The sun is keeping longer hours these days. While I welcome the incoming months of bright skies and rising mercury levels, I will keep my same late hours. It’s how I’ve always been. When I was a kid I would stay up late watching television deep into the night. I was fascinated to learn, at a fairly early age, that MTV did still play music videos. Granted, they were on at some ungodly hour. 2 or 3 in the morning or something like that. Memories of my afterhours music binging from that time are hazy at best. Surreal, [...]
Download: Ratchet Special w/ Leon Smith & Shantan Wantan Ichiban We getting moronic tonight. Filling in for Joyride on the Drop, Leon and I do a Ratchet Special. Get stupider by the second as we play the best of the worst club hip hop available. Plus Monchichi comes by the studio to spit bars. Playlist The Recipe (Remix)- Kendrick Lamar ft Dr Dre & Twista My Type Of Party (Remix) - Dom Kennedy Ft Tyga & Juicy J Shoutout - Birdman ft French Montana [...]
Sharon Van Etten + Flock of Dimes Carnegie Lecture Hall / 04.28.2012 / Doors 7:00 / $12-$15 Words by Brendan We're big fans of Sharon Van Etten around here. Same goes for Wye Oak , so when we heard Sharon will be stopping at the gorgeous Carnegie Lecture in Oakland with special guest Jenn Wasner from Wye Oak -playing as Flock of Dimes -we could barely contain our excitement. The show is now only a few days away, [...]
So we typically toss a video onto a post when highlighting a new band or a show preview or something and let you draw your own conclusion about it. Sometimes we throw a change-up... strike that - let’s call it a round up. Most of these videos are of bands we have previously talked about here on Draw Us Lines, so we won’t be telling you much about those bands themselves, just some musings that really aren’t worth a damn. If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a video must be worth a million. Hold on to your hats! [...]
It's that time again, friends, time to gather around the table and share our thoughts on certain special albums. The subject this time is Sharon Van Etten -the woman, the myth, the legend. Alright, there's nothing really mythical about her but she is a legendary woman, and her newest album, Tramp , is released and ready for listening and debate. We have all eight of our writers contributing their thoughts here. Dig in, explore our opinions, and share your own in the comments! Sharon Van Etten / Serpents [...]
Benny Banks is on the offensive after signing on the dotted line with Warner Music subsidiary 679. Bada Bing sees Show N Prove offer up one of his most commercially viable productions to date, and Benny prove to be one of the least threatening rappers to ever mean mug to camera.
No Hands mixtape. Needs no words. No Hands Mixtape - @BadaBingSyd @djleonsmith @levdawg by djleonsmithbandpage Tracklist: 1. I Love My Bitches - Rick Ross 2. Money Maker - Too $hort feat. Pimp C & Rick Ross 3. Pop That Pussy - Rick Ross & Birdman 4. All In Her Mouth - Ben Ready feat. Travis Porter & JR Get Money 5. Wobble Wobble - 504 Boyz 6. Dancin' on a Pole - Three [...]
I've mentioned Talk Talk's final studio album before , but it has been a few years. Recorded in 1991, Laughing Stock and the previous album Spirit of Eden were a departures from the band's more pop efforts previously. These albums represented Talk Talk stretching their creative muscles by incorporating a less-synthesizer and more acoustic instrument approach, drawing from many music styles, but employing a very jazz-influenced approach. It's this overall ambiance and approach that confounded fans and caused a dramatic drop in sales. Much as albums from bands like Big Star and Velvet Underground [...]
![[Listen] – New Album By Beirut – “The Rip Tide”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3629677_lg.jpg)
Tweet At the time of Beirut's debut album release it didn't take long for me to find out, and subsequently feel extremely unaccomplished in life about, the fact that Beirut 's songsmith and main man Zach Condon was only 19 years old. Add into the mix the fact that he did everything himself just made me want to quit life altogether. At 21 I was chasing squirrels at 3am, stealing hoods from cars, stealing shoes from billboards, and stealing skating ramps from Universities and taking [...]
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Having your legs spread out by a stripper called Marguerita can change you as a person...or at least, your views on Strip Clubs. What started as the best night of my life (entering The Sopranos' strip club), ended as a very traumatic experience. I guess it all started with me asking for a lapdance. Having no idea how 'things work', I just picked whoever seemed to have the largest tits (because I'm shallow). Unfortunately for me, she was the chatty type, leading me to find out things I had no desire to know; such as [...]
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Sharon Van Etten press photo by Dusdin Condren The folk songstress Sharon Van Etten , who released her amazing album Epic in 2010, has just been confirmed to sign with Jagjaguwar and leave her previous label Ba Da Bing . Although not much is known about her upcoming album, she will release her third record sometime in early 2012 with her new label. She will be joining an impressive list of artists including Bon Iver who just released their self-titled sophomore album. The new labelmates have worked with [...]
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Words and interview by Brendan If you saw my review of the recent Sharon Van Etten and Iron & Wine show here in Pittsburgh, you know I had an awesome time. If you didn't see it, you should probably read it. But you should also definitely read this post. I still can't believe I got to meet Sharon Van Etten , let alone ask her a bunch of silly questions that I cobbled together the day of the interview because I didn't know it was happening until [...]
Words and photos by Brendan Yes, the photo above is kind of blurry. I, too, was miffed to learn that most of my photos from this show turned out a little fuzzy but, in gathering my thoughts and starting to write this review, I'm realizing that those photos perfectly capture the energy of the show. Any unblurry picture would feel too static, too complacent. Sam Beam and his travelin' Iron & Wine band were on fire, spread out across the stage and jammin' tunes for two hours like they wouldn't [...]
Live mixes are cool, especially when they are recorded at a strip club. From Leon Smith.... "Hey bro, here’s about an hour of a (three hour) set of mine I did over the weekend at Bada Bing stripclub in Sydney Australia – the club is half stripclub/half nightclub, so down my end there’s a dance floor and down the other end is the stage that the girls get nekkid on, I have to play for both the customers dancing and the strippers shaking their asses. This mix includes the club MC feed, [...]
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I've often joked that it would be totally clutch to eat a bunch of shrooms and check out Sesame Street Live or have a Nick Jr. viewing party. This has not actually taken place of course, since the idea is probably more interesting than the result. So to that end, much respect for WOOM taking such an approach in this Matthew Thurber directed video for "Quetzalcoatl's Ship." You can find that jam from Muu's Way , an album we unintentionally slept on at the end of 2010. Correcting that now... as should you, via the good hombres [...]
A hearty staple in my musical appetite over the last few months has been Sharon von Etten's Epic. It's good ol' singer songwriter heartfelt crap, and it's lovely. It's also really fun to throw your voice around while singing along in the car, and don't worry, you will learn the lyrics quick cause they are very repetitive. All of the afore mentioned attributes of this album sound negative, but seriously are somehow positive on Epic. It's just plain good song writing. It's serene, beautiful, graceful, and subtle. It's country, no, no it's not. [...]
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