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chad vangaalen and his soft airplane

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on August 28, 2008

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chad vangaalen is a cool cat. he’s like a young bob pollard. actually he’s really nothing like uncle bob except that they both have a penchant for recording on 4 tracks or other random analog equipment and crafting strangely hummable pop songs. case in point, chad’s new record, soft airplane, was recorded primarily on an old tape machine and a jvc ghetto blaster or at least thats what subpop would lead you to believe. either way, he’s kinda all over the map not so much in styles but in instrumentation and is very reminiscent of the early elephant 6 days of elf power, olivia tremor control, nmh, the music tapes, etc. i have really really dug his past records, infiniheart and skelliconnection and judging by the first single off soft airplane i am sure my fanboy status will keep on, keepin on.

willow tree off soft airplane

echo train off infiniheart

clinically dead

flower gardens off skelliconnection

graveyard

btw, sub pop and flemish eye are also offering a bonus limited edition cd-r featuring three songs, including a new track and two 1-man-band versions of songs from soft airplane to anyone who pre-orders the album by september 9th.

molten light

keith richards vs death vessel

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on August 7, 2008

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sup, peoples? hey you with iphones and/or ipod touches! they’re talkin bout you behind your back, supposedly.

me and mary lou lord like joel thibodeau’s death vessel and there’s a pretty decent chance you will too. sub pop is releasing their nothing is precious enough for us on 8.19. i am just going to say one thing: keep in mind the man behind death vessel’s name is joel and he does all the singing.

bruno’s torso

deep in the horchata off stay close

mandan dink

death vessel site

hey its keef solo stuff! how grand? this is a boot that goes by the name of a stone alone and is studio outtakes from 77-81. the last 5 tracks are second takes and can be gotten by downloading the zip below.

1. whole lotta shaking goin on

2. say its not you

3. dont

4. blue monday

5. oh what a feeling

6. sing me back home

7. the nearness of you

8. apartment no. 9

9. all i have to do is dream

10. key to the highway

11. worried life blues

12. sing me back home

13. still she comes around

14. Apartment No.9 #2.mp3
15. Sing Me Back Home #2.mp3
16. Worried Life Blues #2.mp3
17. Apartment No.9 #3.mp3
18. Say It’s Not You #2.mp3

zippity do da

tell me what you see

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on July 18, 2008

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here’s two records i have been looking forward to and both are pretty solid through my first couple of listens.

ex-slowdive and mojave 3′er, neil halstead’s oh! mighty engine comes out on brushfire records, which may be owned by jack johnson, on 7.29. honestly, its more of the same from neil but i can deal with more of the same when the songs are this lovely. oh! mighty engine finds him treading more and more into nick drake territory, which again is all good with me.

paint a face

caught beneath your heel off mojave 3’s out of tune - one of my favorites

neil halstead myspace

brooklyn’s oxford collapse’s bits is a great collection of that jangly/ringing guitar and fractured timing 90’s inspired indie rock that i am sucker for and is out on sub pop 8.5.

the birthday wars off bits

please visit your national parks off remember the night parties

lady lawyers

oxford collapse myspace

mojave 3 “some kind of angel”

oxford collapse “please visit your national parks”

Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the deceptions

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on March 9, 2008

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i have been absolutely smitten with sera cahoone since i happened across her 06 debut last year. i had no idea that she had a new one coming out. so when i happened across it the other day, i immediately got a starchy. her voice is absolutely gorgeous, but not in the classic boring sense, but in the i would like to make sweet, passionate and possibly awkward love to it kinda way. like a lot of records that fall into the folk and countryish genres, the record is filled with lapsteel, harmonica, fiddle and gentle acoustic strummings but it all wraps so beautifully around her voice. all this combined with her knack for penning some lovely lyrics, puts sera above 98 percent of her counterparts.

her new one, only as the day is long is coming out on the 18th on sub pop.

only as the day is long

couch song from her debut

take me home from her debut

couch song

sera cahoone myspace

dead or alive, you are coming with me

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gregor

on February 1, 2008

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live at debaser, stockholm, sweden, 2005-03-15. (c) anders jensen-urstad

sup, tards? anything going on this weeks end? me? i got nothin, except a whole lot of studying and hopefully a few beers thrown in along the way.

been listening to the new grand archives record for the past couple of days and have had an interesting time with it, thus far. after spinning just the first couple of tracks i was kinda left feeling a little down, but as the album marched forward, the better it got. which, of course, is usually quite the opposite of most records. still, i am kinda iffy on the first few tracks, but as the listen count rings up, i am sure i will come around. maybe i was just unfairly wishing, hoping and expecting a band of horses type record, which its not. its more carissa’s wierd than boh, which is just fine with me.

their sub pop debut is landing on 2.19.08

torn blue foam couch

the grand archives myspace / site

i got an email a while back from a dear reader, that i accidentally deleted in a mass purging of my inbox, that recommended i check out seattle’s fleet foxes. or atleast i think someone emailed me about em. never mind my shitty memory, fleet foxes bring to mind 70’s am radio, if only i had ever heard 70’s am radio. so, i guess they sound like what i think it would sound like. now, they aint retro by any means, they just got this latter day vibe to em. they recently signed to sub pop and i think you can buy their full length and ep via their myspace page - i think. man, i have covered 3 sub pop bands in the past two days. i cant deny they put out quality stuff.

she got dressed

fleet foxes myspace

arcade fire, let me count the ways i wish i could love every bit of you, but alas i just cant give you everything you deserve. still dig ya, though so lets just stay friends. here they are on 2.17.07, which i believe took place in new york. thanks to the original taper!

1. wake up

2. black mirror

3. keep the car running

4. no cars go

5. haiti

6. poupee de cire

7. black wave, bad vibrations

8. well and the lighthouse

9. ocean of noise

10. rebellion

11. intervention

12. encore break

13. my body is a cage

14. neon bible

15. laika

doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, and doctor

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gregor

on January 31, 2008

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good day, people. let me ask you a question, feel free to answer. am i the only man living with a woman who has a hard time dispensing the toilet paper directly into the toilet after wiping? just about every morning when i open the door to the toilet area, there is toilet paper either on the seat or on the floor. anybody else face this issue? its not annoying, actual its quite comical. i just dont understand how she can miss. i know when i am done wipin my ass i dont ever just randomly throw the shit-laden tp into the air and hope for the best. whatever…

speaking of piss, im kinda late to the game with this collection of dudes who call themselves, humorously enough, pissed jeans. i only pissed myself once and it so happened to be in the middle of toys r us when i was six. i remember it like it was yesterday cause we were killing time before going to see empire strikes back and i was too wrapped up in checking out the newest star wars action figures to pay my screaming bladder any mind. yep, so i just pissed myself right there in the middle of the aisle. i know i’m not the only one. anyway, back to sub pop’ pissed jeans, who as far as i can tell sound like a lovely pairing of mudhoney and jesus lizard - two bands not enough bands cop a sound from. check em out.

i’ve got you

people person

pissed jeans site

here is a lovely rem bootleg which is commonly referred to as the dream. it’s a recording of their performance @ the pink pop festival, on 5.15.89 in holland. the last three tracks are from an audience recording that took place in milan on 6.15.89.

1. exhuming mccarthy

2. turn you inside out

3. stand

4. orange crush

5. feeling gravitys pull

6. king of birds

7. world leader pretend

8. underneath the bunker

9. pretty persuasion

10. get up

11. auctioneer

12. its the end of the world

13. summertime

14. swan swan h

15. finest worksong

begin the begin

perfect circle

dark globe

This is my boomstick!

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gregor

on September 21, 2007

in shows and tiny vipers

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if i had the cash, i would definitely be all over this one. woot has a brand new white 30gb zune for lousy 130 bucks. go get yourself one. you know you want it or if you dont just buy your boy one. i’ll take it.

band of horses and musictoday are taking pre-orders for cease to begin and all orders come with an awesome band of horses beer koozie. who couldnt use a koozie now-a-days especially when you just need to have that road brew. they have a few t-shirt/cd/lp deals going on and you can buy tickets to their upcoming shows. sadly, no atlanta date at this time. check out the goodies here

the first time i laid eyes on jesy fortino aka tiny vipers i had to do a double take cause she looks a lot like a young lady i used to date when i was about 20/21. then the more i looked at her, the more i realized they look nothing like each other but there’s still something about her that is eerily remiscent of my ex. regardless, i am really loving this song. now do i love it on its own merit or because she reminds of someone i used to really dig. probably a little bit of the latter but it is a wonderful little song. she’s got a new record out on sub pop entitled, hands across the void.

on this side

tiny vipers myspace / subpop

after listening to “the man who sold the world” about 30 times today i needed to hear more bowie. i ended up finding this very cool boot. its the pre-show rehersals for a show in dallas @ las colinas on 4.27.83. i forgot to mention that stevie ray vaughn is playing guitar. its a wonderful soundboard recording.

1. star

2. heroes

3. what in the world

4. look back in anger

5. joe the lion

6. wild is the wind

7. golden years

8. fashion

9. lets dance

10. red sails

11. breaking glass

12. life on mars