VIDEO: Sifl & Olly, “United States of Whatever”

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of an old show called The Sifl and Olly Show. Unfortunately only recently discovering this gem brought to us by MTV in the late 90′s, I’ve become quite obsessed. The show, created by Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco ran for two seasons. Check out clips from the show on [...]

VIDEO: Gerry Phillips, “Penny Lane”

I have officially added someone to the list of people that I want to be like when I grow up. Gerry Phillips is what is know as a manualist or a “hand musician.” Watch his performance of The Beatles‘ hit “Penny Lane” including a spot-on performance of the trumpet solo. I squeezed a few more [...]

NEWS: Ego Likeness’ “West” EP Announced

The second chapter in darkwave band Ego Likeness‘ Compass EPs series is now available for preorder. Like it’s predecessor, South, the EP will be self released and limited to a small run of 300 units. The disc, which is moving much faster than South according to the band on their LiveJournal, will run you $10 [...]

MP3/FLAC: mc chris, “life’s a bitch and i’m her pimp”

Back in 2001 mc chris released his first album, life’s a bitch and i’m her pimp in a physical CD form. Shortly after, however, the disc was removed from the online store leaving only one very small run in existence. This was presumably for legal reasons seeing as the album’s most drawing track features the [...]

YSLAR Updates: November ’08

Welcome to November! Many apologies for a lackluster past few months. I do have good news for the future, however. For the first time You Sound Like A Robot.com will be featuring a second contributor. Meet Cyril… Cyril will begin contributing posts soon.