one striking trend that jumped out when endeavoring to put together this compilation of bay area music - of which this post serves as the first of two volumes - was how much of the collective sound reflected what can reasonably be described, i think, as the city's, the region's, dueling ethos: the populist counter-cultural strain, or hippie for short, & the high technology sector. take, for example, the oakland band xiu xiu , who will make an appearance on part 2 (and who, by the way, have a killer promotion tied into their new album, [...]
DOWNLOAD: Vetiver - Luna Sea (MP3) random photo of Andy of Vetiver & Michael Lachowski of Pylon ( VIA ) (As just posted ) Kristeen Young dropped off the Morrissey tour . Her voice is shot. UPDATE: Minutes after I posted that Vetiver ARE opening for Morrissey, Vetiver sent out a second message. Now they are NOT opening for Morrissey.... Subject: ok...now this is just [...]
Vetiver - On A Nerve Vetiver - Double
Vetiver / All photos by David Greenwald Ah, Arthurfest . The second day was the one I was really excited about, thanks to the presence of the Olivia Tremor Control's reunion tour, and I wasn't disappointed. A "surprise" appearance by Devendra Banhart was also a pretty great moment, and of course Spoon rocked their shit like Federer on Centre Court. Vetiver Spoon, [...]
Download : RjD2 You Never Had It Download : Tokyo Police Club Cheer It On (Trey Told Em remix) Download : the Subjects Jump or Be Sane Download : Dexateens Cardboard Hearts Download : the Frogs Don't Really Care Download : the Microphones [...]
De nieuwste audiosport verzamelaar staat vol met fijne muziek zoals die gedraaid is in het Radio 6 programma Dwars plus . Heeft audiosport dan zelf geen inspiratie meer om een leuke cd samen te stellen? Dat wel, maar het werd gewoon eens tijd om de leukste en mooiste nummers (en legaal downloadeble) uit Dwars plus, gedraaid in 2006 overigens (de 2007 compilatie zal snel volgen!!!), te verzamelen en omdat iemand het moest doen... Dus een kleine tachtig minuten folk, experiment, nu-country en improv. Het artwerk van deze verzamelaar kunt u als pdf download ! [...]
Oh! How I am the self-proclaimed "slacker-bastard child" of (((withoutsound))). I enjoy being able to write and share all of my worthy aural adventures, and am grateful for the opportunity allowed by the two cool cats that run this BotB bitchin' venue. However, my academic lifestyle hasn't been the most accommodating to the documentation of [...]
Maaaybe you've been wondering where we've been. Here's the short answer: GPHQ got put under some kind of shady CDC quarantine because Joel left a half-eaten banana sitting on his desk and it achieved a degree of low-level sentience. They just barricaded us in the office with the thing and told us to call them when it was dead. Turns out it was some kind of banjo savant, and Mike considered starting an all-banjo traveling band with it until he realized that a) he couldn't travel, b) it had no opposable thumbs, and c) "Banjo Bandana" was a terrible band [...]
It was a good year here at Raven. It was difficult to make the list as short as it is, and impossible to pick a number one. So, in no particular order, here are our favorite albums of 2006. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone Andy Cabic takes his sweet country folk stylings on a trip through the best touches of 70's am radio. Dark Brooding folk songs with the kind of delicate production that made records become [...]
Here are the also-rans for my Favorites of 2006 . There are other albums I wish I had listened to enough to have favorites, but I can't count them in this bunch. I'm sure I will have regrets in the months to come. The following songs did get played a lot and yet had to be taken off the list in favor of others at some point. Niobe: Give All to Love [...]
I'll admit that Fleetwood Mac is pretty high on the list of bands that come to mind when I think of played-out classic rock dad-music. The Clinton inauguration pretty much shaved off any remaining edge they had. But, as excellent indie tributes to the likes of John Denver, Bread and Rick Nelson have demonstrated, today's songwriters can draw out the best from what you thought was the the
The true strength of this album is apparent in this first track "Been So Long", as the tribal percussion mixed with choral harmonies create a wonderful mood, satiating the listener who as Cabic suggests has been waiting "so long".
Last night was ridiculous. I set an all-time record for procrastination while studying for my Music History final. It's the time of year when everyone posts year end lists , and I frantically try and catch up on all the "year's best" music that I had no idea even existed. Well, I'd say a good three or so hours passed by the time I got myself away from the computer and actually studied. But I finally did get some solid studying in, and know about 10 new bands as well. So, with no post [...]
Here's where I try to say something about the songs I really liked in 2006. I could talk about skill and technical virtuosity, artistic ambition, ideological good intentions, recording quality, even originality (that obsolete concept). But basically, the list below is made up of songs that meant something to me -- for lots of reasons, often personal ones. Most aren't there simply because they're beautiful or thrilling (though they often are), but because they seized a mood the first (or third or tenth) time I heard them, tied red ribbons around my fingers for the people and places and events [...]
Okay, little chickadees. It's that time again. Time for me to try like hell to come up with something interesting to say about music. Ahh, music. This community has given me a new respect for music writers. Except not that much, because most of them aren't very good even if it is difficult. And if something is difficult and you suck at it, you should just not do it. This goes for poetry as well. I mean, this really, REALLY goes for poetry. Really. SOOOOOO our bandwidth is still all used up so I am being a totally [...]
La modernità mi svuota. I ritmi frenetici mi divorano dal di dentro fino a che questo tunnel non arriva a riempirsi di eco fino all’orlo. Blood On The Tracks. Il sangue è il nostro. I binari di chi vi pare (anche dello stato se volete). Aleggia qualcosa sopra di noi? Qualcosa di trasparente? Si. Un velo d’aria sporcato dalle micro infiltrazioni di indifferenza che imperversano da nord. Spengo il cervello/accendo le casse. Andy Cabic è il riferimento. Lui, con quella voce d’angelo che può anche sussurrarvi “merda†ma tanto voi capirete sempre “splendoreâ€. Noah Georgeson e Devendra Banhart alle chitarre, [...]
The magazine, The Believer, put out a great compilation CD in the summer last year, a comp that came with the summer issue of the magazine. Containing covers and nothing but, you were treated to Devendra Banhart covering Antony and the Johnsons "Fistfull of Love", the Mountain Goats version of Silver Jews "Pet Politics", and Canadian Jim Guthrie (Mr "Hands in My Pocket" himself) doing The
This sudden shift into spring has left me feeling completely inverted. The sounds that were ably soothing me through the winter months now seem innapproiate and out of context. Rather than intensify the hunt for new material, I've found myself searching frantically in dark corners, sifting through the debris of ...
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So let's deal with what's right in front of us. Vetiver - "I Know No Pardon" Carrying an awkward watercolour across town, unable to choose between holding the image outward for everyone to see, or inward for everyone to guess at, his cowboy boots clack, their soles beginning to freeze in the air. He dreams he's a southern belle, having just lost her one and only man, and now wears a long black veil for reasons of her own, and reasons not hers at all. His days are numbered, he's not a permanent resident here, anyone can see that. [Buy] [...]
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