By Robert Ham Doc - Mitsuo Yanagimachi: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) Watch more on Network Awesome In his book Retromania , peerless cultural critic Simon Reynolds spends an entire chapter talking about a particularly "Japanese sensibility": "the way that [they] would curate, assimilate and reprocess Western popular culture. "According [journalist W. David] Marx, in Japan style is not personal, a [...]
Fans of Canadian post-rock were treated to a smattering of unexpected good news in the year 2012. In addition to Godspeed You Black Emperor! extending their reunion tour to include a ton of additional stops, a slew of festival dates, and the potential recording/release of their long-awaited fourth LP, the band announced that their sister project Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra had enough time before all that for a quick stateside tour. Fronted by the striking Efrim Manuel Menuck – the very same Menuck who serves as GYBE!'s fearless leader – Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra has been [...]
I am a big fan of progressive and psychedelic music - Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree - but never really researched it enough to get to know many more bands than what I've listed. However, I am tired of listening to the same old stuff, so I want to discover more bands from this genre. Help me, Captain Awesome! Anvith *** Anvith, Not a problem my awesome friend. I must admit, I've never actually heard of Porcupine Tree, but I am a huge [...]
Le détail. Les détails. La profusion des détails. Plus je tente d'avoir une image globale de cette rencontre avec Esmerine, et plus je me rappelle des détails. Petit je pouvais rêver des heures en pensant aux nouvelles briques de Lego que j'allais pouvoir assembler, une fois ouverts les cadeaux de Noël. Il y avait de la maniaquerie dans l'air quand j'imaginais les assemblages et dessinais les plans des futures constructions. Je fermais les yeux et ressassais les imbrications patientes et complexes. Voir jouer Bruce, de Godspeed You Black Emperor, voir jouer Beckie, de Silver Mt Zion, relève d'une [...]
Infamously cantankerous studio rat/national treasure Steve Albini doesn't like to be called a record producer. He prefers the term "recording engineer." That's a dry, clinical term for what Albini actually does, but it makes sense that he'd prefer to be seen that way. Over the past few decades, Albini has overseen the creation of countless numbers of recorded artifacts. And even though he's been an outspoken opponent of the major-label system (and of other underground-rock heroes), he's known to work with just about anyone who requests his services, whether it's a major-label juggernaut like '90s radio-grunge rulers Bush or the [...]
Coachella's 2012 lineup is officially one day old and that means it's time for some post-reveal analysis. In the pages that follow, we run through the biggest highlights and surprises appearing on this year's bill, in addition to the most glaring omissions. We also highlight five names worth knowing as you prepare for April's big weekend(s). Highlights At the Drive-In Best known as the duo behind prog-psych wunderkinds The Mars Volta, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedrix Bixler-Zavala got their start as At The Drive-In, easily the best relic of the late [...]
The 13th annual Coachella Music Valley and Arts Festival runs over the course of two weekends - April 13-15th and April 20-22nd - at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California. Radiohead, Dr. Dre with Snoop Dogg, and The Black Keys will headline both weekends, with Pulp, Jeff Mangum, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, recently reunited outfits At the Drive-In and Refused, The Shins, Florence and the Machine, Girl Talk, and Feist among the other heavy hitters. Other notables include St. Vincent, Arctic Monkeys, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, Justice, Mazzy Star, M83, Explosions in the [...]
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Thurston Moore at Williamsburg Waterfront. Photo by anonymous Live music in 2011 saw several newer bands consolidate their hold on greatness, while well-established acts from the 90s brought out crowds for reunion shows and, sadly, farewells. For those of us at the site, we were inspired by crowds of people who were, in a lot of cases, younger than we were checking out bands like Archers of Loaf live for the first time, or finally gaining appreciation for the work of artists like Cass McCombs and Bill Callahan. At the same time, favorite new or [...]
Plenty of poor saps, myself included, were unable to grab tickets to Godspeed You! Black Emperor 's two quickly-sold-out shows at the Great American Music Hall earlier this year, but I'm not going to make the same mistake this time around. Tickets go on sale Sunday, December 11 at 10am for the band's five nights at the Great American in 2012 from April 16th through the 20th. That set of dates will be preceded by an April 15th show at the Fernwood Resort , which is a ridiculously good opportunity [...]
The Godspeed You! Black Emperor reunion continues apace with the news that the band will be performing a ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ godspeed-you-black-emperor-pla ying-california-show/59372/
Godspeed You! Black Emperor reunited for a tour of the US in February and March of 2011. Now Godspeed You! Black Emperor return with a series of shows in the Bay Area including a date at Fernwood Resort in Big...
I've never really "got" GY!BE the way that some do. That's no reason not to dig our their one Peel Session though, so here it is. This track also made the Festive Fifty in 1999, at number 21. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Peel Session 22.11.1998 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Hungover As the Oven At Maida Vale
I've never really "got" GY!BE the way that some do. That's no reason not to dig our their one Peel Session though, so here it is. This track also made the Festive Fifty in 1999, at number 21. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Peel Session 22.11.1998 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Hungover As the Oven At Maida Vale
happy afternoon! what we have here is an almost 27 minute long version of low's "do you know how to waltz" which is off their the curtain hits the cast . this may or may not include godspeed you black emporer and may or may not have been recorded in chicago back in 98. either way its pretty awesome, that is if you like complete walls of noise. buy a low record via amazon if you have never listened to em, i cant recommend the great destroyer and things [...]
[Photo by Jason Persse . Used with permission] The final day of this year's ATP "I'll Be Your Mirror" festival in Asbury Park, NJ found the festival split between a hip-hop dominated Convention Hall (Ultramagnetic MCs and Public Enemy), and the Paramount Theatre across the concourse hosting (along with Jeff Mangum's second set of the weekend) some incredible post-rock performances, including Earth (which we posted recently ) and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra . SMZ (to use the favored shorthand) were the final act that I saw at the festival, and [...]
Den New York baserede duo Exitmusic bestående af Aleksa Palladino og Devon Church, som i øvrigt er ægtefæller, gjorde sig kort bemærket med pladen The Decline Of The West i 2007, men siden har der været stille omring duoen. Nu har de imidlertid fået gang i musikken igen og udgav den 4. oktober EP'en The Silence på pladeselskabet Secretly Canadian . Den indeholder fire stærke numre, der giver mig gåsehud. Det er svært at sætte fingeren på præcist hvorfor. Men Palladinos stemme spiller bestemt en rolle heri. Den veksler mellem at være smuk og [...]
Kenneth Thomas, in a tunnel. If you care about heavy music and still believe that art should trump commerce every time, you owe it to yourself to check out Blood, Sweat & Vinyl: DIY in the 21st Century. I've written about Kenneth Thomas's music documentary in these e-pages before. After watching the film a second [...]
Four isn't five, but it's also not three. One is the loneliest number, yet two is for hipsters. Seven is considered lucky, while six is the result of dividing 666 by 111. We're okay with four - at least for now. This week - check it, September 15th, 2011 - marked the fourth anniversary of Consequence of Sound . Back in 2007, on one lazy Saturday afternoon in New York, Alex Young decided to start a blog. What you see here today is the ongoing result. But it's not the result that's mind boggling. It's the journey. [...]
Hoy, es mi cumpleaños y aprovechando que resulto caer en viernes y cada semana elijo la cancion mas relevante de la semana o la que por alguna razon se convirtio en la mas escuchada, esta vez quise hacer algo especial, igual no es tan especial pero hagamos que esta pieza nos haga el momento de esta manera. Recuerdo a la perfeccion la primera vez que escuche Godspeed You! Black Emperor, obviamente me tope con aquella fantastica melodia titulada "Moya", sin duda es uno de sus tracks mas representativos y que de alguna manera hace que muchas personas los ubiquen pero, [...]
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