Whew! What a weekend. Wait, was it what a weekend? I don't even remember what I did Friday night! I know I worked late…but after that…Oh, right, I stayed in. That wasn't at all exciting, was it? And last night I went across town to cash in on a dinner bet and hang out in [...]
Earlier this month I had the great pleasure of watching Steve Mason play live in Manchester. The majority of the set focused on his latest album, Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time , with a few tracks from 20102s Boys Outside and a couple of King Biscuit Time treats too. I've pretty much loved all of his work ever since The Beta Band 's The 3 E.P [...]
Although he has released several albums over the past ten years under various pseudonyms, Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time is only the second "real" solo album from Steve Mason . It could easily be split into two or three albums and finds the former Beta Band leader skipping between genres with great relish. He flirts with country, gospel, dub and rap over Monkey Minds ' 58 minutes, but he's always lead back to the safety of mature indie-folk, of which he has an authoritative grasp. An increasingly conflicted Mason is [...]
One of the biggest rewards of having a large record collection in middle school was the ability to candidly witness the reactions of my friends when they were exposed to genres unknown. The first time I showed my Jonas Brothers-adoring peers psychedelic rock, indie pop, and experimental music, it was like feeding a toddler chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream for the first time. Their curiosities were set ablaze and nothing was the same anymore. The experience parallels the relationship between a record store employee and an inquisitive customer. A similar satisfaction is fulfilled, like John Cusack’s Rob Fleming guarantees to [...]
Ex- Beta Band frontman, Steve Mason releases his second album (well, under his own name anyway), Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time (see album cover art above) this March. Today, Steve posted a link to a short LP taster video with an accompanying mini-interview - check it out below: He also posted a link to new song, Oh My Lord , which you can listen to below (it's released [...]
Django Django sound like a band who headed out on a gap year to Africa and only brought old Talking Heads and The Beta Band tapes along for the ride. The latter is not a completely casual reference as leader David Maclean is related to one of the Betas. First appearing on the scene in [...]
Dünyada iki türlü insan vardır: Çarpan, çarpılan. Çarpılanlardan olmak istemiyorsan, başkalarını çarpmaya bak. Fazla okumak lazım değil. İnsanı delirtir ve hayatın gerisinde bırakır. Ama matematik dersinde dikkatli ol. Dört işlemi bilmen yeter. Para hesabını becerebilirsen kazıklanmazsın, anladın mı? Hesap önemli. En kısa zamanda hayata atılman lazım. Gazete okuyabiliyorsun ya, kâfi. Ticaret öğrenmeli, insanlarla muhatap olmalısın. Beni dinlersen eğer, bir ton kitap okuyacağına, git ayakkabının bağını işporta tahtasına koyup sat, daha iyi. Yüzsüz olmaya çalış. Unutulma sakın. Elinden geldiğince ortalarda boy göster... "Sadık Hidayet" [...]
Earlier today ex- Beta Band front-man Steve Mason announced details of his forthcoming album, Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time . The album will be released by Double Six on Monday 11th March next year and has a heavily politicized bent. Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time is Mason 's second album under his real name and the title refers to the Buddhist term for an [...]
Steve Mason formerly of the Beta Band, Black Affair and King Biscuit Time has announced a new solo album – Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time. The album has been shaped by the current global political climate and the lack ... Continue reading
Every once in a while, a movie comes along where the music plays such an important role that it's almost another character. Tis was exactly the case for 20002s High Fidelity . Based on the novel of the same name written by Nick Hornby, High Fidelity is the tale of record store owner Rob Gordon (played by John Cusak) who revisits his past relationships to figure out what went wrong with his most recent girlfriend. Accompanied by the two music dorks that work for him, the trio make the forming of musical top five lists an art [...]
Hace algunos meses Beck anunció que su nuevo disco, Song Reader , no sería lanzado en ninguno de los formatos comunes como vinil, CD or MP3, sino que lo presentaría como partituras sin grabar. Para escuchar el material, básicamente uno mismo tendría que tocar las canciones. El día de hoy, Rough Trade anunció que, junto a Faber Social y Heavenly Music Services, presentarán la premiere del álbum en el Reino Unido con una selección de canciones de Song Reader interpretadas por Carl Barat (ex-Libertine), Steve Mason (de The Beta Band), Liela Moss (de The Duke [...]
It's a match made in heaven - Steve Mason remixing Django Django . Here are the facts: Django Django are one of this year's best breakthrough acts Life's a Beach is one of the best tracks on their brilliant debut album Reviewers have compared Django Django 's sound to the Beta Band 's early masterpiece [...]
1982 yılı yapımı E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial bir kuşağın çocukluk yıllarının en unutulmaz filmlerinden birisiydi. William Kotzwinkle’nın yazdığı, Steven Spielberg’in sinemaya uyarladığı film, 1989 yılında tam 15 milyon video kaset satışı yaparak inanılmaz bir rekor kırmıştı. Ayrıca filmin kitabının da 11 milyon adet sattığını hatırlatalım. Bu filmde bir çocuk yıldıza dönüşen Drew Barrymore, dünyada en genç yaşta biyografisi yazılan insan olmuştu. Öyle ki bir dönem bir televizyon kanalının yaptığı ankette E.T.’nin uzay gemisine dönerken Elliott’a veda ettiği kapanış sahnesi, tüm zamanların en dokunaklı sahnesi seçilmişti. Dönem itibariyle yerli [...]
Posted in General Clickable Something For The Weekend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =T2dOW3ztvfs Django Django...A young Beta Band on Happy Pills! Made a last minute decision to try to get into the sold out Django Django gig in The Button Factory last night and it turned out to be a good decision! I got tremendously lucky when a kind lady outside offered me a ticket. The gig [...]
Steve Mason 's first album under his real moniker, Boys Outside , was one of the best albums of 2010. The good news for those who loved that album and Mason 's previous output with The Beta Band, and as King Biscuit Time and Black Affair , will be pleased to hear that the follow up to Boys Outside (discounting the dub remix album Ghosts Outside [...]
The Beta Band blew my mind when I first heard them back in 1998, and ever since then I've loved pretty much everything that frontman Steve Mason has done. From King Biscuit Time to Black Affair and more recently his work as plain old Steve Mason . Mason 's Boys Outside album in 2010 was probably his most consistently brilliant album since The Beta Band [...]
This week Steve Mason (aka ex Beta Band frontman and the one man music machine behind King Biscuit Time and Black Affair ) launched the website for his new studio, Kronk . So, as well as recording some of the best British music of the past 15 years, Steve's also now pimping out his services as a producer and [...]
Django Django is the name the new psychedelic art-pop sensation from Edinburgh. They've been often compared to the Beta Band and there is a reason for that: bandleader David MacLean happens to be the brother of John MacLean, Beta Band's keyboard player. I fell in love with their sound right away, and so will you! [...]
Earlier on today ex- Beta Band / King Biscuit Time / Black Affair maestro, Steve Mason uploaded an old unreleased demo from his brilliant debut solo album, Boys Outside . The peculiarly titled, Ribz is an early version of The Letter , and replaces the released track's BB-esque big building sound with a mixture of acoustic loveliness and 802s electronica. At the moment I prefer to the released track - but maybe that's [...]
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Steve Mason Editition One of the most talented (yet underappreciated) songwriters of our time is the focus of this week's Hump Day Power Play . Most notably known as the ex-frontman of The Beta Band (now defunct), Steve Mason is the brainchild behind an expansive catalog of genre-bending classics, which somehow managed to mix experimental folk with psychedelia and electronic pop. Mason released a solid breadth of solo work under numerous monikers, including King Biscuit Time , Black Affair , and simply Steve Mason. There's really not [...]
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