Do Make Say Think - When Day Chokes the Night Frearson Howe - You Will Be Mine, Mr Frankenstein Fake Limbs - Balding But Angry Full Toilet - Keys, Wallet, Phone, Gun Sax Ruins - Zurna Taksim Men's Recovery Project - E-Mail Is A Men's Room Georgia Fife & Drum Band - Why Sorrow Done Passed Me Around Madison County Senior Center Singers - Wasn't That A Mystery Glen Francis - All My Days Are [...]
We've had seven sunny weekends in a row, which must be some kind of record for the Northwest. As such, it's been the perfect time to take out the Bimmer. And in related news, Andi's dad thought it would be a fun project to spend a weekend sanding it down and giving it a new paint job. Score. Now on to music: Stuarto, the host leading into my 10pm Friday night show at KSVR and KSVU, and I have been concocting plans. These brief quarter-hour strategy sessions that take place [...]
Some of you may have heard 20102s touching and true classic rock revivalist album La La Land from the brilliant Montreal act Plants and Animals . For those of you that haven't, it's about time you hop on the band-wagon. In addition to their fantastic live shows, the band has this uncanny ability to craft songs that roar and rock while still emoting the feelings of joy, loneliness, and personal freedom. The End of That , which comes out February 28, 2012 comes the closest to bridging the gap between the disorder, rock adventure, primal infusion [...]
I am becoming more and more confident in talking on the radio. I am slowly developing my voice - my on-air personality. There is still room for improvement; namely in the transition from Stuarto's show to mine, but I'll get there eventually. Last Friday's show was centered around indie-folk again, with plenty of psychedelic folk, orchestral folk, and folk-pop as well. As started last week, two songs will be featured at bottom. "Notorious Lightning" by Destroyer off Your Blues "Shanty for the Arethusa" [...]
I want to talk to you about what is real. I want to talk about the street. Actually, I want to talk to you about my street. You see, the sound of most streets is the dull rumble of traffic, with maybe a dog barking somewhere in the distance. Not mine. I live in the middle of a group of households who all seem to be part of one extended family. They shout at each other all day, calls ringing up and down the road. One house won't hold them all, so [...]
Last week, I highly recommended watching the 2010 Academy Award winning Best Foreign Language Feature In a Better World , which I would still highly recommend, but I implore all my readers to wait on that film and run don't walk to your nearest video store or streaming venue and watch the 2010 Oscar winning Best Documentary Inside Job . I don't care if you don't care about documentaries or financial industries or the root cause of this horrible world recession we plunged into in 2008 and still haven't recovered from, but if you give [...]
There's a million excellent shows in the area in the coming months and here's just a sampling of what I have tickets for so far. Due to work travel I may not be able to see all of them (dammit) and there's plenty more I would love to see but are either sold out or not in my schedule (Beirut, Explosions in the Sky) but yeah, it's going to be busy. Starting tonight. Sept. 28 - Mogwai at Union Transfer (Philadelphia) [...]
How to Dress Well ’s edit of A. Silver Mt. Zion’s God Bless Our Dead Marines hails the “less is more”-principle. While the original is over 11 minutes long, HTDW cuts it short and focuses on the “When the world is sick / Can’t no one be well? / But I dreamt we was all beautiful and strong” part/lyrics. Recorded in Manchester during the riots, which may explain the touching, sad vibe. mp3 A Silver Mt. Zion - God Bless Our Dead Marines (HTDW ‘Important’ Edit)
Could a man raised in a dangerous cult, with a history of insurgency towards these United States, become the leader of this very same country? Could a man with no name, no document of his birth, who spent his formative years spreading the doctrines of his clannish faith among those who’ve shown themselves hostile to [...]
About six months ago, I became completely obsessed with zombies films, mostly due to the brilliance behind Robert Kirkman 's The Walking Dead books and the airing of the series on AMC . As Season 1 comes out on DVD and BluRay today, I figured the time was right to post this. So I buckled down and finished my zombie soundtrack podcast, filled with songs I felt perfect for a zombie film. Be assured: this will not be your typical zombie mix. [...]
It's over. The Democratic hold on the federal government lasted almost a full two years before the voters decided to kick them the hell out of office and give their jobs to a bunch of nutjobs, or actually "nutjob-adjacent" Republicans (since the wackiest Tea Partiers largely didn't win, other than Rand Paul). There's been a ton of overwrought analysis about the whys and the hows and the stupidity on each side, but I think it came down to one simple thing -- the economy -- and for all of Obama's accurate talk about George Bush and the GOP driving us [...]
Ace is the “wild guy in the group” who likes doing mad trickz on his bike, while “AZN Thunda” AKA Brett has a “hard exterior but a soft inside, just like mochi (being from Asia of course)”. This is the bio provided of Teengirl Fantasy – actually consisting of Oberlin College students Nick Weiss and [...]
Some things bear worth repeating. Feu Thérèse is one of them, as I feel exposing their music right now would be dramatically more effective than it was in 2007, when I found myself gushing over their debut, Ça Va Cogner. They had apparently split that same year, but their permanent elusiveness had prevented anyone from [...]
Following up 2008's wildly underrated Some Are Lakes LP, Montreal's Land of Talk returns this August with its second full-length, entitled Cloak and Cipher . The album was produced by the Besnard Lakes' Jase Lacek and features a host of guests, ranging from members of Arcade Fire, A Silver Mt. Zion, Stars, and Esmerine. The album is due out August 24th, once again, via Saddle Creek . Cloak and Cipher: 1. "Cloak and Cipher" 2. "Goaltime Exposure" 3. "Quarry Hymns" 4. "Swift Coin" 5. "Color Me [...]
Friend Of Swan Fungus Hornet Montana has been e-mailing me some fascinating stories that he would like to see coverage of on this here blog. By the way, are you reading his new blog? It's fantastic. It's the most far out thing since the discovery of galaxy A1689-zD1. Of these stories he e-mailed me was one from the website Blogs.com called "10 Best Los Angeles Blogs." He wondered why there was no mention of Swan Fungus. A good question, because this website - which based in LA - is the most important sociological experiment of our time. The [...]
Happy Easter, Easter People. I'm a Jew but that did not stop me from partaking in some celebratory grillin' and chillin' tonight. I had a hot dog, a cheeseburger, and s'mores made with Peeps. I found the "golden egg" during our Easter egg hunt (curated by Ken and Kt), which contained a condom and some lube! I watched the Red Sox beat the Yankees, and I was temporarily joyous, until I realized that the Mets open their season tomorrow. Upon realizing this I suddenly felt very, very sad. Is it pathetic that I'm hoping the team loses their first ten [...]
Rather than return to the hackneyed formula of scouring one of my hard drives for some new tunes you haven't heard, I figured I would take tonight off. It's Valentine's Day, after all, surely there's something more rewarding I could be doing. That's when I remembered how A Silver Mt. Zion 's - yes I still refer to them as their first incarnation - Efrim Menuck recently posted his own "mix tape" on his band's website. Of course, it was either taken down by the-powers-that-be or by his own hand a short while after, but a couple small blogs [...]
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