Hey Marseilles celebrate their album release at Easy Street & Showbox this week photo by Christopher Nelson It's the Spring Fundraising Drive on KEXP all this week. What a great way to be a part of the celebration of amazing listener powered music and make a donation to power the music that you love. ( Make a donation at: 206-903-5397 ) Right after you do that, there are plenty of good shows to pick from this week as we finish a short February and move on to March. We start with some hip-hop on [...]
Whenever I've seen Vancouver's Role Mach live, the lineup has included a horn section assisting the band in lengthy psych-infused circus punk jams. But "Montana" is totally stripped back, featuring a guitar playing chiming licks while a bassist and drummer lay down a simple, steady rhythm. Combine that with some Lou Reed -esque vocals and a wordless hook and you've got an effectively understated winner. This one comes from CiTR Pop Alliance Compilation, Vol. 2 , which came out via Mint . I wrote about it for Exclaim! [...]
Whenever I've seen Vancouver's Role Mach live, the lineup has included a horn section assisting the band in lengthy psych-infused circus punk jams. But "Montana" is totally stripped back, featuring a guitar playing chiming licks while a bassist and drummer lay down a simple, steady rhythm. Combine that with some Lou Reed -esque vocals and a wordless hook and you've got an effectively understated winner. This one comes from CiTR Pop Alliance Compilation, Vol. 2 , which came out via Mint . I wrote about it for Exclaim! [...]
In the mid aughts (is that the most widely accepted term for the last decade?), there seemed to be an extraordinary number of bedroom, electro-pop projects reaching into the wider consciousness. Perhaps it was the massive success of the Postal Service, or the early adoption of home computer based recording tools that led to this particular trend, but generally speaking, most...
Seventy years ago today, on February 25, 1941, Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan recorded “Take Me Back To Tulsa” in Dallas, Texas for Okeh Records . Read This Land 's tribute to the iconic song. MP3: Aqueduct - "Take Me Back to Tulsa" Download Aqueduct 's "Take Me Back to Tulsa", which mixes Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan's song of the same name [...]
Aqueduct has re-emerged with two new songs for FREE download. "Past the Point" will appear on their upcoming 2011 album. MP3: Aqueduct - "Past the Point" MP3: Aqueduct - "Take Me Back to Tulsa" "Take Me Back to Tulsa" mixes Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan's 1940 song of the same name with Jay-Z's 2000 single "Big Pimpin". You can [...]
Another wildly eclectic week of amazing live music here in the Bay Area! Check out the awesomeness! Thursday, December 2nd Wu Tang Clan, The Jacka, DJ M-Rock at Mezzanine Who knows how many of them will show up? You can't really fit all 9 on stage at Mezzanine, anyways! No matter how you slice or [...]
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What is happening this week in the D? Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010: - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Lonely Forest at House of Blues ( Tickets )* - Bruno Mars at The Loft ( Tickets )* Wednesday, November 24th, 2010: - Reverend Horton Heat at Trees ( Tickets )* - The Posies, Aqueduct at Granada Theater ( Tickets ) - Usher at American Airlines Center ( Tickets ) Thursday, November 25th, 2010: - Mystikal [...]
In the book that I've been threatening to write for most of 2010 but haven't started yet ... the book that takes you, dear reader, behind the scenes of some of the more memorable interviews I've done in my 20 years of chatting with bands, there will definitely be a Posies story. I won't spoil the story but it involves one of the Sassy-ist alt.rockers of the mid-90s and his phone call to the Posies hotel room as we interviewed Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow during the Frosting on the Beater [...]
It's been almost four years since we've last heard from David Terry's solo project, known formally as Aqueduct . But Terry is out on the road for the next month with the Posies and Brendan Benson and getting ready to release a new album – the follow-up to 2007's Or Give Me Death – so the wheels of publicity are turning. To work his way back into the indie-rock conscience, Terry has posted two new tracks as free downloads on his website . And both songs work as a primer for the [...]
I've been pretty swamped and with the exception of Deerhunter's gorgeous Halcyon Digest being on repeat, there hasn't been that much out there that's enlivened me. But today brought a wonderful surprise, a new track by WLFY fav Aqueduct. Aqueduct - "Past the Point" Some 8 years ago, as an undergrad, I came upon Aqueduct, b/c a guy in my writing class, Matt Nader was in the band. Pretty soon, Aqueduct took over the [...]
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What is going on this week in the D? Tuesday, August 31st, 2010: - Titus Andronicus at Sons of Hermann Hall ( Tickets )* Wednesday, September 1st, 2010: - The English Beat, Bad Manners at Granada Theater ( Tickets ) Saturday, September 4th, 2010: - John Mayer at Superpages.com Center ( Tickets ) Sunday, September 5th, 2010: - Young Jeezy at Palladium Ballroom ( Tickets ) Recently Announced/Added [...]
Continuing the surge of experimental-pop from Montreal, Pop Winds excel in diverging colorful psychedelia and indie-rock to create a sound that is familiarly addictive, yet still relatively incomparable. On "Owl Eyes", the duo's vocals combine for multiple harmonies over squirts of brass and synth arpeggios, the wide variety of synths sliding and squirming all over [...]
6/12 Aqueduct Crocodile Cafe, 8pm, 21+, $10 Aqueduct - Keep It Together 6/13 John Vanderslice, Karl Blau Tractor Tavern, 8pm, 21+, $15 John Vanderslice - Pale Horse Karl Blau - Before Telling Dragons 6/15, 6/16 Stars The Triple Door, 7:30, All-Ages, $25 Stars - Wasted Daylight 6/19 Junip (Jose Gonzalez' band) The Vera Project, 7:30, All-Ages, $14 Junip - Rope An Summit 6/27 Mimicking Birds Tractor Tavern, 8pm, 21+, [Read Full Post...]
Congratulations to us, today celebrates our first full length podcast! Our newest feature, Indie Fan Picks is a weekly (hopefully) podcast featuring some of our favorite music. We don't pay attention to popularity or charts its just what we've been listening to lately. We hope you enjoy and look forward to hearing what you think! Track list: M83 - Beauties Can Die Album: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts Volcano Choir - Dote Album: Unmap Dykeritz - Look At My Hands, Look At [...]
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I've been in several bands. Scratch that, millions of bands. I never planned on blogging about it but it's interesting to chart the changes and friends that came and went over the years as I moved around and broke up/started new outfits. Lemme see if I can name them all, in order: Demolish (sixth-grade project with one Matt Willims , who moved on to KICK ASS in Smash Velvet and Bullet Club in Seattle; he's [...]
Before this Washington-based quartet changed their name to The Nightgowns, they went under The Elephants. It was an especially apt name for them at the time, especially since they were renowned more for circus tricks than music at the time. Although their musical potential was evident from the get-go, The Elephants' first etchings of a [...]
A quick post today. Below are a few older songs. The first Artist, Aqueduct, I saw live at the Black Cat in DC a few years back. Maybe 50 people were there and I was able to talk to him for ten minutes after his set. I even helped him pack up a few of his things. He's gotten sort of big, haven't seen him tour recently, however his songs get played in a lot of commercials. Aqueduct - Dinner Mints The next two songs I always feel like they [...]
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be counting down the Top 100 Oklahoma Albums of the 2000s . Every weekday, we will unveil another ten Oklahoma albums that helped shape the way Oklahoma music is heard by the outside world. We asked three dozen musicians, fans and journalists for their opinions on the top albums of the past decade. With their guidance and our own opinions, we compiled what we hope is a decent and fair list. Hopefully, there's a good bit of reflection, discovery and enjoyment when listening to these albums [...]
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be counting down the Top 100 Oklahoma Albums of the 2000s . Every weekday, we will unveil another ten Oklahoma albums that helped shape the way Oklahoma music is heard by the outside world. We asked three dozen musicians, fans and journalists for their opinions on the top albums of the past decade. With their guidance and our own opinions, we compiled what we hope is a decent and fair list. Hopefully, there's a good bit of reflection, discovery and enjoyment when listening to these albums [...]
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