Filed under: Monthly Mixtape Flickr March is over. The trees are budding early, the flowers are blooming into a bounty of spring colors, Valdimir Putin is the president of Russia again, Rush Limbaugh called a respectable human being a "slut" and the earth ticks ever closer to the end of times. So what better way to await the arrival of the alien drone destroyers than this kick-ass mixtape. After you buy extra water and batteries, unplug [...]
WFMU returns to Austin Saturday night for it's showcase, this time an event independent of the SXSW Festival at the great Beerland , 711 Red River. It's a 6-band blowout starting 8pm central/9 PM Eastern , and Liz Berg, Jason Sigal, Brian Turner will be broadcasting the sets live over WFMU-FM and wfmu.org. $10 door entry, no SXSW badges or wristbands accepted. All proceeds to the bands. Special commemorative posters designed by Nevada Hill will available at the show! Lineup (Times Central): 8PM: Electric Jellyfish [...]
'Selected Tracks From Breathing And Not Breathing', daar moet uw popscribent het mee doen. Een beetje zuinig van het doorgaans zo sympathieke Jagjaguwar-label. Maar minder vreemd als je bedenkt dat de volledige boxset vier cd's beslaat. Daarop is (vermoed ik)...
As much as we want to think every underground band in the 1990s was producing quality just because no one was listening, the truth is sometimes underground bands are unknown for a reason. This is the kind of alternative music indie snobs drool over. Supreme Dicks' Breathing and Not Breathing is one of those oddities which can be hard to pin down on paper. These are the complete, collected works of a relatively unknown band from Massachusetts that broke up, incidentally, more than a decade ago. For that reason, it is difficult to imagine who the audience is for [...]
Even in a world overflowing with reissues, special editions, and collectors edition box sets, Supreme Dicks seems like an odd choice for a retrospective collection. For one, they only released one single in their recording history (a double B-side, no less). Their shifting lineup and instrumentation sometimes included both turntables and theremin, all under genre appellations of freak folk or noise rock. The Amherst, MA pals of Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. got their first gig in New York, according to legend, when Dino guitarist/vocalist J Mascis didn't feel like playing CBGB's and sent the Dicks in their [...]
Psychedelic-folk fans were recently treated to a treasure trove of haunting lo-fi beauty thanks to the release of Breathing and Not Breathing , a four-disc set commemorating the brief yet influential catalog of Amherst, MA's own Supreme Dicks . The collection contains the complete recordings of the group, beginning with 19932s seminal full-length debut, The Unexamined Life , which is streaming below in all its weird "what the folk?" glory. It's hard to tell if the music featured on the album and the rest of the box set could be considered the last known dusty remnants [...]
Avant-garde rockers Supreme Dicks are having their entire discography re-issued via Jagjaguwar as a four-CD boxed set titled Breathing And Not Breathing. Take a trip back in time to discover what the indie-rock bands of today owe to the Dicks' sound: These gentlemen deserve a solid revisit. "In A Sweet Song" methodically carries along with simple [...]
The Graboid is back this week and with so many great albums to choose from, it comes as a friendly reminder of why this can be such a useful resource for you week in and week out. The 10000-pound gorilla in the room has to be M832s Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - the ambitious double album from Anthony Gonzalez. While an excellent record, there is another release that should not be overlooked and might be just as worthy of your well-earned money - Real Estate's Days . As far as I'm concerned, [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Body Language, Brown Shoe, Class Actress, Forest Fire, Is Tropical, Library Voices, M83, My Brightest Diamond, Garrett Pierce, Pree, Supreme Dicks and the Trophy Fire. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
Though there are certainly a lot of new releases out this week, with industry event CMJ going on this week in New York City, we actually expected a few more (particularly from indie artists). Don't get us wrong, we're still excited about all sorts of album this week from the likes of Real Estate (pictured), Supreme Dicks , and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin . M83 and Holy Ghost! might get some major backing from EMI, but their labels, Mute and DFA, are still technically independent; both acts have new releases [...]
In the 90s, indie rock had its share of eccentricity. In fact, what made it so interesting was that it broke from the norm, right? It didn't follow the rules. It had a punk-rock aesthetic, but an encyclopedic knowledge of the most vital parts of the history of rock and roll. That eccentricity, though, was often contained within the familiar. For all their winking oddity, Pavement still reminded us of our favorite classic rock guitar heroes. As otherworldly as J Mascis's creaking voice was, his towering guitar solos were exactly the kind of rock showmanship we expected from [...]
Oft overlooked lo-fi experimental rock band Supreme Dicks are finally getting some attention with a full set of reissues coming out this this month courtesy of Jagjaguwar . According to the label, "Falling somewhere between Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle and SALEM in the lineage of musicians who've found a muse in the nasty, brutish brevity of life, Supreme Dicks chose to cloak disarmingly real paranoia and grief in the contemporary trappings of late '80s and early '90s lo-fi college rock." In a addition to a career spanning 4 Cd set , the groups two [...]
Feeling slightly better this morning (my fever broke in the middle of the night, which is always a weird feeling - waking up in a pool of your own sweat but cooler and somewhat relieved) I donned my Sunday Best and drove out to Topanga State Park for my dear friends Fawn and Brian's wedding. [...]
Jagjaguwar are squirting out the complete Supreme Dicks catalogue in a rush of lo-fi avant garde indie band enthusiasm. 'Breathing and Not Breathing', 'The Unexamined Life' and 'The Emotional Plague' are all getting an airing on October 17 in the UK and October 18 elsewhere, and you can listen to two classic tracks from 'The Unexamined Life' here: 'In a Sweet Song' ; 'Jack-O-Lantern'
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Der Bandname mutet erst mal infantil an, im Sound jedoch zeigen sich Supreme Dicks ordentlich ausgereift. Jetzt wird die Band, die in den Neunzigern aktiv war, mit einer Reissue in Erinnerung gerufen. Man könnte meinen, wir hätten Nineties-Wochen hier bei 78s. Unlängst widmete sich Kollege Menzl dem Musik-Jahr 1991 und tags drauf offenbart sich mir eine Band, die ihre beste Zeit ebenfalls in den frühen Neunzigern durchlebte: die Supreme Dicks . Wie eine kleine Umfrage im Freundeskreis zeigt, bin ich nicht [...]
It's been a long 15 years since the release of Supreme Dicks ' final cut, The Emotional Plague , but the band never actually called it quits. In the late '90s, half of the group moved to L.A., and the others remained in Massachusetts, each retaining the (ahem) cocky moniker and playing an occasional live show. The Dicks were never well-known, even in their heyday, but back in the late 80's they garnered a cult following, and even played a show as "Dinosaur Jr." at the request of J. Mascis. Over the years, several unique personalities took note [...]
Oh folks. There are good times to be had, and I am making damned sure that I have each and every one. Last night was no exception. After finishing off the last of my Oinkster burger I took a quick disco nap and then headed over to West Hollywood to party with some friends. Unspeakable [...]
Wild Weekend , take 63. A little something for everyone as usual, though I obviously dig it all. Be it reggae or soul, freakcore or flamenco-jazz. Or is that jazz-flamenco? Doesn't matter really. Just have a wild one. Kicking off with a Nostradamus alert. "There's something burning away at me so deep inside, I can't hide it anymore..." Could it really be that the way underrated Supreme Dicks foresaw the recent Arab Spring nearly twenty years before the fact? Answers on the proverbial postcard, and please don't miss this rather [...]
"His sexual appetite could not be satisfied. The defendant was willing to take any measure to take advantage of the women – old and young – in disgraceful sexual exploitation." Nissim Aharon walked the public paths of men as an employee of the Israeli Defense Ministry, however he also walked a private one as a [...]
If I can't convince the guy from Supreme Dicks who comes into the store to get on the ball and reissue these albums, I guess I just have to share them with the world and pray that you people create a greater demand for them. So, get to it! Not quite avant-garde, not quite ambient, not quite psychedelic, The Emotional Plague was the last proper studio album recorded by Supreme Dicks. It's fucking phenomenal. There are not many traditional sounds to be heard here. Instead, the band focuses on timbre and a nuanced amalgam of sounds. [...]
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