VIDEO: Bella Morte, "Earth Angel"

One more Dragon*Con band post before I leave for the big weekend. This song, taken from Bella Morte’s latest album Bleed the Grey Sky Black, is a pretty amusing cover of the ancient “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine” originally released in 1954 by The Penguins (Buy it now!). The video is definitely top notch [...]

VIDEO: The Crüxshadows, "Birthday"

It’s almost here! The Crüxshadows’ new single, “Birthday”, will be officially released on September 4th. The disc is very important for the band and it’s fans, as it is an opportunity for them to again make it onto the mainstream-clad Billboard charts here in the states. Their last single, “Sophia” (Buy it now!), put them [...]

VIDEO: Sofia Rotaru, "Ya zh Ego Lubila [Live in Kiev, Ukraine]"

It’s Independence Day over in Ukraine. I used to work with a Ukrainian woman named Natela, she was cool as hell. She let me borrow a lot of her Russian and Ukrainian CD’s and such. She quit though. One name that always stuck out in all of the music she gave me though was Sofia [...]

VIDEO: Bob Marley, "Redemption Song [Live in Dortmund, Germany]"

August 23, today, is known as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & it’s Abolition. Here’s one of my favorite songs to celebrate, Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”… Direct link to the video Buy it now!

NEWS: Newest Hopeful Machines album finally released for download!

I suppose I’ll follow up my Ego Likeness post with news that the latest Hopeful Machines album, ::Theskydrinksonlyfrommymouth::, has been released for download. The news was just released on the ego_likeness LiveJournal. If you remember, the album was released as a very limited 2-CD set a while back paired with ::Amphetamedian::. To download the album [...]

MP3: Ego Likeness live @ The DNA Lounge; 2007-01-21

A very happy birthday today to Steven Archer, the male half behind Ego Likeness and the male whole behind Hopeful Machines, on behalf of me and You Sound Like A Robot! I wanted to put a picture of him rocking out on guitar as he does so well, but I think this picture is just [...]

VIDEO: Zack Kim, "Super Mario Theme"

Holy shit. This dude plays two electric guitars simultaneously. I could only dream of such talent. My favorite of his performances was the adaptation of the Super Mario Bros. theme composed by Koji Kondo, so it’s the one that gets embedded on here. I’m also quite partial to his performances of Danny Elfman’s The Simpsons [...]

VIDEO: Elvis Presley, "Wooden Heart"

As you may or may not know today is the thirtieth anniversary of “The King” Elvis Presley’s untimely death. My favorite of Elvis’ songs is probably this one, “Wooden Heart.” Mostly because it is based on an old German folk song called “Muß i’ denn zum Städtele hinaus” and therefore we all get to hear [...]

VIDEO: Ghoultown, "Killer in Texas"

It’s time for You Sound Like A Robot to experience some of “the true tequila-guzzlin’ sounds of Texxxas!” Ghoultown, a “gothabilly” band out of… well… Texas, is one of the bands playing at this year’s Dragon*Con. This song, “Killer in Texas”, is taken from the 2000 album Tales From the Dead West. I think they’re [...]

VIDEO: The Cure, "Lovesong"

Happy 19th anniversary to Mary Poole and The Cure frontman Robert Smith! This is The Cure’s highest charting single in America, “Lovesong”. Originally written for his long-time girlfriend as a wedding present, it was included on 1989′s Disintegration and released as the second single from the disc. Don’t quote me on this, but it’s probably [...]

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