This girl is going hiking today. Have a good weekend, and don't be an April Fool! Jawbox: Cornflake Girl City-State: Zipper Girl myspace Homegrown: Surfer Girl Lou Barlow: Caterpillar Girl The Magnificent Bastards: Mockingbird Girl Radiohead: Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young cover, [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. The Voxtrot album provided a decent time for a break. We're back, though, and we come bearing gifts. Actually, just one gift, but it's a good one. Trost and I have decided to put together a compilation; our favorite tracks from the first quarter of 2007. The idea is kind of that this will become a regular thing, where we put out a compilation every quarter. You have two ways to get it; you can either follow the first link to [...]
In first part of the post, i'll write the records that make me sing in recently. Wow, i love finding anything makes my day brilliant. Lou Barlow's forthcoming Mirror The Eye (EP) is just amazing... And also Xiu Xiu's coming "Remixed and Covered" has been great work. It's included with several covers of influential names like Sunset Rubdown, a cover of the stellar song "Clowne Towne" by Marissa
Yeserday I got a copy of Lou Barlow 's new Mirror The Eye EP, and I can't stop listening to the opening track, "Yawning Blue Messiah." I've never been super into Lou Barlow and Sebadoh -- or even Dinosaur Jr, whose new album will be covered here one of these days. I mean, sure he's kinda cool, and Sebadoh had some awesome songs, but I just never completely dug either. What's good with the Sebadoh reunion though? I know they're touring, but is there going to be an album? I actually only know they're touring [...]
Given the rate that Lou Barlow has been flooding the market with content these past few years-solo projects, Dinosaur Jr. , Sebadoh reissues-it's surprising he's not on the payroll at Gawker Media: Mirror In The Eye is one more thing, a five song EP from Acuarela Records to whet our appetites in advance of his next proper solo effort from Merge, due later this year. "Yawning Blue Messiah" sounds like it was any number of bandmates he's had a falling out with over the years-"I miss you, brother, but I hate [...]
Lou Barlow - The Ballad of Daykitty I know what you're thinking, It's Valentines day, so Simon will be doing a post about lost love, regret and loss featuring the music of The Wedding Present again... Well, you were so so close to getting that, but I was halfway through writing the post when I realised that I'll probably never write anything about the Weddoes as well (well, in my own hamfisted way) as I did a couple of years ago... And besides I'm in a completely different place to where I was a [...]
Sebadoh - who ceased to exist sometime in the last century as they imploded under the weight of being too indie to be real - are getting back together , says Eric Gaffney: "It was my idea as much as anybody's to tour again because if I was going to be putting out reissues and doing all of the business aspects, it just didn't make sense to me for those guys go out on tour without me. And especially when the reissues are my records. I actually started the band, so that was sort of [...]
The relatively-senior Dinosaur Jr. play the Capital Music Hall on Friday The most intriguing show this week goes down Friday at the Black Sheep Inn, where Vancouver's Geoff Berner bravely continues his quest to " drag klezmer kicking and screaming back into the bars ." His brand of klezmer is not your daddy's klezmer... it's actually your grand -daddy's klezmer, which apparently was full of "drinking, politics, and sex." Sounds like just another Friday night for dial613. If the intrigue doesn't do it for you, there are 3 other [...]
I'm way behind in posting my weekly Sirius radio playlists. The last one I posted was Week 8 . Here's the playlist from Week 11 (8/15/2006). On this show I played all music that came out on Merge Records , and all music that happens to be available in MP3 format... 1) Superchunk - Becoming a Speck 2) And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Mistakes and Regrets 3) Pipe - Chula 4) Dinosaur Jr. - Forget the [...]
Lou Barlow has been responsible for at least two great albums that I know about - his solo album of last year Emoh , and the now semi-legendary 1991 album by Sebadoh, III . With the album's upcoming re-release on Domino records, it's interview time. Unfortunately, I knew little about Sebadoh's complicated history, and didn't have much time to research it. Throwing caution to the wind, I decided to forego typical album questions, and to ask for advice on recording, interviewing, and what I should do in life. So, if you're a fan of Sebadoh, this interview [...]
As promised, we're continuing our trip to the Audio Zoo today. I hope you like this group as much as yesterday's. Burning Sensations - Belly of the Whale Meryn Cadell - Sharkhead Sean Lennon - Winged Elephants Dungen - Panda George Michael - Monkey Juliana Hatfield - My Pet Lion [...]
Play it: Sebadoh III (Reissue w/ bonus tracks) Originally released about the same time as Nirvana 's Nevermind , Sebadoh 's III functioned as a the other-side of the same coin. Same paranoia-inspired angst, just funnelled through different influences and a far different recording process. While Nirvana polished up their raw sound via the shiny production of Butch Vig , [...]
An apology for not putting up a playlist yesterday. I was out of the house for the majority of the day until later that night which at that point I assume everyone is in bed anyway. However, I am coming back today with a playlist that is for my day spent completely M.I.A. In actuality I spent some time out doing some record shopping, which I haven't done a lot of lately. It was quite nice and got a couple things for a pretty good price. Anyway, here is seven songs dealing with my negligence [...]
speed of dark
Born by the River
Modern Music
Wolf Notes
Spoilt Victorian Child
No Rock And Roll Fun
>Dial 6-1-3_
BrooklynVegan
the torture garden
Looking at Them
thus spake drake
Built on a Weak Spot
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
Angger Dimas – Ribon Dooh (Preview)
K-Holes - "Frozen Stiff"
