Austin's spastic garage rockers White Denim , whose album "Fits" was voted most likely to cause eye palpitations, headline the Troubadour tonight, with Brazos opening. ... Olin and the Moon 's pizza-beer-bingo residency continues at the Echo, with O.C. classic-rock kids Dusty Rhodes and the River Band opening. ... And the Hot Rats — Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of Supergrass performing cover songs — play Spaceland, with Lemon Sun on board. ... Also: Pepper Rabbit and Gamble House a the Bootleg Theater; the Karabal [...]
The Hot Rats Play Spaceland on Tuesday and the Troub on Thursday Hopefully you're all at the Spoon show at El Cid. I was in Las Vegas all weekend, so I didn't get this updated until now.... Tuesday 1/19/10 [Pick of the Night] White Denim / Brazos @ Troubadour ($14) - A lot of good bands in Austin these days... [Recommended] The Hot Rats / Lemon [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK The HotRats w/ Lemon Sun Gaz & Danny of Supergrass Tues Jan 19 - Spaceland Thurs Jan 21 - Troubadour THIS WEEK'S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Black Lips w/ Nobunny & Jemina Pearl El Rey Saturday Sat 1/23 Info [ ENTER TO WIN TICKETS [...]
The Ettes Los Angeles Shows - January 18th – January 23rd Monday, January 18th The French Semester / Moving Picture Show / Light FM @The Echo (Free) Wake Up Lucid with The Steelwells @ Silverlake Lounge (Free) Moses Campbell / Penny Sledge / The Symbolick Jews / Tubby Boots @ The Smell Tuesday, January 19th White Denim and Brazos @ Troubadour Olin and The Moon with Dusty Rhodes & [...]
by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD : The Yummy Fur - Policeman (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Big Troubles - Freudian Slips (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Adam Green - What Makes Him Act So Bad (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Total Slacker - Demos ( mediafire zip ) The Yummy Fur There's a lot of great shows this weekend, but top of the list for me is Scottish cult [...]
by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD : The Yummy Fur - Policeman (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Big Troubles - Freudian Slips (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Adam Green - What Makes Him Act So Bad (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Total Slacker - Demos ( mediafire zip ) The Yummy Fur There's a lot of great shows this weekend, but top of the list for me is Scottish cult [...]
Pitchfork released a list of a bunch of albums that are set to come out in 2010 (view them all below the break). Here are a few of those that we are looking forward to... The National: TBA [Beggars Banquet] Beach House: Teen Dream [Sub Pop] LCD Soundsystem: TBA [DFA] MGMT: Congratulations [Columbia] The Magnetic Fields: Realism [Nonesuch] Interpol: TBA [Capitol] Spoon: Transference Mount Eerie: Black Wooden [Latitudes] David [...]
Terre T's Top 40 Best Fave ALBUMS for 2009 PLEASE note: U may hear up to 20 seconds of the previous song in the set, before the song that is linked comes on. I'll let the music do the talking for my Best Fave records... 1. THE REIGNING SOUND - Love and Curses. In the Red. listen [...]
Arizona State Route 85 runs 130 miles from Buckeye to the Mexico border near Lukeville. There's not much there for those 130 miles - a large (very large) military base and a few small towns dedicated to the sales of Mexican Auto Insurance - and that's the whole damn point. I spent two hours on that road, speedometer hugging 75 and the radio tuned to anything that would reach my antenna. As I finally rolled in to my campsite at the 330,000 acre Organ Pipes National Monument , the headlights of my rented sky blue [...]
And so we have reached a new decade, and if the first slate of new releases is any indication, it's going to be a damn good next 10 years. Quarter #1 of the music industry's 2010 includes releases from longtime indie staples and acclaimed newcomers, alt-folk male-female duos and weird ass virtual English projects, bands both finally releasing long overdue followups and much hyped debuts. The forthcoming batch of new music is overwhelming to say the least. Fortunately, as always, we got you covered. Below, you'll find an extensive and up-to-date listing of all this coming quarter's new [...]
The year 2009 marked the final chapter in what had been music's most fascinating decades. But we don't have to tell you that - the examples speak for themselves. A combination of Internet protocol, aka BitTorrents, and a band named Radiohead led to the destruction of the music industry as we knew it. A rapper from Chicago managed to become both the most talented and the most despised individual on Earth, while a Detroit rocker proved this generation could have a sure-fire Rock 'n' Roll Hall-of-Famer. The Grammys became a joke and something called a "blog" became required reading. Oh, [...]
Ronald DeFeo, Sr., had attained a trophy-size piece of the American dream when he purchased the house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island. Having been born and raised in Brooklyn, Ronald had worked hard in his father-in-law's Brooklyn Buick dealership, and after many years began to reap rich benefits. Money was no longer a concern when he finally made the decision to leave the City and move to Long Island. The home he chose was a classic piece of Americana, two stories plus an attic, several rooms, and a boathouse on the Amityville River. There was plenty of [...]
#19 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica If I was making a list of the worst album covers of the decade, this badboy would score a lot higher. What sort of an offensive mess is it anyway? It looks like a shitty programme of events from an international irrigation solutions conference, or a still frame from a Genesis video. The sort of album cover you would cross the road to avoid. [...]
Nic zaskakującego, po prostu parę numerów, które kojarzą mi się z domem, kocem, zapachem choinki i mandarynek. Ze śniegiem i świętami, turlaniem z ośnieżonych górek i dziadziem Mieciem, który na Wigilii częstuje wszystkich zgromadzonych (circa 30 osób) swoim winem domowej roboty, które upija niesłychanie. Moja ulubiona pora roku. Lekko swingująco i bardzo ciepło. Przed Wami moje świąteczno-zimowe evergreeny. Patrick Cleandenim - Cognac And Caviar Kings Of Convienience - Summer On The Westhill Jeremy Jay - Winter Wonder (nie sugerujmy się nazwą, i tak [...]
I've closed the voting for the Coverville Countdown 2009, and I'm tabulating the results right now. Some old favorites on the list, as well as some new independent stuff that I'm really happy to see made the grade. Starting tomorrow, we'll countdown the top 40 on the last four shows of the decade! And as promised, following the break, see the entire list of nominees: Here is the full list of nominees (minus the songs inducted into the Coverville Hall Of Fame ) '19992 - Red Dirt Rangers [orig. [...]
PIERCED ARROWS DEBUT "PARANOIA" VIDEO AND MP3 DOWNLOAD FROM UPCOMING VICE RECORDS FULL LENGTH Pierced Arrows, the Portland-based trio featuring Fred and Toody Cole of the influential punk band Dead Moon, have released the MP3 and video for "Paranoia" which premiered yesterday on Blurt Online. The first glimpse of material from their sophomore full-length Descending Shadows, the video is a riveting exercise in "Paranoia" itself. Directed by Jozzy Rubenski, "Paranoia" swaggers effortlessly between a lethargic swinging verse and propulsive chorus while Fred Cole's buzzsaw guitar and trademark growl act as steadfast guides. Splicing live [...]
As I was driving home from my Thanksgiving vacation, nearing New York City and its inevitable traffic, already tired from six hours in the car, relief came to me in the form of a local radio station: New Jersey's WFDU. As I'm sure many of you did, I listened to a lot of radio when I was younger. I recorded Rick Dees' and Case Kasem's shows onto a cassette player, trying to cut off the garrulous DJ intros, so that I'd have nothing but music. I'd listen back to [...]
Girls Play the Troubadour on Saturday Night Not the most stellar week for touring acts (Girls, Cold Cave and Little Dragon are the biggest buzz bands), but plenty of local bands to check out... Monday 11/30/09 [Pick of the Night] The Happy Hollows / The Pity Party / Twilight Sleep / Traps, PS @ Spaceland (Free) – This is the last night of The Happy Hollows Monday night residency. [Recommended] Olin & the Moon / Brandon Intelligator and the [...]
Thanksgiving is officially behind us and now it's full force til Christmas.The entire music industry shuts down after Dec 10th which means far less tours but more holiday parties stocked with Egg Nog! Some scene gossip: Local Natives have just signed to French Kiss Records [...]
Welcome to the new, not-really-improved BabyStew This Week In Chicago listing. What's new about it, you ask? Absolutely nothing, except that it now covers the week from Monday through Sunday rather than Sunday through Saturday. It always seemed weird to me not to be listing Sunday shows until the morning of – when not many people are reading blogs – for the sole purpose of sticking with the conventional definition of "week" ( i.e. , Sun-Sat). But convention be damned. So here's what's going on in Chicago this "week". [...]
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