh garden

Songs about skin.

construct

wardrobe genie: horse

life changing event band

Music for those special occasions. And music for everything overpriced. And music for everything overrated.

hiding in our own audience

"No one knows what it's like."

legnest

Buy pterodactyl, the latest from legnest!

axh

dwarfs of the mad forest, oh!
know where the wind whistling
window where the mad for its
dwarfs of the deep end of time
clock of the rhyme pocket line
whose axh of burn downed blind
stone upon stone fountain wet
wind madly regret walking home
to dwarfs of death the forest,
oh! life looks tree envy it

flu

This is the album that features the seven minute version of "sneezeguard mama" as well as the hilarious "Achtung Achoo Gesund."

tamperproof: not so easy

When you thought the lock couldn't be broken,
When you thought things couldn't get more adjusted,
You thought they had everybody paid off,
Busted!

libertydeath: mask of obscenity

sympathetic vomit

sympathetic vomit puked this album up in three weeks, but its title is still in dispute: sick, slipping in sick, or swine flu? Buy their single "slipping in sick" online, and you can cast your vote for the title.

darning and crochet: fast knitting with Vivaldi

darning and crochet have returned from their studio with what they hope to be their most successful album ever: fast knitting with Vivaldi.

Ladies, sharpen your needles! The violin is most fiddle.

Monedita B. Bécquer

Portada para Benita Bécquer

Iván Jelev y cipollina

Promocional

rename the king

Unable to invent music, rename the king decided nonetheless to invent music. Neverthless, slightly paranoid lead singer Trevor Tilch prefers to focus on the history of the band as a tribute band, but his fellow band members want to break out of their tribute band status and refuse to cover tunes already performed.

In mock defiance, Trevor ad libbed all of his lyrics at a recent performance, but it turned out that he performed his role no worse than usual, which lead bassist Steve Unser to say, "We're a tribute band that doesn't pay tribute."

That ad lib is captured here.

Yes, the tunes on this album ooze with the senseless tensions of rename the king.

pig face damnation

How pig face damnation came to be is an astounding story in itself. Critics have labelled it an Insane Clown Posse ripoff, but the dynamic of pig face damnation is of a different order than that of Insane Clown Posse. Indeed, pig face damnation actually set out to write music for topless bars and issued "sit and spin" ten years ago when it was known as Hot Silver, when critics called it a Motley Crue ripoff.

The idea for pig face damnation came after drummer Kit Larsen quit Hot Silver to open a midnight volleyball/mosh pit lake club in Austin. Grubber Thompson and Pete Tinsel, the two remaining Hot Silver members, recruited a drummer and bass player after spending a month in the Grand Canyon trying out their chants. With the formula for a "chant band rather then a yell 'naked' band," Grubber and Pete put together pig face damnation within a half year after Hot Silver disbanded.

As to the name, "pig face damnation," Grubber credits a visit to the Video Bar in Deep Ellum in the 1980s, where he saw Leatherface enacting his chainsaw chase on the big screens (the one Grubber remembers was above the downstairs dance floor) to his fascination with meat masks. Grubber was six at the time he visited the Video Bar, and his tales of Deep Ellum are worthy of his forthcoming movie, Me and Joe Bob Briggs, where Grubber narrates his "horror movie youth" in detail.

But "pig face" itself, as Grubber tells it, relates to the masks worn by certain Washington Redskin fans. To this inteviewer's satisfaction, Grubber could not quite relate "pig face" to Leatherface, but perhaps the masks worn by Leatherface and Washington Redskin fans they are all part of the "meat mask" fascination Grubber spoke of.

Check out "My Bloody Valentine" and "Redder and Redder." As the chant goes on "Axe Battle," "It's all grunts and squeals and the thrill of surviving a spin on Ixion's Wheel."