Tonight being a celebration of all things Hollywood, I thought I'd point you to this amazing Flickr album I discovered yesterday via Facebook. It might not be that interesting to you if you've never visited Los Angeles, or spent a night crawling along the Sunset Strip. As someone who now calls this place home, I [...]
How about those New York Football Giants, huh? The defense looked great today, Hakeem Nicks reasserted himself as the team's premiere wide receiver, Brandon Jacobs showed why the offense should be run through him…it made me very excited to see the game against Green Bay next week. I think it's going to be a good [...]
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You know when you get into conversations with people who are think they have the bounds of music pretty well figured out? You want to blow their minds, but the right bands never come to your own mind. Times like that, it's best to reach for some Sun City Girls. Not really to out-obscure anyone (a useless pursuit), but simply for illuminating purposes. And as much as anything to remind yourself that there is no end to the musical universe. Apropos of that, I had Torch of the Mystics — probably SCG's most consistent album — [...]
Esqueçam tudo o que aqui já escrevi sobre festivais. O All Tomorrow's Parties de Inglaterra, curado pelos Animal Collective e realizado neste passado fim de semana no campo de férias Butlins, em Minehead, na sua edição de Primavera (a última, segundo a organização), ultrapassa não só tudo o que já experimentei no passado como toda a imaginação com que previamente viajei para o Somerset
Omdat gewone popmuziek ook maar zo gewoon is, vandaag drie keer pop met een twist. Een beetje psychedelica brengt immers kleur in het soms zo dorre, grijze muzieklandschap. Van de hoes van Alvarius B. 's nieuwste plaat, Baroque Primitiva , worden we alvast een beetje draaierig. De menselijke mandala op de voorkant beeldt onverbloemd de schoonheid van het naakte vrouwelijke lichaam uit, een goede reden om op jacht te gaan naar het vinyl. Mits je daar genoeg $ voor over hebt, want de lp was in een vloek en een scheet uitverkocht (de cd versie bevat overigens 32 [...]
Sir Richard Bishop anunciou hoje no facebook duas datas para The Brothers Unconnected em Portugal, no mês de Maio: dia 6, na Culturgest do Porto (esta já tinha sido divulgada pela Filho Único, que promove os concertos) e dia 7 no auditório da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa.
Há quatro anos, depois da morte do baterista Charles Gocher, os Sun City Girls deixaram de subir aos palcos com aquele nome. Em Maio de 2008, os irmãos Alan e Richard Bishop voltaram à carga, em jeito tributo ao velho camarada e com um novo nome, The Brothers Unconnected. Já se sabia que ia haver uma digressão este ano, com passagem pelo ATP curado pelos Animal Collective, mas entretanto Sir
In Diaspora , Greg Egan , the master of mind-blowing hardcore sci-fi that is more easily readable if you have undergraduate level training on physics or biology, tells us of a distant future where mankind's tribes reconfigure their physical and psychical setup to explore new ecosystems, and alter their perception of the world. These diverging branches stop being able to communicate with each other, not just because they speak different languages, but because the cognitive make-ups underpinning what they are trying to say have become orthogonal (in several dimensions). A new tribe, the bridgers, seek to overcome these [...]
So that's it, the year's over. I heard a lot of great music this year, some stuff from the past and a lot of new stuff. This mixtape is about the new songs I've heard that captured my ear and didn't let go. Of course there are many many others, but to get them all in one [...]
Reviewing the music of a band like Sun City Girls is a bit obsolete. Over their exceedingly prolific, 31-year career, during which they have released over 50 LPs and cassettes combined and lost a member to cancer, they've been so crazy, scatterbrained, and negligent of the public's concerns, that their free-form, genre-bending records almost defy criticism. Drawing as far and wide as Indian raga, surf-rock, American primitive, afro-beat, and even gamelan, they're an orchestrated mess that could only stem from the most psychedelic of mentalities. When it comes down to it, you either like this stuff or you [...]
Edwin Meese sez : Top o' the mornin' to ya sirs & dames Wo-oh-woh, wo-oh-woh Edwin Meese, Edwin Meese, him and his flock of Canadian geese, are flyin' to the south side of town. They're comin' to close me down cuz they can't get it up anymore. (Come on down, come on down come on down to the Pornoshop) They're tryin' to close my store. They're comin' down to try to bust me but they can't take away my inventory. Wo-oh-woh, wo-oh-woh Come on [...]
you had to figure that any band who could veer so effervescently, so awkwardly effortless from a stoopid garage rawk take on the batman theme to bizzaro spoken word rumbles to ethnic radio pop to finger-jigging guitar folkerry to psych ascension, who could indulge in kabuki and puppetry on stage, who could captivate, baffle and challenge in equal measure, would (nay should) go on for f'rever. and for twenty-odd years it looked like they'd do just that. till charles gocher's cells rebelled and multiplied and finally transcended his fleshly body. they were a gang, a collective, a warriors-style [...]
"Wily con man, yogi, athlete, bank president, founder of the Tantrik Order in America and the Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, New York, the remarkable "Doctor" Bernard was all of these. He was also the Omnipotent Oom, whose devoted followers included some of the most famous names in America." Pierre Bernard, Oom the Omnipotent, Promoter [...]
bear in heaven - dust cloud (justin k. broadrick remix) engineers - evergreen shattered darlings and liquid kisses - chosen gardens sun city girls - come maddalena
I don't have much to talk about tonight. I'm feeling kind of out of it. And by that I mean I'm a little depressed. Not in a "I'm going to down a bottle of painkillers!" way, but in more of a, "Jesus I need to figure my shit out!" kind of way. Though I probably wouldn't mind the painkillers. Anyway, I have a busy week ahead of me. I guess it's good to clear my mind of stupid thoughts and, well, focus on sports and getting drunk: there's the Red Sox game on Tuesday night against the Angels [...]
Give the Drummer Some's Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Streaming the Audio Motherlode, a brand-new online music channel from WFMU is set to kick off soon. To start, the stream will deliver an ever-spinning freeform carousel of sounds, a curated mix of adventurous music from all over. The goal, though, will be to supersede, as much as possible, the 24/7 jukebox flow with original programming. I hope to have contributions from some familiar names in the WFMU galaxy, as well as from fellow music obsessives plucked from their orbits in [...]
In between watching the first world cup matches in South Africa, and working hard to get rid of that mothball smell coming out of my faithful Orange jersey, I still managed to find a bit of time to put the iPod to work again. The result? Wild Weekend number 23: six diverse, winning tracks with no vuvuzela in sight. Lets kick off this week´s edition with a fun song that guest editor Tom Waits picked for the accompanying cd of this month´s edition of Mojo [...]
Swan Fungus
The Gumshoe Grove
cowsarejustfood
Now you're at Songblague!
JURAMENTO SEM BANDEIRA
MrBungle
20JazzFunkGreats
Small Town Romance
Consequence Of Sound
undomondo
The Cargo Culte
Riddle Park
WFMU's Beware of the Blog
For The Sake Of The Song
Pictures Of Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix
The Corner Laughers “Poppy Seeds”
Today I Feel I’ve Sprung A Leak
10 Free Songs You Should Download Right Now
