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hey! it’s enrico pallazo!

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gregor
on November 9, 2007
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sup? so band of horses are doing a three night stand at the earl, 12.28 -30. you can pre-order the tickets here or wait until they go on sale to the general public next week. the choice is yours. visit the earl’s site for more info.

i reposted the first half of pavement’s stuff up the cracks comp over here.

anyone excited about the new season of project runway? not only do i love me some heidi klum, tim gunn is freakin awesome/hilarious. btw, it starts on wed, 11.14. take a look at this years cast. chris looks he’s going to be a real trouble maker or something.

my man, mike doughty, has a new record entitled golden delicious coming out on 2.18.08, which seems like a hella long way away. i mention this because last night, in chicago, he started his “the question jar show” tour. on this shortish tour he will take requests and answer any and all questions placed into the question jar. if anyone went to the show at schubas last night let me know how it was. even though there isnt an atlanta show, i am still curious. he plays tomorrow evening in louisville @ phoenix hall tavern. check his site for a list of dates. here is the first single from golden delicious.

27 jennifers - its not an mp3 but a stream

looking at the world from a bottom of a well from haughty melodic

your misfortune

mike doughty site

andy ditzler is normally not my cup of tea, but there is something oddly endearing about him and his spoken word take on pop music. he kinda falls somewhere in between stephin merritt and ben folds, but more on the folds end of the spectrum. his songs are fun and smart, but not hokey like fun or pretentiously smart. check him out..

another customer

economics

andy ditzler myspace

while i got you here, check out capgun coup’s “fucked.” pfork gushed all over it, or so i have been told, which doesnt mean anything to me, but its still a pretty cool tune.

fucked

huck fin

both tracks are from their team love debut, brought to you by nebraskafish.

capgun coup myspace

somewhere nestled in my top 5 favorite bands is superchunk. shit, i named my damn kid after mac - if that tells you anything. creepy? maybe. so, i was pretty damn psyched when this show from 93 showed up on dime. i dont know why, but i dont think i have ever come across a superchunk show. maybe i just dont hang in the right corners of the interwebs. if anyone has a hook up let me know.

here they are in krefeld, germany on 5.30.93

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back to the chumbucket with ya!

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gregor
on November 7, 2007
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photography: richard pasley

wazzz up? firstly, i am once again addicted to butterfingers. i had stayed away from their crunchy choclatey goodness for too many years, and now they are back in my life. hopefully for good.

hey, david bazan of pedro the lion fame plays at the earl on saturday evening. if i werent going up to the georgia mountains this weekend, i just may have attended. opening for david is jim fairchild formerly of grandaddy. his record, ten readings of a warning, features a pretty awesome cast of characters, including, janet weiss, joe plummer and danny seim. check out all smiles myspace page for some tracks. david, on the other hand, has a new 10 song ep called fewer moving parts and features 5 new tracks, including this one…

cold beer and cigarettes

check out daytrotter for some bazan love

david bazan site / myspace

prepare the hyperbole police. if i could marry sera cahoone’s voice, i would. she’s attractive for sure, but that voice of hers is like a tummy rub from god. this beautiful piece of work flew under my radar for a good year and a half. i really dont know how this happened but i’ll be damned if i let it happen again, this year. for those that dont know who she is, she was the drummer for carissa’s wierd. you know the band that band of horses rose up from. if you dig beth orton, cat power, neko, etc. then you should love this. she was signed to sub pop earlier this year i believe.

couch song

take me home

sera cahoone site / myspace

i love the minutemen and here they playing in switzerland on 2.24.83 - its either a soundboard or an fm broadcast.

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i’ve been tired

Published
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gregor
on October 23, 2007
in shows, the earl and youtube
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man, have i felt lazy the past couple o’ days. could be the weather or something or lack of nicotine. i think i just wanna sleep so i dont smoke. make sense to me. who the hell knows?

couple cool/noteworthy shows happening over the next few days in atlanta and here is the run down…

great northern and robbers on high street are playing at the earl on friday the 26th. both bands are good/great. i was/am a fan of the robbers tree city which if you are spoon fan, you might find that its better than the last two spoon records, not counting ga ga ga… yeah they sound a quite a bit like em, but who cares. i cant vouch for their new record, grand animals, since i havent heard it, but its on my list. if anyone has let me know how it is. great northern, on the other hand, i have not spent much time with, but their newest, trading twilight for daylight, is pretty solid from what i could gather after only a couple of listens - kinda like shoegazey pop.

crown victoria - robbers on high street myspace

home - great northern myspace

cincinnati’s over the rhine are playing this evening at eddie’s attic with rosie thomas opening up. i really, really dig over the rhine and wanted to share a couple o’ tracks but nothing is available via their site. since i cant get to hype/elbows/myspace i got nothing except my word to stand on that they are wonderful. rosie thomas is cool too, but again she doesnt have anything available either. how difficult is it to throw at least one track up somewhere? that shouldnt let that stop you though. they are definitely worth your time and effort.

today as i laid in bed, half asleep, my phone start buzzing alerting me i had an email. usually the phone is set to silent cause i hate, i repeat hate, being woken up mid sleep. anyway, before turning it off i checked my emails, just because. one of them caught me eye and perked me up a bit. the correspondence in question, and this is really only exciting to me probably, was information about verizon’s new moto q music which apparently can hold hold up to 32gigs, with a supplied card of course. i dont think i have ever seen a 32gig sd card yet and i wouldnt even want to fathom the price on it. still pretty cool, though. so, i continued reading and by the end i was like ok lets just get to the part where you want to send one to me. of course that is not that case. as i come to find they only want to send me a picture! yeah, lets do that. send me that picture! i’ll just print it out, and tape it around my current, sprint supplied, phone. yeah..

i truly hate judging/pushing a band/artist by one or two tracks, but sometimes you just gotta trust your gut. there are times when i am on the money and other times, not so much. i would like to think its more of the former. anyway, here are a couple of bands that hopefully can live up their respective supplied and very cool tracks.

faster than cars - kate tucker and the sons of sweeden myspace - she’s hot btw, and has a great voice that reminds me of neko/orton/the chick from mazzy star. her self titled debut is out on 10.30

brother - annuals myspace - kids from north carolina aren’t even 22 and make a pretty nice racket. kinda like arcade fire meets grandaddy meets sparklehorse with a little promise ring thrown in. cool stuff. their latest, be he me, is out now on ace fu records.

bleary eyed

dry clothes

it had been a while, until a few days ago, that i threw on some freakwater. after listening to springtime, end time and old paint in succession i can say that i need to call on them much more frequently. i am imposing a personal requirement that i must listen to at least one freakwater record every other week. those three records are as close to perfection as humanly possible. incredible pieces of work with two of the most achingly beautiful voices imaginable - those belonging to janet bean and catherine irwin.

here are the ladies of freakwater performing at the great american music hall on 4.17.98. part two will be up later today. thanks to calrust for this soundboard recording.

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