Mark Seliger Apologies for going for the low-hanging fruit with this one, but I don't have the time or energy to squeeze out something more interesting. So you get this. And pro tip: providing a current photo with credit really goes a long way towards leading off a post. Anyways, The Rolling Stones - perhaps you've heard of them - finally announced their long-rumoured, basically inevitable 50th anniversary North American tour yesterday, and while it's only nine dates long, at least for now, Toronto makes the cut - the Stones will be [...]
Pisaliśmy ostatnio w wielkim skrócie o six by seven . O ogromnej wartości ich dyskografii i próbach kontynuacji podejmowanych - często heroicznym wysiłkiem przetrwańca - przez lidera - Chrisa Olley’a. Nie? No to piszemy teraz. Tymczasem, pół godziny temu, znaleźliśmy w mailowej skrzynce elektryzującą wiadomość z samego źródła. Nowym perkusistą zespołu został - nie kto inny a - Steve Hewitt - bębniarz Placebo w czasach, kiedy był to jeszcze naprawdę znakomity zespół. Sound jest podobno [...]
Ho ho ho, assholes! With the Christmas holiday coming up this weekend and we're already two days deep up on the Hanukkah tip, it's very much time to drop the annual The Decibel Tolls Holiday Mixer . You know the deal - a carefully curated collection of skewed, brain-burning, monolithic Christmas gems that totally sleigh. Get it?! Sleigh? Slay? It's a homophone, you guys! Ugh... never mind. Tough crowd. Anyway, these yule-time canticles exalted on high can crush shopping malls and magically spike egg nog, true story. For this year's mixer, you'll recognize you'll recognize some jams from previous year's mixers, [...]
Frank Yang So here we are, with both post- Oasis projects with their debuts officially out in the wild - the Liam-led Beady Eye having released Different Gear, Still Speeding back in March and Noel Gallagher's Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds out this week. Given the not-so-greatness of Liam's Oasis output, the bar for the former was set fairly low and Different Gear 's meat-and-potatoes Brit-rock had no problem clearing it, with "not bad" counting as a big win. [...]
I have heard several people complain about this phenomenon of “lo-fi” artists. Why hide songwriting under layers of incoherence, they usually ask, if the songwriting is allegedly good? Being one of the more popular lo-fi examples, Ariel Pink is one of the first examples they use. I then usually ask if them if they have [...]
Noo, widełko 126 ! Kozanów-Krzyki - trasy walkmanowe i discmanowe! I w związku z nimi całkiem przypadkowy zbieg okoliczności - powrót do With the Lights Out Nirvany i IV Led Zeppelin , bo jak to niezwykle zgrabnie ujął Chris Dahlen na widelcu: Some people call "When the Levee Breaks" the album's true epic, because it sounds like the blues while "Stairway to Heaven" sounds like druids. But that was the fucking point . Zeppelin understood that you spend your days under the weight of shit, so they show you the [...]
21st birthday spent with the punishing indie-drone misanthropy of six by seven . 30th birthday later this week, to be spent in the company of fuck buttons. if you've come here for damascene moments, the exit's that-a-way. if you've come here for lil' wayne, be my guest . underrated band that sounds like spacemen 3 of the decade?
Image From Here Well, you can't call me on this one, because I did say, in a previous post, that I may throw in a personal post or two in-between other stuff.... The past few weeks have been ok since I have immersed myself in the music. But, even then, those past days have been a struggle. I sleep a lot and spend my waking hours on the computer. That is my life right now. And has been for quite awhile now. Docs are continually trying new meds on me and they have [...]
What do THE BLUETONES and PIXIES have in common? Both bands' upcoming visits to Scotland will see them play an entire set made up of an old album, respectively Expecting To Fly (1996) and Doolittle (1989). Delving into the dusty archives of your back catalogue to promote a tour has developed into a common trend, especially for those artists whose heydays are becoming increasingly distant memories. Even a group as revered [...]
Image From Here The addiction is so hard to break. And it's something you cannot fake. It's bigger than anything you have faced in this life. It takes hold of you and it's grasp is pulling you downward. You have developed a fondness for crawling and it is the only thing you can do. And the more you crawl, the more you fall deeper and deeper into the hole of despair. You struggle and say to yourself; 'I've got to find a way out of here '. You [...]
i've just seen on six by seven's website that they're still together, which is surprising given they're one of those bands that are so consistently labeled "underrated". you might think after 16 years they'd be tempted to turn around and say "well fuck you then". gosh, i guess some bands play music because they actually like it. anyway, here's their third single. underrated. nice flaming lips remix too. cds released by mantra in 1998. keep going. edit: hm, according to their last.fm [...]
There's little under ten hours to go until the gates open at Glastonbury. For the first time in over fifteen years the festival hasn't sold out in advance. Michael Eavis claims it is due to the dreadful weather of the last couple of years, but most would put it down to a lacklustre headline and [...]
Everyone have a nice break? Yeah? Good. Me too. Back to work tomorrow, though. Anyways. I mentioned in this week's MP3 of the week writeup that the Six By Seven compilation Any Colour So Long As It's Black , long-discussed but never realized, was finally out. Six By Seven's discography and history is long and convoluted, numbering countless members, at least one maybe two complete breakups, six studio albums, two odds and sods collections and a slew of b-sides and yet it's [...]
Taking a quick break from my, uh, break to bring your attention to this time-limited offer. Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian has taken a break from his calendar-curating and musical-writing and scoring activities to round up the band to record a new holiday tune called "Are You Coming Over For Christmas?", a jazzy little duet between himself and guest vocalist Celia Garcia. You can currently stream it from their website and which they'll be making available to download from their MySpace starting at midnight tonight (GMT, so [...]
i picked up and old six by seven cd the other day, 'the things we make', for 49p. i thought it was one of their more dodgy ones, and i only really bought it for 'european me', the beautiful second song. but then i put it on in the car, driving back from my parents house, and it was just right, exactly what i needed to hear, right at that moment in time. driving too fast down a dangerously straight road into the end of sunset, with a black into blue into yellow into pink sky, and clouds amassed above [...]
Heavy responsibility I feel, what with the weekend upon us and all. Well, here goes. Magik Markers - Taste mp3 - Thanks to Pitchfork. Gringo Star - No Reason mp3 - Thanks to Team Clermont. (pic) Six By Seven - Bochum (You Light Up My Life) mp3 - Diddles then drives; brief patience urged. The Woggles - It’s Not About What I Want (It’s What You Got) mp3 - Kinda Kinksy -Thanks to mp34u for the
Nottingham's Six By Seven , officially back from the dead and with original guitarist Sam Hempton back in the fold. Their new studio album, If Symptoms Persists, Kill Your Doctor (such cheerful lads) is available via the band's website and will be in UK stores October 1. The fact that it's limited to 1000 copies - presumably including both the online and retail sales - gives you the impression that the band isn't necessarily expecting this release to burn up the charts. Their last few releases - the [...]
image from here "It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen "If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." - Count Basie "For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life." [...]
The always lovely Rachel from the Untitled blog has moved to a new blog with a new domain name. The new blog is called Untitled Records and is looking awesome to say the least. Rachel is one of my most favorite bloggers and is one of the nicest, friendliest bloggers you will ever meet. She also has excellent taste in music. So, update your bookmarks and visit Rachel at her new site and leave a comment congratulating her on the new digs. mp3 [...]
image from here Days Long Past Long dark branches reach to the ground Branches like limbs shivering ever so fast Tremble the warnings that haunt the mind Tremble the memories of days long past She said many words but only two mattered 'It cannot be seen or even understood' 'You must let go of it now, you must you know' 'There is no hope [...]
Chromewaves
louder than bombs
The Decibel Tolls
Obscure Sound
galactic mystery solvers
Songs in Space
The Pop Cop
the blackened air
Stereo Jealousy
i got my photos back; a lot of them are blurry.
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