This is the first guest post by Muruch 's new L.A. reviewer Laura, who was among those entertained by Rasputina at The Troubadour on August 14th. Following is her take on the show and an mp3 from the band's new album... The Troubadour has stories. In the walls, when you lean in too close, you can hear and feel the echoes of music and musicians. This is the place of music history, the Los Angeles edition, and one cannot help but expect something spectacular when you enter through its doors. On August 14th, [...]
Rasputina 's seventh studio album Sister Kinderhook will be released on June 15th. Led by singer-songwriter Melora Creager , Rasputina was the seminal band in what I used to call the "creepy girl genre" (that evolved into the broader demented circus genre ). They've also been called "Steampunk," a term usually associated with bands who marry punk-rock noise with Victorian style and science fiction or post-apolcalyptic elements. Though Rasputina's style and lyrical narratives have always had more of a Colonial influence than a Victorian one and they make beautiful use of classical instrumentation in their arrangements. [...]
I admit it, like every male, I have a weakness to women cello players. Unlike what you probably think, it's not about the way the cello is placed etc etc - no, really. I might be lots of cliches but I am not THAT cliche. It's just that they have such a gentle move on the neck of the instrument, that it makes me wanna be a cello myself. Tender fingers on a string, this is even better then to be the harp in Joanna's hands. Rasputina , the veteran [...]
Rasputina is one of the most consistent and underrated bands of the past decade, I'd say, and their latest under-the-radar release proves just that. Sister Kinderhook , Melora Creager and company's seventh album, will officially hit shelves and online outlets on June 15, though you are now (and have been for approaching a month) able to stream the record in its entirety here . For the uninitiated, Rasputina mastermind Melora Creager, a cellist/singer/songwriter who toured with Nirvana on their In Utero tour, has been performing in, and led, various incarnations of Rasputina for almost [...]
We're back from our Florida vacation not much worse for wear, though the long slog home from anywhere proves a perennial challenge, and reentry into the world of work and chores is always bittersweet. Still, the heart is light, and for that, I owe my family a great debt: to my father for making it all possible, to my children for helping me see the world as ever wondrous through their eyes, and most of all, to my spouse for planning the hell out of yet another perfect Spring Break. Case in point: [...]
Petty's back, baby! His career resurgence began with his Super Bowl Halftime slot in '08 (and history has already forgotten that he was purportedly the NFL's second choice, after Bruce Springsteen), continued with sell-out summer shed tours, and has recently hit a new peak when his four-disc Live Anthology dropped last week to a combination of critical acclaim and some why-don'
This limited-edition CD was my introduction to Ms. Melora Creager, and what an introduction it turned out to be . The resonant feeling I heard on the first playing sent me off on a web-surfing frenzy that ended with my debit card lying on the corner of my desk feeling violated, and several virtual shopping carts loaded with Rasputina discs on my laptop screen. I'm a willing sucker for pensive, sappy music, and Creager offers that in spades here. Turns out 'Melora a la Basilica' is the pinnacle though, at least for the time being. [...]
I can't believe I haven't done this one yet! The indie and indie-minded love to cover some Petty. He may be terrible at taxes, but he's great at writing songs. The zip file does NOT have the direct-linked ez archive songs in it; just the savefile ones. A is for Tom's most famous song . . . American Girl-Melora Creager B is for Backyard Tire Fire's tribute to this great songwriter . . . Tom Petty-Backyard Tire Fire C is for Change the Locks-Keller [...]
1. Free Falling-Death Cab for Cutie 2. Handle Me With Care-Jenny Lewis and the Rabbit Fur Coat 3. You Got Lucky-Venice is Sinking 4. Listen to her Heart-Wilco 5. Free Falling-Guns N Roses with Tom Petty American Girl-Melora Creager 6. Even the Losers-DriveBy Truckers 7. Rebels-Jason Isbell [...]
Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light... In 1751, the Province of Pennsylvania sought a bell for its State House to "call the public together." Key members of the Pennsylvania Assembly sent a letter to their London-based colonial agent, Robert Charles, to make an appropriate purchase. After the bell was received, it was not hung for six months, and when finally placed into position at the State House steeple in March 1753, the Bell cracked on the first test stroke of its clapper. Two Philadelphia foundry workers, John Pass [...]
I'm not exactly the patriotic type. I've been to more countries than states; I prefer solitude to mall culture. Heck, we don't even have basic cable. But all power-hungry, commercial/corporate complex, bittersweet modernity aside, I believe in the ideals which frame the constant American dialogue with itself -- including first and foremost the requirement that we keep talking, lest we abdicate our role as government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And I believe that, by definition, as music which speaks of and for [...]
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