End of the Road festival (31 August - 2 September 2012) have announced the following additions to this year's festival line-up: Alabama Shakes, The Deep Dark Woods, Dirty Beaches, Eagle and the Worm, Grandaddy, Porcelain Raft and Willis Earl Beal. Grandaddy are set to headline the Sunday, making it their only UK festival slot this year. They'll join the likes of Grizzly Bear, Midlake and more at Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset this Summer. For more information head over to endoftheroadfestival.com .
I put this together for my brother a few months ago as a running/exercise companion. Since then, I've listened to it quite a few times on my runs, and quite simply, it pretty much kicks ass. So download, throw it on your iPod/iPhone/SmartPhone of choice, and move ! (Or, sit back in a La-Z-Boy with a strong cocktail. You do what you want, I'm not your daddy). IckMix 6: Move (mp3) [See post to listen to audio] 1. "Month of May" - Arcade Fire (3:51) [...]
i dont think i have ever met anyone who like(d) grandaddy. actually, i know a couple, but really its literally only like two people. i, sadly, never got to seem live. its hard for me to the judge or gauge what kind of impact they made on the musical landscape. it really doesnt matter at all, in the scheme of things, but still they are a bit of a wonderment to me. i love all their records, and still listen to them often. i just get the feeling that they didnt get their due admiration while they were together. if [...]
Ah, Valentines Day. The holiday in which we snuggle up with our loved ones, take them to dinner, and give them fancy things. Or plop down with a cheap handle of vodka and terrible television and pass out at 11:30. However you like to celebrate, one thing can be sure - music can help set the mood for any situation, and Metrojolt is here to help you out. House - House music is generally thought of high energy and full of heavy bass, but like every genre if you strip it down to its core [...]
And not just any cats, those two fuckwits in the picture up there. Yep, Mrs. Toad managed to keep her despair at the loss of Floyd under control for just about six months before she decided that not just one cat, but TWO fucking cats was the answer. I think the idea is that because I work from home they will keep themselves entertained and not pester me the whole fucking time, but I honestly think this is ambitious. I think they are going to be climbing all over the keyboard all the time and making a right [...]
So, what is Slacker Rock ? To me, Slacker Rock is a slack-eyed approach to music. that stumbles across obtuse magic without seemingly trying. It's slackness isn't a laziness - it's a loose brilliance - as these six artists prove: Grandaddy - Hey Cowboy, The Phone’s For You Pavement - Unseen Power of the Picket Fence Modest [...]
Manchester collective, Foilface , are a bit of an undiscovered slacker rock fun-fair of swamp boggy intrigue. In 2010 they released a six track EP called Jean Claude Naive - which you can download for free here . Not much has been heard of them recently but their website is scattered with a couple of dozen more tracks (including a follow up EP), some of which can be downloaded and some of which can be streamed. The Foilface [...]
For the last few months, the Good Records Recordings website has been an ominous black screen with "11-11-11" displayed in white in the middle. In a way it's served as the answer to the questio... Continue reading "Good Records Recordings Relaunches Tomorrow, Adds Grandaddy's Jason Lytle to Roster" >
Tweet Listen to "Make It Sound" , the new album by The Sea Of Cortez below. A little over a year ago this young band appeared on my radar who impressed me enough to write an Introduction piece about them. The five piece from LA at that time only had a couple of songs to their name but now, more than a year later, they're done with their debut full-length. Back then [...]
SINGLE REVIEWS: Consider this month's FIVE Crop O' Singles your spin through a 452 bin at a record shop except here we give you the goods in the form of mp32s. Cool right? We strongly recommend that you actually go and purchase or investigate all of these bands and better yet go out of your to see them live. Ultimately we leave it up to you and your own devices how you go about consuming music so here's this month's curated selects you bastards. [...]
The Sophtware Slump remains a fascinating album, and the chance to relive its sorrowful beauty should not be missed.
Jürgen Müller Science of the Sea // The background story of Jürgen Müller's Science of the Sea is so modest as to be kind of heartbreaking. Amateur composer Jürgen Müller is studying oceanography at the University of Kiel in the late 70s. He converts a part of his houseboat (!) into a recording studio tricked out with some electronic music equipment and records an album of Radiophonic Workshop-like ditties that clearly conjure up images of undulating turquoise water. Müller presses about a 100 copies of the album and gives them away mainly to his friends and family. Much much later, Digitalis Recordings [...]
Labor Day weekend, folks. Party it up, you've earned it. Here in New York, we've recently weathered earthquakes and minor hurricanes and other inconveniences. So fire up the grill, put a cold beverage in your hand and turn up the mildly twee indie pop jams on this week's mix. Cover art photo was taken by Kate Bryant at the Friends With You inflatable sculpture park which is at the upper end of the Highline park. While Labor Day is seen as the end of summer, Summer Fridays mixes will continue to the Autumn Equinox... so you get two [...]
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since Grandaddy released their then second album, The Sophtware Slump . Widely considered by many as the band's finest moment (they split in 2006), the album has now been reissued in a deluxe package, comprising a whopping 19 extra tracks on a second disc, some of which are early versions of songs featured on the original album. There's also the obligatory b-sides, EP only tracks and rarities that always crop up on the average deluxe reissue. So the burning [...]
Kandle Osborne When I last wrote up Timber Timbre back in March , shortly before the release of their latest Creep On Creepin' On , I commented on how unlikely it seemed that the Toronto trio's murky goth-blues should make them stars (relatively speaking), but how that seemed to be exactly what was going to happen. And indeed, it's been a good 2011 for them, to say the least. The decidedly positive critical response and popular demand kept the band on the road through all of [...]
Jason Lytle could have been a postman. At least, that's what he says. Years before Grandaddy got started, he tells me, his chosen career paths revolved around what would keep him in the great outdoors: "I had park ranger, conservation corps, firefighter...even a mailman, just because I knew I’d be able to be outside walking around." The Sophtware Slump, the second LP by his old band Grandaddy, was the record that - temporarily, at least - pushed Lytle indoors. A sort of concept album about the decreasing importance of the [...]
Je kunt het niet over Built Like Alaska hebben zonder ook Grandaddy te noemen. De leden van beide bands zijn bevriend, komen uit dezelfde streek, de eerste albums van Built Like Alaska kwamen uit op het label van Grandaddy en muzikaal hebben beide bands veel overeenkomsten. Zou Built Like Alaska op eigen benen kunnen staan nu Grandaddy niet meer is en het ook al weer twee jaar geleden is dat we iets van Jason Lytle hoorden? Dat gaat ze prima af als je het nieuwe album In Troubles Times beluistert. Al [...]
This week Grandaddy's classic second album The Sophtware Slump was reissued. In North America we got a standard reissue on vinyl, but those lucky Uk people got a deluxe reissue. Either way, you should go and pick it up if you don't have it already. To celebrate this mini documentary about the making of the album has surfaced online, so what better time to take a trip back in time and see how different the world was then and what inspired the album.
Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump deserves to be in the pantheon of tech-addled masterpieces (see OK Computer ) and it's getting the full-fledged reissue treatment. The deluxe version includes b-sides, never-before-released demos, and the whole gussied-up-remaster thing. To celebrate the classic, fragile, and dark indie classic comes a slew of Slump media, so here goes! Read More...
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