Scan "Self-Portrait with Sheila " by me Howdy kiddos! How the fuck are ya? Me? Well just dandy dandy, thank you for asking... As many of you know, I've been a busy boy over at tsurufoto , takin' lots of pictures, starting a nudie blog , and, of course, running the #1 nudiezine in the world ! I've taken quite a hiatus from "new music" for a few months and I [...]
Though it would probably be overstepping to grant Morphine the kind of singular distinction usually thrown at the likes of jazz fusion pioneer Miles Davis or Barryfest-endorsed darkly sarcastic American duo Steely Dan, it would be incredibly disingenuous not to acknowledge that this Boston-bred oddball of the 1990s - adept at melting fiery blues and avant-garde jazz into an alternative rock foundation - was simply the most unique group of musicians from that decade. Known as much for their almost universal aversion to electric guitars and strange, delicate use of traditional instruments (heavily effect-laden saxophone and slide bass [...]
After many lineup, name, style, and sonic changes, Miami's Young Circles have become wonderfully unsettled. While we've come to expect euphonic art rock from stalwarts like Sonic Youth and Radiohead , it's refreshing to hear a young band embrace this vibrant genre so successfully. The songs on this year's Bones EP and the new LP Jungle Habits flaunt freewheeling experimentalism, widely varied textures, and strange timbres. The opening track on Jungle Habits - 'Triangles' – begins with pulsating distortion, introducing Jordy Asher's boxy falsetto amongst vibrato electronic strings and [...]
I loved the promo track for this album that dropped into my inbox in July, now I've got a copy of the full release I've got to throw out a mention for it again, the wonderfully title Morphine & Cupcakes is a real treat if you like slow-core Americana this is a perfect late night accompaniment. The Australian-born singer/songwriters hypnotic weathered vocal sways wearily through the opaque instrumentation in a wonderfully melancholic amble that had this listener transfixed, drawing inspiration from her unconventional background and nomadic wanderings ( bio ) O'Halloran has delivered a real gem of an [...]
Aussie-born singer taps into that slowcore thing Remember hearing The Cowboy Junkies for the first time, back in the late '80s, and thinking, "Wow, this is some seriously mellow stuff?" We've come a long way since then, kids: Australian-born Emily O'Halloran sings a kind of languid, narcotic-tinged country-folk that makes Magro Timmins sound like Courtney Love. This isn't to say the songs are bad -- suffused with longing and quiet hopelessness, they're not bad at all. Just don't try to dance to...
Talk about a coming out party, Avicii has basically had a coming out summer. Tim Bergling (also produces music under the alliance Tim Berg) has been in the game for a couple years now, despite being a mere 21, but he really set the blog0sphere on fire over the past 6-months. Bringing us banger after banger: Levels, Swede Dreams, Enough is Enough, and even created mainstream controversy with the recently resolved battle with Leona Lewis (who knowingly highjacked his melody to Penguin). He brings us yet another summer jam with his tune, and anthem to Suncity [...]
New eargasm from Avicii here. It's everything you would expect from an Avicii track. The title is super catchy and this definitely has a vocal edit in it's near future. Peep it below. Avicii - Morphine
SICK new Avicii. Hopefully he throws some vocals on this bad boy sometime soon to make it even better. Avicii - Morphine Related posts: Avicii - ID with Vocals Avicii and David Guetta - Sunshine (Official Version) Avicii vs Leona Lewis- Penguins Collide Into Darkness (Kap Slap Bootleg)
Husky vocals with a backdrop of mournful steel - love it, Crying When It Hurts is the promo track from Morphine and Cupcakes the debut album from Emily O'Halloran which is set for release on September 20th - download only outside of the US, you can check out more tracks at Soundcloud
Of all the shows I regret not seeing, the Morphine show on March 14, 1999 at all-ages venue 328 Performance Hall in Nashville, Tennessee, stands at the top of the list. I had a ticket in hand, but I was late getting into town that night, and if I remember, it was snowing, and... at any rate, I didn't go. Morphine frontman Mark Sandman died less than four months later. Now here's the trailer for Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story , a documentary on the musician who, using a [...]
Slowburn saxophone and queasily sliding bass open a window into a dark other world inside the insistent daytime heat. It's not the first summer this has happened, and probably won't be the last. Morphine - Candy
It's been quite the struggle to post lately for me. I copied my digital music library from my computer to an external hard drive and the process took nearly a week! My computer is ancient so that might have something to do with it, but suffice to say there was a lot of music tripping through these wires this past week. It's just short of a terabyte now and I'm not really close to having everything from my library digitized. I'm looking forward to having several copies in safe places and buying a new machine that can handle all this [...]
I highly recommend you download the Turquoise Wisdom: Heavy Summer Nights that's up over at Aquarium Drunkard . Fantastic stuff. NPR's World Cafe has a great interview with Roger Waters . Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears perform live in The Current studio . Perhaps it's the fresh Austin connection, but I've really been enjoying their new album, Scandalous . I'd never listened to Chad VanGaalen until a friend recently recommended his stuff. I love the [...]
Compared to his contemporaries, Morphine's Mark Sandman came off like more of an out-of-place beat poet than the zeitgeist's 'slacker' guitar sound of the day. With a presence tapped in to the lineage of Tom Waits and Bukowski, Morphine worked the noir and worked it hard. They dubbed their sound "low rock." No one else [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales Bob Berg, Getty Images Morpheus, as Mark Sandman liked to explain, is the god of dreams. The late songwriter's unique band, Morphine , got its start in an exotic Cambridge, Mass., nightclub called the Middle East, which featured belly-dancing. Its songs -- 'Cure for Pain,' 'A Head with Wings,' 'Like Swimming' -- were about entering netherworlds. The band name wasn't so much about its namesake drug as the allure of the dream state. [...]
Every single Wednesday without fail, your hosts post a suitably stale video clip that we think needs to be revisited. Click here for more Crusty Clips. Got a clip you think we should post? Send it to crustcake@gmail.com.by Van Damned (TX)Today's Crusty Clip comes in honor of Henke Frykman, long-time bassist for Swedish D-beat bruisers Disfear, who succumbed to cancer on March 25. Rest in peace,
In "The One Where They All Turn Thirty," Rachel is upset because she thought she'd have found "The One" by that age, and she doesn't yet realize that it's always been Ross. If you know what I'm talking about, then you're probably as old as Dave, who turns thirty today. I've known Dave since the summer of 1999, when Penn State, having assigned us to be roommates, exchanged our phone numbers so that we could make plans of who would bring the stereo and who would bring the tv, etc. IIRC, Dave directed that first conversation [...]
Somewhat related mp3s: George Carlin - Offensive Language.mp3 David Byrne - Language Confounded.mp3 Morphine - You Speak My Language (Bootleg Detroit).mp3 Thievery Corporation - Language Symbolique.mp3 The Cure - Speak My Language.mp3
with Morphine's Dana Colley the Best Shows I saw in 2010.... Captain Cutthroat - Dakota AN AMERICAN BAND - Captain Cutthroat is an original rock band from just north of Boston, MA. The fiery live band (see below) have released two independent albums [...]
Back in the day, SVB was a big fan of Morphine that formed in Cambridge, Mass back in 1989 featuring Mark Sandman on bass & lead vocals, sax player Dana Colley, and drummer Billy Conway after he replaced Jerome Deupree. After their indie debut the band signed with Rykodisc Records and had a handful of "hits" (loosely defined) including songs like "Buena," "Honey White, "Buena," and "Thursday." At the time they were a unique creative force in indie music; when they toured it was just sax, drums and bass - no guitars or keyboards, [...]
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