Monthly Archive for May, 2007Page 3 of 5

800.588.2300 empire!

Published
by
gregor
on May 20, 2007
in pavement, shows and through the sparks
. 4 Comments

i have to thank one half of the lovely young gals that make up red/blondehead, leah, for bringing birmingham’s through the sparks and their recently released lazarus beach into my realm of consciousness.

lazarus beach is a confusing record and it really only started making sense to me�after about a dozen or so listens. lazarus beach whisks innocently by like a lazy sunday drive in god only knows, georgia. your only company are your thoughts and the songs playing on the lone am station picked up by that shitty kraco radio. its not until you get past these sun-on-your-face-not-a-care-in-the-world-peaceful-easy-southern feelings that lazarus beach begins to reveal its somewhat uneasy underbelly, not unlike the south itself. like behind every smile and open hand or in this case sunny melody there is a real sense of dread but this despondent feeling only rears its head if you let it. to compare lazarus beach, in some regards, to wilco’s summerteeth would not be out of line me thinks.

mexico(every last buffalo)

fallin out of favor with the neighbors

local moon

tonight or i guess this mornings offering is pavement live at e-werk, cologne, germany on june 26, 1995. anyone know if there has been any word on matador giving the remainder of the pavement catalogue the re-issue treatment as they did with slanted, crooked rain and wowee i think it would be a damn shame if they didnt.

1. in the mouth a desert

2. elevate me later

3. grave architecture

4. kennel district

5. rattle by the rush

6. unfair

7. heaven is a truck

8. brinx job

9. serpentine pad

10. best friends arm

11. half a canyon

12. black out

13. grounded

14. conduit for sale

15. motion suggests

16. pueblo

17. cut yr hair

18. shoot the singer

19. here


yo sal, we’re gonna boycott yo fat pavarotti ass!

Published
by
gregor
on May 18, 2007
in ryan adams
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if you are in the atlanta/athens area and plan on making your way over to athfest ‘07, 6.20 - 24, make sure you stick around until sunday to check out the drive by truckers who are playing on the main outdoor stage at 7 pm.  check out the lineup for this years edition.

in other dbt related news, jason and his band the 400 unit will be playing at the 40 watt on july 9.  his debut sirens of the ditch is being released the next day on new west records.

over the course of these 5 bedhead compilations, either you or i are going to be really tired of ryan adams.  with that said, here is part one of the 3rd installment.

1. 1974

2. firecracker

3. honey im just trying to take

4. luminol

5. new york, new york

6. slave

7. c’mon little girl

8. do miss america

9. she’s lost total control

10. shallow

11. the shaking blues

12. this is it

13. chat

14. love is hell

15. so alive

16. dance all night

17. this house is not for sale

18. wish you were here

19. anybody wanna take me home


dads doing his up with white people routine

Published
by
gregor
on May 17, 2007
in shows, spiritualized, spoon and tunes
. 4 Comments

so ga ga ga ga is making its rounds the interweb and who am i to pass up taking it for a whirl? after a bunch of listens i have come to a premature conclusion; its probably their best work, or at least most consistent, since girls can tell. both kill the moonlight and gimme fiction are so damn frustrating cause there are some really great songs but some are almost unlistenable. maybe not so much unlistenable but really boring, but lacking in any kind of soul.

ga ga ga ga ga is going to be released on july 10 on merge and i am sure you will be able to find out more info closer to the release date on their official site / myspace.

the fabulous ladybug transistor are releasing cant wait another day on june 5. sadly, they lost their drummer san fadyl on 4.25 - more info here.

the first single “three days from now” has a great parsons era byrds vibe to it. i am definitely diggin it.

three days from now

here is one of my favorite, but often forget about, artists j spaceman of spirtualized performing at queens hall in edinburgh on 11.25.06. thanks to the original taper!

1. sitting on fire

2. devil town / lord let it rain on me

3. true love will find you in the end

4. the straight and narrow

5. cool waves

6. hold on

7. amen

8. soul on fire

9. walking with jesus

10. going down slow

11. so hot / wash away all my tears

12. stop your crying

13. anything more / ladies and gentlemen

14. lay it down slow

15. baby im just a fool

16. goodnight goodnight / funeral home

17. lord can you hear me

18. oh happy day

spiritualized “come together”


words cannot express

Published
by
gregor
on May 16, 2007
in peer pressure and youtube
. 6 Comments

whattup dis yo boy pipelayer. show you what i got…

work that ottoman dude! impregnate that bitch! work it!!!!!!!!!

i have seen a lot of ridiculous things throughout my years but this quite possibly trumps em all. seriously, my brain cannot fathom the hilarity that makes up this video by none other than peer pressure! the sad thing is is that it is so fuckin hilarious that i cant even laugh. so confused. so very confused.


yes, greedo; i was just coming to see your boss.

Published
by
gregor
on May 16, 2007
in ryan adams and secretly canadian
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its not rare for me to listen a song or an album over and over again in succession many times over. i am very compulsive that way - it drives my wife nuts. speaking of my compulsive behaviour the one album i have been, once again, diggin deep into is david vandervelde’s fantastic the moonstation house band. what drew me back into moonstation was the lead single and probably my favorite of the year, “nothin no.” i, seriously, have listened to that song more than a few hundred times over the past week. there is so much more going on, musically, on “nothin no” and really throughout the record that i originally gave it credit for. it even sounds wonderful in my shitty ipod supplied head phones, i could only imagine how great it would sound with a pair of shures or some brand of the like.

nothin no�

jacket

secretly canadian is releasing “nothin no” as an extended single featuring a couple new songs and an alternate version of “feet of a liar” which was recorded for daytrotter.

listen up american catastrophe you gots a lot of balls naming your first record after the first and finest of the rambo installments, first blood. ah, you didnt? ok, nevermind. there is no denying the guy sounds a lot like nick cave but they seem to have a more appalachian folk vibe much like 16 horsepower. hopefully the whole record is half as cool as “the well.” the only problem i forsee is that his voice my get kinda samey, not unlike mr caves, after awhile. i’ll report later uponan actual listen of said record.

the well

ok, here is the remainder of bedhead vol 2.

36. twice as bad as love

37. learn how to say goodbye

38. sin city

39. tiny dancer

40. wish you were here

41. diamonds or hearts

42. i see monsters

43. rocket man

44. sweet jane

45. i still miss someone

46. i wanna be your dog

47. in the night

48. witch hunt

49. come down easy

50. jeanne

51. psalms

52. chelsea nights

53. going to brownsville

54. queen of the world


hey underpants!

Published
by
gregor
on May 14, 2007
in shows and tunes
. 6 Comments

i make no excuses to the fact that my favorite movie of all time is the blues brothers and oddly has been since i was about 12. thats either a testament to the greatness and timelessness of the movie or the fact that i have not matured much since 12. probably a combination of both. regardless of which is true there is no denying that belushi and aykroyd made one hell of a team musically and of course comedically. then, of course, aykroyd had to go and fuck it up, royally.

here are the boys and their band opening up for the dead at winterland on new years eve in 78.

1. intro

2. hey bartender

3. messin with the kid

4. (i got everything i need) almost

5. band intro 1

6. rubber biscuits

7. shotgun blues

8. groove me

9. i dont know

10. band intro 2

11. soul man

12. band intro 3

13. B Movie

14. flip flop and fly

15. jail house rock

16. outro


are you being driven? or do you drive?

Published
by
gregor
on May 13, 2007
in ryan adams, shows, superchunk and tunes
. 3 Comments

has anyone seen the aqua teen movie? i have heard from reliable sources that its pretty great/fucked up. i have been meaning to but alas it has not come to fruition. so, i am guessing, at this point, that i will be waiting for the dvd. it should be out fairly shortly, i hope. one of my top 3 favorite groups, superchunk, is releasing a 7″, i love vinyl, for the single “misfits and mistakes” which appears on the aqua teen movie soundtrack. the b-side features none other than meatwad on vocals. you can pre-order it here for a lousy 5 bucks.

in other superchunk news, they will be playing a benefit show, along side of the mountain goats, @ the metro in chicago on june 20. more info can be found here.

as a reminder, wilco’s sky blue sky is out this week but you can still get a bunch of cool shit with your order. check out these awesome wilco toys. if they weren’t 50 bucks i would definitely be all over em. they also opened a pretty cool uncle tupelo shop, with some pretty cool stuff, alongside of the wilco shop.

have you listened to hallelujah the hills as of yet? i wrote about em a few months back. the recently signed to misra and are going to be releasing collective psychosis begone fairly shortly.

hallelujah the hills yeah they named a song after themselves. so what?

ok, as it turns out there is like 60 tracks making up bedhead vol 2. so, this is going to 3 part series.

19. stumblin through the dark tonight

20. wonderwall

21. dead flowers

22. like a virgin

23. off broadway

24. shadowlands

25. brown sugar

26. helpless

27. thank you louise

28. this time

29. hard way to fall

30. mix tapes

31. return of the grevious angel

32. sweetest decline

33. daniel

34. ooh las vegas

35. soundtrack of your life