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.

Album of the Week: Weerd Science - Friends and Nervous Breakdowns

     I'm going to step outside our collective comfort zone a little bit for this week's Album of the Week, so please bear with me. I promise it'll still be time well spent.

     I like to think I'm pretty musically open-minded, with a broad musical palate, but I quite naturally listen to more of some things than others. Rap and hip-hop tend to be fairly low on my set of playlist priorities, but they are on there, and one of the main reasons why is your Album of the Week this week.

     Regular readers may well have heard me talk about Weerd Science before, and those same regular readers (as well as the generally observant among you) may remember that Weerd Science is in fact the nomme de rhyme for Coheed and Cambria drummer Josh Eppard. You hypothetical readers also might already know that Josh's "dayjob" with Coheed isn't the only reason you should give Weerd Science a listen.

     The main reason you should give Weerd Science a listen is that goddamn, Josh has some flow. I'm no expert on either rap or hip-hop, but that doesn't mean I can't recognize one talented dude when I hear him. And it's not just a "whoah, white boy can rap" thing either (although I happen to think that Josh has the potential to hold his own alongside Mr. Mathers given the chance, if you want to talk white rappers).

     No, it's not novelty or curiosity or flash-in-the-pan, one-hit-wonderism that makes me dig Weerd Science. It's the simple fact that Josh has written some really solid Weerd Science material, a fact that you're going to discover for yourself this week as you listen to Friend and Nervous Breakdowns, the album that introduced me to this whole other side of the drummer from Coheed and Cambria.

Song of the Day: Weerd Science - Fuck You and Your Filthy A&R Dept.

     I'm feeling a little saucy this evening, so we're going to experiment with a little Weerd Science. I know I've written about Coheed and Cambria drummer Josh Eppard's MC moniker before, but it's been a while and since it's the kind of thing you rigid metalheads might not normally listen to I figure Josh should get another day in the sun.

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.