Hi kids. Happy Sunday. How was your weekend? Mine was good, thanks for asking. Last night I ventured out into The OC to hit up Pizza Port San Clemente with an old high school friend who is visiting the west coast this week. She was a bit tired after a long journey but she was [...]
When you've managed to cultivate the sort of cult status now renowned of Thurston Moore and you decide to veer off on some newfangled experimental tangent or other, there are two routes there for the taking: the tried and tested, timeworn path you've trudged down umpteen times in your threadbare Chuck Taylor's, or a screeching careening off into the unknown, perhaps never to be seen in the same esteemed light ever again. The burden of expectation will of course always weigh heavy on the onetime Sonic Youth stalwart, and his is therefore an election between a reverential honouring of the [...]
For all that the internet provides an endless wealth of music, it's easy to get stuck in the same listening habits after a while. Sometimes it takes someone to come along with a bunch of new tunes to shake you out of such habits, and since we're as guilty of getting stuck in a listening rut as anyone else, we've been amusing ourselves this week at Flavorpill central by delving into our record collections and sharing some of our favorite obscure, under-appreciated albums — and we thought we'd share the results with our readers, too! From the very old to [...]
Tomorrow marks the release of Strapped , the new album by Californian noiseniks The Soft Pack. (You can stream the record at Spin right now, if you're so inclined.) For those not familiar with the band's history, they used to be known as The Muslims, a name that caused them all sorts of predictable problems and was eventually ditched in favor of their current moniker circa 2009. So, to celebrate The Soft Pack's new record, we thought we'd look at some of music's other great controversy-courting band names. Warning: naughty words [...]
Yeah, I slept last night. I slept the shit out of sleep. And this morning I awoke in a much better and well-rested mood. It's amazing what a handful of over-the-counter sleeping pills and a cold room can do for a man. Well, I'll not dawdle here. Enjoy your mix tape. RULES for uninitiated noobs: [...]
As of tonight, if you add up all the Sunday Mix Tapes I've ever made, you get exactly five years worth of music. I don't go around boasting about how I was the first music blog to conceive of a weekly mix tape…but I sure go around thinking as much! Seriously, who the hell even [...]
Nothing says Valentine's Day quite like JOMF. Had I remembered today was a "holiday" on Sunday I might have compiled a mix tape for the occasion, but instead I chose to go out to eat at the Olive Garden to celebrate Drew's last night in town. Worst meal I've ever had in my entire life. [...]
What a weekend. Just think, a week from today I'll either be living the high life - on cloud nine - sharing a mix tape in celebration of the New York Giants winning the Super Bowl, or I'll be the brunt of every joke made by my six Boston-native roommates if the Patriots win. I'm [...]
See, the problem with working Sundays for the past three years is that I'm not too familiar with what's going on in the National Football League. So when someone offers me the chance to make a couple high-dollar bets with no vig I should know better than to take the offer. Inevitably my three years [...]
It is sixteen years since Jackie O Motherfucker ’s first release, and music has moved on. Their role at the heart of the scene annoyingly described as ‘Freak Folk’ influenced the sounds of the subsequent decade, helping to free a stream of excellent folk-influence musicians from their shackles, and recapturing the energy of the original folk cosmonauts, journeying to the heart of world music in the early '60s. At their best JOMF are essential listening, fed by a culture of improvisation and exploration developed among an elastic group of musicians. They sought the new in the old, mixing blues, [...]
The Portland experimental folkies release their umpteenth album, which separates out the pieces of their unusual sound into straight folk, improvisations, and hard rock. Somewhere in the strange gulch between serenity and bizarreness lies Jackie-O Motherfucker (or JOMF, if you prefer), a collective from Portland with the most badass name in all of New Weird America. And more than any other band going, Jackie-O Motherfucker establishes "New Weird America" as a legitimate genre, playing a thoroughly modern mix of homegrown folk music and the sort of dizzy sound effects people probably hear while dropping acid in the wilderness. I'll...
It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]
I just can't believe the music industry is dying, not with so much plastic/wax/digi copies coming out in the next few months. With bands desperately jockeying for listeners' attention/income, I can't help but think WE are the winners in this ... Continue reading ’
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 64 with freebi mp3 downloads for songs by artists including Wu Tang Clan, Tommy Stinson, Rosi Golan, Pixikill, Panama, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Dex Romweber Duo, Deluka, Apparat and more! So much more! DATE: 07-06-11 WRITER: Don Loder Holy shit Commodore, we hit sixty-four SWAG Reports! C'n ya believe it junkie? 'At means I been gettin' away wit' dis shit fer almos' two years. Well, not allat close ta two years, ann'ere's nothin' allat special about the [...]
Portland's own psychedelic alchemists Jackie-O M*****f****r released their latest LP, Earth Sound System yesterday via Fire Records. As the press release states; " You never quite know what you’re going to get from J.O.M.F.. Are you going to be in for some deep brain thrombosis space rock? Are they going to prescribe you a dose of some heavily medicated camp fire drone? Will they be hitting you with some improvisational and angular free jazz? Will they be traversing the entire planet to bring [...]
Portland's Jackie-O Motherfucker has been making records for a long time; they released their fifteenth, Earth Sound System , yesterday. (Note: they're from the Oregon Portland, not the Maine one. Do you think the residents of those cities have a visceral hate for each other? If there was another Cleveland Heights someplace, I'd be pissed.) To once again illustrate that I am a slightly inept (but totally honest) music blogger I have the following confession: the song below is the first song that I've heard from the band. I've had fifteen years [...]
DOWNLOAD: Jackie-O Motherfucker - "In the WIllows" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Jackie-O Motherfucker - "Where We Go" (MP3) Experimentalists Jackie-O Motherfucker are back with their fifteenth full length Earth Sound System . The album was released on Tuesday (7/5) via Fire Records, and is currently streaming on Spinner . You can purchase the album as LP/CD/MP3 on Amazon and grab two of [...]
Jackie-O Motherfucker has tapped a lot of neglected wells since they began in 1995. They’ve mined the depths of space-rock, various international sounds, folk music and traveled to psychedelic realms. This is a band that clearly does not want or need to be fenced in. On their 15th record, Earth Sound System , Jackie-O continues that trend. This time out, Tom Greenwood is again joined by Jed and Nick Bindeman of Eternal Tapestry and Brian Mumford of Dragging and Ox Through Water, and the familiarity of the musicians shows on the recording. The album opens with “In [...]
​Each Tuesday, record-store clerks unpack boxes of albums and restock shelves with the latest releases. This week brings an abundance of notable albums, including new stuff from alt-country outfit... Continue reading "SebastiAn, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Old 97's: This Week's New Releases" >
Jackie-O's full-length, Earth Sound System, is as obtusely odd as ever and streaming this week over at AOL Spinner. The collection of six tracks launches from a recognizable source, with Tom Greenwood's characteristically dweeby baritone intoning tears and mourning loss, but the album fractures towards separate planets: "Raga Joining" and "Raga Separating" are glitch skronk at their most hyper-distracted, with vinyl spinning and hand percussion rattling in the mind of...
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