jason covering dylan’s “its all over now, baby blue” he looks as if he needs some rest
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contest alert! contest alert! in conjunction with the recent, well 11.20.07, release of nirvana’s unplugged on dvd i got a copy to give away. so all you gots to do is leave a comment with your favorite movie quote that i may use for a later post headline. the contest will end on monday.
if it were the end of the world, i know i would be taking atlanta’s ben trickey’s pretty little wave with me. hell, even if such a scenario never plays out, i’m still holding it close just in case. trickey creates a pre-apocalyptic folk record that is akin to the calm before the inevitable shit storm. these climatic changes, at least in me, always instill a sense of dread and uneasiness and pretty little wave leaves you with the same kind of feelings. this is not a record that by the end you think every thing’s going to be ok, but it doesn’t leave you bummed out either, just kind of indifferent. which can be directly attributed to the mixed signals trickey and his band, the east atlanta honky tonk choir, give off over the course of the seven tracks that make up pretty little wave. a brief glimmer of hope does arise when he sits down at the piano for the last track “tangle” only to end abruptly, leaving the listener with no sense of closure as the last key is hit and the record ends. pretty fuckin awesome stuff.
prize fighter off pretty little wave
fire off pretty little wave
i dont know anything about caroline, but i do know i dig this song, which happens to be a remix of her song “all i need.” usually the glitchy, beeps and blips arent my thing, but there is something particularly intoxicating about her voice and the way it mingles in with the music. this track and nine others can be found on her murmurs mixes record. its only available through itunes and was released on tuesday, 1.8.08.
all i need (owen vallis remix)
sunrise off murmurs
where’s my love off murmurs
caroline myspace
if you think pj harvey crossed with a little sparklehorse might sound like your thing then you may want to check out miwa gemini’s this is how i found you. from what i have heard of it thus far, i must contend that its pretty cool. check her out!
this is how i found you is out on 3.18.08 in the us and europe, but for some reason is already out in canada.
whiskey moon in new orleans off forgetful oceans and other strange stories
charlie chaplin broke my heart off forgetful oceans and other strange stories
miwa gemini site
i’m not really sure what to make of john hoeffleur and his champaign based beauty shop, or at least what to think of these demos. i haven’t heard either yard sale or yr money or yr life, but i hear both are grand. so, judging beauty shop just on these demos alone i would surmise that they need to get off their asses and make an actual record cause these demos are most excellent. he’s got a laid back delivery thats mildly reminiscent of will johnson and seemingly as intelligent in the lyric dept as well. the beauty shop isnt doing anything fancy or anything to get everyone in a tizy, but for those of us like our music that’s a bit more substance over style, then the beauty shop will be just fine. i hope.
the beauty shop site / myspace
i am going to guess that people will either go ga ga over murder mystery or pay em no mind. thats actually pretty lazy of me, but we both know that some bands just have that sound that either will excite or fall on deaf ears and murder mystery falls into this category. they make a nice poppy/dancey racket that luckily is more poppy than dancey, at least for me cause that really aint my thing. but who the hell am i though, belle and sebastian’s stuart murdoch was quoted as saying that “the kids will eat this up.”
their new record, are you ready for the heartache cause here it comes, is out now me thinks.
a friend of mine recommended i check out the dirty truckers, anyone familiar with em? her recommendations are pretty much hit or miss, but i wont hold that against her. anyway, i checked out their stuff on myspace and they sound pretty righteous - cool blend of the replacements, stones, lucero, the drive by truckers and am era wilco. check em out.
top of the sunday afternoon. so, i got my grubby lil paws on the new truckers record, brighter than creation’s dark, and i am so psyched to report that its fuckin killer. for those, like myself, that were a bit underwhelmed by a blessing and a curse will find that creation’s dark is classic dbt. 19 tracks and 75 minutes later you really dont even miss jason so much as shonna’s songs are pretty awesome and a nice compliment to patterson and cooley.
you can preorder creations dark, here. they got a shirt/cd combo deal for 30 bucks that i am definitely going to be ordering.
for the uninitiated here are a few songs to get ya started. they also have tracks from creation streamin on their myspace page.
here they are playing in brooklyn on 10.27.07. thanks to jonicont for this very nice audience recording!
3. heathens
4. marry me
11. goods field road
12. daddys cup
13. the deeper in
15. gg allin
17. im sorry houston
18. the living bubba
19. encore
20. the tough sell
21. zip city
22. opening act
23. shut up and get on the plane
24. buttholeville/state trooper
25. people who died
never gonna change
its only about 5 minutes in and i already had to turn off the irish and michigan game. my irish not lookin so good. in fact, downright embarrassing. then to add insult to injury i turn on the red sox/yankees game and jeter knocks one out off josh beckett. i hate, nay, loathe derek jeter.
for those in the atlanta area, mark your google calendars for 10.5 for my man adam franklin, formerly of swervedriver, is coming to town for a show at the earl and an instore at criminal earlier in the evening. his new record, bolts of melody, is quite grand.
he’s got a shitload of other dates coming up. so, check his site or myspace for dates.
if you were to write out a top 20 list of your favorite bands and if this list includes the likes of echo and the bunnymen, joy division, roxy music, and maybe the cure then the men of boston’s junius just may be your thang. their new self titled record is out on 10.9.
in 1990 mother love bone’s apple was like manna from heaven to these 16 year old ears. the strange thing about recalling memories is that its easy to describe what you were feeling but more difficult to explain why you were feeling it. such is the case with apple. i remember being absolutely enamored by it, but dont really remember why. so, to get to the bottom of this, i pulled it out the other day and tried to recall, only this time with 33 year old ears. to say the experiment was a failure would do apple a grave injustice, but for the life of me i really cant pinpoint what i loved about it so. it’s still a great record, even if it time has not been overly kind to it, but you just have to put the time and place it was recorded all into perspective.
here they are performing in seattle on 1.3.90 @ the vogue
4. bone china
5. hearthshine
6. mr danny boy
10. holy roller
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.
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.
barely losing from post to wire
here they are playing at the borderline in london in 04.
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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.
your cheatin heart will be the death of me
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
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.
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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