![Shufflin Cross Country, Day 1 Mix [SFO to SLC]](http://cache.elbo.ws/posts/2125958_lg.jpg)
Day 1 is complete. Here are the songs the popped up on the iPod on Day 1 of my cross country move (while I was tracking them). This is also why I love using shuffle. I wouldn't have picked out most of these if I were building a playlist from scratch. Wilco - Monday Stephen Malkmus - Gardenia Marah - Wild West Love Song Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers Gogol Bordello - Immigrant Punk Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone The Beatles - Don't Ever Change Alela Diane - White As Diamonds [...]
Washington, DC has been home to some interesting bands of note: Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, Fugazi. Jonathan Fire*Eater was located in NYC but everyone in it was from DC. Then there was this band called The Dismemberment Plan . They broke up right around the time I got a DC address so while I'd heard the name, I never heard their sound. Recently, I met someone with ties to the band so I gave TDP a listen and...wow. If Stephen Malkmus fronted and wrote songs for Fugazi , I think [...]
According to The Portland Mercury , "Finally, a Pavement show not in New York or overseas." The reunited band is the only act announced for the 5/29-5/31 Washington Gorge festival, but more details are coming soon . This is a step in the right direction. I was a bit surprised when Pavement announced their reunion that they had no Northwest dates scheduled, particularly in Portland, where Stephen Malkmus makes his home. Looks like I've got next Memorial Day weekend already figured out. Anyone want to join me?
Indiecision Check Out act Boat Beam impressed us immensely with their debut album Puzzle Shapes (check out the single 'The Rain Pauly' on our music player). The project of Josephine Ayling (Australia), Aurora Aroca (Spain) and Alisha Buttke (US), Boat Beam call Spain home and and paint beautiful pictures with strings and Fiona Apple-esque pop sensibilities. We caught up with the band to talk about being sisters, musical influences and puzzles. Q1. How did the band come together? We were [...]
The second installment of A Retrospective, in which I recap my favorite albums released from 2000 to 2008, this time: 2001. Wrought with turmoil and watching a life fall apart as so many others were having similar experiences but in a different manner; that was 2001 for you. The year I turned 21 (hence the wine bottle photo above). A year that lives in infamy. Young or old, we all seemed to grow up that year. Music, too seemed to progress in ways unthought, even before that fateful day. [...]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced plans to play Minehead, Englands' All Tomorrow's Parties fest next month. Karen O ' and co. will be playing their debut album, ' Fever To Tell ', in it's entirety when they play the three-day fest. ATP will run December 11-13 and will see performances by Devendra Banhart , Modest Mouse , Deerhoof , and The Mars Volta , among others. You can see the entire line-up below. Go to atpfestival.com for more [...]
Fred and Toody Cole have been making music together for a long time. The legendary Oregon couple are the linchpin of Portland's punk scene: since first appearing in 1987, the pair has released a staggering 17 albums, mostly behind the name of their old band, Dead Moon. One of Portland's most revered outfits, Dead Moon's consistency and influence is almost unheard of. That song "Fire in the Western World" that the Shaky Hands always play? Yep, a Dead Moon cover. But since the Cole's formed a new band, Pierced Arrows, with drummer Kelly Halliburton in 2006, things have been a [...]
Warp Films Announce Special US Screenings Of 'All Tomorrow's Parties' Prior To DVD release On November 24th The Public Can Now See the Film on The Big Screen: Austin (Nov 2/3/4), New York (Nov 13/14), Chicago (Nov 20) Los Angeles (Dec 1) + more For more info and for tickets visit: www.ourtrueintent.com Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =DFgB4ME0xsg Ever wondered what summer camp with Nick Cave, Daniel Johnston, and Iggy Pop would feel like? This stunning documentary should give you some idea, conjuring a glorious kaleidoscope of the bonfires, drunken hedonism, make out sessions, and music, music, [...]
![Mock Orange - Captain Love - Tigertrap Records [Album Review]](http://cache.elbo.ws/posts/2087772_lg.jpg)
Hearing Captain Love made me want to HUP-two-three-four, stand at attention and snap a million salutes because it's so rare for me to take such pleasure from a rock album with pop persuasions. Mock Orange present a rare batch of influences before the listener and DARE him/her to deal with it, up to and including: A resemblance, in both the lead and back-up vocals, to How it Feels / Rising [...]
Between a tour of Australia , playing curators at All Tomorrow's Parties , headlining Primavera Sound , and a four-night stint in New York City , Pavement 's 2010 reunion is already on the realm of being an extravaganza. But as Consequence of Sound can exclusively reveal, fans of Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, Scott Kannberg, Steve West, and Mark Ibold haven't seen anything yet. For the legendary outfit, which will be reuniting some 10 years after that final 1999 performance at London's Brixton Academy, 2010 will include dates across the [...]
The Clean sound as fresh and vibrant today as they did when they led an influential roster on New Zealand's Flying Nun records, an independent label started by a fan intent on releasing the band's single, "Tally Ho," back in 1981. Although they only had a small cult following outside their native country, the Clean enjoyed a great deal of college radio airplay. Pavement's Stephen Malkmus is one of many who cite the Clean as a major influence. The band has [...]
1.) It's hard to believe, but the rate of retro exploitation has sped up so fast that it's acceptable start copping Pavement records, as if new listeners were too young to actually pick up on it. This either signifies that I am officially ancient or history is folding in on itself so fast that 2012 will indeed herald the end of the world. Never had I imagined a day when my own generation's music would become source material. Then I heard this band Cymbals Eat Guitars , which sounds so much like Pavement I'm almost [...]
It's hard to write a review of an album by someone considered by a lot of people to be something of a demi-god of his genre, particularly when your knowledge of his work is pretty thin. So I am warning anyone with a slightly more than healthy relationship with Sebadoh in particular to bear in mind before reading this that I really like One Part Lullaby by Folk Implosion, although I haven't listened to it for ages and, despite the impassioned urgings of a succession of friends, barely know a thing about Sebadoh. In fact I haven't really sat down [...]
Over on the main NPR Music page, they recently had a feature called "Your 50 Greatest Singing Voices." Asking readers to contribute their own picks, the article garnered an interesting bunch of comments, which are definitely worth a read through if you have a few minutes. Though it's difficult to separate the notion of "greatest singers" from the objective standpoint that one needs to be at in order to make these sorts of proclamations, it's also apparent at how subjective idea of "greatest" is. While most of us would admit -- or not argue against [...]
The Fall front man Mark E. Smith once called Pavement a "rip-off" of his prolific post-punk band, but he may have changed his tune now that the '90s slacker rock quintet is reunited and curating its own festival for All Tomorrow's Parties . The show, which will take place from May 14-16 next year in Minehead, Somerset, is set to include The Fall, as well as German krautrockers Faust , San Francisco quartet Enablers , Matador employees and blues jammers Endless Boogie (whose first gig was opening for Stephen [...]
The first time I remember hearing the name Stephen Malkmus, well, I actually read his name before I ever heard his name out loud. It was on the cover of his self-titled solo debut. I honestly thought he was just another newbie to the alt-rock scene. He'd probably be a little awkward, have one good song, and we'd see him in the obscurity lounge alongside Tal Bachman and company. I didn't know he had been around for over a decade in a band named Pavement . As for the band Pavement , I would [...]
Are we all tired of lo-fi, yet? Has the practice of some asshole holing up in his garage or basement or parents' summer house and piling distortion on top of a couple- and, if said lo-fi artist is a virtuoso, maybe even three - chords and a vocal melody so half-assed that it makes Stephen Malkmus sound like Mariah Carey finally reached its point of over-saturation? Perhaps it was Nathan Williams of Wavves basically turning Pitchfork into a hipster TMZ, Dum Dum [...]
After being underwhelmed (and I'm the only one) by Them Crooked Vultures , I began to look ahead to the Supergroups that I would create. Sure, this is all conjecture, and some are jaded by my own personal tastes and connections. It's an interesting topic. Who is your favorite musician, and who would you like to see them playing with? Make your own supergroup, and tell me about it. While I wait, I'll throw out mine. And, I apologize for my lack of originality in naming bands. [...]
so i've just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list - which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list - and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i've decided to do a ten day countdown leading up to my number 1 album choice, vh1 best [whatever] of [decade] style. [100 - 91] [90-81] [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Friday Five: Surf Songs
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
