As founding member of the '80s LA punk group The Gun Club, Jeffrey Lee Pierce helped inspired the likes of Jack White, Henry Rollins, No Age, and countless others. In 1996, Pierce died from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 37, and has since been honored with an all-star covers compilation, entitled The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project . Volume one in the series, We Are Only Riders , was released in 2009. As TwentyFourBit points out, volume two, The Journey Is Long , will arrive March 30th via Glitterhouse Records. Spanning some 18 tracks, this latest compilation [...]
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Tweet Robert Pollard , lead singer of Boston Spaceships, has always been a prolific musician. Guided By Voices , his first band, often made albums running to around twenty songs. Since disbanding GBV in 2004, though, Pollard has reached James Brown like levels of output, releasing fourteen solo albums in seven years. In 2007, along with three solo records, he released one record with each of his four side projects. He added a fifth side project in 2008, Boston Spaceships, and in 2011 [...]
Assuredly, everyone's heard of supergroups like the punk powerhouse OFF! or Mick Jagger and company's Superheavy . But how's this for a power combo: John Moen of The Decemberists, Chris Slusarenko (formerly of Guided By Voices), and GBV frontman Robert Pollard coming together to form Boston Spaceships . Yeah, that sound you just heard was your jaw violently smacking the floor. The trio, who first started playing together as a unit in June 2008, have released four other albums and several 73 singles. But today, they've released their most auspicious work to date, [...]
Having driven four hours to see them last time, undertaking a one-hour jaunt to catch the Baseball Project was a no-brainer. That first show was so good, it still ranks among my favorite shows two years later. Last night, the Baseball Project added another show to that list. Improbable as it ...
The second in a five-part series that features covers of every single Bob Dylan song, in alphabetical order. Today's installment goes from F through J, for a total of over 50 more covers.
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[Just in time for the beginning of baseball season — and the arrival of the Baseball Project — your humble blogger returns from some time in a distant land, away from the noise. That one mixtape I made for driving through the Midwest was pretty killer, though ...] Already, my most difficult show-going decision of spring: ► Scottish songsmiths Trashcan Sinatras gave a memorable performance last summer (the photo is from a June show at the Key Club) [...]
[And the final installment from Friday night at SXSW ...] The Baseball Project (Momo's) — Since your humble correspondent has been known to do this on weekends , it seemed almost mandatory to check out the Baseball Project, a band of respected veterans who've combined to make two albums of songs about the national pastime. My, was this fun. Boasting a lineup of Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn [...]
… on Jan. 25, Pollard released his latest solo album, Space City Kicks, on Guided By Voices Inc. which opened the floodgates on a slew of new releases coming from the ultra-prolific songwriter this year. He recently reunited with former GBV guitarist Doug Gillard for another Lifeguards release, Waving at the Astronauts. That album was [...]
Released today supergroup The Baseball Project 's follow up to Volume 1 Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails, now I'll be honest here having watc hed only one live baseball game in my life and having little knowledge of the rules let alone the history and folklore of the game I'm not the best to comment on this release from the combined talents of Steve Wynn (The Miracle 3, The Dream Syndicate), Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M.), Linda Pitmon (The Miracle 3, Golden Smog) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.) add to this guest appearances from Craig Finn (The [...]
The Baseball Project at Maxwell's ( more by Lori Baily ) "Well, we had so much fun the first time that we just had to do it again. Scott, Peter, Linda and I spent much of the last few years on the road, in the studio and trading files, ideas, anecdotes and laughs and the result is the second album by the Baseball Project : Volume 2: High and Inside ." - The Baseball Project High and Inside is out now via Yep [...]
As long as there's been records, there's been novelty records. Having grown up on my share of Dr. Demento , I guess I have a bit of a soft spot for 'em. And that's what we have here, performed by a supergroup of sorts: In 2008, The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn put together the Baseball Project with like-minded hardball fan Scott McCaughey of the Young Fresh Fellows and Minus 5 . McCaughey sidelines with R.E.M. and recruited Peter [...]
Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 - "Resolution" from the 2011 album Northern Aggression on Yep Roc.
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With a name like Surf City, it's only natural for one to assume that the band's songs will be upbeat and celebratory, or, as the chillwave revolution has determined, lazy, hazy psychedelic pop awash in layers of synth, echo-laden vocals and lyrics with themes like heat waves, day-dreaming, sun burns, beach parties, vacation getaways, and [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
As it gets close to the end of the year, the list of new releases shortens. Here is the one album that earns the title of The Wheel's Still In Spin's sole suggested new release for this week. Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 – Northern Aggression. Download "Resolution" (mp3). The former frontman of The Dream Syndicate and current member of The Baseball Project, Steve Wynn, is back with latest album, Northern Aggression. Like all Wynn projects, this album as a psychedelic influence in the primarily alternative pop sound, but Northern Aggression adds a little bit of a grunge drudge [...]
When you think baseball, you undoubtedly think "America's pastime." Well, you should also be thinking R.E.M. No, that's not a typo: two of the alternative legend's members, Peter Buck and studio/touring member Scott McCaughey, along with Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon, are in The Baseball Project, a little band based on their shared love of pinch hitting and rocking out. If you can't believe that such a thing could exist, then peep your ears on their track "Panda & The Freak" (via JamBase ). McCaughey is actually a diehard San Francisco [...]
The George A. Romero sequel to "Night of the Living Dead" was great—zombies in a shopping mall! Hare Krishna zombie! Hell's Angel eaten while plugged into a pulse monitor! But if the purpose of these 12 posts are to prepare you for The Walking Dead, then the 2004 remake is the place to go. The zombies move fast (unlike in The Walking Dead), but the themes of survival and family are modernized, and in this one, the survivors actually reach the island at the end. The best part of the remake was the opening credits, [...]
It´s Wild Weekend #35, which means another delicious cocktail of cool tunes from all around the globe. Northern Ireland, Jamaica, Persia by way of the Motor City, Jerez de la Frontera... Just have another wild one. I know I will. After the demise of the Northern Ireland´s finest punkpoppers the Undertones, most of their personnel ended up in a fine band called That Petrol Emotion. One Steve Mack, an American who worked in a London pizza parlour at the time, was drafted as a singer. The triumphant Big Decision was arguably their [...]
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