Was there ever a band like Blurt? People sometimes call them the British James Chance and the Contortions, but they were far stranger than that. Blurt disobeyed many of the basic tenets of what bands are supposed to do in the name of music. Bands are supposed to have bass lines and tunes. Blurt didn't hold with any of that. Give the people some Ayler-esque overblown sax, some staccato drumming, and maybe a repeating guitar riff. That's music. Sometimes the sax would stop, and Ted Milton would do some words, but nothing you [...]
Blurt-Online passed on a story today from the Star Tribune paper in Minneapolis that ex-Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap suffered a stroke this week. Minneapolis paper the Star Tribune is reporting that Slim Dunlap, late of the Replacements and still a musician on the Twin Cities scene, suffered a stroke this week and is intensive care. Wife Chrissie posted the details at Facebook: "Bob is in the SICU at HCMC. I am not going to sugarcoat this -- this morning he suffered a right middle cerebral artery stroke. He then fell and hit [...]
Formed in the late 70s, Blurt have been exploring the outer limits of absurdity for some time now. It's been 13 years since their last album, but with Cut It! it would appear that the band has lost none of its inventive free form edge. 'Once More' opens the album, and all the pieces quickly fit together. That said, Blurt's music is so disjoined and freewheeling that their songs fit together like a jigsaw that has been randomly assembled with a hammer and blind determination. Band leader Ted Milton's freakishly honking saxophone [...]
As the ghosts of summer depart, the skyline paints itself a solemn grey - the cool winds of loss become ever more apparent. Not only through heat, but also by the withdrawl of warm colours - even the vibrancy of reds and yellows dull somewhat, leaving a void of life in its place.Autumn is indeed the struggle, but soon even those steeped in brown tinted age must soon move on. It doesn't mean I
Let me mention some song titles - "Fish Needs A Bike", "White Line Fever", "My Mother Was An Enemy Of A Friend Of The People", "Cherry Blossom Polish," "Minibar". Conjure up any images in your frazzled minds? Put on a Blurt album and I can guarantee that you will arrive at the end of it either wishing you'd never started, or wishing it would never en... Read more..
Apparently Judy McGuire is out as The Frisky's CNN correspondent. Now some Jew named Simcha is the girl who writes relationship advice columns syndicated on CNN's website. For months, I greedily devoured McGuire's columns, because her ideas were so inane they deserved in-depth responses decrying her utter stupidity. Now we've got this JAP to deal with, and her first article (that I've seen, maybe she wrote another one before this) is about " 13 signs that you may be dating a loser ." Jew girl seems to think that if she positions herself as a male sympathizer it will make [...]
Blurt has a great pic of The Gaslight Anthem from its Lollapalooza show in Chicago last weekend. And a great review of the fest by Jose Martinez - Worth a click. Here's the pic: And Up on the Sun writes today that The Gaslight Anthem is coming back to PHX in September on the 15th. Glad for that. Missed them at Clubhouse earlier this year .
New old sounds Normally EMJ is dedicated to posting on new music, admittedly we do trip back in time a bit every now and then, but after some extensive browsing today I found so many great old gems I'd never heard/heard of before I thought it'd be interesting to share some with my fellow music lovers. Admittedly most of these were found on the eternally amazing WFMU's website, from one of their DJ's compilations posted in 2006, called Obey The New Wave: 1980 and all [...]
Ahmed Gallab--the Columbus expat behind experimental act Sinkane --released his most recent album, Sinkane , pretty quietly in May. Probably because he was touring with Born Ruffians at the time. But it's his best work yet, incorporating lots of influences only hinted at on Color Voice . I wrote a short feature on the album and Ahmed's recent escapades for Blurt , an online/print venture from the guys behind Harp . It's called "The Go-To Guru," and you can read it here .
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NEVER TELL YOUR MOTHER SHE'S OUT OF TUNE Jack Bruce Songs For a Tailor Atco : 1969 [Buy It] YOU SAY YOU TRUST YOUR MOTHER Swamp Dogg 1972 Available on : Excellent Sides of Swamp Dogg, Vol. 2 S.D.E.G. : 2001 [Buy It] MY MOTHER WAS A FRIEND OF THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE Blurt 1980 Available on : The Best of Blurt Vol. 1: The Fish Needs a Bike [...]
I somehow missed that Tim Easton came out with a new record last week (why no emusic?). It's called Porcupine , and Blurt (a new digital and quarterly print mag from the guys behind Harp ) has the new video for the track "7th Wheel." I can't figure out how to embed it, but here's the link .
UK band BLURT, are playing at La Flèche d'Or tonight. I will be down there from 11-ish so come down and say hey. Also playing are Factory Floor and Lonely Ghosts. Entrance €5. The club is open from 8pm 'til 2am. See you there! CTZN V41N
The triple-A-centric music magazine Harp shut its doors last spring after its parent company went Chapter 7, and an online-only publication with much of the same staff, Blurt , sprouted up shortly after . Blurt 's online presence is similar in target demo to Harp 's, bringing together blogs, online radio, a message board, and a "digital magazine" that mimicks the print experience via a Flash interface. So what's the next logical (yet somewhat illogical when you think about the way the current climate treats music, reading, and paying for the privilege [...]
Scary picture, eh? Scary music. Coming to us from England, Blurt is a bizarre little beast. Formed by puppeteer and saxophone player (wonder if he can do both at the same time?) Ted Milton in 1980, Blurt has stayed active all this time, releasing 32 albums in just 28 years. It looks like that's coming to an end, however, as the current tour is being billed as "The Last Last Tour". Blurt - Machina Machina - 1992 Reminds me of what [...]
So, what is No Wave? The name came about as reaction to the term New Wave. At the tail end of the 70's the record industry was trying to rebrand punk & labeled the poppier bands that came in the aftermath of Punk as New Wave. The No Wave bands wanted to reject this poppier side but they also felt no affinity to Punk. At the time, Lydia Lunch (the queen of No Wave?) bemoaned how Punk was just sped up Chuck Berry riffs & it is true that if you listen to most (but not all!) punk [...]
Ah, welcome to the Post-punk bash, leave your pre-conceptions at the door buster, in this party you have moody avant garde motherfuckers rubbing shoulders with chain-smoking Geordie poets who spill... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogsp ot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
This month's DJ comp harkens all the way back to 2001 (and 21 years further back from there), from the late great program Rhubarb Cake . Here is Douglas' marathon premium from that year, titled Obey The New Wave - 1980 and all that-- UK DIY, etc. Here's how Douglas described it at the time: 23 blurts of intense, delicious, mysterious and staggeringly unusual UK DIY and art-post-punk, circa 1980. Grab this comp quick - these tracks will be up for one week only. Nancy Sesay and the Melodaires - C'est [...]
Doklands
Between Love & Like
The Line Of Best Fit
Easy Music for Difficult Ears
Never Enough Notes
Swan Fungus
Waved Rumor
Einstein Music Journal
Don't just do something, stand there
HappyParts
Moistworks
Vainzine
Idolator
Utahpolis
Nothin' Sez Somethin'
20JazzFunkGreats
WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Video: Beach House on Jools Holland, pt. 2
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
