Honestly, this is the first of the three solo releases by Thurston that I've bothered to check out, and you know what? I like it. With Hipster Supreme Beck at the boards, it comes across at first as a combination between his very own SEA CHANGE and Nick Drake's FIVE LEAVES LEFT , but once you get past the lush strings and cavernous sound, it is very much a Sonic Youth Record. Long instrumental passages, dissonant chords, and themes of urban dread. "Orchard Street" is a downtown sprawl that could've been an outtake from their [...]
It's the most nerve-wracking time of the year, the holidays usually bring road trips, parties, family, friends, and agonizing over the best music releases of the past 12 months. Here are mine. 1. This Is Happening by LCD Soundsystem - There are two things that are popular in my household; one is dancing, and the other is 80's alternative music. This album celebrates both. "Dance Yrself Clean" sounds like The Talking Heads meets Metal Box. We saw these folks on tour, and were incredibly surprised [...]
Hold on a fucking minute here, do I believe my cocksucking ears? I have been hearing for the past 24 hours that Mackenzie Phillips had a long term relationship with her father John, which is detailed in her book HIGH ON ARRIVAL that came out Wednesday. Really? These two coked-out, west coast canyon-assed hippie rockstar fuckwads? I would have never believed it. These "shocking" revelations only proves the point that GOD himself should come down here and dickbeat everyone to eternal damnation, and hopefully the rotting soul of this douchebag John Phillips is currently in the lowest [...]
I have never been to Cleveland, and probably would never have wanted to go until I heard that THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME was going to set up there back in the late Eighties. Sounded like a great idea; enshrining my favorite artists like The Beatles, and giving others their perhaps long overdue credit. How exciting!!! But boy oh boy. These days the Nominating Committee at The Rock an Roll Hall of Fame are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel, surely they could have dredged up the names of some more deserving artists than [...]
This is the latest video (directed by RAPHAEL WINTERSBERGER) from Tom's upcoming release THE LAST SATURDAY OF THE YEAR. Tom will be taking time in between duties with MODEST MOUSE to play some low key live dates soon.
Lamb Of God are set to release their fifth studio album, Wrath, available February 23rd 2009. The record will be their first album with new label Roadrunner Records, outside of North America, and released on Epic here in the States. Produced by Josh Wilbur, and recorded in studios in New York, Virginia and New Hampshire, the album promises to be as brutal as ever. This album is going to surprise a lot of people," stated drumming Leviathan Chris Adler. "Typically bands that get to where we are in our career, begin to slack off, smell the [...]
TOM PELOSO is using his break from Modest Mouse to release a solo album called THE LAST SATURDAY OF THE YEAR . Recorded earlier this year at MONKEYCLAUS STUDIOS in Nelson County, Virginia, the album is set for release on December 27. Tom enlisted help from some old friends on the recording, and here is a word from Tom to fill you in on some details... The album is entitled "the last saturday of the year" there is no band name as of yet. The project or session i called laundry songs, [...]
It was a beautiful day. System Of A Down surprisingly had the number one album in the country, and Bob Dylan on that day had released his masterpiece album Love And Theft. I was out in the King George County Countryside installing floor joists at BELLE GROVE ; a plantation house located in Port Conway, Virginia. James Madison was born on the grounds, and it was the first of many historic landmarks I was lucky enough to have worked on. We had no access to phones or television, but we did have a work radio which we [...]
THE NPR CONCERT SERIES is just one of many reasons why NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO is one of the greatest media outlets this fine nation has to offer. Thank Gawd McDonaldland Mogul Ray Kroc's Wife died and left this left-leaning organization a fortune a few years back, because I am sure the sale of all those greasy cardboard cheeseburgers made shit like this possible. This RADIOHEAD show was recorded way back in late August at the utterly beautiful Santa Barbara Bowl and finally [...]
Hailing from Richmond VA, and featuring former members of bands THE RABBITS and THE KEYONS , DEAD GOATS are an old-school garage band that will for damn sure build a boot shop in your behind. The new single CEMETRY was recorded in Tennessee earlier this year, and is featured on their new self-titled E.P. which means they titled it themselves. If you are ever in the Commonwealth and notice that they are playing one of their trademark rowdy shows, do yourself a solid and check these boys out. [...]
The Legendary Residents from San Francisco have released a new project entitled THE BUNNY BOY. This release contains 19 new songs and accompanying videos posted on their website. They are planning a tour of the U.S. and Europe this fall. SONG LIST. * Boxes of Armageddon * Rabbit Habit * I'm Not Crazy * Pictures from a Little Girl * What If It's True? * Fever Dreams * Butcher Shop * I Like Black * Secret Room * My Nigerian Friend * It Was Me [...]
This weeks REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION is a bit more hokey and down-to-earth than their democratic counterparts, but don't be fooled. The foul stench of Karl Rove (Turd Blossom Lives...) and his Beltway Boys can be whiffed from all corners of the World after the amazingly crafty speech by Vice Presidential Nominee SARAH PALIN . Let's face it, there were no snoozefest oratories, but there were sure some monologues that would angry up the blood. RUDY GUILIANI demonstrated why he is paid a king's [...]
Willie Nelson was slated to play a show at The Carpenter Center her in Richmond on May 11 1999, and somehow thanks to Jeyon Falsini and Pete Humes from PUNCHLINE MAGAZINE, I got to interview him. Now I am not the ideal person to handle such a daunting task. My 1997 interview of ROBERT PLANT consisted nothing more than learning that he was getting his long golden locks highlighted at Haircut 100 Salon in Virginia Beach, and pretending I was going there to buy haircare products. (?) I was drunk out of me gourd that afternoon as I confronted him [...]
It was 41 years ago today that Beatle manager Brian Epstein, 32, was found dead in his London home after an overdose of Carbitrals mixed with alcohol. The Beatles were in Bangor meeting with The Maharishi at a Transcendental Meditation seminar. Brian was The True FIFTH BEATLE, and was instrumental in The Fab Four's success. He did everything from dress them up in their suits, handle the money, book the shows, and he even drove the tour van in their early days. Brian's life seemed to spiral out of control once The Beatles took control of theirs. A [...]
America is divided, and over what this time, you ask? Is it how we Blacktopped Iraq? Is it over Abortion? Is it over the drilling of Miley Cyrus' Public Wetlands? Are you one of the twelve or so folks out there that believe that George W. Douchebag is doing a satisfactory job? Well join the world as all eyes turn from Bejing to Denver, Colorado for the 2008 Democratic Convention, where the real topic will not be about Change, but about whether or not Obama supporters clash with what has become known as THE PUMAS. THE PUMAS [...]
Let's start off by saying METALLICA has had a shitty decade so far, so in the Name of All That Is Humane, cut them some slack. If I only had a video camera and a long black wig, I would post a response to all of the grief with a sobbing hysterical rant, screaming "LEAVE METALLICA ALONE!!!" similar to that jacked-out of his gourd goofball who came to Britney Spear's defense when she hit the skids earlier this year. C'mon and admit it folks. Metallica were responsible for a great thing in the 1980's, and it wasn't only [...]
PANDORA RADIO attracts more than one million listeners a day, and each passing day there are 40,000 new ears tuning in. It is currently the seventh most popular i-phone application, and is projected to make a cool 25 million bucks, even though they only make their cash based mainly on web advertisements. Not Too Shabby. But these guys are on the verge of going belly up due to a federal panel passing a resolution last year that forces Internet Radio to pay DOUBLE the royalty rate for each song played to record companies and artist/songwriters. That's an armpit hair [...]
OOPS, Bono did it again. Apparently the U2 vocalist was playing songs from their upcoming album NO LINES ON THE HORIZON at such a blaring volume that a passerby picked it up, and promptly put four of the tracks on YouTube. One can imagine him running around his French Villa in his crusty silk underwear singing along to himself in the mirror. The title track, "SEXY BOOTS", "FOR YOUR LOVE" and "MOMENT OF SURRENDER" are rumored to be merely video camera quality and obviously poor sounding. These leaks have been taken down by U2's manager Paul McGuinness, and the [...]
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Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
Lana Del Rey covers Lovecat magazine!
