Outer Limits Recordings mastered the art of modern VHS music videos. Disappears has mastered the art of modern VHS music videos suffering from bad reception and wonky coaxial cables. Diggin' this visual effect.
![[PHOTOS] Guided By Voices and Times New Viking – Headliners, Louisville – 1.15.11](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3133473_lg.jpg)
Sure, anyone with any working knowledge of music has long praised Guided By Voices as one of the finest, most energetic, and (easily) one of the most prolific American rock bands in history. Robert Pollard remains one of the unsung heroes of the celebrated lo-fi aesthetic; his work continuing to propagate the value of intimate and character-laden four-track recordings for multiple generations of songwriters. But very few critics and tastemakers extol the virtues of Guided By Voices as the greatest bar band ever. No diction can do justice to the pervasive rowdiness both on stage and in the [...]
![[PHOTOS] Guided By Voices and Times New Viking – Headliners, Louisville – 1.15.11](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3133474_lg.jpg)
Sure, anyone with any working knowledge of music has long praised Guided By Voices as one of the finest, most energetic, and (easily) one of the most prolific American rock bands in history. Robert Pollard remains one of the unsung heroes of the celebrated lo-fi aesthetic; his work continuing to propagate the value of intimate and character-laden four-track recordings for multiple generations of songwriters. But very few critics and tastemakers extol the virtues of Guided By Voices as the greatest bar band ever. No diction can do justice to the pervasive rowdiness both on stage and in the [...]
This blog has long championed and respected Disappears (even bringing them into town last June with Woven Bones ), meaning that we hold some high expectations for these boys. They certainly have the pedigree to weather such preconceived notions - what, with Brian Case of 90 Day Men and The Ponys on throat and songwriting duties coupled with the recent enlisting of one Steve Shelley (from The Sonic Youths, you guys!) hittin' skins and feelin' fine. Without any more fanfare... yes, Guider delivers, though not necessarily in a definitive sense. If anything, Guider [...]
This was passed around the Broadcast message board yesterday afternoon: Before she went to Australia Trish sent me a mix CD of bonkers pop music she compiled, I never thanked her. Its called Mind Bending Motorway Mix and I want to share it with you, please pass the link on, share it far and wide, its a little tribute to a (as a friend referred to her today) exhilarating woman, we're all thinking about you James. Sorry I don't have a tracklist and to be honest I like it that [...]
While reading the discussion on the Broadcast message board in lieu of this morning's devastating news, I found this untitled track from Prefuse 73 with Trish Keenan on Scott Herren's Soundcloud page. I knew nothing about this - did you? It's obviously an incredible meeting of the minds, accentuating the amazing strengths of both artists on this original song, appropriately tagged " Library Books ." No word (that I'm aware of) at this time on any official release. STREAM :::
While reading the discussion on the Broadcast message board in lieu of this morning's devastating news, I found this untitled track from Prefuse 73 with Trish Keenan on Scott Herren's Soundcloud page. I knew nothing about this - did you? It's obviously an incredible meeting of the minds, accentuating the amazing strengths of both artists on this original song, appropriately tagged " Library Books ." No word (that I'm aware of) at this time on any official release. UPDATE: Well there ya go, this news totally passed me by. [...]
I'm at a total loss of words at the news that Trish Keenan , founding member of Warp artist Broadcast and integral force in the Ghost Box collective, very suddenly passed away this morning. It was just yesterday that news broke that Trish had been hospitalized since Christmas from H1N1-related pneumonia. Her approach to the visual art and music of Broadcast was visionary, her voice unique, her character wholly distinct and classy. May her friends and family find solace and strength in this very sad time. I feel [...]
"Post pop" is one label that Chicago sound explorer Emanuel Vinson ascribes to himself. Works for me since I'm at a loss. This guy is bananas. Schizophrenic-hop was the best descriptor I thought of, but fuck labels - just know that this 19 year old Chicago-based MC, producer, and mindscape researcher blows the boundaries off hip-hop, reminding you why sample-based music is exciting. There's no nuance to his avant approach to the aesthetic - it's a guns-blazing deconstruction that nods to and complements the esoteric explorations of Dalek, the psychosis of Kool Keith, and the Anticon family. The [...]
I feel a bit like a doofus in the wake of Yours Truly 's elegant prose describing the music of J Irvin Dally - a review that Jordan himself described as the most insightful review he's read about his music - since I write stuff like "perennial ladies man J Irvin Dally wants to take you to the Sun Room on his new joint." But hey, that's how I review music and I love the Quiet Storm, whatever. I also try to review about music candidly, and I mean it when I say his new two-song single [...]
A big round of confirmed official acts for South By Southwest was just announced yesterday, including The Endtables . "Wait? The Endtables, or some another group of dorks that were unaware they were sharing the namesake of what is often considered Louisville's original proto-punk act - the one that inspired the likes of Squirrel Bait, Maurice, and the post-punk and post-rock movement of the late '80s and early '90s that define the city's sound for generations, recently reissued on the mighty Drag City ? That Endtables? Surely not that Endtables?" After some research [...]
I was never sure what exactly a bardo pond is. I mean, I thought it was a blatant LSD reference. But as guitarist Clint Takeda describes it, the bardo pond is only slightly a drug reference. Bardo" comes from the Tibetan Book of the Dead , and 'pond' just sounded cool in conjunction with the other word. Bardo is the point where a soul arrives upon its corporal body as it is dying. During the course of the Bardo there [...]
One of our new favorites, local mercurial shamans K Tranza , will be performing The Wipers 1983 LP Over The Edge in its entirety. K Tranza will play a short set of originals at the bottom of the 10 p.m. hour, break, then jump into Over The Edge from start to finish. This is a free event at Nachbar in Germantown, so no reason not to catch these guys unless you're scared of some serious-ass punk rock. Or good craft beer. K Tranza Performs The Wipers' 'Over the Edge' [...]
Damn, dude, sorry to hear about it. I never did get my Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch . In memorandum of our sweet Prince, Mean Wind has penned a beautifully twisted jangle pop barn burner called "Darius Rucker is Dead." Let her cry, guy, let her cry. The band says: "This song is a cover of a song by The Chord Progressians (pronounced Progresh-eee-uns, a la Ray Davies in 'Session Man'), who were playing it in a dream I had several months ago. The scene in my dream was a lot like the Yardbirds show in Antonioni's 'Blow Up' [...]
![[Bootleg] Syd Barrett + Pink Floyd – Copenhagen 1967](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3094570_lg.jpg)
Today is Syd Barrett's birthday. He would've been 65 - old enough to retire were he not, unfortunately, assimilated by the borg circa 1970 or so. As I've written before, Barrett-era Floyd is un-fucking-touchable. Everything after... meh. I think this rare audience bootleg drives that point home. Known in traders circles as Stoned Alone (in homage to what is believed to be the first song Syd penned for the group), this bootleg was recorded at the Starclub in Copenhagen barely a month after the mighty Piper at the Gates of Dawn dropped, and subsequently set the high water mark [...]
The art punk label gets thrown around a lot, maybe too much, so can it feel a little hokey to conjure it up yet again. However, nothing has ever encapsulated the legendary Wire more accurately. They were truly too punk for the art kids, and too artsy for the punk kids across their three decade trajectory. While Wire has enjoyed a prolific career, including Colin Newman solo efforts, a swath of collaborative projects, and their post-millennial reunion, the general gallery of ears tend to associate Wire exclusively with their flawless late '70s triage - Pink Flag , Chairs [...]
The media, scientists, and policymakers have it all wrong. The devastating, decibel-grinding growl of space rock proto-metal behemoth Voyageurs has unintended effects. For starters, it can cause the sudden demise of fish and bird life. They didn't mean to, but when you channel sinister forces from forbidden temples and mysterious dimensions through your divining rods, it can be a motherfucker. The twice baked Fayetteville collective, however, is sorry - to the friends and family of the wildlife, as well as to anyone within the local economy impacted by this accidental massacre. To properly attone, their recently released digital [...]
The timing couldn't be better. When hip-hop heads dig deep in the crates to try some crazy shit, magic happens... this time with The Magic Band. The week Captain Beefheart died, I was listening heavily to the Light in the Attic compilation The Free Design: The Now Sound Redesigned - a collection of hip-hop artists like Peanut Butter Wolf, producers like Nobody, and indie rock darlings like Stereolab and Caribou reinterpret the songs of The Free Design. I was wanting to hear something as disparate and crafty as that again. Al Lover answered the [...]
![[Contraband] Kim Jung Mi – Now](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3085473_lg.jpg)
Spiritual scholars often debate the nature of souls, but I think this obscure gem from Kim Jung Mi acts as a great litmus test. This is some of the most undeniably beautiful music laid to tape - if you are not touched, perhaps you are what Father Malachai Martin calls "the prefectly possessed." That's hyperbolic, of course, but try to listen to album opener "Toward the Sunlight" and then tell me it doesn't dive deep into the soul. Finding tangible information on Kim Jung Mi is practically impossible, and finding her 1973 masterpiece Now [...]
Happy new year everyone! And fuck yeah, Gregorian calendar! 2010 was rad. We came, we saw, we whipped our hair back and forth (maybe). Double rainbows, bros icing bros, auto-tune mixes of embarrassing local news stories, and a metric shit-ton of bands who decided they didn't want to be found on Google... that was 2010 in a sentence. Glad we got to share it. As we look onto 2011, there are two big things you all can expect. First, assholes who have nothing interesting happening in their brains will get extremely excited on January 11 and November 11. [...]
The Decibel Tolls
No Church In The Wild
Nas - Daughters
The Rains of Castamere by The National
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Princesse - Tell Me | MP3
Prince – Controversy (Mighty Mouse Re-Edit)
Beck - 'I Just Started Hating Some People Today' [Listen]
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Azealia Banks – ’1991′ & ‘Van Vouge’
