"I was sitting around the other day, tapping my feet, A publication came to my door, said you´d died and gone to sleep... But I couldn´t shed a tear I never knew you well..." A moving elegy from Minutemen successors fIREHOSE on the death of blues singer extraordinaire Elizabeth Cotten. Haven´t a clue why Mike Watt & co spelled her name wrong btw. Anyone? "...But I´m missing you just the same, Libba please rest easy down on Chestnut [...]
On Monday afternoon, Phish.com was updated with an animation featuring 99 album covers from discs the band may cover at Festival 8 on Halloween. We thought we'd take an in-depth look at the albums featured on Phish.com for this month's installment of The Number Line . 2007 - Year Of Most Recent Album: Oracular Specatcular. Runners-Up: Funeral (2004), Elephant (2003), Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) 1979 - Average Year of the 99 Albums 1977 [...]
Once again Phish has gone and done something unique with their promotion for Festival 8 , which has already thrown plenty of fans for a loop. The band updated their website with another detailed Flash creation dedicated to (theoretically) revealing what album the play for their "musical costume" set, the second set on Halloween night. The animation started with 99 choices, and a following animation depicting a knife being thrown through the album cover has already been shown a few times revealing albums that likely won't be chosen for the sure-to-be-epic set. Kudos once [...]
The dime-store synthetic material that makes up Miley Cyrus' new single "Party In The USA" is stretching to the track's new video, which seems to be a combined tribute to two videos-Jessica Simpson's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" and Madonna's "American Pie" -and that Chanel ad with Vanessa Paradis from 1992. (Also, strip clubs. Although I'm sure that's totally unintentional.) If only someone had thought to incorporate a firehose-then she could have channeled another classic clip ! Cyrus' video after the jump. [...]
Lots of random stuff in the inbox lately. Not sure if I'd highly recommend any of this but I 'll pass it along. talar_i_tungor - industri royal An EP from Folding a Firehose - here . Creepy experimental music from Goblin Ensemble . Mollgäng The cream of the crop may be the netlabel release by Emilie Lund. The EP is available here free . Childhood Friend [...]
Legendary bassist Mike Watt ( Minutemen , The Stooges , Firehose) has announced some scattered dates over the next few months.
Day 2 dawned earlier than most probably wanted it to...once the vein-in-the-temple pounding of the utterly amazing Jesus Lizard set had subsided, it was time to hang out with friends over a beer and a smoke, then slowly shuffle off to bed (or in my case, the ~10 minute drive to the Raleigh, which had a chain-link entrance fence manned 24 hours a day...I am still trying to figure out the need for such vigilant security for a dilapidated hotel complex). Today would mark the first day of bands on both stages, and the absence of a photo pit [...]
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Ty Segall released tapes? Who knew ... Well I guess someone knew; they sold out A-to-the-SAP, quicker than a Sunn O))) LP. Now, so's us not in the aforementioned Know can get our shit in gear, HBSP-2X Records out of Chicago -- can someone please tell me what that stands for? -- comes out Hard with Horn of Unicorn , a 20-track album curating two cassettes (one of them a split with Superstitions called Halfnonagon [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-07-26, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "Thick Skin" [mp3] Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-07-24, Detroit Lakes [mp3,ogg,flac] Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-07-07, Peoria [mp3,ogg,flac] "Lawyers, Guns, nd Money (Warren Zevon cover)" [mp3] other Backyard Tire Fire posts at Largehearted Boy Camper Van Beethoven [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-07-26, Chicago [mp3,ogg,flac] "Thick Skin" [mp3] Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-07-24, Detroit Lakes [mp3,ogg,flac] Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-07-07, Peoria [mp3,ogg,flac] "Lawyers, Guns, nd Money (Warren Zevon cover)" [mp3] other Backyard Tire Fire posts at Largehearted Boy Camper Van Beethoven [...]
It's really kind of shocking how many people are out there making really good, interesting music. For all we've lost in this transition to digital-firehose distribution, it has become so much easier to get turned on to new stuff. You don't have to be listening to the right radio station at the right time, happen to catch the right opening band, or be friends with that guy who's hooked into the best new music but isn't really all that much fun to hang around with. (Now you can just read my blog.) Today's Vedge is in celebration of [...]
by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Little Girls - Tambourine (MP3) DOWNLOAD : The Brunettes - Small Town Crew (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sharon Van Etten - For You (MP3) Japandroids With the weather today [...]
In the Colorado Rockies Where the snow is deep and cold And a man afoot can starve to death Unless he's brave and bold Oh Alfred Packer You'll surely go to hell While all the others starved to death You dined a bit too well ---from The [...]
While I went to punk shows on and off for a few years, it wasn't until 1987 or so when I regularly started going to punk shows all the time. At the time, in Seattle, the Teen Dance Ordinance made it hard to put on all-ages shows, so venues in nearby towns like Tacoma and Bremerton had success in drawing a lot of us from the city to shows. In Tacoma the primary all-ages punk venue was the Community World Theater, an old movie theater turned punk venue that hosted about three dozen shows in 1987 and 1988. [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cowboy Junkies : 2009-06-19, York [mp3,ogg,flac] "Powderfinger" [mp3] Cowboy Junkies : 2009-06-18, Richmond [mp3,ogg,flac] other Cowboy Junkies posts at Largehearted Boy fIREHOSE : 1992-02-12, San Pedro [mp3,ogg,flac] "In My Mind" [mp3] other fIREHOSE posts at Largehearted Boy The Gourds [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-06-06, Joliet [mp3,ogg,flac] "Sick of Debt" [mp3] Backyard Tire Fire : 2009-04-14, Madison [mp3,ogg,flac] "Brady" [mp3] other Backyard Tire Fire posts at Largehearted Boy Danny Hutchens : 2009-06-02, Denver [mp3,ogg,flac] "Jazz Funeral" [mp3] Danny Hutchens : [...]
So, I've become a full fledged juuornalisst. Lars from The Intelligence was nice enough to let me "interview" him. Basically, I sendt him some not so great, and some good questions by mail, and he answered. (Photo taken in Barcelona last week at the Primavera Sound festival..more on that later) So here it is in all its Pulitzer price winning glory: CMA: Tell us a little about your background. How and where did you get started [...]
Few upcoming albums have me as excited as The Satanic Satanist from the Portland/Alaska outfit Portugal. The Man . The little snippets I've heard so far seem to indicate a slight pop music shift for this experimental band not exactly know for their commitment to any one genre or collective sound. This might be the work of producer Paul Q. Kolderie, who has twisted knobs for the likes of some pretty respectable acts that are universally adored (The Pixies, Firehose, Morphine), and a few that only I seem to like (Buffalo Tom, Gigolo Aunts). Lead [...]
In something of an odd pairing, auto pricing/information database Kelley Blue Book has posted a video interview with Mike Watt , in which the legendary bassist of Minutemen and fIREHOSE (and current member of The Stooges ) talks about his Ford Econoline van and his experiences touring in them.
Don't try this at home. You will overwhelm your storage space. You will eventually collect unemployment and won't want to part with your records. In case this does happen. Hang tight you can always hide in the basement with your records and talk about the good ole'days of making mix tapes for your friends singing at the top of your lungs while driving down the garden state parkway to the shore. SIDE 1: Don't hate the player. Hate the game . I Hate Music - The Replacements The Girl who is [...]
Beach House – “Norway” From the forthcoming Teen Dream, out 1/26/2010 from Sub Pop. More about Beach House
Yes, here it is people, the official extended remix video of Beyoncé's latest single 'Video Phone' featuring Lady GaGa that has been hyped up as the video of the [...]More about Lady GaGa
Just wanted everyone in L.A. looking for a to do this Thursday night, to check out a great show, from London-Transplant, now L.A. inhabitant Samuel Stewart. He is the offspring [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Beck pays tribute to sound architect Harry Partch with 10 minute opus, defends Radiohead who pay respect to WWII British solider Harry Patch. Beck -"Harry [...]More about Beck
I am still waiting to hear Animal Collective’s new EP, Fall Be Kind. In the meantime, we have the Brother Sport single to hold us over. It [...]More about Animal Collective
I hate that people expect a person to stay classy after a break up. Fuck that, I was never like that and I'm not going [...]More about Beyonce
Thirteen tunes that have entertained my ears over the past few months. Burn it to a CD and play it loud in your car. Enjoy. [...]More about The xx
Another track from Lil Wayne’s mixtape No Ceilings which is dropping on Halloween. In this one Wayne goes over Jay-Z’s Run This Town single that featured [...]More about Lil' Wayne
So here comes this freestyle or whatever it is from Kanye. No one seems to know if it is new or some unreleased stuff but [...]More about Kanye West
I’m not too familiar with Bubblegum Sci Fi. To tell you the truth, tonight was the first I’ve heard of them when this track showed [...]More about Passion Pit
The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
nekocasefallon
Animal Collective - Graze (Fall Be Kind)
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
Friday Five: Surf Songs
