most of the time when i get emails touting this band and that band i typically dont read the actual release. i usually just skim for key words like who they supposedly sound like/influenced by, and well thats really about it.
so, when the release for coyote bones gentleman on the rocks came across my in box and likened them to “something lou barlow’s sebadoh would have released in the early 90s..” i of course had to check em out. we all know i am more or less stuck in the 90s. anyway, while i can kinda here the smash your head on the punk rock era sebadoh similarities i hear more like the first and only good wheat record. did they fall the hell off or is it just me. that first record was so, so good then meh the rest of the way. back to coyote bones, their debut gentleman on the rocks features members of a whole bunch of bands/artists i have never heard of including the anniversary, jet by day, neva dinova, etc. members of tilly and the wall participate as well - i have heard of and dig them.
stream gentleman on the rocks here
grand eclipse
39 forever
coyote bones site / myspace
i was lucky enough to see three of springsteen’s solo ghost of tom joad shows. to say they were amazing is an understatement and doing the experiences an injustice.
here he is performing on the ghost of tom joad tour @ the univ of akron on 9.25.96
1. tom joad (woody guthrie)
2. atlantic city
3. straight time
4. highway 29
5. darkness on the edge of town
6. murder incorporated
7. nebraska
8. little things that count
9. red headed woman
10. shut out the light
11. born in the usa
12. dry lightning
13. reason to believe
part two will be posted tomorrow.
could she be any more captivating? i dont think so.
the other morning @ about 5 am i awoke to what i thought was an angel singing to me. its kinda crazy what you will think when you wake up abruptly from a slumber - even if it happens to be at work. the song that i woke to was joanna’s stunning “clam, crab, cockle, cowrie.” since then i have found a greater appreciation for her work and started listening in a little deeper than i had previously.
here she is performing @ bottletree in b’ham, alabama on 11.25.06. its a beautiful recording only marred by a couple glitches here and there.
1. bridges and balloons
2. the book of right on
3. traditional scottish song
4. emily
5. monkey and bear
6. sawdust and diamonds
7. only skin
8. cosmia
9. sadie
10. peach, plum, pear
clam, crab, cockle, cowrie from joanna newsom and the y’s street band ep
dont forget to waste 3 seconds and vote for the teenage prayers as the deli’s best nyc band for the month. please click here
here’s another track from their recently recorded everyone thinks you’re great
dreams of the south
**edit thanks to everyone, all 60 of you, who have taken the time to vote for the teenage prayers but dear lord people! there have been more than 1700 of you who have been through here in the past 24 hours and all we can come up with is 60? kinda disappointing people. we can do better than that. i just know we can. thanks in advance, again.
hey whats going on? can you do me a solid? well, actually not me but my buddies in the teenage prayers need your help. they are hoping to be nyc’s next artist of the month according to deli magazine. it would mean so much to them and me if you could just take two clicks, seriously like 3 seconds, out of your daily web browsing to just click here to vote for the teenage prayers. when i say it will take 3 seconds i am not lying. i figure that with the amount of people that visit here daily we can make it a landslide for the prayers. again, your pal, me, would truly appreciate it.
as a special gift here are two tracks from their recently recorded everyone thinks your the best - who knows when it will be out.
hieroglyph
im in love again
i think the prayers are offering a puppy with every vote or something like that. if you think your vote doesnt count get that filthy whore of a thought out of your noggin cause it does.
from the onion
at this point i hate the iphone much like jerry, elaine, kramer and george hated the drake.
well, looky what we have here. i was pretty pscyed to find after waking up from nine hour slumber that a promotion company was kind enough to send me info on the upcoming adam franklin, ex-swervedriver, record. one thing i found interesting is that this is apparently his seventh non-swervedriver release? six of those being toshack highway releases. where the fuck have i been? i thought there were only like a couple. anyway, you can stream bolts of melody here. i have yet to give a whirl but the two tracks provided to me sound pretty damn good.
seize the day
syds eyes
bolts of melody is set to be released on 6.26
in another bit of adam franklin news. he and interpol drummer sam fogarino teamed up as setting suns recently and they got some tracks on their myspace page.
adam franklin site / myspace
just when i thought laura veirs was going to be leading lady for the 07 here comes the ukraine born alina simone to shake things up a bit. she’s not as coy/frail as ms marshall and not as overly dramatic as ms harvey but she stradles both lines quite nicely. i have only listened to her yet to be released record, placenessness, once but it left a huge impression on me - which is rare with first listens. check her out, i know you want be disappointed.
black water
saw-edged glass
placenessness is set to be released on 8.14
alina simone site / myspace
tonight/this mornings offering is rem performing in stockholm, sweeden on 11.9.98 for about 400 lucky folks. this is taken from the radio broadcast of the performance.
1. losing my relgion
2. lotus
3. new test leper
4. daysleeper
5. electrolite
6. at my most beautiful
7. the apologist
8. south central rain
9. walk unafraid
10. man on the moon
11. im not over you
12. fall on me
13. parakeet
14. perfect circle
15. country feedback
16. pretty persuasion
17. strange
18. radio free europe
19. passenger
ok, bear grylls is fuckin crazy. granted, i know not everything on man vs wild may be what it seems, but even still, he’s one bad mofo. one episode he’s in alaska and he needs to eat. so, what does he do? he goes fishing and catches a trout, but instead of cooking it he takes a big bite out of it while it is still wiggling around in his hands. then in another episode he drinks the water out of elephant shit. of course he also demonstrates how to get yourself out of quicksand, kill fish with toxins from a certain plant, build rafts, etc just in case you ever find yourself in a situation requiring any of the mentioned. definitely check it out man vs wild on the discovery channel if you get the chance.
my brain is confused on whether i really dig or really dislike italy’s jennifer gentle. they play a really odd blend of “indie” pop, 13th floor elevators style psychedelia, and something else i cant quite put my finger on. again, its interesting to a point but also kind of annoying but also kind of endearing. i dont know. they got a new record coming out on tuesday on sub pop entitled the midnight room.
electric princess from the midnight room
universal daughter from valende
i do dream you from valende
so tonite i wrap up the 300+ tracks that make up this version of the bedhead series.
55. harder now that its over
56. la cienaga just smiled
57. sweet lil gal
58. sylvia plath
59. brown sugar
60. faithless street
61. jacksonville skyline
62. expressway to your skull
63. now that your gone
64. prison letter
65. i see monsters
66. rescue blues
67. i still miss someone
68. i will learn to love
