iron & wine jezebel (demo) dave deporis at the end of the tunnel arab strap who named the days chuck prophet lucky matt friedberger up the river jim guthrie sexy drummer reigning sound find me now gravenhurst the diver iron & wine such great heights jets to brazil sweet avenue
Reigning Sound are finally doing a proper headlining show in Philly just more seconds before their new LP is set to be released. I think it's pretty obvious that if you live ANYWHERE near the city (and we're talking a few hundred miles) that you need to be in attendance. Tickets are only $10 in advance and you not only run the risk of the show selling out by not getting them, but will wind up paying $2 extra at the door. Get them here while you can. [...]
A few years ago, a friend turned me on to the Reigning Sound , which immediately became one of my favorite bands. I listened to Home For Orphans and Time Bomb High School until the discs turned to a fine glittery dust. I told all of my friends about them. Bought more records. Told more friends ... maybe even told a few enemies. Reigning Sound singer/guitarist Greg Cartwright might be the only man alive who can pen songs where a shit-storm of distortion [...]
Song: It Doesn't have To Be That Way Artist: Articles of Faith Album: Complete Volume 2: 83-85 Comments: A perfect blend of Melodic and punishing hardcore. RIYL: Alloy, Jones Very, Vic Bondi. Song: As Long Artist: Reigning Sound Album: Break Up Break Down Comments: My first Reigning Sound album was this soft and "I have to be in a mood to listen music" type of album. I was shocked when I found out this was Greg "Oblivian" Cartwright. Time Bomb High School and Too [...]
I've been on a huge Reigning Sound kick of late devouring their 2002 LP Time Bomb High School almost daily. There is something about this record that is so immediate, so primal and completely organic, that is eschews a sense of what rock & roll is all about - or what it should be about. [...]
Song: Sully My Name Artist: The Marked Men Album: Fix My Brain Comments: Kind of feeling like Tom Petty on this track. Song: Bullshit Summer Song Artist: The Lazy Cowgirls Album: Tapping the Source Comments: With just a few official days left until life goes back to normal this song is so appropriate. Song: Lucky Seven Artist: Token Entry Album: The Weight of the World Comments: Example of what happens when a perfectly good hardcore [...]
Back in the early days of this blog, I did a post on Harold Arlen and his contribution to the American Songbook. In it, I included his version of "Stormy Weather" with Leo Reisman's Orchestra as well as one of my favorites by The Reigning Sound. After I posted it somebody pointed me to a link at the WFMU blog that contained a zip file with another 70+ versions. Here's a few of those as well as an unusually jaunty and swingin' version by Dave Bartholomew that I picked up recently. There must be hundreds of versions of this song. [...]
GOOD, BAD, NOT EVIL BAD KIDS COLD HANDS The Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil Vice : 2007 [Buy It] From: Matthew Specktor Subject: Veni Vedi Vici To: Alex Abramovich Date: August 12, 2008 Damn, this Black Lips is kicking my ass just now! It's fucking great. Yet...why? I have all the Chocolate Watchband shit, the Remains, Nuggets & Pebbles comps out the wazoo. I never had much patience for, say, the Lyres (OK, [...]
What the hell, one more Christmas post. Download: "Christmas Eve Can Kill You" mp3 by The Everly Brothers, 1972. available on Stories We Could Tell "A Child's Christmas in Wales" mp3 by John Cale, 1973. available on Paris 1919 "Christmas Must Be Tonight" (alternate) mp3 by The Band, 1975. available on Northern Lights-Southern Cross "If Christmas Can't Bring You Home" [...]
Well, the holiday season is back once again, so we'd thought we'd reload the RFC X-Mas 8-track once again this year...hope these sound just as good in your iPod as they do in our Germlin sports wagon's stereo deck. 99.9% of Christmas songs are absolute crap. So, as a public service to get you in the holiday spirit to consume this month, RFC is bringing you some of that .1% that don't completely suck. Warm up the chestnuts, crank up the iPod and enjoy! Program 1: Merry. [...]
Sam Phillips had slapback at Sun, and Capitol Records built large reverb rooms into the basement of their Hollywood studios, which can be heard to great effect by Speedy West, who joins Hank Thompson on "Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart." In this song Hank describes the painful wait that sometimes a man must endure, not knowing whether he's here nor there, or where he should be - suffering an existential mind-fuck, or maybe just lost in space. [...]
AD guest post on the return of Shangri-La, Mary Weiss, by fellow Los Angeles blogger, Be The Boy. Recently the Onion AV Club featured a favorite record of mine, Reigning Sound's Time Bomb High School, as part of their Permanent Record Collection. Reigning Sound is led by Greg Cartwright, Memphis garage rock legend from bands like [...]
I love Mother's Day. My wife Alexandra makes me very happy and has given me three beautiful boys. What I hate is that I get no relief. Between the tree pollen inside and the flowers spiting out god knows what inside I am getting hammered. The problem is that its all in my throat. no medicine for that! Song: Everlasting Artist: Refused Album: Everlasting Comments: People think Refused are "all that". I need to take them in doses. I can listen to the Shape of Punk [...]
I'M STANDING IN THE SHADOWS The 5 Royals Todd 7" : 1963 [Criminally Out of Print] THAT'S HOW IT FEELS The Soul Clan (Solomon Burke, Arthur Conley, Joe Tex, Ben E. King, Don Covay) Soul Meeting Atlantic : c. 1968 Available on: Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Brothers Atlantic : 2006 [Buy It] WHEN YOU TOUCH ME The [...]
Although I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was disappointed because I hadn't really "discovered" any new bands at SXSW this year, it turns out that I spoke too soon. While we were in Austin, part of our group spent the first couple of days talking about wanting to catch Mary Weiss and Reigning Sound. I had never heard of either (although I had, of course, heard of Mary's old group, The
Great songs are timeless, and great songwriters know this. Harold Arlen was one such songwriter. Below, are a few selections of his songs spanning 70 years. Arlen was born Hyman Arluck, the son of a cantor from Buffalo, New York. He started his career playing piano in the red hot jazz band The Buffalodians, and moved on to the Cotton Club, Broadway and later Hollywood. If you don't know his name, you know his songs. "One for My Baby (and One for the Road)", "Blues in the Night", "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive", "It's Only A Paper Moon", "That Old Black Magic", [...]
99.9% of Christmas songs are absolute crap. So, as a public service to get you in the holiday spirit to consume this weekend, RFC is bringing you some of that .1% that don't completely suck. Warm up the chestnuts, crank up the iPod and enjoy! Program 1: Merry. 1. Beck - "Little Drum Machine Boy" "Errbody needs a little holiday robot funk!" -BK [...]
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