Maps - Stay Another Day (East 17 Cover) Say Hi - Northwestern Girls Hello, Blue Roses - Shadow Falls The Big Sleep - Pinkies John Vanderslice - White Dove Of Montreal - I Want To Have Fun Hello Saferide - San Francisco
One of my favorite shows last year was John Vanderslice with St. Vincent . Now John is going out on tour in March with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, in continued support of his latest release Emerald City. He wrote the bulk of his new album Emerald City while knee-deep in legal limbo after a visa application for his girlfriend, a French national he met in Paris , was rejected by US Immigration. Lyrically, JV's characters and storytellers track Manifest Destiny from burning wagon wheels to two-bedroom homes with full amenities in Bakersfield , California . [...]
schubas' 4th annual "tomorrow never knows" festival is happening this weekend, with john vanderslice & the m's kicking things off tonight...the event started back in 2005 as a way to showcase up & comers during the frigid & normally concert barren month of january here in chicago, & over the years it's seen performances from great acts like magnolia electric co., tapes 'n tapes, the ponys, dr. dog, & flosstradamus (to name a few)...this year's got an equally eclectic line up with detroit afrobeat outfit nomo playing tomorrow night along with bobby conn & baby teeth, while much blogged [...]
SIDE A 1. Bright Eyes - Method Acting 2. The Gloria Record - Cinema Air 3. Death Cab For Cutie - A Movie Script Ending 4. John Vanderslice - Promising Actress 5. Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick 6. Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) 7. Matt Pond PA - The Moviegoer 8. Hayden - Hollywood Ending SIDE B [...]
Edit: MediaMax decided to mysteriously delete every single one of my files. Awesome. So none of the links in here were working, but I uploaded everything else to another, hopefully less crappy service so they should work now. Anything previous to this post won't because it's over 2 months old anyway and [...]
beide heißen john. das eine ist nicht eigentlich eine neuentdeckung, mehr eine mehrentdeckung: john vanderslice (das gute lied "white dove" kann man sich da herunterladen). der hatte auf der stereogum-ok-computer-coverei karma police gesungen und ich mochte das und machte mich kundig. besonders toll: [auf der seite kann man sich an dieser stelle ein audio anhören] john vanderslice - numbered lithograph (vom album emerald city ) der zweite john heißt mit nachnamen frusciante und weil die werte leserschaft über den vermutlich mehr weiß als ich, deshalb nur [...]
Maia Hirasawa - And I Found This Boy E.L.O. - Mr. Blue Sky Cloud Cult - Lucky Today John Vanderslice - Me and My 424 Bishop Allen - Click, Click, Click, Click Sufjan Stevens - Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position Ben Lee - Birds [...]
More often that not, Best Albums of 2007 lists have a lot of overlap with Best Songs of 2007 lists. To make things more interesting - for both of us - instead of a list of the 10 best songs overall (many of them would be on my 10 best albums), this is a list of the 10 best songs that are not from albums on my 10 best albums list. 10: Bright Eyes: "Make A Plan To Love Me" (download) [...]
So I had this idea for my end of the year round up. I called it Retreadin 2007. Every couple of days there would be a post about the memorable albums of this year. There were supposed to be about ten parts to it, but you may have noticed that I've kind of slacked on it the last few weeks. 2007 is now over. Dang. So here we go with a final retreadin pulling together the rest of the albums that I listened to and enjoyed this past year. The [...]
I actually quite enjoyed picking out the top songs of 2007. There were many tracks from albums I loved and other singles that stood out in a lackluster album. Most of these tracks I have posted before (I'll link to the post if you wish to dig hard enough to download them) and are mainly bands I am familiar with. Generally, I blogged about the band if they appeared in the top 50. There are some tracks I haven't posted yet so you'll be able to download them here (I think it looks bad if I have every mp3 listed [...]
Dear Thom, I tried. I really did. I mean, I typed in 0.00 like 345,378 other people, but I was at least willing to pay the 90p credit card fee. But for some reason known only to Thor, your system just wouldn’t take my details. Of course, I later found out that the name on my card read “Kim Jong Il”, and it had been somehow blacklisted as a weapon of mass destruction by 128 countries worldwide (including yours), but that’s way besides the point. Which is, that I tried. Anyways, it’s a good thing you’re [...]
Photo by David Greenwald Like the albums list, this is divided into the ranked, remarkably great stuff and the unranked, still really great stuff. Enjoy the last post of '07, folks - The Rawking will continue refusing to stop bright and early on Monday, January 7. The full list and MP3s galore after the jump! [Continue reading...] 1. UGK ft. Outkast - "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)" : mp3 2. LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" : [...]
10 - JOHN VANDERSLICE - Emerald City John`s albums are always an interesting listen..The production is always so slick (I guess that comes with owning your own studio). A lot of people found his lyrics about 911 annoying (cause he did it on Pixal Revolt too) but not me..I actually perfer it...My only complaint is that the album is too short...only 9 songs!! 9 - LCD [...]
------------------------------ -- 30. Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge As a longtime (and near obsessive) fan of Pulp, I suppose it is only natural that I admire Richard Hawley's songwriting prowess with great veneration. Though many have surely known him as the guitarist for Pulp during their most successful years, Hawley has slowly but steadily unattached himself from the mere label of "backing instrumentalist" for The Longpips and Pulp. Instead, he has become recognized as an exquisitely talented solo artist in his own right, with releases like Coles Corner and [...]
My intention was to make this a big post, just like the albums post I made last week, but I've been a combination of really busy with this new jibby job of mine and a bit lazy too. So, here we are over a week after I said I'd put this up and I'm just now doing it. Eh, in the immortal words of Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein, "Could be worse, it could be raining". So, without further ado, here's my 28 favorite songs of the year in no order whatsoever. Why 28? [...]
Today is the beginning of my year end wrap up. I'll have some more lists this week, including my songs of the year post. Before I get to the list, I just want to say that I can't remember a year in which as much great music was released as this one. I initially set out to do a list of my ten favorite albums this year but that soon became impossible, then it was 15, then 20, and finally i settled on 25. Truth be told, i probably could have made a top 50, but [...]
This mix is for those cold and snowy nights, when you are sitting by a fireplace and drinking hot chocolate... Apostle Of Hustle - Sleepwalking Ballad Kings of Convenience - Misread Slumber - Komodo Iron & Wine - Boy With A Coin Devendra Banhart - Seahorse Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr. DeVotchKa - We're Leaving Belle & Sebastian - Sleep The Clock Around John Vanderslice - The Parade The [...]
In case you missed it, check out Top Albums of 07: #20-11 . I am going to go on a blogging break due to exams so look out for the top 30 songs of the year when I come back. This blog has made some huge strides in the last two months and while it seems hard to keep on rolling with taking a huge break.. we'll see what happens. # 10 Tegan & Sara - The Con Original Rating: 5 out of 5 I still love [...]
For their hot-off-the-press Holidaze issue, ReadyMade has assembled a collection of 19 songs from Noise Pop and Barsuk artists. In the spirit of the holidays, they've posted all of the songs from their Holidaze Mix online for free downloading along with print-and-fold liner notes (after all, ReadyMade is a mag ...
Spencer: Here's looking at you kid. Panda Bear: Cheers mate, you're quite a talent. S: Thanks, just one thing. How did you get 2 songs in Wayne's top ten? PB: Oh, he has some silly rule about one song per album. I wouldn't worry about him. He can be funny like that. S: Ah, yeah. I probably could have ruled this list then, hey? PB: No doubt, bro. Anyway you got number one, so congrats. S: Thanks, man. Love the old school Orioles cap, btw. 2007. Where to begin? Where to start? Well how about my favourite songs [...]
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Noteworthy (Stream): Kanye West – Black Skinhead (SNL Performance)
Kanye West Performs “Black Skinhead” & “New Slaves” On ‘SNL’ Season Finale: Watch
Watch Fred Armisen’s SNL farewell with Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon, J Mascis, Aimee Mann
Watch Kanye West on Saturday Night Live, performing “Black Skinhead” and “New Slaves”
