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A scorching Valentine's playlist with songs from The Nels Cline Singers, Scorch Trio, Ultralyd, Marnie Stern and Chris Corsano Band. Free jazz mixed with skronk, scorching guitars, rapidfire drums and improvisation. Just the type of hard loving you need today, babies. The Nels Cline Singers - Floored Scorch Trio - Fajao Ultralyd - Lahtuma Marnie Stern - Nothing Left Chris Corsano - "I Feel Like I Fell in a Hole" / "We Don't Need No Music, We Got Soul"
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I'm finally moving onto my second day of roaming around High Sierra and revisiting the memories I have from this year's amazing festival. Hands down, the best surprise of the weekend for me was the Nels Cline Singers rocking on Friday morning at High Sierra . It's not often you see me get too excited about live music before noon, but this stood out big time. The music was a frantic bit of space rock/jazz to me, and when it got mellow for a while it always seemed to crescendo it's way into something [...]
Last night at the Village's favorite avant garde music club , we caught The Nels Cline Singers delivering the first of two sets of the night. The band is on tour for their new record Initiate , and it was the first time we'd seen them play in a couple of years. As always, they were ridiculously tight, and had a rapport that made itself immediately clear on stage. The set was comprised of a good mix of new and old material, with a [...]
Nels Cline in Central Park, from the HAD Archive We'll be the first to admit that our exposure to Nels Cline is firmly rooted in his association with Wilco. However, that does nothing to change the fact that the man is a guitar badass who has a list of musical projects almost too long to comprehend. We caught him last summer at Central Park with Floored By Four , and now the man is back in town with his band [...]
Wilco's Solid Sound Festival finalized its lineup and schedule for the event slated for Aug. 13-15 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass. Though the fest will take place outside of Boston, the band is making sure the weekend is filled with some Chicago love. Among those included on the bill are Mavis Staples , whose upcoming album You Are Not Alone was produced by Jeff Tweedy, Wilco side projects The Autumn Defense , Pronto and The Nels Cline Singers , Deep [...]
Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. Time Out Chicago went to the Grammy's Blues Fest kick-off party at Buddy Guy's Legends and posted a picture gallery to prove it. Kidz in the Hall tried to clear up the controversy surrounding their show in Atlanta that never took place and never was going to. Andrew Bird will appear alongside an impressive roster of [...]
The Nels Cline Singers - "Floored" from the album, "Initiate."
The incredible guitarist Nels Cline who is well known for his role in Wilco and has played for Mike Watt and the Geraldine Fibbers among others, has always been entrenched in his own band the Nels Cline Singers, where he can be as experimentally stunning as he wants to be. Initiate is their latest album, a double-album including a studio disc and a live disc. The Nels Cline Singers create vivid soundscapes in High Definition that range everywhere from jazz, rock and Brazilian influences to Afrobeat and electronica, like a musical encyclopedia. [...]
What can't Los Angeles native Nels Cline accomplish? The guitar virtuoso's first recorded performance with Wilco appeared on the SpongeBob SquarePants soundtrack, of all places. He's even a lefty who plays a guitar version of John Coltrane's Interstellar Space right-handed, employing a full rack of effects pedals and processors to distort and remake his spacey [...]
![New Music Tuesday [April 13th, 2010] – Congratulations, MGMT](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2473531_lg.jpg)
May be somewhat light on releases, but that is made up for with the heavily anticipated and sure to be controversial/divisive release of MGMT's sophomore album, Congratulations . This will be a very talked about release for sure, so check it and everything else coming out this week below. New Music Releases - April 13th, 2010: - AC/DC - Iron Man 2 ( CD/DVD , Coll. Ed. , Vinyl ) - Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow ( CD , [...]
I think I've finally figured out what "whack-jazz" actually is. Thanks, Nels.
IODAcast 068, Featuring: Andrew W.K., Mux Mool, The Nels Cline Singers and more. The Nels Cline Singers "Floored" (mp3) from "Initiate" (Cryptogramophone) More On This Album Mux Mool "Skulltaste" (mp3) from "Skulltaste" [...]
A friend's brother used to work at a record store, and every week he would have the same guys come by and ask for only "the new." This was perplexing because each week, something new came down the pipeline. He was left bemused and mumbling, "the new what?" I think he gradually learned what was interesting to these gents and was able to anticipate what "the new" was based on their past picks. Anyway, here is some of "the new" for you. MP3 The Black Keys - Next Girl from the upcoming LP, Brothers [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Ben Kweller : "It All Happened" [mp3] other Ben Kweller posts at Largehearted Boy Bettie Serveert : "Semaphore (acoustic)" [mp3] other Bettie Serveert posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
Listen: The Nils Cline Singers ∞ Floored Recap: Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Tune Up La La Land Lyrics Brandy You Got It Lyrics [...]
Wilco guitarist Nels Cline is releasing the new Nels Cline Singers album on April 13th; Initiate is a double album; the second disc is from a September 2009 performance at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco. Here's one of the studio tracks, a foot stompin' fusion jam. Floored - Nels Cline Singers
The resume of Nels Cline runs deep. In addition to holding down duties as Wilco's lead guitar player, Cline has long immersed himself as a jack-of-all-genres when it comes to guitar. He's appeared on over 150 recordings combining his own output alongside collaborations with Mike Watt , Willie Nelson , The Geraldine Fibbers , and members of Sonic Youth . That barely scrapes the surface of what he done and who he's worked with. Next month, The Nels Cline Singers will release Initiate [...]
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