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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: brennser on December 16, 2004, 02:14:00 pm
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good news for friend of guy chadwick
February 28th will see the release of the long awaited new House of Love album! The album, called "Days Run Away", will feature ten tracks written by Guy Chadwick and Terry Bickers. All were recorded this summer with Pat Collier recording and mixing at Gravity Shack in London. The album cover features a red portrait of Terry Bickers taken by Suzi Gibbons.
Tracklisting: Love you too much / Gotta be that way / Maybe you know / Kind of love /Money and time / Days run away / Already gone / Wheels / Kit carter / Anyday I want
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I bet it sucks.....
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it wouldn't surprise me, but wouldn't it be cool if there was another Christine on it - the list of 80s/early 90s bands who continue resurfacing astounds me
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Terry Bickers is back with them, I really don't think this will suck. I'm very excited about the reunion and think they will be great. I hope they tour!
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Originally posted by brennser:
Christine on it -
I'll take your Christine and raise you a Destroy the Heart. I would rate the chances as slim though. Almost as slim as The London Suede with Anderson and Butler making anything as good as their first 2 albums together.
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albums i'm looking forward to in 2005
1/25
De Novo Dahl (http://www.denovodahl.com/) - Cats & Kittens
TBD
The Sugarplastic - Will (http://www.tallboyrecords.com/item106.html)
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<well it feels like a collection of deleted songs from Free All Angels, it's still better than most of punk pop shite out there>
Meltdown to get US Release on Record Collection
10 Dec 2004
Record Collection is proud to announce the US release of ASH??s new album Meltdown on March 8th 2005. The album??s release will coincide with a new Lucas Arts Star Wars videogame Republic Commando that features ASH??s single ??Clones? as the theme song. This marks the first time Lucas Arts has ever used a band??s song in anything Star Wars related. The US release will feature exclusive bonus tracks and DVD footage not available on the European full length version of Meltdown.
??We are very excited about Meltown,? says Record Collection president Jordan Tappis, "Ash has proven themselves overseas and I am confident that they are poised for great success here in America. Record Collection proudly welcomes them to our roster."
Ash will tour the US in support of Meltdown this Spring.
http://www.recordcollectionmusic.com/ (http://www.recordcollectionmusic.com/)
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good to hear about the new national (and nice to see a grotty post :) )
as for Ash, yeah, its no Free All Angels but Out of the Blue is a cracking song
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Hopefully 2005 will bring a new album by this loveable duo
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the frames-burn the maps
ok, so its available in europe, but won't be released in the us until 2005.
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
Terry Bickers is back with them, I really don't think this will suck. I'm very excited about the reunion and think they will be great. I hope they tour!
I'm completely in your camp on this one. Haven't been able to wait to hear this since I first heard about it awhile ago!
Other new releases that I've been looking forward to besides House Of Love:
Trespassers William
Experimental Aircraft
Monster Movie (EP with Rachel Staggs from Experimental Aircraft on vocals)
I Am Kloot (O'MANKIE ALERT!!!!)
Ulrich Schnauss (Remixes, especially Rachel Goswell's "Coastline")
The High Dials
Phaser
Readymade
The Wrens
Doves (except I'm fearing this one because I don't like the new single)
Paik
Hinterland
Sennen
Televise
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Markie should be looking forward to the new Cinerama.
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except it will be called the new Wedding Present instead
Originally posted by Jaguär:
Markie should be looking forward to the new Cinerama.
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I need to plug it:
Porcupine Tree "Dead Wing" in March
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Originally posted by booradley17:
Hopefully 2005 will bring a new album by this loveable duo
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ha ha. . i loved those commercials.
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This is pretty obvious, but: I am looking forward to the new Idlewild album.
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i've been looking forward to this since 2003:
lcd soundsystem, feb. '05
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The Decemberists 'Picaresque' - sometime in March
1. The Infanta
2. We Both Go Down Together
3. The Sporting Life
4. Eli, The Barrow Boy
5. The Bagman's Gambit
6. From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)
7. Sixteen Military Wives
8. The Engine Driver
9. On the Bus Mall
10. The Mariner's Revenge Song
11. Of Angels and Angles
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Originally posted by SalParadise:
i've been looking forward to this since 2003:
lcd soundsystem, feb. '05
Oh, yeah! Me, too. I saw them in 2003 and expected the album to come out this year.
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new Sleater Kinney drops in May 05
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Preview of new Brendon Benson due on V2 March 22 (http://us.v2music.com/site/news.asp?ID=531)
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Preview of new Brendon Benson due on V2 March 22 (http://us.v2music.com/site/news.asp?ID=531)
speaking of brendon benson ... does anyone know where "Tiny Spark" was used? commercial? tv show? movie?
it's one of my favorite songs, and this has been eating away at me for a while now ...
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
speaking of brendon benson ... does anyone know where "Tiny Spark" was used? commercial? tv show? movie?
it's one of my favorite songs, and this has been eating away at me for a while now ...
car commercial, thinking saturn but cant remember for sure which company
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thats the one!
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British Sea Power - Spring 05
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Originally posted by brennser:
British Sea Power - Spring 05
Cool!
Anyone know when or if the most recent Charlatans UK album ("Up at the Lake") will be released in the US? I'm a fan, but I don't really feel like paying $29 for the UK import...
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not sure if they even have a US deal - pm me and I'll burn you a copy
or try amazon.co.uk
Originally posted by Darth Ed:
Originally posted by brennser:
British Sea Power - Spring 05
Cool!
Anyone know when or if the most recent Charlatans UK album ("Up at the Lake") will be released in the US? I'm a fan, but I don't really feel like paying $29 for the UK import... [/b]
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new 311 this summer
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Chemical Brothers - Push the Button 1/25
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Speaking of the Chemical Brothers... Secret Machines are doing some European dates with them, that would be a fun show to go to...
FYI
Secret Machines
March 4 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Chemical Brothers - Push the Button 1/25
Oh great, hopefully it'll be as good and innovative as the new Fatboy Slim.
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
Originally posted by bunnyman:
Terry Bickers is back with them, I really don't think this will suck. I'm very excited about the reunion and think they will be great. I hope they tour!
I'm completely in your camp on this one. Haven't been able to wait to hear this since I first heard about it awhile ago!
Other new releases that I've been looking forward to besides House Of Love:
Trespassers William
Experimental Aircraft
Monster Movie (EP with Rachel Staggs from Experimental Aircraft on vocals)
I Am Kloot (O'MANKIE ALERT!!!!)
Ulrich Schnauss (Remixes, especially Rachel Goswell's "Coastline")
The High Dials
Phaser
Readymade
The Wrens
Doves (except I'm fearing this one because I don't like the new single)
Paik
Hinterland
Sennen
Televise [/b]
Add to my list...
(I think they are working on full albums. At least, I sure hope so!)
Sleepless
Lyca Sleep
The High Violets (they are definitely working on one)
And last but not least, I can finally share this with others as I had been sworn to secrecy about this one. A friend of mine is compiling an album of Shoegaze remakes by current Shoegaze bands. Some of the artists who will be contributing are The Workhouse, Sennen, DestroyAllDreamers, Ulrich Schnauss, Windermere, Epic 45, Daydream Nation, Amusement Parks On Fire, Britta Phillips, LKWRM, Asobi Seksu, Loveliescrushing , Air Formation, Ladytron, Astrobrite, Douglas Heart (the band, not the man), Televise, Pia Fraus and The Radio Dept. among many others. I have most of the track listings but won't bother with them now. This should be a very good release and the NME has already promised him a spot. (Hope they are kind to him and the artists.)
*Kurosawa and PseudoScouse, this was the project that I told you was in the works but wasn't allowed to tell you anything about at the time.
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New Order "Waiting for a Sirens Call" due in March/April.
Also looking forward to Chem. Brothers, Doves, and the U.S. release of Annie "Anniemal"
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Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
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this album is incredible. i love it. i love it. i love it.
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Originally posted by dotdot:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Chemical Brothers - Push the Button 1/25
Oh great, hopefully it'll be as good and innovative as the new Fatboy Slim. [/b]
please never mention those 2 artists in the same breath again.
I listened to "Palookaville" in its entirety for the first time yesterday.
I wanted to cry. its just awful and i hope it took him no longer than 1 hour to make. and i am a big fan of electronic music too.....this is SHIT. he should be ashamed of himself.
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No mention of a US release for the last record....
THE CHARLATANS SIGN NEW WORLDWIDE RECORDING CONTRACT 06 01 05
We are pleased to announce that the band signed a new multi-album worldwide deal with the Sanctuary Records Group before Christmas.
The actual deal was signed at Salford University after our Christmas lunch on the second day.
We join a contemporary roster that includes Morrissey, The Libertines, The Strokes, Spiritualized, Belle & Sebastian, Gorkys Zygotic Mynki, Babyshambles, Ikara Colt, Lou Reed, British Sea Power, Delays, Detroit Cobras.
The company owns a vast catalogue that includes classic artists such as The Kinks, Damned, Jonathan Richman & Modern Lovers, The Fall, Donovan, Undertones, ELP, Brian Auger, Black Sabbath, Small Faces, Chairman of the Board, The Nice, Sugarhill Gang, Motorhead, Humble Pie, Grandmaster Flash. The group owns the rights to many classic labels including the Immediate, Transatlantic, Trojan and Invictus labels from the 60's. Last year saw the company release the Brian Wilson 'Pet Sounds Live in London'.
The band has already begun the early stages of recording the new album, at various locations across the UK and North America. We expect to release our debut single for the label in the summer with the album later in 2005.
Check out the press release at www.sanctuarygroup.com. (http://www.sanctuarygroup.com)
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Chemical Brothers - Push the Button 1/25
Heard "Galvanise" last night on the radio (all 3 Minutes of it too!), so looking forward to this album.
Rock the Electric Violin!
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
THE CHARLATANS SIGN NEW WORLDWIDE RECORDING CONTRACT 06 01 05
New Track available on their web site too:
Alles Klar (instrumental) (http://www.thecharlatans.net/mix2/allesklar.mp3)
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by PseudoScouseTwat:
:p
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Chemical Brothers - Push the Button 1/25
Just heard "The Boxer" on KCRW Featuring Tim Burgess of the Charltans on vocals. Simply added more fuel to the Chemical Brothers fire burning inside me.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Chemical Brothers - Push the Button 1/25
Just heard "The Boxer" on KCRW Featuring Tim Burgess of the Charltans on vocals. Simply added more fuel to the Chemical Brothers fire burning inside me. [/b]
sweet ass. I got a copy of "Galvanize" on vinyl from a friend this week. This will be the live show of the summer, most likely. so hoping they play Glastonbury or Coachella.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
] :p
you mean, besides scottish women and the Frauds?
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Coachella.
ding ding ding
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Coachella.
ding ding ding [/b]
yeah, my U2 / Chemical Brothers prediction was lookin' alright til the other day. I have no clue who to headline now. hopefully not someone like the lame ass RHCP like 2 years ago when they had to scramble for a "big name"
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
yeah, my U2 / Chemical Brothers prediction was lookin' alright til the other day.
You're still looking alright.
Other albums of 2005:
New Order will release a new album, Waiting for the Sirens Call, this spring, minus keyboardist Gilian Gilbert.
Oasis will release their as-yet-untitled sixth studio album in the U.K. on May 16th
Daft Punk's Human After All will hit stores on March 22nd
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and Daft Punk would seal my Coachella ticket right up. :)
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Yeah Yeah Yeah's have begun work on the follow-up to 2003's Fever to Tell. The band plans to begin recording in March for a fall release.
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Elbow are working on another new album too due out this year. This time, on their own in the places they like best.
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It's from Rollingstone, so take it with a grain of salt, but Bright Eyes two new albums were given different Stars:
I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/6822323/brighteyes?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=triple1)
4 Stars
Digital Ash in A Digital Urn (http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/6822324/brighteyes?)
Only 3 Stars
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On February 28th, one of my favorite bands, Swervedriver, is releasing a 2 CD set that is a collection of favorites along with some unreleased material.
Add to my list, Woven who are coming out with a new one.
Also, Bark Psychosis is working on another new one starting in May but no promise as to a release date. If it's anything like their latest release, it should be incredible.
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KCRW played the new Postal Service track. Sadly, only a b-side, not a new album.
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Robbie Fulks' new album, Real Country, is slated for release in May on Yep Roc.
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Clem Snide will release their sixth album End of Love on February 22nd
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maybe this will get forumie out of his musical funk...
That is if it ever gets released in the US... Anyone know who they are signed with here in the US?
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Clem Snide will release their sixth album End of Love on February 22nd
I picked up a promo of this at CD Cellar, and it's pretty good. Better than Soft Spot, not as good as Ghost of Fashion. "Jews For Jesus Blues" and "Made for TV Movie" are instant CS classics.
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May 24 to be precise
June tour to follow - support act rumored to be up and coming band called Talentless Dross...
Originally posted by brennser:
new Sleater Kinney drops in May 05
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Relaxer, meet me at the bar for a pitcher of paint.
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Phaser's new EP is out now.
Not sure what to make of it yet.
Very good musicians and the mixing and such is good but I'm thinking that they've scattered themselves too far. It's all over the place, genre-wise. Kind of like the Big Bang. I need to hear it a few more times before I really decide how I think about it.
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the Charlatans have a new record deal with Sanctuary and will release a follow-up to 2004's 'Up at the Lake' (which didn't get a US release) in late 2005
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Richard Ashcroft is rumored to have his new album out sometime this summer. Hopefully, a North American tour will follow in the fall with another stop at the 9:30.
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Don't know if they have a new record coming out this year but thanks to fluxblog/whatevs, The Holy Fire hailing from Detroit are now on the 2005 radar screen. Fans of Idlewild, The Pixies, etc will dig em.
The Holy Fire (http://www.theholyfireband.com)
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Originally posted by brennser:
British Sea Power - Spring 05
March 21 to be precise
Open Season, the follow-up to the band's 2003 debut The Decline of British Sea Power, evidently gained its title only after a massive album-naming brawl held on the official BSP message board: Other popular suggestions included Germinal, Warnings of Gales in Viking North, and Bring Me the Head of British Sea Power (our personal favorite). The record's tracklist has also inspired a stunning variety of working titles and arguments, but it's evidently all settled now:
01 It Ended on an Oily Stage
02 Be Gone
03 How Will I Ever Find My Way Home?
04 Like a Honeycomb
05 Please Stand Up
06 North Hanging Rock
07 To Get to Sleep
08 Victorian Ice
09 Oh Larsen B
10 The Land Beyond
11 True Adventures
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now THIS is good news
a new Go Betweens album, 'Oceans Apart' in April/May
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From Matador:
Stephen Malkmus
On May 24, Matador will be releasing the 3rd post-Pavement album from Stephen Malkmus, 'Face The Truth', on the every popular compact disc and phonograph long player configurations. 'Face The Truth', Stephen's first bona fide solo recording, captures our favorite singer-songwriter at the height of his creative powers. We can say with total confidence that some of SM's wittiest moments to date are found on this album, along with many of his most heartfelt. An album of staggering lyrical and musical range, 'Face The Truth' is unlikey to be supported by heavy touring (what with Stephen's pending dad-to-be status), but selected US dates are planned, along with a headlining appearance at Matador's SXSW event (March 18, The Parish, Austin).
the track listing is as follows:
1. Invisible Bodies
2. Baby C'mon
3. Horslip
4. Mmmmm...
5. Loud Cloud Crowd
6. No More Shoes
7. Mama
8. Malediction
9. Pencil Rot
10. It Kills
11. I've Hardly Been
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Is the Bloc Party album available yet?
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Originally posted by Bags:
Is the Bloc Party album available yet?
Feb 8 in Europe.
March 22 state side.
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No one will care but me;)
Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer
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Release 3/29
Tracklist
1 Duck and Cover
2 Thankful
3 Courage
4 Released
5 Cleareyed
6 Falling
7 Half Life
8 True
9 Easier
10 Finally Fading
11 Simple
12 Gather
13 Don't Need Anything
Lost Highway release, Winter Pays for Summer, produced by John Fields.
"Thankful," the first single off of WPFS is now available at all digital media outlets including:
iTunes, Napster, Real
A bunch of people collaborated on the album, including Pete Thomas on drums.
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it's about flippin' time...built to spill is in the studio recording the follow-up to 2000's ancient melodies. it's slated for release this fall.
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Just released and it's stunning. Having heard an early unmastered version of the record it's amazing what a difference mastering can make for the sound of a record.
Sugarplastic (http://www.sugarplastic.com)
Tallboy Records (http://www.tallboyrecords.com)
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Josh Rouse leaves Nashville but records the record of his life just before he does. The fury that surrounds awarding a 10 out of 10 to a record actually supercedes that surrounding the 1 out of 10s that occasionally (or this month perhaps a little more than occasionally) adorn these pages, and brings with it claims ala GCSE results-day of slipping standards and quotas, but having spent the best part of the last two months with the record, it??s no understatement to say that the new album from Mr Rouse is indeed nothing less than a monster. Marking his departure from the city of Nashville after a decade??s residency (in order to head for the relatively sunnier climes of Spain), it??s a record that consolidates all that??s good about Rouse??s music while perfecting his strengths throughout. The fact that he??s leaving Nashville is obviously something that??s significant for Rouse, and perhaps significantly sad in its own way, and this partly comes through from the fact that despite the press release attesting to the album highlighting the variety of musical styles that you can find in modern Nashville, it??s without a doubt the most alt-country leaning record he??s ever produced, with echoes of Dylan, Springsteen and even Parsons. ??It??s the Nighttime,? the album opener, is layered with lapsteel and all manner of instrumentation of the genre that Rouse has consciously set himself against in recent years, but you have to wonder why when you hear how well the whole thing hangs together ?? it feels far more cohesive and less forced than anything he??s ever done, including the acclaimed ??1972.? Rouse??s reasons for leaving Nashville and indeed the US could be due to any number of things, but the vibe of the second track, the lead single from the record ??Winter in the Hamptons? with its harrying against governments led by liars can??t, you imagine, be entirely co-incidental. Elsewhere on the record, there are real treasures to be found, including the Jeff Lynne-esque and staggeringly beautifully orchestrated ??Streelights,? the Beach Boys harmonies of ??Carolina? and the luxuriously emotional ??Sad Eyes,? complete with strings that build and a chorus that rises higher and higher into sentiments that become almost overwhelming in their strength. That Rouse has always been supremely talented is not really in question, but it still comes as a surprise that he??s managed to make a record that feels so instantly essential and rewarding. 2005??s first contender then for album of the year, and one that would take some beating in any year ?? Rouse has firmly found himself and, however hackneyed it sounds, created a genuine instant classic.
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rhett - where is that review from?
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New Pornographers will be finished their new album by mid-March and it will be in stores by September....
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http://www.americana-uk.com/html/home.html (http://www.americana-uk.com/html/home.html)
Americana UK - The UK Home for Alt-Country, Powerpop & Americana
Originally posted by brennser:
rhett - where is that review from?
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New Mountain Goats Album Out in April
Aaron Mandel reports:
Okay, who said, "a few [...] critics whose experience with drugs has largely been limited to listening to Lou Reed albums have enjoyed claiming that I don't sound "convincing.' If I'd've known these guys were gonna front like that, I'd've sent them postcards from jail, but hindsight is 20/20, I guess"? Oh, shit, are we still printing the headlines bigger than the articles? Guess you figured it out, then-- that's John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, talking to a Philadelphia paper last autumn about the move from writing fictional songs to basing his work on his own life.
Last year's We Shall All Be Healed portrayed a clique of young drug users and general miscreants struggling to get their crap together; the material on the upcoming The Sunset Tree seems to cover an even earlier part of his life, a childhood that involved a lot of pop music (good) and parental abuse (bad). Darnielle went into the studio last November along with Peter Hughes, John Vanderslice, Franklin Bruno, Scott Solter, and cellist Erik Friedlander, coming out with 13 songs that are presumably a lot more life-affirming than we're making them sound. According to Darnielle, these 13:
01 You or Your Memory
02 Broom People
03 This Year
04 Dilaudid
05 Dance Music
06 Dinu Lipatti's Bones
07 Up the Wolves
08 Lion's Teeth
09 Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
10 Magpie
11 Song for Dennis Brown
12 Love Love Love
13 Pale Green Things
The album reportedly comes out April 26 in the U.S. and most of the world, a day earlier in the UK. This is the third Mountain Goats full-length to be released on 4AD Records, who no doubt signed the band solely to give their fellow Brits twenty-nine coveted hours of extra listening before East-Coast record stores open.
The phrase "the sunset tree" comes from an obscure 19th-century religious song, "The Tyrolese Evening Hymn"; Darnielle says he took it from a scene in Samuel Butler's semi-autobiographical novel The Way Of All Flesh, where a clergyman beats his young son bloody because of a speech impediment that prevents the son from enunciating clearly while singing the hymn. Maybe the songs aren't that life-affirming after all... If you're raring to hear these songs (and, based on the radio session the Mountain Goats did for the BBC recently, you should be), a couple live dates have been announced between now and the record's release, so hopefully you live here:
02-10 Los Angeles, CA - Echo Lounge
02-12 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
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markie is probably the only other one to have even a remote interest in this but Nick Kelly, formerly of The Fat Lady Sings just released his second solo album "Running Dog"
http://www.selfpossessedrecords.com/ (http://www.selfpossessedrecords.com/)
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On May 9, Matador Records will be releasing the 5th album by Austin, TX's SPOON, 'Gimme Friction' (OLE 660-2,1 CD/LP), worldwide with the exception of North America. The album is coming out on May 10 in the US and Canada a via Merge.
the tracklisting is as follows :
The Beast and Dragon, Adored
The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
I Turn My Camera On
My Mathematical Mind
The Delicate Place
Sister Jack
I Summon You
The Infinite Pet
Was It You?
They Never Got You
Merchants of Soul
writes the band :
"Gimme Fiction is the wildest Spoon LP to date - it's also Jim Eno's favorite. It was put to tape from July 'til September 2004, and like our last two albums it was co-produced with Mike McCarthy in Austin at Jim's Public HiFi studio. What else. . .it begins with the sound of a nice, long inhale and ends with the Tosca Strings. It covers such topics as long distance relationships, the apocalyptic bent of certain American Southerners, neckrugs, emotional shutdowns, Ralph Reed Jr., a musical called The Stranger Dance, and Marquette, Michigan. Did I mention it's the longest Spoon record yet?
"In February we'll be playing the Saturday of All Tomorrow's Parties in Camber Sands, England, followed by a headlining show in London on Monday the 28th at the Garage."
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Originally posted by brennser:
June tour to follow - support act rumored to be up and coming band called Talentless Dross...
Who I'm sure will blow Sleater-Kinney out of the water. Because pretty much anyone could. Fatboy Slim, Ashlee Simpson, Wesley Willis, the Black Cat-Black Cat guy, me, etc. If you want to see a bunch of old woman yowling off-key and lecturing the audience, visit a musical convent.
However, the new New Pornographers disc is great news, so I can't be too upset. Besides, S-K's album will come out, they'll get a few articles in the East Coast media, and it will sell 271 copies before drifting into the cut-out bins.
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for kosmo
Waxwings
??Leave Less Waiting? b/w ??Sky??s A Mirror?
Cass Records
Brendan Benson
??What I??m Looking For?
V2 (download)
It should be noted that the Waxwings aren??t a singles band. These four corduroyed dudes have proven nothing if not how to make languid jangle stretch out over an entire record. Here, with two cuts plucked from the midsection of their latest full-length, Let??s Make Our Descent, the pop-perfecters have selected a pair of jams that, though bursting with trademark Byrdsian harmonies, plucky rhythms and psych-poetic ambiguity, fairly trip over themselves as the grooves unwind. ??Leave Less Waiting? has a cocksure swagger that never really finds an audience for its confidence. ??Sky??s A Mirror,? while packed full of verve, is layered with a kind of chaos that can??t decide whether it wants to party or make you sit up and pay attention. The Waxwings are masters of the quick one as bracing tonic for the masterstrokes of languid, Rickenbacher and heavy-lidded-though-clear-headed pop land- and cloud-scapes. This double-shot simply doesn??t play to their strengths.
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Meanwhile, surfers to the V2 website can get a taste of the latest offering from the Waxwings?? partner-in-pop Brendan Benson. In fact, Benson produced the aforementioned Waxwings tracks at his Grand Studio, but we digress ?
??What I??m Looking For? is a slight romp directly through the heart of Benson country inasmuch as its lyrics ?? as well as Benson??s earnest, measured and half-heartbroken delivery ?? play expertly with that lost-boy line between ambivalence and braggadocio. He reminds us that ??I visit hell on a daily basis/And I see the sadness in all your faces.? And then there??s a little bass lick and he??s back wondering how he doesn??t know what he??s looking for, but he??s gonna look some more. It??s an airtight and irresistible construction. And if it??s any indication of his forthcoming album, Alternative to Love, OC viewers and indie-pop fans alike should soon be getting wind of Benson.
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more geezer rock
Echo and the Bunnymen are currently locked away in a studio in their native Liverpool working on new material for a yet to be titled ninth studio album with venerable producer Hugh Jones behind the boards. Jones, who has produced Gene, Heidi Berry, and Fiat Lux in the past, goes back a ways with the Bunnymen, having engineered their debut Crocodiles in 1980 and produced the follow up Heaven Up Here in 1981.
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Is this sans Ian McCulloch? If not, have they put out anything recently with him, and is it any good? (Note, I'm a Porcupine, Crocodiles, Ocean Rain era fan....)
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Originally posted by brennser:
more geezer rock
Echo and the Bunnymen are currently locked away in a studio in their native Liverpool working on new material for a yet to be titled ninth studio album with venerable producer Hugh Jones behind the boards. Jones, who has produced Gene, Heidi Berry, and Fiat Lux in the past, goes back a ways with the Bunnymen, having engineered their debut Crocodiles in 1980 and produced the follow up Heaven Up Here in 1981.
Will Ian and Co. please call it a fucking day? NO ONE wants a new Echo LP
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Originally posted by El Tee:
No one will care but me;)
Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer
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Release 3/29
Tracklist
1 Duck and Cover
2 Thankful
3 Courage
4 Released
5 Cleareyed
6 Falling
7 Half Life
8 True
9 Easier
10 Finally Fading
11 Simple
12 Gather
13 Don't Need Anything
this is great news! since i went to ucsb and used to listen to toad all the time its always good to read that glen & company are still making music. met him long while ago in Santa Barbara and they were a pretty cool group of guys (meaning toad the wet sprocket). now ill have to go see what lapdog is up to!
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Lapdog isn't up to much.
If you're local, Glen will tour for his album (full band). Other details on album:
Notes from Jon Fields, Producer:
Glen - gtrs-singing
Pete Thomas - dr/perc
Jon R. Fields - keys,gtrs, etc
Jim Anton - bass
Andy Sturmer/Glen - bgvs
Ken Chastain - perc
Add'l sounds from Steven Miller, Chris Testa, and Doug...forgot his last name on Sax.
(www.paramountrecording.com studio c clearmountain mix)
A few songs were written w/ Dan Wilson and one or two songs with Jon Brion.
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Stellastarr* plans a summer release.
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Originally posted by xneverwherex:
this is great news! since i went to ucsb and used to listen to toad all the time its always good to read that glen & company are still making music.
my favorite wuss-rock song of all time is toad's "windmills", specifically some version i found from UCSB ...
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mp3 (http://rapidshare.de/files-en/588256/03-I_m_From_Further_North_Than_You.mp3.html) of new weddoes single
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Death Cab For Cutie will release The John Byrd EP on March 1st. The EP, named after their sound technician, will only be available on the Barsuk Records Web site or in record stores who are members of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores.
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Originally posted by brennser:
new Sleater Kinney drops in May 05
Hello everyone.
As many of you know, our new record, The Woods, comes out on May 24th. While there is really nothing we can do to stop people from leaking/downloading promo copies of 'The Woods' on the Internet, we want to say that we don't support this action and we want to address it directly, and hopefully, preemptively.
It seems important for you to know how we feel about it.
The people we are most excited to have hear this record are our friends and you, our fans, the people who have supported us and who are eager to hear our new ideas. We feel as impatient for this new music to get out into the world as we're sure some of you do.
Our latest record is something that we have worked on for a long time. The writing took nearly two years in an effort to challenge and push ourselves. And the recording/mixing itself took six weeks. So much of this new record is a response to the deadening and watering down of music. We wanted to make something that felt wild and alive and that made us excited to wake up in the mornings. There is art work and lyrics and images that we want to share. Ideally, we want to present this record in the way we envision it; as a complete entity, flowing and tangible and within the context that we have created for it. Part of that context is the community that we come from, and this community includes you. And we have some of the best fans: you are smart and critical and outspoken, and we're proud to feel a connection with you.
We know that most people who download indie songs/albums for free find other ways of supporting the bands they love. And we acknowledge that it is a new era and that many people discover music through file sharing. We feel lucky to be a band that has grown organically over the years and we realize that technology has changed the entire process of growth and awareness of music. (We love, for instance, that bootlegs of our live shows are traded on the Internet.) It's scary to imagine that this leak might actually affect our livelihoods, but ultimately this isn't about the fear of people not supporting us financially as indie artists. We don't think of 'The Woods' as some product getting out there early, we think of it as our art and lives and dreams. For us it's about respect and about people supporting us by being aware of our artistic intent. We ask that you please respect our wishes to present this record the way we intended. We're certain that you would want the same for your own endeavors, artistic or otherwise.
So much of what this record is about sacrificing everything to feeling, it's about experience and living and being in the present tense. There will be so many things to experience between now and May 24th; so many other records to sit with and live through, as well as films, books, friends, conversations, etc.
The most honest thing we can say is that it breaks our hearts to think of this being out there early. It actually just feels awful. The release date is 3 months away. We have worked for so long on this record. It's not real for us until May 24th; that is the moment when we get to share this piece of our lives that we are so proud of, to share it with you the way we intended; please wait until then to share it with us.
If you have put this record up on the Internet, please take it down now.
Thank you,
Corin, Carrie, and Janet
http://www.sleater-kinney.com/021405.html (http://www.sleater-kinney.com/021405.html)
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Thank god this isn't another awful iTunes exclusive download. Someome is actually thinking of the record stores for a change, instead of a proprietary-format megacorporation.
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I noticed that S-K have a NYC tour date already lined up (and sold out). Cool, huh?
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stream it here (http://www.artandindustry.co.uk/pages/audio.html)
Originally posted by brennser:
good news for friend of guy chadwick
February 28th will see the release of the long awaited new House of Love album! The album, called "Days Run Away", will feature ten tracks written by Guy Chadwick and Terry Bickers. All were recorded this summer with Pat Collier recording and mixing at Gravity Shack in London. The album cover features a red portrait of Terry Bickers taken by Suzi Gibbons.
Tracklisting: Love you too much / Gotta be that way / Maybe you know / Kind of love /Money and time / Days run away / Already gone / Wheels / Kit carter / Anyday I want
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COLUMBIA RECORDS TO RELEASE DEVILS & DUST ON APRIL 26 Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen's nineteenth album, 'Devils & Dust,' on April 26. 'Devils & Dust' features twelve new Springsteen songs.
'Devils & Dust' Track List
1. Devils & Dust
2. All The Way Home
3. Reno
4. Long Time Comin'
5. Black Cowboys
6. Maria's Bed
7. Silver Palomino
8. Jesus Was an Only Son
9. Leah
10. The Hitter
11. All I'm Thinkin' About
12. Matamoras Banks
'Devils & Dust' was produced by Brendan O'Brien, who first worked with Springsteen on the acclaimed CD, 'The Rising.' The new album was recorded at Thrill Hill Recording Studios in Los Angeles and New Jersey with additional engineering at Southern Tracks Recording in Atlanta.
Springsteen is planning a tour to accompany the release of the album. Details will be announced shortly.
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Malory are putting out a new album soon. (I forget the details. Can get them easily enough if anyone cares.) It's been in the works since 2003 and is now ready for release. A must for all Shoegazers.
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The new Malory will be released on March 21st.
(I suspect that is the European date.)
Also, their out of print debut album will be rereleased on Clairecords but the deal is still being held up in the works.
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The Dandy Warhols will have a new album sometime soon.. Expected sometime in March or April.
"Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
...Is the name of our new record." - From the dandy warhols website.
and their newest song love is the new feel awful is sounding like their older stuff! very nice :D
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new spoon and sleater-kinney leaked yesterday. the new sk has an 11 minute song, and lots of guitar solos. not sure about that one yet. i haven't listened to the new spoon yet
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link to go betweens video here (http://miceandchips.com/bluemood/home.htm)
seems pretty good
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the new sleater-kinney is a MONSTER of an album. wow. i'm usually not a fan of dave fridmann's production -- in fact, i think he's one of the most overrated producers out there -- but he really does a fine job on this one. they definitely sacrificed some of their catchiness/poppiness, but it's worth it. by my count, this is their 5th truly fantastic album. (not a fan of the first or all hands on the bad one, which i find rather boring.) there are very, very few bands that can boast that.
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Originally posted by xneverwherex:
The Dandy Warhols will have a new album sometime soon.. Expected sometime in March or April.
"Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
...Is the name of our new record." - From the dandy warhols website.
and their newest song love is the new feel awful is sounding like their older stuff! very nice :D
Oo! That's great news. I will go to their site now. Ah and Neverwhere. Great book. I just watched the BBC adaptation recently. Low budget but faithful to the book, I thought.
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looks like Teenage Fanclub are releasing a new album in May
some mp3s here
http://www.geocities.jp/bitheadjp/tfc/new.html (http://www.geocities.jp/bitheadjp/tfc/new.html)
and heres the cover to the go-b's record
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Jerry Garcia Band
Merriweather 9/1-2/89
The latest in the "Pure Jerry" series contains these 2 complete shows from Merriweather. Due at the end of March.
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maybe mankie can drop in and keep an eye on them
Snow Patrol began work on their new album at the weekend.
Billboard reports that the Northern rockers are in Dingle on an eight-week writing and recording session.
An executive at Snow Patrol's label Fiction Records said: "We hope to have a new record later this year, but it'll be ready when it's ready. We're not putting any pressure on the guys to deliver it. They've got a few tunes in the pipeline and they're pretty confident about them."
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Coldplay in No Rush
British rockers' third record bumped back to June
Coldplay have bumped back their long-awaited third album to June. The as-yet-titled follow-up to 2002's A Rush of Blood to the Head was originally due in March, but initial recordings with producer Ken Nelson were scrapped in favor of starting over with A Rush mixer Danton Supple.
"I think we were in no hurry, because the prospect of touring again was so daunting that we felt we should take our time," drummer Will Champion posted on the band's Web site. "As soon as we gave ourselves a proper deadline we started to be much more productive and the stuff we were doing was miles better. It's always the same with us -- the best stuff comes when we start to panic."
A Rush was similarly delayed: It was originally targeted for June of 2002 but didn't hit stores until that August. "I'd hate to rush the end of the record," bassist Guy Berryman told Rolling Stone in April of 2002, "because we have to get it in on time."
As for the new album, Champion says the band has completed fourteen to fifteen tracks -- including "Square One," "What If" and "The Hardest Part" -- and is now paring it down.
Meanwhile, Coldplay will perform at radio station KCRW's Sounds Eclectic Evening in Los Angeles on March 12th before headlining the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on April 30th. They will then kick off a world tour in the U.K. in June.
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For the screen name mashup king...
Are We Not Movies?
Mark Mothersbaugh cranks open the vault to unveil outtakes from his lauded scores to Wes Anderson's films, as well as other surprises from his some 95 film and television projects.
Frontman of the extremely influential new wave band Devo, the multitalented Mothersbaugh began scoring film and television in the 1980's. His innovative, eclectic, and quirky musical style lead to an accumulation of diverse credits including THIRTEEN, THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE, THE BIRDCAGE, and the TV series - "Rugrats," "Pee-wee's Playhouse," and "Working." Mothersbaugh is well known for acclaimed soundtracks to director Wes Anderson's films BOTTLE ROCKET, RUSHMORE, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, and THE LIFE AQUATIC.
Stay tuned for more.
http://www.arecordcommotion.com/releases_mothersbaugh.htm (http://www.arecordcommotion.com/releases_mothersbaugh.htm)
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I just received Mogwai: Government Sessions. Part live album/Part Best-of, recorded for John Peel Sessions. Amazing renditions of Like Herod and of course Helicon 1 (my namesake on this forum)... Great stuff
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Air Formation - 57 Octaves Below (EP)
Televise - Outside Out (EP)
Also The Undertones "Teenage Kicks" is being rereleased. No surprise to anyone, I'm sure.
And Mew, probably in August.
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more undertones details - also they have announced a US tour but no DC date as yet
To celebrate the April 4th Sanctuary Records release of Teenage Kicks - a double CD set that chronicles one of pop music??s most exciting periods, the glory days of punk and new wave - Sanctuary will also release the original Teenage Kicks EP by The Undertones as a limited 7 inch 4-track vinyl.
This was the record which, back in 1978, introduced the Derry lads to the world, originally released on the Irish independent label, Good Vibrations
To view the full press release click here.
Originally pressed up in limited quantities, it's long been a highly sought after and valued collector's item. When Seymour Stein (Sire Records' mogul) heard the lead track on John Peel's radio show, he immediately signed the band - and "Teenage Kicks' was duly reissued on Sire, becoming their first of many Top 40 hits. The 4 track EP features four classic slices of ebullient Punk-Pop energy:
1. Teenage Kicks
2. Smarter Than U
3. True Confessions
4. Emergency Cases
This reissue is strictly limited to 1,000 numbered copies.
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The National release their first single for Beggars Banquet, via download, called 'Abel' - which is available right now!
http://www.beggars.com/digitalsingles/abel.html (http://www.beggars.com/digitalsingles/abel.html)
Described by Uncut as 'a genuine treasure' The National are five New York based friends from Ohio, who started making music in 1999. To date, the band have released two albums 'The National' and 'Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers', which won critical acclaim from Uncut (best albums of the year) to the NME, from France's Liberation (one of their top five albums of 2003) to The Sunday Times. The band has toured Europe twice and recently completed an American tour, including dates with The Walkmen.
The National contains two pairs of brothers - Aaron Dessner (guitars, bass) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), Scott Devendorf (guitar, bass), Bryan Devendorf (drums) and singer Matt Berninger. Their new album 'Alligator' will be released on Monday the 11th of April 2005 in the UK.
You can download the single now, complete with an exclusive b-side, which wont feature on the standard 7" or CD single. The official release for these formats are the 14th March 2005.
Download single
1. Abel
2. The Thrilling Of Claire
The National also have a live date coming soon - catch them on Tuesday the 19th April at the Barfly in Camden! If you happen to be heading to SXSW, you can also catch them at Buffalo Billiards on March 17 at 9pm.
The National official site - http://www.americanmary.com/ (http://www.americanmary.com/)
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on woxy now - sounds good
Download single
1. Abel
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Mountain Goats Plan Expanded LP, Set Tour Dates
Rob Mackey reports:
Beyond the Bob Pollards and Jandeks of our insulated lil' bubble, there aren't that many jaw-droppingly prolific musicians whose recorded output is fawn-all-over-able. John Darnielle-- a man capable of releasing somewhere in the ballpark of 40 7", 10", 12", CDs, and cassettes over 14 years-- is my personal favorite workhorse.
So of course I was all smiles when the Mountain Goat recently announced the release of The Sunset Tree, the follow-up to last year's delightful We Shall All Be Healed. Yup, as reported last month by the Fork, the album is streetin' over in the UK on April 25 and on April 26 in the U.S. But what we didn't tell you back then-- 'cause it wasn't news yet-- is that the latest Goats offering will also be released as a limited-edition vinyl, featuring home-demo'd versions of the album's tracks, as well as some "adult-contemporary love jams," which reminds us of Darnielle's public love-in for "Ignition (Remix)" over at Last Plane to Jakarta. So if we keep them fingers crossed, kids, maybe the Mountain Goats'll be sippin' on coke and rum, 'cause they're like "so what, I'm drunk!" come late April.
The CD version of The Sunset Tree was produced by John Vanderslice and features the work of Franklin Bruno and acclaimed jazz cellist Eric Freidlander, among other guests. Like its predecessor, it's a set of personal and often dark lyrics combined with upbeat melodies. As previously reported, its tracklisting is:
01 You or Your Memory
02 Broom People
03 This Year
04 Dilaudid
05 Dance Music
06 Dinu Lipatti's Bones
07 Up the Wolves
08 Lion's Teeth
09 Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
10 Magpie
11 Song for Dennis Brown
12 Love Love Love
13 Pale Green Things
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Pernice Brothers:
We're telling you first, before we alert the pundits and the scenesters and the music business glitterati (they won't take our calls anyway). The title of the new album is "Discover a Lovelier You." It will be released in the US on June 14, 2005, which is of course Flag Day. I don't have release dates yet in other countries, as I don't know when their Flag Days are, but as soon as I hear from One Little Indian, who is releasing in the UK and Europe, and Spunk, who is releasing in Australia, I will let you know.
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Robbie Fulks' first new album in 4 years, entitled "Georgia Hard", comes out on YepRoc in mid-May:
track list:
1. Where There's a Road
2. It's Always Raining Somewhere
3. Leave It To a Loser
4. Georgia Hard
5. I'm Gonna Take You Home (And Make You Like Me)
6. Coldwater, Tennessee
7. All You Can Cheat
8. Countrier Than Thou
9. If They Could Only See Me Now
10. I Never Did Like Planes
11. Each Night I Try
12. Doin' Right (For All the Wrong Reasons)
13. You Don't Want What I Have
14. Right On Redd
15. Goodbye, Cruel Girl
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per torr.org, new Idlewild comes out in the US on August 16th...
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
per torr.org, new Idlewild comes out in the US on August 16th...
per torrentspy.com, you can listen to it right now.
I've only listened once and I was underwhelmed. Seems like they got farther from the punk edge of 100 Broken Windows and more toward a Coldplay sound.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
per torr.org, new Idlewild comes out in the US on August 16th...
You can have it right now if you give me a g-mail address...
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I heard something about a new Flaming Lips album to be released later this year. It's called "At War With the Mystics" or something like that.
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Originally posted by brennser:
link to go betweens video here (http://miceandchips.com/bluemood/home.htm)
seems pretty good
May 3 is the official release date for Ocean's Apart
After a month-long European trek, the Go-Betweens plan to return to the U.S. in June.
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I've got a general question. I don't understand the interest in getting an album title or track names months before a release. It doesn't tell me anything. Am I missing something? I'm interested in the release date of an upcoming album, but lots of pre-release info seems useless. Not criticizing anyone's approach to their music luv, just wondering.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
per torr.org, new Idlewild comes out in the US on August 16th...
You can get it now from the UK sites for Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00076SJ5U/qid=1110412715/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_0/026-3325632-6550050) or HMV (http://www1.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=352388). The exchange rate and international shipping make it a bit expensive, but it beats waiting until August.
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Originally posted by Bags:
I've got a general question. I don't understand the interest in getting an album title or track names months before a release. It doesn't tell me anything. Am I missing something? I'm interested in the release date of an upcoming album, but lots of pre-release info seems useless. Not criticizing anyone's approach to their music luv, just wondering.
Sometimes, knowing the title in advance has helped me find a pre-release/promo copy in the used bins of record stores before the release date.
As for song titles, sometimes I've heard the songs live before, so knowing that the track they played live on the last tour will be on the album is cool to know.
But mostly, it's just because I'm a self-proclaimed music geek.
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50 Foot Wave release their debut album "Golden Ocean" on this week.
Formed by Kristin Hersh in 2003, 50 Foot Wave released a self-titled mini album last year - 6 blistering songs whose electrifying energy astonished anyone who encountered them. Now the band follow that up with "Golden Ocean", their full-length debut.
50 Foot Wave is Hersh??s first new band since she founded the influential Throwing Muses, and it's a harder, faster, more direct experience than anything she has recorded before. Kristin sums up her vision for 50 Foot Wave thus : "What could be more fun that turning everything up to 10 and screaming your head off for an hour every night?"
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These are the songs which make up "Golden Ocean", as described by Kristin :
? Long Painting
"There was a company in Seattle called "Long Painting" that was being accused of poisoning the environment when we lived there. We also have a very "long painting" of my husband done by the artist Rufo, hanging in our living room. A little beauty, a little ugly...it all works out in the end. Or it's supposed to, anyway."
? Bone China
"Bones and dishes break, so does most everything else, especially when you're jumpy and twitchy."
? Clara Bow
"Summer is SO stupid and EVERYBODY likes it. Why? After she retired, Clara Bow moved out to the desert with her husband and sons and then lost control of her brain."
? Pneuma
"Pneuma is soul breath. We have to breathe through pollution and see past the idiots and hear each other through their inane chatter."
? Dog Days
"A dirty beach, angry coffee, a prickly touch... all things that are supposed to be soothing but which aren't always on your side."
? Petal
"Going home, you find out that home's gone, so you try to remember it exactly as it was."
? Sally Is A Girl
"This song is about a blackout in August in New Orleans. It's very hot there, even at night, so everybody was outside walking around, trying to keep cool. It didn't work. The title comes from an episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" about gender confusion and stereotyping."
? El Dorado
"This is a "life on the road" song, unfortunately. Sorry. Most of my life has been spent on the road. At least it's not a country song, though. When you get fried eggs in a diner, they always look like eyeballs."
? Ginger Park
"Remembering what it was like to grow up in a beach town... greasy french fries and glossy tourists. Diving... Killing time falling into each other, each of you hoping you're good enough for the other one."
? Golden Ocean
"The "golden ocean" is what my 8 year old son, Wyatt, calls the LA lights at night. He puts me to shame by seeing beauty in everything, when I just glance up and then back down again."
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http://www.themorningaftergirls.com (http://www.themorningaftergirls.com)
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Bob Mould To Release New Solo Album In 2005
Bob Mould has announced the release date for his next solo record. On July 26, the former leader of Husker Du and Sugar will release Body Of Song on Yep Roc. Billboard reports that the new material will be acoustic-based, but will be more rock-oriented than 2002??s Modulate.
Mould commented on his blog: "Nothing like a deadline to get me to finish something that has been dragging on for far too long. Well, I shouldn't put it that way; that makes it sound a little mechanical. I am shocked at the patience I showed in this whole process -- there simply wasn't a full album's worth of quality material. Or, more accurately put, there wasn't an album of material which sounded like a coherent statement."
Mould??s latest musical offering to the world happened when he teamed up with Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino. The two worked on a remix of Interpol??s ??Length Of Love?, although a commercial release for the track has yet to be determined.
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Pat DiNizio Presents: Smithereens Mega Box Set
You get 21 digitally mastered hi-fidelity CDs, chronicling every part of the Smithereen's career.
You get demos, unreleased live performances, remixes, alternate takes, interviews, and much, much more.
511 songs for a hundred bucks? A 'no-brainer'!
Want to hear your favorite Smithereens album performed live, in order, in its entirety? You got it.
Did we mention that you get electric AND acoustic versions of these live performances? That's right. Imagine - say - Green Thoughts played live in order at its most rocking, then imagine the same thing done unplugged.
All the Smithereens records you love, culled from exciting live performances spanning the band's long history. Do it!
The 21-CD, 511 track Pat DiNizio's Smithereens Mega-Box Set is strictly limited to a one-time only production run of only 500 personally autographed, signed and numbered box sets and is only available through this website or directly through Pat via "Buy It Now" through eBay.
Pat DiNizio's Smithereens Mega-Box Set will NOT be sold at gigs.
These are real CDs, professionally produced, manufactured, and
individually shrink-wrapped in a nifty box!
Pat DiNizio's Smithereens Mega-Box Set is NOT a "burned at home" CD-R collection.
Pre-orders for the 21-CD, 511 track Pat DiNizio's Smithereens MegaBox Set will be $99.99 plus $9.99 shipping and handling.
International Orders $19.99 for shipping and handling.
The cost to purchase Pat DiNizio's Smithereens Mega-Box Set AFTER the official release date of April 15th, 2005, will be $129.99 plus $9.99 shipping and handling (domestic) $19.99
(international), so save yourself thirty hard-earned bucks and pre-order yours today!
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The Soundtrack of Our Lives came out today.
$6.99 at Best Buy.
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Kosmo, this is going to be a great year for Bob :)
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Originally posted by ggw?:
Pat DiNizio Presents: Smithereens Mega Box Set
I dunno, but it's a bit much for not sure what to with so many cds. I would make more sense to release as a couple high quality mp3 discs, with that much material to wade through.
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From my pal Rob in LA via the BJM board: Sunday night after the Warlocks/Morning After Girls show a bunch of people
came by for a late night hang at the studio. Robert from BRMC brought their
new record and proceded to blow us all away. It's VERY different but still
sounds like BRMC. I think it's the best thing they've ever done. There are
lots of acoustic guitars that sound incredible. They have a country
blues/gospel thing running through the whole record. It's awesome.
By the way Trevor, singer from the High Dials has been in town mixing their
new record and it is amazing as well. It's all over the map stylistically
but still sounds like the High Dials. VERY psychedelic. It's a bit
mellower, with one song that's kinda Smiths-like and others that are almost
baroque.
The third Tyde album is about 3/4 done and it is also full of great songs
and some fucked up sounds. Darren is writing some of his best lyrics ever.
Much of the record was recorded live with 6 or 7 people crammed in the
same room Dylan/Highway 61 style. Some of the titles include "Do It Again
Again", "County Line", "Too Many Kims", "Brock Landers", and "Aloha Breeze".
The stlyes are also all over the map but Tyde fans will not be
dissapointed.
There's another record that I'm producing that I guarantee will blow all of
your minds. The band is Meow Meow. If a mix of Beatles/Sonic Youth/Beach
Boys/Pink Floyd/Teenage Fanclub/Mercury Rev/Elliot Smith sounds appealing
then you're in for a treat. Their first record came out last year called
'Snow Gas Bones' and is brilliant but this new one is just fucking
tremendous. Their web site is http://www.meowmeowmusic.com. (http://www.meowmeowmusic.com.) I think.
For what it's worth the new Warlocks stuff sounded great live as well.
Go buy the new Dead Meadow record!!!!
Contribute to the revolution. Music is not dead- far from it.
The Morning After Girls also were amazing the other night!!!
So much great music out there- you just need to find it and support it.
That is all,
Rob
p.s. Love the meow meow :D :cool: ,Sparks
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Originally posted by ggw™:
The Soundtrack of Our Lives came out today.
$6.99 at Best Buy.
>>I've had it for a couple months....it's damn fine!
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Originally posted by SPARX:
The third Tyde album is about 3/4 done and it is also full of great songs
and some fucked up sounds. Darren is writing some of his best lyrics ever.
Much of the record was recorded live with 6 or 7 people crammed in the
same room Dylan/Highway 61 style. Some of the titles include "Do It Again
Again", "County Line", "Too Many Kims", "Brock Landers", and "Aloha Breeze".
The stlyes are also all over the map but Tyde fans will not be
dissapointed.
good news, I thought they would be gone for a while
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Originally posted by ratioci nation:
Originally posted by SPARX:
The third Tyde album is about 3/4 done and it is also full of great songs
and some fucked up sounds.
good news, I thought they would be gone for a while [/b]
Definitely good news,look for an early fall release.
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Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm - May 3
Stream 3 songs at aimeemann.com
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Originally posted by SPARX:
p.s. Love the meow meow
I saw their name when searching about the internet...cool, thanks for the post.
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Separately, rumors afloat, new Pete Yorn, June 21.
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I don't care about the song titles, but am glad about the news about an upcoming release!
Dressy Bessy Have a New Album in the Works (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-03/18.shtml#story9)
Jason Toon reports:
We all know the thin Denver air turns Coors Field pop-ups into home runs. Might it also account for the preternatural catchiness of hometown pop worthies Dressy Bessy? Nope, no asterisks necessary: Their self-titled 2003 effort was recorded in New York with Britt Myers, as was Electrified, which tumbles into the arms of the public June 14 courtesy of Transdreamer Records. You want song titles? Song titles you shall have:
01 Second Place
02 Side 2
03 Electrified
04 Small
05 She Likes It
06 Stop Foolin'
07 Hello Hello
08 Ringalingaling
09 It Happens All the Time
10 Tay Tay Tay Again
11 Call It Even
12 Who'd Stop the Rain
They'll also have an as-of-yet-unspecified song on the soundtrack to the Yankified (or Red Soxified, as it were) movie version of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, out April 8. A June tour is promised, but until then, one show booked for the hometown faithful:
03-25 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
* Pitchfork Review: Dressy Bessy: Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons
* Dressy Bessy: http://www.dressybessy.com/ (http://www.dressybessy.com/)
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April 12th
single is on itunes now, called Circus
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Dreamend are coming out with a new CD/DVD later this year. Also, they will be reissuing their first 3 releases.
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New Okkervil River album in April
track here http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/forreal.mp3 (http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/forreal.mp3)
I think it is great, then of course, I would
It is a shame they arent staying on the Decemberists tour long enough to be here
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wanna go Markie??
April sees the release of a retrospective double-album by The Fat Lady Sings on Warner Music, featuring many of the band??s best-loved moments, plus a whole host of rare and previously-unavailable material. With the working title of ??The Fat Lady Singles (& Opera Obscura)?, CD1 will include all 10 of the band??s singles, while CD2 is composed of rarities drawn from across the band??s career, including some never-before-released tracks.
And to celebrate this long-overdue event, the band have decided to reform to play two live shows, one each in Dublin and London ?? their first time appearing onstage together since December 1993. The details of the shows are as follows:
Vicar Street, Dublin ?? Friday, April 8th
Islington Academy, London ?? Saturday, April 9th
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White Stripes (http://www.nme.com/news/111799.htm)
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Well I had hopes for a Driveblind CD, but am beginning to worry about what if anything will appear. Hailing from Aberbeen Scotland, the band caused a bit of a stir in LA at Viper Room showcases and were signed to Interscope. I've been spinning the song "The Fool Rides Again" since early last year a song which was a live in the studio demo. Driveblind decided to go straight for the same sort of Geezer rock the Charlatans are doing these days.
Why am I worried? They have been recording forever and have worked with two producers, both of which are never good for a new band. So we'll see...
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Journey will hit the studio to work on their thirteenth album due this summer. Tour to follow.
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Journey without Steve Perry is like the Smiths without Morrissey.
Originally posted by vansmack:
Journey will hit the studio to work on their thirteenth album due this summer. Tour to follow.
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Journey without Steve Perry is like the Smiths without Morrissey.
Thats a statement you don't hear very often. :mad:
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Journey will hit the studio to work on their thirteenth album due this summer. Tour to follow.
and on a very unrelated note.. most the guys in journey shop at my parents health food store.. and apparently they really like my parents because they keep giving them all sorts of pics, etc. :D now if i were really smart, id try and get my parents to hook me up with free tickets or something.
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Moose is currently in the studio recording material. This is a band that is made up of perfectionists and they usually take a bit of time to do things. There's no set release date for anything yet, but I think it's exciting they're in the studio working on something. I know, I know, there's only about 2 of you that have even heard of Moose, let alone heard them, but hey, thought i'd post about it anyway...
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eels new single (trouble with dreams) can be heard here http://www.myspace.com/eelstheband (http://www.myspace.com/eelstheband)
too bad Guiny doesnt seem to be around to say how much the eels suck, just pretend he did say it
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Originally posted by ratioci nation:
eels new single (trouble with dreams) can be heard here http://www.myspace.com/eelstheband (http://www.myspace.com/eelstheband)
too bad Guiny doesnt seem to be around to say how much the eels suck, just pretend he did say it
Nice!! I really like "Old Shit New Shit" E almost always sounds good to these ears.
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Review (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1444936,00.html) of new British Sea Power album
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looks like Robot Ate Me got signed to a label (5RC) and their album from last year is more widely available after last week
free mp3 here (http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/therobotateme/audio/OnVacation.mp3)
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seems that Chris whitley is releasing a new album this year - soft dangerous shores
http://www.chriswhitley.net/ (http://www.chriswhitley.net/)
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Coldplay have announced the tracklisting for their eagerly-awaited third album 'X&Y'.
The album will be preceded by the single 'Speed of Sound' on Monday 23 May.
NME.com reports that the full tracklisting for the album is as follows:
Square One
What If
White Shadows
Fix You
Talk
X&Y
Speed of Sound
A Message
Low
The Hardest Part
Swallowed in the Sea
Twisted Logic
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From the Warlocks: Hallelujah! The Warlocks new album tentatively called Surgery was mastered today! The release date is set for some time around July or August. We are sorry about some of these delays, but making records on this scale (something The Warlocks aren't used to) can be quite complex. Speaking of complex, plans are in the works for a possible DVD, and a limited edition vinyl version of Surgery with some different songs, song order and layout.
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Do Me Bad Things (http://wmuk-newmedia.co.uk/prezence/domebadthings/index.html) out in the UK, I certainly hope it doesn't take forever to reach these parts. Here's a label for ya, Ace, But maybe not for everyone.... the fact this nine piece rock/pop/soul outfit started as a Stoner rock trio could scare some off.
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http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml (http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml)
Originally posted by ratioci nation:
New Okkervil River album in April
track here http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/forreal.mp3 (http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/forreal.mp3)
I think it is great, then of course, I would
It is a shame they arent staying on the Decemberists tour long enough to be here
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Originally posted by brennser:
http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml (http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml)
I just ordered mine today, but I wouldnt buy it on the strength of that review if you have not already heard them, it mentions every hype touchstone of the last few years. It also says the last album was great, when the album before that is clearly better. Good to see them getting such a positive review though. Hopefully it doesnt mean their show will be hard to get in to, although earlimart may make it that way anyway.
thanks for posting the link
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Originally posted by ratioci nation:
Mountain Goats Plan Expanded LP,
Darnielle on the Edge of Town
The Mountain Goats and Bruce Springsteen will both release records on April 26. Guess which one these lyrics are found on:
I broke free on a Saturday morning
I put the pedal to the floor
Headed north on Mills Avenue
And listened to the engine roar
My broken house behind me and good things ahead
A girl named Cathy wants a little of my time
Six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking
Uh-huh, listen to the engine whine
A-ha! You think. That??s clearly Springsteen??it sounds just like an outtake from 1978??s Darkness on the Edge of Town. But these verses come from ??This Year,? one of many standout tracks written by head Mountain Goat John Darnielle for The Sunset Tree, which I was able to hear an advance copy of thanks to the kind folks at The Compact Disc Store (clever name there, guys. What do you sell?). A lot of these songs recall vintage Springsteen in terms of lyrics and in terms of production; the album often sounds like Darkness-era songs re-conceived for the later stops of the Tom Joad tour, when Bruce added some occasional and understated drums and strings to what had been a one-man show, producing revelatory new interpretations of his back catalog??all weary and contemplative, empty space punctuated by sparse instrumentation that sounded lush anyway. Had Springsteen had spent his mid-to-late-twenties reading Sophocles and Virgil and smoking a flippin?? joint or two instead of watching John Ford movies, reading Steinbeck and heroically abstaining for his art, Darkness might have sounded a little like The Sunset Tree. Both albums chronicle the conflicts between intense poet-rockers in the making and emotionally wrecked, physically shattered father-figures, and both albums hold out the power and promise of rock n?? roll as salvation from the desperation and brutality of life.
(If Darnielle spent most of his til-now career writing songs about people who were absolutely not him??the Alpha Couple, Grendel??s mother??and gradually turned towards autobiography with this album and its immediate predecessor, Springsteen has been walking the other direction on that road, gradually paring the autobiographical songs from his albums in favor of third-person narratives about very non-Springsteenly people??Mexican immigrants and meth-makers. It??d be interesting to see how The Ghost of Tom Joad and We Shall All Be Healed overlap and inform each other??one set of songs about illegal immigrants ruining their lives running drugs and cooking meth and another set about speed-freaks ruining their lives taking meth and running from the damage they??ve caused).
But I??ve probably tortured that comparison long enough; there are no doubt some of you who would not see comparisons to Springsteen as a compliment. I see you there: you??re easily identifiable by your stooped posture, the consequence of a lifetime shouldering the back-bending burden of your impeccable indie cred. Regardless, The Sunset Tree is a great album, if sometimes hard to take. These are some of the best songs Darnielle has written, but they??re at times so brutal, so raw, that they often make for uncomfortable listening. It??s hard to imagine a sloshed concert-goer shouting out requests for a narrative of abuse like ??Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod????and not just because it??s really hard to say with beer-tongue.
And speaking of saying: one of the most effective weapons in The Mountain Goats?? arsenal is Darnielle??s voice; there??s not a performer this side of late-era Dylan who uses his voice??s limitations more effectively than Darnielle, and this record indicates that he??s still honing that particular blade. It would be easy for him to rely on the soul-in-tatters yelp that lends such force to such past fan-faves as ??Home Again Garden Grove? or ??Family Happiness???and it does claw its way free here, at the end of ??Dilaudid? and most effectively on ??Up the Wolves? and ??The Magpie???but elsewhere he sings in a haunting, whispery falsetto. It makes sense. Too many cold-eyed rave-ups would have seemed weird and out of place on an album that is in large part about a protagonist struggling with the desire to be invisible, about wanting to act but fearing the terror and pain that are sure to follow.
In lesser hands, this album could have been a disaster??a song-cycle about a teenager??s bad relationship with his abusive stepfather, one that name-checks Kurt Cobain. But then again, it also name-checks pianist Dinu Lipatti, reggae legend Dennis Brown, and the she-wolf who nursed the legendary founders of Rome in their infancy and abandonment, so that Cobain reference is well earned. It??s that sense of perspective and context that helps these songs transcend the limitations of autobiographical, confessional, heart-sleeve tedium. In fact, I think it??s a mark of the album??s success that I went back and forth on the question of whether it did indeed achieve that transcendence until the final track, ??Pale Green Things,? which throws a strange and bright new light on everything that comes before it. Not only one of the best songs in the Mountain Goats?? catalog on its own, it also rearranges the rest of the album into a whole that??s more complicated, more rewarding, and ultimately more satisfying than the one I might have been expecting.
http://prettyfakes.com/?p=303 (http://prettyfakes.com/?p=303)
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Is this buried in here somewhere?
Lucero
Alright ya'll... I know it's been awhile since this thing was updated, but we've been busy working on a new site and a new record and it'll all come together real soon. It looks like the new record, which will be called Nobody's Darlings, is set for release May 24th... if everything goes according to plan. We'll start a two month nation-wide tour that day too. That's the plan.
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From the Dandy Warhols site (yeah its now in 3-D for those interested in checking it out)
April 08, 2005
It's No Joke, Jack
And the winners are:
Colder Than The Coldest Winter Was Cold
Love Is The New Feel Awful
Easy
All The Money
Movin' Out
Holding Me Up
Jamaica
Totally Insane
Smoke It
Down Like Disco
This Time
Home
This is Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
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the red hot chili peppers are in the studio will hopefully have an album out by the end of the year. theyve recorded a shitload of new songs in the last 2 or 3 years but i believe that theyre throwing all those away for a new bunch.
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pitchfork likes it as well
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/o/okkervil-river/black-sheep-boy.shtml (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/o/okkervil-river/black-sheep-boy.shtml)
Originally posted by pollardteam2:
Originally posted by brennser:
http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml (http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml)
I just ordered mine today, but I wouldnt buy it on the strength of that review if you have not already heard them, it mentions every hype touchstone of the last few years. It also says the last album was great, when the album before that is clearly better. Good to see them getting such a positive review though. Hopefully it doesnt mean their show will be hard to get in to, although earlimart may make it that way anyway.
thanks for posting the link [/b]
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May 24 - MAXIMO PARK/A Certain Trigger USA
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The Return of Social D
Updated 03:28 PDT Sat, Apr 16 2005
It's hard to believe it's been almost a decade since Social Distortion has put out an album of original music. Finally, the L.A. punks - fronted by the gravel-voiced Mike Ness - have added Sex, Love and Rock ??n' Roll to the band's discography.
It includes the "emotional journey of love, loss and acceptance" on a song devoted to the band's late founding guitar player, Dennis Danell, who died of a brain aneurysm in 2000. Still, Ness has written his share of signature hard rock numbers for the album, including "Reach For The Sky" and "Nickels And Dimes."
Ness, guitarist Jonny Wickersham, bassist Matt Freeman and drummer Charlie Quintana will be playing the tunes next month and the beginning of June, starting off at the Magic City Music Hall in Johnson City, N.Y., May 12th.
They'll spend most of their time on the Eastern Seaboard throughout the month with stops at the WHFStival and the KNDD Endfest.
Fans on he West Coast don't have a lot of chances to see them (the tour ends June 8 at the University of California in Davis), but a few more dates might be added. And heck, after more than 20 years in the biz, Social D has shown that there's still plenty of tread on the tires.
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Swervedriver best of.... (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/s/swervedriver/juggernaut-rides.shtml)
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another "best of" - this time one of my favorite bands
Boo Radleys Ready 2xCD Compilation
James Gregory reports:
Though they played a major role in defining British indie in the 90s (before fellow countrymen Blur and Oasis launched it into the mainstream), chances are if you called the U.S. home, you were pretty much oblivious to the Boo Radleys, who unfortunately lacked the cheeky shenanigans to propel them onto the cover of the British tabloids. Well, your chance for a second date is on its way. According to Sanctuary Records, the influential (but sadly disbanded) group are prepping a career-spanning 2xCD anthology for release on July 4 through Castle Music, a Sanctuary offshoot.
Entitled Find the Way Out, the comp marks the group's first comprehensive hits collection, and includes tracks culled from each of the three labels they recorded for during their lifespan-- Action, Rough Trade, and Creation Records. The 40 remastered songs included on the set offer a healthy number of selections from each of the band's six studio albums (most notably the classic Giant Steps), as well as singles, b-sides, and previously unreleased material. The album also features deluxe packaging with artwork by original collaborator Stephen Wood. Tracklist for Find the Way Out:
>>Disc 1:
01 Walking 5th Carnival
02 Catweazle
03 Hip Clown Rag (demo)
04 Kaleidoscope
05 The Finest Kiss
06 Everybird
07 Lazy Day
08 Spaniard
09 Does This Hurt?
10 Sunfly II: Walking With the Kings
11 Buffalo Bill
12 Lazarus (12" version)
13 Let Me Be Your Faith
14 Thinking of Ways
15 Best Lose the Fear
16 I Hang Suspended
17 I've Lost the Reason
18 Wish I Was Skinny
19 Cracked Lips/Homesick
20 Barney (...and Me)
>>Disc 2:
01 Wake up Boo: Music for Astronauts
02 Blues for George Michael
03 Find the Answer Within
04 Joel
05 It's Lulu
06 Reaching Out From Here
07 From the Bench at Belvidere
08 Nearly Almost There
09 What's in the Box? (See Watcha Got)
10 Four Saints
11 New Brighton Promenade
12 C'mon Kids
13 Ride the Tiger
14 Vote You
15 Free Huey
16 Kingsize
17 Comb Your Hair
18 Tomorrow
19 Put Your Arms Around Me and Tell Me Everythings Gonna Be OK
20 Blueroom in Archway
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If you call him Carl, he may not answer you...not that we've tried. But just because A.C. Newman, who recently made pop hearts swoon with his solo effort The Slow Wonder, has a new and acronymic name, it doesn't mean he's not still doing what he does best. Yes, Mr. Newman is, of course, a member of one of Canada's finest exports (after Nickleback, of course), the New Pornographers, who are reportedly just finishing up work on their third full-length, Twin Cinema. Sources at Mint, the band's Canadian label, tell us Twin Cinema will be finished and ready for your grubby little hands on August 23-- we presume that date will be the same for the Matador release in the U.S., but that's currently unconfirmed. They also hit us up with a tracklist, and you know we love that:
01 Twin Cinema
02 The Bones of an Idol
03 Use It
04 The Bleeding Heart Show
05 Jackie, Dressed in Cobras
06 The Jessica Numbers
07 These Are the Fables
08 Sing Me Spanish Techno
09 Falling Through Your Clothes
10 Broken Breads
11 Three or Four
12 Star Bodies
13 Streets of Fire
14 Stacked Crooked
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Originally posted by brennser:
Sources at Mint, the band's Canadian label, tell us Twin Cinema will be finished and ready for your grubby little hands on August 23-- we presume that date will be the same for the Matador release in the U.S., but that's currently unconfirmed.
woo-hoo!
if it's anything like the last album, this is already on my shortlist for best of the year
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Elbow are putting the finishing touches to their third album and
they say it sounds "terribly romantic." They're planning an album launch in May,
at the studio in Salford where the album was recorded. The first single will
probably be a song called Buddah With Mace, or one called Leaders of the Free
World, although they don't have a title for album yet. They were in the studio
in Manchester for the last eight months recording the record, before a short
trip to LA to mix it.
Frontman Guy Garvey gave 6 Music a few clues to how it'll sound: "There's
definitely some stuff there that Elbow fans will love, but there's also some new
twists. "It's terribly romantic as a record, but then it's got some real sort of
hard points to it as well." And he told us about some of the inspiration for the
record: "It sounds like a band playing in a room. The most important thing for
us was to get the room on the recording. "In the same way as, like, a Pixies
album or a PJ Harvey album, you feel like you're in the environment for the
duration for the record. "That was really important this time."
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Originally posted by brennser:
Elbow are putting the finishing touches to their third album and
they say it sounds "terribly romantic." They're planning an album launch in May,
at the studio in Salford where the album was recorded. The first single will
probably be a song called Buddah With Mace, or one called Leaders of the Free
World, although they don't have a title for album yet. They were in the studio
in Manchester for the last eight months recording the record, before a short
trip to LA to mix it.
Frontman Guy Garvey gave 6 Music a few clues to how it'll sound: "There's
definitely some stuff there that Elbow fans will love, but there's also some new
twists. "It's terribly romantic as a record, but then it's got some real sort of
hard points to it as well." And he told us about some of the inspiration for the
record: "It sounds like a band playing in a room. The most important thing for
us was to get the room on the recording. "In the same way as, like, a Pixies
album or a PJ Harvey album, you feel like you're in the environment for the
duration for the record. "That was really important this time."
That is the best news I've heard all day. Thanks!
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New Oranger LP Out in September
Ray Suzuki reports:
If memory serves us right (and given our frequent hits from the office bong, we can't promise anything), it's only been about two years since San Francisco underdogs Oranger delivered Shutdown the Sun, a gem of an album full of timeless pristine pop, although with elections and wars and Michael Jackson and whatnot, it sure seems like longer. In any case, it's 2005 now, and Oranger have a new record, entitled New Comes and Goes, ready for release via Eenie Meenie-- perhaps not coincidentally the home of Oranger member Jim Lindsay's other project the High Water Marks, a band also featuring erstwhile Apple in Stereo Hilary Sidney. Or was that a tangent?
The record is scheduled to be released September 20, and true to form, it will have songs with titles on it. Tracklist:
01 Crooked in the Weird of the Catacombs
02 New Comes and Goes
03 Sukiyaki
04 Garden Party for the Murder Pride
05 Outtatoch
06 RadioWaves
07 X-Adjust
08 Crones
09 Haeter
10 Flying Pretend
11 Light Machine
12 Target You By Feel
13 Come Back Tomorrow
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BRMC Return With HOWL
Oh happy day! Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have completed work on their third record, titled HOWL. The worldwide release date is set for August 22, which will be preceded by the single ??Ain??t No Easy Way? sometime in early August. The record will be released in the UK on Echo, and in the US on RCA. If the audio from their website is any indication to the new direction of their music, this should make for a very interesting change for the group.
You might remember the drama between the band and their drummer Nick Jago. Well, according to the band??s website he is back in BRMC once again. In a message to their message board, bassist and co-vocalist Robert Turner said: ??For everyone that's been concerned and in the dark on what's happening with Nick, we've recently reconciled with Nick and he's back playing drums again. We're all really happy to be playing music together again. It's more fun than it's ever been in the past.?
Although the album is still a few months away, BRMC went ahead and posted the tracklisting. Some UK dates have already been announced with The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Hopefully some US dates will show up closer to the release of their new record.
HOWL
01. ??Shuffle Your Feet?
02. ??Howl?
03. ??Devil??s Waitin???
04. ??Ain??t No Easy Way?
05. ??Still Suspicion Holds You Tight?
06. ??Fault Line?
07. ??Promise?
08. ??Weight Of The World?
09. ??Restless Sinner?
10. ??Gospel Song?
11. ??Complicated Situation?
12. ??Sympathetic Noose?
13. ??The Line?
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Drawing its name from a line in his classic 1977 anthem "Lust for Life", the upcoming 2xCD collection A Million in Prizes: The Iggy Pop Anthology, is set to offer the most comprehensive overview of the aging punk predator's 35-year career yet released.
According to Billboard, A Million in Prizes will see a U.S. release on July 19, and features 37 tracks drawn from Pop's massively influential output with the Stooges, as well as his numerous solo releases. Disc one kicks off the history lesson with a healthy dose of material from each of the Stooges three studio albums, as well as Pop's first two David Bowie-produced solo offerings, while disc two covers the highlights from Pop's subsequent, less-revelatory years up through his most recent release, 2003's Skull Ring. Tracklist:
>>Disc one:
01 1969
02 No Fun
03 I Wanna Be Your Dog
04 Down on the Street
05 I Got a Right
06 Gimme Some Skin
07 Search and Destroy
08 Gimme Danger
09 Raw Power
10 Kill City
11 Nightclubbing
12 Funtime
13 China Girl
14 Sister Midnight
15 Tonight
16 Success
17 Lust for Life
18 The Passenger
>>Disc two:
01 Some Weird Sin
02 I'm Bored
03 I Need More
04 Pleasure
05 Run Like a Villain
06 Cry for Love
07 Real Wild Child (Wild One)
08 Cold Metal
09 Home
10 Candy
11 Well Did You Evah!
12 Wild America
13 TV Eye (live)
14 Loose (live)
15 Look Away
16 Corruption
17 I Felt the Luxury
18 Mask
19 Skull Ring
Also set for release the same day is the DVD package Live From the Avenue B, which features 21 live performances recorded during Pop's 1999 European tour in support of the LP Avenue B. And while the album itself stands as one of Pop's most awkward failures (featuring a collaboration with-- shudder-- Medeski Martin & Wood), Pop's live performances still rank as one of the most primal spectacles money can buy.
And finally, fans in need of an up-close-and-personal live fix will be able to see Iggy Pop this summer, as he hits up seven major European festivals, including a closing day performance at the UK's landmark Reading Festival. A reunited Stooges will also be playing a lone London gig in August, performing their classic second album Fun House in its entirity as part of ATP's "Don't Look Back" concert series on August 30. Nightclubbing:
05-27 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival
05-29 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock Festival
06-04 Paris, France - Effervessonne Festival
06-17 Bari, Italy - Yellow Festival
07-22 Lucerne, Switzerland - Blue Balls Festival
08-26 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-28 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-30 London, England - Hammersmith Apollo (The Stooges)
* Iggy Pop: http://www.iggypop.com/ (http://www.iggypop.com/)
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Dulli - Whigs - Twilight Singers record news:
I think Amber Lights was the working last Afghan Whigs record...that evolved into a TS project.
http://www.summerskiss.com/ (http://www.summerskiss.com/)
Three Twilight Releases on Their Way
The precursor to Blackberry Belle, "Amber Headlights" is nearing its release date, with an EP due in the fall and the new full studio album from The Twilight Singers to follow in early 2006. The new LP is tentatively titled "Powder Burns" (previously referred to as "Period Rush").
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
BRMC Return With HOWL
Hopefully some US dates will show up closer to the release of their new record.
I forget exactly where I heard this, but I seem to recall June/July for some US dates.
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From Stellastarr* -
We are pleased to announce that we have just finished recording our second album which will come out in the US this August on RCA. We will be touring in September. Stay tuned for the UK release date and touring plans coming soon.
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Very much looking forward to it!
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Well the year of great releases continues
The Posies - Every Kind of Light (http://www.notlame.com/The_Posies/Page_1/CDPOSIES1.html)
Out on Rykdisc end of June (http://www.rykodisc.com/Catalog/dump/rykoalbums_1499.asp)
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Originally posted by The Artist Formerly Known As grotty:
I think Amber Lights was the working last Afghan Whigs record...that evolved into a TS project.
Amber Headlights was recorded after the Whigs split up. It was the album Dulli was working on when Ted Demme died. After that, he scrapped it and did Blackberry Belle.
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Per Pete Yorn's website www.peteyorn.com (http://www.peteyorn.com) (also see a picture of Pete drumming for GBV!)
??5.11.05
UPDATE: WHAT'S GOING ON>>>>
Currently I am residing in Los Angeles, CA. I have been here for some time recording with people of various talents. AS OF TODAY, 11, MAY, 2005.....I am in the process of mixing THE NEW RECORD in a BALLROOM in GRIFFITH PARK. I recorded 24 NEW SONGS...however this WILL NOT BE A DOUBLE ALBUM. MOST of the TRACKS were produced with MICHAEL BEINHORN (Herbie Hancock, Social Distortion, Violent Femmes, Soundgarden, Korn, yes...Korn!) and myself, while others were produced by DON FLEMING (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub) and myself. THE recording process was a roller coaster ride filled with moments of triumph as well as frustration. IT has NOW come together as something that I am extremely proud of and could not have done on my own. Some songs were recorded "live" with MINIBAR and Joe Kennedy providing the backup. Others were built from the ground up with either myself or Dave Grohl playing drums. We were fortunate enough to coax the great Leon Russell in for a day to play some excellent piano. Natalie Maines sings on two songs, while Emily Robison and Martie Maguire add banjo and fiddle respectively. Farmer Dave Scher (All Night Radio, Beachwood Sparks) provides pedal and lap steel guitar, as well as some non-conventional organ. Zach Schaeffer plays bass on a few songs. Doc Dauer and Ramee Jaffe showed up for some guitar and B-3 as well. Oh, and it has all been captured on film which is NOW being edited together for your enjoyment.
PLAN ON HEARING THIS RECORD in THE FALL of 2005. AS FAR AS TOURING...STAY TUNED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME & LOYALTY.
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this sounds promising
Iron & Wine, Calexico Reveal Details of Collaborative LP
Remember when you were a kid and you thought combining two foods you liked would create some sort of delicious superfood? Remember how that shit never worked (ice cream pizza)? Thankfully, combining two bands actually can turn out better. Take, say, the dusty Southwestern sounds of Calexico and combine that with Iron & Wine's back porch sentimentality. What you've got is Lays in Reins, a seven-song mini-LP of some of Sam Beam's songs backed by Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico, as well as a few other Tucson musicians.
The particular deliciousness of this collaboration is pure speculation, of course, as the li'l long-player won't be available until fall of this year, but Burns seems pleased with the results. "It's kind of got that Tucson, Arizona sound," he told Pitchfork this week. "It was funny, in the process of mixing some of these songs, we would send [Iron & Wine frontman Sam Beam] the mixes as MP3 files over the internet. So he would listen to them and he would say, 'No, no. Put more stuff in there.' He liked the idea of this being something different that what he would do with an Iron & Wine record, where the arrangements might be a little more minimal. So we've got some instruments that fills it out a little bit." Tracklist:
01 He Lays in Reins
02 Prison on Route 41
03 History of Lovers
04 Red Dust
05 Burn That Broken Bed
06 16, Maybe Less
07 Dead Mans Will
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Nada Surf Update
Jun 1, 2005 07:26pm
It??s with great excitement that we announce plans for the release of Nada Surf??s fourth album ??The Weight is a Gift.?
Produced by Chris Walla (DCFC) and Nada Surf, the record is scheduled for release on September 12th in the UK/Europe (City Slang) and September 20th in the US (Barsuk). Plans are being made in other territories as well.
The track listing is:
1. Concrete Bed
2. Do it Again
3. Always Love
4. What is Your Secret
5. Your Legs Grow
6. All is a Game
7. Blankest Year
8. Comes a Time
9. In the Mirror
10. Armies Walk
11. Imaginary Friends
The band will tour a large part of the world once the album is in stores. Check www.nadasurf.com (http://www.nadasurf.com) for updates
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wow, talk about genre hopping
Rhino to Release 7xCD 90s Box Set
Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box will be released on July 26.
>>Disc One:
01 "U Can't Touch This" - MC Hammer
02 "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O'Connor
03 "No Myth" - Michael Penn
04 "Ladies First" - Queen Latifah (feat. Monie Love)
05 "Ball and Chain" - Social Distortion
06 "Birdhouse in Your Soul" - They Might Be Giants
07 "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" - Mother Love Bone
08 "Here's Where the Story Ends" - The Sundays
09 "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" - C & C Music Factory
10 "Groove Is in the Heart" - Deee-Lite
11 "Right Here Right Now" - Jesus Jones
12 "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" - Ice-T
13 "I Touch Myself" - Divinyls
14 "Unbelievable" - EMF
15 "Hard To Handle" - The Black Crowes
16 "O.P.P." - Naughty By Nature
17 "Walking in Memphis" - Marc Cohn
18 "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday" - Boyz II Men
>>Disc Two: 01 "Silent Lucidity" - Queensryche
02 "Into the Drink" - Mudhoney
03 "Girlfriend" - Matthew Sweet
04 "I'm Too Sexy" - Right Said Fred
05 "Calling All Angels" - Jane Siberry (with k.d. lang)
06 "Only Shallow" - My Bloody Valentine
07 "It's a Shame About Ray" - The Lemonheads
08 "Baby Got Back" - Sir Mix-A-Lot
09 "They Want EFX" - DAS EFX
10 "Jump" - Kris Kross
11 "Walk" - Pantera
12 "N.W.O." - Ministry
13 "Shitlist" - L7
14 "Absynthe" - The Gits
15 "Coattail Rider" - Supersuckers
16 "Runaway Train" - Soul Asylum
17 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" - Spin Doctors
18 "Dizz Knee Land" - dada
19 "Nearly Lost You" - Screaming Trees
>>Disc Three:
01 "Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
02 "Unsung" - Helmet
03 "Jump Around" - House Of Pain
04 "Free Your Mind" - En Vogue
05 "Rump Shaker" - Wreckx-N-Effect
06 "Informer" - Snow
07 "Connected" - Stereo MCs
08 "Detachable Penis" - King Missile
09 "Freak Me" - Silk
10 "Ordinary World" - Duran Duran
11 "If I Can't Change Your Mind" - Sugar
12 "Three Little Pigs" - Green Jelly
13 "Start Choppin" - Dinosaur Jr.
14 "The Devil's Chasing Me" - The Reverend Horton Heat
15 "Gone to the Moon" - Fastbacks
16 "My Name Is Mud" - Primus
17 "What's Up" - 4 Non Blondes
>>Disc Four:
01 "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie
02 "Whoomp! (There It Is)" - Tag Team
03 "Broken Hearted Savior" - Big Head Todd and the Monsters
04 "Trust Me" - Guru with N'Dea Davenport
05 "Here Comes" - Velocity Girl
06 "Gepetto" - Belly
07 "Eye to Eye" - The Muffs
08 "Gentlemen" - Afghan Whigs
09 "Leafy Incline" - Tad
10 "Dream All Day" - The Posies
11 "Hey Jealousy" - Gin Blossoms
12 "My Sister" - The Juliana Hatfield Three
13 "Whatta Man" - Salt-N-Pepa
14 "Back & Forth" - Aaliyah
15 "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" - Me'Shell Ndegéocello
16 "Freedom of '76" - Ween
17 "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement
18 "God" - Tori Amos
19 "MMM MMM MMM MMM" - Crash Test Dummies
20 "Possession" - Sarah McLachlan
>>Disc Five:
01 "Shine" - Collective Soul
02 "Far Behind" - Candlebox
03 "You Gotta Be" - Des'ree
04 "Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Urge Overkill
05 "She Don't Use Jelly" - The Flaming Lips
06 "m.i.a." - 7 Year Bitch
07 "21st Century (Digital Boy)" - Bad Religion
08 "Sugar Free Jazz" - Soul Coughing
09 "Mockingbirds" - Grant Lee Buffalo
10 "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" - R.E.M.
11 "Revolve" - Melvins
12 "Buddy Holly" - Weezer
13 "Here and Now" - Letters to Cleo
14 "Good" - Better Than Ezra
15 "Run-Around" - Blues Traveler
16 "I'll Be There for You" (Theme From "Friends") - The Rembrandts
17 "Tomorrow" - Silverchair
18 "Not a Pretty Girl" - Ani DiFranco
19 "Carnival" - Natalie Merchant
>>Disc Six:
01 "Wonderwall" - Oasis
02 "Birthday Cake" - Cibo Matto
03 "Cumbersome" - Seven Mary Three
04 "One of Us" - Joan Osborne
05 "Caught by the Fuzz" - Supergrass
06 "Sweet 69" - Babes In Toyland
07 "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something
08 "Photograph" - The Verve Pipe
09 "In the Meantime" - Spacehog
10 "Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check" - Busta Rhymes (Feat. Rampage the Last Boy Scout)
11 "Who Will Save Your Soul" - Jewel
12 "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand" - Primitive Radio Gods
13 "Cybele's Reverie" - Stereolab
14 "Capri Pants" - Bikini Kill
15 "What I Got" - Sublime
16 "Kung Fu" - Ash
17 "Virtual Insanity" - Jamiroquai
18 "Naked Eye" - Luscious Jackson
19 "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" - Wilco
>>Disc Seven:
01 "itszoweezee (hot)" - De La Soul
02 "LoveFool" - The Cardigans
03 "Radiation Vibe" - Fountains Of Wayne
04 "The Impression That I Get" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
05 "Turn It On" - Sleater-Kinney
06 "Bitch" - Meredith Brooks
07 "MMMBop" - Hanson
08 "Brian Wilson" (live) - Barenaked Ladies
09 "Brick" - Ben Folds Five
10 "Sex and Candy" - Marcy Playground
11 "Walking on the Sun" - Smash Mouth
12 "Tubthumping" - Chumbawamba
13 "6 Underground" - Sneaker Pimps
14 "Lullaby" - Shawn Mullins
15 "Slide" - Goo Goo Dolls
16 "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None the Richer
17 "Steal My Sunshine" - LEN
18 "What It's Like" - Everlast
19 "Natural Blues" - Moby
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wow, i just had a prolonged series of flashbacks reading that list ... "what's the frequency kenneth" is the only 90s REM song?? if they're just going for pop culture significance, hows about "eveybody hurts" or "losing my religion"?
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lil' elbow update for y'all
Elbow's new album, The Stops, is due for release on September 5th following their Carling Weekend:Reading and Leeds Festivals appearance. "It's called The Stops, as in 'pulling out all the stops', Garvey revealed. "We recorded it all ourselves in Manchester. It's the perfect way of working."
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From Touch and Go:
New Dirty Three Record "Cinders"
The mighty Dirty Three return in October with a new record
titled "Cinders". The album was recorded in Australia with
Casey Rice and has 19 songs all hovering around the three
minute mark. Chan Marshall of Cat Power and Sally Timms
from the Mekons guest.
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mclusky news
Not to be outdone by fellow Welshmen Super Furry Animals' latest vault clearing reissues, recently disbanded trio Mclusky (who threw in the towel this past January after nearly 10 years of service) are compiling a 3xCD career-spanning epitaph for release later this year.
As the band's (now former) manager explained to Pitchfork, the upcoming release will be "a three-disc set consisting of all the band's A-side singles on Disc A, all of the B-sides on Disc B, and then outtakes, rarities, live stuff, and radio session tracks on Disc C." The the full tracklist and a firm street date have yet to be issued, many of the cuts making the final pressing will include UK-only B-sides, as well as previously unreleased material, making the set a convenient one-stop package for U.S. fans.
Mclusky's manager also informs us that singer/songwriter Andrew Falkous and drummer Jack Eggleston are assembling a new outfit with former members of UK act Jarcrew. And while demos have already been cut for a possible album, he's "not sure when anything will happen on this one." Don't worry, we'll keep you posted on any half-assed supergroup shenanigans the lads get themselves into.
And finally, founding member John Chapple, whose reported squabbling with Falkous is cited as a major reason for the band's split, will also be keeping himself busy with a musical rebound-- releasing two "mini-albums" with his band Shooting at Unarmed Men. Described by their manager as "a lot scratchier and more lo-fi than Mclusky and a lot less balls-to-the-wall, but still rocking and surprisingly tuneful," the group's album is rumored to be released later this year under the title Soon There Will Be....
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From Saddle Creek:
1. Cursive - The Difference Between Houses and Homes (Lost Songs and Loose Ends 1995-2001)
CD/LP (August 9th, 2005)
2. Broken Spindles - inside/absent
CD/LP (August 23rd, 2005)
3. Criteria - when we break
CD/LP (August 23rd, 2005)
4. Orenda Fink - Invisible Ones
CD (August 23rd, 2005)
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Originally posted by amnesiac:
1. Cursive - The Difference Between Houses and Homes
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Just picked up the Redwalls De Novo, released today, and it is fabulous. Anyone who liked their opening show for the Zutons/Keane will LOVE this cd!
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so Our Lady Peace's new record "Healthy In Paranoid Times" will be out 8/30. I am excited and you all should be too. Try to forget "Gravity" please. Hopefully they wont write another "Somewhere Out There"
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Super Furry Animals will release its seventh album, Love Kraft, Sept. 13 in North America via XL Recordings/Beggars Group. The first single, "Lazer Beam", will be released in the UK on Aug. 8th.
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Out today
The Posies: Every Kind of Light (Rykodisc)
Little Barrie: We Are Little Barrie (Artemis)
Tsar: Band-Girls-Money (TVT)
And
On June 28th, Virgin Records will release Out-Of-State Plates, a specially priced 2-CD collection of FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE non-album tracks and previously unreleased recordings spanning the group's entire career.
Included are two brand new songs, "Maureen" and "The Girl I Can't Forget", as well as the first official release of the group's 1999 version of "..Baby One More Time". The package will also include liner notes written by Chris and Adam.
The band will be playing select dates in support of Out-Of-State Plates, beginning with the May 22 benefit show in Central Park.
tracklisting:
DISC ONE
1 Number 45 Sunblock
2 Maureen
3 California Sex Lawyer
4 Janice's Party
5 Karpet King
6 Baby I've Changed
7 I Know You Well
8 You're Just never Satisfied
9 I'll Do The Driving
10 Nightlight
11 I Want You Around
12 Trains And Boats And Planes
13 Places
14 Can't Get it Out Of My Head (Live)
DISC TWO
1 City Folk Morning
2 The Girl I Can't Forget
3 ...Baby One More Time
4 Elevator Up
5 Comedienne
6 Kid Gloves
7 Today's Teardrops
8 She's Got A Problem (Live)
9 These Days
10 I Want An Alien For Christmas
11 The Man In The Santa Suit
12 Chanukah Under The Stars
13 Killermont Street
14 Half A Woman
15 Small Favors
16 Imperia
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Everything I've read about the new Fountains of Wayne disc is that it's basically and emptying the vaults of all their mediocre stuff album. I think I'll wait until their next album.
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some new discs i am excited for.
Turbonegro - Party Animals (late July)
Snowy White and the White Flames - Way It Is
and has anyone heard of Kid Carpet??
his disc "Ideas and Oh Dears" is out soon and i love what i've heard so far!
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Everything I've read about the new Fountains of Wayne disc is that it's basically and emptying the vaults of all their mediocre stuff album. I think I'll wait until their next album.
well there are some classic b-sides included which are hard to get ahold of like their Christmas songs so i'll be getting it... i'm also interested in a couple of their covers like "Killermont Street"
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Everything I've read about the new Fountains of Wayne disc is that it's basically and emptying the vaults of all their mediocre stuff album. I think I'll wait until their next album.
isnt all thier stuff really the same anyway? havent heard anything new but that "Maureen" song and its exactly what i expected from FOW. i kinda like em.
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I have all of their albums, and I thought Welcome Interstate Managers far exceeded their other albums. Their other albums had 3-4 great songs and a lot of filler. Welcome Interstate Managers was excellent all the way through until the last three songs or so, when it tailed off. I'm expecting an album filled with B-sides and other oddities would feel like an album full of filler to me.
Originally posted by sonickteam4:
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Everything I've read about the new Fountains of Wayne disc is that it's basically and emptying the vaults of all their mediocre stuff album. I think I'll wait until their next album.
isnt all thier stuff really the same anyway? havent heard anything new but that "Maureen" song and its exactly what i expected from FOW. i kinda like em. [/b]
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Won't be able to make the show tonight, but listening to this one
http://www.matadorrecords.com/laura_cantrell/subway/launcher.html (http://www.matadorrecords.com/laura_cantrell/subway/launcher.html)
and trying to decide if her "major indie" debut is as good as her first two albums.
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Hey all,
The Quarter After are supporting The BJM on the entire North American tour
coming up here. The record doesn't hit the stores until July 12th but you
can actually order it NOW directly from Parasol. It will ship in 2 days.
http://www.parasol.com/catalog/catalog.asp?zoomtitle=72643&thepage=/catalog/cata\ (http://www.parasol.com/catalog/catalog.asp?zoomtitle=72643&thepage=/catalog/cata\)
log.asp
p.s.- BJM's 5-song e.p. "We Are The Radio" will be released July 19th.
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I can't wait for the new Hope Chest, supposedly out sometime this July...but you know how those Indies are. I think this one is going to come through though as their momentum is picking up.
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got an early copy of E.Joseph's "Absinthe Minded" by my favorite charm city singer/songwriters Ed Neenan. Will get a MP3 or two up on my blog this weekend.
my favorite lyric from the record "Something about low flying aircraft, makes me think bad things" - Low Flying Aircraft.
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Starsailor Get Political
British band draws inspiration from Wainwright, Oasis on topical new album
British rockers Starsailor are wrapping up work on their third album, due for release this fall. Written in Wigan, England, and recorded in Los Angeles with producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith), the follow-up to 2004's Silence Is Easy is the young band's first politically charged work.
"Getting married and having a kid was a huge influence on [Silence]," says singer/guitarist James Walsh. "[The new record] is more outward-looking, more influenced by what's going on in the world."
The album's dozen tracks touch on war victims in the Middle East, the true account of a Jewish boy who died mysteriously after crossing paths with a neo-Nazi organization, and the ongoing Protestant-Catholic conflict in Walsh's adopted home of Belfast, Northern Ireland. This last clash comes to life on the lyrical song "Get Out While You Can," which tells of a family member's experience being bullied because of her religious persuasion.
"I'm very aware of the fact that there are people who've been living here a lot longer than me and have a much better grip on the situation," Walsh says. "But there was one [instance] where my sister-in-law came back shaken up because she'd been verbally abused while waiting for a train for being on the 'wrong' side of Christianity. It was just fascinating, coming here and your political stance and religion becoming so important to people."
Sonically, Walsh, keyboardist Barry Westhead, bassist James Stelfox and drummer Ben Byrne sought, are returning to the big choruses and raw emotions of their 2002 debut, Love Is Here. For Walsh, that meant taking inspiration from a host of critically acclaimed contemporaries. "You go into the vocal booth and think that this has got to be as pure and pristine as Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley -- but with the aggression and rock & roll attitude of [Oasis frontman] Liam Gallagher," he says. "Trying to find that balance can be like trying to achieve the impossible, but you've got to go for it."
Having just turned twenty-five, Walsh says the new album represents a more mature Starsailor, no longer burdened by being labeled the "next big thing" in the U.K. press four years ago. "It's really bizarre to be so well-established [in Britain]," he says. "At times you feel that you're not allowed to progress, but now we feel confident that we're up there with the best of them."
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Death Cab for Cutie's new release, Plans, hits stores on August 30th.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I have all of their albums, and I thought Welcome Interstate Managers far exceeded their other albums. Their other albums had 3-4 great songs and a lot of filler. Welcome Interstate Managers was excellent all the way through until the last three songs or so, when it tailed off. I'm expecting an album filled with B-sides and other oddities would feel like an album full of filler to me.
Holy Moly, I agree with every single thing you said. Actually, I thought their first album had 5 or 6 great songs, and their second only a couple...
I'd be happy for a new album, but though I know there are some cool rare finds on the B-sides album, I don't need as I think much would be just okay.
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As promised I've added some MP3s from the E.Joseph release on my blog, check 'em out if you are so inclinded.
www.micropop.net (http://www.micropop.net)
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July 12, 2005
Solid PR Presents (Volume 1): A Benefit For The Multiple Sclerosis Society:
Disc 1
1. The Unicorns - "I Was Born A Unicorn"
2. Jesu - "Tired Of Me"
3. Hella - "Song from Uncle"
4. Man Man - "10lb. Moustache"
5. An Albatross - "Lets Get on With it"
6. Vanishing - "Cuckoo Spit"
7. Year Future - "Nature Unveiled"
8. Upsilon Acrux - "Ballet Instructor/Dracula (Slow Version)" *
9. The Great Redneck Hope - "Pssst! Hey, the Lord is awesome, pass it on"
10. S - "Falling"
11. The A-sides - "Everybody Knows the Way"
12. The Broadway Project - "I believe in Superman"
13. The Post Office Gals - "Right Click My Heart, Save as Broken"
14. Angel of the Odd - "The Loved Ones"
15. Paper Lions - "Line Up"
16. Lewis & Clarke - "Dead and Gone"
17. Scouts Honor - "Nowhere is Always Somewhere" *
Disc 2
1. Crystal Skulls - "No room for change"
2. I Am The World Trade Center - "Shoot You Down (minority report remix)"
3. Discordance Axis - "Sega bass fishing"
4. Mixel Pixel - "At The Arcade"
5. Mommy and Daddy - "Street Cleaner Demeanor"
6. Subtitle - "Subtalk"
7. Ponies in the Surf - "Little Boy Lost" *
8. Aqui - "Eye of The Battle"
9. Oxbow - "The stick(live)"
10. Shortstack - "El Saboteur" *
11. The Static Age - "Vertigo"
12. Rockethouse - "Lock 'N Load"
13. My Epiphany - "Body Talk"
14. Thunderball Fist - "G-G-Gotta G-G-Get" *
15. Flashlight Arcade - "Dead to The World"
16. All Parallels - "Work"
17. The Braves - "Noble of Me" *
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The Lovemakers (http://www.thelovemakers.com) new album "Times of Romance" will be released August 23 on Cherrytree / Interscope.
Have a very 80's/synth-pop sound and are getting compared to New Order and Berlin.
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New Boards of Canada in October.
Warp Records (http://www.warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=969)
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Originally posted by slappy:
New Boards of Canada in October.
Warp Records (http://www.warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=969)
yay
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Guided By Voices : Suitcase II ?? American Superdream
Wow
The second set in the unearthing of recordings from
Robert Pollard??s Suitcase project. #37 in the Fading
Captain Series. Like the previous Suitcase, each song
here (100 of them) has been credited to a different
band name, depending on the players involved. The
recordings featured here date all the way back to the
late 70's and are as current as Spring 2005. Demos,
full band, live in the studio, discarded finished
tracks, sketches of ideas...they are all here. The 4
CD set will ship first week of October and will be in
stores October 31st. They are very special deals for
people ordering through LUNA. The first 900 copies of
the box set will be hand signed by Bob.
For more details and pre-ordering through Luna Music:
http://robertpollard.net/luna.html (http://robertpollard.net/luna.html)
Tracklisting to come!!
And as with the previous Suitcase, there is also
another Briefcase release!!
#38 in the Fading Captain Series ?? Briefcase 2 ?? The
Return of Milko Waif; a vinyl only ??best of? Suitcase
release. This time Briefcase features TWO tracks that
have never been released and are not on Suitcase.
Track Listing
SIDE ONE 1. HEADACHE REVOLUTION 2. I AM DECIDED 3.
MANNEQUIN??S COMPLAINT 4. YOUR CHARMING PROPOSAL 5.
SUPERSONIC LOVE FUNKY LOVE GUN 6. SINISTER INFRARED
HALO 7. PERCH WARBLE 8. WHAT ABOUT THE ROCK?
SIDE TWO 1. LION W/ THORN IN PAW ** 2. INVISIBLE TRAIN
TO EARTH 3. YOU??RE NOT THE QUEEN ANYMORE 4. METRO XVI
5. DAUGHTER OF THE GOLD RUSH 6. SORDID FORST 7. LONELY
TOWN 8. MY DREAM MAKING MACHINE 9. SUPERWHORE ** 10.
BYE BYE SONG
** Exclusive to the vinyl release
For more details and pre-ordering through Luna Music:
http://robertpollard.net/luna.html (http://robertpollard.net/luna.html)
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Originally posted by SPARX:
Guided By Voices : Suitcase II ?? American Superdream
Wow
saw this, should be good, there were some great tracks on the last suitcase, I cant believe there have been 7 releases since the band broke up now
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Originally posted by general grievous:
Originally posted by SPARX:
Guided By Voices : Suitcase II ?? American Superdream
Wow
saw this, should be good, there were some great tracks on the last suitcase, I cant believe there have been 7 releases since the band broke up now [/b]
Yep, I don't see him running out of tunes for a long long time.
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Originally posted by ggw?:
July 12, 2005
Solid PR Presents (Volume 1): A Benefit For The Multiple Sclerosis Society:
Disc 1
1. The Unicorns - "I Was Born A Unicorn"
2. Jesu - "Tired Of Me"
3. Hella - "Song from Uncle"
4. Man Man - "10lb. Moustache"
5. An Albatross - "Lets Get on With it"
6. Vanishing - "Cuckoo Spit"
7. Year Future - "Nature Unveiled"
8. Upsilon Acrux - "Ballet Instructor/Dracula (Slow Version)" *
9. The Great Redneck Hope - "Pssst! Hey, the Lord is awesome, pass it on"
10. S - "Falling"
11. The A-sides - "Everybody Knows the Way"
12. The Broadway Project - "I believe in Superman"
13. The Post Office Gals - "Right Click My Heart, Save as Broken"
14. Angel of the Odd - "The Loved Ones"
15. Paper Lions - "Line Up"
16. Lewis & Clarke - "Dead and Gone"
17. Scouts Honor - "Nowhere is Always Somewhere" *
Disc 2
1. Crystal Skulls - "No room for change"
2. I Am The World Trade Center - "Shoot You Down (minority report remix)"
3. Discordance Axis - "Sega bass fishing"
4. Mixel Pixel - "At The Arcade"
5. Mommy and Daddy - "Street Cleaner Demeanor"
6. Subtitle - "Subtalk"
7. Ponies in the Surf - "Little Boy Lost" *
8. Aqui - "Eye of The Battle"
9. Oxbow - "The stick(live)"
10. Shortstack - "El Saboteur" *
11. The Static Age - "Vertigo"
12. Rockethouse - "Lock 'N Load"
13. My Epiphany - "Body Talk"
14. Thunderball Fist - "G-G-Gotta G-G-Get" *
15. Flashlight Arcade - "Dead to The World"
16. All Parallels - "Work"
17. The Braves - "Noble of Me" *
cant believe i missed this... Angel of the Odd finally gets some recognition. a pity they broke up not long ago.
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Oranges Band. "The World And Everything In It," is up to a 76 metascore on metacritic. That's damn good.
From Urb: "Somewhere between the Plimsouls and The La's, this should keep your top down throughout the summer. [Jul/Aug 2005, p.109]"
Anyone heard it?
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Oranges Band. "The World And Everything In It," is up to a 76 metascore on metacritic. That's damn good.
From Urb: "Somewhere between the Plimsouls and The La's, this should keep your top down throughout the summer. [Jul/Aug 2005, p.109]"
Anyone heard it?
it's damn good. hell, it's fuckin' great. i can't recommend it highly enough. they've long been a favorite of mine, but i never thought they'd pull off an album this strong.
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a few months ago I was wondering what happened to the oranged band, will have to get the new album, i am surprised they havent been playing lots of shows around
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Originally posted by El Tee:
Stellastarr* plans a summer release.
Sweet Troubled Soul (http://bmgonline.com/mp3/Sweet_Troubled_Soul.mp3) from the upcoming album.
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From NME (http://www.nme.com/news/113287.htm):
BRIT STARS AIM TO RECORD 'FASTEST ALBUM EVER'
RADIOHEAD, GORILLAZ and RAZORLIGHT are amongst the bands who will contribute to a new album being put together in aid of WAR CHILD.
'Help: A Day in the Life' will mark the 10th anniversary of the ??Help?? album in 1995.
The project aims to compile the best bands of this generation and give them one day to record a new piece of music, which War Child will make available on www.warchildmusic.com (http://www.warchildmusic.com) on September 9. A CD release will follow a few weeks later.
Other bands already confirmed include The Zutons, Manic Street Preachers, Bloc Party, Hard-Fi, The Coral, Elbow and Maximo Park.
War Child boss Mark Waddington said: ??As a music fan, I know what the original ??Help?? album meant and as the present CEO of War Child I know what it achieved. It was my intention that any new album we made in 2005 should match up to the feats of the past. That??s why we have set ourselves the challenge of remaking history and releasing the fastest album ever? again! It??s a tall order but we feel with the support of amazing artists we can make it happen and help a new generation of children affected by war.?
War Child was launched in 1993 as a response to the affect of the Balkans conflict on children. In 1995, 20 of the UK??s bands and artists went into studios across Europe to each produce a track for ??Help??, the fastest-ever number one album in British music history.
For more on this story, see this week??s NME, which is out today in London (August 9), and nationwide tomorrow.
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Finally!!!!!
The Detroit Cobras - Baby
(Release Date: September 27, 2005)
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/detroitcobras/182 (http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/detroitcobras/182)
THE DETROIT COBRAS?? Baby throws down a groove so river deep you??ll need thigh high leather boots to get through it and so mountain high you??ll need a half pint of the good stuff to get over it. Possessing a vocal vixen at the midpoint between the nasty-girl romance of Ronnie Spector and the "don??t EVEN mess with me" growl of Tina Turner, the Detroit Cobras know how to uphold their rep as THE top shelf rock & soul band -- a thrashy, sexy powerhouse that can raise the rafters, coo and purr you into a trance, bring the Hully Gully into the 21st century soaked with sweat, and do justice to the legacies of both Motown and Detroit Rock City.
Baby is the Cobras?? third full length CD and first US release in four years. Produced in part by Greg Cartwright (of the Reigning Sound, who will also be a touring member of the band), Babygives props to the lost stars and misfits of soul??s hey day. Songs by Hank Ballard, Bobby Womack, and Spooner Oldham, among others, are roughed up with wrenches -- customized, chopped down, serial numbers filed off, and given chrome plating and new paint jobs. It??s like discovering your missing old bike has been re-built and used in a bank heist; it gives you a thrill and even makes you kind of proud.
For the US release of Baby, Bloodshot Records is including the "Seven Easy Pieces" EP (originally released in 2003 on Rough Trade and previously available only as an import) and the US debut of the video for "Cha Cha Twist."
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What's going to happen when this cover band runs out of songs to cover?
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Finally!!!!!
The Detroit Cobras - Baby
(Release Date: September 27, 2005)
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/detroitcobras/182 (http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/detroitcobras/182)
THE DETROIT COBRAS?? Baby throws down a groove so river deep you??ll need thigh high leather boots to get through it and so mountain high you??ll need a half pint of the good stuff to get over it. Possessing a vocal vixen at the midpoint between the nasty-girl romance of Ronnie Spector and the "don??t EVEN mess with me" growl of Tina Turner, the Detroit Cobras know how to uphold their rep as THE top shelf rock & soul band -- a thrashy, sexy powerhouse that can raise the rafters, coo and purr you into a trance, bring the Hully Gully into the 21st century soaked with sweat, and do justice to the legacies of both Motown and Detroit Rock City.
Baby is the Cobras?? third full length CD and first US release in four years. Produced in part by Greg Cartwright (of the Reigning Sound, who will also be a touring member of the band), Babygives props to the lost stars and misfits of soul??s hey day. Songs by Hank Ballard, Bobby Womack, and Spooner Oldham, among others, are roughed up with wrenches -- customized, chopped down, serial numbers filed off, and given chrome plating and new paint jobs. It??s like discovering your missing old bike has been re-built and used in a bank heist; it gives you a thrill and even makes you kind of proud.
For the US release of Baby, Bloodshot Records is including the "Seven Easy Pieces" EP (originally released in 2003 on Rough Trade and previously available only as an import) and the US debut of the video for "Cha Cha Twist."
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New Broken Social Scene: More Horns, More Canadians
By Charley Rogulewski, N.Y.
Expect more horns and more Canadians on Broken Social Scene's highly anticipated new album, which was originally dubbed "Windsurfing Nation" but will now be a self-titled affair. The set is due Oct. 4 via the group's own Toronto-based label Arts & Crafts.
It's the follow-up to 2002's breakthrough "You Forgot It in People," which has sold more than 77,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The set also won a Juno Award for best alternative album.
Despite Broken Social Scene's success, no one is quite sure just how many people make up the group. Fellow Arts & Crafts labelmates like Apostle Of Hustle's Andrew Whitemen, Stars members Amy Milan and Evan Cranley and songstress Leslie Feist are revolving members. The new self-titled effort also features rapper K-OS, the Weakerthans' Jason Tate and the Dears' Murray Lightburn.
"Everyone makes a little brief cameo on the album," group member Brendan Canning tells Billboard.com. "It's like an Alfred Hitchcock film where he'd be in a scene and then he'd be gone, but you could always count on him appearing in his own film. Just because some people aren't represented on the record doesn't mean they're not part of the live show, or vice-versa,"
To record the new album, Broken Social Scene went back to Stars and Sons studio (which inspired the name of a song on the last record) under the production of Dave Newfield, who also plays with the band.
"The palette of sound is pretty big," Newfield says. Adds Canning, "There's a tiny bit more accordion, autoharp and banjo. Loads of horns. [There's] a saw that makes a half-second appearance."
The success of "You Forgot It in People" caused a lot of indecision on the follow-up, Canning admits. "Parts kept getting recorded and then stripped away and then filled again and torn down again and built up again. It was a constant process of deconstruction ultimately."
Meanwhile, the band is already a third of the way through another album slated for a spring release. "We are not going to over-think it too much," says Canning about the work-in-progress. "It's not going to be as great of a deconstruction process. The songs are bit more laid-back."
No tour plans have been announced in support of the new effort; Broken Social Scene hasn't managed a full U.S. tour since 2003.
"We didn't play more than 20 dates in America last year because we were still trying to finish a record," says Canning. The band is still debating between a full-scale tour in October and November or just three live dates in Toronto, Montreal and New York.
Here is the track list for "Broken Social Scene":
"Our Faces Split the Coast in Half"
"Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Half)"
"7/4 (Shoreline)"
"Finish Your Collapse and Stay for Breakfast"
"Major Label Debut"
"Fire Eye'd Boy"
"Windsurfing Nation"
"Swimmers"
"Hotel"
"Handjobs for the Holidays"
"Superconnected"
"Bandwitch"
"Tremoloa Debut"
"It's All Gonna Break"
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
What's going to happen when this cover band runs out of songs to cover?
Repeat after me....
I don't wanna be a pinhead no more I just met a nurse that I could go for
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speaking of the Ramones... if you pre-order the new boxset before aug 12th - "As a special offer, available only by pre-ordering through the Ramones Official Store, every order will come with a FREE white tee-shirt featuring the cover art from Weird Tales of the Ramones.
http://stores.musictoday.com/store/dept.asp?dept%5Fid=842&band%5Fid=366&sfid=2 (http://stores.musictoday.com/store/dept.asp?dept%5Fid=842&band%5Fid=366&sfid=2)
<img src="http://stores.musictoday.com/store/bands/366/product_medium/R701COMBO.JPG" alt=" - " />
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new nada surf track
http://music.blaireau.net/NadaSurf_DoItAgain.mp3 (http://music.blaireau.net/NadaSurf_DoItAgain.mp3)
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anyone heard the new Paul Weller single which apparently harkens back to urgency of "In The City"?
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You don't have permission to access /NadaSurf_DoItAgain.mp3 on this server.
However, it's been on the Barsuk website for awhile.
Originally posted by general grievous:
new nada surf track
http://music.blaireau.net/NadaSurf_DoItAgain.mp3 (http://music.blaireau.net/NadaSurf_DoItAgain.mp3)
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
You don't have permission to access /NadaSurf_DoItAgain.mp3 on this server.
However, it's been on the Barsuk website for awhile.
that is the link that barsuk have on their website, you may have to have come from their website to get it
http://www.barsuk.com/web.cgi?bark046 (http://www.barsuk.com/web.cgi?bark046)
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is it from his new covers album?
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
anyone heard the new Paul Weller single which apparently harkens back to urgency of "In The City"?
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http://www.summerskiss.com/ (http://www.summerskiss.com/)
"Amber Headlights" Pre-order & More!
The new Twilight Singers website has launched [thetwilightsingers.com]. At the site you can pre-order "Greg Dulli's Amber Headlights" and order the "Twilight-Live" DVD direct from the source.
The site also includes the upcoming tour dates for Dulli and Afterhours in Italy as well as Dulli's reflections on "Amber Headlights". Another addition is the "Access" section, which allows you to submit questions to GD for possible inclusion on the site.
As an added incentive to pre-order the album, the first 400 copies will come with an autographed CD booklet and one person will win a Dulli-autographed black Fender Telecaster.
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no he has a new record coming out in October and you can stream the video for the single on yeproc.com.... it's good reminds a bit of the Detroit Cobras, bouncy beat with an edge to the vocals and guitar.
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ooooh, me likey!
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
no he has a new record coming out in October and you can stream the video for the single on yeproc.com.... it's good reminds a bit of the Detroit Cobras, bouncy beat with an edge to the vocals and guitar.
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The Standard release a new album in Oct 'Albatross' on Yep Roc
I thought their last one was promising, with a few great songs
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2005 (I think)
With Teeth-NIN
Muse-Absolution
Beck-Guero
Local H-Whatever Happened to PJ Soles
White Stripes-Get Behind me Satan
LCD Soundsystem
Honorable mentions
Garbage-Bleed Like Me
terrible list sorry!
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Yeah i hope the whole record has this spirit, there is a better sounding stream on paulweller.com
Originally posted by brennser:
ooooh, me likey!
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
no he has a new record coming out in October and you can stream the video for the single on yeproc.com.... it's good reminds a bit of the Detroit Cobras, bouncy beat with an edge to the vocals and guitar.
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Muse's 2nd album Origin of Symmetry will finally get a U.S. release on Sept 20th.
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new Depeche Mode album in Oct
The band's first album since 2001's Exciter will hit American shelves on October 18, with "Precious", the lead single, landing in stores two weeks prior, on October 4.
The tracklist:
01 A Pain That I'm Used To
02 John the Revelator
03 Suffer Well
04 The Sinner in Me
05 Precious
06 Macrovision
07 I Want it All
08 Nothing's Impossible
09 Instrospectre
10 Damaged People
11 Lillian
12 The Darkest Star
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Originally posted by brennser:
new Depeche Mode album in Oct
The band's first album since 2001's Exciter will hit American shelves on October 18, with "Precious", the lead single, landing in stores two weeks prior, on October 4.
Precious is a really good song. It sounds a lot more like their early 80s synth-dance stuff, rather than their attempts in the 90s to be all guitary and bad-ass. Seriously, it sounds like it could be on Some Great Reward.
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Starsailor details:
New Album and Single Details.
The new Starsailor album is called 'On The Outside.' It is scheduled to be released on October 17th. It will be proceeded by the single, 'In The Crossfire' on October 3rd.
The full album tracklisting is:
1. In The Crossfire
2. Counterfeit Life
3. In My Blood
4. Faith Hope Love
5. I Don't Know
6. Way Back Home
7. Keep Us Together
8. Get Out While You Can
9. This Time
10. White Light
11. Jeremiah
The album was recorded and mixed in LA during April and May this year. It has been produced by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Vines, Elliot Smith)
Steve Lamacq will be playing 'In The Crossfire' on his Radio 1 show on Monday 22nd.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
per torr.org, new Idlewild comes out in the US on August 16th...
per torr.org, U.S. release has been pushed back to September 6th.
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I've never understood the appeal of seeing track lists of news songs from an album you haven't heard yet. Is there something telling or excitement-provoking in the titles alone?
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this bothers you so much you asked the same question on page 3 (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=008771;p=3) of this thread :p
and smackie answered for all of us
Originally posted by Bags:
I've never understood the appeal of seeing track lists of news songs from an album you haven't heard yet. Is there something telling or excitement-provoking in the titles alone?
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Here's one for BigYawn to pan
Alive & Wired
Old 97's
DISC 1:
1. Melt Snow
2. New Kid
3. Barrier Reef
4. W.Tx Teardrops
5. Lonely Holiday
6. Villain, The
7. King Of All Of The World
8. Salome
9. Rollerskate Skinny
10. Other Shoe, The
11. Coahuila
12. Iron Road
13. WishThe Worst
14. Wont Be Home
15. Doreen
DISC 2:
1. Jagged
2. Designs On You
3. Curtain Calls
4. Mama Tried
5. If My Heart Was A Car
6. 4 Leaf Clover
7. Stoned
8. Oppenheimer
9. Can't Get A Line
10. Cryin' Drunk
11. Big Brown Eyes
12. Murder Or A Heart Attack
13. Smokers
14. Friends Forever
15. Niteclub
16. Time Bomb
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Here's one for BigYawn to pan
What do you think of Sufjan Stevens' latest, if I might ask.
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http://www.plexifilm.com/gbv.high.html (http://www.plexifilm.com/gbv.high.html)
trailer for the Electrifying Conclusion DVD
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Here's one for BigYawn to pan
What do you think of Sufjan Stevens' latest, if I might ask. [/b]
your review is quite provocative
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I honestly haven't heard the album in it's entirety. I have listened to a handful (maybe 5 or 6) of individual songs from archives on KEXP, and not a single one of them did much for me. Not terrible, but nothing special. Why do you ax?
The same goes for Andrew Bird's new critically lauded album, which we do have a copy of. Thouugh I'm a big fan of a couple of his earlier albums, the new one hasn't really hit me in the gut yet.
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Here's one for BigYawn to pan
What do you think of Sufjan Stevens' latest, if I might ask. [/b]
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Albums I've luved this year:
The new records by:
Youth Group
New Pornographers
Broken Social Scene
the Editors
Stars
Death Cab for Cutie
Colplay
Elbow
Sigur Ros
The Engineers
Oasis
Gorillaz
wow that was quick...what a great year for music now that I think about it..
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
I honestly haven't heard the album in it's entirety. I have listened to a handful (maybe 5 or 6) of individual songs from archives on KEXP, and not a single one of them did much for me. Not terrible, but nothing special. Why do you ax?
Loathe as I am to admit it, I occasionally like the counter-culture voice you provide. I still hate you though.
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Can anybody guess the two albums out of that list that I actually give the thumbs up to (I've heard at least a little bit of nearly all of them)? Sorry, no prizes involved. Maybe I could bring the winner back a rock or a chunk of dirt from Seattle.
Originally posted by Fico:
Albums I've luved this year:
The new records by:
Youth Group
New Pornographers
Broken Social Scene
the Editors
Stars
Death Cab for Cutie
Colplay
Elbow
Sigur Ros
The Engineers
Oasis
Gorillaz
wow that was quick...what a great year for music now that I think about it..
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Can anybody guess the two albums out of that list that I actually give the thumbs up to (I've heard at least a little bit of nearly all of them)? Sorry, no prizes involved. Maybe I could bring the winner back a rock or a chunk of dirt from Seattle.
Gorillaz and the Editors?
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Nope. Neither is from the US nor the UK.
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Can anybody guess the two albums out of that list that I actually give the thumbs up to (I've heard at least a little bit of nearly all of them)? Sorry, no prizes involved. Maybe I could bring the winner back a rock or a chunk of dirt from Seattle.
Gorillaz and the Editors? [/b]
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stars and sigur ros?
i kinda feel the same as rhett on the stevens album. just can't get into it
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Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
stars and sigur ros?
I don't think he likes Stars. I remember him saying the girl was ugly and then the whole "I saw Stars so BSS sucks live" thing.
The thought of Rhett listening to Sigur Ros blows my world. Blows!
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Death cab and stars
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You don't know how many times my wife has made those very same statements.
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
[/qb]
Loathe as I am to admit it, I occasionally like the counter-culture voice you provide. I still hate you though. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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Death Cab is American, the two i like are not.
Originally posted by general grievous:
Death cab and stars
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
You don't know how many times my wife has made those very same statements.
Your wife hates you? Yeah, I can sort of see that.
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Only when I fail to kill spiders in our guest bedroom.
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
You don't know how many times my wife has made those very same statements.
Your wife hates you? Yeah, I can sort of see that. [/b]
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Stars is one of them. The girl is ugly, but she's a good singer. What I've heard of the second album didn't blow me away as much as the first, but has convinced me that I will pick up a used copy when I come across one.
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
stars and sigur ros?
I don't think he likes Stars. I remember him saying the girl was ugly and then the whole "I saw Stars so BSS sucks live" thing.
The thought of Rhett listening to Sigur Ros blows my world. Blows! [/b]
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Stars is one of them. The girl is ugly, but she's a good singer. What I've heard of the second album didn't blow me away as much as the first, but has convinced me that I will pick up a used copy when I come across one.
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
stars and sigur ros?
I don't think he likes Stars. I remember him saying the girl was ugly and then the whole "I saw Stars so BSS sucks live" thing.
The thought of Rhett listening to Sigur Ros blows my world. Blows! [/b]
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I believe the current album is the third album they've released.
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Can anybody guess the two albums out of that list that I actually give the thumbs up to (I've heard at least a little bit of nearly all of them)? Sorry, no prizes involved. Maybe I could bring the winner back a rock or a chunk of dirt from Seattle.
Youth Group?
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You are correct. Had thoughts of buying their first but never did.
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Stars is one of them. The girl is ugly, but she's a good singer. What I've heard of the second album didn't blow me away as much as the first, but has convinced me that I will pick up a used copy when I come across one.
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
stars and sigur ros?
I don't think he likes Stars. I remember him saying the girl was ugly and then the whole "I saw Stars so BSS sucks live" thing.
The thought of Rhett listening to Sigur Ros blows my world. Blows! [/b]
[/b]
I believe the current album is the third album they've released. [/b]
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You and god's shoeshine will be sharing a genuine Seattle rock. What I've heard I have liked from that band. Not sure why, just have.
Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Can anybody guess the two albums out of that list that I actually give the thumbs up to (I've heard at least a little bit of nearly all of them)? Sorry, no prizes involved. Maybe I could bring the winner back a rock or a chunk of dirt from Seattle.
Youth Group? [/b]
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
You and god's shoeshine will be sharing a genuine Seattle rock. What I've heard I have liked from that band. Not sure why, just have.
Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Can anybody guess the two albums out of that list that I actually give the thumbs up to (I've heard at least a little bit of nearly all of them)? Sorry, no prizes involved. Maybe I could bring the winner back a rock or a chunk of dirt from Seattle.
Youth Group? [/b]
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You made it too easy by ruling out the US and UK. Youth Group is pleasant rock. Skeleton Jar is pretty catchy. I do wonder if the album is too much of the same sound? Fico, do all the songs sound like the three on the web site? Here's a link (http://www.youthgroup.com.au/) if anyone else wants to weigh in.
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One album that I am really looking forward to is the new Nada Surf on 9/20. Though I'm prepared to be disappointed in comparison to their last album.
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Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
You and god's shoeshine will be sharing a genuine Seattle rock. What I've heard I have liked from that band. Not sure why, just have.
Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Can anybody guess the two albums out of that list that I actually give the thumbs up to (I've heard at least a little bit of nearly all of them)? Sorry, no prizes involved. Maybe I could bring the winner back a rock or a chunk of dirt from Seattle.
Youth Group? [/b]
[/b]
You made it too easy by ruling out the US and UK. Youth Group is pleasant rock. Skeleton Jar is pretty catchy. I do wonder if the album is too much of the same sound? Fico, do all the songs sound like the three on the web site? Here's a link (http://www.youthgroup.com.au/) if anyone else wants to weigh in. [/b]
I didn't check the link but I think the album is solid as a whole and quite pleasant...the singer reminds me a lot of Tim Booth from James...catchy pop songs well played, I believe the bassist from the Vines plays with them..there's a session from them at www.kexp.org (http://www.kexp.org)
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
One album that I am really looking forward to is the new Nada Surf on 9/20. Though I'm prepared to be disappointed in comparison to their last album.
http://www.barsuk.com/nadasurf/ecard/ (http://www.barsuk.com/nadasurf/ecard/)
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New Kate Bush double album "Aerial" out in the UK in November
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
New Kate Bush double album "Aerial" out in the UK in November
New material? I know I could look it up, but when was her last album of original material?
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Originally posted by Bags:
[New material? I know I could look it up, but when was her last album of original material?
Yes, new material. The Red Shoes in 1993 was her last album.
Since I know you love pre-release song titles too, the first single "King Of The Mountain" precedes the album on October 24th. And the US release is Nov. 8.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Yes, new material....the first single "King Of The Mountain" precedes the album on October 24th.
But King of the Mountain is Midnight Oil!?!?!? That's not new! :p
Thanks for the info. I wasn't a big Red Shoes fan, but Hounds of Love is one of the best albums of all time, in my book.
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Anybody check out the new Our Lady Peace? It's not quite their old stuff, but seems to beat the hell out of Gravity.
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Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities (an album of Modest Mouse covers, due November 1, 2005 on Caldo Verde Records US, and Rough Trade UK)
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Originally posted by p011@rd:
Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities (an album of Modest Mouse covers, due November 1, 2005 on Caldo Verde Records US, and Rough Trade UK)
Very excited about this, but I would also like to hear some new original material from him.
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Originally posted by p011@rd:
Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities (an album of Modest Mouse covers, due November 1, 2005 on Caldo Verde Records US, and Rough Trade UK)
bizarre ... i'll get anything he puts out though
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Originally posted by p011@rd:
Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities (an album of Modest Mouse covers, due November 1, 2005 on Caldo Verde Records US, and Rough Trade UK)
Tracklisting for Tiny Cities :
1. Exit Does Not Exist
2. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
3. Neverending Math Equation
4. Space Travel Is Boring
5. Dramamine
6. Jesus Christ Was an Only Child
7. Four Fingered Fisherman
8. Grey Ice Water
9. Convenient Parking
10. Trucker's Atlas
11. Ocean Breathes Salty
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Bloodshot to Issue 2xCD Anniversary Set
Chicago-based Bloodshot Records is preparing a colossal celebration for the label's 11th year anniversary. With a massive 2xCD compilation entitled For A Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records, the label will hammer out a staggering 42 new and previously unreleased tracks, including cuts from My Morning Jacket, Crooked Fingers, Hank Williams III, and Old 97's.
Bloodshot will release the album October 25 along with an extensive 24-page booklet. Full tracklisting for A Decade of Sin:
>> Disc One
01 Scott H. Biram: "Blood Sweat & Murder"
02 Sixteen Horsepower: "De-Railed"
03 Paul Burch & Ralph Stanley: "Glass of Wine"
04 Cordero: "Close Your House Down"
05 Bobby Bare Jr.: "Ocean Sized"
06 My Morning Jacket: "Behind That Locked Door"
07 Matt Mays & El Torpedo: "The Plan"
08 The Meat Purveyors: "Little White Pills"
09 The Bottle Rockets: "A Living Hell"
10 Richard Buckner: "Do You Want To Go Somewhere?"
11 Carla Bozulich: "Lonesome Roads"
12 Minus 5: "Sputnik 57"
13 Nine Pound Hammer: "I'm Yer Huckleberry"
14 Graham Lindsey: "No Way Out But Down"
15 Sally Timms: "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
16 Graham Parker & The Figgs: "Harridan of Yore"
17 Deadstring Brothers: "Where Are All Of My Friends?"
18 Kelly Hogan & The Wooden Leg: "Chicken Road"
19 Andre Williams & The Sadies: "Shake A Tail Feather"
20 99 Tales: "Tearin' My Hair Out"
21 The Yayhoos: "Love Train"
>> Disc Two
01 Nora O'Connor: "Two Way Action"
02 Crooked Fingers: "Ship to Spain"
03 Old 97s: "I'd Be Lonesome"
04 Split Lip Rayfield: "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?"
05 Dollar Store: "I Want to Destroy You"
06 Mary Lou Lord: "Cold Company"
07 Milton Mapes: "Now I Know"
08 Jon Rauhouse: "Magnificent Seven"
09 John Doe w/ Jim and Jennie and The Pinetops: "Call of the Wreckin' Ball"
10 Devil in a Woodpile: "Got Just What I Want"
11 Puerto Muerto: "Josephine"
12 Wayne Hancock & Hank III: "Juke Joint Jumping"
13 Blanche: "Red Head"
14 The Handsome Family: "The Lost Soul"
15 Catfish Haven: "Tell Me"
16 Porter Hall TN: "People Who Died"
17 The Court and Spark: "Berliners"
18 Rex Hobart and The Misery Boys: "How Long (Have You Been Gone)?"
19 Petty Booka w/ The Meat Purveyors: "How Can I Be So Thirsty Today?"
20 The Starkweathers: "Burn the Flag"
21 Waco Brothers: "I Fought the Law"
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Manland To Release Rarities And B-Sides
Indie stalwarts Manland have plundered their vault for a collection of previously unavailable tracks and B-sides, tentatively titled "Revolt(ed)"
Tracklist:
1. Manbags
2. Hairless Nads
3. Victim Complex
4. Kobe Bryant Rape Chain
5. (Don't Eat The) Bad Sushi
6. Anal Fisting
7. Psychobitchcandy
8. Lesbian Love Machine
9. Blowjobs In The Wind
10. Feminazi Fury
11. Maybe It's Time To Forgive Your Parents
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hidden track - Backbar Party Action
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LOLOLOLOL
I LOVE it!!!!
Good one, GGW! ;)
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Harvey Danger -- Little by Little
Available as a free download from the band's website (http://www.harveydanger.com/downloads/)
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good stuff...really....I saw them open for robyn hitchcock in seattle (they played under an assumed name) and it was like...wow, lol
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Was that around the time of Bumbershoot? Bumbershoot acts aren't allowed to play other Seattle venues for a certain amount of time before or after the festival.
Originally posted by stu47:
good stuff...really....I saw them open for robyn hitchcock in seattle (they played under an assumed name) and it was like...wow, lol
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it was the friday of.....they played under the name of the fell swoopes to get around it
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Definitely a top ten reissue... Interesting to hear the orginial John Cale mixes which were deemed to "arty" at the time. Personally, I thought his mixes were more raw then ones eventually released, the guitar sound is much sharper on his.
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??The songs on The Believer are about sex, war, love and death . . . but mostly sex,? Rhett Miller says of The Believer, his second solo album and his Verve Forecast debut. ??Before going into the studio, I thought I??d be making a punk rock Ziggy Stardust, but I wound up with George Gershwin does T. Rex's The Slider.?
Already widely loved for his work as frontman and main songwriter of the hard-charging rock ??n?? roll quartet the Old 97??s (of which he is still a member), Miller revealed a more introspective side with his acclaimed 2002 solo debut The Instigator. The Believer takes its predecessor??s achievements several steps further, with a dozen deeply-felt, craftily melodic tunes that demonstrate the Texas-bred artist??s knack for using accessible songcraft to address complex emotional issues.
The Believer ranges from the puckish rock punch of ??My Valentine? and ??Ain't That Strange? to the expansive art-pop textures of ??Brand New Way? and ??Meteor Shower.? ??Help Me Suzanne,? ??I'm with Her" and "Fireflies? ?? the latter a duet with Rachael Yamagata ?? demonstrate Miller??s ability to write poignant, pointed love songs whose depth and insight are matched by their tunefulness. The spare, thoughtful ??Question? finds Miller revisiting an Old 97's favorite from an older-and-wiser perspective. The album??s one cover is a buoyant, barbed reading of ??I Believe She's Lying,? written by frequent Miller collaborator Jon Brion.
The Believer??s quietly powerful title track was inspired by Miller's acquaintance with the late alt-rock troubadour Elliott Smith. ??I wrote it in New York City the day he died,? he explains. ??It really hit home for me. I met him and spent some time with him during his last years. My first date with my wife was seeing Elliott play at the Royal Albert Hall, and his drummer Scott McPherson ended up playing with me on the tour for The Instigator. I had a pretty serious suicide attempt when I was 14 years old, and I've always wrestled with that impulse, as do a lot of people in my line of work. I don't know if the song is all about Elliott; maybe it's about me at 14, I'm not exactly sure. But the song's kind of saying thanks for doing the good work you did, and I understand that you were doing your best.?
Miller recorded The Believer with renowned producer George Drakoulias (Black Crowes, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) and a distinguished musical cast including guitarists Lyle Workman and Josh Schwartz, bassist Salim Nourallah, drummer Matt Chamberlain and keyboardists Patrick Warren and Jon Brion, whose collective resumé encompasses work with the likes of Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Frank Black, Macy Gray, Robyn Hitchcock, Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Todd Rundgren and Elliott Smith. Gary Louris of the Jayhawks adds backing vocals.
Jon Brion last worked with Miller as producer and multi-instrumentalist on The Instigator. ??I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience,? Miller observes. ??But in a lot of ways it was a very stiff-upper-lip kind of record. Kind of like ??We love each other, everything's gonna be great.?? For me, The Believer is more confident and more based in reality.
??I thought that with George Drakoulias I'd end up making a straight-up rock record,? the artist continues. But the night before we started pre-production, George came and saw me play a solo gig at Largo, and I did what I normally do, spazzing out, thrashing around and breaking guitar strings. The next day, George told me that his vision for the recording was that I would be Frank Sinatra, that I would be surrounded by the greatest musicians and I could give myself up to that process. It was less a matter of me putting myself into someone's hands and more a matter of me using this system, where I had written these songs, but I was now also interpreting them, like I was Bing Crosby or something.
??With The Believer, it was very much my show. George put me in front of a microphone in a room full of incredibly talented musicians, most of whom were already friends of mine, thank god, so it didn??t feel at all like an L.A. snow-job. I had no guitar to hide behind, and I flourished. I accepted the responsibility, and was able to direct the proceedings in a way that I hadn't before.?
Miller continues to balance his solo endeavors with his membership in the Old 97??s. The still-active quartet has released seven albums since 1994 (the latest being the live set Alive and Wired) and are prominently featured in the soon-to-be-released Jennifer Aniston/Vince Vaughn romantic comedy The Breakup.
??I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's,? Miller says of his dual musical careers. ??When I made The Instigator, I was constantly calling the 97??s, sending them mixes, trying to feel out how this was gonna work. But making The Believer, I felt like I didn't have to answer to anybody. Part of that was because I??d proven that I could do both, and part of it was because the guys in the band have been so cool about it. After ten years, we're beyond the bullshit. The other guys all have lives and families, so now we're at a point where we can do the Old 97??s for the rest of our lives, but we don't have to do it every day.?
??I always secretly fantasized about making the perfect record and then faking my own death, but none of my previous albums seemed quite good enough. Now, if I disappear, you should check the beach in Bora Bora,? Miller laughs, ??Because I feel pretty fucking strongly about this one.?
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Neko Case Brings the Flood on New Album
Caroline Bermudez reports:
Sitting in a bar at three AM with other lonely souls. Taking an unfamiliar detour and winding up frighteningly lost. Nursing heartbreak under moonlight-- Neko Case's voice was made for these scenarios. The flame-haired songstress is alt-country's dark heart, the wild woman who has seen too much and will never completely reveal herself to you.
We'll get another crack at her mysteries come March 7, 2006, when Anti- will release Case's fifth solo album, Fox Confessor Brings The Flood. Produced by Case and longtime associate Darryl Neudorf, the album features a number of her previous partners in noir-drenched crime, including fellow chanteuse Kelly Hogan, country-garage rockers the Sadies, Giant Sand's Howe Gelb, and Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino. Rachel Flotard of Seattle pop-punks Visqueen, former Flat Duo Jet Dexter Romweber, and the legendary Garth Hudson of The Band also appear. Maybe they should have just gone ahead and called this album We Are the Alt-Country World.
The album apparently blends 60s pop sheen with Case's trademark lugubrious country sound. Says Case about Fox: "I recorded the album intermittently over the past couple years. With each record, you think you've figured it out, but once you get into the studio, you realize there's always more to learn. But I feel like we managed to get all my ideas to tape." She added, "I feel really good about this album." But really, who is going to admit that they feel bad about their upcoming album?
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You can preview the new Neil Diamond album, produced by Rick Rubin, here:
http://www.myspace.com/neildiamond (http://www.myspace.com/neildiamond)
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neil diamond has a myspace page? how trendy
Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
You can preview the new Neil Diamond album, produced by Rick Rubin, here:
http://www.myspace.com/neildiamond (http://www.myspace.com/neildiamond)
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Jeremy Gluck, Robin Wills, and former Flaming Groovie Chris Wilson are on board for this one.
available domestically via Neat Damn Noise (http://www.ndnrecords.com/), don't think i'll be buying the 10 versions of the vinyl..
http://www.thebarracudas.net/ (http://www.thebarracudas.net/)
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one of the songs on this album is on a magnet magazine sampler - effin brilliant!
must give the full album a listen
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
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Jeremy Gluck, Robin Wills, and former Flaming Groovie Chris Wilson are on board for this one.
available domestically via Neat Damn Noise (http://www.ndnrecords.com/), don't think i'll be buying the 10 versions of the vinyl..
http://www.thebarracudas.net/ (http://www.thebarracudas.net/)
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Definitely a top ten reissue... Interesting to hear the orginial John Cale mixes which were deemed to "arty" at the time. Personally, I thought his mixes were more raw then ones eventually released, the guitar sound is much sharper on his.
Very cool. That album is one of my favorites. I prefer it to Raw Power and Funhouse.
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Raw Power IMO is one of the sickest, most twisted records of all time. I love the first 2 LPs, and I know that purists hate James Williamson, but I still have to stay from start to finish Raw Power (especially for when it came out) lives up to its name. It's easily in my top 10 favorite LPs of all time, no contest. It wipes the floor clean with anything released today, and that record is nearly 34 years old.
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Richard Ashcroft
New single and album announced!
Hi everyone,
Thanks for signing up to the Richard Ashcroft mailing list.
The first single from Richard's new album will be Break The Night With Colour, due for release on 9 January,
taken from the forthcoming album Keys to the World which will be available from 23 January on Parlophone Records
The track listing for the new album is:
1. Why Not Nothing?
2. Music Is Power
3. Break the Night With Colour
4. Words Just Get in the Way
5. Keys to the World
6. Sweet Brother Malcolm
7. Cry Til the Morning
8. Why Do Lovers?
9. Simple Song
10. World Keeps Turning
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It might be time to start the Albums in 2006 thread as I'm not sure where this one will come out... CD release party was scheduled this month but has been cancelled.
Hailing from Baltimore, The Pale Stars consists of musicians from other groups coming together to present their take on Americana. Taking the hard driving beats and melodies often associated with Americana or Alt-Country, the band then adds the reverb and effects heavy guitar sound often heard in 80s shoegazer bands. Nice mixture if ya ask me...
Song samples and other info can be found at
http://www.thepalestars.com (http://www.thepalestars.com)
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Franz Ferdinand live DVD comes out Dec 5 - I guess we didn't squeal loudly enough at the 9.30 club show as we did not make the final cut for inclusion on the DVD....
FRANZ FERDINAND LIVE
1. Michael (Brixton Academy London)
2. Tell Her Tonight (Pianos New York)
3. 40ft (The Regency Grand San Francisco)
4. Take Me Out (T in the Park Scotland)
5. Cheating on You (Rock Wercheter Belgium)
6. Love & Destroy (The Avalon Los Angeles)
7. The Dark Of The Matinee (T in the Park Scotland)
8. Van Tango (The Regency Grand San Francisco)
9. Auf Asche (Brixton Academy London)
10. Come On Home (Barrowlands Glasgow)
11. Darts Of Pleasure (The Regency Grand San Francisco)
12. Shopping For Blood (Rock Wercheter Belgium)
13. Jacqueline (Barrowlands Glasgow)
14. This Fire (The Avalon Los Angeles
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"rawer and more stripped-down than Mclusky" - holy shit!!
Jon Chapple (Ex-Mclusky) Talks New Band
Jonah Flicker, Amy Phillips, and Kati Llewellyn report:
If you have the balls to break up your band when people are still pretty psyched that you exist, the least you can do is start another band. It's just common courtesy-- especially if your contribution to inner-band squabbling is rumored to be at least half the cause of the breakup. After all, musicians are our dancing monkeys, here to entertain us at our command, are they not? Personal lives and creative differences be damned! We want our rock. We want more songs than a song convention. Sing it!
Welsh primal stompers Mclusky are the case in point here. As we reported in June, bassist John Chapple is spending his post-lusky time with a new band, Shooting at Unarmed Men. Pitchfork spoke with Chapple recently and about the group's debut EP, Soon There Will Be Shooting at Unarmed Men, due this Tuesday, December 6, on Too Pure, as well as his future plans.
Shooting at Unarmed Men began its life back in 1999, when Mclusky was still alive and kicking. Their influences, according to a cheeky press release, include "a variety of British garden birds that sing in our streets, the highly addictive and unhealthy past-time of smoking tobacco, driving our polluting and fuel-consuming automobiles to and fro, drinking whiskey, working shit jobs for too little money and which hold no future prospects." We're assuming this is code for Skynyrd, cocaine, and blowjobs.
The trio's debut EP is rawer and more stripped-down than Mclusky's recordings. When asked about the Shooting at Unarmed Men sound, Chapple replied: "Some guy asked me why I recorded lo-fi for this album, and I said sarcastically that we're recording pi-fi to the nearest decimal point. I don't believe in lo-fi or hi-fi. A band sings the way they sing and somebody presses record. We did this whole recording in one weekend. Some people would say that was rushed. Other people would say that was pointless. I say we took as long as we needed to and we got what we wanted to get done, done." So... multiply pi-fi by the circumference of the record and square it to get its area and overall worth? You always wondered how we structured our 10-point rating system, didn't you.
Here's the EP tracklist:
01 Taking Care of Business
02 Four Eyed McClayvie
03 When Potent Doesn't Mean It
04 Impunity Rules
05 The Long and the Short of It
06 No-One Can Waltz
07 The Pink Ink
08 There's a Reason It's Called the Easy Way Out
09 This Much Is a Lot
Shooting at Unarmed Men aim to record their first full-length within the next month or so, for release in the spring. While the studio time frame is a bit shaky, Chapple has a good idea of how long the second album will be. He told Pitchfork, "Short records are good records in my book. The Minutemen never did eight songs over forty-five minutes, you know. My favorite albums are eight songs and exactly thirty minutes long-- exactly four songs a side on a vinyl. It's a perfect length for an album; it doesn't need to be any longer than that."
We didn't want to point out that Soon There Will Be Shooting at Unarmed Men has nine tracks, even though it's being billed as an EP, because we were afraid he'd find a way to climb through the phone line and kick all of our asses. He was in Mclusky, after all. Their old singer was a sex criminal!
Shooting at Unarmed Men hope to tour North America early next year, though no definite plans have been set. Chapple filled us in on the business of the band, saying, "This is a very small, very centralized project. The band handles everything outside of the record company. We book our own shows, we finance our own shows, we do everything in house, basically."
As for Mclusky, that three-disc set of singles, B-sides, outtakes, rarities, and live recordings we told you about way back when is still in the works, with a January or February release in the cards. Chapple said he has been in contact with drummer Jack Egglestone, but added that "there has not been a syllable exchanged between me and Andrew [Falkous] since I left Mclusky." Ouch! Both Egglestone and Falkous are in rehearsals with members of a "very seminal local band" called Jarcrew, though the new band remains unnamed. May we recommend "Mcrew", "Jarluskey", or, since we're already going this route, "Brunch"?
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Your latest porn find?
Originally posted by brennser:
"rawer and more stripped-down than Mclusky" - holy shit!!
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this one snuck up on me - had no idea this was being released - a live Alejandro String Quartet CD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000C4B558/ref=nosim/103-1072128-6370246?n=5174 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000C4B558/ref=nosim/103-1072128-6370246?n=5174)
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new 50 Foot Wave EP available as a free download - flac and mp3
http://www.throwingmusic.com/freemusic/ (http://www.throwingmusic.com/freemusic/)
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
It might be time to start the Albums in 2006 thread as I'm not sure where this one will come out... CD release party was scheduled this month but has been cancelled.
Hailing from Baltimore, The Pale Stars consists of musicians from other groups coming together to present their take on Americana. Taking the hard driving beats and melodies often associated with Americana or Alt-Country, the band then adds the reverb and effects heavy guitar sound often heard in 80s shoegazer bands. Nice mixture if ya ask me...
Song samples and other info can be found at
http://www.thepalestars.com (http://www.thepalestars.com)
the Pale Stars now have a myspace page, haven't had a chance to checkout the tracks offered yet...
http://www.myspace.com/palestars (http://www.myspace.com/palestars)
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Have to say the Pale Stars tunes are fab, check em' out or not...
Saw Baltimore's Gavin Elder and his band One False Move this weekend and will have to say his CD "Rock and/or Roll" is a keeper. Think Super Furry Animals , a dash of this and that but nothing done to excess. Produced by Ken Coomer of Wilco fame who plays drums as well on the record.
website (http://www.gavinelder.com/index.html)
Myspace page of course (http://www.myspace.com/gavinelder)
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maybe that's a new thing here - resurrecting random old threads?
Good idea!
Great trip down memory lane here. Lots of nice stuff released in 2005:
The Woods
Sunset Tree
Open Season
Oceans Apart
Nobody's Darling
Twin Cinema
Sex Love & Rock 'n Roll