Later this summer, Mark Kozelek, the mordant/funny/depressive driving force behind Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon will release his third album of 2013, after the covers record Like Rats and the Album Leaf collab Perils From The Sea . This one is a full-length collab with Desertshore, the band led by former Red House Painters guitarist Phil Carney; Kozelek's served as a member of the band for their last two albums, but this time around, he's leading it. The album is simply called Mark Kozelek & Desertshore , and we've already posted its " Mariette [...]
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Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle: Perils from the Sea - Are you stressed? Is this work-a-day life getting you down or making you feel weary? Do you feel like you just need to sit in a dark room and stare off into space? Then Perils of the Sea is for you. Perils of the Sea is the collaboration between Mark Kozelek, best known from his work in Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters , and Jimmy Lavalle, better known as The Album Leaf . The result [...]
Red House Painters - Lord Kill The Pain (early demo)
As JIMMY LAVALLE, multi-instrumentalist and head of THE ALBUM LEAF named MARK KOZELEK's music to be one of his major influences on various occasions, he might not have thought about collaborating with the former singer of legendary slowcore-institution RED HOUSE PAINTERS. And to be honest, a certain amount of scepticism felt appropriate indeed, when Perils The post Sun Kil Moon & The Album Leaf - Perils From The Sea appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
John Denver died in a plane crash in 1997 - several years later the compilation Take Me Home: A Tribute To John Denver was released via Badman Recordings. Guiding the artist roster, the compilation sonically concentrated on the somber stylings of the (then) quiet-is-the-new-loud zeitgeist - specifically that of Mark Kozelek, whose Red House Painters [...]
Mark Kozelek's new collection, Like Rats , finds the Sun Kil Moon frontman reimagining songs by a host of artists whom he's never before covered - Misfits, Godflesh, etc. - as well as a few whose work he's already put his stamp on. Among the latter group is '70s pop gods Yes, whose "Long Distance Runaround" was initially recorded as a somber acoustic lament for Red House Painters' 1995 LP, Ocean Beach (the song appeared only on the vinyl edition of the album); later, a robust electric version of that cover was included on the band's 1996 [...]
Hello world! Lets get two things straight - one, I'm neurotic as hell, and two, I devour music like a fat kid loves cake, and I love me some cake! Now that we have that out of the way… The lost art of the Mixtape. Remember when you would spend literally hours recording songs to those TDK tapes and trying your goddamned best to not cut the song off before it was actually over? Not only the recording part, but just sequencing the tapes was an art form too. Lest we forget dousing them with black ink penned [...]
You know the score. MM is a blog that (musically) tends to favour the seedier side of life - murder ballads, heartbreak, despair, stories of the downtrodden, the down-on-their-luck, and the downhearted - you know the kind of things we mean. Ours is a world of lonely beer and whiskey chasers nursed in the back booths of dead-end bars, of crack-whores turning tricks in trailers while their children listen on from the next room, and of purposeless drifters stumbling broke, and broken, through dusty ghost-towns. Its just the way we like it round these parts. And [...]
Normalt ville jeg kategorisere alt, Mark Kozelek aka Sun Kil Moon aka sanger i sublime, hedengange Red House Painters rør ved som voksenindie . Men nu er jeg blevet i tvivl, og har brug for jeres hjælp. Tilhører sangerens seneste projekt den sublime kategori for harmoni, forudsigelighed og stilstand? Han bevarer selvfølgelig sine ufattelige forcer (tekster, guitar og vokalens melodier), men tillader denne gang et supplement udefra i form af underspillet elektronisk knitren og en undergrund af et tikkende beat. Det introducerer spørgsmålet omkring betegnelsen. I dette tilfælde, er det den eneste tvivl, [...]
So via Facebook I'm reminded that it is in fact winter and that most of the country has a condemning hatred for it... it's currently 76 in Austin. Regardless of the temperature, I find this time of year once again bringing on those same low feelings that persuade the type of music I get into [...]
Red House Painters: Rollercoaster - It's a December afternoon last year, and I am twitching. Sitting in my work break room, I cannot concentrate on anything my boss is going over with me, these are things he wants done today. I am however, blank and void. All I can think of is an airplane. Acceptable credit card debt limits moments from being fragmented and ruined. Why? Because today I will board a plane, buy a ticket I never expected to buy, and speed towards an expeditious and bleeding humiliation. Today my affections will finally overthrow my logic, gag fear [...]
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I det her efterår er jeg virkelig ofte blevet draget mod den amerikanske sangskriver Mark Kozelek s fingerspilsfortællinger. Min hang til hans tillukkede og lavmælte univers er kommet snigende, uden jeg helt har lagt mærke til det. Han har været på scenen længe, ja, faktisk udgav han sit første album i mit fødeår. Og han er sådan en, man godt kan glemme lidt, fordi han er i det mærkelige felt mellem det etablerede og undergrunden. Musikalsk er han også særdeles etableret, og siden han omkring årtusindeskiftet dedikerede sin opmærksomhed til folkgenren, har han ikke fornyet sig nævneværdigt fra udgivelse [...]
Fall is the perfect time for this type of music, but these songs sound pretty damn similar. I wonder if 2 years after Fade Into You came out (1994) Mark Kozeleks Red House Painters wasn't doing more of an homage with Songs For a Blue Guitar. Either way i'm not sure which one i prefer more, they're both good:
Red House Painters' first album, Down Colorful Hill , came out 20 years ago last month, and over the last two decades, the band's mastermind, Mark Kozelek, has produced a catalog of staggering power under a host of monikers, including his own, Desertshore, and most famously, Sun Kil Moon. (I'd argue that his name should be included in any conversation of the era's best songwriters.) Remarkably though, last night was the first time he ever performed live on television. Appearing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon , Kozelek was joined by the Roots - which is [...]
Singer-songwriter and former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty announces his covers album, 'The Flip is Another Honey,' out in November
Mark Kozelek ( Red House Painters , Sun Kil Moon ) stopped by Jimmy Fallon last night for his first television appearance. Best of all, he got a new backing bad: the Roots!!! He even dusted off "Mistress" for some sort of online-bonus song....... The post Sun Kil Moon on Fallon appeared first on Captains Dead .
KRAMER : How can I possibly thank you? SOUP NAZI : You are the only one who understands me. KRAMER : You suffer for your soup. SOUP NAZI : Yes. That is right. KRAMER : You demand perfection from yourself, from your soup. SOUP NAZI : How can I tolerate any less from my customer? CUSTOMER : Uh, gazpacho, por favor. SOUP NAZI : Por favor? CUSTOMER : Um, I'm part Spanish. SOUP NAZI : Adios muchacho! To truly appreciate [...]
There is something haunting about Mark Kozelek on stage. No costume, makeup, crazy lights... even other instruments. It was simply a man and his guitar. Lincoln Hall may have been the perfect venue for this quiet series of ballads. Anything more personal would've been the man performing in your living room. His presence calls for small, intimate spaces. His songs need minds willing to go to darker places and that is where a chilly Monday evening found me, surrounded by the new generation of Blue Demons, Chicagoans, the college whatnots sipping white wine (or even better, a microbrews) waiting for a [...]
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