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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ratioci nation on December 29, 2003, 06:36:00 pm
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Which new albums are you looking forward to in early 2004?
I am looking forward to -
Mountain Goats
John Vanderslice
Travis Morrison (worried this one will be bad, not sure when it is due)
Liars
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Burning Brides
Clinic
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I forgot to mention Modest Mouse
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Old 97's
Wilco
Brendan Benson
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Phaser
(Septemberish)
Doves
(But I'm a little scared as they seem to be going back somewhat to their Disco Sub Sub roots.)
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I am looking forward to the third coral album......
Plus the libertines should be able to knock something out, ready for next year.
Cinerama, seem to be hitting one a year too...... I wonder if it could be as good as the last one?
Plus the Lambchop double release was scheduled for March or something....... YAY!
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
I am looking forward to the third coral album......
Plus the libertines should be able to knock something out, ready for next year.
Cinerama, seem to be hitting one a year too...... I wonder if it could be as good as the last one?
Plus the Lambchop double release was scheduled for March or something....... YAY!
I'm looking forward to The Coral album too. Get it quick because it's a limited edition.
Also looking forward to Razorlight, Libertines, The Stands, The Zutons and The Basement. And I'm grateful that Coldplay, BRMC, The Strokes, Travis and The Stereophonics shouldn't be releasing anything this coming year!
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puressence live cd and hopefully a new studio cd.
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a new Sleater Kinney CD would be nice but I don't know if they are working on anything
50 Foot Wave - Kristin Hershs latest musical incarnation
Ash should have a new one out
and then what others have mentioned, Old 97s, Wilco, Cinerama, Doves
alot of bands I liked put out albums in 03 so 04 may have to be more of a listening to new artists year
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McLusky
Q And Not U
Fugazi (probably just wishful thinking).
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Any idea when the coral album is set to be released?
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Originally posted by Don:
Any idea when the coral album is set to be released?
Feb. 10
http://www.thecoralusa.com/ (http://www.thecoralusa.com/)
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other than modest mouse and liars, the elliot smith double disc thing hopefully will see the light of day.
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ggw - thanks for the info., and the link
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I have had that coral album for 10 months.... There will be a new album, their third out soon enough in the UK. I wish you doodles would keep up.
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Hey, since you bought a mini and say doodles like Mankie does... does that mean you're British again?
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I hope to hear a new Fugazi album in 2004, or at least a word on what they're up to as a band. I know Sonic Youth is coming out with a new one, but that's nothing this board will get all giddy about;)
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Actually, I'd be really happy to hear a full length from Iron and Wine. I was super impressed with The Creek Drank the Cradle.
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Isn't Nada Surf releasing a cd in early 2004?
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I know Sonic Youth is coming out with a new one, but that's nothing this board will get all giddy about;)
Murray Street is decent.
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Bjork's website says she's working on new songs. That'll be nice to hear. It might be hard to top Vespertine and Homogenic though.
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Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
Originally posted by mark e smith:
I am looking forward to the third coral album......
Plus the libertines should be able to knock something out, ready for next year.
Cinerama, seem to be hitting one a year too...... I wonder if it could be as good as the last one?
Plus the Lambchop double release was scheduled for March or something....... YAY!
I'm looking forward to The Coral album too. Get it quick because it's a limited edition.
Also looking forward to Razorlight, Libertines, The Stands, The Zutons and The Basement. And I'm grateful that Coldplay, BRMC, The Strokes, Travis and The Stereophonics shouldn't be releasing anything this coming year! [/b]
:mad:
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Neil & Tim Finn (of Split Enz/Crowded House fame) 2nd brothers album.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=2&u=/nm/20031230/music_nm/music_finn_dc (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=2&u=/nm/20031230/music_nm/music_finn_dc)
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
British again?
Like I can pick and choose my nationality at will? I have at least 7 years to enjoy before I can become fully naturalized.
And for those that are interested the coral third album can be found right here......... Amazon in Great Britain. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00014AUOG/qid=1072850526/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/202-1300714-5843854) I wonder where I am going to be able to get this inexpensively? CD whorehouse or CDwow.net?
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For all the use it will do me, I might as well talk to myself.
I think I will order mine tonight from CDwow.net (http://www7.cd-wow.net/detail_results.php?product_code=8774) be sure its the .net site.
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I know how you feel Markie, now that daylight and computers together aren't part of my life. Sorry, but have to go now. I love after work naps. Happy New Year's to you and Lulu. ;)
Liam, were you at the Brian Jonestown Massacre show in Baltimore the other month?
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"I like to go to all their shows to check out how often they rip me off" <img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/685000/images/_685155_liam_gallagher300.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
Happy New Year's to you and Lulu. ;)
Cool, have a good 'un.... I am sure we will be seeing you soon.
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in flames (hopefully better than RTR)
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Originally posted by El Tee:
Isn't Nada Surf releasing a cd in early 2004?
http://www.nadasurf.com/news/index.php (http://www.nadasurf.com/news/index.php)
"Nada Surf will begin recording Album #4 this January in Seattle. Behind the board will be labelmate/tourmate/friend/producer extraordinaire Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie. Fingers crossed for a Fall 2004 release. "
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i need to update it but some of you might enjoy my page which is mostly poached from other sites but has a few pieces of "exclusive info."
http://howisya.tripod.com/f2k.html (http://howisya.tripod.com/f2k.html)
sorry, not much indie rock on there, but you'll find something you like. for me there's a ton of good music i'm looking forward to.
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Shouldn't Spoon be releasing another album sometime soon?
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I hope to hear a new Fugazi album in 2004, or at least a word on what they're up to as a band. I know Sonic Youth is coming out with a new one, but that's nothing this board will get all giddy about;)
i'm stoked. hopefully a tour will follow...
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Originally posted by ggw?:
Shouldn't Spoon be releasing another album sometime soon?
oh yeah, I forgot, John Vanderslice's web site use to say that Spoon was going in to his studio to record their next album, but I don't see it any more and www.spoontheband.com (http://www.spoontheband.com) is down, breaking up? or web problems?
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The Charlatans should have a new one out in 04 as well
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Originally posted by homeboyfromthefuture:
i need to update it but some of you might enjoy my page which is mostly poached from other sites but has a few pieces of "exclusive info."
http://howisya.tripod.com/f2k.html (http://howisya.tripod.com/f2k.html)
sorry, not much indie rock on there, but you'll find something you like. for me there's a ton of good music i'm looking forward to.
Yeah, you do have to update that list. But I am looking forward to DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Mum. Possibly even Portishead.
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I feel compelled to mention that Idlewild has a new album coming out in 2004... I'm also looking forward to many that have already been listed(Liars, Charlatans, Doves, etc).
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Here are a couple reviews from the Jan. 3rd NME that some may find interesting:
The Coral - Nightfreak And The Son Of Becker
After a year overflowing with the surreal (Blaine in a box; sudden rugby 'mania'; the rise of The Darkness) it seems only fitting that 2004 should kick off with the unscheduled arrival of a third album from The Coral. Sounding like it was recorded in a leaky cowshed over a week in Wales (which, as it turns out, it was), and so called thanks to the sprog-creating conquests of teutonic tennis bore Boris, 'Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker' is a low-key classic from a group grappling with the demands of fame.
Bearing more than a passing simlarity to the Super Furries' genius tossed-off 'Mwng' and clearly intended as a means of clearing the band's creative tubes prior to their third album 'proper', it provides an insight into the mindset of a band who've gone from BMX-riding curios to the oddest residents of the Top Ten for years. Be warned though, those expecting the radio-friendly jangle of 'Pass It On' should approach with caution. 'Nightfreak...' sees the Hoylake Six reject the gloss that made 'Magic And Medicine' feel, at times, like a fizzy glug of Coral-lite, and return to the darker grog of their debut.
Paranoia stalks every chorus: 'I Forgot My Name' is a bad-tempered rockabilly rumble which ends in a burble of TV static; the fearsome 'Migraine' ("I got to parties and I just freeze/I think I'm infected with a social disease") takes the rattle of 'Talkin' Gypsy Market Blues' and hardwares it to a gnarled terrace chorus; and the priceless 'Auntie's Operation' ("She'll want your sympathy/She'll never let you be/Sniffing at your food/Before it's even chewed) manages to make light of domestic strife and sum up the parlous state of the NHS all in two minutes and 23 seconds. The contrary spirits of everyone from The Kinks to The Specials must be looking down from the heavens approvingly.
Pop songs emerge from the murk. 'Sorrow Or The Song' is a gloomy, funkier cousin of 'Don't Think You're The First'. 'Venom Cable' reprised the limescaled disco shuffle of the outro to 'Skeleton Key', and 'Song Of The Corn' manages to include the lines "I hard a commotion one late afternoon/Someone was singing a funeral tune" and still sound like Radio 2 fodder.
Things inevitably go off the boil. A funny-at-the-time 'Why Does The Sun Come Up?" is a stoned interlude inspired by their US tour habit of recording random snippets of cable TV, and 'Precious Eyes' and a final 'Lover's Paradise' should have been left to scrap it out on a B-sides collection. No matter.
'Nightfreak...' is here to provide us with a gauge of where The Coral are two years in. If James Skelly's lyrices are growing increasingly bleak, then the band matches him stride for stride musically. Throughout, Paul Duffy's bass buzzes with cocksure intent, which Bill Ryder-Jones and Lee Southall's guitars twang and thrash without ever sounding like we're eavesdropping on some unscripted muso horrowshow. When they all combine in a splurge of chronic-coated G-funk on 'Grey Harpoon' it's so spot-on you half expect the Snoop of 'Doggy Style' to show up for a duet on the joys of life on the Wirral frontline.
In short, the threats of implosion or creative exhaustion which seem to haunt their peers seem notable only by their absence. Their label must be delighted. With the weirdness purged, the scene seems set for The Coral to produce future pop triumphs still formulating in the recesses of James Skelly's mind.
For the rest of us, 'Nightfreak...' serves as a reminder that in a climate where pop celebrity is based on constantly repeating a winning formula, The Coral are defiantly off-message. Striving to be more than just grist to the CD:UK mill, they're fighting to retain their integrity and also poke fun at the process.
It's the difficult third album alright, but only because they wanted it to be. Paul Moody
7/10
Ballboy - The Sash My Father Wore
They may be fronted by a primary school teacher, but Edinburugh indie four piece Ballboy have far more guts than your average outfit. Having already charmed the residents of his homeland with the 'I Hate Scotland' EP, singer Gordon McIntyre adds injury to insult with this album's title track, a scathing attack on knuckleheaded Rangers FC fans that delights in the chorus "you're a big fat bigoted arsehole".
The band's past EPs and debut album have favoured jaunty indie pop and sumptuous orchestration, but this record sees them stripped back to just McIntyre, some sparse acoustics and those searing lyrics. A subtle reworking of Bruce Springteen's 'Born In The USA' brings stark humanity to the song's oft-overlooked anti-war sentiments while the more romantic 'Past Lovers' and 'Tell Me' are starkly heartstopping. Just pray that this album doesn't earn all concerned a good post-match kicking. Ian Watson
6/10
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Originally posted by brennser:
Ash should have a new one out
http://nme.com/news/107217.htm (http://nme.com/news/107217.htm)
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Looking at CDwow.net just now......
Mostly for the coral (Thanks for posting the review, twat!)
It comes out Jan 26th and it is going to be $14 there, but $23 on Amazon......
Also notable coming up.....
Gang of four best of
Spiritualized complete works Vol2
Franz Ferdinand
Lambchop
Both February 2nd......
YAY!
Hopefully lambchop will be at the blackcat again. I promise to punch anyone who talks during that show.
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Looking at CDwow.net just now......
Mostly for the coral (Thanks for posting the review, twat!)
It comes out Jan 26th and it is going to be $14 there, but $23 on Amazon......
Also notable coming up.....
Gang of four best of
Spiritualized complete works Vol2
Franz Ferdinand
Lambchop
Both February 2nd......
YAY!
Hopefully lambchop will be at the blackcat again. I promise to punch anyone who talks during that show.
Hey Markie, if you or anyone else wants the new Coral that comes out at the end of this month and have a hard time (or too expensive), I can buy them over here and send them to you. We can arrange an exchange through Jaguar. They'll be limited to 75,000 copies. That's a lot for most alt-country bands, but these will sell out pretty quickly over here.
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Morrissey Brings The Pain: You Are The Quarry Scheduled for Mid-April
Former Smiths head-honcho Steven Patrick Morrissey (better known as just Morrissey to you jamokes) has announced plans for a new solo release in April. The album, currently entitled You Are The Quarry was produced by Jerry Finn and engineered by Joe McGrath.
Steven Patrick will be joined on the album by the likes of Boz Boorer (guitar), Alain Whyte (guitar), Gary Day (bass), Dean Butterworth (drums), and Roger Manning on piano. The album was recorded at Sarm in Berkshire, England and work was also done at Conway Studio in Los Angeles.
No tracklist has been announced, but Morrissey fan site/web zine True To You has listed songs recorded while in the studio and regurgitated them for your consumption.
They include but are not limited to:
"America Is Not The World"
"Irish Blood, English Heart"
"I Have Forgiven Jesus"
"Come Back To Camden"
??I??m Not Sorry?
??The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores?
??How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel??
??The First Of The Gang To Die?
??Teenage Dad On His Estate?
??I Like You?
??The Never-Played Symphonies?
??The Slum Mums?
??You Know I Couldn??t Last?
??Home Is A Question Mark?
??The Public Image?
??It??s Hard To Walk Tall When You??re Small?
The album is set to be released on Attack Records (a subsidiary of Sanctuary) near or around the second week of April. The first single may also include a re-styling of Morrissey's "Let Me Kiss You" by Nancy Sinatra.
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Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
They'll be limited to 75,000 copies. That's a lot for most alt-country bands, but these will sell out pretty quickly over here.
Thanks, Twat!
Actually I will just put in an order to CDwow, but if that falls through, thanks for giving me an option. It is very kind of you. And you were right about the La's. (I have been listening to it a lot)
Didnt Magic and Medicine sell 100 000 copies in the UK in its first week? Like that, this album could be gone in a day or two.
And GGW, isnt it time to give up on Morrissey?
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Originally posted by ggw?:
Morrissey Brings The Pain: You Are The Quarry Scheduled for Mid-April
Former Smiths head-honcho Steven Patrick Morrissey (better known as just Morrissey to you jamokes) has announced plans for a new solo release in April. The album, currently entitled You Are The Quarry was produced by Jerry Finn and engineered by Joe McGrath.
Steven Patrick will be joined on the album by the likes of Boz Boorer (guitar), Alain Whyte (guitar), Gary Day (bass), Dean Butterworth (drums), and Roger Manning on piano. The album was recorded at Sarm in Berkshire, England and work was also done at Conway Studio in Los Angeles.
No tracklist has been announced, but Morrissey fan site/web zine True To You has listed songs recorded while in the studio and regurgitated them for your consumption.
They include but are not limited to:
"America Is Not The World"
"Irish Blood, English Heart"
"I Have Forgiven Jesus"
"Come Back To Camden"
??I??m Not Sorry?
??The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores?
??How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel??
??The First Of The Gang To Die?
??Teenage Dad On His Estate?
??I Like You?
??The Never-Played Symphonies?
??The Slum Mums?
??You Know I Couldn??t Last?
??Home Is A Question Mark?
??The Public Image?
??It??s Hard To Walk Tall When You??re Small?
The album is set to be released on Attack Records (a subsidiary of Sanctuary) near or around the second week of April. The first single may also include a re-styling of Morrissey's "Let Me Kiss You" by Nancy Sinatra.
Apparently, one of the guitarists told the NME that the new one is Morrissey's best solo album yet. Hopefully it will be...
I'm also excited about the new album from Interpol (due late '04), the debut album from Keane (due in the Spring), and the new one from Wilco (I think it will be interesting to see where Tweedy goes musically post-"Yankee")...
Oh yeah, and Sparklehorse has a new one coming out too...
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new Black Eyes LP due out this fall! Jag, here's lookin at you!
and for more on Morrissey, this was just posted on the DFA Records website:
"The DFA have interviewed Morrissey for a February/March cover story for Index Magazine. The interview took place at Sarm Hookend Studio in Oxfordshire England, where Morrissey is recording his new LP.
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That likely never to be released but has been worked on for 7+ years Social Distortion album might come out in 2004. They've only got 11.5 months to get it out. That should be enough time.
And U2 are looking at the possibility of a fall release.
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Wow, sounds like Morrissey finally recorded a happy album!
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Hmmmm, interesting. They worked with Foo Fighters producer....
ASH have completed their fourth full-length studio album, and claim that it??s their heaviest yet.
Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by brennser:
Ash should have a new one out
http://nme.com/news/107217.htm (http://nme.com/news/107217.htm) [/b]
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Originally posted by vansmack:
That likely never to be released but has been worked on for 7+ years Social Distortion album might come out in 2004. They've only got 11.5 months to get it out. That should be enough time.
if its taken them 7 years already, what makes you think 11 more months in enough?
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
They'll be limited to 75,000 copies. That's a lot for most alt-country bands, but these will sell out pretty quickly over here.
Thanks, Twat!
Actually I will just put in an order to CDwow, but if that falls through, thanks for giving me an option. It is very kind of you. And you were right about the La's. (I have been listening to it a lot)
Didnt Magic and Medicine sell 100 000 copies in the UK in its first week? Like that, this album could be gone in a day or two.
And GGW, isnt it time to give up on Morrissey? [/b]
No problem Markie. I know how hard (and expensive) it can be to get the British releases in the states. I get to the record stores in Liverpool and Manchester quite often, so it wouldn't be a problem helping you guys out when I can.
That Franz Ferdinand is great. They are really getting a strong reception so far in Britain. The new single (Take Me Out) just came out this week and the full length comes out in Feburary.
I'm in the middle of reading that book about The La's now. Supposively, Lee Mavers has new material that is even stronger than the songs on The La's album, but no one knows if we'll ever hear them.
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ASH have completed their fourth full-length studio album, and claim that it??s their heaviest yet.
yeah very interesting - not sure what to think - on the one hand both Nevermind and Appetite for Destruction are great albums, on the other I have a nagging fear it'll come out sounding like Good Charlotte....lets hope not
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
if its taken them 7 years already, what makes you think 11 more months in enough?
I don't really, but the 7 year delay was, for the most part, due to Dennis' death and it's hard to fault someone for that. However, the last two press releases have been very positive for those waiting for a new album:
December 3, 2003
SOCIAL DISTORTION FINISHED WITH
PHASE ONE OF RECORDING
Social D has closed the first chapter of recording for their forthcoming record. The guys have completed recording drums and bass, and after taking a short break last week for Thanksgiving, Mike and Jonny jumped back in
yesterday to begin recording guitars. Danny will follow up next week with B3 organ to close out phase two of recording.
October 24th, 2003
SOCIAL DISTORTION GOING INTO THE STUDIO
You read it correctly... the rumors, myths, untruths, and all your wondering about the record can be put to rest. Social D have completed their demos, and have confirmed time next month in a Los Angeles studio to begin recording their follow up to White Light, White Heat, White Trash. There??s no scheduled release date at the moment, but stay tuned as we will keep you updated with the latest news, and photos from the studio.
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Do you have a copy of the "Another State of Mind" video? I had two friends in college who pratically had the whole thing memorized. Mike Ness sure was a fuck up.
Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
if its taken them 7 years already, what makes you think 11 more months in enough?
I don't really, but the 7 year delay was, for the most part, due to Dennis' death and it's hard to fault someone for that. However, the last two press releases have been very positive for those waiting for a new album:
December 3, 2003
SOCIAL DISTORTION FINISHED WITH
PHASE ONE OF RECORDING
Social D has closed the first chapter of recording for their forthcoming record. The guys have completed recording drums and bass, and after taking a short break last week for Thanksgiving, Mike and Jonny jumped back in
yesterday to begin recording guitars. Danny will follow up next week with B3 organ to close out phase two of recording.
October 24th, 2003
SOCIAL DISTORTION GOING INTO THE STUDIO
You read it correctly... the rumors, myths, untruths, and all your wondering about the record can be put to rest. Social D have completed their demos, and have confirmed time next month in a Los Angeles studio to begin recording their follow up to White Light, White Heat, White Trash. There??s no scheduled release date at the moment, but stay tuned as we will keep you updated with the latest news, and photos from the studio. [/b]
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Do you have a copy of the "Another State of Mind" video? I had two friends in college who pratically had the whole thing memorized. Mike Ness sure was a fuck up.
Yes, though I haven't watched it in years. Ness is sober now....and he's still a fuck up, though I really think you would like his solo records.
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Don't have any of his solo work, but have liked what i heard.
i do have the SD live album, as well as a cassette copy of "Mommy's Little Monster".
Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Do you have a copy of the "Another State of Mind" video? I had two friends in college who pratically had the whole thing memorized. Mike Ness sure was a fuck up.
Yes, though I haven't watched it in years. Ness is sober now....and he's still a fuck up, though I really think you would like his solo records. [/b]
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Don't have any of his solo work, but have liked what i heard.
i do have the SD live album, as well as a cassette copy of "Mommy's Little Monster".
His solo stuff is much more Country and Western. The first one is mostly originals and a few covers and the second (Under the Influences) is covers of his influneces growing up. I like them both. It's all in that Cowboy Punk mold of Hank III and Jesse Dayton (whom I saw acoustic last night and thoroughly enjoyed). Just younger guys who grew up on Cash, Jennings, Williams, etc. and putting their own stamp on it.
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March 9, the new album from BR549
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[JANUARY 12, 2003]
A NOTE FROM EDDIE SPAGHETTI
Well, here it is, another "night before the release" at the Spaghetti manor. As you may or may not know, my record, The Sauce, "drops" (that's what the kids call it these days) tomorrow (or today, by the time you read this), Tuesday, Jan 13th. It's always kind of cool sitting here before the record comes out, not knowing what people will think and hoping for the best. No matter how many records I've put out, it's still exciting on "the eve".
It'll be a busy day tomorrow (today? - whatever). I start with a live appearance on KEXP, 90.3 here in Seattle at noon Pacific time. You can check it out anywhere in the world if you want at www.kexp.org (http://www.kexp.org) and hear me screw it all up live on the radio! Then at 6:00 pm, I'll be doing a little gig at the Sonic Boom record store in Seattle on Market Street in my 'hood - the mean streets of Ballard! I'm gonna head down to Portland the next day (Wednesday the 14th) to do another in-store appearance at Music Millennium, 801 NW 23rd (NW 23rd and Johnson), at 6:00 again. So if you're in either of those areas, please come on out and help me to get The Sauce off to a great start!
Then, next week, The Supersuckers will be heading to England, Scotland and Ireland for a couple weeks before heading down the west coast here in the states. After that, hello South America! Do we ever stop? No, we don't.
For all you "electronic auctioneers" out there, we've got some some Ebay action happening right now. There's a test pressing of the L.P. for The Sauce which is super cool since the vinyl won't be out for another month or so. There's also some miscellaneous, one of a kind art proofs, signed posters (by me and the cover model!) and other knicks and knacks. Check it out!
Please, please, please (ain't too proud to beg!) go out and get The Sauce. I guarantee it'll provide you with some good listening. Come see The Supersuckers if we're in, or even near, your town. We'll rock your ass!
Eddie Spaghetti
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Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
Originally posted by mark e smith
Actually I will just put in an order to CDwow, but if that falls through, thanks for giving me an option. It is very kind of you. And you were right about the La's. (I have been listening to it a lot)
I'm in the middle of reading that book about The La's now. Supposively, Lee Mavers has new material that is even stronger than the songs on The La's album, but no one knows if we'll ever hear them. [/b]
>>> I'm one of the only people I know who actually saw The La's during their one & only U.S. "tour"....one of the most bizarre live experiences,ever....Lee is quite strange.....
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Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
Originally posted by mark e smith
Actually I will just put in an order to CDwow, but if that falls through, thanks for giving me an option. It is very kind of you. And you were right about the La's. (I have been listening to it a lot)
I'm in the middle of reading that book about The La's now. Supposively, Lee Mavers has new material that is even stronger than the songs on The La's album, but no one knows if we'll ever hear them. [/b]
>>> I'm one of the only people I know who actually saw The La's during their one & only U.S. "tour"....one of the most bizarre live experiences,ever....Lee is quite strange.....
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Originally posted by imrotten:
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>>> I'm one of the only people I know who actually saw The La's during their one & only U.S. "tour"....one of the most bizarre live experiences,ever....Lee is quite strange..... [/QB][/QUOTE] Geesh,we heard ya the 1st time ;) :roll:
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Originally posted by SPARX:
[JANUARY 12, 2003]
A NOTE FROM EDDIE SPAGHETTI
Well, here it is, another "night before the release" at the Spaghetti manor. As you may or may not know, my record, The Sauce, "drops" (that's what the kids call it these days) tomorrow (or today, by the time you read this), Tuesday, Jan 13th. It's always kind of cool sitting here before the record comes out, not knowing what people will think and hoping for the best. No matter how many records I've put out, it's still exciting on "the eve".
It'll be a busy day tomorrow (today? - whatever). I start with a live appearance on KEXP, 90.3 here in Seattle at noon Pacific time.
Then, next week, The Supersuckers will be heading to England, Scotland and Ireland for a couple weeks before heading down the west coast here in the states. After that, hello South America! Do we ever stop? No, we don't.
Please, please, please (ain't too proud to beg!) go out and get The Sauce. I guarantee it'll provide you with some good listening. Come see The Supersuckers if we're in, or even near, your town. We'll rock your ass!
Eddie Spaghetti
I ordered that yesterday after hearing him on KEXP.
One of my favorite concert experiences ever was catching them doing a free afternoon gig down in Austin when they were on their country extravaganza bent. This toddler was running around oblivious in front of the stage wearing this giant ear protection headset. Eddie was bitching about the kid being there, then he paused & said "I'm such a bad dad". The KEXP DJ was calling the kid Spaghetti O. I got a great photo with Eddie taken after the show from the balconey @ Stubbs. Eddie is throwing the metal sign \nn/. It's badass.
Exciting story eh... :D
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Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by SPARX:
[JANUARY 12, 2003]
I ordered that yesterday after hearing him on KEXP.
One of my favorite concert experiences ever was catching them doing a free afternoon gig down in Austin when they were on their country extravaganza bent. This toddler was running around oblivious in front of the stage wearing this giant ear protection headset. Eddie was bitching about the kid being there, then he paused & said "I'm such a bad dad". The KEXP DJ was calling the kid Spaghetti O. I got a great photo with Eddie taken after the show from the balconey @ Stubbs. Eddie is throwing the metal sign \nn/. It's badass.
Exciting story eh... :D [/b]
They're a blast live.Got to see and hang with them down at Ocean City when they played there a few years back.They definitely know how to enjoy themselves.High energy rnr.Let me know what you think of the solo stuff.
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Lou Reed has a new live album tentavely titled "Animal Serenade".It is set for release on March 23rd.
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Originally posted by imrotten:
Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
Originally posted by mark e smith
Actually I will just put in an order to CDwow, but if that falls through, thanks for giving me an option. It is very kind of you. And you were right about the La's. (I have been listening to it a lot)
I'm in the middle of reading that book about The La's now. Supposively, Lee Mavers has new material that is even stronger than the songs on The La's album, but no one knows if we'll ever hear them. [/b]
>>> I'm one of the only people I know who actually saw The La's during their one & only U.S. "tour"....one of the most bizarre live experiences,ever....Lee is quite strange..... [/b]
me too... although i don't remember any strangeness, execpt they may have played the hit twice. the chills warmed up if memory serves
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I can see Morrissey's on the cutting edge with these hot titles. Hey! I heard that Bush didn't really win the 2000 election.
Originally posted by ggw?:
They include but are not limited to:
"America Is Not The World"
"Irish Blood, English Heart"
"I Have Forgiven Jesus"
"Come Back To Camden"
??I??m Not Sorry?
??The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores?
??How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel??
??The First Of The Gang To Die?
??Teenage Dad On His Estate?
??I Like You?
??The Never-Played Symphonies?
??The Slum Mums?
??You Know I Couldn??t Last?
??Home Is A Question Mark?
??The Public Image?
??It??s Hard To Walk Tall When You??re Small?
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Originally posted by SPARX:
Lou Reed has a new live album tentavely titled "Animal Serenade".It is set for release on March 23rd.
>>Hopefully it will be as entertaining and worth the money as his stellar album "The Raven" was!!
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That Set the Twilight Reeling didn't amount to much either. His appearance on Letterman singing "Ecstasy" was laughable to say the least. He'll put out an album in a few years that people will laud as his best one yet, and then release crap for the next few. If he's still around, of course.
Originally posted by imrotten:
Hopefully it will be as entertaining and worth the money as his stellar album "The Raven" was!!
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
I'm one of the only people I know who actually saw The La's during their one & only U.S. "tour"....one of the most bizarre live experiences,ever....Lee is quite strange..... [/qb]
me too... although i don't remember any strangeness, execpt they may have played the hit twice. the chills warmed up if memory serves [/QB][/QUOTE]
>>> I was living in God's armpit at the time. Orlando,Florida. While I slaved away for Nickelodeon. A local top 40 station sponsored the La's show at the Hilton Twin Towers across from Universal Studios. It was a surreal venue and crowd to put it mildly. It was a Saturday afternoon and a 1 p.m. start in 95 degree heat at a bar behind the hotel that looked like a Tiki Bar out of a Jimmy Buffett video! About 50 people were sitting on towels by the pool watching the band. Out of those 50 maybe 6 including myself had a friggin' clue who or what these guys were all about! They were introduced and never said a word to the crowd. They played about 2 or 3 songs and then left the stage. They returned about a half hour later and did the same thing! This went on for about a 3 hour period.And then they were gone! No interaction with the crowd,no communication from the station DJ's about what was going on! We got the entire album but it took all day! Strangest show ever! I've seen bigger crowds in someone's basement in high school! What they did play was EXCELLENT I will have to say! I have yet to see or hear any Britpop band since that had "it" like they did. Fuckin' Fabulous! Just a bit daff.....
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
I'm one of the only people I know who actually saw The La's during their one & only U.S. "tour"....one of the most bizarre live experiences,ever....Lee is quite strange..... [/qb]
me too... although i don't remember any strangeness, execpt they may have played the hit twice. the chills warmed up if memory serves [/QB][/QUOTE]
>>> I was living in God's armpit at the time. Orlando,Florida. While I slaved away for Nickelodeon. A local top 40 station sponsored the La's show at the Hilton Twin Towers across from Universal Studios. It was a surreal venue and crowd to put it mildly. It was a Saturday afternoon and a 1 p.m. start in 95 degree heat at a bar behind the hotel that looked like a Tiki Bar out of a Jimmy Buffett video! About 50 people were sitting on towels by the pool watching the band. Out of those 50 maybe 6 including myself had a friggin' clue who or what these guys were all about! They were introduced and never said a word to the crowd. They played about 2 or 3 songs and then left the stage. They returned about a half hour later and did the same thing! This went on for about a 3 hour period.And then they were gone! No interaction with the crowd,no communication from the station DJ's about what was going on! We got the entire album but it took all day! Strangest show ever! I've seen bigger crowds in someone's basement in high school! What they did play was EXCELLENT I will have to say! I have yet to see or hear any Britpop band since that had "it" like they did. Fuckin' Fabulous! Just a bit daff.....
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Originally posted by imrotten:
Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
Originally posted by mark e smith
Actually I will just put in an order to CDwow, but if that falls through, thanks for giving me an option. It is very kind of you. And you were right about the La's. (I have been listening to it a lot)
I'm in the middle of reading that book about The La's now. Supposively, Lee Mavers has new material that is even stronger than the songs on The La's album, but no one knows if we'll ever hear them. [/b]
>>> I'm one of the only people I know who actually saw The La's during their one & only U.S. "tour"....one of the most bizarre live experiences,ever....Lee is quite strange..... [/b]
I saw them too! I don't know where you saw them, but they played the WHFS Festival in a park in Northern Virginia in 1990 or 91. Back in those days the festival was free. You only had to pay for the parking. And they had some good bands, which is a rarity nowadays.
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Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
[I saw them too! I don't know where you saw them, but they played the WHFS Festival in a park in Northern Virginia in 1990 or 91. Back in those days the festival was free. You only had to pay for the parking. And they had some good bands, which is a rarity nowadays. [/QB]
I saw that one.Lake Fairfax,right?I believe Violent Femmes may have been there that year as well,although don't hold me to that.We camped there for the duration and my memory's a little fuzzy,been a while.
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Broken Social Scene To Release Rarities/B-Sides Collection in March
[Broken Social Scene, who you might recall released Pitchfork's ninth favorite album of 2003, will release a new collection called Beehives on March 23rd via Arts and Crafts. The record, culled from b-sides and other unreleased material, is described as "songs for the come down." In other words, fans should expect a rather calm tone running through all of the tracks included, with no upbeat rockers, like You Forgot it in People's "Almost Crimes."
Although considered a "b-sides" record by the band, many of the songs weren't actually b-sides. The band released two singles in the UK: "Stars & Sons" and "Cause = Time," and three of the tracks on Beehives are pulled from those. However, many of the others were recorded when the band needed a break from recording You Forgot it in People and simply retreated to a friend's house to "record while fooling around with sounds."
At least one song had a mission statement from the word go: the band tells Pitchfork they "spent many early mornings making noise while hooking up with our friend Emily to create a lo-fi anthem." The track in question is entitled "Backyards," and while it is technically an anthem, the band shy away from imagery of rockets, bombs, and indestructable war banners altogether. Tracklist:
01
02 Marketfresh
03 Weddings
04 Hallmark
05 Backyards
06 Da Da Dada
07 Ambulance for the Ambiance
08 Time = Cause
09 Lover's Spit
Whether or not the band will tour in support of the record isn't 100 percent clear, but it certainly seems likely. According to Kevin Drew, "We're excited to see what we do next. We're excited to see what people want us to do next. We're excited to record another record." In the meantime, however, he states that the band will continue "touring, writing, and living with semi-new lives."
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
And GGW, isnt it time to give up on Morrissey? [/b]
What is it with you and Moz markie...."The more you ignore him the closer he gets"...or something? Or do you just Hate him because he's successful, and because he's northern that makes it worse"?
I for one am looking forward to a new release by the master of misery.
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ggw just hates him because he's beautiful.
:D
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Originally posted by SPARX:
Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
[I saw them too! I don't know where you saw them, but they played the WHFS Festival in a park in Northern Virginia in 1990 or 91. Back in those days the festival was free. You only had to pay for the parking. And they had some good bands, which is a rarity nowadays. [/b]
I saw that one.Lake Fairfax,right?I believe Violent Femmes may have been there that year as well,although don't hold me to that.We camped there for the duration and my memory's a little fuzzy,been a while. [/QB]
Yeah, that's the one. I don't remember all the bands that played that year but I know The La's, Violent Femmes, Gang Of Four, Stress and Too Much Joy all played.
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Beauty Pill is supposed to have a full-length out this year. Looking forward to that one.
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Originally posted by SPARX:
Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
[I saw them too! I don't know where you saw them, but they played the WHFS Festival in a park in Northern Virginia in 1990 or 91. Back in those days the festival was free. You only had to pay for the parking. And they had some good bands, which is a rarity nowadays. [/b]
I saw that one.Lake Fairfax,right?I believe Violent Femmes may have been there that year as well,although don't hold me to that.We camped there for the duration and my memory's a little fuzzy,been a while. [/QB]
The one at Lake Fairfax...wasn't it pretty muddy one year? Only reason I ask, I worked at the mall and a lot of the bands came in for new clothes one year. Sounds silly, but at the time we were all excited about the music and statstruck to have the festival in our area.
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From www.weezer.com" (http://www.weezer.com")
01/15/04 "well, its been a long time coming, but from 'on high', we have a tentative release date for BOTH "Video Capture Device" (the Weezer DVD), AND The Blue Album Deluxe Edition: March 23, 2004. (Now, "tentative" means they have put them on their release schedule, and this date is subject to revision. But - if the release date is in fact changed, it won't be changed by much.)
Thats right, The DVD and the Deluxe Blue Album are coming out on the same day. As previously reported here, the DVD will have over 3 hours of videos, mini-documentaries, live footage, and behind the scenes action dating from 1991-2002, and will have optional band member commentary on many of the DVD's selections. The Deluxe Blue Album will be a 2 disc set that includes the blue album and a disc with all the b-sides and a selection of rare and very rare tracks, plus a big fat booklet with lots of stuff to read and tons of pix, many never before seen.
In the coming weeks/months, the release date will be confirmed and you'll see the cover art for the dvd. At the moment, the DVD's final assembly and production session is slated for the beginning of February. As more info becomes known it will appear on this news page. Thanks to all the fans for your support and patience on these projects!"
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apparently six by seven have a new album out this year as well - supposed to be out in March
their last effort was a little disappointing but I loved their first two
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All going well, New Order should have their follow-up to "Get Ready" out before the end of the year. They've been in the studio writing and recording since last September...
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Washington Social Club is supposed to have a new disc out in May. At the show last night they said it was going to "go national". Did they get a real record deal or something?
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Originally posted by ggw?:
McLusky
just read that the album is finished and will be called 'The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire'
no word on a release date
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by ggw™:
McLusky
just read that the album is finished and will be called 'The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire'
no word on a release date [/b]
They truly have the best album titles. Brilliant.
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Monster Movie have a new one due out anyday now. Looking forward to hearing that.
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Wilco album details....
That next record (or should we say "cd"?) is now entitled "A ghost is born" and will, if the schedule holds, be released by Nonesuch in North America on June 8 and their affiliated labels virtually everywhere else in the world that same week.The track listing is as follows:
At least that's what you said
Hell is Chrome
Spiders (kidsmoke)
Muzzle of Bees
Hummingbird
Handshake drugs
Company in my back
I'm a wheel
Wishful thinking
Late greats
Theologians
Less than you think
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pitchfork reminded me of three that I can't wait for:
Out Hud
Beta Band
!!!
the details on the Beta Band:
The Beta Band will release their self-produced, Nigel Godrich-mixed third full-length Heroes To Zeroes, May 4th on Astralwerks, according to a Billboard report (the album will be out one week earlier in the UK, on April 26th). The album will be preceded by first single "Assessment" in the UK on April 12th, with an accompanying video chronicling "the history of human warfare," according to the band's Steve Mason.
In fact, the band are hard at work on clips to accompany each of the album's twelve cuts for a future DVD release. Each of the Beta's four members will be responsible for three videos each, with the possibility that some of the tracks "may not be from the LP but will be new," according to Mason. Well, it's all new to us. Here's the album tracklist:
01 Assessment
02 Space
03 Lion Thief
04 Easy
05 Wonderful
06 Troubles
07 Out-side
08 Space Beatle
09 Rhododendron
10 Liquid Bird
11 Simple
12 Pure For
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from thecharlatans.net
The Charlatans new album and single both titled 'Up At The Lake' will be released on the following dates:
3rd May - single
17th May - album
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from an email from the band
Burning Brides new album will be out June 8
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High hopes for both TV on the Radio and Franz Ferdinand's new ones...anyone listen yet?
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INCUBUS!!!! i love their new CD!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm enjoying the new Incubus album,stellastarr,Hoobastank, Finger Eleven,Smile Empty Soul (who rocked on 3/4) and Blink 182's cd.
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The new Franz Ferdinand is 'muy bueno' - as they say in france. And Olssons even had a copy of it yesterday after I got off work. So no complaints about music stores here from me for about a week.
The new Destroyer album (your blues) is pretty good as well; Destoyer is basically Dan Bejar, most known here for being the New Pornographer that dropped out once they got popular. Sort of hyper-literate orchestrated (although the new one has lots of synth) singer-songwriter stuff.
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Originally posted by skonster:
The new Destroyer album (your blues) is pretty good as well; Destoyer is basically Dan Bejar, most known here for being the New Pornographer that dropped out once they got popular.
playing with Frog Eyes soon at Iota, don't remember the date
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Originally posted by skonster:
The new Franz Ferdinand is 'muy bueno' - as they say in france.
i trust that's a joke as "muy bueno" is spanish.
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yessir. after i posted it i realized that i know one person who would find that funny. and i'm sure he's not reading this.
Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Originally posted by skonster:
The new Franz Ferdinand is 'muy bueno' - as they say in france.
i trust that's a joke as "muy bueno" is spanish. [/b]
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Anybody heard The Secret Machines? Album is due out on May 18 but you can listen to the entire album on their website:
The Secret Machines (http://www.thesecretmachines.com)
The song "Sad and Lonely" is one of the catchiest tunes I have ever heard.
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Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Anybody heard The Secret Machines? Album is due out on May 18 but you can listen to the entire album on their website....The song "Sad and Lonely" is one of the catchiest tunes I have ever heard.
This is what makes the world go 'round. Don't like "Sad and Lonely" much on first listen, but am digging "Nowhere Again" right off the bat.
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Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Anybody heard The Secret Machines? Album is due out on May 18 but you can listen to the entire album on their website:
The Secret Machines (http://www.thesecretmachines.com)
The song "Sad and Lonely" is one of the catchiest tunes I have ever heard.
Yep (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=006177)
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Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:
High hopes for both TV on the Radio and Franz Ferdinand's new ones...anyone listen yet?
Both excellent. Both on sale at Olsson's. FF - $11.99; TV on the Radio - $9.99.
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some magnetic fields info here (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/04-03/18.shtml)
May 4 release - titled 'i'
01 I Die
02 I Don't Believe You
03 I Don't Really Love You Anymore
04 I Looked All Over Town
05 I Thought You Were My Boyfriend
06 I Was Born
07 I Wish I Had an Evil Twin
08 If There's Such a Thing as Love
09 I'm Tongue-Tied
10 In an Operetta
11 Infinitely Late at Night
12 Irma
13 Is This What They Used to Call Love
14 It's Only Time
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oh, and on bigyawn.net (http://www.bigyawn.net) theres a link to an mp3 of one of the new Wilco songs
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...which sounds like Neil Young and Crazy Horse
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track listing for mclusky album - out may 18
1. Without MSG I Am Nothing
2. That Man Will Not Hang
3. She Will Only Bring You Happiness
4. KKKitchens, What Were You Thinking?
5. Your Children Are Waiting for You to Die
6. Icarus Smicarus
7. Slay!
8. You Should be Ashamed, Seamus
9. Lucky Jim
10. Forget about Him, I'm Mint
11. 1956 and all that
12. Falco vs. the Young Canoeist
13. Support Systems
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preview new Wilco here... (http://wilcoworld.net/ghost/)
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This might already be somewhere in this long thread, but I am too lazy to go back more than 1 page:
Idlewild are currently at work on their fourth full length album.
The band spent two weeks at Tambourine studios, Malmo, Sweden in December recording five songs with 'The Remote Part' producer Dave Eringa.
Currently the band are writing and demoing more songs in the Scottish Highlands and are expected to be back in the studio towards the end of February.
The record is expected to have a summer release. There will be no live shows until that time.
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Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Anybody heard The Secret Machines? Album is due out on May 18 but you can listen to the entire album on their website:
The Secret Machines (http://www.thesecretmachines.com)
The song "Sad and Lonely" is one of the catchiest tunes I have ever heard.
Thanks for the reminder! They are opening for Blonde Redhead, so I've been wanting to listen to them. (And thanks for that link, Jag. I missed the original thread.)
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Originally posted by brennser:
track listing for mclusky album - out may 18
1. Without MSG I Am Nothing
2. That Man Will Not Hang
3. She Will Only Bring You Happiness
4. KKKitchens, What Were You Thinking?
5. Your Children Are Waiting for You to Die
6. Icarus Smicarus
7. Slay!
8. You Should be Ashamed, Seamus
9. Lucky Jim
10. Forget about Him, I'm Mint
11. 1956 and all that
12. Falco vs. the Young Canoeist
13. Support Systems
Sounds every bit as brilliant as expected...I've got '1956 and all that' on the 'there ain't no fool in ferguson' single and it's a perfect thrashing punk tune - one of their best.
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Secret Machines new one is great. They are a great live act.
Fiery Furnaces new album, Blueberry Boat, is coming out in June. It is much different from their first and is really good.
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Originally posted by starcrash:
Fiery Furnaces new album, Blueberry Boat, is coming out in June. It is much different from their first and is really good.
How do you know this?
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Old 97's "Drag It Up" on New West
Mark your calendar, because June 29th, 2004 marks the street date
for "Drag It Up," the latest album from the Old 97's. This will be
the band's 6th release and their first with New West.
Start looking for the Old 97's on the road in July!
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Patterson Hood's solo album, "Killers and Stars", will be released by New West Records on May 4, 2004
PH is the lead singer for Drive-by Truckers.
Up to now, it's been very random show only available.
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Kasey Chambers - Wayward Angel - May 31
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Originally posted by brennser:
Kasey Chambers - Wayward Angel - May 31
aaah - what a cutie
<img src="http://www.kaseychambers.com/images/gallery/1150.jpg" alt=" - " />
Ever see her live? She tours with her Dad on guitar - that's pretty cool. Even though it probably seriously diminishes her ability to live the rock star lifestyle.
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Originally posted by brennser:
apparently six by seven have a new album out this year as well - supposed to be out in March
their last effort was a little disappointing but I loved their first two
I'd love to see them live but C. Olley told me they wouldn't be able to perform here until they had a record deal in the US!
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Ever see her live? She tours with her Dad on guitar - that's pretty cool. Even though it probably seriously diminishes her ability to live the rock star lifestyle.
yes, she's quite the cutie - saw her at the 9.30 club a year or so ago and its a family affair, Dad opens and plays in band - mom sells merch and they all get on stage to play a few songs at some stage - all these things plus her 2 year old probably diminish her ability to live the rock n roll lifestyle!!
I'm interested to hear the new album - I hope she's not been pushed any more into the almost mainstream country sound that a few of the tracks on barricades and brickwalls flirted with
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C. Olley told me they wouldn't be able to perform here until they had a record deal in the US!
and how do you know C. Olley!
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Originally posted by brennser:
C. Olley told me they wouldn't be able to perform here until they had a record deal in the US!
and how do you know C. Olley! [/b]
I don't, but I had to email to declare my admiration for them and wondered when they would tour, alas.
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I don't, but I had to email to declare my admiration for them and wondered when they would tour, alas.
did you know he has a side project?
review here (http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=107580741165990)
site here (http://www.atomoflife.co.uk/index.htm)
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Originally posted by brennser:
did you know he has a side project?
review here (http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=107580741165990)
site here (http://www.atomoflife.co.uk/index.htm) [/QB]
Yes, I think I was aware of it but hadn't heard too much, thanks for the links.
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Escovedo Tribute Album Keeps Growing
The lineup for the two-disc tribute to Texas
singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo continues to
grow. Lucinda Williams, the Cowboy Junkies, Rosie
Flores, Lenny Kaye and former Small Faces
keyboardist Ian McLagan are among those who have
contributed to "Por Vida," due July 13 via Or
Music.
Proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit
the Alejandro Escovedo Medical & Living Expense
Trust, set up to pay costs associated with the
artist's ongoing treatment for hepatitis C.
Escovedo was diagnosed with the ailment in April
2003.
Other recently confirmed contributors to the
project include the Minus 5 (featuring R.E.M.'s
Peter Buck and Young Fresh Fellows principal
Scott McCaughey), Son Volt, the Mekons' Jon
Langford and Sally Timms, dB's principal Chris
Stamey, singer/songwriter Bob Neuwirth, True
Believers singer/guitarist Jon Dee Graham, the
Section String Quartet, Nicholas Tremulis and
Tres Chicas.
Although the track list for "Por Vida" is not yet
complete, Billboard.com can reveal a handful of
the Escovedo songs that are being covered. Blues
great Charlie Musselwhite and Texas-based
guitarist Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan, Arc Angels)
team up on "Everybody Loves Me," while M. Ward
and Vic Chesnutt are paired on "Way It Goes."
The Cowboy Junkies have turned in a rendition of
"Don't Need You," and the set will also feature
the Jayhawks' take on "Last To Know" and Velvet
Underground alum John Cale's cover of "She
Doesn't Live Here Anymore." The artist's niece,
Shelia E., and brother, Pete Escovedo, have
recorded "The Ballad of the Sun and Moon."
Others pitching in include Howe Gelb & Giant
Sand, Calexico, Chuck Prophet, Peter Case,
Whiskeytown, Joe Ely and the Flatlanders,
Jennifer Warnes and Los Lonely Boys.
Although he is still recovering, Escovedo made a
previously promised appearance last month at the
South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin,
Texas, playing a 90-minute set at the city's
Continental Club. It is unknown when he'll be
able to resume recording and touring.
Here is a partial "Por Vida" track list:
"She Doesn't Live Here Anymore," John Cale
"By Eleven," Caitlin Cary
"Don't Need You," Cowboy Junkies
"The Ballad of the Sun and Moon," Pete Escovedo
and Sheila E.
"Inside This Dance," Rosie Flores
"She Towers Above," Howe Gelb & Giant Sand
"One More Time," Ian Hunter
"Last To Know," Jayhawks
"Sacramento & Polk," Lenny Kaye
"Broken Bottle," Jon Langford & Sally Timms
"Castanets," Los Lonely Boys
"Wedding Day," Ian McLagan
"Everybody Loves Me," Charlie Musselwhite and
Charlie Sexton
"Rosalie," Bob Neuwirth
"Crooked Frame," Section String Quartet
"Velvet Guitar," Nicholas Tremulis
"Rhapsody," Tres Chicas
"Way It Goes," M. Ward & Vic Chesnutt
"Pissed Off 2AM," Jennifer Warnes
"The Rain Won't Help," Whiskeytown
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Originally posted by brennser:
from thecharlatans.net
The Charlatans new album and single both titled 'Up At The Lake' will be released on the following dates:
3rd May - single
17th May - album
you can hear clips here
http://www.island.thedevelopmentline.co.uk/charlatans/ (http://www.island.thedevelopmentline.co.uk/charlatans/)
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"the cure" self-titled new album on geffen records - usa release date: june 29th
produced by nu-metal wiz ross robinson (slipknot, korn, limp bizcut)...
<img src="http://images1.wireimage.com/images/thumbnail/2652890.jpg" alt=" - " />
the cure last night at coachella festival
...bound to be the highlight of HFStival, even if the rest of the line-up blows.
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Originally posted by filthypit:
"the cure" self-titled new album on geffen records - usa release date: june 29th
produced by nu-metal wiz ross robinson (slipknot, korn, limp bizcut)...
<img src="http://images1.wireimage.com/images/thumbnail/2652890.jpg" alt=" - " />
the cure last night at coachella festival
...bound to be the highlight of HFStival, even if the rest of the line-up blows.
This is the cd I am waiting for as well..
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been listening to the new sonic youth. pretty decent, it reminds me of one of their earlier albums, maybe goo. its been awhile since i listened to goo, though
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You just gave me ample reason to avoid this album.
Originally posted by filthypit:
"the cure" self-titled new album on geffen records - usa release date: june 29th
produced by nu-metal wiz ross robinson (slipknot, korn, limp bizcut)...
<img src="http://images1.wireimage.com/images/thumbnail/2652890.jpg" alt=" - " />
the cure last night at coachella festival
...bound to be the highlight of HFStival, even if the rest of the line-up blows.
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Dandy Warhols Release Black Album
by Rebekah J. Zietz | 04.29.2004
The Dandy Warhols have released a new two-disc CD entitled The Black Album/Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols. These two albums are a compilation of songs recorded over the past 10 years and include previously un-released material. Both albums were produced by lead vocalist/guitarist, Courtney Taylor-Taylor. The compilation is now being exclusively sold on the band's website (see below) for $30.
DISC ONE- THE BLACK ALBUM
1. Arpeggio Adaggio
2. Crack Cocaine Rager
3. Good Morning
4. Head
5. White Gold
6. Boys
7. Shiny Leather Boots
8. Earth To The Dandy Warhols
9. Minnesoter
10. Twist
11. The Wreck
DISC TWO - COME ON FEEL THE DANDY WARHOLS
1. Not If You Were the Last Junkie In Tony's Basement
2. Retarded
3. Free For All
4. Dub Song
5. Call Me
6. Relax
7. Head
8. Thanks For The Show
9. Lance
10. Ohio
11. One Saved Message
12. Hells Bells
13. The Jean Genie
14. Stars
15. Dick
16. One Ultra Lame White Boy
17. We Love You Dick
18. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
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Originally posted by brennser:
from thecharlatans.net
The Charlatans new album and single both titled 'Up At The Lake' will be released on the following dates:
3rd May - single
17th May - album
In case anyone was wondering, those are the UK (European?) release dates. No US release date has been set yet, according to Amazon.com. It'll probably be months from now. :(
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You can listen to tracks from the new Beta Band album at the Astralwerks (http://www.astralwerks.com/) site. I quite like the songs.
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sorry for the length, Ken is a bit longwinded
Thursday, May 6 3:19 PM:
Old 97's Drag It Up
Release date: July 27, 2004
by Ken Bethea, lead guitarist
11 years in, I still can't quite believe what I've been doing with my life.
We just finished recording our sixth album, Drag It Up. It's the first for our new label, New West Records. After tinkering with our limits on the previous five releases, I think we've settled in with what we do best on Drag It Up - solid writing and performances, with enough bells and whistles to make things interesting. It reminds me of our earlier recordings, we mix bluegrass, surf, country, rock, folk and some good old-fashioned psychedelia.
We started the recording on a frozen February day in Woodstock, N.Y. at Dreamland Studios, a 19th century country church, full of stained glass and ghosts. We finished up in sunny San Diego at producer Mark Neill's vintage studio, four of us stomping, screaming and picking guitars into one microphone. Mark is a hard-core recording traditionalist, far removed from today's digital world. After working with modern technology on our previous three studio trips, we found old school 8-track recording both refreshing and challenging.
During the course of the project, we broke a $6000.00 microphone and my poor old classical guitar. We ate New York barbecue twice and would go back again. I played guitar with a pencil and both Rhett and I tried to play some bass (we failed). We stood in a giant echo-ey church and stared at each other. We stood in a tiny 8x8 room and stared at each other. We sang about satellites, stars, moonlight, cavities, death, cheating, Texas, friendship, parenthood, God and storms.
I think we're finally mature enough to trust the machine that is now our band. Case in point: "Valium Waltz" - Rhett wrote the first version of this song around 1995 and we've tried for years to make it work for us. We had always approached it (perhaps due to its lyrical content) as a Texas-songwriter-tune, a la Robert Earl Keen or Lyle Lovett. Excellent artists, but not exactly our style. It never fell into its pocket until this past January in a Cleveland nightclub. We had gotten to the club early and were rehearsing some of the songs and Murry suggested trying "Valium" (the song). We just relaxed and played the damn thing. It sounded moody and psychedelic and wonderful and that's pretty much the version you'll hear on Drag It Up.
"The New Kid" is another excellent example of the way our band works. We didn't gig much after wrapping up Satellite Rides. After years of relentless touring and recording, we decided to take a breather. When we got back together in Dallas in mid-2003 for a show at our favorite old haunt, The Sons Of Hermann Hall, we had a lot of catching up to do. As always Murry and Rhett sat down and swapped songs. Just before we had to run upstairs and go on-stage, Murry said to Rhett, "I've got this one song with a great melody, but I've only got the first line of lyrics: 'The new kid he's got money/ the money I deserve?' Do you want to take a shot at it?" Rhett got that old gleam in his eye (he loves a challenge). A couple of days later he called Murry and played it for him over the phone. "Man you nailed it," Murry said. Of course, I couldn't leave well enough alone. I made them let me write an instrumental section and "BAM!", a song was born. We hadn't missed a beat.
It's hard not to compare an album with those that came before it. Drag It Up is our most personal. We recorded it on 8 tracks, which pretty much means there was very little studio trickery. What you'll hear, or maybe I should say, what you won't hear is second-guessing, sleight of hand or revisionist thinking. Whereas Too Far To Care was an idealistic album made for big cars and air guitars, Drag It Up is better served by thinking and driving on Sunday afternoons in the middle of nowhere. Fight Songs was urban, hitchhike to rhome was a giant demo and Satellite Rides was hitchhike's opposite, that is to say, for us (four hacks from Texas) a wonderful recording of near-perfect performances. Wreck Your Life was the spiritual predecessor to Drag It Up - punk rock recorded over the course of a few days in a Chicago attic. We have grown - albeit kicking and screaming - into a complex, philosophical and mortal band. I feel good about what we've done. It's our brains, our breath, our fingers, our soul.
I hope you like Drag It Up.
A bit of history: Rhett Miller, Murry Hammond, Philip Peeples and I started the Old 97's in 1993. Everyone we knew was either in a grunge band or looking to start one. I remember talking music philosophy with Rhett and Murry and we wanted to somehow tie together the music of Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, X, The Clash, Johnny Cash, David Bowie and Camper Van Beethoven. We played small country and rock bars in Dallas, usually for tips, beer and the occasional barbecue sandwich.
Though we played a lot - two sets a night, sometimes four nights a week - nothing really felt like it was moving. Then in early 1994, a fan that had a small record label called Big Iron offered to give us $3,000 to record a CD. We recorded hitchhike to rhome over the course of three rainy days in May. To our shock, it changed everything. Until that point, we had never sold a club out. Never packed `em in. Never looked out over the faces and seen the crowd singing along to every word. Suddenly that was happening, not only in our home state, but in Chicago and in St. Louis and everywhere our desperate little Dodge (Vanna White) would carry us. I remember the sense of validation it gave me. It told me that what we were doing was right. We just needed to keep plugging away.
We hooked up with a Chicago label, Bloodshot Records, in 1995 and released our second CD, Wreck Your Life. It was less comprehensive than hitchhike, more meat and potatoes. Our fans seemed to like it and we began to build a national fan base. We toured around the country, sleeping on floors and living hand-to-mouth all of '95 and early '96. That spring, during our showcase at South By Southwest, Austin's big music industry conference, we knocked the ball out of the park. Suddenly all the majors wanted a piece of the action, and we couldn't buy a meal in NY or LA.
We signed with Elektra and, the following year, released Too Far To Care, our ode to what used to be called country rock and is now called alternative country. It was the type of high octane CD we had always wanted to make. We followed Too Far with Fight Songs in 1999 and Satellite Rides in 2001, both featured songs that got quite a bit of airplay and sold well. On Fight Songs we began tinkering with the format again by making things more poppy - although lyrically it was our darkest album. On Satellite Rides we experimented with a '60's vibe (we have some BIG Kinks fans in the band), and wound up with a bouncy rock and roll record.
After ten years of constant work, we took a hiatus. We knew we'd make another record. We just needed, as I said earlier, a breather. Philip and I spent some serious quality time with our little kids (two each, thanks), took our wives out to dinner and started a band called The Scrap Hotel. Murry got married, built a studio in his new home in LA and played beautiful music with his wife Grey DeLisle (Sugar Hill Records). Rhett made his solo record, The Instigator, and moved to upstate New York, where his wife Erica promptly gave birth to Max, the fifth (but probably not the last) Old 97's baby.
This is a family. Brothers. Friends forever. Rock and rollers.
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The new Magnetic Fields record is kinda a disappointment so far, only a few standout tracks, and after waiting 5 years.
I love the new David Cross though.
Still trying to find a copy of Mirah's C'mon Miracle.
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nice article
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The new Magnetic Fields record is kinda a disappointment so far, only a few standout tracks, and after waiting 5 years.
haven't listened to it enough to be definitive but I kinda like it so far
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June 7 - Supergrass Is Ten - the Best of '94 to '04 tracklist:
1. Caught By The Fuzz
2. Pumping On Your Stereo
3. Alright
4. Moving
5. Richard III
6. Grace
7. Late In The Day
8. Seen The Light
9. Mansize Rooster
10. Sun Hits The Sky
11. Kiss of Life
12. Mary
13. Going Out
14. Lenny
15. Bullet
16. It's Not Me
17. Rush Hour Soul
18. Strange Ones
19. Lose It
20. Time
21. Wait For The Sun
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Since just about every other U2 release that didn't have "Zooropa" in the title was released on October 30/31, I'm going to go with Late October on this one:
www.u2.com (http://www.u2.com)
Could it be November ? The next U2 album could be set for an Autumn release, according to comments by Paul McGuinness in the last few days.
U2??s manager told BBC Radio Five Live that he was hoping for a November album release, with a tour to follow - opening in the US, next Spring.
Speaking after a university debate in Oxford, England, on whether ??reality TV is killing live music??, Paul was up against Neil Fox (Capital Radio DJ, and ??Pop Idol?? judge) Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy) and journalist Miranda Sawyer. But, adding to his case, he had Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) and David Hepworth (founding editor of Q magazine.)
And as to what kind of tour the band are thinking of, that remains up for discussion, according to further remarks Paul made to the LA Times.
It will be defined by ??the character of the new album and the new production.??
??In the case of U2, it's more a function of what kind of music they want to do, rather than what kind of box-office gross they want to achieve.
'Certainly playing indoors is much easier, and the logistics are much more controlled,' he added. 'Now that high ticket prices indoors are accepted, if you're going to take the audience to a big outdoor event, you'd really have to be doing something very, very good, and we would take that responsibility very seriously. If we decide to go outdoors, it will be because it's worth doing something on a grand scale.'
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Again, I don't know what this means, but I'm looking forward to this too:
www.socialdistortion.com (http://www.socialdistortion.com)
May 14, 2004
PHASE THREE COMPLETE AND TRACKING IS FINISHED
Hey gang! Tracking for the forthcoming untitled Social D record has come to an end. The guys have hit all their licks, and laid all the tracks that will make up the new record. Ness and the boys are now currently reviewing the songs, and taking notes before going in to have it mixed. The record was produced by Cameron Webb and Mike Ness, and word of who's mixing is soon to be announced!
Stay tuned for more info. as well as song titles, artwork, and live footage of the guys in the studio.
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2 albums I somehow forgot to mention in my Tuesday Cheat Sheet on Big Yawn come out tomorrow -
Mclusky - Difference Between Me & You Is That Im Not on Fire
The Thermals - Fuckin A
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mclusky review (http://www.musicomh.com/albums2/mclusky-2.htm)
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Originally posted by pollard:
2 albums I somehow forgot to mention in my Tuesday Cheat Sheet on Big Yawn come out tomorrow -
I think you also forgot Green Day's American Idiot, but since it's slated for a fall release, you have plenty of time to catch up.
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Old 97s are streaming 3 songs from Drag It Up at old97s.com
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"new kid" sounds like it could be a Smiths/Old 97's song, eh?
Originally posted by brennser:
Old 97s are streaming 3 songs from Drag It Up at old97s.com
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at first I didn't think so but after listening to it for a few times, I tend to agree... esp the last 30 seconds or so - both the lyrics and his vocals are a little smithsy
Originally posted by Sacktastic Bag O' Nuts:
"new kid" sounds like it could be a Smiths/Old 97's song, eh?
Originally posted by brennser:
Old 97s are streaming 3 songs from Drag It Up at old97s.com
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Originally posted by brennser:
Old 97s are streaming 3 songs from Drag It Up at old97s.com
Thanks - I like the sound of the new stuff. A few steps back...in a good way. I busted out Wreck Your Life this weekend. Man, did it sound great.
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Satellite and Won't Be Home are both old songs that Murry and Rhett have performed as the Ranchero Brothers for a number of years.
Probably the reason why it sounds like older stuff.
New Kid is about a year old, probably why it sounds different.
Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by brennser:
Old 97s are streaming 3 songs from Drag It Up at old97s.com
Thanks - I like the sound of the new stuff. A few steps back...in a good way. I busted out Wreck Your Life this weekend. Man, did it sound great. [/b]
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Burning Brides new album is on their website
http://www.burningbrides.com/ (http://www.burningbrides.com/)
seems like you may have to pay though
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Anyone aware of this?
The Waterboys
This Is the Sea [Bonus CD]
1. Don't Bang the Drum (Scott/Wallinger) - 6:46
2. The Whole of the Moon (Scott) - 5:02
3. Spirit (Scott) - 1:48
4. The Pan Within (Scott) - 6:12
5. Medicine Bow (Scott/Thistlethwaite) - 2:45
6. Old England (Scott) - 5:31
7. Be My Enemy (Scott) - 4:17
8. Trumpets (Scott) - 3:36
9. This Is the Sea (Scott) - 9:01
10. [CD-ROM Track]
11. Beverly Penn (Scott) - 5:40
12. Sleek White Schooner (Scott) - 3:44
13. Medicine Bow (Thistlethwaite) - 5:45
14. Medicine Jack (Scott) - 4:12
15. High Far Soon (Scott) - 2:06
16. Even the Trees Are Dancing (Scott) - 4:29
17. Towers Open Fire (Scott) - 4:35
18. This Is the Sea [live] (Scott) - 5:55
19. Then You Hold Me (Scott) - 4:56
20. Spirit (Scott) - 4:12
21. Miracle (Scott) - 1:16
22. I Am Not Here (Scott) - 0:23
23. Sweet Thing (Morrison) - 7:14
24. The Waves (Scott) - 9:10
25. [CD-ROM Track]
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SOCIAL DISTORTION IN THE STUDIO MIXING
Cameron Webb and Mike Ness are currently in a Los Angeles studio mixing the songs recorded for the new record. Below is a list of song names that will be on the album. They??re not in the final sequence, but we wanted to give you the first glance at the songs you??ve been waiting for. A title for the record is still in the works, but we will be sure to let you in on what it is as soon as we get it from the big man himself.
Songs:
Reach For The Sky
Shake Ass
Don??t Take Me For Granted
Footprints On My Ceiling
Nickels & Dimes
I Wasn??t Born To Follow
Winners & Losers
Faithless
Live Before You Die
Angels Wings
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The Libertines Reveal New LP Tracklist
The Chaste team with The Resolute, The Virtuous for PiousFest '04
James Gregory reports:
They fight, they steal, they break up and make up... all while singing songs! West Side Story it ain't, but, in a strikingly Beulah-esque move, The Libertines are apparently staying together after all, despite a widely reported announcement that they had disbanded. To that end, they've announced the tracklist of their upcoming second album, cleverly titled The Libertines.
According to NME, the album is set for an August 30th release on Rough Trade Records, and, like their first album, was produced by Mick Jones of The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite. With any luck, this sophomore effort will be more Give 'em Enough Rope than No. 10, Upping Street-- although, come to think of it, a wicked cover of "C'Mon Every Beatbox" could be pretty inspired. The album's first single, "Can't Stand Me Now", is slated for an August 9th release. Tracklist for The Libertines:
01 Can't Stand Me Now
02 Last Post On The Bugle
03 Don't Be Shy
04 The Man Who Would Be King
05 Music When The Lights Go Out
06 Narcissist
07 The Ha Ha Wall
08 Arbeit Macht Frei
09 Campaign Of Hate
10 What Katie Did
11 Tomblands
12 The Saga
13 Road To Ruin
14 What Became Of The Likely Lads
This particular album news comes hot on the heels of a yearlong bout of loveable hijinx on the part of frontman Pete Doherty who, as previously reported (and sometimes not reported-- he's a tough fucker to keep up with), went to jail for breaking into his bandmates' apartment, entered and broke out of various and sundry drug rehab clinics (inconsideratly dropping their success rates in the process), and attempted to launch a solo career under the God-awful name Babyshambles before finally reuniting with The Libertines this month. Certainly more drama is coming right up. We'll keep you posted like mini Dr. Phils.
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New Spice 1 & MC Eiht collab album "The Pioneers" drops today, June 29th.
More info and audio here (http://www.ghettodvd.com/).
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the bees - 'free the bees'
this is the best thing i've heard in '04. you all should look into it...
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Originally posted by SalParadise:
the bees - 'free the bees'
this is the best thing i've heard in '04. you all should look into it...
it is better than their first album, because that was awful
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by SalParadise:
the bees - 'free the bees'
this is the best thing i've heard in '04. you all should look into it...
it is better than their first album, because that was awful [/b]
awful? or maybe just not your type of music? i mean, it is better than their first album...but then again, i think they're both quality.
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Originally posted by SalParadise:
awful? or maybe just not your type of music? i mean, it is better than their first album...but then again, i think they're both quality.
well I like a lot of the bands they are compared to, and I thought it was awful, obviously it is my opinion
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by SalParadise:
awful? or maybe just not your type of music? i mean, it is better than their first album...but then again, i think they're both quality.
well I like a lot of the bands they are compared to, and I thought it was awful, obviously it is my opinion [/b]
sorry to hear.
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<img src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg300/g353/g35337vlfau.jpg" alt=" - " />
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http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/Cake/player/ (http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/Cake/player/)
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Any word on those Cure re-issues? I found a couple articles that said 8/17, but Amazon/Tower don't have them listed as upcoming releases.
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"The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads" is being released on CD for the first time on 8/17. :)
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Waiting for the new Mooney Suzuki cd. Alive and amplifed is the name, if I recall.
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Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
Waiting for the new Mooney Suzuki cd. Alive and amplifed is the name, if I recall.
Co-written and produced by the Matrix or Matrix or The Matrix or whatever they call themselves. Should be interesting, to say the least.
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shake the sheets, the new ted leo album has leaked, and is better than hearts of oak
also, the elliot smith album is out there too. haven't listened to it all yet
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yeah....the new ted leo is uh, amazing
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Duran Duran's first new album with the original line-up since 1985 will be out in October. It will be called "Astronaut".
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Manic Street Preachers seventh studio album out in October! Title is 'Lifeblood'.
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I know I'm not the only Frames fan on here.....from theframes.ie
We can finally reveal that the new album is titled "Burn The Maps". It will be released on 17 September 2004.
"Finally" (a single taken from the album) will be released on Friday 20 August 2004.
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Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
Waiting for the new Mooney Suzuki cd. Alive and amplifed is the name, if I recall.
The new video can be seen here:
Alive and Amplified (http://click.rollingstone.com/?pageid=rs.ArtistVideos&pageregion=mainRegion&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2FprerollHurl%3FclipId%3D64724%26id%3D6376974)
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For Markie:
Barenaked Ladies will release the holiday album Barenaked for the Holidays on October 5. Tracks include both Christmas tunes like "Do They Know It's Christmas" and "Jingle Bells" as well as Hanukkah songs, including "I Have a Little Dreidel," "Hanukkah Blessings" and "Hanukkah O Hanukkah." ...
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I'm very much looking forward to the North American release of A Strangely Isolated Place by Ulrich Schnauss. I had plans to buy this and in fact, almost did the other night but talked myself out of spending anymore money just yet. Then I found out through a friend that this is being released here and with a bonus disc via Domino Records. I don't know what it is with that album but it makes me feel so good when I listen to it. Something about the acoustics seem to just resonate the right vibes in the brain and vital organs. If you've heard it, you probably know what I mean.
Also, Domino has plans to reissue another Ulrich Schnauss release called Far Away Trains Passing By. That one I already have.
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Dirty Vegas "One" on November 30th
No word on which product endorsement the first single "Walk Into the Sun" will be featured in, but I'm going with a Mitsubishi car commercial.
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<img src="http://www.elperiodico.com/EDICION/ED040822/CAS/FOTOS/EXIT/CARP01/f017dh01.jpg" alt=" - " />
To be released in October.
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Ultra Rare Recordings Bolster Clash Classic (http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000616378)
Five never-before-heard Clash songs highlight the upcoming Legacy Edition of "London Calling," due Sept. 21 via Epic. As previously reported, the first disc of the set will feature a remastered version of the classic 1979 album, while the second disc sports 21 rehearsal sessions recordings dubbed "The Vanilla Tapes." The DVD "The Last Testament -- The Making of London Calling" comprises the third disc.
Previously thought lost, cassettes of "The Vanilla Tapes" were recently discovered in storage by Clash guitarist Mick Jones. Of greatest interest for fans will be "Paul's Tune," which morphed into "The Guns of Brixton," a cover of Bob Dylan's "The Man in Me," "Up-Toon," which turned into "The Right Profile," and an early version of "Clampdown" titled "Working and Waiting."
An in-progress take of the title cut reveals alternate lyrics and song structure, having not yet arrived at the snarling version eventually recorded for the album. Other unreleased items include the country-ish "Lonesome Me," the reggae-leaning "Where You Gonna Go (Soweto)," "Heart and Mind" and the instrumental "Walkin' the Slidewalk."
"The Last Testament" DVD, produced by longtime associate Don Letts, features 16 minutes of previously unreleased studio footage, promo videos, live clips and interviews with Jones, bassist Paul Simonon, late guitarist Joe Strummer and drummer Topper Headon and with band manager Kosmo Vinyl.
Here is "The Vanilla Tapes" track list:
"Hateful"
"Rudie Can't Fail"
"Paul's Tune"
"I'm Not Down"
"4 Horsemen"
"Koka Kola, Advertising & Cocaine"
"Death or Glory"
"Lover's Rock"
"Lonesome Me"
"The Police Walked in 4 Jazz"
"Lost in the Supermarket"
"Up-toon"
"Walking the Slidewalk"
"Where You Gonna Go (Soweto)"
"The Man in Me"
"Remote Control"
"Working and Waiting"
"Heart and Mind"
"Brand New Cadillac"
"London Calling"
"Revolution Rock"
-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
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Originally posted by ggw?:
Ultra Rare Recordings Bolster Clash Classic (http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000616378)
I can't wait for this. Thanks for the info.
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Who's not excited about this news? (http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/0/A5AFA060C871573E80256EF30009BE77!opendocument)
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Originally posted by ggw?:
Who's not excited about this news? (http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/0/A5AFA060C871573E80256EF30009BE77!opendocument)
now they can come back and show all these whack pretenders to the crown how its done!!!!!!
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From SOME RECORDS:
Available on Tuesday, September 7: new release from WALKING CONCERT
WALKING CONCERT: "Run to be Born" album
If you don't already know it, Walking Concert is the new band from your favorite altmetalhardcore hero Walter Schreifels (Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, Rival Schools).
Run to be Born is some of the best music Walter has ever recorded! Look for the video on Fuse.
Download an MP3 from the record at http://www.some.com/mp3/NewThing.mp3 (http://www.some.com/mp3/NewThing.mp3)
SOME titles are available at:
·Tower Records
·Virgin Megastore
·Best Buy
·Musicland
·Amazon.com
·FYE
·Sam Goody
·The Apple iTunes Store
·Audiolunchbox.com
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A few more quick hits since all I did was scour the net today for anything to read:
U2 has announced a November 23rd release.
The titles for 6 of the 11 tracks:
Vertigo (will also be the first single)
A Man and a Woman
Crumbs From Your Table
Yahweh
City of Blinding Lights
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Travis will release a seventeen-track career retrospective CD, Travis: Singles and accompanying DVD on November 1st. At least one new song will be included: "Walking in the Sun"
The Polyphonic Spree will release a DVD version of their latest album, Together We're Heavy on September 14th. The DVD will include music videos and photo galleries.
Wire will release a combination CD/DVD set capturing the band's 1979 performance on the German music show Rockpalast On October 26th.
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Hey Jaguar, are you planning on going to one of the M83/Schnauss shows? Unfortunately, I can't make any of these shows which I am sure will be magical nights of synthgaze. I am also waiting for the second album to be released in the US. Have your heard this unreleased gem from his website: http://www.ulrich-schnauss.net/downloads/2001_us_breakfast.mp3 (http://www.ulrich-schnauss.net/downloads/2001_us_breakfast.mp3)
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I missed the news that Low had signed to Sub Pop (quite a roster at sub pop these days), so I guess they will be coming out with an album soon
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The new Two Lone Swordsmen album, From The Double Gone Chapel, is quite a change from Tiny Reminders. It features Weatherall actually singing, including a cover of the Gun Club's Sex Beat. It is very dark in sort of a Bow Down To The Exit Sign or Contino Sessions way. You can listen to it here: http://www.twoloneswordsmen.com/music.html (http://www.twoloneswordsmen.com/music.html)
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Originally posted by Lazer Guided Melodies:
Hey Jaguar, are you planning on going to one of the M83/Schnauss shows? Unfortunately, I can't make any of these shows which I am sure will be magical nights of synthgaze. I am also waiting for the second album to be released in the US. Have your heard this unreleased gem from his website: http://www.ulrich-schnauss.net/downloads/2001_us_breakfast.mp3 (http://www.ulrich-schnauss.net/downloads/2001_us_breakfast.mp3)
I would absolutely LOVE to but there is just no way that I can swing it. :( :( :(
The closest show is in Philly on a freaking Monday night!!!
Damn! I wish so much that they were playing Baltimore or DC.
Are you going?
And what about Hope Of The States? You planning on going to that one?
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I will be seeing Hope of the States at the University of Colorado union. I haven't got the album yet. Perhaps I should go do that.
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I just received a promo of the new Delgados album in the mail today. It's POP, even slicker than "Domestiques." But that's okay. The darkness is gone. I don't know what to think yet because I've only listened to it once, but they're obviously trying to crack the top 40 (in the UK, at least). It's definitely not sickening though. It's still The Delgados. They're a great singles band I've decided; all of their albums except for "Peloton" have somewhat of a lull to them.
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I just received a promo of the new Delgados album in the mail today
and you're going to make copies for me and markie, right :D , please, pretty please :D
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Originally posted by dotdot:
I just received a promo of the new Delgados album in the mail today.
Do you want to be friends? I'll do whatever it takes. :)
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Originally posted by brennser:
I just received a promo of the new Delgados album in the mail today
and you're going to make copies for me and markie, right :D , please, pretty please :D [/b]
I will, just send me your e-mail address or something and I'll send you copies... I'm supposed to get 5 more in the mail (I'm helping promote it in Richmond, VA to get people to go to the show), and I'll gladly send you it along with the new 3-track single. If my e-mail is not posted in my profile, just send me a "private message" you two.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2004
Chemikal Underground superstars
THE DELGADOS
with CROOKED FINGERS (ex-Archers of Loaf)
8:30 $13
Sublime indie-pop for you and your love
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Originally posted by pollard:
I missed the news that Low had signed to Sub Pop (quite a roster at sub pop these days), so I guess they will be coming out with an album soon
from pitchfork
Low Sign to Sub Pop, Finish Work on New Dave Fridmann-Produced Seventh Full-Length
Nick Patch reports:
Fans suspected something might be amiss when Duluth-based slowcore progenitors Low recently summed up their career to date with the sprawling, self-released three-disc box set A Lifetime of Temporary Relief, but until late last week, there was no official word from the horse's mouth. But now it can be told! After more than half a decade recording for Chicago's prestigious Kranky label, the trio announced last week that they've been lured away from the avant-garde imprint by a sexy new contract with indie Goliath Sub Pop Records. It will be the band's third label since their 1994 debut, I Could Live in Hope, was given release by the Caroline Records-distributed Vernon Yard.
This, in itself, would be of note to humble, devoted Low fans. But the story doesn't post there: The band has also completed work on their seventh proper album, which is to see release via Sub Pop in 2005. Entitled The Great Destroyer, the record was recorded with the assistance of producer extraordinaire Dave Fridmann-- an inspired pair-up if we've ever heard one. (And we have, actually.) Pitchfork recently spoke to Low frontman Alan Sparhawk via e-mail about the new album and the move to Sub Pop, but not what it's like to sack out on the couch with a bowl of Cheerios and an arm full of heroin. (We're saving that one for Courtney.)
On the Dave Fridmann tip, Sparhawk said that while the producer was a good fit for the band, fans shouldn't expect the meticulously lush sound of his work with bands like The Flaming Lips and The Delgados. "The songs we were writing seemed to be begging for his style and approach," said Sparhawk. "There's actually very little orchestration and the other things he is known for. It's very guitar-based and a lot more aggressive than our past records-- maybe more pop, even. People blame people like Fridmann and Albini for putting too much of their 'sound' into recordings they do, but it's still mostly up to the bands-- a good engineer/producer just helps you get to what's already there."
Sparhawk also downplayed the significance of the band's emigration from longtime label Kranky to king of the indies, Sub Pop. "There were a few other labels poking around at us, but Sub Pop just seems the most appropriate for where we are right now. I'm tired of seeing lame bands on Conan O'Brien." Yes, that always was a problem with Kranky. Remember when Charalambides were up there playing like two sticks and a gong and Conan was all, "We'll be right back!" and it was only seven minutes in? Fuck 'em.
As far as their new home prompting a bigger audience, the band is still taking a very DIY approach to the whole thing. "Sub Pop may buy a few more magazine ads, but nobody looks at those.* [They have] better distribution, which I guess helps, but at the end of the day, nothing happens unless a lot of people buy the record. Meanwhile, we do the same stuff as always-- play shows and hope people show up."
In related news, Low are, in fact, playing a few shows, and they're hoping you show up. Two are solo Sparhawk performances. Check how fast he gets from west to east:
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Originally posted by pollard:
slowcore
Hmmm, slowcore. Good word. Is that the new tag for "shoegaze," or is shoegaze still okay? [I'm asking, not slagging; I don't know Low.]
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Low are definitely not shoegaze. Recently I heard their cover of Joy Division's Transmission. They played it at least half the speed. Slowcore fits perfectly.
Originally posted by Bags:
Hmmm, slowcore. Good word. Is that the new tag for "shoegaze," or is shoegaze still okay? [I'm asking, not slagging; I don't know Low.]
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Originally posted by Bags:
Originally posted by pollard:
slowcore
Hmmm, slowcore. Good word. Is that the new tag for "shoegaze," or is shoegaze still okay? [I'm asking, not slagging; I don't know Low.] [/b]
two different things entirely. shoegaze tends to keep the guitar effects swirling, whereas slowcore just plays everything slowly and normally without much effects other than a delay pedal or something like that. . .such bands are low, bedhead and the new year. i would guess mogwai would fit in more with slowcore more than shoegaze.
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Freak and Geeks Soundtrack to be released 9/14
1. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
2. Geek Hallway - Michael Andrews
3. Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Warren Zevon
4. Lindsay??s Theme - Michael Andrews
5. Keg Party Music - Michael Andrews
6. Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson
7. Clem??s Theme - Michael Andrews
8. No Language In Our Lungs - XTC
9. Lindsay Disturbed Theme - Michael Andrews
10. Bill Gets Funky (A.K.A. Spacefunk) - Paul Feig
11. USA Rock - Michael Andrews
12. The Spirit Of Radio - Rush
13. Daniel??s Theme 2 - Michael Andrews
14. I??m One - The Who
15. Porno Music - Michael Andrews
16. Neal??s Lament - Michael Andrews
17. The Groove Line - Heatwave
18. Ken??s Ode To Joy - Michael Andrews
19. Come Sail Away - Styx
20. End Title Theme - Michael Andrews
21. Lady L - Jason Segal (Nick Andopolis)
22. Eighteen - Dave Gruber Allen (Mr. Rosso)
23. Jesus Is Just Alright - Jason Segal (Nick Andopolis) & Sara Hagan (Millie Kentner)
24. Up On Cripple Creek - Dave Gruber Allen (Mr. Rosso & Feedback)
25. Dumb As A Crayon - The Leaving Trains
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September
MADELEINE PEYROUX A vocalist who emerged in the mid-90's from singing in the New Orleans streets, Ms. Peyroux could inhabit Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, doing the tragic, pinched-voice thing perfectly. She still can and does ?? that little voice remains somehow central to her ?? but on "Careless Love," her first album in eight years, she enlarges and updates the repertory, wading into the Elliott Smith and Jesse Harris catalogs. Tuesday. Rounder.
TEGAN AND SARA Smarty-pants teenage wallflowers, don't give up hope. The next Tegan and Sara album arrives next week. "So Jealous" is 14 high-school vignettes rendered by two young lesbian sister singer-songwriters with a more than decent band. There eventually had to be a midway point between the Indigo Girls and Sleater-Kinney, and this is it. Tuesday. Sanctuary.
THE THRILLS Scrawny Irish gentlemen with an incredible aptitude for absorbing 70's American pop, from Neil Young to the Band to Bruce Springsteen to Todd Rundgren, the Thrills have settled into that ever-available genius pop-band slot. This doesn't necessarily mean high sales for their second album, "Let's Bottle Bohemia," nor does it mean that they inspire keen identification; it just means that a lot of college kids will be satisfied. Tuesday. Virgin.
THE GREAT JAZZ TRIO The final recordings of the great jazz-playing brothers Hank and Elvin Jones (Elvin died earlier this year) are on "Someday My Prince Will Come." Richard Davis rounds out the trio. Tuesday. 88's/Columbia.
PETER CINCOTTI A slick, clear-voiced young crooner in the Harry Connick Jr. mold, Mr. Cincotti has the sense to load his second album, "On the Moon," with durable standards. But there are mega-kitsch originals as well, finely tuned to older sensibilities. Unlike cheeky Jamie Cullum, Mr. Cincotti has an ear for the musical language of his grandparents' generation. Tuesday. Concord.
ZAP MAMA The Congolese singer and songwriter Marie Daulne, who records under the name Zap Mama, has zeroed in on neo-soul for her new musical template, in particular the Philadelphia wrecking crew of musicians and rappers in the Roots, with their small constellation of associated figures: Common, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu. All those artists make appearances on "Ancestry in Progress," and the songs consciously mix up cultures: French lyrics, Cuban montunos, reggae and hip-hop rhythms. Tuesday. Luaka Bop/V2.
THE FAINT "Wet From Birth," this Omaha band's first full studio record in three years during which it and its local brothers and sisters became extremely fashionable, sounds like futuristic teenage party rock. Tuesday. Saddle Creek.
BLOC PARTY By the mysterious consensus of indie-rock journalism and aesthetics, everyone's supposed to love Franz Ferdinand. But this comparable English band, flying the flag of early-80's funk and punk, gives a much better jolt; its singer, Kele Okereke, is the gulping, gasping opposite of the self-assured crooner Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand. The band's first EP, "Bloc Party," already released in England, now hits America. Tuesday. Dim Mak. (The band will play on Sept. 30 at the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, 212-219-3006.)
TEARS FOR FEARS Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith were last seen in the 1980's, exploring scream therapy and trying to write neo-hippie anthems that would outdo "All You Need Is Love." They've returned with "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending." Tuesday. Universal.
DIZZEE RASCAL He's done it again: "Showtime," the British rapper Dizzee Rascal's second album, gusts with more of the enthusiasm, self-assuredness and totally foreign version of rhythm that he introduced on "Boy in da Corner." You can't replicate teenage intuition, so there's a more rehearsed quality to the new album; the connections to dancehall are clearer, and the lovely awkwardness of that first album isn't quite there. But the first time wasn't luck. Tuesday. XL/Matador.
BRANFORD MARSALIS "Eternal" is a new album of ballads, with his usual quartet, including the pianist Joey Calderazzo, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Jeff (Tain) Watts. Tuesday. Marsalis Music.
ALICE COLTRANE In her own way, she's as much of a star as the 60's ever produced in jazz, not for being the greatest pianist who ever lived but for embodying the Egyptology/astral plane/Sufi mysticism of that time so completely. On "Translinear Light," the first commercial album she's made since opening an ashram in California in the late 70's, she teams up with solid rhythm sections, including the bassists Charlie Haden and James Genus and the drummers Jack DeJohnette and Jeff Watts, as well as her and John Coltrane's two saxophone-playing sons, Ravi and Oran. Tuesday. Verve.
BRAD MEHLDAU Mr. Mehldau already has an abundance of live recordings for a discography that spans only 10 years. But the idea of the performance as sacrament has worked for Keith Jarrett, whose fans never lose their appetite for his endless stream of live CD's; and Mr. Mehldau hasn't yet done a concert album of solo piano. Therefore, "Live in Tokyo," with songs by Gershwin, Porter, Monk, Mehldau, Nick Drake and Radiohead. Tuesday. Nonesuch. (Mr. Mehldau plays at the Village Vanguard with a quartet including the bassist Larry Grenadier, the drummer Jorge Rossy and the saxophonist Mark Turner, Sept. 28-Oct. 3.)
NELLY The extravagance of a concept double-CD with each disc intended for a completely different mindset worked beautifully for OutKast last year. R. Kelly caught on to the idea first ?? his "Happy People/U Saved Me" double-disc came out last month ?? but Nelly's right behind him, proposing two discs: the first courts kids in the clubs ("Sweat") and the second gives professional grown-ups something more mentholated ("Suit"). They will apparently be sold and marketed separately and released on the same day. Tuesday. Fo Reel/Universal.
ZOMBIES The Zombies broke up in 1967; now the keyboardist Rod Argent and the singer Colin Blunstone have reunited in a banner year for reunions and re-enactments (see below for news on Brian Wilson, the Incredible String Band and the Pixies). "As Far as I Can See . . ." is the group's new album. Tuesday. 14. Rhino. (The Zombies perform at Town Hall on Oct. 13, with Arthur Lee's Love.)
MASTERS OF INDIAN MUSIC The World Music Institute puts on a two-part concert with two prominent North Indian musicians: Veena Sahasrabuddhe, who sings the devotional songs called bhajans and songs in the improvised khyal form; and Partha Chatterjee, the sitarist. Saturday. Symphony Space. www.worldmusicinstitute.org (http://www.worldmusicinstitute.org)
ELVIS COSTELLO The 50-year-old Mr. Costello will put out two completely different new albums, both arriving on the same day. "The Delivery Man" (Lost Highway) is a bluesy rock album by Elvis Costello and the Imposters, including the drummer Pete Thomas, the keyboardist Steve Nieve and the bassist Davey Faragher, recorded in Oxford and Clarksdale, Miss., with appearances by Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris. "Il Sogno" (Deutsche Grammophon) is Mr. Costello's first crack at a ballet score for symphony orchestra. Sept. 21.
BEN HARPER AND THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Strangely enough, the Blind Boys of Alabama asked Ben Harper to produce their new album. He plays on it too, with his band the Innocent Criminals; the full collaboration, "There Will Be a Light," combines spirituals and a Jeff Buckley song. Sept. 21. Virgin.
DON BYRON At the high moments of the New York alternative-jazz scene, Mr. Byron offered his interpretations of klezmer or Latin jazz or the work of unjustly forgotten jazz bandleaders. There's also a concept behind "Ivey-Divey," his best album in years, but it doesn't drive the thing. The record pays homage to Lester Young's 1946 trio recordings with the same instrumentation (here Mr. Byron puts down the clarinet, his usual instrument, for a tenor saxophone, while Jason Moran takes Nat King Cole's place on piano and Jack DeJohnette takes Buddy Rich's on drums) but different repertory, from originals to electric-era Miles Davis to "I Want to Be Happy." Sept. 21. Blue Note. (The trio performs at the Thalia at Symphony Space, Oct. 8.)
DEVENDRA BANHART It doesn't seem like a good sign that one of the most prolific writers and electrifying performers of the new folk-freak scene is releasing outtakes by his third album. But the recording session for last year's "Rejoicing in the Hands" yielded 54 songs, so the balance will end up on "Nino Rojo." Sept. 21. Young God.
THE BAD PLUS With a bona fide jazz pianist (Ethan Iverson) and bassist (Reid Anderson) and a slightly more rockish drummer (David King), the Bad Plus has baited rock-haters by working rock-radio hits into its repertory. The band's semi-joking gestures continue ?? the latest cover it's been playing is Queen's "We Are the Champions" ?? but so does its more serious side, in strong original compositions, especially by the undersung Mr. Anderson. Sept. 21-26. Village Vanguard.
CHARLIE ROBISON Recording for an indie after three albums with Sony, Mr. Robison remains deeply entrenched in the Austin country music mafia. "Good Times" shows the unbroken trail of Lone Star beer extending from the mass-popular (his wife, Emily Robison, is one of the Dixie Chicks) to the obscure (one of the songs here is by Terry Allen, the visual artist and maker of fine cult records). Sept. 21. Dualtone.
RTX Nearly 20 years ago, Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty looked like perfect rock stars and made almost impenetrably weird music as Royal Trux. In the 90's, horse-after-cart style, they created a credible, bottom-heavy group sound sound to catch up with their image. Since then, Mr. Hagerty has written a widely unread novel and Ms. Herrema has done some modeling for Calvin Klein, and they have continued to play frustratingly ambivalent live shows. Now that the couple have separated, Ms. Herrema has commandeered the legacy, renaming the band RTX; its first album, "Transmaniacon," trades on the most straightforward rock and metal side of the old Trux. Sept. 21. Drag City.
CONVERGE Most bands at the crossroads of metal and punk really belong in one camp or the other; all the rest is pretense or misplaced desire. But Converge, making music that's cathartic and tied up in knots, has ruled the zone for 13 years. "You Fail Me," its new album, doesn't end the streak. Sept. 21. Epitaph.
GREEN DAY "American Idiot" is the next installment from a still exemplary neo-punk band. Populists that they are, their version of a political album focuses not on the keepers of power, but on daily life in Consumerville. It also happens to be ?? and try to say it without smirking ?? a rock opera. Sept. 21. Reprise.
SPALDING ROCKWELL A quickly fashionable band that came up through New York's electroclash scene, Spalding Rockwell seems to be a good old ordinary pop group posing as something more exotic: despite the weird filters and mixing, it's Blondie time again. "Kate" is the group's first album. Sept. 21. Defend.
SKYE SWEETNAM Sixteen and rockin', Skye Sweetnam is today's pop-music equivalent of Josie and the Pussycats; "Noise From the Basement" presents a superslick pidgin translation of current rock and the Ramones, aimed at girls about five years younger than she is. Sept. 21. Capitol.
THE CLASH "London Calling" was the album that gave the Clash its first significant American hits and created what has been a nearly unbreakable line of praise from rock critics. For its 25th-anniversary edition, extra tapes from the sessions, found by the group's guitarist Mick Jones, have been added. It's a double disc plus a DVD. Sept. 21. Sony Legacy.
MARIA SCHNEIDER JAZZ ORCHESTRA Some feel that Ms. Schneider's big-band music has been revelatory from the word go, 15 years ago or so, but I think the music on "Concert in the Garden" ?? her first album distributed by the Internet-based company Artist Share (available at www.mariaschneider.com) (http://www.mariaschneider.com)) ?? reaches a new level of beauty and complexity. The orchestra, which has remained remarkably intact over that decade and a half, plays a four-day residence. Sept. 23-26. Jazz Standard.
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND Forefathers of the weird experimental folk now being played by Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, the Incredible String Band, from London, made albums in the 60's and 70's that were loved or reviled, probably depending on how you felt at the time about traditional mainstream folk. Two of its founding members, Mike Heron and Clive Palmer, are taking the band out on its first American tour in 30 years; the duo is augmented by the bassist Gavin Dickie and the "female multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Fluff." The Hook, 18 Commerce Street, Brooklyn, Sept. 24. (718) 797-3007. www.thehookmusic.com. (http://www.thehookmusic.com.) Joe's Pub, the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, Sept. 25. (212) 239-6200. www.publictheater.org (http://www.publictheater.org)
PANDA BEAR One of the members of Animal Collective, once a New York band but now a kind of goofily mysterious multimedia cabal, puts forth his latest excursion into the center of his brain; "Young Prayer," with reasonably accurate high vocals, acoustic guitar and hand-clapping, occasionally sounds like Syd Barrett playing flamenco, or a 12-year-old altar boy on acid. Sept. 28. Paw Tracks.
` "CAN'T YOU HEAR ME CALLIN": BLUEGRASS ?? 80 YEARS OF AMERICAN MUSIC' The bluegrass anthology to beat all, in four CD's. It originates from the corporation that houses Columbia Records, but it's not just the Columbia bluegrass story: tracks from many labels, judiciously chosen, have been licensed. Sept. 28. Sony Legacy.
GONZALO RUBALCABA This Cuban jazz pianist returns on "Paseo" with his New Cuban Quartet, a technically dazzling group, and a different style from his more emotive, slow-moving trio albums of the last five years. Sept. 28. Blue Note.
INTERPOL One of New York's more accurate re-enactors of early-80's post-punk ?? leaning toward Joy Division as the model ?? Interpol created a fast following; with "Antics," its second album, the band will try to expand its audience. Sept. 28. Matador.
DR. LONNIE SMITH If you're a Hammond organist in jazz, playing the basic formula for tenor-and-organ music, it helps if your music has a certain aggression. Dr. Smith does the opposite, retreating into the mist of deep funk. His mysterious restraint keeps paying dividends on "Too Damn Hot," as does his interplay with the guitarist Peter Bernstein. Sept. 28. Palmetto.
BLUES EXPLOSION The band's putative leader, Jon Spencer, insists that the trio is an equal partnership; as such, on "Damage," the band spreads the democracy further with a farrago of producers and unlikely guests, including Chuck D, James Chance and the English singer Martina Topley-Bird. Sept. 28. Sanctuary.
JOSS STONE On "Mind, Body and Soul," the second album by Ms. Stone, the teenage English blonde soul singer who can channel Aretha Franklin, she meets the real world. She keeps a few of the antiquated soul gestures (Hammond organ, horn charts, Curtis Mayfield-like guitar figures), but wisely throws others away. And she makes a lot more sense when she holds forth like Christina Aguilera. Sept. 28. S-Curve.
BRIAN WILSON The grandfather of candy-colored mind expansion in pop music brings out an album that is new and old at the same time: a newly rerecorded version of "Smile," his never-released 60's collaboration with Van Dyke Parks. Sept. 28. Nonesuch. (Mr. Wilson will perform the entire album, with a full band, on tour; he appears at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 12-13, 212-247-7800.) A related article is on Page 67.
MILES DAVIS If you thought all of Miles Davis's 60's quintet material had already been rereleased, you're not wrong, but you're thinking about the music of the 60's quintet, the great one. The seven-CD set "Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis (1963-64)" collects the 60's material from before the cohesion of the Herbie Hancock-Wayne Shorter-Ron Carter-Tony Williams band; it involves George Coleman and Sam Rivers, playing wonderfully, as musicians tended to do around Miles. And at the end there is one live disc of the great band, with a previously unreleased "Stella by Starlight." Sept. 28. Sony Legacy.
SHAWNNA Ludacris's protégée, Shawnna is the daughter of the blues guitarist Buddy Guy and has in her rapping some of her father's speed and intensity. "Worth Tha Weight" is her first album. Sept. 28. Def Jam.
THE USED The best rock band ever to come out of Orem, Utah, the Used needs only to produce more gnashing guitar songs for Bert McCracken to howl through; its basic group sound remains secure. "In Love and Death" is the group's second album. Sept. 28. Reprise.
DANILO PEREZ TRIO Mr. Perez is one of the most rhythmically and harmonically sophisticated pianists in jazz, and his collaborations in the past few years with Wayne Shorter and Steve Lacy, as well as his own ambitious solo records, have been worth hearing. Sept. 30-Oct. 3. Jazz Standard.
October
HELMET With "Size Matters" we see the return, after seven years' absence, of a band that made important connections between indie-rock and metal in the 1990's, as well as waking up the world to the beauty of highly tuned snare drums. Oct. 5. Interscope.
HOLLY WILLIAMS Hank Williams's granddaughter, and she's a different animal from her father, Hank Jr., and her half-brother Hank III. No rebel country-rock, no metal flirtations, no family-tradition determinism. Her disposition points the other way: "The Ones We Never Knew," her first album, presents slightly self-possessed songs about loss and breakups, folk-rock honesty for triple-A radio. Oct. 5. Universal South.
KAKI KING Ms. King's quiet acoustic-guitar virtuosity, with hammering folk patterns and altered tunings that might remind you of Michael Hedges or Leo Kottke, carries new connotations; on "Legs to Make Us Longer" she's updating a small and very male tradition for a new era of folk music. Oct. 5. Epic.
KATRINA ELAM A self-titled first album by country's new 20-year-old belting singer-songwriter, with all the right biographical details: she was first noticed at 9, at a 4-H talent show in Oklahoma. Produced by Tony Brown. Oct. 5. Universal South.
TOM WAITS Mr. Waits continues to shape sound in weird ways, making monstrous, rusty-screen-door American roots music with surreal lyrics; on "Real Gone" he has the guitarist Marc Ribot, who helped him create a new sound on the album "Swordfishtrombones," on board again. Oct. 5. Anti-.
GILLES PETERSON A nearly irresistible party-mix album by an international D.J. of reliable taste, "Gilles Peterson in Brazil" strings together Brazilian pop of the 60's and 70's on its first disc and current Brazilian artists like Otto and Patricia Marx on its second. Oct. 5. Ether/Caroline.
FATBOY SLIM Other forces in pop music may be making grim prognostications about the election and urging you to vote, but nothing gets in between Fatboy Slim and a party; his new album, "Palookaville," contains a version of Steve Miller's hit "The Joker" with vocals by Bootsy Collins. Oct. 5. Astralwerks.
R.E.M. "Leaving New York," the first single from the band's next album, "Around the Sun," is strangely mushy and vague ?? not the statement one might expect from a band whose election-time message has become increasingly political. Oct. 5. Warner. (R.E.M. will perform at Madison Square Garden, Nov. 4.)
CAKE Cake can't shake its rap for glib irony, but the band has something on you if you think it's merely a joke. "Pressure Chief," its fifth album, is more of the group's trebly post-new wave with smart lyrics and a trumpet player; love it or hate it, it's a coherent group sound. Oct. 5. Columbia.
WILCO Still seen as the saviors of rock, mostly to their annoyance, Jeff Tweedy and company have at least grown more comfortable aesthetically and physically; you probably won't see Mr. Tweedy harangue his adoring audience anymore, and you'll see a tighter control over their sound. Oct. 5-6. Radio City Music Hall, with Fiery Furnaces. (212) 307-7171. www.ticketmaster.com (http://www.ticketmaster.com)
ALBERT AYLER Honking, testifying and shrieking through his tenor saxophone, over original melodies that sound like lost marches or hymns from the Civil War era, Albert Ayler built his own bolt-hole within 1960's jazz: despite his technical limitations, there was nobody like him. (He died in 1970.) People tend to know only his work from 1964 to 1967, though, and "Holy Ghost," a meticulous and thorough boxed set, should correct that, showing the early Charlie Parker enthusiast and the late flirtations with rhythm and blues. It contains nine CD's of rare and unissued material, including remarkable live performances and interviews. Oct. 5. Revenant.
ZAKIR HUSSAIN AND AMJAD ALI KHAN Two masters of Indian classical music, a tabla player and a sarod player respectively, Mr. Hussain and Mr. Khan have recorded and performed together before; theirs is a partnership of flamboyant talents that, at its best, transcends flamboyancy in favor of intuitive communication. Oct. 9. Town Hall. www.worldmusicinstitute.org (http://www.worldmusicinstitute.org)
JOSEPH ARTHUR One of the more emotionally ponderous singer-songwriters in rock moved his base of operations from New York to New Orleans last year, the better to soak up the dark side; "Our Shadows Will Remain," his new album, shimmers with stylized pain and new production techniques. Oct. 12. Vector.
MOS DEF His second album, "The New Danger," squeezed out between acting commitments, will not be the full-length rock-band experiment Mos Def has been fitfully working on with his band, Black Jack Johnson; it's mostly straight hip-hop. Oct. 12. Geffen.
BLOOD BROTHERS Rock bands don't get a lot more surging, yelpy and nervous than the Blood Brothers, from Seattle; "Crimes," their third album, reminds you of the thrills unleashed by the early-80's band Die Kreuzen, which turned punk's monochromatic formula into color-splattered explosions. There's a lot going on here; their albums, dense and unnerving, take a little while to make sense. Oct. 12. V2.
YUNG WUN His first single from "The Dirtiest Thirstiest," produced by Swizz Beats, put his rugged Southern rap over a college marching-band beat ?? a great idea. Oct. 12. J.
THE JAZZ PASSENGERS Always interested in mixing jazz with other media, the Jazz Passengers play a live original score to the 1954 3-D movie "Creature From the Black Lagoon" (3-D glasses provided by the theater). Oct. 14. Symphony Space.
JIN "The days of the pork fried rice and the chicken wings coming to your house by me is over/ Y'all gon' learn Chinese," raps Jin, the first Chinese-American b-boy to be marketed on a grand scale. He's with the Ruff Ryders Crew, and his first album, "The Rest Is History," affords him the full-on treatment, including a Kanye West production on the single "I Gotta Love." Oct. 19. Virgin.
LE TIGRE An agitated political rock band that has started to shed its spindly, self-destructive, art-project characteristics; on "This Island" it sounds built to last. Oct. 19. Strummer/Universal.
ELLIOTT SMITH Those who liked Elliott Smith's music but aren't themselves perpetually at emotional ebb tide might be genuinely spooked by "From a Basement on the Hill," the final recordings he made before his death last October. There has still been no ruling on whether it was suicide or murder, but the songs on this album, typically well constructed, pop-classicist and morose, make the difference seem academic: he was living on the dark side, and his last songs about depression, addiction and death are mostly unmetaphorical. If you can take the gloom, it's almost certainly the best Elliott Smith album since "Either/Or." Oct. 19. Anti-.
CHICKS ON SPEED This American-Australian-German trio, part band and part fashion-design triumvirate, wants to make you like them, and to make you feel very insecure about liking them. On "99 Cents" they act as if they invented bohemian subversion, gabbing about inauthentic (whatever that means) Eurodisco (whatever that means) and about how they're interested in "selling out" (whatever that means). It's an exercise in look-at-me, and I'm not sure they'll ever be as famous as they'd like to be, but they do seem committed to themselves as a product. The accompanying disc of remixes offers a little more unironic pleasure. Oct. 19. COS.
CAETANO VELOSO The Brazilian singer-songwriter and man of letters returns for another New York visit; his most recent album was "A Foreign Sound," a collection of American songs sung in English, but he may be drawing from a larger swath of his 35-year repertory this time around. Oct. 19-20. Beacon Theater, Broadway at 74th Street, (212) 496-7070.
ROD STEWART His "Great American Songbook" ballads-and-standards albums are Mr. Stewart's last laugh ?? but the more times you say it, the more volumes that appear. The latest is Volume 3. Oct. 19. J.
NEVILLE BROTHERS The band's first album in five years, "Walkin' in the Shadow of Life" reconciles funk past and future; the first single is the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion," and the political overtones are there on purpose. Oct. 19. Back Porch/EMI.
`STAND UP FOR JAZZ: BILL COSBY WITH THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA' This kicks off the opening festival for Jazz at Lincoln Center's new Columbus Circle complex. But let's hope Mr. Cosby does his thing and the airtight orchestra does its thing, and they don't collaborate too much; it would be miles better than the semi-serious experiments in conducting and genial hoedown in which he's taken part. Oct. 21. Rose Theater.
CASSANDRA WILSON The most flexible and transformative jazz singer of her generation brings her live show to the new jazz complex. Oct. 22. Rose Theater.
`THREE SHADES OF BLUES: ROOTS, COUNTRY, SOUL' In three concerts, Jazz at Lincoln Center demonstrates the intersections of jazz with African music, blues, country, gospel and R & B. It's not the first time this kind of thing has been done, but some highly charismatic musicians will be on hand: Taj Mahal and Corey Harris for blues; Randy Weston and Mamadou Diabate for African music; Ricky Skaggs for country and Marie Knight and the Holmes Brothers for gospel. Oct. 25-27, Rose Theater.
BEANIE SIGEL As he explained on his recent mixtape, "Public Enemy No. 1," he's going to jail soon, having pleaded guilty to federal drug and weapons-possession charges. So unlike many other hip-hop albums with sliding release schedules, his next album, "The B-Coming," may have to be released without delay. Oct. 26. Roc-A-Fella.
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Full of dark and literary love songs ?? allusions to Greek poetry, the Bible and Philip Larkin abound ?? Mr. Cave's new album is a two-CD set, with a title for each disc: "Abattoir Blues" and "The Lyre of Orpheus." Oct. 26. Anti-.
MARS VOLTA Emerging from the short-lived but exciting band At the Drive-In, Mars Volta has a stunning drummer and a reputation for great live shows, yet success still eludes it. "Frances the Mute" is the group's second album. Oct. 26. Strummer/Universal.
`BRASIL LIVRE!' Hermeto Pascoal, the brilliant, blind, eccentric multi-instrumentalist and composer from Brazil, hardly ever performs in the United States; since he's become a hero to greater and greater numbers of jazz musicians, it was wise of Jazz at Lincoln Center to make a visit from him possible. Oct. 29-30. The Allen Room at Frederick P. Rose Hall.
GWEN STEFANI The first solo album from No Doubt's frontwoman is rumored to have the usual megamix of producers and songwriters: Andre 3000, Linda Perry, Missy Elliott, Dr. Dre. October or late fall. Interscope.
BECK Beck has gone back to working with the Dust Brothers, the team that produced "Odelay," the album that made him a star; instead of introspection, he's promising loud guitars again on his next album. October or later. Interscope.
November
`JAZZ IN MOTION' A concert of new and old works combining jazz and dance, part of Jazz at Lincoln Center's goal of stretching across disciplines. The premieres are "Welcome," with music by Wynton Marsalis and choreography by Peter Martins; "Gauntlet," with music by Joe Chambers and choreography by Elizabeth Streb; and other new works by Mr. Marsalis, to which Savion Glover dances. Nov. 3-5. Rose Theater.
ELTON JOHN Mr. John is still engaged in his valiant project to get back to the songwriting glories of his past. He recorded "Peachtree Road" in Atlanta, which he has adopted as his second home. Nov. 9. Universal.
JA RULE He's never recovered from the power struggle with 50 Cent ?? it was one public rivalry that didn't end as a win-win situation. "R.U.L.E.," with apparently less thug posturing and more basic hip-hop, is his next album. Nov. 9. The INC.
EMINEM It's been two whole years, an eternity in hip-hop, since we heard from Eminem proper, rather than through his semi-fictionalized autobiographical movie ("8 Mile"), his crew (D12) or the gossip columns. "Encore" will be his fourth album. Nov. 16. Interscope. A related article is on Page 67.
ASHANTI The R & B diva most likely to unseat Beyoncé from the top seat returns for her second album. Nov. 16. The Inc.
DESTINY'S CHILD Nobody could believe it when the trio initially caught fire; nobody could believe that a radio hit machine's second album, the traditional stinker, could be so hot; nobody could believe it when they broke up; nobody could believe it when Beyoncé's first solo album got ho-hum reviews (it was good!); and now it's hard to believe that Beyoncé would return to the group that she seemed to outgrow so naturally, but here comes another album from the radio-storming R & B trio, as yet untitled. Nov. 16. Columbia.
CHINGY The St. Louis rapper follows his first album ?? it had the hit "Right Thurr" ?? with "Power Ballin'." Capitol. Nov. 16.
U2 A band that hasn't gone cold on MTV or the radio in 20 years, doing what it does best: loud, anthemic guitar-rock. The first single, "Vertigo," will be released to radio in late September; the new album is still untitled. Nov. 23. Interscope. A related article is on Page 67.
LUDACRIS Unlike Don Rickles, the funniest man in hip-hop does perform blue material. It will be served in heaping spoonfuls on "The Red Light District." Def Jam South. Nov. 23.
December
ANDY BEY Mr. Bey possesses a skyscraper voice: bass-baritone lows, accurate falsetto highs. He is ferociously talented, and his comeback over the last decade has been one more welcome development in jazz. He plays to a quiet crowd in an intimate space ?? the best way to see him ?? at the Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, Dec. 3-4.
NAS On "Streets Disciple," his forthcoming double CD, Nas comes down from his above-it-all persona and gets back to street life; "Thief's Theme," the album's first single, with a sample from Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," is a promising start. December. Columbia.
JOE BUDDEN His single "Pump It Up" was a strong club hit last year, but his album didn't do so well; it remains to be seen whether he can redefine himself on his next album. Dec. 7. Def Jam.
SYSTEM OF A DOWN Still unfinished and unheard at press time, the Southern California metal band's next album, produced by Rick Rubin, could be its most political yet: the Armenian-American trio have been Bush haters since they got together. But since its release date was moved from the day of the election until later in the year, the album might contain more nuance and less straight message. Dec. 7. American Recordings.
PIXIES The biggest blow in recent memory to New York's sense of itself as an important rock town: the reunited Pixies, touring for the first time since 1993, have seemingly played everywhere but here. Dec. 11-16. Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street. (Frank Black, the group's singer and main songwriter, will release a double album, "Frank Black Francis," on the SpinART label on Oct. 12, featuring, on one disc, pre-Pixies demo recordings and, on the other, rerecordings of Pixies songs.)
JUDAS PRIEST Reuniting with its original singer, Rob Halford, after 12 years, Priest has made an as-yet-untitled new album, intimating to the press that it's very much like an old Priest album. Which means piercing falsetto vibrato over flashy riffs ?? an old, venerable formula. Dec. 28. Columbia.
DON BYRON AND THE SYMPHONY SPACE ADVENTURERS ORCHESTRA The fifth-anniversary concert of what has become Symphony Space's answer to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: a repertory band coming from the jazz world that covers Stravinsky, Raymond Scott, Earth, Wind and Fire, Herb Alpert and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Led by the clarinetist Don Byron, the orchestra celebrates itself by playing songs from its short history of performances. Jan. 8-9. Symphony Space.
BUCK 65 A white Nova Scotia b-boy, Buck 65 found his way to a country-hip-hop sound ?? rural-imagery vocals spoken in a Tom Waits growl. "This Right Here Is Buck 65," made with live instruments including a prominent pedal steel guitar, is cafe-culture Bubba Sparxxx. Jan. 25. V2.
JESSI ALEXANDER One of a new crop of young female singer-songwriters in country music who aren't satisfied with low-fidelity indie obscurity, Ms. Alexander scales down Nashville excess just enough but not too much on "Honeysuckle Sweet," her promising first album. Jan. 25. Columbia.
LINCOLN CENTER AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA In its third year as a working band operating under the aegis of Jazz at Lincoln Center, this ensemble has been a thorough aesthetic success, commissioning new works and honing a group of champion players. This concert is built around the sonero vocal tradition. The singers include Graciela, from the old Machito band; the young Chilean jazz vocalist Claudia Acuña; and the formidable salsa singer Herman Olivera. Jan. 28-29. Rose Theater.
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Two lesbian sisters. Am I the only one wondering about incest?
TEGAN AND SARA Smarty-pants teenage wallflowers, don't give up hope. The next Tegan and Sara album arrives next week. "So Jealous" is 14 high-school vignettes rendered by two young lesbian sister singer-songwriters with a more than decent band
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GGW, just wondering where the list is from....
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Yesterday's NY Times
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Anyone have or listened to Rogue Wave album? I've heard a single, and it reads like something I'd like. They opened for someone in the last month or so, but I missed it...
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It's pretty good, reminds me a lot of the first Shins album. It peters out toward the end, though...
said the lurker.
Originally posted by Bags:
Anyone have or listened to Rogue Wave album? I've heard a single, and it reads like something I'd like. They opened for someone in the last month or so, but I missed it...
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When people say "I got this months before because it leaked on the Internet," where the hell do they get the mentioned LP? I know of Kazaa and stuff like that, but they're not Mac-friendly. How does one obtain "leaked tracks" via a Mac? Help me. Don't worry, I've never downloaded illegal music. And I, uh, never will.
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Originally posted by dotdot:
When people say "I got this months before because it leaked on the Internet," where the hell do they get the mentioned LP? I know of Kazaa and stuff like that, but they're not Mac-friendly. How does one obtain "leaked tracks" via a Mac? Help me. Don't worry, I've never downloaded illegal music. And I, uh, never will.
http://www.indietorrents.com/ (http://www.indietorrents.com/)
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Thanks much, Pollard, but I can't sign up because they already have their maximum amount of users. Any other suggestions?
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I think limewire works on a Mac.
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Here is the track list for "The O.C.: Mix 2":
"Saturday Morning," the Eels
"Hello Sunshine," Super Furry Animals
"Smile Like You Mean It," the Killers
"A Lack of Color," Death Cab For Cutie
"The Specialist," Interpol
"Something Pretty," Patrick Park
"You Got Me All Wrong," Dios Malos
"If You Leave," Nada Surf
"Big Sur," the Thrills
"Little House of Savages" (live), the Walkmen
"Trouble Sleeping," the Perishers
"So Sweet," Johnathan Rice
"Popular Mechanics for Lovers," Beulah
"Walnut Tree," Keane
"Maybe I'm Amazed," Jem
"Eastern Glow," the Album Leaf
"Mix 3: Have a Very Merry Chrismukkah" takes its name from the holiday the half-Jewish, half-Christian Cohen family celebrates on the show. Although a full track list is not yet finalized, the album will feature such songs as Ron Sexsmith's "Maybe This Christmas" and Low's "Just Like Christmas."
Released in April, the first "O.C." soundtrack debuted at No. 52 on The Billboard 200 and has sold more than 163,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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Originally posted by Lazer Guided Melodies:
Hey Jaguar, are you planning on going to one of the M83/Schnauss shows? Unfortunately, I can't make any of these shows which I am sure will be magical nights of synthgaze. I am also waiting for the second album to be released in the US. Have your heard this unreleased gem from his website: http://www.ulrich-schnauss.net/downloads/2001_us_breakfast.mp3 (http://www.ulrich-schnauss.net/downloads/2001_us_breakfast.mp3)
Well Lazer, looks like we aren't missing everything. Ulrich broke his hand and had to cancel his US tour. Small consolation though as we are still missing M83.
Hope he heals as fast as some of these other musicians have been healing. Has it become the latest trend for muscians to break their wrists or fingers? Seems to be a lot of that going around in the past year.
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MATCHBOX TWENTY FINALLY FINISHES WATERING DOWN LONG-AWAITED NEW ALBUM
LOS ANGELES??Executives at Atlantic Records announced Monday that multi-platinum recording artist Matchbox Twenty, which set sales records in 2000 for its mega-hit release Mad Season, has finally finished watering down tracks on its long-awaited new album Beige.
"Everyone here at Atlantic is thrilled about what's sure to be the biggest-selling, least-rocking record of the year," Atlantic public-relations spokeswoman Janet Cosgrove said. "It's been a long wait, but the incredibly boring results speak for themselves. Beige is bigger and blander than anything Matchbox Twenty has ever done."
"Grab a chair, America!" she added. "The most uninteresting band in formulaic, corporate radio is back!"
Read the rest of the story here! (http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4038&n=1)
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Just found out about this one:
Peter Murphy is back with a new album titled UNSHATTERED, set for a release date of October 5, 2004 on Viastar Records. The album reunites Peter with Paul Statham (Dido) his co-writer on the multi-platinum selling album Deep. Unshattered was produced by Gardner Cole (Madonna), features Stephen Perkins and Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction, and ex-bandmate Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus. The first single taken out of UNSHATTERED will be Idle Flow, co-written with Peter DiStephano (from Porno for Pyros). UNSHATTERED embodies the music evolution of one of the most enigmatic and influential artists of our time.
Track Listing:
Idle Flow
Kiss Myself
Piece of You
Face the Moon
Emergency Unit
Thelma Sings to Little Nell
The Weight of Love
Give What he's Got
Blinded Like Saul
The First Stone
Breaking No One's Heaven
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Unheard Cuts Bolster Pavement Reissue
Thu Sep 23, 8:48 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Jonathan Cohen
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Eleven never-before-heard tracks will be unveiled on Matador's 10th anniversary edition of seminal indie rock act Pavement's sophomore album, "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain."
Due Oct. 26, the double-disc set sports 14 additional unreleased versions of songs from the album, including a 1994 Peel Session on BBC Radio. The package will include a 40-page booklet with essays, rare Pavement photos and memorabilia.
"There's some things I would veto now and then, but Matador more than anything has been the driving force in digging up stuff and making these records into '90s classics," Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus (news) told Billboard with a chuckle. "I mean, they're doing a 40-page booklet! I didn't even know there was that much stuff that you could use for this!"
Thanks to such infectious cuts as "Range Life," "Gold Soundz" and "Cut Your Hair," "Crooked Rain" exposed Pavement to listeners well beyond the confines of indie rock. The set is the band's top-selling album to date, having shifted more than 234,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
"There are some extras that I guess just failed," Malkmus said of unreleased tracks like "All My Friends," "Hands off the Bayou" and "Flood Victim." "There are some full songs that are pretty cool; they sound just like 'Crooked Rain.' They maybe have not as good mixes or bad singing, or are just slightly inferior. But they're still pretty good."
Malkmus said he never listens to old Pavement albums, but was pleased to hear "Crooked Rain" recently in a bar in his Portland, Ore., home base. "I made an effort to record it and mix it in a way that was not completely '90s," he said of the album. "In the end, if you listened to it a lot when it came out, it will take you back to that time. It's just a little more fleshed out than (the 1992 debut album) 'Slanted and Enchanted.' It's not necessarily more ambitious, but just by making a second album, it's more ambitious. On a first album, you don't know what you're doing."
Pavement split after 1999's "Terror Twilight," with Malkmus going on to a solo career leading the band the Jicks. He said there's no fundamental obstacle to a Pavement reunion some day, but it's not something he's anticipating in the near future.
"It doesn't feel exactly right yet for me to do it," he said. "I mean, it could. I guess you just know when it's right, just like so many other things in your life. Or, you force it due to financial reasons or someone telling you how much you could make. No one has told us that, so that's not an issue at all. But we all get along; no one is like a lawyer with a huge caseload or has lost an arm."
Reuters/Billboard
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See, everyone loves Snow Patrol!
Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle has assembled a mix CD to be issued under the moniker "Below the Radio" this fall via Ultra Records. Beyond tracks by Pavement, Beck, Snow Patrol and Elbow, the set features a new Grandaddy track, "Nature Anthem."
"I can¹t help but notice how they are not big 'heavy hitters' off of the albums that they came from, or the songs that the record labels would have suggested as being 'singles,'" Lytle says. "They did although end up being my favorite songs from those albums and this fact has intrigued me since childhood. Why am I usually more smitten with the unobvious hits than the obvious hits? Somewhere in this list lies the answer."
Other artists represented on the album include Beulah, Earlimart, Giant Sand, Goldenboy, the Handsome Family and Blonde Redhead. Grandaddy's most recent album was 2003's "Sumday" (V2), which debuted at No. 84 on The Billboard 200.
-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Billboard
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Pissing contest....
Originally posted by Bags:
"I can¹t help but notice how they are not big 'heavy hitters' off of the albums that they came from, or the songs that the record labels would have suggested as being 'singles,'" Lytle says. "They did although end up being my favorite songs from those albums and this fact has intrigued me since childhood. Why am I usually more smitten with the unobvious hits than the obvious hits? Somewhere in this list lies the answer."
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Originally posted by econo:
Pissing contest....
Or, "I'm so cool, hip and unique that I notice the gems that others don't appreciate -- yet."
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SURPRISE....the "London Calling" reissue so far has a score of 99 on Metacritic... (http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/clash/londoncalling2004/)
Originally posted by ggw?:
Ultra Rare Recordings Bolster Clash Classic (http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000616378)
Five never-before-heard Clash songs highlight the upcoming Legacy Edition of "London Calling," due Sept. 21 via Epic.
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How you can add 100, 100, 100, and 80 and get an average of 99, I'm not sure...
must be some of that fuzzy math
Originally posted by Bags:
SURPRISE....the "London Calling" reissue so far has a score of 99 on Metacritic... (http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/clash/londoncalling2004/)
Originally posted by ggw?:
Ultra Rare Recordings Bolster Clash Classic (http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000616378)
Five never-before-heard Clash songs highlight the upcoming Legacy Edition of "London Calling," due Sept. 21 via Epic.
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The METASCORE is considered a weighted average because we assign more significance, or weight, to some critics and publications than we do to others, based on the overall stature and quality of those critics and publications.
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So pitchfork's 100 carries more weight than blender's 80. Brilliant.
Next they're going to start counting blacks as only 1/2 a vote in presidential elections.
Originally posted by ggw?:
The METASCORE is considered a weighted average because we assign more significance, or weight, to some critics and publications than we do to others, based on the overall stature and quality of those critics and publications.
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the onion's shitbox twenty piece was rather tepid, but this 'no story' headline is brilliant:
"Ramones Reunion Nearly Complete"
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
So pitchfork's 100 carries more weight than blender's 80. Brilliant.
Next they're going to start counting blacks as only 1/2 a vote in presidential elections.
An online review clearinghouse
versus
national elections.
Yeah, they're in the same league.
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Originally posted by toohotnthehottub:
the onion's shitbox twenty piece was rather tepid, but this 'no story' headline is brilliant:
"Ramones Reunion Nearly Complete"
OH MAN, that's so awful, but so funny.
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Decemberists Get Religion
Portland quintet records third album in a church
On the heels of the July release of The Tain EP, the Decemberists spent August in a Baptist church in their native Portland, Oregon, tracking new songs for their third record. Produced by Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla, the tentatively titled The Infanta is due out in the spring on Kill Rock Stars.
The album will be the hyper-literate indie folkers' third full-length (plus two EPs) in the span of four years. The title track is about "the coronation procession for a child Spanish princess," explains songwriter Colin Meloy. Another track, "The Buxmoll," deals with male prostitution in downtown Portland.
The Infanta continues the band's evolution from the acoustic guitar-based 5 Songs EP (2001) through the symphony of accordion, glockenspiel, pedal steel and "tin toys" showcased on The Tain, a five-part song suite based on an Irish folk cycle.
"On 5 Songs and the first record, we were sort of going on default settings: these are the instruments we have, and this is how we're going to play," says Meloy. "As we've gotten closer as bandmates, we've really started to flesh out a better sound. On this record, a lot of the emphasis is going to be on the instrumentations themselves.
Meloy's lyric-writing also received a jolt from his experience penning The Replacements' Let It Be, his non-fiction chronicle of the seminal 1984 indie rock album. "I had a renewed vigor for writing songs," he says of immersing himself in the ramshackle mind of the young Paul Westerberg, "and writing really out-of-control, over-the-top, imaginative ramblings."
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apparently, sanctuary records is releasing a double-disc slowdive compilation, that's been remastered (i hear that there's one for the boo radleys and swervedriver coming soon as well). . .it will be released on October 25, here's the tracklist:
2-CD SET
DISC 1:
Slowdive
Avalyn 1
Morningrise
She Calls
Catch The Breeze
Shine
Golden Hair
Spanish Air
Waves
Alison
So Tired
Sing
Souvlaki Space Station
DISC 2:
Machine Gun
Here She Comes
When The Sun Hits
In Mind
Good Day Sunshine
Missing You
Rutti
Crazy For You
Trellisaze
Blue Skied And Clear
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reporting from a bunker somewhere in detroit.... i heard the new U2 single while tooling around in a minivan without a cd player yesterday and it didn't suck! heavy bassline with a really nasty rock guitar sound. at least its not stinko elevation shite...
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I picked up the new Interpol and the new Delgados at Melody this morning even though they are not supposed to be out until Tuesday, no more copies of Delgados but they had several of Interpol in the display on the wall near the front if anyone would like a copy this weekend
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Travis Morrison
Travistan
Pitchfork Review (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/m/morrison_travis/travistan.shtml)
Rating: 0.0
Ouch.
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Do you mean to say that Rhett and/or Mark E. are going to like this?
Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Travis Morrison
Travistan
Pitchfork Review (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/m/morrison_travis/travistan.shtml)
Rating: 0.0
Ouch.
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Gwen Stefani Makes "Love"
No Doubt singer collaborates with her idols on solo debut
For her solo debut, Love, Angel, Music, Baby, out November 23rd, No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani cast her net wide, seizing the opportunity to work with a vast array of artists.
"The whole idea was to collaborate," says Stefani. "To do a solo record means trying to pour my heart out, which I feel like I already do in No Doubt. This is more of an art project. I wanted to play different roles and work with a ton of people."
Expect hip-hop beats from Dr. Dre and the Neptunes, as well as OutKast's Andre 3000. Dallas Austin (Pink, TLC) and Nellee Hooper (Massive Attack, Soul II Soul) give some tracks a dance feel, and the album's New Wave sound comes by way of Depeche Mode's Martin Gore, ex-Eurythmics Dave Stewart and New Order.
"I knew exactly what my influences were -- Club Nouveau, Lisa Lisa, Prince, New Order, the Cure, early Madonna," says Stefani. "Everybody was under strict instructions."
The album's first single, "What You Waiting For?," is set to hit airwaves this month. And Stefani will make her Hollywood debut in December, when she plays Jean Harlow alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator.
ALEX MAR and SHIRLEY HALPERIN
(Posted Oct 01, 2004)
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Gwen Stefani must be doing something right. She made it into the lyrics of one of my favorite songs:
Dig Down
Bobby Bare Jr.
Young Criminal??s Starvation League
This letter is addressed to Mr. Pete Townsend
Hey brother I write you to say thanks for nothing
Your generation used up all the feelings
And if we rock it looks like we??re ripping you off
Hey Mr. Jimmy as I write upon this Page
My hands they shake with a delicate rage
My amplifier has no aim for all it plays sounds derivative and mundane
Chorus
Dig down, dig down, thelost and found
The Beatles used up all there was to be found
Dig down, dig down, the lost and found
Nothing green can gather on a rolling stone
Dig down
Dig down
To whom it may concern- For all Hendrix hath spurned
The rocket??s red glare, the bombs bursting in air
My Fender is just a painted board
And if I light it on fire, I become such a fucking bore
Black Francis, Black Francis you were the last motherfucker out
Grabbing all the good stuff and leaving No Doubt
That if rock and roll dies it??s not my fault
I do the best with the leftovers that I got
Chorus
Bridge
All of the juice had been sucked out
Before Mel Bay asked us children to play
So as we climb upon the rotting corpse
Stick it in once again, see if the blood will coarse
Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry, you wrote the only original song
Some white boys stole it we all still sing along
Chuck Berry sing to us one more time
Before Fred Bisquit freezes everybody??s mind
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I'm sure I'll be flamed for this, but anyone heard the new Tears for Fears album?
I *love* The Hurting, but was not in to their big-hit era stuff... Just wondering.
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by dotdot:
When people say "I got this months before because it leaked on the Internet," where the hell do they get the mentioned LP? I know of Kazaa and stuff like that, but they're not Mac-friendly. How does one obtain "leaked tracks" via a Mac? Help me. Don't worry, I've never downloaded illegal music. And I, uh, never will.
http://www.indietorrents.com/ (http://www.indietorrents.com/) [/b]
i know this is old, but soulseek is the best: http://www.fejta.com/solarseek/ (http://www.fejta.com/solarseek/)
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Originally posted by Bags:
I'm sure I'll be flamed for this, but anyone heard the new Tears for Fears album?
I *love* The Hurting, but was not in to their big-hit era stuff... Just wondering.
Haven't heard it, but I've heard good things about it.
You mean you don't like "Songs From The Big Chair"? I used to love that one. I admit I lost interest after that one though. And of course The Hurting blows it away.
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I had "Songs from the Big Chair" and liked it, but it hasn't really stood the test of time with me. If I hear something from it, I always put "The Hurting" on....
I'm listening to the new Delays album. This is pretty mellow, VH1-swirly stuff. Not sure it'll be a favorite (though one listen never indicates much).
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Matador Celebrates 15 With Triple-Disc Set
Matador Records will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a double-disc collection of favorite tracks and rarities, plus a DVD of music videos. The material roughly dates from 1999-2004, serving as a companion piece to the prior compilations "What's Up Matador" (1997) and the 10th anniversary album "Everything Is Nice."
The "greatest hits" disc sports 18 familiar tracks from Interpol, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus, Yo La Tengo, Guided By Voices, Mission Of Burma, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Belle & Sebastian, among others.
"Unreleased and rarities" boasts contributions from the New Pornographers, Pretty Girls Make Graves, GBV, Mogwai, Matmos and, as previously reported, a live version of the Malkmus and the Jicks' "It Kills."
Twelve music videos are included on the DVD, such as Cat Power's "He War," Interpol's "PDA," Pavement's "Spit on a Stranger" and Mogwai's "Stanley Kubrick."
Here is the track list for "Matador at 15":
Disc one ("Greatest Hits"):
"This Is Our Emergency," Pretty Girls Make Graves
"Obstacle 1," Interpol
"The Laws Have Changed," New Pornographers
"Dirt," Mission Of Burma
"Free," Cat Power
"Church on White," Stephen Malkmus
"Don't Have To Be So Sad," Yo La Tengo
"Drop," Cornelius
"Money Rock'n'Roll," Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"The Whirlings," Dead Meadow
"My Kind of Soldier," Guided By Voices
"Caught in the Rain," Preston School Of Industry
"Inside," Bardo Pond
"Forty Nights," Seachange
"Don't Leave the Light on Baby," Belle & Sebastian
"1926," Thalia Zedek
"For the Trees," Matmos
"Hunted by a Freak," Mogwai
Disc two ("Unreleased and Rarities"):
"Graceland," New Pornographers
"Specialist," Interpol
"C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!," Pretty Girls Make Graves
"Dust for Guitars #1," M. Ward
"It Kills" (live), Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
"Hunted by a Freak" (Boom Bip remix), Mogwai
"Everything Going On" (alternate version), Dead Meadow
"Deeper Into Moves" (acoustic), Yo La Tengo
"Fame & Fortune" (live), Mission Of Burma
"Free of This World," Guided By Voices
"The Party," Cat Power
"Seven Calls," Seachange
"Tone It Down" (Pablo Wong Remix), Preston School Of Industry
"Homemade Bombs in the Afternoon," A.C. Newman
"Cymbals & Aspirin (A Breakthrough in Pain Relief)," Matmos
"Wataridori," Cornelius
Disc three ("Music Videos"):
"Stanley Kubrick," Mogwai
"Spit on a Stranger," Pavement
"Dr. Cat," Mary Timony
"Ladies & Gentlemen (In the Woods)," the Wisdom Of Harry
"Discretion Grove," Stephen Malkmus
"I Hate Hate," Cornelius
"The Laws Have Changed," New Pornographers
"PDA," Interpol
"She Said," Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"He War," Cat Power
"This Is Our Emergency," Pretty Girls Make Graves
"Stars and Stripes Forever," Matmos
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Flaming Lips, Wilco Contribute to Spongebob Soundtrack
by Jenny Tatone | 10.01.2004
Unexpectedly, the soundtrack to the new SpongeBob Squarepants movie features some of today??s hippest artists. Scored by the non-commercial tastes of the Nickelodeon series creator Stephen Hillenburg, the soundtrack includes songs from Flaming Lips, Ween, the Shins, Prince Paul, and Wilco, whose contribution features frontman Jeff Tweedy's eight year old son's band, the Blisters. The compilation CD will be available Nov. 9 via Warner Records. "It's what we call 'reasonably weird adult music,'" Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne told Vh1.com.
Based on the quirky and often poignantly clever animated TV show, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie opens in theaters November 19.
Track List:
Avril Lavigne - "SpongeBob SquarePants Theme"
Flaming Lips - "SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy"
Wilco - "Just a Kid"
Mike Simpson - "The Goofy Goober Song"
Electrocute - "Bikini Bottom"
SpongeBob SquarePants - "It's the Best Day Ever"
The Shins - "They Will Soon Discover"
Ween - "Ocean Man"
Tom Rothrock featuring Jim Wise - "Goofy Goober Rock"
Motörhead - "You Better Swim"
Prince Paul featuring Wordsworth - "Prince Paul's Bubble Party"
Patrick - "Under My Rock"
The cast of the film - "Now That We're Men"
Plus Tech Squeezebox - "The Jellyfish Song by the Jellyfish Band"
The Pirates - "The Spongebob SquarePants Theme"
The Story (http://www.filter-mag.com/news/interior.1766.html)
The Shins MP3 (http://www.stereogum.com/archives/000976.html)