photo by Chris Glass …After years of focusing on rock bands, Kelley Deal and Mike Montgomery recently found themselves unexpectedly collaborating on a new acoustic project called R.Ring. The group begins its weekly Tuesday night NTRO/XPO residency at South Park Tavern tonight… …Deal and Montgomery discuss this transition more in part two of our recent extended conversation… Kelley [...]
...we here at The Buddha Den are very excited to announce a very special contest in conjunction with the 2011 National Record Store Day celebration taking place at Omega Records. We have teamed up with the good folks at Omega to bring you our Vinyl Junkie Starter Kit essay contest. In 50 words or less, [...]
…When you open yourself up to creative possibilities some interesting projects can arise, as Kelley Deal of The Breeders discovered. The native Daytonian was sitting on the sofa in the living room of her home in the Historic South Park Neighborhood on a recent weekday night. Sitting beside her was Mike Montgomery of Cincinnati rockers [...]
...all of us here at The Buddha Den are extremely excited to announce that during the month of April, our NTRO/XPO series at South Park Tavern will play host to the duo R. Ring, featuring Kelley Deal & Mike Montgomery. They will play every Tuesday throughout the month and for each week they have hand-selected [...]
…One-time Jackalopes singer Rev Chad Wells took a hard left turn from his punk and hard rock roots in 2010 when he released the psych-rock album, Home, under the moniker Cricketbows. The homemade prog-rock draws equally from folky Roky Erickson/Syd Barrett-style acid-casualty songs and extended Krautrock-esque epics and is a far cry from The Jackalopes' [...]
…Rev. Chad Wells is known by many Daytonians as a premiere tattooist. Others know him as the former frontman for local b-movie-inspired punks The Jackalopes. In addition to running his own tattoo shop in Vandalia and singing about Martians, monsters, zombies and chicks, Wells has another side — home recording hobbyist. He has recorded several [...]
...it would be difficult for anyone to deny the musical impact of a little thing called the Wah-Wah Pedal, first introduced in the early 1960s. As the effect came into vogue during the psychedelic era, becoming ubiquitous during the funky 70s, the little pedal helped to define a new sound for the electric guitar. Featuring [...]
...one of the busiest little groups in Dayton these days, The Motel Beds just keep coming up with new ways to blow our minds. Earlier this week, the band unleashed yet another stunning music video, this time for the title track of their stellar new album Sunfried Dreams, and in our humble opinion, it's the [...]
Don Thrasher: It seems crazy to me that these labels sign bands because they like them, then they want to go and change everything. Robert Pollard: Yeah, they wouldn't let me do my covers. They said you're at a higher professional standard now or whatever and we need to do professional covers. And those are the [...]
Don Thrasher: With the working relationships you've established with Todd Tobias on the solo stuff and Circus Devils, Chris and John on Boston Spaceships and Doug on Lifeguards you seem to have found a method that allows your output to keep up with your songwriting. Robert Pollard: I'm not much of a studio rat. I don't [...]
… on Jan. 25, Pollard released his latest solo album, Space City Kicks, on Guided By Voices Inc. which opened the floodgates on a slew of new releases coming from the ultra-prolific songwriter this year. He recently reunited with former GBV guitarist Doug Gillard for another Lifeguards release, Waving at the Astronauts. That album was [...]
...picking up from yesterday... Don Thrasher: What's next for the Classic Lineup? Robert Pollard: We're playing some Iowa festival like the thing they have in Dayton every year and South By Southwest where bands headline their own show at bars. This is a three-day thing and you've got a pass. This is in Iowa City but I'm [...]
…it's no secret the reunion of the classic lineup of Guided By Voices was one of the big tickets of 2010. And according to leader Robert Pollard (vocals), he plans to stretch out his reunion with Tobin Sprout (guitar, vocals), Mitch Mitchell (guitar, vocals), Greg Demos (bass,) and Kevin Fennel (drums) into the fall. In [...]
...although still riding the crest of the wave on their most recent release, the excellent Sunfried Dreams, The Motel Beds seem incapable of slowing down for even a minute. Last night the band debuted a brand new recording on WYSO's Kaleidoscope program of Matthew Sweet's "I've Been Waiting" from the classic album, Girlfriend. For those [...]
...out on tour from Austin in support of their latest release, TransAudioStasis, garage enthusiasts The Hi-Tones are making their way through the Midwest back home in time to showcase at SXSW. With core members Johnny Flores and Gary Delgado having spent nearly a decade playing together, the recent additions of drummer Kurt Lammers, guitarist Kyle [...]
...when word came down a few weeks ago that Chapel Hill-based imprint No More Fake Labels would be issuing a GBV tribute album entitled Sing For Your Meat featuring the likes of Flaming Lips, Thurston Moore, and Kelley Deal & Buffalo Killers [full tracklisting below], we were obviously stoked beyond reproach. While the disc won't [...]
...while it's been several months since we first began to hear about Bandcamp as a site by which bands could easily distribute their music, in the last few weeks, it seems to have caught fire amongst Dayton bands as THE method of dissemination. With the high quality audio in a number of formats available to [...]
...while we've been hearing rumors for a while now, yesterday it was confirmed that longtime Dayton faves Captain of Industry will play a pair of reunion shows in May. Following the release of their third album The Bronze in 2008, the band did an East Coast jaunt, then quietly faded out. COI's endlessly inventive twists [...]
....Just in time for Wednesday night's show at South Park Tavern, Dayton super-groups, the Smug Brothers and the Motel Beds, have posted digital copies of their music on Bandcamp... ...Smug Brothers posted their Stock Romeo EP and Interior Magnets single, which were previously released on Fictionband Mechanics and Squid's Eye Records, respectively. The Smug [...]
...this evening brings us to our final installment of the February Residency at South Park Tavern with Sad Cadillac. If you've not made it out yet, we would HIGHLY recommend that you stop in to check them out. For those that have made the effort, they've been nearly universally impressed with this trio as they [...]
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