Grown Up and Gone Sad

NEW WEEZER SONGS LEAK


Here are some new leaked Weezer tracks from their latest self-titled LP (The Red Album!) courtesy of Stereogum. If "Pork and Beans" didn't make one realize that the band is back in a rare, 'Pink and Blue' form, this new track "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" will cast all fears aside. This is Weezer vs. Queen and it recalls tracks like "The Good Life" and "El Scorcho" with its self-obsessed, nerdy lyrics and wild structure changes. Definitely an early candidate for one of the best songs of the year!

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OLD BAND CHEER - CARISSA'S WIERD


I spent much of this week looking for new and different bands, all the while considering putting them up on this site. Coming up empty I began to get discouraged. "Will anyone even read this post? Will people even care what new artist I put up? Does anyone read Cannibal Cheerleader?" I thought to myself. Through this depressing haze came the low, Pacific-Northwest strum of an old friend, Seattle's long dead legends Carissa's Wierd.

Carissa's Wierd is a reminder of why I love music, why I love writing about music, and why I'm doing what I'm doing. When I was a lonely indie kid growing up in small town Texas poking around Limewire looking for friends to filter through the expensive headphones I bought to keep the world out I found the lonely keyboard clinks and male-female change-off vocals of Carissa's Wierd. The perfect indie-rock group, with modernist, soulful leanings, obscure instrumentation, and heartfelt emotion to spare. Since their breakup members of the group have gone on to found great but lesser groups (Band of Horses, Jenn Ghetto's solo project S) and their demise saddened many.

Last night I found the band's Myspace, or not really the band's per say, but a fan page featuring their songs created by "a Colorado boy with nothing better to do with his time". The page itself is not unlike the band itself. A seemingly thrown-together, simplistic piece with nonetheless a great depth of emotion and caring for its subject manner. The picture up there is the guy's choice for the profile picture on the Myspace and it seems fitting for their sound. Under the 'Sounds Like" section the Colorado boy writes "Punk kids grown up and gone sad." Nothing could be more apt. Check them out if you like this crazy thing we call music. Here's a live video by them.

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TERROR THURSDAY - ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH


This week's Terror Thursday was a real doozy, with audience-pleaser Zombie Creeping Flesh. This was definitely a weird one, done by the same "genius" that gave us Troll 2, so I came in knowing what to expect and boy did I get it. Terrible plot/b-movie acting, but overall good gore and pacing, with enough violence and weirdness to offset the groan-inducing moments. Definitely worth a rental, if only to see some awesome eye-gouging, bizarre stock footage of real cannibalism, tons of fake vomit, and a giant random picture of a fat cat in an office building. 3 and a half out of 5 bloody pon-poms.
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MY MORNING JACKET ON AUSTIN CITY LIMITS


To end the week off I'll post about to of my favorite things: My Morning Jacket and Austin. Check out this Google video version of their Austin City Limits performance. See you next week and please comment if you like what you see!