MP3: My Mysterious Death (Turn It Up) The more your hear about the origin of Old Columbus bands, the more you realize how many of them formed accidentally, the result of spontaneity and serendipity. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments was one such band. On a night about 20 years ago, soon after the dissolution of Ron House's previous band, Great Plains , a band playing Stache's ended early. The story could have ended right there. Everyone at the bar [...]
Fertile Crescent - Great Plains I like to think that this song exists for two reasons: 1) To have a slower song in their repertoire, and 2) to have an excuse to use the wet-finger-on-rim-of-a-crystal -glass effect on the organist's organ. Or a third: Great Plains had such a beautiful, dreamlike song in them so they just wrote it. It fits so perfectly on the album, as some astral respite from the breathless whirlwind of the other songs. What a band...
Dick Clark - Great Plains I had to help my mum move out of our old home today, so that is why this is so late. A big day, and Great Plains' Dick Clark was in my head at the beginning of it. Writing these every day, it's a lot less of a diary than it could be. These songs are just songs. They indicate nothing of what i do, where i go, and how i feel during the days they begin. [...]
O -part two of L.O.V.E is being released June 6th and we chained the producer to the wall for a while to get the truth out of him about the new EP... Hi Joakim Lundgren, producer of "O - part two of L.O.V.E"! You're the second producer in line to write a chapter in our book of L.O.V.E, how do you feel the progress has been so far? Good! We're done with mixing and mastering and I hope that it will spread like wild fire and be much appreciated. [...]
Hall of shame - Great Plains Another great song from that great album by this great band, Great Plains. I like the slower ones as well. They're all great.
Fool that set it off - Great Plains Maybe my favourite song off an album that should have a share of the esteem of Zen Arcade , Let It Be , Double Nickels on the Dime , Murmur , and others, but for many reasons doesn't. Well, no, my favourite song will always be Time To Name The Dog but this song needs as much height as i can give it. It is perfect. It's such a [...]
MP3 : Moses Carryout (Ron House) - 20 or 30 People They're always there/They're everywhere I go They're the 20 or 30 people that I know We go to talk/We go to dance And when we get real bored we listen to the band We argue some/We never fight We wonder if we're drunk or something's happening tonight This song has been implanting itself in my morning bedhead ever since I started listening to Blind Boy in the Backseat , the Ron House [...]
Editor's note: "Overlooked in Ohio" is a feature in which we ask an Ohio-based artist or music enthusiast to tell us about a few bands (past or present) from the state of Ohio that deserve some love. Our second installment comes courtesy of Mark Wyatt, former member of seminal Columbus band Great Plains and One Riot One Ranger; these days you'll find him singing behind the keyboard with The Beatdowns and Columbus Power Squadron . Here are Mark's reflections on and recollections of the Gibson Brothers . [...]
I reviewed the new Larry Jon Wilson album for the August edition Spin . You can check it out on pg. 93 in print or the digital edition . Also in that issue: Spin's list of the "100 greatest bands you've (probably) never heard of," which is a good read, especially because it includes four legendary Columbus bands: Gaunt, Great Plains, Royal Crescent Mob and Scrawl.
(Please give a warm A to Z welcome to Last Days of Man on Earth proprietor Joe Stumble, who graciously penned this blog post about the Columbus, Ohio, music scene to wrap up our Cleveland Rocks! week(ish). Visit his blog for tons of great posts about and MP3s of forgotten bands -- that you should really know about.) Prisonshake. Hmmmm…noisy rock & roll. Cleveland. OHIO. I went to school in Ohio. I up and moved there on my own [...]
Here's a great podcast from Pat Radio . It plays some "classic" Columbus bands but also songs from some unforgettable shows that have probably never been heard on the internet. We're talking Nick Cave, The Pixes, and more from the 80s... Click here to download the podcast. Tim Anstaett, publisher of The Offense fanzine, is my guest this week. He talks about The Offense and plays some great local music from back in the day. He also shares some stuff from shows he promoted in Columbus. 1. Great [...]
& on Minneapoliscast, Download MP3 Interview & Songs below Lucy Michelle & Chris Graham from Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles stopped by the lab to perform some songs and discuss the band and their new CD. Songs Performed: "Mouth of the Beast" "With You" "Chinese Lanterns" "Magnolia Tree" Upcoming Shows: Jul 25 2008 7:00P Lucy Michelle CD release/ the Bedlam Theatre Minneapolis, Minnesota [...]
If anyone made the unfortunate decision to ask me about the current state of affairs involved with the music scene in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, I would probably respond with nothing more than an empty, blank stare or (at best) a second hand account of a band/personality that hasn't been seen or heard since $1 pitchers of beer sloshed off the bar at 1980s mainstay Crazy Mamas. The whole
GIMME INDIE ROCK Sebadoh Homestead 7" : 1991 Available on: III (Reissue) Domino : 2006 [Buy It] A few years ago, I spent a few weeks fact-checking at a magazine called Elle Girl. One thing I remember about those weeks is being asked to check an album review which began, more or less, as follows: "How in the world did an indie band like Dead Boy Confessional manage to end up on two soundtracks, a Doritos ad, and Hot 97, all before they'd released their first album?" [...]
This post is a special service to all us old folks (over 30): 1.) Tomorow night, 4/25, at Southpaw in Brooklyn: it's like 1988 in 2008, as the Homestead sound makes a return in the form of a crazy triple-bill featuring Big Dipper , Ohio's Great Plains , and Antietam (NYC'ers may recognize Antietam's Josh Madell as the owner of Other Music ). I believe this tour is to support the new Big Dipper 3-CD collection out on Merge , but all of these bands are [...]
" You think they'll get this one? Think they'll get it? A little clue: check you calendar. Check your calendar on this one. Check your calendar, and then maybe you'll get the joke." - Tom, dropping some hints about his timely spin of "Taxman" "Oh, there's many more things I've done, but, you know, I figured I'd start with that." -- Leon Carbone, purging the guilt about a $20 paper route theft "Not even gonna say what it's a stain of, just trust me. It was gross." -- Tom, declining [...]
A Century in Jumps (Slight Return) 1987 Noel, Silent Morning. Serge Gainsbourg, Mon Légionnaire. Miaow, Did She. Rosie Flores, Crying Over You. Don Pullen-George Adams Quartet, Sun Watchers. Great Plains, Martin Luther King and Martin Luther Drinking. Witchdoctor and the Dominating Three MCs, Kickin' It Live. Sonny Rollins, Just Once. French Frith Kaiser Thompson, Bird in God's Garden/Lost
My sincerest apologies to Mr. Paul Nini. Here it is post-Labor Day and I've spent the Summer sitting on a stack of releases from his modest and criminally overlooked Old 3C Records roster. To clarify, these albums haven't sat, collecting dust, going unheard - quite the contrary. His uniform and economically packaged offerings have opened up a whole new world of Columbus music and beyond. While most barstool historians of High Street's heyday are content to merely talk about how they're doing this and that to preserve a vibrant legacy (resurrecting defunct labels, uploading warped VHS recordings to [...]
The promised post on Battles will hit here in 24 hours or so. It may look like I'm avoiding posting or just being lazy but what I'm trying to do with 24 Hour Party Pooper is have it be content rich without relying on weak content. That is, I want it to be more than simply a news leak or a place to find tour dates. There's plenty of places you can do that already (and some are very good at it) and I'm not interested in having this place look or read like that. It may be a [...]
"When I saw Zach Galifianakis on Saturday I was standing in line and somebody asked me what it was and I said Laser Allin." -- Dan B, recounting his weekend fun in the FOT Chat "Put me up here. Disgraceful. Send them the dry cleaning bill. My clothes are ruined. It's like I went to the gym." -- Tom on getting stuck in the WFMU submarine "You probably, Spike, would have to talk to your parole officer about being in a building that would contain children." -- Tom, [...]
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