top of the morning to y'all. firstly, i wanted to mention this, and while most of you may not give two shits, to me, and this here lil site, its pretty awesome. last week, or the week before, whitney from usatoday's popcandy announced she was going to add 10 more sites to her blog roll, and as you can guess, this here site was chosen to be one of the ten. now, out of all the sites she could have added, and i am sure she comes across plenty of awesome ones, its a pretty big deal - [...]
When former Lungfish front man Daniel Higgs joined Swedish noise-rock juggernaut The Skull Defekts on their Peer Amid album earlier this year, it seemed like a natural fit that played to the strengths of both parties. Now, taking things one step further, The Skull Defekts teamed up with Zomes, the solo moniker of former Lungfish guitarist Asa Osbourne, for a day-long recording session in Rhode Island. The results are right here on 2013-3012 and they are as excellent as you can imagine. The union of The Skull Defekts and Zomes resurrects the pile-driving drone [...]
AIDS Wolf fourth LP Ma vie banale avant-garde is coming out October 4th via Lovepump United . The self-produced double LP was recorded at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, WA. Now, AIDS Wolf is not for everyone. It just isn't. That said, being a reader of this blog, you (dearest reader) are much more likely to enjoy an AIDS Wolf recording than say the average listener of music. So, expand your mind a bit, and... Listen. Downloadable: Please Hold The Line (mp3) [...]
Amen Dunes at Glasslands ( more by Benjamin Lozovsky ) Amen Dunes will rev up the reverb at Saint Vitus on August 26th with Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders , Zomes , and GDFX as part of their record release celebration for the new and haunting psychedelic garage LP Through Donkey Jaw . Tickets are on sale. Through Donkey Jaw was released [...]
For more than 20 years, Baltimore's Lungfish released albums featuring their own flavor of posthardcore via the Dischord Records label. Well, Dischord recently reissued the band's long-out-of-print eighth record, The Unanimous Hour , recorded at Inner Ear Studios , and mixed by Lungfish and Ian MacKaye . Here is side one, track one. Listen. Downloadable: Space Orgy (mp3) The cover art looks like this: You can order The Unanimous Hour @ dischord.com [...]
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Dustin Wong - one mind Zomes - OK Philosophy I see life as very hard; I believe one should have a very simple, very crude and very strong moral system…. This is why there can't be any direct violence in my films. Already in The 400 Blows, Antoine is a child who never rebels openly. His moral system is more subtle than that. Like me, Antoine is against violence because it signifies confrontation. Violence is replaced by escape, not escape from what is essential, but escape in order [...]
Could a man raised in a dangerous cult, with a history of insurgency towards these United States, become the leader of this very same country? Could a man with no name, no document of his birth, who spent his formative years spreading the doctrines of his clannish faith among those who've shown themselves hostile to [...]
ZOMES [mp3] Openings From the new record Earth Grid. "Instead of turning to finger-picking and a mountain-man persona, Asa has turned to minimalist drone with tape loops and no shortage of effects pedals — which sort of makes sense if you think about it..." from Tiny Mix Tapes
Friday's featured mp3's are; Dawn Golden And Rosy Cross; White Sun Gypsyblood; Take Your Picture Zomes; Openings Arctic Monkeys; Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
Longest list yet for new releases. Remember to go support your local independent record stores this Saturday 4/16 Record Store Day. There are a whole bunch of special releases that are dropping in support. Crystal Stilts; In Love With Oblivion Crystal Stilts; Through The Floor Gypsyblood; Cold In The Guestway Gypsyblood; Take Your Picture Helvetia; On The Lam [...]
Fans of the Baltimore post-hardcore quartet Lungfish have always held the band's enigmatic frontman, Daniel Higgs, in high reverence. And for good reason: It's hard to read the lyrics to any given Lungfish song and not come away with the impression that Higgs has seen sights, heard sounds, and contemplated thoughts the rest of us foolish mortals couldn't even begin to comprehend—much less put to music in a way that somehow resonates with an audience. (To be fair, however, I'm certainly not going to judge anyone who raises an eyebrow at lines such as "My daughter keeps a [...]
Zomes — Youth of the Beast Zomes ' Earth Grid is a slippery one. I could toss it under the tried and true "drone" umbrella (applicable for half of all Thrill Jockey releases), but that would miss the mark. Meditative and almost off-puttingly spare, it lays synth lines and drum beats over a carefully plotted framework of repetition. True to its name (as well as that geometric artwork), it's also very mathematical in the way that it twists [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alexander Tucker : "His Arm Has Grown Long" [mp3] from Dorwytch (out April 12th) search for more Alexander Tucker posts at Largehearted Boy Baby Teardrops : "Smooth [...]
Label: Thrill Jockey Release date: 11/04/11 Link: Label Site Buy: Amazon Earth Grid is the second album Asa Osborne (guitarist with influential post-hardcore band Lungfish) has produced under the Zomes alias. The accompanying press release describes it as the 'culmination of Osborne's years of exploring meditative modal models'. The new Pigeon Detectives album, then, this is not. Song titles like 'The Garden', 'OK Philosophy' and 'A Path Of Music' [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 49 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by the Eels, Blaqstarr, Dag For Dag, The Clutters, S.C.U.M., The Skull Defekts, Vanity Theft, W-H-I-T-E, The Fervor and more! So much more! DATE: 03-31-11 WRITER: Don Loder How ya doin' ya little junkie so-an'-so you? I'm feelin' pretty good about myself today, me. Other than artfully dodgin' the authorities on a coupla "business ventures" over da weekend, I still managed ta lift a fat bag o'SWAG [view [...]
Another great Lungfish related release rolls its way into 2011. Ex-Lungfish guitarist Asa Osborne returns to his geometrically inspired project Zomes and this time he burrows deeper into the droned murk of the lower analog jungle. From the opening chords of, well, "Openings" the record hums like a warm transistor, pulsing with meditative, repetitive synth patterns and dust caked drum loops. Earth Grid feels like a record that can hardly be split into parts, rather it's two sides of disconnection from the grid via Osborne's trance-like burial of his listeners in layer upon layer of square-wave foam. [...]
Here's some rather soothing, laid back, atmospheric music for you. It comes courtesy of Zomes and it's taken from the band's album 'Earth Grid', which is out in April. Download the track here: 'Opening'
With some heavy hitters in Toronto's indie outfit The Rural Alberta Advantage performing downstairs at First Unitarian Church and Baltimore's Zomes (solo project of former Lungfish guitarist Asa Osborne) playing in its Side Chapel, tonight will be business as usual for R5 Productions. Right in their element opening for Rural Alberta Advantage, Conversations With Enemies is a band that's energetic as they are eclectic, whether their dressed as Rocky Horror and doing the Time Warp, channeling gypsy love tunes involving grave robbery and zombies, or releasing an album with its own graphic novel. Opening for Zomes [...]
I am not the Lord Adonai, Jesus Messiah "The Christ"; nor am I a holy man, nor a preacher. I am a Master Teacher, a guide. The Caucasoid had thinner skin than you; Thinner flank hair, lighter eyes with no soul. The Caucasoid try to claim that the only difference between a white man and [...]
Dec 13, 2010, 10:52pm Fmly
one more zoo before bidding temporary adieu to wprk with my favorite songs of 2010 and the fondest memories of marathons/meetings/paperwork/p als. listen in for the next two tuesdays at wprk 91.5fm or wprkdj.org, 5-7pm (est)! if i ran the zoo, 12/7/10 Y La Bamba - Alida St. Boyscout Discovery - Por Avion Glass Cake - Endless Summer w o o l g a t h e r i n g - It's Called "Found Footage", Not "Worthless Filmstrips." [...]
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