Star Trek fans should be happy tomorrow with the 2009 feature film on store shelves in a variety of formats, along with The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Vol. 2 and The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series, Vol. 2 . Other feature films of note out tomorrow include Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control and the Criterion Collection release of Downhill Racer . [...]
Star Trek fans should be happy tomorrow with the 2009 feature film on store shelves in a variety of formats, along with The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Vol. 2 and The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series, Vol. 2 . Other feature films of note out tomorrow include Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control and the Criterion Collection release of Downhill Racer . [...]
Prefix interviews Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara . DOA interviews Matt Dowling of Deleted Scenes . Pitchfork reviews Robert Pollard's latest 100-track outtakes compilation, Suitcase 3 . The Sydney Morning Herald profiles singer-songwriter Greta Gertler and her alternative means for funding her debut album. [...]
Prefix interviews Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara . The Guardian reports that Michael Moorcock will write a Doctor Who novel. DOA interviews Matt Dowling of Deleted Scenes . Pitchfork reviews Robert Pollard's latest 100-track outtakes compilation, Suitcase 3 . [...]
It must be simultaneously exhausting and exhilarating to be Omar Rodriguez Lopez . Between The Mars Volta and his solo projects, the singer/songwriter/multi-instru mentalist has released a dizzying number of albums over the last few years, emerging as the clear front-runner for the title, "the Robert Pollard of Prog Rock." Listening to a lush, layered-sounding album like Xenophanes , though, you might think he'd been spending years in the studio honing it to perfection. Rodriguez Lopez remains a masterful guitarist, his resonant riffs and pealing leads alternately evoking Frank Zappa and Robert Fripp, but Xenophanes is no [...]
SK Robot performs its annual GbV tribute show, Guided by Robots, at the ANZA on Saturday. As always, the band performs some covers and then audience members are invited on stage to do their best Robert Pollard impressions. And, all the proceeds once again go to the Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter , so you can feel good about trying to get to the bottom of that beer tub full of Bud Light's before stumbling up to the microphone for a drunken rendition of "Gold Star for Robot Boy." Mike Plume , [...]
Over-the-top observations from an over-the-hill rocker: - Weezer 's new CD 'Raditude' is getting so-so reviews from many leading music critics ( check MetaCritic ). Most can't seem to deal with Cuomo's jokey, tossed-off pop lyrics. I kinda like it. He's a smart guy. He knows what he's doing. Listen to 'Put Me Back Together' (sweet!) and 'I'm Your Daddy' over at Mochi Beats . On December 1st, Weezer plays Chicago's cavernous Aragon Ballroom, the same room I saw The Clash, The Jam, The Dictators, AC/DC, Devo, Gang of Four and many other bands [...]
As we've mentioned , 19-year-old Santa Rosa multi-instrumentalist Ryan Schmale approaches That Ghost's fuzzy, spacious pop in a way that reminds us more of vintage garage rockers and Robert Pollard than he does his lo-fi peers. See, for instance, "Shouldn't Leave The Estate," a song from the forthcoming Get It And Get Out EP (11/17, twosyllable ) that premiered in this week's Drop. Schmale told us about the isolation and agoraphobia that inspired the track. You can read his thoughts on it while you take a listen , hopefully from the safety of your home. [...]
Roger Daltrey - House of Blues, Boston MA - Sunday, November 8, 2009 'Let's get together, before we get much older.' That line from "Baba O'Riley" really summed up the evening with Roger Daltrey, a rare mid-sized club tour (micro, on the Who scale) to play songs he likes, whether he originally sang on them or not. Cynics might have zeroed in on "My Generation" and the 'Hope I die before I get old line,' but though Roger played a snippet of the song on the end of the cover of Bo Diddley's "I'm [...]
We remember an interview we did with Art Brut, in which they attempted to entertain us with their wisdom and faux pharmacological humor. Frankly, we thought it came off a bit forced and that they took themselves a bit too seriously. Enter Britain's Johnny Foreigner and their attempt to charm us with music and their interpretation of the way of the world. I remember going to see Guided By Voices shortly after they signed to Matador and as they prepared to join a Lollapalooza tour. Despite the lofty expectations of the crowd, Robert Pollard showed up, [...]
It's been a busy few weeks for Annie Clark, the creative force behind St. Vincent. Well in truth it's been a busy year, one of the acts most regularly mentioned as a highlight of SXSW back in March the release of her second album Actor has launched her into a much brighter spotlight than her debut album Marry Me did. She only just recently came off an extensive North American tour opening for Andrew Bird and barely had a moment's break before hopping on a plane to Europe to open for Grizzly Bear on [...]
Halloween has ended, and the parade of ghouls and goblins has passed us by. But now the days grow shorter, the air colder and more bitter, and our pre-holiday-season anxiety just that much more pronounced. What can soothe our itchy psyches during this uncomfortable time? Well, just this week we've got plenty of poultice for the soul on tap, from a warm-blooded, open-hearted troubadour to some star-quality practitioners of twinkly, groove-kissed '80s-esque pop, some sci-fi hip-hop, and a treasure trove of lost gems from old lo-fi fave. Tigercity - [...]
Reissues are the stars release list this week, with remastered editions of Nirvana's Bleach , two Devo albums ( Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! and Freedom of Choice ), and the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert all with bonus material and in stores tomorrow. If your tastes run toward vinyl, Merge reissues Neutral Milk Hotel's two albums ( In The Aeroplane Over The Sea [...]
Guided By Voices Suitcase 3 (Up We Go Now) GBV Inc. [2009] Fire Note Says: Acoustic disc alone is worth your attention! Album Review: Suitcase 3 (Up We Go Now) opens back up the GBV club for another installment (and supposedly last) of the Suitcase series that once again supplies 100 tracks on a four disc set with mostly fictional band names like Aerial Poop Show [...]
Weighted Pines is the new project from Braden J. McKenna of arrid SLC, Utah. Though I had not heard of McKenna before he apparently has multiple projects and each with a different sound. Weighted Pines new eponymous debut is a slow-tempo folk-pop usually with songs around 1 minute in length in a style very similar to Robert Pollard's. This record is out on a small digital label, Magic Goat Music , where you can find most of McKenna's other projects. Weighted Pines - Twentyfive Weighted Pines - Low
so, pollard is releasing another suitcase with this one being number 3. from the looks/sounds/etc of it, this one, a 4 disc set, should definitely be the best of the bunch cause most of the material is being pulled from the mid-90's to the present. the 4th disc is an impromptu acoustic set featuring pollard, demos and sprout. tell me that aint worth the 28 buck price tag alone. i cant remember how much i paid for the other two, but i think i remember it being much more than 28 bucks. seems like i remember it being [...]
Every once in awhile, a show comes along and completely blows your mind by the sheer randomness of it. When I saw bauhaus back in 1998 at what was once known as the Warehouse, a muscle-bound freak started random fistfights with everyone around him (women included), a future boyfriend's watch was smashed in, and management confiscated the camera I had smuggled in. Last night's Atlas Sound show had a few medical emergencies, a beyond sold-out crowd, and most memorably, my encounter with Bradford Cox. The evening started off innocently enough. The Selmanaires , another Atlantan outfit invited [...]
Every once in awhile, a show comes along and completely blows your mind by the sheer randomness of it. When I saw bauhaus back in 1998 at what was once known as the Warehouse, a muscle-bound freak started random fistfights with everyone around him (women included), a future boyfriend's watch was smashed in, and management confiscated the camera I had smuggled in. Last night's Atlas Sound show had a few medical emergencies, a beyond sold-out crowd, and most memorably, my encounter with Bradford Cox. The evening started off innocently enough. The Selmenaires, another Atlantan outfit invited out to [...]
I know that I say something like this every time I post a Robert Pollard related tune, but I can't help it, I am genuinely in awe of his prolificness - and I am not even sure that prolificness is a word - that's how in awe I am. 'Zero To 99' marks the 3rd released recording for his new outfit, Boston Spaceships, in less than a year. The man must literally have songs running through his head 24 hrs a day, and to record and produce them must keep him sane on some level. Whatever the [...]
my portuguese is for shit, and online translators dont really cut it, but you swing on over to brazilian music outlet, transfusao noise records you can grab a 31 track tribute compilation made up of what i am guessing are brazilian artists. btw, anyone hear the new boston spaceships record? weedking by monodecks man called aerodynamics by fujimo game of pricks by telerama huffman prairie flying field by inspetores [...]
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The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
The Swell Season featuring Jason Segel - Nov 18, 2009
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‘09 Been Kind
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Zipper (Dj Manaia Remix)
