top of the evening everyone. hope everyone has recovered from their holiday festivities. i am in the process of doing so, or at least my liver is. anyone got anything exciting going on for new years? i got nothing, and actually since about 1999, i havent really given a shit about going out. actually the last time i had a great new years was the year prior, 98. in was an unusually warm chicago night and with that being the case we walked all over the city with a shopping cart in tow for most of the night - dont [...]
Watch Wu Lyf cover Papa M's 'Krusty' at the KEXP studios.
Words by Rick Moslen So this is the series where I ramble on about classic indie/punk record labels fated to feed every music junkie's obsessive fix. This time I'm gushing about possibly the mother of them all. Hold onto your butts and stuff some earplugs up those earlobes, cause it's time for some raw, spazzing rock n'roll from Touch and Go Records. I know what you're thinking ... how can I rope Touch and Go 's extensive yet essential history into a mere blog post? That's like leaving your [...]
ALBUM REVIEW: If we were to shoot a band up in space in the late 19902s and then they landed back on earth in late 2011 they would probably sound similar to the music on Lenses Alien by Cymbals Eat Guitars . Ageless and pure indie rock that was somehow incapsulated in this experiment of fluid guitars; almost as if anything that may have come before may have somehow influenced them in a magnetically sealed hyperbolic chamber. Never afraid to just let it fucking rip Joe & his rock-o-naughts launch you into the outer rim in [...]
Bosse-de-Nage // ii I received a promo of this album and not having heard anything from this black metal band before I eagerly dove into it and absolutely loved what I found there. Plus out of all the different styles of metal that are out there, black metal is probably the one that I am least versed in so I'm always looking to make myself more familiar. I think the thing that first drew me into the music on this album is how raw it [...]
It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]
I can't not share this, via the Decibel Tolls .
These three artists -- all completely unknown -- pay homage to a variety of alternative-rock styles, ranging from Pavement-inspired alternative to '70s psych-rock. They all sound like you could find them performing in a friend's basement; it's part of their DIY appeal, and one that does not detract from their strong songwriting and interesting modes of production.
Beyond the Daniel Beard Bridge, Cincinnati disappears. Skyscrapers stretch high in the rearview mirror, and Kentucky's electric green expanse begins to encroach on the car. It's a humid day in early July—the twelfth of the month—and the Midwest is mired in gray skies that appear ready to fill the currently depleted sliver of the Ohio [...]
If you've read my book on Spiderland , you know that one of my main arguments in the opening chapter is that the significance of Squirrel Bait in the pre-Slint soup is somewhat overstated, considering David Grubbs wrote the majority of that band's music and lyrics and that Brian McMahan and Britt Walford were not really in the band at the same time. But there's a recorded documentation of Squirrel Bait and all those names are in the liner notes, so there you go. Rather, in my interviews for the book, it was made pretty clear [...]
This is my band WERR, we are a weird post-rock/black metal band from San Francisco. As of right now we only have a few demos up on our bandcamp site, but we are in the process of recording and making tour t-sherrts. If you should find your self in Oakland on the first Friday of a month, we usually play a show at The Storefront Gallery between the hours of 9-12 p.m. If you've ever heard of the bands Slint or Zeni Geva you might like our shit. http://werr.bandcamp.com/ [...]
This 33 1/3 by Scott Tennent is a great read .
Twenty years ago this week, Spiderland hit stores like a drop of water in a vast ocean. How we all still know about it (and, for many, revere it) all these years later is a miracle of word of mouth. On the occasion of the anniversary I did an interview with Adam Trainer of the excellent post-rock radio show out of Australia, Posted , who dedicated a whole two-hour show to the album's anniversary (click on the March 23 episode). The show includes tracks by Slint as well as bands from Slint members both [...]
Every Tuesday, former Slint bassist and Wild and Woolly Video owner Todd Brashear stops by Louisville's WFPK for a rundown of new releases on DVD. However, this week Brashear had a special treat: the inimitable Will Oldham. During the segment, Oldham talked about how he ended up in Jackass 3D (which is out on DVD this week), his latest vinyl release, as well as some Haitian charity work. And for all the super fans out there salivating over the possibility of another [...]
For many people, music is one of the first ports of call when dealing with grief, whether it be loss of life, broken relationships or shattered hearts, it's comforting to find a piece of music to find solace in. Without giving away too much about my own life, here is a short yet insightful look into some tracks that have the ability to turn on my waterworks. Bright Eyes - Lime Tree Choosing just one track from Conor Oberst was far and away the most complex decision in compiling this list. With his unrivaled back catalogue [...]
Casey Fighorn is a friend of Quarterlifeparty and general critic of all things. As part of the ongoing 33 ? series of books detailing the creation of seminal albums (some of the more prominent being Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, Pavement's Wowee Zowee, Nirvana's In Utero, Bowie's Low, Radiohead's Kid A, etc.) L.A. based writer, Scott Tennent focuses on the critically lauded 1991 album Spiderland by short-lived Louisville, Kentucky band, Slint. The book is short at 150 pages, but details not just the creation of the album, as most of the books in this series [...]
Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, takes a look at particularly interesting and/or exceptional cover art choices. ______________________________ ______________________________ ________________________ "To get to Utica Quarry you take Interstate 65 north out of Louisville, over the Ohio River into Indiana...In the fall [...]
As a blog based in the same city (hell, the same neighborhood) as the prolific Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy a.k.a. Palace Music a.k.a. Palace a.k.a. Slint's Photographer a.k.a. El Guapo, we feel it's our duty to aggregate all available information about what Will is up to at any given point obviously , regardless of its newsworthiness. This shall be in an effort to save the news media some time keeping up with who this whacky guy is collaborating with when and for what movie. A veritable one-stop shop, if you will! Luckily, this inaugural installment of [...]
Scott Tennent is the talented blogger behind Pretty Goes With Pretty as well as the author of Spiderland , one of the newest entries in the esteemed 33 1/3 series published by Continuum Books . I met Scott last month at a release party for the book here in Los Angeles, and I made him promise that he would let me interview him about his experience writing Spiderland , his first visit to Louisville, and - of course - all things Slint. On Tuesday night he and I chatted (online!) for [...]
Captain's Dead
Cover Me
Draw Us Lines
Review Stalker
Cactus-Mouth
GIMME TINNITUS
Pretty Goes with Pretty
Obscure Sound
Swan Fungus
Ivy League Spins
Drawer B
The FADER
BUZZGRINDER
Crack In The Road
Quarterlifeparty
An Aquarium Drunkard
The Decibel Tolls
Watch: Trailer for Dave Grohl’s documentary, Sound City
Conchord On Composing Music For Muppets
Free James Blake live album given away
Hardwell Bootleg Pack 2012
