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ratioci nation

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Re: Albums in 2005
« Reply #150 on: March 29, 2005, 02:45:00 am »
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
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« Reply #151 on: March 31, 2005, 04:22:00 pm »
seems that Chris whitley is releasing a new album this year - soft dangerous shores
 
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« Reply #152 on: April 04, 2005, 12:04:00 pm »
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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« Reply #153 on: April 05, 2005, 07:25:00 pm »
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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« Reply #154 on: April 11, 2005, 12:16:00 pm »
Do Me Bad Things 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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« Reply #155 on: April 11, 2005, 10:06:00 pm »
http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/okkervilriver-blacksheep.shtml
 
 
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  New Okkervil River album in April
 
 track here  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

ratioci nation

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« Reply #156 on: April 11, 2005, 10:53:00 pm »
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   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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« Reply #157 on: April 13, 2005, 09:37:00 am »
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  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

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« Reply #158 on: April 14, 2005, 07:47:00 am »
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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« Reply #159 on: April 14, 2005, 11:13:00 am »
From the Dandy Warhols site (yeah its now in 3-D for those interested in checking it out)
 
   
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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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« Reply #160 on: April 14, 2005, 01:26:00 pm »
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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« Reply #161 on: April 15, 2005, 09:25:00 am »
pitchfork likes it as well
 
 http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/o/okkervil-river/black-sheep-boy.shtml
 
 
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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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« Reply #162 on: April 15, 2005, 07:12:00 pm »
May 24 - MAXIMO PARK/A Certain Trigger USA

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« Reply #163 on: April 17, 2005, 02:30:00 pm »
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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« Reply #164 on: April 18, 2005, 09:35:00 am »