Frank Yang The last time Joe Pernice took a Toronto stage, he promised that as a new resident of the city, he might find himself playing more gigs around town and that he'd see us soon. That was over four years ago . Being fair, Joe has hardly been idle in that time. He released another Pernice Brothers record in Live A Little , became a father and wrote his first novel It Feels So Good When I Stop [...]
Amazon People probably don't believe Joe Pernice , he of the gorgeously depressive folk-pop, when he says he's a huge fan of early '80s British new wave with its mechanical tones and synthetic textures. And so perhaps to prove it, he covers it. A lot. Or he did, anyways - his latest release It Feels So Good When I Stop is almost all covers and while it ranges from '70s AM pop through classic country and '90s college rock, his Anglophile side is pretty much ignored. But [...]
As a longtime fan of the Pernice Brothers and having enjoyed Joe Pernice 's first novella, Meat Is Murder , from the 33 1/3 series, I'm looking forward to reading It Feels So Good When I Stop . However, I haven't had a chance to read it yet, so I can only assess the album on its own worth. The album sounds as if Pernice had you over to play a random assortment of songs in his living room, and unfortunately the result simply isn't as good [...]
Het lijkt bijna een nieuw genre: de soundtrack bij een boek. Vorig jaar verraste Willy Vlautin ons met de instrumentale soundtrack bij zijn boek Northline. Het album Last of my Kind van Paul Burch is dan weer de soundtrack bij een boek van Tony Earley, een vriend van Burch. Dus dat is eigenlijk een wat vreemde eend in dit nieuwe genre. Nu ligt de ‘novel soundtrack’, zoals hij dat zelf noemt, voor me die Joe Pernice maakte bij zijn boek It Feels So Good When I Stop. Op de soundtrack tref je [...]
Out this week is a debut novel by Joe Pernice . While his band, the Pernice Brothers, didn't ever really do much for me musically, his book sounds interesting. Course, I love any book that provides music lyric references (otherwise why else would I still be willing to read Chuck Klosterman after that god-awful Downtown Owl ?). And "Charles Bukowski after listening to Dusty Springfield," how can you resist something with a comparison like that? (From today's NY Post ): READING indie pop musician Joe Pernice's debut novel, "It Feels So [...]
Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers , Scud Mountain Boys , Big Tobacco and, well you get the point. The guy is prolific and is set to turn the publishing world on its ear with the release of his first novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop , through Riverhead Press . Fans in Chicago will be some of the lucky few that will get to see him read from his book and play an acoustic set of covers mentioned in the book when he hits Schubas on [...]
You know the feeling. You pick up a record and play that first song and it totally bowls you over or it leaves you totally underwhelmed. Regardless, we have pretty lofty expectations for that first track. Many would argue that the first track is absolutely the most important. It's not that the other tracks aren't great, but there is something special in the opening track of an album. We also all know how it feels to love the first track on a record, but be totally ambivalent to the other tracks and there is nothing more frustrating. So, if the [...]
Autumn de Wilde Having followed John Vanderslice's career from a respectful distance for many years now - spending a lot of time with some records, completely overlooking others - I would have said that while I'd always expect his records to be enjoyable, coupling solid songwriting with subtly idiosyncratic production, I would never expect to be floored by anything he put out. He's just been so content batting for average that there's no reason to think he'd suddenly open up the stance and swing for the fences. And you wouldn't call his latest [...]
Over the past couple of months, I've found myself watching an unhealthy amount of television in my spare time. Of course, during this span, a number of familiar songs have made their way onto quite a few commercials. The amount of times I would see each of these became so frequent that I decided to go ahead and make a list of some the more recent ones. As with the majority of these commercial posts, this is usually what makes me decide to compile one of these. These advertisements are still a fantastic a way for a song [...]
Taking a look at MBV's list of upcoming releases in the next quarter, summer looks to be pretty quiet. A few albums out this week or in the next couple of weeks, but beyond that not a lot that has me saving my pennies. Anything on the list that has you excited? Wilco, Wilco (The Album) (June 30) Haven't heard a single track off this record yet. I was scared off of Sky Blue Sky by a few tepid reviews when it came out in 07, only to pick it [...]
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Michael Schmelling I warned you this'd be another one of those days heavy on links, light on context. Let's begin. Sonic Youth's current tour in support of The Eternal has predictably yielded a lot of interviews with various band members. The Quietus scores face time with all save drummer Steve Shelley, while The Detroit Free Press talks only to Shelley. Spinner chats with Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon while [...]
Brantley Gutierrez It'd be foolish to suggest that the guitar has fallen out of its place of supremacy in the indie rock universe - the six-string remains ubiquitous - but there's a case to be made that the guitar solo is on the wane. And I'm not talking about the concise melodic instrumental break but the full-on, 32 bar, eye-closing, fuzz-spraying, fret-shredding SOLO. That, you don't see as much of these days. So for those of us for whom that's not a positive development, the impending June 23 arrival of Farm [...]
SIDE A 1. The Sarcastic Dharma Society - Our House (Crosby Stills & Nash Cover) 2. Elbow - Running To Stand Still (U2 Cover) 3. The Antlers - Tears Are In Your Eyes (Yo La Tengo Cover) 4. Adem - Bedside Table (Bedhead Cover) 5. Lex Land - Miss Misery (Elliott Smith Cover) 6. The Pernice Brothers - Up The Down Escalator (The Chameleons Cover) 7. Chris Pureka - Everything Is Free [...]
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Frank Yang Guilt and courteousness can be powerful motivators. Even moreso than self-preservation, which is why it was that rather than stay home Saturday night, safe and warm, I set out into the frigid, frigid cold to the Velvet Underground to catch a couple of bands who'd been politely and persistently inviting me out to their gigs for a while now - Receivers , visiting from Montreal, and locals Beth In Battle Mode . Of course it helped that I'd liked what I'd heard of both acts and had intended to catch either or [...]
Frank Yang Guilt and courteousness can be powerful motivators. Even moreso than self-preservation, which is why it was that rather than stay home Saturday night, safe and warm, I set out into the frigid, frigid cold to the Velvet Underground to catch a couple of bands who'd been politely and persistently inviting me out to their gigs for a while now - Receivers , visiting from Montreal, and locals Beth In Battle Mode . Of course it helped that I'd liked what I'd heard of both acts and had intended to catch either or [...]
Photo by Blind Pilot Music I went through a really long musical drought. Nothing sounded good. I made a brief detour at Pandora and left unhappy: my digital radio station didn't introduce me to anything I liked and repeated the songs I didn't like too often. Honestly I love listening to complete albums. Pandora doesn't suit me. I don't like the next song I hear being selected by a computer program. It's too cold, too calculated. I would rather listen to a podcast that someone has curated with songs he or she has heard [...]
Joe Pernice is the singer and songwriter for The Pernice Brothers . Their most recent album is called Yours, Mine and Ours . He has published a book of poetry. This is his first work of fiction. 33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. Read [...]
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