RIAA's new album of mashups and cut-ups is some of the weirdest, wackiest stuff that they've recorded in the last year or two. Spike Jones, Roger Roger, old kiddie records, and rude sound effects mix with Neutral Milk Hotel, James Blunt and the soundtracks to "Psycho" and "Eraserhead" ; '60s garage rock and Latin boogaloo collide with modern funky electro beatz. Whimsical animal themes abound: San Cooke dances with a chicken, Dean Martin & Nancy Sinatra harmonize with dogs, [...]
It's nice to see Merge Records reissue Neutral Milk Hotel's two albums on 180 gram vinyl . You had better believe that we will be picking these up... but deep down, what we really wish for is to be able to go back in time and be at one of these shows.
Watch well-recorded videos of NMH doing "Two-Headed Boy" and "April 8th" at the old Knitting Factory on March 7, 1998 via Merge , the label that just released On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over The Sea on 180 gram vinyl.
Merge just put out some videos from a Neutral Milk Hotel show at the old Knitting Factory in 1998 in conjunction with the reissue of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea on 180-gram vinyl. They're good quality and certainly showcase the sound and song of the band. They also weirdly showcase Jeff as a budding style icon, as one Stereogum commenter astutely points out, rocking what can only be considered a precursor to the Anton Chigurh No Country For Old Men haircut. But that's another story. The only sadness comes in here when we, as (fairly) young music [...]
Friday! Quick-hit thoughts of the week! QUICK-HIT THOUGHTS OF THE WEEK! 1. Whatever Brains - Gross Urge (mp3) ( buy ) BAM! Whatever Brains ( myspace ) is a Raleigh, North Carolina band called WHATEVER BRAINS. That automatically qualifies them to be AWESOME, but this song - along with a lot of the rest of their Trim-Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten CD-R - qualifies them to be DOUBLE AWESOME. I'm more comfortable thinking of them as traditional lo-fi punk than as [...]
I'm pretty sure this is what a " hootenanny " sounds like. If you were to attend a "hootenanny" and then later hear We All Have Hooks For Hands , you would probably say "Hey! They sound like a hootenanny!" Or a hoopla maybe. The band is from Sioux Falls, has seven members (give-or-take), and makes a kind of jangly howl-along folk-pop that's pretty dang infectious. They're a little rough around the edges, and they play pretty recklessly for such a large group, making it sound like everything could come apart at the seams at any moment. [...]
It's been over a decade since Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs and Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea , two albums that pushed the boundaries of chamber-pop and psychedelic rock in an era of indie innovation that has few rivals. Without shouldering them with the burden of exaggerated expectations, blossoming Los Angeles act Pepper Rabbit picks up where those records left off - stylistically, if not yet quite qualitatively. But on two self-released EPs, the band's music aches with potential. Throughout, Pepper Rabbit goes dark and deep, letting [...]
Cool news, Elephant 6 fans. Your boy Julian Koster has announced plans to embark on his second annual Christmas caroling tour. Our friends at Tiny Mix Tapes tell us that fans who invite Koster (of Neutral Milk Hotel , Music Tapes and Major Organ & the Adding Machine fame) and his singing saw into their homes will be treated to a free show. Wanna do it? Here's how: Email musictapescaroling@gmail.com or snail-mail an honest-to-goodness letter to 450 N. Harris St. Athens, GA 30601 inviting Koster and co. to your place. ( [...]
First, here's some free new music that you can collect on your own, if you have an e-mail address, and you happen to like free live EPs by a little-known band called the Pixies. This is fresh from their reunion tour where they're re-creating Doolittle live on stage. The American leg starts later this week. Download The Pixies - "Gouge Away (live)".mp3 [...]
Kevin Devine is planning a new Christmas-themed single, with no less than nine different physical versions. They explained: To celebrate Kevin Devine's forthcoming appearance on the annual BSM Christmas Tour - and, of course, the fast-approaching festive season - we're re-releasing 'Splitting Up Christmas', a song originally taken from Kevin's 2003 album, 'Make The Clocks Move'. The single will be available as a free MP3 download and [in] nine different CD versions. Each CD will be limited to just 25 copies, available for one night only and feature a different b-side, hand-numbered and signed by Kevin. [...]
by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Naza Grizol - For Things That Haven't Come (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Julian Koster - Jingle Bells (MP3) Nana Grizol @ Cake Shop T.O. Snob : Most of the press material I've seen points out connections between the band and Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, and other Elephant 6 groups. Based on that association do people approach Nana Grizol's music with certain expectations? If [...]
Have you listened to last week's show yet? You still have until tonight's show airs, so do it: Stream the November 9 edition of Out the Other And here's the playlis: 1. Local Natives - Shape Shifter ( Gorilla Manor ) 2. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream ( Up From Below ) 3. Generationals - Nobody Could Change Your Mind ( Con Law ) 4. The Nobility - Halleluiah Chorus ( The Mezzanine ) 5. King Khan and BBQ Show - Invisible Girl ( Invisible [...]
[The internet has a habit of making friends of strangers and I guess I would have to describe Campfires & Battlefields as my best friend-I've-never-met. He is one of the longest standing readers and commenters of this blog, and has written another two fine Sunday Supplement posts for us this week. Cheers C&B.] To me modern German music has always been about the monosyllabic pioneers of Krautrock. Can. Faust. Neu! Or perhaps the ear-shattering crunch of Einsturzende Neubauten's strategies against architecture. Brilliant stuff, but forbidding too; and sometimes a little too Baader-Meinhof for my bourgeois ass. [...]
[The internet has a habit of making friends of strangers and I guess I would have to describe Campfires & Battlefields as my best friend-I've-never-met. He is one of the longest standing readers and commenters of this blog, and has written another two fine Sunday Supplement posts for us this week. Cheers C&B.] To me modern German music has always been about the monosyllabic pioneers of Krautrock. Can. Faust. Neu! Or perhaps the ear-shattering crunch of Einsturzende Neubauten's strategies against architecture. Brilliant stuff, but forbidding too; and sometimes a little too Baader-Meinhof for my bourgeois ass. [...]
[The internet has a habit of making friends of strangers and I guess I would have to describe Campfires & Battlefields as my best friend-I've-never-met. He is one of the longest standing readers and commenters of this blog, and has written another two fine Sunday Supplement posts for us this week. Cheers C&B.] This lot first caught my attention because they take their name from a character in the "Port William Fellowship" novels of the American novelist and poet Wendell Berry, one of my favorites. At its best, Berry's writing is thrifty [...]
Peter Lanceley is a guest contributor who manages his own blog, This Music Wins , which you can visit to discover much more new music. click image to view artist in itunes Sounds like: Beach Boys, Pulp, Spiritualized What's so good? Girls are a set of 60s revivalist musicians, partly because it's the music they love, and partly because its all lead singer Christopher Owens [...]
(Editor's note: today's interview comes to us with permission from Cleveland Bachelor , where the Q&A was originally posted. Yesterday was one of those work days that you dread, meeting after meeting after meeting. From the moment I got to work until nearly 4 PM, I was shuffling from one room to another, trading brain cells for increased self-loathing every additional minute. Mere seconds after finally sitting down in my chair back in my dank big boy office, the alarm on my phone went off. I looked at it, wondering what it was I was reminding myself [...]
Readers Wives Genre: Alternative / Indie / Pop From: Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland [...]
This was the greatest decade of music for me as a fan. There were so many incredible albums, almost all by bands I'd never even heard of in 2000, discovered almost entirely through the same musical venue that you are reading write now -- the Internet. At the dawn of the decade, I was approaching a rock fan milestone that presumably signaled the end of my interest in cool new music (I turned 30 in 2001), while at the same time, the rock music industry (ie. whatever they played on the radio) had devolved into a hybrid of cheap rap-rock [...]
Fanfarlo kicked off their first proper US tour tonight, with a sold out show at Schubas . Yes, they've been to the States before, for a mini-tour in September, SXSW, and CMJ, however it was definitely a treat for them to get things started this time around in Chicago. Playing under a sky of pennant flags, they covered many of the tunes off of the new release, Reservoir , which is out now via Atlantic /Wea. They also played two brand new songs, which lead [...]
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