Blog: Catfish Vegas presents...

Five videos for Friday

Nov 6, 2009, 1:58pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Yo La Tengo - "Nothing To Hide"
Forgive me for going a little lazy with the blog lately, but it happens.Here are a bunch of videos of bands I've seen over the last three weeks (one hell of a great run, I have to say. It's been a bit hard to wrap my head around it all, especially coming on the hells of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival). The videos are in a reverse chronological order based on when I saw the bands:Tom
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Dinosaur Jr. / Lou Barlow / Violent Soho in Tempe

Nov 3, 2009, 12:58am Catfish Vegas presents...
My car dies after 10 years and then all of a sudden I find myself going to more shows in Phoenix than ever. Go figure.Dinosaur Jr. tomorrow at Tempe's Marquee Theater will mark my fourth show north of the Gila in just under three weeks, something I couldn't even pull of when I lived there.I'll leave my concert going pal Charlie to talk up Dinosaur Jr., since I'm really a novice at best. I nearly
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Artist:Violent Soho (Rich Costey mix)
Title:Son of Sam
Link Text:Violent Soho - Son of Sam
File Name:violent_soho_son_of_sam.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps

New video from Tracy Shedd

Oct 27, 2009, 2:51pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Tracy Shedd - City At Night
Tucson's very own Tracy Shedd has just wrapped up a video for a new song, "City at Night," from the forthcoming EP88, out early next year on Eskimo Kiss Records. If this first single is any indication, the record will be a more somber, piano-based sound. Check it out, and look below for more downloads.DOWNLOAD:Tracy Shedd - Whatever It TakesTracy Shedd - Never Too Late (LIVE from WMBR 88.1 FM)
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Artist:Tracy Shedd
Title:Never Too Late
Link Text:Tracy Shedd - Never Too Late (LIVE from WMBR 88.1 FM)
File Name:01 Never Too Late LIVE.mp3
Artist:Tracy Shedd
Title:Not Giving Up
Link Text:Tracy Shedd - Not Giving Up (LIVE from WMBR 88.1 FM)
File Name:04 Not Giving Up LIVE.mp3
Artist:Tracy Shedd
Title:Paris
Link Text:Tracy Shedd - Paris (LIVE from WMBR 88.1 FM)
File Name:02 Paris LIVE.mp3
Artist:Tracy Shedd
Title:Plastic World
Link Text:Tracy Shedd - Plastic World (LIVE from WMBR 88.1 FM)
File Name:03 Plastic World LIVE.mp3
Artist:Tracy Shedd
Title:Valentine
Link Text:Tracy Shedd - Valentine (LIVE from WMBR 88.1 FM)
File Name:05 Valentine LIVE.mp3

Blind Pilot / The Low Anthem @ Plush Sunday

Oct 23, 2009, 7:11pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Probably more than any other area of the broader indie music world, folk has lost its boundaries, been shifted and recontextualized, and parceled out again in even stranger-termed sub-genres. Nobody in particular has directed this expansive redefinition, it's simply that practitioners of acoustic music themselves have reached broader, in terms of instrumentation, lyrical themes and the ways in
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Title:1_OMGCD
Link Text:The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
File Name:1_OMGCD.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Blind Pilot
Title:Buried A Bone (live on LaundroMatinee.com)
Link Text:Blind Pilot - Buried a Bone (Live Laundromatinee session)
File Name:Blind Pilot - 01 Buried A Bone (live on LaundroMatinee.com).mp3
Year:2009
Artist:Blind Pilot
Title:One Red Thread (live on LaundroMatinee.com)
Link Text:Blind Pilot - One Red Thread (Live Laundromatinee session)
File Name:Blind Pilot - 02 One Red Thread (live on LaundroMatinee.com).mp3
Year:2009
Artist:Blind Pilot
Title:Two Towns From Me (live on LaundroMatinee.com)
Link Text:Blind Pilot - Two Towns From Me (Live Laundromatinee session)
File Name:Blind Pilot - 03 Two Towns From Me (live on LaundroMatinee.com).mp3
Year:2009

Ezra Furman @ Solar Culture Saturday

Oct 23, 2009, 6:31pm Catfish Vegas presents...
After watching the Wildcats kick UCLA's ass tomorrow, I'm going to head downtown to check out Ezra Furman & The Harpoons at Solar Culture (though I can't blame anybody who picks Why? @ Congress).I first heard of Furman a couple years ago via Paste writer and blogger Andy Whitman, who dared use the New Dylan tag, calling Furman untamed, freewheelin' and manic, and saying the then 20-year-old "
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Back

Oct 23, 2009, 6:28pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Yo La Tengo, Bob Dylan and U2 - all in six days. And I could've added either the Pogues or Gogol Bordello to make it a four show week, but for the following constraints: broke, tired, lack of transportation. Still, what a week. More later.
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Evangelicals

Oct 14, 2009, 2:11pm Catfish Vegas presents...
I know it happens just as often the other way, but I still get a little stab of disappointment when I discover a new band, and said band is touring soon, only to play Phoenix in favor of Tucson.Evangelicals sound a little psychedelic, a little pop, and seem just as fun as fellow Oklahomans The Flaming Lips. They tread some of the same ground as 80s and 90s alternative giants like James, but
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Artist:Evangelicals
Title:03 Skeleton Man
Link Text:Evangelicals - Skeleton Man
File Name:skeletonman.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Evangelicals
Title:Halloween Song
Link Text:Evangelicals - Halloween Song
File Name:halloweensong.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps

Preview Tom Waits' Glitter & Doom live disc

Oct 12, 2009, 6:21pm Catfish Vegas presents...
One of the best shows I've ever seen was the Tom Waits performance in El Paso last summer, and across the country, his Glitter and Doom tour was widely praised. So a live album from the tour is more than a little thrilling - and it's great to hear a full disc will be devoted to nothing but Waits' fascinating banter.The kind folks over at Anti- Records have released a free digital preview of eight
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Grove & Divisadero

Oct 9, 2009, 9:34pm Catfish Vegas presents...
As I say good-bye to San Francisco, here's a batch of tunes that will always remind me of my long and adventure-filled stay in this fantastic city. I'll be back soon...
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Review - fun. - Aim and Ignite

Oct 9, 2009, 4:59pm Catfish Vegas presents...
My review of Aim and Ignite, the new album from former Format singer Nate Ruess and his new band fun., is up at the Tucson Weekly:The opening line of Aim and Ignite —"As I walk through the streets of my new city, I'm back feeling much better, I suppose"—is the same sort of heart-on-the-sleeve sentimentality that distinguished fun. singer Nate Ruess with his previous band, The Format. It's also a
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Review: The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You

Oct 8, 2009, 2:03pm Catfish Vegas presents...
I wrote a review of the new Avett Brothers album for this week's East Bay Express:North Carolina's Avett Brothers approach their major-label debut with a heady adventurousness, perhaps trying to bottle their excellent and frenetic live show while sticking close to the themes that have driven the band for a decade.Working with famed producer Rick Rubin, the band reaches for a bigger and often
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Artist:The Avett Brothers
Title:I and Love and You
Link Text:The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
File Name:The_Avett_Brothers_I_and_Love_ and_You.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Recap

Oct 6, 2009, 2:10pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Everyone finds his or her moments to cherish over three days and 80 some bands. That sentiment stands out among the few music festival truisms. The moments are the memories, the reasons to put miles upon miles on your feet, fretfully scan schedules to make the tough calls between two favorites playing a half mile apart at the same time, and make so many people agree to come together, to make a
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Artist:Dr. Dog
Title:My Old Ways
Link Text:Dr. Dog - My Old Ways
File Name:01MyOldWays.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Okkervil River
Title:Westfall
Link Text:Okkervil River - Westfall (live)
File Name:16 Westfall.mp3
Bitrate:104 kbps
Year:2009

It's Hardly Strictly time!

Oct 2, 2009, 2:02pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Photo by Ken FriedmanIn four hours, I'll be in Golden Gate Park, listening to the Nightwatchman, Tom Morello's folk persona, to be followed by John Prine and Lyle Lovett. And that's just the slow first day at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Did I mention it's free?I first came to the festival two years ago (and I'm listening to the Jeff Tweedy set from that year as I write) and of course
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Artist:Billy Bragg
Title:Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
Link Text:Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (live)
File Name:bbragg2004-03-29d2t05_vbr.mp3
Bitrate:184 kbps
Artist:Nick Lowe
Title:All Men Are Liars
Link Text:Nick Lowe - All Men Are Liars
File Name:fae9623c-340e-4268-b898-7656dc 39b9af.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Review: The Dodos - Time to Die

Oct 1, 2009, 5:08pm Catfish Vegas presents...
I have a review of The Dodos new album, Time to Die, online now at the East Bay Express:Gently layered on top of the Dodos' pounding rhythms, both from the polyrhythmic drums and syncopated guitar strumming, is a melodic sweetness. That combination, plus some classic California psychedelic touches, gives the band's pop songs their fuzzy edges — too often at the expense of the hectic rawness of
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Artist:Dodos
Title:641 Fools
Link Text:The Dodos - Fools
File Name:d25ecb7c-d34e-4148-9e53-71a66e 5c289e.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008

Review: Circulatory System

Oct 1, 2009, 5:03pm Catfish Vegas presents...
My review of Signal Morning, the first Circulatory System album in eight years, is online at the Tucson Weekly:Eight years have passed since its first album, and Circulatory System is back with its sophomore release, a hectic and sonically dense collection that pushes the band's experimental side to the forefront. Will Cullen Hart again occupies the center of the Circulatory System. Instead of
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Artist:Circulatory System
Title:Round Again
Link Text:Circulatory System - Round Again
File Name:circulatorysystem_roundagain.m p3
Bitrate:320 kbps

Mason Jennings @ Great American Music Hall

Sep 30, 2009, 2:58pm Catfish Vegas presents...
I've picked up a Mason Jennings album a few times before, listened and liked what I was hearing, and then for some reason dropped it before I really dug deep enough into the music to get beyond that first-impression. Same pattern with his self-titled album, Boneclouds and Use Your Voice, and I have no idea why. The most I've listened to Mason Jennings has been his Dylan covers (an incredible "
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Title:Be Here Now
Link Text:Mason Jennings - Be Here Now (live)
File Name:masonjennings2007-02-26_t02_vb r.mp3
Bitrate:214 kbps

Bon Iver & Megafaun tonight!

Sep 24, 2009, 5:52pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Megafaun and Bon Iver - Worried Mind [Live] @ The Fillmore
I'm prepping for tonight's Bon Iver and Megafaun show at the Oakland Fox Theater by listening to the bands' music, and checking out some video of recent live collaborations:That should make for a fantastic close to the night.I'm also excited for this show because I interviewed Sean Carey of Bon Iver for a feature story in the East Bay Express:The hush has evolved into a roar. The solitude has
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Sep 21, 2009, 2:08pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Friday night I went out to see The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at San Franisco's Great American Music Hall, a glorious venue that I'll hopefully return to a couple times while I'm visiting here.I dived into their self-titled album (released in February) starting a few weeks back. The band's name had floated by me in a haze of blog buzz, and good or bad, I probably let it pass because it sounded
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Artist:The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Title:Come Saturday
Link Text:The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
File Name:pains-come-saturday.mp3
Bitrate:232 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Title:Higher Than The Stars
Link Text:The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than The Stars
File Name:pains-higher-than-the-stars.mp 3
Bitrate:244 kbps
Year:2009

Farrar to helm Mermaid Ave. 3

Sep 18, 2009, 2:40pm Catfish Vegas presents...
Well this is just a fascinating nugget of information: Son Volt's Jay Farrar has been picked by Nora Guthrie to write and record original music for another batch of unreleased Woody Guthrie lyrics.And Farrar has reached out to Anders Parker (the Varnaline front man who recorded a previous album of folk covers with Farrar under the name Gob Iron), Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Will Johnson of
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Artist:Uncle Tupelo
Title:Do Re Mi (woody guthrie)
Link Text:Uncle Tupelo - Do Re Mi (Woody Guthrie cover)
File Name:Uncle Tupelo - Do Re Mi.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1992

Review: J. Tillman - Year in the Kingdom

Sep 17, 2009, 4:27pm Catfish Vegas presents...
My review of the new album from J. Tillman, who's also a member of the Fleet Foxes, is now online at the Tucson Weekly:With an unadorned and gallant style, J. Tillman makes dark and quiet folk music, laced with proverbial silver streaks and highlighted edges that give his songs surprising contrast and depth. Relatively unknown outside his role as drummer/harmony vocalist with the Fleet Foxes, J.
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Artist:J. Tillman
Title:James Blues
Link Text:J. Tillman - James Blues
File Name:WV56_JB.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Artist:J. Tillman
Title:Steel On Steel
Link Text:J. Tillman - Steel on Steel
File Name:WV56_SOS.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
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