the Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Kurt Cobain's Cardigan" "I'll take things that would me indescribably sad if I saw them in a Hard Rock Cafe in Tucson for a thousand Alex.' The fey New York City sounds of the Pains of Being Pure at Heart's latest single don't seem to have much of a concrete connection to the famous fuzzy in Courtney Love's footlocker. If we want to try extra hard to make a connection though, the occasionally strident beat and subtly noise-speckled guitar does bear a bit of resemblance [...]
Here are a few news items about the best thing out of Lyndonville, The Capstan Shafts : ♪ On May 2, The Capstan Shafts will be playing at Middlebury College with Menomena and The Ruby Suns. It's the school's annual spring music festival. I have no idea whether it'll be just Dean or if he'll have a band with him. I'll take it either way. Tickets ($10) are available here . The cool thing is that it's a Friday night, it's open to the public and it's my birthday [...]
So 2007 ended and I never gave a best albums list or whatever. I know that Okkervil River's The Stage Names was my favorite. My favorite song was probably Mending of the Gown by Sunset Rubdown . I also thought the whole Radiohead letting people pick a price thing was very cool. My favorite movies were No Country for Old Men and King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters . O yeah and There Will Be Blood kept selling out at Lincoln Center like crazy. We had to get tickets for the [...]
"I threw up writing it, and Trent threw up reading it, and the guy who made the copies of it -- he threw up while he was making the copies of it. It's so sick." -- Glenn Danzig on the vomit-inducing adaptation of his The Flesh Devours comic "I think I could really do a lot for that crappy town." -- Glenn Danzig, catching the Newbridge political fever "No, Doyle's not a teacher. It would be someone who's actually qualified." -- Glenn Danzig, dismissing Tom's assumption that [...]
Image: Colleen Plumb The Origin of Rain - Capstan Shafts Hip to the Sweet Blue World Again - Capstan Shafts Project of the suspiciously prolific, faux-Brit accented, pretentious song-title bestowing Dean Wells, Capstan Shafts sometimes out-Pollards even Robert Pollard. The 29 tracks on Environ Maiden (CS's seventh full-length following a flurry of self-released LPs) average to [...]
I'm guest blogging over at extrawack! this week and just wrote a post over there urging the New Yorkers to drive up to Northampton for the weekend to enjoy Popfest! New England. So, I thought I'd cross-post it over here to urge all the Vermonters to go down to Northampton for the festival. A lot of this post is retreaded territory for regular F45 readers but I don't feel like rewriting the whole thing. You can just pull the info you need for the festival out of the post. ============================== ============================== ======= This [...]
Hey folks, this is Flatlander from False 45th . While Sir extrawack! is busy with other stuff, I'm going to hang a post or two on this site. Do you remember that friend in college whose parents had a house in the Berkshires? Well, it's time to give them a ring and ask for the keys. This weekend (Nov 9 - Nov 11) is Popfest! New England in Northampton, MA which is one of those cute New England college towns where the tiny side streets are filled with cobblestones and corduroy [...]
Me, contrite. (Cat, too.-----Riiiiiiight.) In a gesture of contrition, we respond this holy day to those visitors who have suggested (in a friendly way) that we post too many songs at a time. We're not really sure how long we can "keep it down" but for now at least, we'll make the effort. Hundreds of eager beavers sit on our playlist, panting for action. Here's a baker's half dozen. Click artist
As someone noted in the comments of the previous post, this blog made it onto Pitchfork today . It's always fun to see something you've written mentioned on a site with such a large footprint. However, the timing is a weird coincidence because it's almost exactly a year after seeing False 45th mentioned in Rolling Stone . I wonder what will pop up next October. Perhaps, I'll shoot for Quilter's World . I did make a quilt out of beer towels a few years ago. By the way, regarding [...]
Kinda slim pickings this week after a little over a month's worth of consistently great weeks of album releases. I guess we can just sit back and catch our bearings with this week's edition of The Daily Graboid. Not really anything here that I would instantly want, but there could possibly be a few interesting albums here. Starting off with R.E.M.'s first ever live album, Maritime (former members of The Promise Ring and The Dismemberment Plan ) and their new album Heresy & the Hotel Choir , former [...]
With last week being such a monster for new releases I guess the industry decided they should tone it down a bit before our heads explode. Do not be fooled though, there are still a few gems out there worth picking up. Here are a few that we recommend. Albums and MP3's [...]
This weekend, I finally got around to ripping the mp3 files from the videos I recorded from The Capstan Shafts show at Stannard Church last week. Enjoy. The Capstan Shafts | The Ballad of Kid Butane (Live) | Buy The Capstan Shafts | The Complete History of Greenland (Live) | Buy The Capstan Shafts | Sleepcure Theory Advancer (Live) | Buy The Capstan Shafts | 61 Sideburns (Live) | Buy The Capstan Shafts | Personals Surfer [...]
Were there not videos, photos, and eyewitness testimony , I doubt that anyone would believe this, but Dean Wells (aka The Capstan Shafts ), after 3 or 4 years and 20 or 30 releases, finally appeared in public this weekend and played a show. This is an OMG moment for the underground bedroom pop set, not unlike the first Jandek show was for ILM member or WIRE magazine readers. Anyway, False 45th has full coverage, go check it out . ::: [...]
A week or so ago, I ran into Nick from Angioplasty Media . He quickly said to me, "Hey have you heard of...hold on...[he starts staring at the side of his hand like he's reading something that he had to, just had to!, write down immediately because it was important and his hand was the only available thing]... The Capstan Shafts ?" "Nope. Never heard of them. Who are they?" That led me to his post on Angioplasty Media and a resulting love affair with The Capstan Shafts lo-fi [...]
Ever since I was a little girl I have always wanted to visit Vermont. I know it seems silly, but I came across a picture of a beautiful fall landscape and an old stone bridge that was such a happy, comforting picture. The caption said it was a place in Vermont. The desire to find that bridge someday has spurred by wanting to travel Vermont before I die. =o) Now I have a new reason. They are "The Capstan Shafts" from Lyndonville, Vermont. It's good wholesome folk rock music. I love it. Check out [...]
Lyndonville, VT The Capstan Shafts comes highly recommended if you enjoy bands like Guided By Voices. The songs are even super short like GBV! This little gem here clocks in at just over one minute. "The Big Perpetual" The Capstan Shafts on MySpace
Cover art from Her Versus The Sad Cold Eventually We've been big fans of The Capstan Shafts for quite a while now, ever since we first heard them back in December of 2005 . Months and months have gone by since then and they've released a few more records, including the brand new Her Versus The Sad Cold Eventually , released by the always fantastic Asaurus Records on January 13th. It might be a bit early to call, but Her Versus... seems to [...]
The Capstan Shafts (basically just one guy from Vermont named Dean Wells) seem to have a new release. No one else has written about it and the band doesn't have a proper website and the label doesn't have much info up. But it's called The Megafauna Undermined . It's as rough as you've come to suspect from The Capstan Shafts but if the two songs below are any indication then the album is not meandering lo-fi nonsense but well crafted garage/basement/bedroom rock. The juxtaposition between these two [...]
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