happy saturday, a-holes! i aint got much going on except enjoying a few beers before i start my medical treatment tomorrow which of course puts on the wagon for 10 days. who knows? maybe ill go longer, i could stand to lose a few pounds. also, me and the wife are supposed to quit smoking on the 14th. she smokes much less than yours truly, but still we both need to stop. here are the replacements playing at the ritz on 10.26.87. the whole she-bangs [...]
An oft-forgotten anti-authority gem gets an irreverent jazz-bop-shout sheen.
Enjoy the latest track made available by Brooklyn's most famous Velvet Underground-covering lounge act Puttin on the Ritz, a single from their upcoming album White Light/White Heat, out June 15 on Hot Cup Records. The album was recorded in two days with a sextet, and the band muses whether "this is what the original album would have sounded like had Lou Reed and company been members of the Sun Ra Arkestra." Whereas the last track they leaked, a rendition of "The Gift"...
Each week Shuffle Sundays features a cover chosen at random. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. Downloads are only available for one week, so get them while you can. "Why are there so many songs about rainbows?"It's a valid question, but in the opening sequence of 1979's Muppet Movie, you get the sense Kermit's only really referring to one song: Over the
1 Broadcast & the Focus Group - I See, So I See So 2 Su Kramer - Magic Dance 3 Gary Higgins - Down On The Farm 4 Puttin' On The Ritz - Girl From Ipanema 5 Laurel Aitken - Come Back Jeannie 6 Trans Am - Cocaine Computer [...]
hey Ranchers, This dude BJ (the singer) runs a website called Pukeos, at pukeos.org and also plays in a band called Puttin' on the Ritz. You can find a nice EMHU writeup there today replete with fresh drawings I did, and stuffed to the gills with 320 bit MP3s. Anyways here's some Youtube videos of his band, and also a bonus video of us in Boston our last day of tour. Classic No Wave shenanigans: Classic Spiked Punch Mellow Shenanigans:
Sep 10, 2009, 12:00am
Fmly
cred: postsecret In the perfect economic recession everyone will turn to pornography. Puttin' On The Ritz - Gigantic (Pixies cover)
To cover the Pixies , one must take the material and "make it your own." e.g. O'Death covering "Nimrod's Son" . To try and sound like the Pixies is an exercise in futility. It will only make you sound banal. That is why most Pixies covers suck. I don't feel like posting crappy Pixies covers here. You can find many examples using http://google.com/ . Have fun with that. So, let's talk about the jazzpunk of Puttin' On The Ritz . The band definitely owns this cover of "Gigantic". It may not wind up [...]
Jun 23, 2009, 1:06pm Fmly
Big ups to BJ Rubin, currently of Puttin on the Ritz , for sharing a one day classic that is sure to warm your heart and all else if the sun hasn't gotten to it already. I see BJ at a good number of great shows as he's usually the guy standing right by me talking to the band and until stumbling upon his blog (that has a .org?) it seemed like he was friends was everyone, now it's confirmed, he is friends with everyone. Thanks for letting me grab some shade from your umbrella at Fort [...]
- Have you heard the sampler Matador dropped of the new Sonic Youth ? It sounds like we have some reason to get excited. Take a listen: The Eternal Montage (matador mp3) - Looks like mp3+crazyphotoblawg Fuck You On Friday has rebranded itself "--" or molasuperpoco . Check out their leak of the new PJ Harvey & John Parish track, Black Hearted Love... here . - It's punk rock meets Steve Reich over @ Cardboard Records . Listen to an excerpt of [...]
After a lot of late nights, panic attacks and tantrums... all i can think is ...Thank fuck we don't have to look at the word press default anymore! Id like to thank Patch (also huge props to Steve for helping out) for all your hard work scripting this bad boy, all the other writers for awesome posts, JD for getting me onto this AND of course thanks to all the readers for not only your, umm, readinginging, but your input and opinions. It really feels like we have a little community going here! Hopefully you will like the things we [...]
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