The summer of 2003 was a hot one in eastern Washington, and my concrete bunker of an apartment contained the heat like no other. Granted, the above image wasn't shot by yours truly until 2004, but it sure seemed hot enough to ignite even the least combustible of items. I wrapped up my undergraduate that December, which was cold as Antarctica, and upon that milestone I moved to Seattle. It was a good year for the Northwest; many of my favorite albums came from Seattle labels like Sub Pop and Barsuk. As for the list, I've [...]
CODES supported the Airborne Toxic Event at the Olympia Theatre last night and were sure to win many new fans with their splendid dose of electronic-rock. If you missed it, and are down the country, they'll be playing the Forum in Waterford on the 28th of November. Setlist: Malfunctions This Is Goodbye Starry Eyed Memorial (Daragh solo) In Algebra You Are Here 4 Winters Here's a clip of them last night:
What started as a t-shirt at the Pitchfork Music Festival has now become an insta-meme in the making. From the suburbs of New Jersey, Matt is searching tirelessly in the name of hipster singles everywhere for the ideal hipster wife at HipsterWifeHunting.com . We had the privilege of an AIM conversation with the hunter himself and we even brought along some fresh potential to help him out in return. PopSense : Hey! This is Jeff from PopSense.com, I'm here with my co-editor Stelios and a surprise guest to be announced later, ready for some questions? [...]
This week a review copy of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters landed on my doorstep, and I giggled and laughed my way through the book in one evening. Ben H. Winters has added a heaping serving of sea monsters to the Austen classic novel, and has created a perfect Halloween season read. I am giving away two copies of the book to lucky winners this week. Of course, reading about sea monsters made me think about my Halloween costume this year, and, as usual, I will probably wait until the [...]
<a href=" http://onethirtybpm.com/2009/0 9/28/the-twilight-sad-forget-t he-night-ahead/" The Twilight Sad Forget the Night Ahead [Fat Cat; 2009] Links: The Twilight Sad | Fat Cat | Purchase on Insound Posted by Ian Barker on 28 September 2009 The Twilight Sad, two years off of their critically acclaimed Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters , [...]
Who : The Mountain Goats Title : The Life of the World to Come Release Date : October 6th Label : 4AD Thoughts : When John Darnielle writes a song you know a lot goes into it; heart, poetry, religion, personal histories, and so much more, but it always seems to be the honest, up front approach to songwriting that separates Darnielle from any peer he may have. The words ares sung in a way that you couldn't question [...]
What started as a t-shirt at the Pitchfork Music Festival has now become an insta-meme in the making. From the suburbs of New Jersey, Matt is searching tirelessly in the name of hipster singles everywhere for the ideal hipster wife at HipsterWifeHunting.com . We had the privilege of an AIM conversation with the hunter himself and we even brought along some fresh potential to help him out in return. PopSense : Hey! This is Jeff from PopSense.com, I'm here with my co-editor Stelios and a surprise guest to be announced later, ready for some questions? [...]
Some of the best Northwest rock? Maybe some new Long Winters songs even? And yurts? Well only a lucky few will get the yurts. This year's Doe Bay Music festival happening August 14th and 15th on Orcas Island, has already been declared by Abbey as "The Local Line-Up of the Summer" and I'm hard pressed [...]
Little did Pee-Wee Herman know, when he bid Au Revoir to a lady named Simone, who was leaving on a train, that he would be christening a band made up of; three adorable vintage-keyboard geeks, a drum machine, and some tambourines. Au Revoir Simone is a group profound in its subtleties. Vulnerable yet powerful, romantic yet non-illusionary, minimal with depth. Au Revoir Simone flirts with the high white sound. Their songs from their new album bleed into one another, like passing scenery form a train. Their authenticity is the best and brightest of possibilities. Erika, Heather, [...]
[Photos and words by Rez Avissar ] Animal Collective for the first time seem (gasp) content. On almost every tour pre- Merriweather , the majority of material would be new to all ears. Mostly unreleased new material, (member) Avey Tare once explained that the band began doing this because in their formative years they played mostly to the same friends and handful of faces in New York and wasn't content to play them the same stuff each time. This stuck with the band, and despite sometimes disappointing casual fans by not playing [...]
Four years ago at this time, this blog was only a few months old and I'd never heard of Spencer Krug. I had only recently fallen in love with The Arcade Fire , a band that would go on to win the Vague Space song of the year of 2005 for "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", the inaugural year of the prestigious award. As the story goes, at Spencer and Dan Boeckner's first gig together, back in 2003 in Montreal, Win and Regine from Arcade Fire were in the audience. It went so well that the old friends from [...]
When a band announces its new album's tracklist via a promotional email, it's usually accompanied by some press clippings and maybe a throwaway line or two contextualizing the new album. But today we received some more substantive information from the Builders and the Butchers' Ryan Sollee. Not only do we now know the album will be released June 30 on Gigantic Music, we know a bit about the origins of each song. And now you do, too, straight from the press release: Track By Track by Ryan Sollee [...]
Yes. Yes, you read that correctly — you haven't accidentally landed at one of the other music blogs. (*ahem*) I've become a fan of the small cadre of inbred indie (and formerly indie) artists on Twitter: The Decemberists' Colin Meloy , John Roderick of The Long Winters, author/singer Wesley Stace (a/k/a John Wesley Harding) and others — they're all following each other, which leads to some pretty funny exchanges now and then. Anyway, in a rather charming move to promote the release of his band's new album, The Hazards of Love , yesterday, Meloy requested that his Twitter [...]
Jay Silverheels was one of the most famous and successful Canadian actors in the history of Hollywood. For decades, The Lone Ranger and his trusty sidekick Tonto were pop culture symbols as universally identifiable as Mickey Mouse. Although several different actors took their hand at portraying Tonto, none were as well known as Jay Silverheels. A Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River in Ohsweken just outside Brantford, Ontario, 1 Silverheels was born into poverty and literally fought his way out of it by becoming a middleweight boxer, placing well in Golden Glove competitions. [...]
The Antlers are self-releasing their album, Hospice , on March 3, and playing a record release show with guest performers at Union Hall on March 5th. To be entered to win two tickets, write to hoovesontheturf [at] gmail [dot] com about what you think of the song, "Bear", posted below. Deadline is March 3, Tuesday, 4pm, and a winner will be picked using a top secret, super magical, out of this world algorithm. [Photo by Bryan Bruchman ] For a band out of Brooklyn, Hospice has an unlikely climate: [...]
Ditching the Australian music thing for a second, these were my favourite songs of 2008. 1. Beck – Gamma Ray from Modern Guilt Not only is this the best song Beck has ever written but Danger Mouse fucking nails it with a railroad spike AND the line "Come on little gamma ray" is so cute it makes me wanna cry. 2. Silver Jews – Candy Jail from [...]
Ditching the Australian music thing for a second, these were my favourite songs of 2008. 1. Beck – Gamma Ray from Modern Guilt Not only is this the best song Beck has ever written but Danger Mouse fucking nails it with a railroad spike AND the line "Come on little gamma ray" is so cute it makes me wanna cry. 2. Silver Jews – Candy Jail from Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea [...]
6.49pm. Hollywood, Losanjealous, CA. Happy holidays, beeatches! Yeah, that's right, DF is back and in the hiz, proverbially and otherwise. Rumors of DF's demise, it turns out, were greatly exaggerated. (By contrast, rumors of DF's losing several toes and the better part of an ass-cheek in a post-cockfight actual fight out in Riverside were dispiritingly accurate.) And what better way to punctuate my return to form than with a big fat dose of pure, unadulterated roller derby? To my driver (who is also myself), I command: "to Temple St., 'twixt Alvarado and [...]
Year after year, it is tough to top KINK.FM's holiday benefit concert. Proving their station's motto, "True To the Music", the KINK staff outdid themselves once again. Christmas spirit, a kick ass silent auction and four headliners on the same bill, this yearly extravaganza is truly the show to see in Portland. Start with the silent auction. Hundreds of items that run the gamut from a hand picked, 20 CD pack of KINK.FM artists to an electric guitar signed by John Mellencamp. Not your cup of [...]
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