Dear friends, I have long been in slow, warped, thick with haze infatuation for all things Pete Kember and Jason Pierce aka the songwriters behind Spacemen 3. This is why when I heard Kember aka Sonic Boom was playing as Spectrum at After The Jump, my head cocked to the side like the RCA dog and stayed that way. It's like that now. Sonic Boom rocks the fog Call The Doctor is the song you write
"Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Hear)" by Spacemen 3 which clocks in at 10:50 On June 29th, when I was standing at South Street Seaport waiting for Sam Champion to begin their set (prior to Ra Ra Riot), the MC of the event took an excited moment to announce that legendary NYC duo Suicide would be gracing the Seaport stage in the near future. The news landed with a thud as very few, if any, of the people around me (or in my group) had ever even heard of [...]
Earlier this week, I received the distinct pleasure of interviewing the legendary Spectrum frontman and founding member of Spacemen 3, Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember) - whom will be headlining After The Jump's day stage on August 25th. Without further adieu, here's the full Q&A, from start to finish. Learn even more about Spectrum here at their official MySpace page. 1. How long have you been working on this upcoming Spectrum album. With all the other projects under your belt, why are you focusing on Spectrum this year, in particular? [...]
I've been neglecting you all the last few days, but here is my mea culpa: My covers post I've been planning for some time which will span two days. There's an art to creating a great cover version of a song. At the same time, there are different ways of accomplishing the same task. Some choose to stay pretty true to the original (See Mindy Smith's version of Jolene featuring Dolly Parton singing backup - not included below). There are two ways of view this approach; the artist [...]
It may not make good sense, but the heart does what it needs to; there's no point in trying to control it. Much better to feel it all the way through.
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 [...]
Tonight Nate Euhus, better known as DJ LA*Jesus , is throwing his second annual birthday bash fundraiser at Darkroom . In addition to Jesus' hot skillz on the decks, the party will also feature the electro-pop sounds of Walter Meego , hip-hop emcee Lipschitz and DJ Bald Eagle of Life During Wartime fame. Proceeds from the night will benefit the great local charity, Rock For Kids . And as if raising money for a good cause and hanging out with Jesus on a Friday [...]
Greetings from Covington, KY - home of...that White Castle half-a-block away from the plush hotel room in which I'm currently situated. After a ten-hours-plus drive, I am relaxing on a couch, sipping a bottle of Bell's Cherry Stout. There's another bottle of beer (Goose Island Bourbon Stout) on ice, waiting for The Sopranos to start. A very surreal feeling engulfed me today as I followed the exact same route I took during the first day of my cross-country trip in July of '05. At times, I could predict the way the roads bent. The [...]
To me, coming from you, friend is a four letter word. Cheney's wicked mad at me this week and refuses to talk about it. He doesn't turn in his post and he doesn't return phone calls. Finally last night he called me. " Lost made me a little hot under the collar," he said. "I hate that fucking creep, what's his name. That bastard." "Jack?" I said. "Yes," Cheney said. "And Desmond...puh-leeeease!" "I know," I said. "Totally." He doesn't even hear you. Nothing has really amused [...]
yes. that is a dog's butt. happy easter, y'all!! Spacemen 3 "Walking With Jesus" WHAT WOULD JESUS POST BONUS: Dunproofin' "Jesus & Mia Chain" (M.I.A. vs. Jesus and Mary Chain) ( gerry down under on point)
Here's a little pre-Easter/Good Friday mix. Walking With Jesus - Spacemen 3 Jesus Walking On The Water - Violent Femmes Good Religion - The Blind Boys Of Alabama Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins Singers Jesus [...]
It's embarrassing to admit when you cry. After all, this blog has redefined masculinity for a whole new generation. We've shown countless times that we are unafraid to comment on things that the culture considers feminine-Jews, Joanna Newsom, lexapro. Thank God I live in a time when I can cry freely. I never really used to cry. I'd cry when I was particularly angry, before I became able to control my anger. But eventually life dulled into a unending sequence of unrelated events. Lately, I find I am crying more and more often. I cry at more traditional [...]
4. The Dark Night , Christopher Nolan At first I thought I hated Batman Begins because I had read too many spoilers-the script was floating around the interweb for months before the film's release. But now I release I just thought it was fucking stupid. The next one seems like it holds more promise: I told this person how I didn't particularly dig the suit in Batman Begins and said it was too bulky. To this he/she replied, "Well then you'll love the new one." He/she also stated that [...]
Spacemen 3 - Lord Can You Hear Me? (from Playing with Fire ) Spacemen 3 - Amen (from Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to ) Spiritualized - I Feel Like Goin' Home (from Pure Phase ) When I first heard the news, I didn't quite know [...]
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through' narrow chinks of his cavern." "The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which [...]
Some fuzzed out blissful tunes for a Friday. Happy weekend. Spacemen 3- 2:35 Dinosaur Jr.- Bulbs Of Passion Black Angels- The Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven Black Angels- Syd Barrett Blues Sonic Youth- Do You Believe In Rapture?
Over the past week or so the king of all networking sites MySpace faced some downtime and even sent many of its users into a frenzied panic. Fearful were many when they logged on to see that their account no longer existed. Could this be the end of the world? Well, judging by the reactions throughout message boards and other forms of Internet hangouts, that answer would be a resounding "YES". Thankfully over a period of several hours users found their profiles reappearing. With that you could hear all the sobbing of teenagers [...]
Fields - "Elysian Fields" (MP3) . This song comes from Fields , the 1969 album by an American trio of the same name. The only LP they ever released, it's an addictive set of bluesy, psychedelic rock that was just recently reissued by Fallout. I was tempted to instead post "Love Is The Word," the insane 18-minute track that finishes the album, but that'd be like selling someone on The Shawshank Redemption by cutting straight to its ending. So instead I give you "Elysian Fields," which kicks the LP off with [...]
There's a haunting stoner haze and a constant spritual presence that radiates from and keeps bringing me back to the gorgeous new self-titled Brightblack Morning Light album. BBML center around Nathan "Nabob" Shineywater and Rachel "Rabob" Hughes and on this album they create karmic indie-mojo mood music. The slow deep-woods blues and warm Rhodes of their sound is languid, soulful and magical. Everybody Daylight Music inspired by Brightblack: [...]
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