Mixtape: Twenty Bands at Noise Pop 20 (Podcast #271) Noise Pop 20 is just weeks away. From February 21st through the 26th, over one hundred bands will take over SF's venues for six days celebrating independent music. True to form, this year's Noise Pop Festival includes an eclectic mix of veterans and emerging artists, and you'd be wise to buy your tickets soon, because many shows are starting to sell out. To get familiar with many of the bands performing at Noise Pop this year, here's [...]
In today's post, we have a 2nd track from the forthcoming Bowerbirds album The Clearing , which I have to say is getting me more and more excited; we have a new track off a new Woodpigeon EP For Paolo that is pretty damn awesome; we have a couple tracks that I like from bands I don't know much about, some that I know a little more about ( Said the Whale , Damien Jurado ), and we have the "slow version" of Superchunk 's absolutely brilliant 2009 B-side "Blinders", the [...]
flyer stolen from vintage richmond top of the day! that flyer is not this show, but from the time period. dont have much time as i actually have "work" to do, but i had a request for this superchunk show which took place on 2.11.92 at the whisky a go go. this performance was actually them opening up for hole. that would have been an interesting crowd. buy superchunk stuff via merge . 1. skip steps 1 & 3 2. [...]
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Roughly 12 hours ago I was up in the River Gods DJ booth for the first New Music Night of twenty-twelve, once again splitting the 4-hour shift with fellow Boston-based music blogger extraordinaire Jay Clicky Clicky . While I've been doing the RGs DJ thing for something like 5 years now, this was just the 4th edition of the every-other-month NMN... and I've never had a more difficult time cutting my set down to a measly 2 hours. The whittling was made a bit easier once I discovered a whole lotta track overlap with Jay's [...]
Infamously cantankerous studio rat/national treasure Steve Albini doesn't like to be called a record producer. He prefers the term "recording engineer." That's a dry, clinical term for what Albini actually does, but it makes sense that he'd prefer to be seen that way. Over the past few decades, Albini has overseen the creation of countless numbers of recorded artifacts. And even though he's been an outspoken opponent of the major-label system (and of other underground-rock heroes), he's known to work with just about anyone who requests his services, whether it's a major-label juggernaut like '90s radio-grunge rulers Bush or the [...]
My 5-year-old daughter caught a glimpse of my computer desktop background and thought for a second that it was picture from Star Wars. I took the opportunity to to figure out with her who was who. These are her picks, not mine, so please do not ban me from any concerts. Click for Full Size
Se você passou todo o ano, agora distante, de 2010 sem escutar o álbum que marcou o retorno do Superchunk , Majesty Shredding , você perdeu uma das melhores e mais divertidas experiências do ano. Agora, dois anos após o lançamento do disco, Mac MacCaughan e cia resolveram que era a hora de liberar uma faixa que quase fez parte da tracklist de Majesty Shredding , e você pode conferir Blinders (e decidir se seu corte foi uma boa decisão do Superchunk ou não). Na descrição da faixa , o [...]
Over here at ATH we've been raving about Tiger Waves for some time, but we hadn't seen the young band in the live setting just yet. So, we jumped at the chance to catch the boys over at Frank , along with a few other local Austin acts, Milk Thistle and Gentleman Rogues . Read on for our thoughts. First, I'd really like to impress upon you how great the sound at Frank [...]
Cadmium by @superchunk #90stalgia
With a Jing Jang here and a Jang Jong there, barring the ever-illusive Joe Lean remnants of the inferred major-screwing, LP-scrapping troupe are scattered ubiquitously throughout a seething Shacklewell Arms. Tonight's bunch, adjudged on pure and simply superficial old attire, are out in force to witness TOY whip a four-legged Dalston-centric residency into knowingly lackadaisical, forcedly monochromic action. Conversely, those here congregated muster minimal enthusiasm in indulging in Ralegh Long's brand of lightly melodramatic, folk-lilted chanson: somewhere on the side of the long, lonesome, and meandering road between scrapbook emperor Jeffrey Lewis and perennial prog titans The Tangent, his is [...]
When a band with a cult following arrive in town to play their first UK gig in over a decade, it could either be a triumph or a disaster. From the moment this date was announced a certain type of music fan began to whisper about it, get excited, make plans. The anticipation is palpable during what seems like an inordinately long wait between openers Let’s Wrestle and Superchunk hitting the stage, during which members of the front row share stories of seeing the band with friends in years gone by- people with [...]
by Steve McGillivray December is traditionally the time of year when bands and artists unleash their horrific Christmas records upon a public that seems only too willing to lap them up. The last time someone did a good Christmas song was when Bruce Springsteen released 'Santa Clause is Coming to Town'. It's true. It was brilliant. You can bet that you won't hear a Christmas song as good as that this year. Anyway, I digress. This weeks singles didn't really contain any Christmas songs, unless you count a reference to a Snowman. Without further ado..... [...]
D.L. Anderson Year-end lists are kind of like Christmas displays in shopping malls. Every year, they seem to come out a little earlier and are a little less welcome but there's little choice but to accept them as a fact of life. Paste kicked things off yesterday with a very Paste-y top 50 of the year, topped off by a record that's probably going to be getting more than a few "album of the year" accolades (though not likely around here, though I like it more than the first record), Bon Iver's [...]
On the occasion of Superchunk’s reissue of their classic album, Foolish, we asked artist and superfan Andrew Kuo to interview his favorite band. "Well, if you really want to know—Superchunk." That's what I've said for ... read more
Merge If you thought that it had been a while since we heard from Nashville's Lambchop , well you were right. It had. After finishing up with 20082s OH (ohio) , bandleader Kurt Wagner was content to put the orchestral country-soul outfit in mothballs for an undetermined spell while he worked on KORT , a collaborative project with singer-songwriter Courtney Tidwell . But with the passing of friend and collaborator Vic Chesnutt in 2009 and at the urging of guitarist Mark Nevers, Wagner got [...]
top of the evening! cant wait for this one to, hopefully, grace my inbox sooner than later. this one being lambchop's 2012 merge release, 2.21 to be exact, mr. m . damn, i cant believe they have been around 20 freakin years, and this is their 11th record. just seems like yesterday, i was being blown by their '96 record, how i quit smoking and my favorite lambchop record, the follow up, thriller . imo, kurt wagner is the coolest dude in the rock and the roll. in other news, merge has released [...]
Mac McCaughan of Superchunk discusses and performs "Digging For Something"
Mac McCaughan não é apenas o líder de uma das bandas mais importantes da década de 90, o Superchunk . Ele também é um dos executivos "indies" de gravadora mais bem-sucedidos do nosso tempo, à frente da Merge Records, criada por Mac e companheira de banda, a baixista Laura Ballance . E é o influente guitarrista e compositor o escolhido para o quarto capítulo da excelente série One Track Mind, que já contou com Wye Oak , St. Vincent e Ben Folds e nesse episódio faz uma autópsia do grande [...]
At the A.V. Club , Superchunk's Mac McCaughan discusses and performs his song "Digging for Something." USA Today interviews Ann Beattie about her new novel, Mrs. Nixon . Bookworm also interviews Beattie. Slate lists the best live albums. Author Ann Patchett talks to All Things Considered [...]
Hot off the heels of Palindrome Day the eleven day of the eleventh month of the two thousand and eleventh year. Otherwise known as, Nigel Tufnel Day . To celebrate, we're sharing our 11 Most Räwkin Tunes of 20112s Friday Fives. In no particular order… Dananananaykroyd “All Us Authors” ( via ) Forgetters (Blake Schwarzenback) “The Night Accelerates” ( via ) Mind Spiders “No Romance” ( via ) Rooftop Vigilantes “Copper Is Free” ( [...]
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VAGUE SPACE
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Bradley's Almanac
Stereogum
One Good Minute
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Austin Town Hall
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The Line Of Best Fit
Muso's Guide
Chromewaves
The FADER
largehearted boy
Unnecessary Umlaut
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