Things I learned this weekend: Apparently it's grounds for an ass-kicking when you're black-out drunk at a bar and you tell a girl her boyfriend is "limp dicked" and ask her if you can "put a little baby in your tum tum." Good thing I was in a large group of people who would have [...]
download it here (.zip, 69,2 MB) * 01 Arco - All This World ** 02 The For Carnation - Imyr, Marshmallow * 03 Canyon - Yellow Tape ** 04 Pedro The Lion - Almost There [...]
In celebration of the upcoming 200th Sunday Mix Tape, I've decided to spend a few days this week taking a leisurely stroll down memory lane. My memory's lane. I've compiled 199 official Sunday Mix Tapes as well as a few compilations that arrived on a Monday or other random day. It's time to take a look back and examine why this feature has become such a huge success. Since I can't post 200 MP3s this week, I'm going to list what is - in my opinion - the standout track from each installment of the series. About half [...]
Ace is the "wild guy in the group" who likes doing mad trickz on his bike, while "AZN Thunda" AKA Brett has a "hard exterior but a soft inside, just like mochi (being from Asia of course)". This is the bio provided of Teengirl Fantasy – actually consisting of Oberlin College students Nick Weiss and [...]
Some things bear worth repeating. Feu Thérèse is one of them, as I feel exposing their music right now would be dramatically more effective than it was in 2007, when I found myself gushing over their debut, Ça Va Cogner. They had apparently split that same year, but their permanent elusiveness had prevented anyone from [...]
1. It started with burning out on everyone's end of year/end of decade lists, which began in August and are still going strong in some corners of my RSS reader. All that Radiohead, all that Animal Collective! Never mind the Arcade Fire and the LCD Soundsystem and the Dirty Projectors and the Grizzly Bear. God, even the stuff I liked in the first place I was beginning to dislike. It brought home in an acute way both how much and how little my tastes align with Pitchfork. It doubly brought home how redundant most blogs I read are—how much they [...]
1. It started with burning out on everyone's end of year/end of decade lists, which began in August and are still going strong in some corners of my RSS reader. All that Radiohead, all that Animal Collective! Never mind the Arcade Fire and the LCD Soundsystem and the Dirty Projectors and the Grizzly Bear. God, even the stuff I liked in the first place I was beginning to dislike. It brought home in an acute way both how much and how little my tastes align with Pitchfork. It doubly brought home how redundant most blogs I read are—how much they [...]
Gli Shipping News nascono mentre i June of 44 sono ancora vivi, vegeti ed arroganti nel far impallidire il resto del mondo. E' il 1996 quando Jeff Mueller e Jason Noble (immerso nel classicismo dei Rachel's) decidono di tornare insieme, dopo aver già generato- uniti- il solo disco seminale di una band altrettanto seminale [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, my attention this year, as far as music goes, has been diverted in a variety of ways. Doing a 2009 playlist seemed to miss the thrust of what my year was all about (and probably redundant with every other blog out there); doing a collection of old yet new-to-me stuff would have missed all the music that wasn't new to me that I spent so much time with. So instead I offer this: a 75-track playlist that comes as close as I can to giving some impression of what my listening year has really [...]
#1 Do Make Say Think- Other Truths (Constellation) MP3 Do Make Say Think- Make #2 Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City) MP3 Bill Callahan- Eid Ma Clack Shaw #3 Vic Chesnutt- At The Cut (Constellation) MP3 Vic Chesnutt- Philip Guston #4 Megafaun- Gather, Form & Fly (Hometapes) MP3 Megafaun- Kaufman's Ballad #5 Balmorhea- All Is Wild, [...]
Ten years? Has it really been ten years since the first ATP festival? I hate to think how many pints of brand-bland cider have been consumed in that time. How many tonnes of tangled metal-kid hair have clogged the filters of the swimming pools of Pontins and Butlins. How many members of holiday camp staff [...]
To prepare for The For Carnation's more elaborate return at the sold-out Ten Years of ATP , The For Carnation , once again, very politely and quietly announced that they're playing a primer show. On a Facebook event . Tomorrow night. At a place I've never heard of called simply The Lounge ( Louisville Beerologists article ). This band really has a way of approaching things. No word yet on if The For Carnation is getting back together in full capacity, new album and all, sans Dave Pajo. But it seems that they are pretty [...]
This is currently the go-to soundtrack to our efforts to get our baby girl to go to sleep and stay asleep. A sad by-product is the fact that we are starting to get sick of a lot of these songs, some of which have been favorites forever and ever (we first got The Glove record around 1989 or 1990, for example). That said, we still find almost all of these to this day to be very moving in their way whenever we stop and sit and listen to them go by on the IPod docked in the nursery. [...]
![[Photos + Video] The For Carnation – Art After Dark @ The Speed Museum, Louisville – 10.23.09](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2076888_lg.jpg)
Though it should've been obvious, it didn't dawn on me that a live performance by Slint/Tortoise/Crain/Shipping News rowdy crowd The For Carnation at a forward-thinking art celebration (The Speed Museum's Art After Dark) wouldn't exactly be a traditional band-plays-in-front-of-you type of gig. No dice on that. While it was odd at first, you realized shortly into the set how original and exciting such an unusual show is to experience. It's what Pink Floyd tried to do with their theatrical five city tour for The Wall , except it wasn't stupid. Regardless of how you felt about its [...]
Saturday night's lineup at Buster's had things flipped around a little bit, in my humble opinion. The highlight of my night was the first act which was Louisville's (formerly) very own Papa M . For those not aware of the significance or depth of Papa M's career, then allow me to lay it out real quick. Throughout the late 80s and early 90s the music scene in Louisville was one of the most progressive, important, and underrated scenes in recent music history. You might not be aware of how much of the music [...]
Saturday night's lineup at Buster's had things flipped around a little bit, in my humble opinion. The highlight of my night was the first act which was Louisville's (formerly) very own Papa M . For those not aware of the significance or depth of Papa M's career, then allow me to lay it out real quick. Throughout the late 80s and early 90s the music scene in Louisville was one of the most progressive, important, and underrated scenes in recent music history. You might not be aware of how much of the music [...]
I'm not sure if the Slint/Tortoise/Shipping News supergroup The For Carnation ever officially broke up. Hence, we can't call their return a "reunion" necessarily. So we'll referred to this event as their triumphant return. While we haven't heard new material since 2000's eponymous record (not counting the 2007 Touch and Go reissue of Promised Works ) and there are no rumors that they may be recording again soon, it does seem The For Carnation has been officially reignited when they agreed to make their first public appearance in years at All Tomorrows Parties' Ten Years of [...]
Edward Budd was an enterprising eighteen-year-old. He was determined to make something of himself and escape the desperate poverty of his parents. On May 25, 1928, he put a classified ad in the Sunday edition of the New York World: "Young man, 18, wishes position in country. Edward Budd, 406 West 15th Street." He was a strapping young fellow who was eager to work and contribute to the well-being of his family. Trapped in the dirty, stinking, crowded city in a miserable tenement with his father, mother and four younger siblings, he longed to [...]
Today I gave my brilliant wife a ride to work. She works on the west side and has to be in early in the morning—by 6 am. Once I dropped her off I couldn't resist stopping by the beach since I was so close and had plenty of time to kill. The beach in the early morning is probably my favorite thing about Los Angeles (rivaled only by the beach in winter, at any time of day). The air is cool, barely anyone is around, and the light is perfect—the sky almost blends right into the sea. [...]
I halfway feel like no further elaboration outside the title of this entry is needed. But whatever, this is a music blog, so let me sHaRe mY feeLinGs. I've heard for a couple of years that I need to see Phantom Family Halo . Every group that I booked at The Dame from Louisville told me I need to see these guys based on the type of music and live show I find intriguing. Like, everyone, So, instead of doing either Forecastle or Lebowski Fest this weekend, I opted to spend my money at Lisa's Oak Street [...]
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