Is it cold out? Do the nights still feel long and dark? Are you troubled by a sense of foreboding? I missed this very fine album when it was released last year, and only really decided to hunt it down after the Quietus made it their #4 record of 2011. Bobby Krlic's extraordinarily atmospheric record weaves together droning, rumbling strings, rattling percussion and the occasional haunting piece of choral singing ('The Fall', for example). There's also lots of silence, the space in which the sounds happen. The name, and the general feel and look of the [...]
She is a magical gift that keeps on giving, 40 years into her career. My Beloved Stevie Nicks has just released a "preview" trailer for her May 3rd album, In Your Dreams . Top Ten + 1 Great (Or Not) Things About Stevie Nicks' New Youtube Clip 1 White horses and fog. In Stevie's LA backyard. 2 Ye olde Renaissance fair styling mixed with... 3 Shockingly, [...]
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Simon Roberts Both these songs have unnecessary intros. The Crown Vandals - "Guenevere" You want to go back to the 14th century, to wait in a grove by the walled city. You want to hide your drum-kit beneath under a leafy oak, conceal your guitars in a mulberry bush; cheap amps, cheap mics, cheap booze nestling among beech-roots. You want to wait there, for courtiers and commoners who steal away from the walled city - weirdos & thieves & lovers & lonelyhearts. They [...]
Both these songs have unnecessary intros. The Crown Vandals - "Guenevere" .You want to go back to the 14th century, to wait in a grove by the walled city. You want to hide your drum-kit beneath under a leafy oak, conceal your guitars in a mulberry bush; cheap amps, cheap mics, cheap booze nestling among beech-roots. You want to wait there, for courtiers and commoners who steal away from the walled city - weirdos & thieves & lovers & lonelyhearts. They come loping to the grove, in tunics and bucklers, coins in coin-pouches; they turn their problems and [...]
Image by Jack Dylan Here is part 4 of who I might or will see at Pop Montreal on Oct 3rd. 1:15pm: Faust at Espace Reunion which is a Symposium 7:30pm: End Of A Year at Underworld 8pm: Diamond Rings at Carbaret Juste Pour Rire Options: Daehyun Kim at Green Room 9pm: Kyrie Kristmanson at Calgibi Options: Centretown Cripplers at Il Motore 10pm: Rich Aucoin at L'Escogriffe Options: Katie Stelmanis at Casa Del Popolo The Balconies at Il Motore (MUST [...]
The Witchies - Royal Blood With a promising EP recorded by Wolf Parade's Arlen Thompson, The Witchies seem poised to win over fans sounds to attract fans of not-so-distantly connected bands Sunset Rubdown and the Handsome Furs. But as unsigned act the release is limited to CD-R that you can only buy at shows or stores in their hometown of Montreal. If you like what you hear, head over to their MySpace and badger them to set up a PayPal account! MySpace [...]
If you're looking for some solid indie rock on Saturday night in Austin, head over to Mohawk for a show by Spencer Krug's band Sunset Rubdown . Music starts at 9pm with opening act Witchies followed by Elfin Saddle . Tickets are relatively cheap and on sale now for $13 . Better seize the opportunity to see such a talented act in an intimate setting as you'll probably never see Mr. Krug's full time band Wolf Parade in such a setting. Sunset Rubdown is touring in support of their new album [...]
they're from montreal. just self-released MMVII. toured for a bit with wolf parade. hmm..what else? give 'em a listen - i'd recommend it.
Witchies - "Royal Blood" Among the potential pitfalls of privilege as enumerated by the Witchies are idleness, illness, death by murder. "Woe betide," the Witchies warn heirs and royal scions, though the same antiquated imperative might be directed at the band itself. Woe betide, Witchies, for your music is a disquieting combination of macabre and merry, of Goya and ABBA, and if you don't cut it out soon, I may not emerge psychologically unscathed from this uninterrupted weeks-long listening. Less desolation than chief Witchie Chad Jones' previous band, the fine Frankie Sparo, but even more twisted romance [...]
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