Frank Turner: The Modern Leper (Frightened Rabbit cover)
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David Bazan, Will Johnson and Matt and Bubba Kadane are Overseas
Apr 10, 1:00pm So Much Silence
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Based on name brand alone, you'd have to figure Overseas has the making of something incredible. And then all you have to do is listen to "Down Below" for confirmation that, yes, this will probably be just that. There's David Bazan (Pedro the Lion, Headphones, solo career). And then there's Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), who trades singing duties with Bazan. And, oh, yeah, there's Matt and Bubba Kadane (Bedhead and the New Year, who are freaking great). Pretty soon, people will start throwing around that "supergroup" word, though [...]
Artist: Overseasband Title: Overseas: June 11, 2013 File Name: SoundCloud Year: 2013
The National: Demons
Apr 9, 1:00pm So Much Silence
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If the lack of activity over the past month wasn't a clue, I haven't been feeling particularly inspired lately. Cue a new song from the National – just in time. I won't even pretend to be anything other than the unobjective fanboy of the band I've been for the past eight years. "Demons" is the first official leak from the forthcoming album Trouble Will Find Me , due out May 21. Where 2010's "England" – and so many National songs before it - slayed me with triumphant crescendoes, "Demons" settles into a [...]
Nightlands: Oak Island
Mar 7, 12:00pm So Much Silence
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Eric, who discussed Toro y Moi in his last post , is back for more, this time discussing War on Drugs bassist Dave Hartley's solo project called Nightlands. One album I've really been getting into these days is Nightlands' sophomore release, Oak Island . Nightlands is a band I've only just become familiar with in a sort of Six Degrees of Separation (or Kevin Bacon) sense. I'm a big fan of Philly low-fi singer/guitarist Kurt Vile , who is, along with Adam Granduciel, one of the founding [...]
Frightened Rabbit: Backyard Skulls (video)
Mar 4, 12:00pm So Much Silence
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I'm ashamed to admit that my last post on Frightened Rabbit was in August 2011 . I mean, we had such a good thing going . But last year's State Hospital EP slipped through the cracks, and now the band comes roaring back with Pedestrian Verse , the band's fourth full-length studio album and first for a major label (Atlantic). I ask for forgiveness – and I also ask that the band return to play Phoenix again (we have such great memories ). [...]
The steady evolution of Toro y Moi
Feb 22, 2:34pm So Much Silence
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Eric is in Hawaii - eating exotic foods, surfing, laughing at us peons - but he was kind enough to leave me with two posts while he's away. Here's the first. Toro y Moi played Crescent Ballroom on Jan. 30, for the second time in a year (bookended by Geographer at Rhythm Room the day before and Pinback at Crescent the day after, no less). I'm not sure what musical lottery we won here in Phoenix that week, but I wasn't about to question it. [...]
New old Rival Schools album: Found
Feb 21, 4:00pm So Much Silence
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In 2011, 10 years after debuting with the excellent United By Fate , post-hardcore outfit Rival Schools returned from a hiatus to release Pedals , a solid effort that seemed to comfortably pick up where the Walter Schreifels -fronted band left off a decade prior. But somewhere in between there was a "lost" album - that most mythical concept. Rival Schools have their own version, and what once was lost now is Found (sorry). On April 9, the band will release Found [...]
Artist: Rival Schools Title: Indesposable Heroes File Name: SoundCloud
Ex-Mazarin frontman Quentin Stoltzfus recruits the Walkmen for new project Light Heat
Feb 20, 12:00pm So Much Silence
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It's been a long time - too long - since I've mentioned Mazarin's name on this blog. To be exact, it's been more than six years . That was in November 2006, when Mazarin was forced to retire its name because of a cease and desist order by an attorney hired by another band with the same name. Long story short: Mazarin retired its name and, worse, retired as a band, playing a final show in December 2006 in its hometown of Philadelphia. It was a shame for Mazarin to endure such an [...]
Incoming: Modest Mouse, April 14, Crescent Ballroom
Feb 19, 1:10pm So Much Silence
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Modest Mouse has an impressive track record of consistently keeping Arizona on its tour itineraries. At least since playing Boston's in 1998 – and mostly likely even before that – Isaac Brock's band has been a regular in the desert. Since 2000, Charlie Levy at Stateside Presents has booked Modest Mouse at least seven times: twice at the old Nita's Hideaway ( in in 2000 and 2001 ); once at the new Nita's; twice at Mesa Amphitheatre; once at Celebrity Theatre; and, most recently (in 2009), at Marquee Theatre. [...]
110 Percent: Stefan Marolachakis of Caveman on the agony and ecstasy of life as a Knicks fan
Feb 15, 12:49pm So Much Silence
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The eighth installment of 110 Percent , a series in which I talk to musicians about sports, features Stefan Marolachakis, the drummer for Brooklyn-based band Caveman , which will release its self-titled sophomore album on April 2 on Fat Possum, a follow-up to its very good and probably very overlooked debut CoCo Beware . Marolachakis took time in advance of the band's 31-city tour to discuss his unyielding passion for the NBA – more specifically, the Knicks. I was born in Chicago and grew up rooting for the Bulls, so we have different perspectives on [...]
Artist: CavemanBand Title: In The City File Name: SoundCloud
DJ Nu-Mark: Don’t Play Around (feat. Aloe Blacc and Charles Bradley)
Feb 14, 12:00pm So Much Silence
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I'll forever have love for Jurassic 5, so even six years after the L.A. hip-hop idols broke up, curiosity pulled me back in (and now they're on the comeback trail at Coachella). That's a good thing. I might have otherwise overlooked this new single from Nu-Mark , one of J5's two DJs (along with the esteemed Cut Chemist ). Nu-Mark released his debut full-length Broken Sunlight , and he's been releasing songs as a series of 10-inch records over the past year or so. It's an innovative method, but what do [...]
Artist: DJ Nu-Mark Title: Don't Play Around featuring Aloe Blacc and Charles Bradley File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Hip Hop Year: 2012
Eric’s best albums of 2012
Feb 12, 12:00pm So Much Silence
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As I wrote recently , it's been a few years since I've done a proper year-end list of favorite songs/albums. Thankfully, Eric – who has stepped up as a very welcome fresh voice around here – came through with a 2012 list. Even if we're already getting knee deep in 2013 albums, it's never too late to look back and consider the year that was. Please forgive the laziness, generic-ness, and Januaryness Februaryness of all this ( Editor's note: The Februaryness of this is my fault ). Yeah, usually there [...]
Cadence Weapon: Hype Man (video)
Feb 8, 2:13pm So Much Silence
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Lately, I'm constantly reminded of albums I overlooked or neglected to pay enough attention to in 2012. Cadence Weapon's Hope In Dirt City falls into the latter category. The third album by the Edmonton rapper (born Rollie Pemberton) is a bit of a mixed bag stylistically – more challenging of a listen, if not a touch incohesive. What remains a constant is Cadence Weapon's awareness of his surroundings and his ability to sharply criticize all manners of culture (he is a former Pitchfork contributor, after all). Hype [...]
Incoming: Built to Spill, May 7, Crescent Ballroom
Feb 6, 5:15pm So Much Silence
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Built to Spill has been busy adding new tour dates and new photos to its website - and even new members to the band - but there's still no official word on a new album, which would be the first since 2009's There Is No Enemy . If this September interview with frontman Doug Martsch is any indication, though, it might be another year before we hear anything. Says Martsch: "It's just been going really slowly. I was hoping to get it done by next spring, but I think [...]
Parquet Courts: Stoned and Starving
Feb 5, 12:00pm So Much Silence
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For the majority of the past 24 hours or so, I've been sort of obsessed with Parquet Courts ' "Stoned and Starving," as sincere a stoner anthem that we've heard in recent memory. In the same way JEFF the Brotherhood wanted to cool out and get wasted with a six-pack, Parquet Courts – from Brooklyn by way of Texas – spend a good five minutes on "Stoned and Starving" pondering a common concern with uncommon earnestness. Any of us would eat a burrito; these guys wrote a song, and a pretty damn good one [...]
Artist: Parquet Courts Title: Stoned and Starving File Name: SoundCloud
Incoming: The Postal Service, April 18, Comerica Theatre
Feb 4, 10:06am So Much Silence
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As soon as news broke of a reunion for the Postal Service , which includes a Coachella appearance, I had a hunch we might be getting an announcement for a Phoenix show. That announcement happened today, and the show will happen April 18 at Comerica Theatre , via Stateside Presents. The live band will include Jenny Lewis (Jenny & Johnny, Rilo Kiley) and Laura Burhenn (Mynabirds, Bright Eyes). Ten years after the release of their much-beloved debut album – their only album – Benjamin Gibbard and Jimmy [...]
Artist: The Postal Service Title: Such Great Heights Link Text: The Postal Service | Such Great Heights File Name: postalservice_suchgreatheights .mp3 Bitrate: 192 kbps Genre: Alternative & Punk Year: 2002
Artist: The Postal Service Title: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Link Text: The Postal Service | The District Sleeps Alone Tonight File Name: postalservice_districtsleepsal one.mp3 Bitrate: 192 kbps Genre: Alternative & Punk Year: 2002
New Cave Singers: Easy Way
Feb 1, 1:39pm So Much Silence
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With their fourth album, Naomi , due out on March 5, the Cave Singers just announced a national tour, including a stop in Phoenix at the Rhythm Room on April 22, via Stateside Presents . Boing Boing , of all places, premiered a new track, "Easy Way," just a couple months after we heard "Have to Pretend." There's great comfort and warmth in the Cave Singers' style, the sort of campfire folk rock that inspires fun foot stomping and fuzzy feelings all around. The [...]
Artist: The Cave Singers Title: Easy Way File Name: SoundCloud Genre: Boing Boing
Taking inventory: 2012 shows and looking beyond
Jan 29, 12:00pm So Much Silence
So Much SilenceFor as long as I've kept this blog – coming up on damn near eight years now – I had never kept a running log of live shows I've attended. I decided last year I should probably change that, if for no other reason than to remind myself exactly where all my money is really going. Turns out, I've funneled most of it to Crescent Ballroom , where I saw 16 of the 34 shows I went to in 2012. Only two shows on the list – Aloe Blacc in Las Vegas and Richard Buckner in [...]
Father John Misty: Only Son of the Ladiesman (on Late Show with David Letterman)
Jan 21, 12:00pm So Much Silence
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For some reason or another – no time or interest or just out of sheer laziness – I abandoned the obligatory year-end list-making chores. When I was a dutiful blogger , I'd typically post about my favorites albums (about 10 of them) and then have a post about a favorite song of the year. Had I done that for 2012, Father John Misty's "Only Son of the Ladiesman" would have taken top honors. It was (still is) my surefire go-to – the song I wanted to hear at any moment, the song I thought I [...]
Cuzzo D. of Not the 1s: Bad at Rap mix
Jan 18, 12:53pm So Much Silence
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It takes a special type of dedication – a sick and twisted dedication – to seek out and collect bad rap for the past 25 years. Eric Steuer (aka Cuzzo D. of Not the 1s and also half of the great Meanest Man Contest ) has done just that. There is no doubt plenty from which to choose. Steuer has compiled a treasure/trash trove of some of the greatest worst raps you can imagine. It literally took everything in me to make it through Mr. T's "I Am Somebody." Not surprisingly, a [...]
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