for you smokers out there. am i the only one to have a thousand lighters, but never one actually on my persons? its just a given that i never have a lighter and i since i dont actually carry money on me, i refuse to debit a buck for one. i have been trying to quit so you would think that the absence of a lighter would be a sign, but its not. ex-varnline and all around awesome guy, anders parker is playing tonight at the earl . he's got a new live record out called [...]
Future of the Left Curses Beggars US/Too Pure 2007 Two years after Adrew Falkous and Johnathon Chapple broke up Mclusky, their loss is only beginning to be felt. More praise is bestowed on that band, and especially their 2002 release, Mclusky Do Dallas, now that they're not a band, then at any time while they were still a band. It's a shame really, since this would have been about the time that Mclusky would break it big. However, if you're at all familiar with Cardiff's Mclusky, [...]
Not only is the fall my favorite time of year, but with the start of the television season, there is a ton of truly great entertainment options that only t...
Not as good as last week, but a number of promising releases. Unfortunately I haven't sampled too many of these yet. A few good Christmas box sets too.... Most Interesting New Releases: Akron/Family : Love Is Simple (Young God) – This was the leadoff review in the Other Music mailer this week, so you know they've got music snob cred. You know you've been blogging for too long when you realize you've recommended seeing them twice, yet have no recollection of it. Damn. Anyway, they're [...]
MP3: Wooden Shjips - We Ask You to Ride The 5 song, half hour plus self titled lp from Wooden Shjips is simply put a maze. You enter through "We Ask You to Ride", which starts off innocently enough and then before you know it, you're lost. Every time you get somewhere new, you realize you're still getting deeper longer and longer each time. By the time you've exited after the 10:18 "Shine Like Suns", you [...]
Hab ich doch geahnt! Nach Dungen und Black Cab, geht es nun weiter mit Psychomusik. Die Wooden Shijps treiben ihren psychedelischen Soundstream in eine deutlich konsequentere, experimentellere Ecke. Klingt nach urdeutschem Krautrock a la Guru Guru, Popol Vuh mit Jim Morrison am Mikro. Auf jeden Fall viel frühe 70er Jahre. Interessant wie viele angloamerikanische Bands sich zur Zeit auf den Krautrock als musikalische Einflußgröße berufen... Wooden Shjips - We ask you to ride MP3 Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon for you (edit) MP3 Website Wooden Shjips [...]
A mixed bag this week, but all interesting tracks in their own rights. My brother-in-law got to see Ani DiFranco live and up close at her studio space in Buffalo, NY a while back, and that was part of the influence for including a track from her retrospective double album. Enjoy these great four tracks, and don't forget the Two Hours Traffic CD Giveaway is still on. Ani DiFranco "Both Hands (brand new studio version)" (from the album Canon [...]
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Wooden Shjips, Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain 2007) Holy Mountain's one of my favorite labels right now, just look at the album covers on their home page -- Om, the new Blues Control, the Cherrystones comps, and this disc from SF psychers Wooden Shjips (must be something in the water out there). Wooden Shjips - "We Ask You to Ride" Arthur Verocai, Encore (Far Out 2007) [...]
The Invisible - Constant The Invisible are Matthew Herbert's latest signings on Accidental. You'd think it'd be some kind of innovative electronic music, but surprise it's stone cold rock. Dave Okumu (formerly of Jade Fox), Tom Herbert (Polar Bear/Acoustic Ladyland) and Leo Taylor (Gramme/Zongamin) have created a stripped down and danceable indie rock on Image And Distraction their debut. Also featuring vocal contributions and blessings from UK songstress Eska and jazz wunderkind Seb Rochford . Amasser [...]
Wooden Shjips Genre: Psychedelic / Trance / Garage From: San Fancisco, California United States San Franciscan wierdos Wooden Shjips (trust me that is their real name and not a typo) are hugely influenced by the far-out, LSD induced experimentalism of psychedelia, with a small measure of prog rock excess thrown in for good luck. The lazy, hazy groove, fizzing, fuzzy guitars, pounding bass topped of with haunting half [...]
Recently found and enjoyed: Film School - Two Kinds mp3 (pic) The Real Tuesday Weld - Last Words mp3 Havana Guns - She Always Goes Down mp3 Tiny Masters Of Today - K.I.D.S. mp3 Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride mp3 Frankel - Thermostat mp3Bottomless Pit - The Cardinal Movements mp3
Earvolution's Pawnshop Roses will play the Dogfish Head in Rehobeth Beach tonight and then head north to Boston on Saturday for a homecoming show for guitarist Kevin Bentley at the Middle East. The Boston show is with Taxpayer , The Every Day Visuals and Polarbaron. Next weekend the boys swing south to hit Spartanburg, South Carolina (Wild Wing Cafe) on Friday and then Nashville on Saturday for another Earvolution Nashville Jam (more to come on rest of bill next week) at the French Quarter Cafe. Speaking of Boston, Razorlight will kick off their fall [...]
Hressilegasti dagur vikunnar runninn upp. Á föstudögum er yfirleitt minna að gera í vinnunni hjá fólki þar sem flestir eru með hugann við helgina og að komast í helgarfrí. Nenni maður ekki að vinna er auðvitað fátt annað að gera en að filta aðeins við voljúmtakkann og tjúna alveg upp í ellefu. Einn, tveir og... [MP3] Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride [MP3] Taken By Trees - The Legend Hestabandið heldur áfram að skvetta af sér epískum slögurum. [Mp3] Band Of Horses - Is There [...]
This midweek underground freakout brought to you San Fran's favorite psych-rock quartet Wooden Shjips . The extra j is just there and we ask that you let it be. Dance, California: Zagat-like press materials cite them as having hints of krautrock, desert-fried garage psych, dance drone and trance-inducing organ haze, and we fully agree, so, way to get that "sounds like" part out of the way for us. And not that Rolling Stone is relevant to music, [...]
"Tight-wound repeato psych guitar raunch with spoony (maybe even imaginary) percussion, surprisingly Rev -like keys, and vocals buried under burning driftwood." -- Byron Coley, The Wire "Wooden Shjips (not a typo) are from San Francisco, but the concentrated ferocity of the freakouts on their two very-underground releases — a white-label ten-inch EP (the band gave away the first 300 copies) and a clear-vinyl single ("Dance, California") — arrives via the Seventies Germanic-guitar lunacy of Guru Guru and the confrontational repetition of VU." – David Fricke, Rolling Stone [...]
This post definitely gets filed under the "Hell yeah its about time!" category. San Francisco's mighty Wooden Shjips have finally completed their much anticipated full length for Holy Mountain and a superb slice of thick fuzz and rumble it is. The self titled record picks up the toasted groove laid down by their previous 7 and 10 inch releases and heads further into the acid backed hills of the California coastline. Though nothing on the album quite touches the mighty fuzz wallop of "Dance, Californa," a new tamer direction fits their style well. The band dabbles more in atmospherics than [...]
As far as music videos within the noise-psychedelia realm go, this one takes the cake. Set in California at what seems to be the largest dance party ever. This semi-political (note the flashes of war) video collage is taken from a multi-span of decades (mostly the 60s), documenting one craaazy night of people gettin' down with their freaky-selves. The party begins with all lights on, and everyone fully dressed, but then someone spins a record that ain't never quit. One three-note guitar riff will drive everything instrumentally, everything being a vesicating wash of 60s verve psychedelia. The [...]
RSTB is not normally in the habit of posting videos but its rare that a band can so accurately capture the feelings their music evokes in film. Wooden Shjips play like some Velvet Underground/ Krautrock bad trip outtake that threatens to tear your soul from you by sheer force. The video for their song "Dance, California" is a perfect meld of vintage 60's footage all interwoven to create the feeling of feverish dance mania and apocalyptic hedonism. If I ever have foreknowledge of the impending end of the world I want this song playing as loud as possible wherever I [...]
Captain's Dead
I Rock Cleveland
Radio Exile
You Set the Scene
Fuck yeah! Go team!
The last Pop Song
Quick Before It Melts
undomondo
The Devil Has The Best Tuna
Powerpopulist
EARVOLUTION
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Butter Team
Fanatic Promotion
Raven Sings The Blues
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Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
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American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
