Sometimes I Wonder Whatever Happened To Death From Above 1979…
Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by spencer in Blog
Sometimes I Wonder Whatever Happened To Death From Above 1979…then I am reminded that those dudes are still rocking. Well, I assume both of them are. I know for a fact that Sebastien Grainger is around because he rocked SXSW and is on tour, playing San Francisco on Monday.
Oh look, here’s a press release:
Best known for his contributions as singer and drummer for Canadian dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979, whose decadently catchy anthems took the world by storm with the release of their breakthrough record You’re a [...]
Eye Spy With My Little Eye…The International Space Station
Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by spencer in Technology
For those of us on the West Coast of the United States, check the horizon this early evening to see the international space station. Or don’t; it’s your life.
Tues Jan 20: appears due west about 5:45pm, pass high to our north, then visible all the way to the NE horizon. Four minutes total.
No Needing For Panic
Posted on 30. Jul, 2008 by spencer in Idiocy
IT’S A CAR CHASE!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell Fuck Yeah! Spencer’s Back
Posted on 03. Jul, 2008 by spencer in Chico, Music
Breath easy internet, I have returned to my blogging post. Over the last week and a half I’ve been journeying up the Pacific Coast with Bear Hunter . As it turns out, when I try and write on my laptop while in the van I start to puke all over my band mates — hence, my absence from Synthesis Blog. Over the next few days I will be recounting my harrowing journey (in between fascinating posts about pop stars getting busted for drugs, children with weird growths on their bodies [...]
Barack Obama
Posted on 04. Jun, 2008 by spencer in Lifestyle, Politics
YES.
The first black man to be elected the Democratic Presidential Nominee. YES.
Collective Sound Band Camp: Let It Be Heard Webisode 4
Posted on 03. Jun, 2008 by spencer in Chico, Film, Lifestyle, Music
Apart from boasting a shithead college for shithead students and the world famous Sierra Nevada Brewery, Chico, California, has a thriving (if not nationally recognized) music scene. Many of the players in this scene contribute to a summer School of Rock-style band camp named The Collective Sound. Last year they decided to start putting together a documentary of the goings-on of the staff and the campers, aged 12-18. Watching it will give you that warm on the insides feeling. Please enjoy Episode 4.
Thrice Interview on Synthesis.net
Posted on 30. May, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Music, Videos
Along with The Fall of Troy, Video Matt also had a chance to sit down with brothers Ed and Riley Breckenridge from the amazing Thrice this weekend in San Francisco. Check out his interview with the band above, then go out and by their new quadruple EP (yes as in 4) set The Alchemy Index in stores NOW!
