Hey guys, it’s been a while since I’ve updated, and this isn’t an amazing update to boot, but figured I’d let you know about a couple of bands I’ve been into lately.

If you haven’t checked out my other post, please do, I list a bunch of the instrumental progressive rock bands that I listen to! Well, there is some singing in some of them, but oh well! So, onto the bands&hellip.

Mouth of the Architect (Dayton, OH)
The song Hate & Heartache starts out with a sample of some movie or something, haven’t quite figured it out, but it’s a pretty powerful message that turns into an awesome song!

Maybeshewill (Leicester, UK)
I actually found out about this band when searching for the source of the previous song’s sample, because apparently Maybeshewill has a song that has the same (but extended) sample in it! I think Maybeshewill did it first (in the song Not for Want of Trying), but oh well. This band’s a little harder than Mouth of the Architect, but both are excellent!

Years of Rice & Salt (London, UK)
I don’t quite remember how I heard about this band, but either way I found them or they found me on Twitter (that’s another article, Twitter’s pretty powerful…) and have a free downloadable EP so I figured I’d check them out. Definitely worth it, and eagerly awaiting a full length!

This has been one of my favorite genres to explore recently. There’s a ton of great stuff out there! Hope you enjoy checking these bands out.

Thanks Jeremy for tagging me with this. It gives me a reason to post, and is actually a pretty cool shot if I do say so myself!

Rules: go to the sixth page of your Flickr stream, and post the sixth picture that’s listed, then tag six more people.

This was a trip that I made with Adam and Tyler two summers ago out to the Apostle Islands. We camped and kayaked for a couple of days. It was quite an adventure as the first day we went out we kind of got caught in a small windstorm and I ended up tipping my kayak over, and it was early in the summer so Superior was still cold.

This particular shot was when we went out two days after that incident (it rained the day after, we went to Duluth, and the freshwater aquarium). There were a bunch of pretty cool sea caves along the shore, so we went exploring!

So that’s my story. I think I’ll tag these six lucky folks:

Justin Sailor
The Carpenters
Chris Barr
Larry Tomlinson
My mom
And fellow Yooper Brian Rendel

Want to show you a few cool movie trailer mashups. Some of them are older than others, ball in all very fun to watch. They get better as you go, so if you want to watch just one, watch the last. Have any others you like?

Legend Alone (Home Alone and I Am Legend)

The Dark Elf (The Dark Knight and Elf)

Requiem for a Day Off (Requiem for a Dream and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)

Here’s a list of things coming up in the next few months that I’m looking forward to:

• Burn After Reading coming out Friday, September 12th
• Late September the Red Wings season starts.
• The Fabled City is the second Nightwatchmen album, it comes out on September the 30th.
• Lunatic Soul is a project from one of the members of Riverside, a band I thoroughly enjoy. Lunatic Soul has their debut album coming out on October 13th.
• Sept. 20th marks the date for a longboard meetup in Marquette. Super pumped about that.
• Sept. 10th the indoor city vball league starts again. Hopefully I haven’t crashed again on my longboard before than, and hopefully I’m headed up from it by then as well.
• I’ll be helping out a friend from church with a Youth for Christ ministry that he runs at the high schools, this will occur every Monday.
• Friends come back to school (even though I’m done with school, it’s still kind of exciting), so I’ll have a few other things to do. (Like M:tG, yay.)

Hrm, that’s all I can think of right now. I always hope things will cool down a bit so I get a bit more freetime, but time has taught me that that never happens, so I guess I’ll just enjoy the business I’m becoming accustomed to. Hope you are all doing well!

It’s pretty much impossible to not love the raw sound that Zack de la Rocha emits from his talented mouth.

One Day as a Lion is both the name of Zack’s new two-man band, and the name of his new 5-song EP. While not as in the spotlight as much as Rage Against the Machine’s lead singer, ex Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore is the other half of Lion. I’ve been a fan of both of these bands for a long time now, so when I heard (admittedly just today, when the EP was released) that they put out some music, I had to give it a listen.

Pretty good stuff. Not Rage, not Mars Volta. The sound is unique; grungy, electronic, Zack’s scratchy-esqe vocals. The political lyrics that Rage has always had, and the experimental sound that Mars Volta is known for (not the same sound, but experimental nonetheless).

I think my favorite track is #4, If You Fear Dying. “Time is coming, rising like the dawn of a red sun. If you fear dying then you’re, then you’re already dead.”

It’s great to have some fresh Zack vocals back pumpin’ through the speakers. The last time I heard him was on Saul William’s self titled album, on track #4, Acti III Scene 2 (Shakespeare). Actually, now that I listen to it, the sound is similar to If You Fear Dying.

But anyways, One Day as a Lion is worth the five bucks on Amazon MP3. Go get it.