These mixes were posted in January and February 2010, the winter of our discontent. Seriously, the blog was on life support during this time. We're through that storm now. 2010 was such a great year for music, and these early mixes show why. Many of the tracks were available in late 2009, but appeared on 2010 releases. Tracks are from late October through late November 2009 Gapless mix ripped at 256k VBR. Download all tracks in one zip file [...]
Zine by TSURUFOTO !!! Howdy kiddos! Got a special little mid-holiday post-xmas pre-new years whoop it up for ya in the form of a mixtape!!! BUT... no no no... that's not all, because accompanying that mixtape is a sweet little film we made, yep! Before we get to all of that though, I've got some exciting news! See that scan of our zine up top that's available over at Etsy for the low low price of $4 ?? WELL... let's say you don't like [...]
Brandon Showers The final week of the year - a time for reminiscences, reflections and regrets. And leading the pack in the regrets department, at least as far as the blog goes, is not giving more attention to Miles Kurosky's solo debut The Desert Of Shallow Effects , even though Kurosky's set was a highlight at SxSW . It's an album that should have gotten a lot more facetime hereabouts, considering I'd been waiting for it for nigh on seven years, ever since Kurosky's band Beulah [...]
By Alex Brenner [It's that time of year again. This is the first in what should be at least four but maybe as many as seven lists going up this year. Each is from the perspective of the individual contributor. Here's Alex's list (in no particular order other than the way he gave them to me). There are also links to his reviews, links to support the artists by buying their records, and a couple of other bonuses. Enjoy. - Rube] The Best [...]
Saddle Creek Many little bits and pieces to get through before I head out to Chicago for the Pitchfork Music Festival , and any randomness in this post was compounded by the fact that I became an uncle for the first time last night. Yay babies. With seven years past since their last album and numerous solo projects and albums between them in the interim, you'd be forgiven for assuming that Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink had gone their separate ways for good. But their hiatus has turned out [...]
By Alex Brenner When Beulah broke up in 2005 it just seemed plain unfair. After eight years, four amazing records and even a film, A Good Band is Easy to Kill, documenting their final tour, it was all over. Out of all the Elephant 6 bands no one really understood pop music better than Miles Kurosky. [...]
We've gotten walloped hard with the Spring stick here in DC, and the songs that I've obsessed over for the last few months that haven't quite made it to this blog find themselves winding their way into this mix, like so much stormwater draining into the Potomac, only sparkling clear instead of clogged with pollen and dog shit. There's some songs in here that were follow-up picks for Fine Tune Friday this year, as well as three tracks that escaped my notice when they were first released, but that I couldn't possibly love any more. Hit play [...]
San Francisco trio brings the good stuff!
Via The Bay Bridged , here's Miles Kurosky in an impromptu reunion with the rest of Beulah : More videos and MP3's of the (highly recommended) session can be found here . Related posts: Best News I've Heard In A While Monday Afternoon Video Fun Random Video For Thursday
Frank Yang The word around The Big To-Do - the latest album from Drive-By Truckers - is that it's the band's best since their generally-acknowledged high-water mark, Southern Rock Opera . I have trouble subscribing to this because in my mind, that double-album opus is head, shoulders and torso above anything else the band has done not just because it kicks ass, but because of the ambition, concept and scope behind it, and the Truckers have had the good sense to not even try [...]
The first tune from SF's Grass Widow is kinda like my week—or year, for that matter—sweet spots punctuated by moments of full-on freakouts. Next is some raw 'n fun rawk from Harlem (thanks for the tip, Sergio ). Then ex-frontman for an SF band I listened to when living in Cole Valley, Beulah . The new Banksy movie trailer turned me on to this Richard Hawley track. Wrapping it up is Shiryu's Tron Legacy Remix . Hot shit. Hop on a bike and go light shite up! • • [...]
Published in the East Bay Express:Occupying the idiosyncratic end of the pop-genius spectrum, Miles Kurosky led Beulah through four albums of catchy indie rock. Kurosky returns with a solo debut six years after Beulah's swan song, sounding more like he never took a hiatus than someone who labored endlessly chasing a sound just out of reach. A wide variety of instruments weave in and out of
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Frank Yang And to think, I almost stayed home to watch The Pacific . What can I say? Some nights I'm just lazy. But thankfully, I managed to haul my ass out of the apartment on Monday night to head down to the Horseshoe for what would turn out to be a pretty special show from Megafaun and Sharon Van Etten . It was Van Etten who was the main draw for me - her 2009 debut Because I Was In Love [...]
For everyone who cringed while watching the very-real-life 2005 Beulah break-up documentary A Good Band Is Easy To Kill, the news last year of a 2010 Miles Kurosky solo record on the horizon was akin to the promise of reuniting with an old friend. Picking up aesthetically where Beualh's swan song, Yoko, left off, Kurosky's [...]
Thursday : Miles Kurosky , Pancho-san , Lia Rose @ Bottom of the Hill (8:30, $12) Miles Kurosky - "Dead Language Blues" (from N,IL ) Friday : Love of Diagrams , Weekend , Fever Dream @ Hemlock (9:30pm, $7) Weekend - "All American" Saturday : Kowloon Walled City , Hollow Mirrors , Across Tundras , Lost Machine @ Thee Parkside (9pm, $7) [...]
Frank Yang And to think, I almost stayed home to watch The Pacific . What can I say? Some nights I'm just lazy. But thankfully, I managed to haul my ass out of the apartment on Monday night to head down to the Horseshoe for what would turn out to be a pretty special show from Megafaun and Sharon Van Etten . It was Van Etten who was the main draw for me - her 2009 debut Because I Was In Love [...]
Citizen Cope , the musical persona of groove-meister Clarence Greenwood, is nearing the end of a long national tour behind his first album in four years, "The RainWater LP." Tonight's date is at the Wiltern. ... Straight outta mainland China, P.K. 14 and Carsick Cars rock the Viper Room — the latter's set earlier this week at the Echo was good, noisy fun. ... Ex-Beulah frontman Miles Kurosky plays the Echo, while ex-Shudder to Think frontman Craig Wedren plays the Bootleg Theater. ... And electro-pop phenom Owl City plays to [...]
TheBayBridged.com and New, Improved Recording are proud to announce our latest New, Improved, LIVE studio session featuring Miles Kurosky joined by his former bandmates from acclaimed indie pop band Beulah. This four-song session features the guys performing songs from Kurosky's debut solo album The Desert of Shallow Effects , out last month on Majordomo Records . Visiting New, Improved Recording to work with Eli Crews, Kurosky was surprised to see some familiar faces at the session. In secret, Crews had gathered the rest of Beulah the evening prior to rehearse Kurosky's [...]
TheBayBridged.com and New, Improved Recording are proud to announce our latest New, Improved, LIVE studio session featuring Miles Kurosky joined by his former bandmates from acclaimed indie pop band Beulah. This four-song session features the guys performing songs from Kurosky's debut solo album The Desert of Shallow Effects , last month on Majordomo Records . Visiting New, Improved Recording to work with Eli Crews, Kurosky was surprised to see some familiar faces at the session. In secret, Crews had gathered the rest of Beulah the evening prior to rehearse Kurosky's album, [...]
Helen Stellar Begin Their Monday Night Residency at Spaceland Monday 4/5/10 [Pick of the Night] Helen Stellar / Mere Mortals / Luna Vista / Hexham Heads @ Spaceland (Free) – Helen Stellar's doing the Monday night residency at Spaceland this month. They added a second guitarist and their sound is even thicker and fuller than before. [Recommended] Walking Sleep / Stevenson Ranch Davidians / Sons of August / Carsick Cars @ The [...]
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