captains dead

photo credit steven cohen @ music photography

i thank the big baby jesus above that the day of infamy, the iphone release date, has passed. now, we must wade through extended, see bullshit, coverage of said device at just about every tech website imaginable - most notably two of my favorites, engadget and gizmodo. as it turns out, and not surprisingly, there are few issues arising after making their purchases. a few that i would find quite annoying if i had purchased one are: activations taking greater than 24 hours, most 3rd party head phones dont work and it turns out the iphone doesnt work with 64 bit xp or vista. even with all these annoyances i still wish sprint had gotten it. i dont understand why oh why apple would team up with att - probably the worst network out there. i had att for 5 years and their tdma service was awesome but as soon as i switched to gsm all bets were off. what they claimed and what was delivered were two totally separate things. that was in chicago, then when i came to atlanta and cingular took over my phone was pretty much unusable 50 percent of the time. i still want one! did any of you guys buy one and if so whats up?

hey, in case you have not heard everyones 6th or 7th favorite canadian ensemble, stars, have a new record, in our bedroom after the war, coming out on sept 25. in case you never heard it, there debut set yourself on fire is pure bliss and i am hoping for more of the same from this one. here’s the first single off in our bedroom..

the night starts here

you can listen to set yourself on fire on the arts and crafts site, here

stars site / myspace

austinite chris simpson who goes under the monikor, zookeeper, has crafted a wonderful piece of lazy day, going no where in particular pop with his zookeeper debut. suprisingly, he’s been around for awhile in such bands as mineral and the gloria record - anyone ever hear of them - but i have never heard of him until a few days ago. after listening to it repeatedly over the past few days, i can confidently say this will probably end up in my top 10 of the year.

i live in the mess you are

tax collector

you can stream the record here

zookeeper site / myspace

has anyone listened to wilco’ sky blue sky more than 5 times? i know i havent. is there something i am missing? this has been my view of sky blue sky over my 5 +/- listens: meh, getting better, better, skip skip, meh, boring. i know thats six, what can i say? every time i go to listen to it, i find myself skipping over 90% of the tracks which is truly depressing. definitely my most disappointing record in some time. anyway, here they are in 2001 @ the majestic theatre in detroit.

1. i am trying to break your heart

2. always in love

3. war on war

4. pick up the change

5. shes a jar

6. why would you want to live

7. hesitating beauty

8. one by one

9. should have been in love

10. shot in the arm

11. ashes of american flags

12. kamera

13. cant stand it

14. im the man who loves you

15. passenger side

16. physics lesson

17. california stars

18. monday

19. outta sight

20. sunken treasure

21. i got you

motherfuck! today i turn the ripe old age of 33.  in my brain i dont feel a day older than 16 but damn if my knees arent giving me the business lately.  like sand in the hour glass so goes the days of our lives.

i will return to more in depth posting later today or tomorrow.  in the mean time, here is the remainder of the gary louris show.

17. omaha nights

18. i wanna get high

19. sound of lies

20. saturday morning on sunday street

21. ‘tuning’

22. bitter end

23. ‘tuning’

24. tailspin

25. three too many

26. what led me to this town 

27. starman

28. waiting for the sun

29. ‘crowd noise/banter’

30. precious time

31. blues run the game

32. ‘tuning’

33. stumbling through the dark

34. until you came along

photo by ana yturralde

here is gary louris performing @ bar pomme d’eve, paris, france on 6.25.07. part two will be posted later today/this evening. thanks to the original taper!

1. intro-tuning

2. vagabonds

3. ’show dedication’

4. dc blues

5. angelyne

6. ‘the eiffel tour’

7. sundays

8. black grass

9. save it for a rainy day

10. true blue

11. to die a happy man

12. ‘tuning’

13. listen joe

14. ‘tuning’

15. kick the wood new song from upcoming record with mark olson

16. i’d run away

is it odd that while i love the magnetic fields, i actually feel the exact opposite towards his other projects - save the first 6ths record?� anyway, according to stephin’s site the new magnetic fields record is slated to be released sometime in early 08 presumably on merge. currently, he is working on a stage adaptation of neil gaimins’ coraline.

i have been listening the hell outta the charm of the highway strip and 69 love songs the past few weeks.� depending on how you look at it, they are either two or four, since 69 is 3 discs, of my favorite records of all time.

long vermont roads from the charm of the highway strip

yeah! oh, yeah! from disc 3 of 69 love songs

for those of us in the atlanta area, voxtrot is playing this evening, wednesday the 27, at the drunken unicorn. admittedly, i love the two eps but find their full length quite a dreadful bore. opening the evenings festivities is brooklyn’s, and misra artist, palomar. they kinda remind me of a less poppy velocity girl or as their bio states, the fastbacks. their all things, forest can be pre-ordered through the misra website.

our haunt from all things, forest

okkervil river is prepping for the release of the stage names on 8.7.07 on jagjaguwar - my favorite label the past couple of years. with only one listen under my belt i can confidently say that its pretty great and seemingly much different in terms of instrumental scope than black sheep boy, but sadly thats all i can muster in terms of an intelligent critique at the moment. here is the first single from the stage names

our life is not a movie or maybe

here is a beautiful richard buckner show from 2.5.97 @ the great american music hall

1. intro - richard bruckner?

2. slow down old world - willie nelson

3. 4 am

4. blue and wonder

5. raze

6. desire

7. home

8. eds song

9. song of 27

10. lil wallet picture

11. still lookin for you - townes van zandt

12. here - pavement

13. your lone journey - doc watson

top of the morning y’all. firstly click here! vote for the teenage prayers, por favor. they have fallen 80 votes behind and we need to help make that up. this is the last time i will ever bring it up but please do go vote for these dudes.

secondly, superchunk is streaming “misfits and mistakes” on their myspace page. “misfits and mistakes” is from the aqua teen movie soundtrack, btw.

thirdly, here is the clash performing at l.a.’s memorial coliseum on 10.29.82. its a nice soundboard recording, just to let ya know.

1. london calling

2. police on my back

3. guns of brixton

4. this is radio clash

5. spanish bombs

6. rock the casbah

7. the magnificent seven

8. janie jones

9. train in vain

10. tommy gun

11. clampdown

12. brand new cadillac

13. should i stay or should i go

14. i fought the law

should i stay or should i go?

i still am unsure that world needs a new bad brains record, but considering that the first single, “give thanks and praise” off build a nation is pretty cool i maybe willing to change my opinion.
give thanks and praise

if build a nation happens to suck there is always the classic bad brains records, their self titled, rock for light and i against i to fall back on.

here is part two of bruce at the university of akron

14. youngstown

15. sinola cowboys

16. the line

17. the new timer

18. across the border

19. does this bus stop at 82nd st

20. this hard land

21. no surrender

22. galveston bay

23. the promise land

a perfect soundtrack for a lazy, hazy saturday morning.

bob marley and the wailers live at the boarding house in san francisco on 7.7.75

1. trenchtown rock

2. get up stand up

3. burnin and lootin

4. midnight ravers

5. them belly full

6. rebel music

7. no woman no cry

8. kinky reggae

9. stir it up

10. lively up yourself