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Date: Sunday, 11 Oct 2009 21:48
Pitchfork responded the next morning with a headline that would echo across the Internet: "Wavves Self-Destruct in Barcelona." Indie sites Brooklyn Vegan and Stereogum pounced on the story, and their reader comment sections quickly turned rancid.
"happy it didnt take longer for everyone to realize this band sucks," said one commenter on Brooklyn Vegan
From article on Wavves
It's all about the "next big thing" and then "how to take down the next big thing"... I don't know which is worse.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Thursday, 08 Oct 2009 18:28
The ATP set by Deerhoof is available for download at the every day awesome Free Music Archive.
The set includes "+81", "Perfect Me" and "Fresh Born"
The sound is "B"
Download Deerhoof at ATP here.
Deerhoof photo by Michaelcz under CC
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009 21:33
Not great TV but I saw this on "Lie to Me" and had to share... missed it the first time in 2007. This is Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) singing. The band is Soulsavers.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Monday, 05 Oct 2009 21:02
Greetings, reader.
Here's some stuff you oughta want or oughta want to know:
- WFMU posts 70's rock stars and celeb's anti drug commercials. These will certainly fill out those mix tapes.
- Turntabling.net is a cool vinyl blog - the mod is currently on a massive road trip to visit stores that sell vinyl. Give them gas or sandviches if you see them.
- I've been delisted from Hype Machine for lack of activity. I feel free.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Sunday, 04 Oct 2009 12:27
I break radio silence for one of the few tracks these days worth breaking radio silence for. I found these young aspiring hoodlums out in my backyard throwing shit around, smoking reefer, breaking my swingset and shoving the sandbox dirt up their hoo-has. The cats are also missing.
Their myspace ID is "penispenispenis" and Rupert Murdoch regularily logs in just to see if its true.
"Networking" is glee for kids without glee.
"Networking" - Pens
Buy it here and listen to the title track of their crayoned masterpiece.
Note for parents: Coke Machine Glow doesn't get it.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Sunday, 04 Oct 2009 12:19
You hate free jazz so do not download this. But I've loved Chris Corsano since he played with Ben Chasney on that Six Organs record. Here he's teamed with some free flowing 65YO alto sax player and a double bass.
The shit gets really intense about seven minutes in so let it build on ya. Via Brainwashed.
"Friendly Pants" Akira Sakata and Chikamorachi - buy it or dl it here if my direct link doesn't work.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Thursday, 04 Jun 2009 15:00
Geez, what's wrong with bloggers these days - here's this great theme song from one of the greatest VGs of the year and no one is giving it love. We'll just have to fix that and make sure this gets some Hype Machine luv and lolz.
Laura Shigahara - "Zombies On Your Lawn"
(Great for kids mix tapes - proof).
Ms. Shigahara's blog has this perm-loaded (we'll only be offering our zombie killing lawn for a limited time). Snatch up the Japanese version as well (even MORE fun for kids mix tapes) and check out the link to the viddie she got shot for this song.
Laura Shigahara - "Zombies On Your Lawn"
(Great for kids mix tapes - proof).
Ms. Shigahara's blog has this perm-loaded (we'll only be offering our zombie killing lawn for a limited time). Snatch up the Japanese version as well (even MORE fun for kids mix tapes) and check out the link to the viddie she got shot for this song.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Friday, 24 Apr 2009 19:51
Maybe I should do a blog about music used on TV shows - seems to be the only thing I'm doing these days with this thang. Ha ha.
"La Maree Haute" stands for "High Tide" and it comes from the lovely and talented Lhasa de Sela, a Mexican-American who sings in French and has a brand new spanking 3rd album out.
It was featured on the off-montage from this weeks' RESCUE ME (episode "Wine"). I guess since the episode concerned a French journalist simultaneously trying to get into Denis Leary's character's pants and writing a book about 9/11, it was appropriate. Why do women throw themselves at this character?
"La Maree Haute" - Lhasa de Sela
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Friday, 24 Apr 2009 11:11
It's not exactly a montage piece (for that I would have used the odd music behind the final scene of "Rescue Me") but this song plays in the background of the great mythos-building episode of this weeks "Supernatural"
"A Little Bitty Tear" - Burl Ives
This song is also great for Asian girlfriend cellphone montages - check out this awesome piece of found art:
And of course, what mention of Mr. Ives wouldn't be replete without a nod to the world's greatest EP.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Saturday, 18 Apr 2009 21:52
"Hey Ya" by Ted
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Saturday, 11 Apr 2009 11:49
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Thursday, 09 Apr 2009 10:09
Now that this band is getting huge, I should point out that I was the first blog to blog their bloggy goodness. Hype Machine doesn't go back this far but here's the posting for proof. Pats on my back or head accepted.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Wednesday, 08 Apr 2009 22:56
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)" Tags: "bukowski"
Date: Tuesday, 07 Apr 2009 10:45
Yeah, Sheesh, indeed. B. Coley and Thurston M.'s Arthur column is now an online thingie with links and everything.
Nice find of this month's Top 10 - The Renderers.
Nice find of this month's Top 10 - The Renderers.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)" Tags: "jazz editor"
Date: Sunday, 05 Apr 2009 19:03
Friday's shows seemed so much better than Saturday for me. Maybe it was the fatigue kicking in - ameliorated no doubt by the bad night's sleep at the Budget Inn motel or whatever it was called - stanky room, rough sheets, thin walls and I found a puddle in the bathroom from somewhere undefined.
I got back in time for Whatever Brains and Monument sets at Artful Dodger, an arty but servicable college bar right next to the Theater. Neither of these bands turned out to be too memorable for me - I had higher hopes for Whatever Brains and lower hopes for Monument and they were just okay. I stuck for one song of Piroutte but that wasn't happening either. There's just something so wrong about seeing a band in a bar when the sun is so high in the sky still.
On to Clementine where the initial novelty of Eternal Vacations got them through about one song for me but it quickly wore off. The band is a two person outfit like White Stripes and do a Deerhoof-ish hard psyche. It's a band worth watching I think - there's a spark of something there - just needs some feed and caring to get it out. (Speaking of which -- lots of two-person bands this year).
Super Vacations totally turned me off. It was like watching a bunch of apes except not as funny (think Lancelot Link's band). They do some sort of pysche-garage schtick but I didn't think they did it very well.
I then went up to one of the odder venues -- a living room sized apartment above a wine bar where Pygmy Lush just blew me away with their "quiet" set. It wasn't acoustic and the whole band was there - hard to believe this was the same band that played a Flipper Holish skater thrash set the previous night.
Caught the end of Cinnamon Band's set and was impressed. Another two man act with awesome sounding drums and interesting songs. The demo they are selling is a disappointment- -underproduced but not in a good way and the studio they used must have been rotten - but that's why they call it a demo. They deserve some larger exposure as they are local to the area.
Cinemasophia - I hate to be brutal but the thought that kept on repeating in my mind was "why hasn't this band broke up?" They don't seem to enjoy what they are doing, sound slightly under-rehearsed (just enough to be noticable). They do not play as a coterie of musicians should --- their drummer is all but ignored and the lead guitarist/singer seems oblivious of his other guitarist. I can kinda hear the Decemberists go garage vibe they are trying for but either they were having a bad day or they need to regroup.
Gifts From Enola - Answering the question as to whether we really need another Explosions in the Sky. I say no but the audience enthusiasm suggests yes.
Power Pill Fist - Oh, such wankery. Video-game electronics are layered while an old silly movie from the 60's or 70's plays and another screen shows some random computer graphics circa 1981. The movie choice was kind of funny -- it was about a guy who trolls for women in his helicopter and then takes him to his mansion where he feeds them to the cats. He has a bald fat guy with a limp and wearing a servants robe helping him. I was fuming though cuz it went on way too long and I wanted to hear the next act and not lose my seat.
Pattern is Movement - their new CD is of that genre that has yet to be named and probably never will - a sort of balance of Modern Classical, Show Tunes, Indie and Prog. PiM fill the room that Swami Sufjan left as he dallies in sabbatical. Yet they fill the room with impressionistic pieces where Sufjan is at heart a story teller and portrait artist.
Live, they are more of an assault on the senses than their studio work suggests - the drums are incredibly defeaning and the keyboards aren't as varied as in the album (often reminding me of this guy I used to play with at the Holiday Inn near the airport).
Lots of fat jokes between songs from Andrew Thiboldeaux - perhaps too many - but overall the best between song banter I heard all weekend. Loved his riffs on going to a Ci-Ci's in West Virginia ("where they have to greet you with 'Ole!'"). Didn't so much love their R&B cover. I know its a tribute to the R. Kelly / Timberlake axis of music and they do it well -- I just can't stand that music.
Final Jerry Springer thoughts:
- nice spacing between venues and huge variety of other restaurants and bars to chill out. Harrisonburg is a great place for a small music festival.
- the label expo was kind of sorry. Too band some of the labels that host the bands on the roster could'nt make it. There were more "non-label" vendors there than labels.
- I'm in awe and inspired at almost all the drumming I saw all weekend.
- There should be more small regional festivals like this. SXSW is the mother ship and its gotten way to big and way too much hype. Really - Rachel Ray is now validating bands???
image via public-domain.zorger.com
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)" Tags: "macrock"
Date: Sunday, 05 Apr 2009 15:31
"Lonely Ghosts" - O+S - It's like Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby but with different chromosones. Its's like YLT but not Jewish or old. It's like Aimee Mann but with less complex issues.
See also DOLLHOUSE - "Needs" ep.
Photo blatently ripped off for total non-commercial use from Love's oddball doll photo stream
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Saturday, 04 Apr 2009 09:10
Some quick impressions of the bands.
American Tourist - needed three songs to warm up and by the fourth song (which was very good) their set was over. They do suffer from a bit of sameness in song structure. Think Okkervil River - whisper to scream dynamics.
Josh Small - nice picking; too much singing.
Tideland - Tight enough hardcore - they could use a week or so more rehearsing.
Pygmy Lush - dronethrash with overtones of Flipper, Buttholes
Brainworms - incredible set of prog-core. Extremely tight and awesome sound/mix.
Antlers - I couldn't really dig this after Brainworms. Instrumentalcore, I think -- I left after two songs.
Extraordinaires - Decemberists meets Jam band but without the Jam and plus English glam/classical rock + reggae overtones. Nice songs - worth tracking - look for new record soon.
Des Ark - strutting and boiling rage on stage. I like her rocking songs - she's got some great musicians backing her and her stage prescense makes up for the lack of guitar prowess - but her acoustic stuff was hard to hear and I'm afraid if I could have I'd stamp it overly precious. That said, the rocking songs were some of the best I heard that night (Brainworms might have peaked over the top, though).
Medications - very tight, post-dischord era progpunk. Good to see them together again.
American Tourist - needed three songs to warm up and by the fourth song (which was very good) their set was over. They do suffer from a bit of sameness in song structure. Think Okkervil River - whisper to scream dynamics.
Josh Small - nice picking; too much singing.
Tideland - Tight enough hardcore - they could use a week or so more rehearsing.
Pygmy Lush - dronethrash with overtones of Flipper, Buttholes
Brainworms - incredible set of prog-core. Extremely tight and awesome sound/mix.
Antlers - I couldn't really dig this after Brainworms. Instrumentalcore, I think -- I left after two songs.
Extraordinaires - Decemberists meets Jam band but without the Jam and plus English glam/classical rock + reggae overtones. Nice songs - worth tracking - look for new record soon.
Des Ark - strutting and boiling rage on stage. I like her rocking songs - she's got some great musicians backing her and her stage prescense makes up for the lack of guitar prowess - but her acoustic stuff was hard to hear and I'm afraid if I could have I'd stamp it overly precious. That said, the rocking songs were some of the best I heard that night (Brainworms might have peaked over the top, though).
Medications - very tight, post-dischord era progpunk. Good to see them together again.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
Date: Thursday, 02 Apr 2009 19:40
This being MacRock overdrive, might I point out this stellar posting from Bright Young Things (v. cool name) written by one of the organiziers of the festivale:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/music/macrock-preview/
Back to Team Fortress 2.
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/music/macrock-preview/
Back to Team Fortress 2.
Author: "Jim H (noreply@blogger.com)"
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