Monthly Archive for September, 2007Page 3 of 4

you should live with my friend, anal mclooney

Published
by
gregor
on September 14, 2007
in demos and wilco
. 6 Comments

i want one of these, really badly. if you are wondering what it is, it is a darth vader lamp. duh! the face looks like a piece of rootbeer flavored hard candy, yum, and his helmet looks like its made of evil sequins. all of which makes it even the more awesomer! want one? click here

sadly, lucy’s fur coat is just one band in a long line of many san diego based bands that have gone the way of the cassette tape. during the early - mid 90’s it seemed like their was just a shitload of great bands comin out of san diego. then after a year or so they just rolled out like a fog, never to be heard from again. the music, on the other hand, was kinda like teenage love makin. hard, fast and no style, but thats what made em great. lucy’s fur coat’s jaundice is what i would catagorize as the epitome of the san diego scene - at least from the outside looking in. the record is a hot mess and sounds like it was recorded over a long weekend that included, but not limited to copious amounts of beer and weed… its absolutely glorious though.

luckily for you, the gentelmen of lucys fur coat have both of their records available for download free o’ charge.

super

treasure hands

easy

lucy’s fur coat site

now these things have been passed around so much you can drive a truck through em - if you are pickin up what i am putting down. i had accidentally deleted mine a few years back and when they showed up on dime the other day i had to get em. not as cool as the yankee hotel foxtrot demos but still pretty great stuff.

here are the summerteeth demos by the greatest band to ever be featured in a vw commericial, wilco…

1. a shot in the arm

2. were just friends

3. im always in love

4. candyfloss

5. how to fight loneliness

6. tried and true

7. shes a jar

8. pieholden suite

9. nothingsevergonna…

10. via chicago

11. elt

12. my darling

13. in a future age


cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic’s best friend

Published
by
gregor
on September 13, 2007
in richmond fontaine, shows and the 1900's
. 5 Comments

has anyone seen “celebrity” rap superstar? it has to be the most god-awful show to ever disgrace the tube.i caught one episode and it actually caused me to feel very depressed. just cant believe people will go to such great lengths to sell their souls for an extra 2 minutes of f list fame. this is one of those instances where i would love to take the brain child and/or the exec who greenlighted this, lock them in a room with no ventilation, cover the floor with about 2 inches of the most vile diarhea immaginable, prop their eyes open alaa clock work orangeand put the video of that money drinking its own piss on constant loop.

ani difranco and i have a weird relationship. i absolutely love her live disc, living in clip, but my adoration stops there. i respect her and her music and i really want to dig more of here stuff but i havent been able to get behind any of her other recordings. maybe her recently released career retrospective, canon, will help open my ears to something i may have been previously missing.

both hands - new studio version

ani difranco site / righteous babe

i would be hugely surprised if chicago’s the 1900’s werent lighting up the blogosphere. simply put, they just sound, think belle and sebastian having relations with 10,000 maniacs whilst hopped up on the 70s, like a band that people would dig. not the flavor of the month kinda dig, but the i am still going to call in the morning kinda dig. their new record cold and kind is out on 10.2 on parasol.

when i say go

georgia

two ways

the 1900’s myspace / parasol

richmond fontaine’s the fitzgerald floored me the first time i heard it and with each successive listen i found myself falling under their spell. its a painfully somber record but oddly uplifting. if you have ever noticed i quite often liken records to life experiences, whether i have ever had them or not, cause these experiences deserve soundtracks and the fitzgerald is no different. to me, the fitzgerald, sounds like burying a body in a field during the dead of winter - that is if you can actually envision that process having a soundtrack.

they have a new record out, thirteen cities, that i didnt even know existed up until a couple of days ago. needless to say i have yet to check it out.

moving home #2

barely losing from post to wire

here they are playing at the borderline in london in 04.

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i had a bride, sawed her in half

Published
by
gregor
on September 12, 2007
in shows, the deadly syndrome, the teenage prayers and youtube
. 2 Comments

photo by me

hey! hey! how goes it? oh man goes just fuckin awesome on my end. keep your fingers crossed for me cause its lookin like i am going to be off that god damn 11 pm - 7 am shift and put on a more manageable 3 pm - 11 pm shift. so if you got vibes send em my way, or dont, whatever..

the teenage prayers are kickin off their no sex 15 city in 15 days tour starting on the 14th. if you havent checked em out yet what the hells is your problem. king solomon burke thinks they’re worthy. you sayin you’re cooler than the king? who the hell are you? here are a couple of tracks off their yet to be released record everyone thinks you’re best. check their myspace page for dates.

they play in atlanta @ the star bar on the 22.

im in love again

dreams of the south

heiroglyph

the teenage prayers myspace

the deadly syndrome sound like a warm breeze on an otherwise cool night - if that make sense. there’s a very folksie, not jon baez folk but like a califone inspired folk quality about em that just reminds me of an edge of summer/fall evening. their new record the ortolan can be streamed on their virb page.

eucalyptus

winter in you

the deadly syndrome site / virb

here is mr isbell and the 400 unit on 8.24 in nashville

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indiana! holy smoke! i am so pleased that you are not dead!

Published
by
gregor
on September 10, 2007
in youtube
. 6 Comments

if i ever mention eating at crystals again please just go ahead and kick me in the nuts and then feed me rancid milk cause this is the second time in 4 months that i have become violently ill after eating some of that greasy goodness. after attending the isbell show at the park tavern last evening the wife and i thought it would be a swell idea to pick some up. they were so freakin good going down, comin back up not so much. so please dont let me do that ever again no matter how great of an idea it sounds like at the time.

if thou are in the atlanta area you may want to spend the night and help ben trickey celebrate the release of his newest record. the show is only 5 bucks and the record is only 7 bucks. great music, great venue and cheap beer, what else could one wish for? check out his myspace page for 3 new tracks. in the meantime here are some older ben trickey gems.

soldier

saving grace

your cheatin heart will be the death of me

ben trickey site / myspace

for those of you’s across the pond, one of my favorite master of ceremonies, el-p or el producto, is bringing his gift of gab to your neck of the woods. i have read quite a bit how a lot of people in the hip hop community and its legions of fans dont really dig el-p and his hip hop stylings. its all quite confusing to me cause here is an artist pushing the boundaries, blurring lines, breathing life into an already stale genre and releasing some of the best records out there, hip hop or not. maybe its a race thing, i dont know. his most recent, ill sleep when youre dead is truly a phenomenal piece of work is highly recommended. check his myspace page for dates.

smithereens

smithereens

el-p site / myspace

i used to know the drummer for chicago’s frisbie and had the chance to see em a couple of times at the hideout. each time i saw em i walked away really wanting to dig their sound but they just wouldnt take. that was more than a few years ago. so, when i got an email annoucing their newest release, new debut, i was mildy excited to see what they were up to. well, its more or less the same in the frisbie world and while its not a bad thing its just not my thing. this is weird cause i love power pop as much as the next dork, but they are just a little too sugary for my liking. the title track does have a pretty cool styx rockin the paradise era like chorus.

new debut

sfb

yes impossible

frisbie myspace

here are my boys, centro-matic, opening up for jason isbell at the mercury in nashville on 8.24.07. jason sits in with centro-matic throughout the entire set. tomorrow i am going to post jason’s set from later on in the evening.

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son of a bitch, im sick of these dolphins

Published
by
gregor
on September 8, 2007
in shows and youtube
. 5 Comments

i am going to go out on short limb to state that i dont think any record from here on out is going to be able to stop band of horses’ cease to begin on its quest to be my record of the year. its going to take upwards of 10 or so listens for the slow burn to begin to leave its mark.

unfortunately, grandaddy suffers from the “i dont ever go out of my way to listen to em until they are shuffled through on the ipod” disease. even then, most of the time, i usually just let that single track burrow into my subconscious and not actually revisit one their records until several days later. with that said, i have been listening to just like the fambly cat
quite a bit as of late and my only one major issue with it is that its really freakin depressing. reading interviews with jason before its release didnt help matters at all either. anyone else get that feeling after a listen?

here they are playing in paris on june 23, 02

1. hewlett’s daughter

2. im on stand by

3. the group who couldnt say

4. the crystal lake

5. yeah is what we had

6. aisle seat 2037 d

7. the go in the go for it

8. laughing stock

9. a.m. 180

10. saddest vacant lot in all the world

11. now its on

12. lost on yer merry way

the crystal lake live @ an in store

now its on


links for 2007-09-08

Published
by
gregor
on September 7, 2007
in Uncategorized
. 1 Comment

he doesnt even like mexico

Published
by
gregor
on September 7, 2007
in shows, sleater kinney and youtube
. 2 Comments

here is imho one of the greatest bands of all time, sleater kinney live @ first avenue in minneapolis on 10.8.02.

whats next for the ladies? anyone got the scoop?

1. intro

2. ooh

3. one beat/turn it on

4. all hands on the bad one

5. the remainder

6. get up!

7. far away

8. light rail coyote

9. you’re no rock n roll fun

10. combat rock

11. start together

12. funeral song/words and guitar

13 hollywood ending

14. sympathy

15. end of you

16. step aside

17. encore break

18. crowd

19. one more hour

20. joey ramone

21. call the doctor

22. dig me out

jumpers on letterman

youre no rock n roll fun