I listen to a lot of music. A lot of music. I can't speak for AIV or Romeosidvicious, but the list of records I'd like to review for Ninebullets is about three miles long, and that's before I've sorted through anything that's been submitted for review (AIV handles the bulk of that, so his workload is exponentially larger). Point is, sometimes a record slips through the cracks. In the interest of trying to cover a few more bases, and inspired by AIV's recent 140-character Twitter reviews, I introduce to you a new [...]
I only met Mark Mulcahy once. It was on the night that Mark and Ken played the North Star with The Mountain Goats who were on tour with Bowerbirds. This is the first night that I was lucky enough to have met my friend Ken Maiuri (an amazing musician and person, bar none , as they say). This was also the night that I received the most amazing hug in the World from John Darnielle, who come to think of it: should go down in history as a man with a Gift of Hug. It was a magical night. [...]
Benevento/Russo Duo : Another instrumental take here, this one they dedicate to The Slip's Brad Barr. Speaking of which, you can find another great rendition of this song on the LMA that in addition to The Duo, features Andrew Barr & Marc Friedman from The Slip. Source: 7-4-2003 Brothers Past : Most of the covers are pretty to-the-point this week, thankfully we have Brothers Past to extend their take to the 10-minute mark before dropping into their next song. A nice recording of these guys. Source: [...]
Beak> - Beak> Blood Brothers - Reissues Chief - Mighty Proud The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour A Grave With No Name - Mountain Debris (Digital) MP3: A Grave With No Name - "Open Water" [...]
Bowerbirds play a tiny desk concert at NPR Music . Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys talks to the Guardian about his film, Separado! , which traces his family origins in Patagonia. The National Post profiles singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt . The Daily Swarm interviews legendary music producer Steve Albini. [...]
Bowerbirds play a tiny desk concert at NPR Music . The Guardian profiles comics legend Osamu Tezuka and his creation, Astro Boy. Tezuka's comics look outward to the world, too: his influences are decisively international. Individual frames, as McCarthy points out, reference Captain Nemo, Frankenstein – and isn't that Mickey Mouse's hat from Fantasia? The backgrounds are pure Fritz Lang, full of hovercars reminiscent of chrome-crusted American cars from the 1950s. Astro Boy himself is a reimagining of Pinocchio (who is, [...]
Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend is the solo debut of longtime Gillian Welch sideman Dave Rawlings , and may be the finest folk album I have heard all year. Author Rick Moody's band, the Wingdale Community Singers releases Spirit Duplicator tomorrow. Reissues of note include David Bowie's Space Oddity (with bonus CD) and The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour (with bonus CD). Four Blood Brothers [...]
Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend is the solo debut of longtime Gillian Welch sideman Dave Rawlings , and may be the finest folk album I have heard all year. Author Rick Moody's band, the Wingdale Community Singers releases Spirit Duplicator tomorrow. Reissues of note include David Bowie's Space Oddity (with bonus CD) and The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour (with bonus CD). Four Blood Brothers [...]
by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild (WAV) (huge file) Jonathan Richman @ Bowery Ballroom in June ( more by Andrew Frisicano ) Jonathan Richman is prepping the follow-up to his 2008 album Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild for a 2010 release on Vapor Records. Like his albums and tours of late, it will be a collaboration with [...]
Culture Club coming in two parts today, courtesy of my forgetfulness (all links are from Friday) More info on dublab's Secondhand Sureshots film featuring Daedelus, J-Rocc, Nobody and Ras G -Baria Qureshi is done for good with The xx -The AV Club staffers ponder musical traditions of theirs -Two new mixes from A-Trak: from the Do Over in LA and this year's I Love Techno -There's a new Laundromatinee with Cymbals Eat Guitars -Asian Dan has a [...]
Metro Weekly profiles singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer . ''I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener,'' the pop musician says. ''That's another thing I really like about this art form. You can make as much or as little sense as you want and you're not going to get arrested.'' Tiger Saw's Dylan Metrano talks to the Newburyport News about his memoir, All My Friends Are Right [...]
Metro Weekly profiles singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer . ''I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener,'' the pop musician says. ''That's another thing I really like about this art form. You can make as much or as little sense as you want and you're not going to get arrested.'' Zadie Smith talks to NPR's All Things Considered about her new essay collection, Changing My Mind . An [...]
Metro Weekly profiles singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer . ''I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener,'' the pop musician says. ''That's another thing I really like about this art form. You can make as much or as little sense as you want and you're not going to get arrested.'' Zadie Smith talks to NPR's All Things Considered about her new essay collection, Changing My Mind . An [...]
Mit "At The Cut" veröffentlicht Vic Chesnutt ein intimes Album, auf dem er entschlossen sein Innerstes nach aussen kehrt, um über sich hinauszuwachsen. "The courage of the coward is greater than all others": Mit brüchiger Stimme deutet Vic Chesnutt schon mit der ersten Songzeile an, was sich im Fortlauf des Albums immer deutlicher abzeichnen wird. "I am [...]
Vic Chesnutt is a study in contradictions. The most recent example of that in Chesnutt's professional life is what to do with two new albums recorded a month apart: Skitter on Take-off, a solo album produced by the great Jonathan Richman, and the decidedly different-feeling At the Cut, his second album with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra. (He previously paired with them in 2007 for North Star Deserter .) Before playing a gig in Atlanta, Chesnutt discussed how to deal with an embarrassment of artistic riches, the virtues of being lucky rather than [...]
Contemporaneo ad "At The Cut","Skitter On Take Off" è la collaborazione fra Vic, Jonathan Richman e Tommy Larkins. Puro e scarno, registrato in presa diretta e senza alcuna post produzione. MP3 Vic Chesnutt - Dick Cheney MySpace: Vic Chesnutt WebSite: Vic Chesnutt
Upcoming is a concert I am making sure I am at - the Vic Chesnutt / Liz Durrett performance at the Marquee Room on November 23rd (locals, please note change in venue with Timbre Productions ). Any Calgarians looking to go, please consider confirming, it will be a great show! I have not seen either artist live and I am very excited to see them both together. They are not strangers to each other as you can see from one of the tracks below, but it should be quite an intimate show at points - this I am excited [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Builder & the Butchers : "Vampire Lake" [mp3] from Loch Lomond/The Builders & the Butchers Split 12″ other Builder & the Butchers posts at Largehearted Boy Heather Greene : "Moon Hangs Fire" [mp3] from Sweet Otherwise other Heather Greene posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
Spilling over with trembling strings and thunderous crescendos, Coward foreshadows the electric energy that is to be found throughout Vic Chesnutt's newest record. With members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion, and Fugazi once again contributing, At the Cut is populated by giant melodies, quiet meditations, and intense studies on mortality and memory. But, for all its bombast, At the Cut is probably most notable for Chesnutt's unwavering honesty and cathartic power. Because of these qualities it has quickly become one of my favorite and most played records this [...]
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