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wilderness

Published
by
gregor
on October 11, 2008
in new stuff
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if you are familiar with baltimore’s wilderness you are probably in one of two camps, one being you cant stand em, the other being you think they’re pretty fuckin awesome. i fall into the latter camp. they aren’t a band that creates music that people are going to be on the fence about cause quite frankly they can be a hard pill to swallow. for those that dig em, they have a new record comin out on jagjaguwar on 11.4 entitled (k)no(w)here. here’s the first single…

strand the test of time

emergency off vessel states

arkless off their self titled debut

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wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy

Published
by
gregor
on December 8, 2007
in new stuff, old stuff and shows
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so, its official the captains dead household will be a little more hormonal come may. as my wife is looking to pop out a girl. oy! so, kids that are one, two, three or 24 are going to possibly be nailing my daughter in 18 years. awesome!

for those that missed it the first time around, i reposted the sea and cake live at dead pigeon over here. for those keeping score, i recently started broadcaster house for stuff i didnt feel like writing about. well, i am also going to use that for reposts and keep thanks for nothin as my dumping ground of random shit.

anyway, i finally got around to checking out the new black mountain tracks that have been floating around the intertubes, and needless to say i am very psyched for the new record. their debut was in my top 5 from whatever the hell year it was released. here’s the first release, “tyrants,” an 8 minute juggernaut.

tyrants

druganaut from their debut

black mountain site / jagjaguwar

so the end of year lists are starting to roll out around blog-o-world, and here are a few…all of em, as you guessed it, contain accompanying downloads… mine will be posted on sunday or monday.

the line of best fit’s playlist of the year 

aquarium drunkard

muzzle of bees

berkeley place has an ongoing list but #37 is isbell’s sirens of the ditch

gorilla vs bear

here’s something you dont, or at least i dont, come across every day. an actual live recording of magnetic fields, and a nice one to boot. i have been a huge magnetic fields fan since holiday. now, dont confuse my magnetic fields fanboy status as being one that encompasses all things stephin merritt. cause quite frankly, most of everything else, not including the first 6ths record, merritt has released has left me feeling empty and sad. this is not his fault, by any means, but a lot of it is just too over the top show tuney for my liking. distortion is being released on 1.18.08 on nonesuch. sign up for the house of tomorrow mailing list for up to date info on all things merritt.

here he is as the magnetic fields playing at cats cradle during merge’s 5th anniversary party celebration on 7.29.94. much love to mrpember for the taping!

1. when im out of town

2. either you love me or i dont love you

3. born on a train

4. 100,000 fireflies

5. strange powers

6. lonely highway

7. deep sea diving suit

8. love goes home to paris in the spring

9. dream hat

10. candy

11. san diego zoo

12. rot in the sun

13. desert island

14. summer lies

15. young and insane


jump up, turn around, pick a bail of cotton

Published
by
gregor
on July 5, 2007
in twilight singers, wilderness and youtube
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so i saw the transformers and it is glorious. it was everything i hoped and wished it could be. sure the acting was pretty lame, but this is not my left foot were talking bout here its the transformers. i loved that it took no more than 3 minutes before shit started blowing up and it didnt really let up until the ending credits rolled. besides the fact that i have been waiting for this to help me relive my youth for some time, i can say i havent see a better summer blockbuster in a very long time. i hear live free or die hard is pretty bad ass too - which i definitely need to see.

my listening habits are random at best, sometimes. i assume i am not the only though. lately i have found myself listening to to a whole bunch of jagjaguwar releases but most notably wilderness’ first record and the besnard lakes’ are the dark horse. actually there is nothing particularly random about those two records, but i dont remember when i started re-listening to the wilderness record, at least. usually there is some logical progression that one will follow when gravitating towards a particular record, or at least i would think so. in regards to the besnard lakes record, well i have been listening to that all year and its fantastic.

wilderness site / myspace

end of freedom

arkless

the besnard lakes site / myspace

and you lied to me

i make no attempts to hide my psuedo homoerotic man crush on greg dulli. i know i am not the only straight man to admit such. anyway, here is mr fantastic and his twilight singers performing at top cats in cincinnati on 10.15.00. its not a perfect recording but you can definitely pick up on the vibe.

1. twilite kid

2. clyde

3. thats just how that cage bird sings

4. king only

5. 66

6. easy to be stupid

7. love/annie maie

8. umbretta

9. dixie peach promenade

10. last temptation

11. crazy

12. a love supreme/please stay

13. twilight

14. black love

much thanks to the original taper!

twilight singers live in the kcrw studios

the whigs on letterman - love the red suit - i dont know any other white guy that can get away wearing such a pimp suit


the innocent shall suffer - big time!

Published
by
gregor
on June 27, 2007
in magnetic fields, misra, okkervil river, palomar, richard buckner and shows
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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