If you live in San Francisco you know the Mezzanine is consistently providing entertaining musical acts & alcoholic beverages for you to spend you paycheck on. Here's a peek at the new calendar, plan your life & checkbook accordingly. Thursday, February 15, 2007 | Switch / Solid Groove (Dubsided) Next Thursday Switch a.k.a. Solid Groove a.k.a. Dave Taylor is coming to town! Switch is a producer & also runs the label Dubsided which is home to Herve, Dj Fame & of course Switch. [...]
If you are a big Pinback fan, like I am, you pay attention to the side projects and other things band members do when they arent touring and recording for the band. Well, except for Goblin Cock. Anyway, Rob Crow has done solo work in the past, some of it good, but its been mostly inconsistent in my opinion. Living Well is the title to his newest release, which will hit shelves on January 23rd via the Temporary Residence label. While its true alot of Robs solo work [...]
Major airports are our little cities: intermediaries between the destination and the method of travel where infrastructure, culture, and commerce meet. In every curve and line a purpose, a direction, a puzzle piece of people moving design. Sit there . Walk here . Watch this . Stay calm . Be still . And like cities, airports are unique. Some bustle with electric human tension, ultramodern and efficient, while others are subdued and worn, watching people come and go by the quiet dozen. Some are peppered [...]
Una vez que se escapa de los terrenos de la decadencia total uno se sienta en sus alrededores sintiéndose a salvo. A medida que pasan los días uno se lo pasa ideando planes de vida, imaginando el color de la suma de los próximos días. Sin embargo por más que uno exprima el cerebro no se llegará a buen puerto sin desarrollar un determinado estado de ánimo y sin encontrar una motivación. Cuando no se obtienen ni ese ánimo ni esa motivación se corre el peligro de caer en un limbo cíclico, sin saber qué hacer y en un estado [...]
So, there are so many great P named bands, that this is going to be one half of the P Post. Take that >>> FROM THE LORO 7INCH : Pinback - Loro FROM HOW TO CLEAN A COUPLE THINGS 7INCH : Propagandhi - All Cops are Bad, You Know FROM THE UUAR 7INCH SERIES : Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica So Ill post the other half of the P [...]
This is the first in a sporadic series on the buzz from other similar blogs in a spirit of fraternal love. First blog up is... MP3 Hugger Hugger is compiling the top forty-two songs of the year under the snazzy title of Huggers Top 42 Songs which is the blog equivalent of Peel's Festive Fifty. In a spirit of democracy and customer involvement the list will be compiled by the votes of the blog's readers. If you want [...]
photo credit: Meaghan Montagano The blogosphere has been hot and heavy for these guys over the past month or so, and its hard to disagree. I thought I was a little too late to the party and then realized the album doesnt even drop till next Tuesday, Oct 17th! (though the digital fans can get it now on ITunes) Annuals make the type of anthemic indie rock I really get hooked on quick. Not only are these North Carolina kids getting incredible blog buzz, but the contingent over at the Fork [...]
ahh Pinback , how you soothe me with notes of pluckiness and precision. I definitely count them in the frontrunners of influences in indie pop today. Infectious basslines, signature guitar tones, sparse and tight rythm section and dreamy layered vocals make this California band an awesome needle in the proverbial haystack of crap. Listen: Avignon [from Nautical Antiques , 2006| buy ] This Red Book [from Summer in Abaddon , 2004| buy ] X.I.Y. [from Blue Screen Life , 2001| buy ]
Today is a quieter, more introspective day at Red Blondehead headquarters, so the musical selections will follow accordingly. I've been sitting on all of this stuff for quite a while and didn't have time to post it. A few songs from the leaked Album Leaf, Into the Blue Again ... The Album Leaf - Always for You The Album Leaf - Shine The Album Leaf - Writings on the Wall [...]
At the end of August Pinback quiety released a rarities collection Nautical Antiques on Ace Fu. According to the Pinback fansite, Pinbackfreak the tracks on the new release consists of tracks unreleased in the states, appearing on demos and various b-sides on european-only releases. All these were pretty much available online if you looked for them, the only ones that I didn't have were the 3 alternate takes. From Nautical Antiques Pinback - Messenger [...]
I just realized before going to sleep that the title says 08/06/06. Obviously I meant to to type 09/06/06, oh well it's late so whatever. This week brings us a couple of releases worth mentioning on the Graboid, with the one album I highly recommend being Grizzly Bear's Yellow House . I've already written about how much I love this album, and pretty much every blogger pretty much agrees that it's one of the best releases of the year. [...]
Play it: Touch & Go Records Sampler Oh joyous of 4-day work weeks! Just in time for their 25th Anniversary, Touch & Go (and Quarterstick) Records have been added to the Rhapsody library. At this time, it appears to be limited to mostly recent artists and one (maybe two) from other artists on the label. More recent T&G staples like TV On The Radio , CocoRosie , [...]
When I posted the last "baker's dozen downloads" a couple weeks ago, I got crazy hits and lots of nice notes, so I'm gonna try to make it a bi-weekly thing. Here's a cd's worth of good stuff that's been making my ears smile lately: Purrbot - "Hologram" mp3 Real Ones - "Orlando" mp3 Monster Movie - "Vanishing Act" mp3 Xiu Xiu - "Boy Soprano" mp3 Pinback - "Messenger" mp3 Team Band - "Bond"
I was originally going to post about how Pinback has a new album full of old, rare songs from their past (here's the song I was going to post - " Byzantine "). Then, I put Itunes on random and a certain band came up that I'd always loved, but only had three mp3's of. That band was Gravity & Henry. I downloaded the three mp3's from their site off Sputnik: Travelling Companion and absolutely loved them. It's been a solid two years since I downloaded those, yet I still haven't looked into them [...]
Cowboy Junkies : 1996-05-06, Vancouver [mp3,ogg,flac] "State Trooper" [mp3] Cracker : 2006-08-26, Englewood [mp3,ogg,flac] "Happy Birthday" [mp3] The Grates : "Feels Like Pain" [mp3] from Jeremy Enigk : "Been Here Before" [mp3] from World Waits (October 17th) Judah Johnson : "Little Sounds" [mp3] from Be Where I Be Pinback : "Messenger" [mp3] [...]
Paul Duncan was a name familiar to me, but the music, unfortunately was not. Sometimes something great can slip by, like when you turn one way and that girl you can't stop thinking about passes by unnoticed. Not that Mr Duncan is a girl, or sounds like a girl, or that I can't stop thinking about him (as a boy, or a girl), it's just that this song caught my ear. No, it hooked my ear. I came across
I was recently introduced to The Clock Work Army and Im glad I got ahold of some of their tunes. I was struck right away by how much the lead singer sounded like one of my favorite female vocalists ever Natalie Merchant, the sound is incredibly close at first listen. However as the songs wear on Emily Neveu makes them her own. Still, the short version is Natalie Merchant fronts a punk band. One of the better things to come out of San Diego since Pinback. Check them out.... Banter [...]
Classic pop. A break before going back into punk and postrock, Pinback is something familiar and comfortable. To underline their mainstay, they've become OC soundtrack. What other proof would one need to say they've become mainstream? Started out in 1998, San Diego's Pinback was formed as a part-time recording project by Armistead Burwell Smith ("Zach") and Robert Rulon Crow Junior after 3 Mile Pilot long hiatus. Adding drummer Tom Zinser (also of 3 Mile Pilot) Pinback started recording albums using computers at home. In the early 2000 [...]
Sorta new, anyway; it's a bunch of early rare material, from 1998-2001 as far as I can tell, being released by their label Ace Fu Records . This is good by me; any Pinback is good Pinback. (Which, by the way, is a reference to the whiny janitor in Dark Star . I did not know that.) The album cover seems to feature Green Lantern and Darth Vader's lovechild in a landscape by Dali. Sure, why not? Doesn't really seem to fit Pinback, though--they're not dark or melty enough for that. [...]
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