Okay so I'm a little jealous of Axl and Vince manning up and scalping CL tix to go see the always-magnificent TOOL play later today in smelly Jersey.....fumes/Aquanet/festi val crowds aside, that shiz is clearly gonna rip. And in reminiscing back to when that particular band started, I can't help but think about some other under-the-radar groups [...]

Some of my favorite times in Louisville this past year have been at Skull Alley , including shows with Royal Bangs (they like to fight and ride skateboards against 15-year-old drunk girls, after all), The Seedy Seeds , Young Widows , Icy Demons , Bouncing Souls , Tim Barry and, of course, the show we put on with Matt and Kim and Hollywood [...]

SKULL ALLEY, one of the best additions to the Louisville music scene in recent memory, is celebrating its 1ST ANNIVERSARY on June 20 AND June 21. Jamie and Allyson contribute to the strong energy of the venue. I've been there when it was packed and I've been there with only a few people, but the talent is always good, the music is clean and the atmosphere is one that focuses on the show itself (something that is very tough to come by now-a-days). That said, you can still get a cold beer at their bar (often tended by Jamie who [...]
Tim Furnish Website - Crain Page Will Chatham's Site - Crain Page Crain - Speed LP Although they never became as well-known as some of the other local bands (Slint, Rodan, Rachels), Louisville, KY based Crain stuck around long enough to produce 2 albums and a handful of unreleased material (some of which is now available via a [...]

Jeremy from Fingertips joins us every Friday as he scours the betterPropaganda archives, highlighting gems buried a few years back in our database. This week we bring you "Axons and Dendrites" from Shipping News . Perhaps it's only fitting that a song called "Axons and Dendrites" have so much depth and tension, so much implied mysteriously below the surface. As far as I can tell, this piece is built largely upon a recurring two-chord progression (the two nerve processes of the title?), but the chords are so spacious and so good--the [...]
So I recently spent wayyyyyy too much time redoing my itunes and ipod. like a whole week too much time. Anyway, I did a new playlist called UNHEARD which has like 1300 songs that I rarely ever listen to but didn't want to erase for ever. So over the next few weeks ill be posting songs that might be very old but new to me... check em.. Sounds like Violence - Afasi The Shipping News - The March Song [...]
Louisville's Shipping News...IN-STORE at EAR X-TACY tonight at 6pm (they will be at The Pour Haus tomorrow night, $5). DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!! Shipping News - Everglade Band Bio from Southern Records: Shipping News began in the Fall of 1996 when Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble wrote and recorded music for the NPR program "This American Life". [...]
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All I plan on listening to for the next three weeks are Unwound , Three Mile Pilot and The Shipping News . I recently went back to all of these bands and realized how fucking good they were. WOW! Please check out the three bands below. And trust me on this one... Unwound - Corpse Pose A quick sidebar about Unwound. Back a few years ago, when I was DJing at Black and White in the E. [...]

No, it's more a matter of us structuring any particular song to a shape we have in mind. We're trying to execute it. We're trying to make sure it moves properly from one thing to another. In a lot of our songs something is stated and then it's implied, or it's stated and then it disappears and it comes back later. The pacing of a song is more important than what we're actually playing. The actual notes we play are not so important. I have to say we don't give any consideration to the audience when writing songs. Every now [...]

You may remember this idea - various guest posters (including Red Hunter ) wrote a little about their favourite bands that seemed to have escaped popular (any) attention. Well here's my one. Three-Four by Shipping News was the only album I ever bought just because it sounded good in the record shop. I had never heard of them before, and I've heard very little of them since then. That's partly why I won't say too much about them now, as well as the fact that it's a very hard record to describe, [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Chevron and its partners have successfully extracted oil from a test well in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, an achievement that could be the biggest breakthrough in domestic oil supplies since the opening of the Alaskan pipeline. http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/0 5/news/companies/chevron_gulf/ index.htm?cnn=yes Well that's some good news. I've been holding to the party line on oil prices- yes, they're high, but the huge "profits" will go into more expensive exploration... but I guess in standard "expecting results yesterday" mode, I was starting to wonder. [...]
Two weeks ago I dedicated an entire radio show to Merge Records . This week (August 29, 2006) I dedicated the show to Touch and Go who are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a three day festival starting Friday September 8th in Chicago. All twenty-nine songs I played are right here as MP3s... PLAYING FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH 1) !!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Hello? Is This Thing On? 2) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone? [...]

No matter what you think of his music, there's no denying that Bono is a hypocrite . Full stop. Page France - Bush Shipping News - Axons and Dendrites Arcade Fire covers!! 1. Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, 09/09/2005) 2. Age of Consent (New Order) (Edmonton, 04/10/2005) 3. Born On A Train (Magnetic Fields) (KCRW Session, 17/01/2005) 4. Five [...]