Friday: 3 - Crazy Eyes

     You may or may not know this, but last year difficult-to-categorize prog-rock band 3 undertook a pretty ambitious project: to record and release a new song each and every month. Pretty ballsy, right?

     For a number of reasons both professional and personal, which I won't go into here (but which you can check out the band's Facebook page to find out more about if you're so inclined), that grand plan went off the rails a little bit. But that doesn't mean it got scrapped entirely, and Joey and company have recently released the latest in this ongoing series of singles.

     It seems as though "Crazy Eyes" was originally slated to see the light of day last fall, until some of the aforementioned life stuff got in the way. Listening to the end result, which finally came out last week, I for one am fine with the delay, considering the work of beauty that we ended up with. "Crazy Eyes" is relatively simple (compared to some 3 songs) and relatively mellow, musically speaking, and yet it's got a haunting quality that makes it arguably heavy as shit. If you can spin it once or twice and not feel something, whatever your emotional reaction might be, then you're a much better (or worse?) person than I am.

     Sound like a challenge you want to take? Click on or around this area and find out.

Maid Myriad - Be Careful What You Wish For

     Play the old game of "which band does band X sound like?" with today's band Maid Myriad, and in my opinion you might well end up with the 3, the post-whatever act of Joey Eppard, brother to Coheed and Cambria's once-and-future drummer Josh.

     Maid Myriad have a similar "weight" to 3 (heavier than straight rock or alternative, but not necessarily heavy enough to call metal) and a similarly strong melodic sensibility. And on top of that, singer Jeff Klemm has a similarly powerful range to Joey, making this a band that could be capable of some very interesting things.

     Tonight you're getting introduced to Maid Myriad via "Be Careful What You Wish For", the latest track to be released from the band's forthcoming full-length debut With Haste On Its Breath. And if, like me, you're digging on this track you won't have long to wait for a wider sampling of some of Maid Myriad's interesting things, as With Haste comes out in early October.

Song of the Today: Weerd Science - Girl, Your Baby's Worm Food

     Hey everybody, I'm back with today's Song of the Day for today, but I've got a bit of a caveat before we get started, and here it is: this song is super duper NSFW and probably pretty offensive if you don't have a good (read: dirty, filthy, and generally terrible) sense of humour, or if you're just pro-life. Huh? What does TheBeard mean by that? Read on.

Song of the Yesterday: 3 - Alien Angel

     No excuses today, just late with yesterday's song, so you get another double header. The first one requires a bit of a walk, so bear with me. Now, by now you should all at least have heard of Coheed and Cambria, what with all the talking about them I've done: a couple of songs of the day and the Super Tuesday post in anticipation of their new album, The Afterman Part 1: Ascension (which, by the way, is pretty good). If you read that super Super Tuesday post, then you might remember me mentioning a gentlemen named Josh Eppard, Coheed's original drummer, who was gone for an album or two but is now back with the band.