Concert Review: Okkervil River with Crooked Fingers , October 12, The Phoenix, Toronto Every time I see this band live, I love them more and more. Okkervil River played to a near capacity crowd on the Sunday of Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and blew the roof off of the place. If you were in a turkey-induced coma before the show, the tryptophan was neutralized with a large dose of high energy rock. Lead singer Will Sheff is one of the best and most charismatic front men in indie rock [...]
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Not long after we got up to speed with Crooked Fingers (at the time of the release of Bring On The Snakes in 2001), the band began to background the electronics and loops that made the music so interesting to us. So, while we had very nice things to say about Crooked Fingers ' Red Devil Dawn here in 2003, the ensuing releases from the Eric Bachmann -led project did not capture our imagination with the same intensity. But a recent renaissance of Mr. Bachmann's Barry Black records [...]
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Die Archers of Loaf waren eine jener Neunzigerjahre Indie-Bands, die zwar unglaublich gute Platten gemacht haben, es aber irgendwie nie aus dem Schatten von Grunge und Pavement geschafft haben. In mein Herz allerdings schon. Und genau darum hab ich mir kürzlich den Back-Katalog der Archers of Loaf angeschafft. Alles, von A bis Z und ich hab es mir gemütlich gemacht mit den Platten, die ich hier jetzt nicht alle bennen mag. "White Trash Heroes" war das letzte Album der Band aus North Carolina. Es markierte 1998 das Ende der Band, die zwei [...]
"Come back, fun! How did you leave me within 30 seconds?!" - Tom, delivering the punchline to his classic sitcom joke "Mike said he was donating to the Pharoah Sanders Fund." -- Tom, questioning his Associate Producer's suspicious "charitable contributions" to the jazz saxophonist via Tunes in Hoboken "I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea that this person would fall out of the sky and be the running mate of the oldest President in history." - Tom, lending his support to upstart politician Sarah Palin "I'm [...]
We feel our proclivity to tie posts to a news peg has kept us from simply writing about our favorite songs. So herewith we inaugurate a new series called The Clicky Clicky 200 . The series casts light upon the 200 tracks that we've listened to most, as tabulated by ITunes. Point of interest: the barrier to entry as we start the series is 27 plays, which is the amount received by track 200, The Association 's 1967 pop hit "Windy," a favorite of the missus. But we're not going to go in any set [...]
Hey kids. Today was a long one. Got to work a half-hour before opening to prepare for a big storewide sale, and just walked into Nicci's place five minutes ago. Some of the discounts were larger than my normal employee discount, so I bought a handful of records that I'd been holding onto for a few weeks. Superfuzz Bigmuff , a Steve Reich record, the first Saints album ( I'm Stranded ), and a bunch of seven-inch records (Big Black's Il Duce , Minutemen's Paranoid Time , two Flying Saucer attack 7"s and a Tortoise 7"). All [...]
From Learning To Love You More assignment #53: Give advice to yourself in the past. "Advice to Jess at Fifteen" 1. Don't date Celine. Yes, she's very attractive and a good kisser, but you won't ever have much to talk about. Instead, date Alyza. She's incredibly passionate about her art, even if she's not very good at it (not yet, at least), and you'll have much more in common. 2. Spend more time hanging out with the smart [...]
Germs get a new lead singer: "Nearly 30 years after the original Germs lead singer died of a drug overdose at the age of 21, the Los Angeles snot-punks have a new lead-singer: actor Shane West. That's right, the former E.R. star is the new Darby Crash—he of the infamous appetite for peanut butter (spread on his chest) and heroin (injected squarely into his... Germs get a new lead singer: "Nearly 30 years after the original Germs lead singer died of a drug overdose at the [...]
"You're not the one who let me down... but thanks for offering" Man, I can't believe AOL 's 'Ickey Mettle' album came out 14yrs ago! Time flies when you are rocking out I guess. I think the SECOND I heard this tune on the Mallrats soundtrack I ran to my local record store(remember those places? You could go in and actually buy records and stuff) and bought this LP. Give this a spin, and forget your troubles for the next 2 minutes and [...]
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He would probably watch Weeds . Kevin Nealon on 4/20 I'm no pot smoker by any means (although I have slightly dabbled in Hawaiian ganja), but I am a huge fan of the Showtime series. So when the above video was sent to me via email in celebration of the reefer holiday, I just had to put together an impromptu playlist for all you lovers [...]
"Heart it Races" by DR. DOG: Yeah, almost every post I've made this year references Dr. Dog. What of it, punk? Here's their oft-blogged cover or Architecture in Helsinki's "Heart it Races." I'm probably in the minority, but I think this version blows the original right off the map. "Elevator Love Letter" by STARS: Music has just been piling up on my hard drive for years now, and I have had little time to hear most of it, which leads to awesome moments like the other day when this song came on in my [...]
Surprise, I've made a mix tape for you. And why? Because I love you all. Plus, some of you have been quite loyal readers despite my discontinuing the weekly mix tapes. Also, I don't want to do a lot of work tonight because I'm too busy being nervous about the Mets opening day tomorrow. Apparently Nicci scheduled us to get massages tomorrow after the game, so I'll be sure to have great blogging fodder tomorrow night. I've never had a professional massage before. In fact, I think the only people to ever attempt giving me massages before are Nicci, my [...]
Part Past Part Fiction - The Chills Life's A Gas - T. Rex Free Again - Alex Chilton Steppin' To The AM - 3rd Bass Cherry Blossom Girl - Air (Simian Mobile Disco mix) Scorpio - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five [...]
Today (the day after the day after the day after the Winter Solstice, as pictured above) is my 1,001st post since starting this blog. In celebration of reaching the 1K mark, I have put together an utterly massive Mix Tape for you. Bandwidth, be damned! I speak without hyperbole when I say that life cannot get much better than it is right now. After a full day of work yesterday, a co-worker and I ducked into Red Lion for a bite to eat. We were first joined by her boyfriend, then later by Phoebe, Rebecca, Sari (plus a [...]
Song: "Web in Front" Artist: Archers of Loaf Album: Icky Mettle Year: 1994 Length: 2:05 Label: Alias Records Download Archers of Loaf - "Web in Front".mp3 The shortest song on this list marks the fact that we're halfway through, so those friends of mine who aren't exactly clamoring for the continuation of the Top 40 All-Time countdown, there's only 19 songs to go... For everyone else, Archers [...]
normal posting will return tomorrow. in the mean time, here is another archers of loaf show, this time live in nyc at tramps on 11.26.96. 1. step into the light 2. audiowhore 3. greatest of all time 4. form and file 5. scenic pastures 6. harnessed in slums 7. assassination on xmas eve 8. vocal shrapnel [...]
i am officially on vacation. we made it to tampa in record time even with a stop at steak and shake. i dont think i have ever eaten there, but oddly enough it was pretty good. posts may be sporadic for the next seven days for hopefully i will be either busy fishing or too drunk to post anything with any degree of readability. thats not to say my shits very readable to begin with. in terms of influencing/shaping my later day musical tastes, archers of loaf have to rank pretty high, at least in my top 7. [...]
At the time Archers of Loaf were releasing some of their best work (in the early 90s) it would be impossible to know that fifteen years later songs like "Audiowhore" would not only still be great to listen to, but that they would perfectly describe the the vast sucking sound heard across the airwaves. We'll spare you the Dennis Miller diatribe as Fluxblog has already described it perfectly: "The Archers of Loaf's 1995 album Vee Vee overflows with skepticism and resentment, mainly directed at a music culture focused on consuming artists alive in a [...]
Hammer No More The Fingers Genre: Indie / Post punk From: Durham, North Carolina United States The intriguingly named Hammer No More the Fingers were formed in 1994 by a trio of precocious 10 year olds playing original music apart from an Archers of Loaf [...]
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