A Few Quick Hits...

Long time no post. As always, just been too busy to come up w/ something worth putting in front of anybody. Nothing of great levity to report at present time...Mrs. Famous (and, thusly, the Wonder Twins) are doing okay...the D-O-G is still a sweetheart (but a handful)...took in a few Cubs games (where they lost to both the Cardinals and Brewers)...LOST is back on the air and the season premiere was pretty good...VH1's Hip Hop Honors airs on Monday (decent list of honorees, but the scheduled performers look kind of weak...blah, blah, blah.

Luckily, I do have a couple of musical suggestions worth mentioning:

DIOS MALOS

'dios (malos)'

Awful album cover, but a great band out of Hawthorne, CA. Breaking away a little from tripped out Grandaddy covered by the Beach Boys sound of their debut (which was stellar BTW), the band offers up a heaping helping of uptempo psychedelic folk rock for the indie stoner set. I've loved this band since their first EP was released a few years back and it's great to see them come back strong. I'd list highlights, but really...I like the whole thing cover to cover. DL the lead-off track ('Feels good Being Somebody') and two of my favorite tracks from their previous disc HERE.

M83

'M83'

I gave a brief round of props a few months back to M83's 2005 release ('Before the Dawn Heals Us' )and the previous album ('Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts') is one of my favorites to grace my iPod in the past few years. As luck what have it, the French duo's (now a one-man-show) debut album from 2001 received domestic release earlier this month. Orchestral and sparse in the same breath, this is more of the M83 brand of synth-heavy ambient pop music that ranges from spooky to frenetic. Good stuff. You can stream samples from all of their albums HERE.

So, there you go...for now. Enjoy. Peace.