WHAT MORE COULD BIG WAVE SURFER ROSS CLARKE-JONES DO WITH HIS LIFE? HOW ABOUT HAVE A DOCUMENTARY MADE ABOUT HIM AND HIS STORY. READ ON AS ROSS PROVES TO WAYNE CHINSANG THAT THERE TRULY IS A HAPPY ENDING AT THE END OF HIS TALE... AND THAT SURFERS REALLY LIKE TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS DURING EMAIL INTERVIEWS!

YOU KNOW HIS NAME: MIX MASTER MIKE. YOU KNOW HIS GIG: WORLDWIDE SCRATCH ENTHUSIAST AND BEAT DOCTOR FOR THE BEASTIE BOYS. AND NOW YOU WILL KNOW ABOUT HIS NEW ALBUM, BANGZILLA, HIS UPCOMING TOUR, AND WHY HE DOESN\'T LISTEN TO DJ MUSIC. SO COME ALONG WITH WAYNE CHINSANG AS HE WALKS YOU THROUGH THE WORLD OF MIKE.
Wayne Chinsang: So, your new album, Bangzilla, comes out October 19th.
Mix Master Mike: Right.
WC: Start off by telling me a little bit about this album, and how you feel it differs from your previous work.

The People loved The Candidate because he stood for what was Right. He was a man of conviction, resolute regardless of dissent, never flipping nor flopping. All The People at the National Rifle Association rally believed in their man, save for one teenage girl who traveled across two red states and two blue states to see him.

To paraphrase Sinatra: \"When I was 19 / It was a very good year / It was a very good year / For punk rock boys / And their rude girlfriends / With five dollars to spend.\"
What, you never heard that verse? Oh, trust me. It was there. He wrote it right before he died, because he couldn’t stop listening to and thinking about HellCat Records\' inaugural and incomparable introductory compilation, Give \'Em The Boot I. It’s all Old Blue Eyes listened to.

If you like Jurassic 5, and had the pleasure of bearing witness to Ozomatli in their self-titled album lineup days, you can’t not like Chali 2na. He’s the big, booming baritone voice passing out metaphors like Halloween candy. He can fill the mic with playfulness, or \"don’t fuck with us\"-ness. And he adds an equal sixth of incomparable charisma to the J5 live show.

Through The Opaque Air is a fitting title for the six-song EP by The Slow Signal Fade. The soaring vocals of Marguerite Olivelle cut through the fog of reverb-soaked guitars and plodding bass lines in a way that reminds me of The Cranberries, with touches of Miranda Sex Garden. A dark, moody callback to the halcyon days of This Mortal Coil and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
The Slow Signal Fade sounds most like Switchblade Symphony to me, though, so if you’re a big fan of Switchblade’s blend of mood and atmosphere, you owe it to yourself to see what these guys are all about.

Ex Machina: Essentially, dude becomes grafted with some alien/magic device that allows him to telepathically communicate with any and all machines. Dude becomes NYC superhero, but quickly retires figuring he can do more good in other ways. Dude reveals his identity and becomes Mayor of NYC. Series begins at the beginning of his first term.

Somehow, I managed to underestimate the Beastie Boys. It might have been the two-hour traffic jam that I encountered on D.C.\'s outer Beltway on the way to the show, or the fact that I left for the show just an hour or so after teaching chemistry all day. Needless to say, when I finally got to the point where I was at my seat and the show began, I was slightly unimpressed.

Unfortunately, I lost the press release for this Every Last Windmill Shall Fall record, so I can\'t tell you about the singer\'s favorite flavor of jelly bean and why the popcorn ones make him cry.