
The website Aggronautix has a limited edition Lee "Scratch" Perry figurine imported from PRESSPOP in Japan. It was designed by Archer Prewitt and personally approved by Scratch himself. I FINALLY grew out of collecting toys about 10 years ago, but this would look pretty good next to my talking Master P doll , don't you think? You can pre-order yours right here .

by Bill Pearis The Sea & Cake at Summerstage 2010 ( more by Matthew Eisman ) It's not a full Sea & Cake show, but main men Sam Prekop and Archer Prewitt are playing together at Mercury Lounge on June 30 (tickets on sale Friday at noon). It's an early show (doors 7:30) and their only live date apart from a Sea & Cake show in the band's Chicago [...]

First Aid Kit at The Wellmont Theatre (11/18/11) Photo : Matt Fricovsky ( more ) May 30 The Orion Experience Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 05/02/12 12:00 PM Mercury Lounge New [...]

[Photos courtesy of Patrick Proctor at Hippies Are Dead ] "We feel like we're in the Deep South," said The Sea and Cake 's Sam Prekop somewhere mid-set at the Bowery Ballroom this Tuesday. "And that's a compliment." No doubt Sam was referring to the level of enthusiasm from this weeknight crowd, including at least one audience member who seemed to think it was a Motley Crue concert. To hear a girl screaming "Bring the fuckin' heat!" in between songs at an almost professorially mild-mannered, jazz-influenced Chicago indie act was certainly a new one [...]

Illustration by Johnnie Cluney Jazzy post-rockers The Sea and Cake are the latest Chicago-area band to record a set over at Daytrotter . The group's five-song set featured a few tunes from its latest album The Moonlight Butterfly as well as an oldie "The Argument" from 1997's The Fawn . The Sea and Cake's set is solid with plenty of upbeat pop grooves. Specifically "Up on the North Shore" sounds like it would have been this year's high contender for sparkling [...]
Fresh off the plane from a three month work stint in America I was asked by The Recommender if I wanted to cover Field Day in their absence. I figured that this would be a suitable reintroduction to London and it's diverse music scene. Besides, half the people in the audience looked like they thought [...]

It's surely more understatement than hyperbole to suggest that Nick Drake was a man before his time. The Cambridge dropout who found Dylan and dope more engaging than his studies certainly impressed the members of Fairport Convention, who would go on to support his 1969 debut Five Leaves Left in the studio, but he only confused British audiences, who found the chronically depressed insomniac anxious and disengaged, and his ecologically-grounded poetics and organic chorus-less songs completely anathema to the world of sea shanties and traditional brit-folk with which they were familiar. [...]
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Why aren't ancient unreleased pop recordings unearthed more often? And movies, for that matter. There must be plenty of stuff lying around that people would go for. For example, the late downtown-NYC experimental composer Arthur Russell and his friend, renowned beat poet Allen Ginsberg , made something (along with Russell's band the Flying Hearts) in 1977 that Audika Records dug up (via Pitchfork ). And Audika will be releasing the collaboration, "Ballad of the Lights", in partnership with Japanese label Press Pop on October 19th. The recording, which didn't make [...]

Luego del zandungueo de los viernes , es momento de asumir la modorra del fin de semana, quedarse en cama descansando y, ojalá, escuchar este playlist mientras pasa la tarde. La selección de hoy sigue con el criterio antojadizo sobre que "suena a sábado" e incluye algunos grandes clásicos FM de la década de los ochenta y un par de canciones de grandes bandas pop en español de los 90s que se perdieron en el tiempo y en el espacio. [...]

This is currently the go-to soundtrack to our efforts to get our baby girl to go to sleep and stay asleep. A sad by-product is the fact that we are starting to get sick of a lot of these songs, some of which have been favorites forever and ever (we first got The Glove record around 1989 or 1990, for example). That said, we still find almost all of these to this day to be very moving in their way whenever we stop and sit and listen to them go by on the IPod docked in the nursery. [...]

so i've just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list - which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list - and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i've decided to do a ten day countdown leading up to my number 1 album choice, vh1 best [whatever] of [decade] style. [100 - 91] [90-81] 80. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy / Matthew [...]

Cover Art by grafista I hope you enjoyed our little duets one year anniversary mixtape as much as we enjoyed sharing it with you... but now it's time to get back to the business of our presentation of the Essentials mixtapes entered into our Society contest , to keep the new year going, proper. Next up, in no particular order, is grafista and his wonderful entry Don't Fear The Music . After listening a shit load of times, stuck on mad repeat, I [...]

Apocalypto by Molly Lambert End Of Travelling - Palace Music: ( mp3 ) End Of All Things - Times New Viking: ( mp3 ) End Of The Line - Roxy Music: ( mp3 ) Endlessly - Mercury Rev: ( mp3 ) I Don't Want The Night To End - Phoebe Snow: ( mp3 ) [...]

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Considering that the dates of anniversaries and birthdays vary from person to person, it would not be entirely unrealistic to deem Valentine's Day as the most universally abundant day for the exchanging of mix tapes. After all, the process of compiling a mix of emotionally suitable tunes for a loved one has nearly caught up to the ranks of flowers and chocolates as being a staple of Valentine's Day. With this in mind, since there remains a large amount of people today stuck in a state of seemingly perpetual loneliness, I figured it would be more productive to compile a [...]

Senator Barack Obama of Illinois took his first serious steps towards White House domination yesterday. He rolled to victory in Iowa on the backs of a record turnout of voters. " We are choosing hope over fear ," Obama told supporters after his victory. Obama is rolling on a campaign built on the idea of much needed change and putting the power back in the hands of the American people. John Edwards finished second and Hillary Clinton third. [...]

T his morning the family headed downtown early to watch my sister and her boyfriend run the 2007 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon . It was already hot and humid before 8AM, and it only got worse. Despite (or perhaps because of) the record heat (high of 88 in Chicago with humidity about 80%) both the men's and women's "pro" races came down to exciting finishes. In the men's race Patrick Ivuti overtook Jaouad Gharib at the finish line to win by 5 hundredths of a second in a tim of 2:11:11.00, while, in [...]

Phyllis Dillon - Make Me Yours I had something written up about this song. Something about sugar and Rice Krispies. It didn't really make sense, but I was trying to come up with some statement on how this song makes me feel. I ended up deleting it. When put into words, my comparisons seemed far too awkward to really communicate anything. But then I checked out YouTube and was surprised to find this rather unconventional video that perfectly captures everything I was trying to describe and more. But wait!--I suggest [...]

On Judy, Judy off of the album Wilderness, Archer Prewitt (guitarist for The Sea & Cake) moves with measured intensity, manipulating emotions and melodies. "One of these years, I'll get it right, When the clouds disappear from my mind... I like the way she was shy, Walking around with the sun in her eyes... It's the weather, you know" The bridges twist and spin, leading up to the tumultuous climax, organ dancing to the fore and circling back down to part [...]