Editor's note: "Overlooked in Ohio" is a feature in which we ask an Ohio-based artist/music enthusiast to tell us about a few bands (past or present) from the state of Ohio that deserve some love. Our second installment comes courtesy of Bela Koe-Krompecher , a staple of the Columbus rock scene and head of the soon-to-be-revived Anyway Records - former home of Gaunt, The New Bomb Turks and countless other "important" Columbus bands, including this volume's subject, Greenhorn . ...This is a long one, but do yourself a big favor and read the whole [...]
photo by Madrid-based photog, more info ici... Blue Oyster Cult (Don't Fear) The Reaper Belle & Sebastian (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Live) Van She (Don't Fear) The Reaper At the beginning of this decade, I was living in Victoria, BC and playing in a band called Ghosts that (at times) picked handily from various sources, mostly if my hand [...]
Der Singer/Songwriter, Gitarrist und Roots-Musiker Alejandro Escovedo stammte aus einer äußerst musikalischen Familie. Sein Vater spielte in diversen Mariachi- und Swingbands. Seine beiden Brüder Pete und Coke gehörten zum Line-Up der Gruppen Santana bzw. Azteca und Malo, und Petes Tochter Sheila wurde als Popstar Sheila E. und als Percussionistin von Prince bekannt. Musikalisch machten außerdem auch seine Brüder Bobby (dr), Phillip (b), Mario (g) und Javier (g/ex-The Zeros) von sich reden, deren Bands allerdings nur lokale Bedeutung hatten. Hineingeboren in eine mexikanische Auswanderer-Familie mit 12 Geschwistern, wurde Alejandro Escovedo am 10.01.1951 in San Antonio/Texas, USA, geboren. Danach zog [...]
Soft Machine was the product of the same remarkable cultural shift that gave us electric Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix, the moment when the formalistic silos that held different genres of music suddenly collapsed and rock, jazz, blues, Indian music, and modern classical could mix with whatever happened to be on the turntable.
Saturday, September 26, 2009 Buffy Sainte-Marie at Highline Ballroom (RESCHEDULED FROM July 2) Whispers at BB King's Charlatans UK at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Bklyn Jim Norton at Wellmont Theatre Phoenix and Passion Pit at Rumsey Playfield/Central Park Buckethead at Governors Island These Arms Are Snakes at Mercury Lounge Tiesto [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009 Rick Springfield at Wellmont Theatre U2 and Muse at Giants Stadium White Lies at Webster Hall Subdudes at World Cafe Live, Philly Phoenix and Passion Pit at Rumsey Playfield/Central Park KMFDM and Angelspit at Gramercy Theatre Will Downing at BB King's Slackers at Bowery Ballroom [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Dave Matthews Band and Robert Randolph & The Family Band at Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden Snow Patrol and Plain White Ts at Beacon Theatre James McMurtry at Mercury Lounge She Wants Revenge and Kill Hannah at Webster Hall Pronto at Union Hall, Bklyn Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Radio City Music Hall Moby at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Bklyn [...]
These days, my life, my anxieties, my hopes, my whole scene, could be summed up, or put in place, or undermined by its own essence, with any number of vaguely agricultural get-up-and-go aphorisms. The early bird gets the worm. You reap what you sow. The sun also rises. Make hay while the sun shines. Ecclesiastes. Etc. It's either birds, worms, seeds, sun or hay. Throw in a little "Muck is the mother of the mealbag" and you've got it covered. Shit be elemental. But talk of shit and talk of sun and talk of hay always makes [...]
A pair of reunions ( Moonshine Willy , the Blacks ), a local upstart ( Scotland Yard Gospel Choir ) and a staggering turn by the Texas-born Alejandro Escovedo highlighted Bloodshot Records ' 15th anniversary celebration at a scaled-back Hideout Block Party on Saturday. The daylong event, which took place under blue skies on an outdoor stage 25 yards from the door of the treasured dive, attracted a sizable crowd for performances by a number of former and current Bloodshot artists. Almost every song in the Blacks' [...]
Pure Ecstasy are from Austin, Texas where I've spent one of the best weeks of my life and one of the worst. They have just released their first 7". There's only 50 pressed, with spray painted sleeves. Get one here Nate from the band, kindly sent me the tracks over so you can download 'You're In It Now' by clicking on it. Awesome. The excellent Friendship Bracelet blog describes them thus: Pure Ecstasy tows the line between the golden shimmers [...]
![[BTKN004] Tom Phonic – Don't Be a Delimiter (2009)](http://cache.elbo.ws/posts/1903041_lg.jpg)
"It's sad that electronic music gets cut into subdivisions, stacked up in silos, and confined to genre ghettos with the names hyphenated together to fit whatever the new style is that just came out this week. In his new release, Tom Phonic ignores all of this to make an eclectic and creative record that opens the party doors wide. The album, "Don't Be a Delimiter" plays with styles but it sounds more like pointillism than collage. All the micro-parts come together to make a smooth whole, full of surprises without sounding like a mixtape. "Skizzer," track 3 on the album, [...]
(photo: Ilia Horsburgh) The other day on CBC Radio 2's Drive , Rich Terfry posited that the sound of Tony Dekker's voice can melt women's hearts, and coupled with the languid musical accompaniment of his band, Great Lake Swimmers , has the power to win over both the hearts and minds of the female persuasion. Maybe that's where Dekker got the idea to name his band's second disc, Bodies and Minds , which leads me to wonder what the inspiration was to name his current disc Lost Channels [...]
Having enjoyed the mixtapes put together by fellow bloggers at High Noon Saloon, Truer Sound, On The Right Side of a Good Thing and Fairly Random Mix amongst others (check out Blogs I follow), I thought it was time I go in on the act and have a go myself. So here's Beat Surrender's premiere mixtape "More Twang Volume 1", featuring a cast of characters from Australia, UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and [...]
This is one bad-ass comp from my colleagues in music fanaticism at AtlCountryTab.ca . If you love the country and/or western gernre, you will love this mix. Yeeee-haw! Enjoy! 1. Holly Williams - "He's Making a Fool out of You" Here With Me (2009) 2. Al Green - "Love and Happiness" Greatest Hits (1975) 3. The Kings - "Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide" The Kings are Here (1982) 4. [...]
While they probably never aspired to the gold standard Super Group status that Cream enjoyed, over the years some folks have thrown in their lot with other similarly situated folks (read: modestly successful/past their prime/second or third banana in a successful group) and formed "B" curve Super Groups. Sort of like if The Green Lantern , The Atom , and Hawkman formed their own Justice League (I've been watching a lot of superhero shows with my 4 year old lately). Anyway, which of the following second- and third-tier Super Groups [...]
Seconda edizione per Jazz Re Found che si terrà in tre silos dismessi a Vercelli dal 26 al 28 giugno ; un festival organizzato da Casanoego in collaborazione con il Comune e la Provincia di Vercelli nella location di Via Bassano del Grappa, quartiere Isola (Ex Piazzale Cash'n'Carry) Continua a leggere Jazz Re Found: tre giorni di nu jazz a Vercelli con artisti come Jazzanova, Lamb, Herbalizer e Casino Royale... Commenta »
recording tunes in grain silos, venerable acoustic sweet spots and the wonderfully named Singer Castle on the equally evocatively titled Dark Island beside the St. Lawrence River isn't just a dippy gimmick with this Canadian outfit. part of the Great Lake Swimmer albums immediacy and impact comes from their ability to choose and inhabit a space with only the most minimal technological intervention. filled with a spellbinding mix of country-tinged melancholy and a poetic economy that resists saccharin statements, or maudlin indulgence, the ghostly voice of lead Swimmer, Tony Dekker crosses vast oceans of loneliness and [...]
I've been a long-time supporter/admirer of Portland's Weinland . In 2006, then going by John Weinland, put out one helluva record, Deversville , and followed it up with last year's La Lamentor . Both remarkable, both come with my highest recommendation . I begged them to play in Madison last year, but only succeeded in getting them an early show at the High Noon Saloon opening for the Silos. The few that showed up were wowed, and I ended up shooting a [...]
A few weeks ago, I posted on how social influence is more of a factor in our musical tastes than we like to admit. Seth Godin, marketing genius and DIY-pioneer, takes that idea a little further. In the '70s or '80s you listened to a song because "everyone else" was also listening to it. That's the definition of pop music... Now, "everyone else" is not defined by where you live or what radio station you listen to. It's defined by which horizontal or vertical slice of the world you connect yourself with... So [...]
The music festival portion of SXSW kicks off today! The festival features more than 1,800 musical acts from all over the world on over 80 stages in downtown Austin, Texas. Here's a list of Nettwerk Music Group's artist appearances for 2009: Angus and Julia Stone http://www.myspace.com/angusan djuliastone Wednesday 3/18 @ Buffalo Billiards (KCRW Official SXSW Showcase) - 11 PM Datarock [...]
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