PLAYLIST: British Sea Power - Blackout Gorillaz - Don't Get Lost In Heaven Death In Vegas - Help Yourself Standard Fare - Philadelphia King Khan & The Shrines - I Wanna Be A Girl Sebadoh - New King Volcano Suns - Blue Rib Sennen - Age Of Denial Deerhunter - Revival Gruff Rhys - Shark Ridden Waters Interpol - NYC The Charlatans - NYC (There's No Need To Stop) Delorean - NYCgaps The Raveonettes - New York Was Great Doves [...]
By now, you know that I like bass, drums, and guitar – so here is a band featuring bass, drums, and guitar. The band? Volcano Suns . Are they new? No. Do you know them? Maybe. Who are Volcano Suns? They are Peter Prescott's post Mission of Burma band, and frankly, I prefer them to their predecessor. They sound like. . . well, Volcano Suns. The music is heavy, full of energy and, at times, silly, both lyrically and musically. Last week, I rediscovered my CD copy of Volcano Suns' swan song album, Career in Rock [...]
:: I found this amazing blog last night thanks to Chunklet and instantly devoured the whole thing. A guy found a trunk full of seven-inch vinyl circa 1987-1993, then decided to write about and rip a record a day until he got through the entire collection. All of today's random tracks that don't suck have been culled from said trunk. :: Rolling Stone has reprinted its 1968 story about the inception of The Band . :: You pick up that new Reggie Watts vinyl [...]
35 covers by the indie legends, plus opening sets from Jeff Tweedy, Mission of Burma, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
[Peter Prescott sings the Volcano Suns' "Cover" at the night 5 of Yo La Tengo's 2010 Hannukah residency at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ 12/5/2010. Photo by Michael Piantigini. More here .] It's sort of like when Boston sold out nine nights at the Centrum in the 80's, except Yo La Tengo does it every year (when they're not on tour, at least). Every 25th of Kislev (I looked that up), they bogart the schedule of Maxwell's - their legendary Hoboken hometown home base club - to celebrate Hanukkah with an 8 night [...]
Some ghostly good tunes for you gallivanting ghouls... Bessie Smith - Haunted House Blues Bobby Picket - The Monster Mash Ryan Adams - Halloween (UK bonus track) The Pogues - Boys From the County Hell Volcano Suns - Descent into Hell Petra Haden - Thriller Dead Kennedys - Halloween Sonic Youth - Halloween [...]
Let's look back shall we to October 2008. It brings back memories of Radiohead remix contests, CMJ, and well, other stuff too. Downloadables: Teen Creeps (mp3) by No Age Bastard In Love (mp3) by Mika Miko Black Albino Bones (mp3) by Fucked Up Call & Respond (mp3) by Times New Viking White Elephant (mp3) by Volcano Suns Idiotheque ( Radiohead Cover) (mp3) by [...]
"Barricade" opens with the words "I know what to expect," which couldn't be further from the truth when it comes to labeling Condominium.
Por: J. Pace Traducción: Carmen Duarte Gentileza de Under The Radar Magazine Pilar de la escena indie y hogar de bandas como Arcade Fire, Magnetic Fields y Neutral Milk Hotel, Merge Records cumple 20 años y lo celebra con un festival en julio próximo, más el lanzamiento de la enorme serie de compilados SCORE!. En este artículo, Laura Ballance y Mac McCaughan (bajista y cantante de Superchunk) recuerdan sus inicios, teorizan acerca del futuro de la industria y revelan anécdotas que [...]
Southern Records Page Associated Entries: Big Black, Mission Of Burma, Rapeman Although not as mean/noisy or controversial as his previous projects, Shellac is still undeniably Albini-esque, with their records being full of roaring guitars and off-kilter song subjects and much like Big Black, the band refused to be manipulated by music biz. After the dissolution of Big Black [...]
Do you remember the postrock outfit named Somme ? They sounded like this. Downloadable: Massless (mp3) Well, they have expanded their lineup and changed their name to Other Animals . Their eponymous new album was recorded mainly live in 4 days at Steve Albini's Electrical Studios in Chicago and was mastered by Mr. Robert Spurr Weston IV (of Shellac and Volcano Suns fame). The album sounds like this. Downloadable: Boxcar Blue (mp3) The song above takes a little [...]
If you were of age in the pre-Nirvana years, indie rock meant something completely different than it does currently. It meant giving your old man the bird if he tried to strong arm you into liking his Jackson Browne and John Lennon records. You took your belt whooping like a man if necessary. It was just the way it was done. There wasn't much of a difference between punk rock (hardcore or otherwise) except that the punkers were too weird to be trusted. There was a need for something vicious and yet apparently (on the outside) completely normal. Out of [...]
I've been negligent in doing my weekly new music posts. So now I'm going to try to tackle the entire first three months of the year. Here are the releases from January that got the most attention in my world. Personal favorites are in BOLD . Released on 1/5/09: Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion – This will probably be the best reviewed album of the year, but they still make my head feel like it's [...]
Jeff Weigand in the heyday of the Volcano Suns One of the first assignments I gave myself as a new writer at Merry Swankster was a three-part history / tribute / love letter dedicated to Volcano Suns, a band that had fascinated me in my youth, yet was unknown to even the most well-versed young music fans out there. To my surprise, I quickly got a message from the Suns bassist Jeff Weigand, who clarified that the subject of the song "Sea Cruise" was the Fall's Mark E. Smith and generally praised my [...]
We've got a brand new weekly feature for you, starting today. Here's what it is: a list of FREE and LEGAL MP3s and albums (or EPs) that have been sent to us, or have come to our attention, in the past week. Click the band name for the band's site, song name for the MP3. For this week only we've got song selections in honor of everything that Touch and Go Records has done for indie music over the past two-plus decades. They're not closing their doors entirely, but they've recently announced major cutbacks and changes [...]
Once Upon A Time, there was A Band known as Volcano Suns ... DATELINE: BOSTON - The Bright Orange Years (1985) and All-Night Lotus Party (1986), the classic first releases from Boston's beloved Volcano Suns have gotten the reissue treatment from the good folks at Merge Records . The songs on both collections were lovingly remastered by engineer Bob Weston and have never sounded [...]
Two albums by underground rockers, Volcano Suns, see the light of day on CD for the first time ever.
Not sure what albums to spend your hard-earned cash on this week? Well, my friends, this is exactly what the Daily Graboid is all about! Take a sample of the new releases this week, and maybe you'll find something you didn't expect to discover. This week's highlights include new records from The Bird and the Bee , Loney Dear , and Cotton Jones (Michael Nau of Page France ). Or maybe you would be interested in something more familiar like Bruce Springsteen's or Franz Ferdinand's latest. [...]
Andrew Bird Noble Beast :: review ASA ASA Ashford & Simpson The Real Thing Bruce Springsteen Working On A Dream The Bird and The Bee Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future Bryn Christopher My World [...]
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