"Someday we'll brag about them to our grandchildren, they're that good." Bill Flanagan Musician Magazine The quote above is about Walter Salas Humara's band The Silos but I'm fine with applying it to both bands playing our next house concert. It's been awhile but we're back with a summer house concert (and we now have central air!). It's actually a double bill of Walter Salas Humara of Silos fame and the Detroit based band Frontier Ruckus. The date of the [...]
The Silos : Caroline [ purchase ] There seem to be many songs with "Caroline" in the title, but when I saw the previous song, I immediately thought of this one by The Silos. I love the way the singer just yells out the name before the music starts. So, when did alt-country music start? Who knows, but as much as I love Uncle Tupelo, they clearly weren't the first alt-country band. The album that this song comes from was The Silos' third, and was released months before [...]
F or the forward thinking DJ and listener Lot49 Records have released yet another compilation album comprising of low-slung beats, dirty grooves and serious tech-funk filth. Label bosses @dylanrhymes and @Meatkatie have meticulously brought in some favourites and they introduce us to some new artists with this release that sounds like it has the ability to terrorise many a dancefloor for not only the Miami parties but for many others around to the world for a good few weeks to come. > 'Silent Duck' by [...]
"Tennessee Fire" can be found on the quite worthy album Cuba .
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Video , New Music , Exclusive Kelleemack PR Spring Offensive have their sights set on breaking out in the US with the release of their debut album, 'Pull Us Apart.' And if you need more of an introduction to the Oxford, England-based rockers, you can check out their video for 'Every Coin,' a track about an unlucky man who has to eat everything in his [...]
What is it about Florida these days that inspires record titles. Besides this new record Florizona from The Silos there is Celebration, Florida by The Felice Brothers. There must be something about the Florida experience that both inspires and dismays. Well look, you either love The Silos ( and indirectly Walter Salas Humara) or you don't. You either love ragged roots rock or you don't. You either love his voice or you don't. I've been there since the beginning lineup of The Silos (with Bob Rupe) and [...]
Somehow I managed to miss The Silos down at SXSW, but managed to run into Walter Salas-Humara on the street and lip-jack him for a good ten minutes about the new record, his visual art and collaborating with the equally legendary (and underappreciated) Jon Langford. The second single from Florizona , Teenage Prayer is yet another razor-sharp slice of rock from Walter and the boys, and just another reason why Florizona should not leave your car this summer, lest an impromptu [...]
Once upon a time there was a little record called Cuba by a little band known as The Silos , that completely changed the way I thought about music. Almost quarter of a century later, I still listen to that record, and we're still lucky enough to have The Silos, or at the very least, Walter Salas-Humara's latest re-invention of the legendary unit. You'd be hard pressed to find a lesser known band with as many great songs as The Silos, but I reckon [...]
One Small Step , the DIY electrono-punk, and cute as a button rock couple, have played and released music in Louisville for years before moving to Wisconsin, and are finally coming home to play a show at Skull Alley on Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 8:00 PM . They will be joined by two great bands Egret, and Silo. Tickets are $5. You may not get another chance to catch One Small Step for awhile, so don't miss this opportunity!!! One Small Step - 413 South [...]
our old friends, ONE SMALL STEP, the DIY electrono-punk, and cute as a button rock couple, have played and released music in louisville for years before moving to Wisconsin, and are finally coming home to play a show at Skull Alley. the show is Fri Jul 23 @ 8:00 PM, with State Champion, Egret, and Silo. Tickets: $5. they may not be back around for awhile, so get your safety pined leather jacket, and black and white checkered shoes out of the closet and get down there. One Small Step has [...]
Mellow Music Group x 5 Animals Play: Trek Life - Free Money Mini Mix DJ Buddy Mix Tracklistings: 1. Black Music ft. J-Bizness 2. One Idea 3. Long Time Coming 4. We Still Here ft. Silo 5. Hold Me Down ft. Champ MC 6. Good God 7. Never Again 8. Last Joint
The Hole in the Wall is een niet al te grote kroeg vlak bij het terrein van de universiteit van Austin, Texas. Al vele jaren organiseert The Hole in the Wall onder de naam Swollen Circus aan de vooravond van SXSW een avond vol met bands. Vorig jaar was ik er voor het eerst en toen traden onder andere Scott McCaughey van de Minus 5 en Syd Straw op. Straw werd begeleid door de heren van REM. Ze waren toch in de stad. Deze avond lijkt een beetje een retro thema te hebben. Zo worden behalve Grant Hart [...]
Take Me To The Other Side - Spacemen 3 One Summer Dream - Electric Light Orchestra Fever - Little Willie John Black Rose - J.D. Souther (I know there's some JD fans in the house!) She Lives Up The Street - The Silos The Lure Would Prove Too Much - The [...]
It's no secret that one of our favorite labels is Bloodshot Records out of Chicago. HearYa + BeerNuts will be one of the sponsors for their SXSW 2008 event, along with Shiner (as in free beer), TimeOut Chicago and The Yellow Tricycle Button Company. Bloodshot's lineup of American music is sure to put together a great beer drinking soundtrack for everyone. Swing on by and grab some super-classy beer koozies (as pictured below) and delicious beer nuts from the HearYa gang. Here's the lineup: [...]
I know you probably thought that there couldn't be any more new Christmas music out there; let alone from a quality group like The Silos, a band as eclectic as Spottiswoode and His Enemies, or a singer-songwriter as acclaimed, yet as humble as Rose Polenzani. But with a little sleuthing on Christmas eve, while I digested the chicken pot pie, I turned up these three gems. The Silos is just what I like from that band. Walter Salas Humara plus a little Walter Salas Humara plus a little Walter [...]
These YouTube Saturday's were supposed to be easy. They were meant as a cop-out, a cheap and quick way I could post on Saturday and not have to upload mp3's, fight for a good description of the music or search out something new. But it turns out these are pretty hard. I have to walk the line between bands that are well known enough to have YouTube videos but not so well known to attract the wrong crowd to S:I. The Silo's are perfect then. At their peak they were a critically [...]
This is the inaugural post of a new feature I call Listening Post. It is analogous to and partly inspired by Heather Browne's Monday Music Roundup over at I Am Fuel, You Are Friends . I'll try to post one of these at least once a week.
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