Well, as we speculated , it looks like Jason Lytle is finishing up his new solo album, which would be the follow-up to 20092s underrated Yours Truly, The Commuter . As this video clip shows, he even has a new song to debut, which isn't like the "7 & 8 minute" tracks that compose the majority of the "search and rescue themed" upcoming affair. "Willow Wand" sounds as lovely as you would hope for from the former Grandaddy singer. Check out the clip below, which is more to listen to than to look at.
For the last few months, the Good Records Recordings website has been an ominous black screen with "11-11-11" displayed in white in the middle. In a way it's served as the answer to the questio... Continue reading "Good Records Recordings Relaunches Tomorrow, Adds Grandaddy's Jason Lytle to Roster" >
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since Grandaddy released their then second album, The Sophtware Slump . Widely considered by many as the band's finest moment (they split in 2006), the album has now been reissued in a deluxe package, comprising a whopping 19 extra tracks on a second disc, some of which are early versions of songs featured on the original album. There's also the obligatory b-sides, EP only tracks and rarities that always crop up on the average deluxe reissue. So the burning [...]
Jason Lytle could have been a postman. At least, that's what he says. Years before Grandaddy got started, he tells me, his chosen career paths revolved around what would keep him in the great outdoors: "I had park ranger, conservation corps, firefighter...even a mailman, just because I knew I'd be able to be outside walking around." The Sophtware Slump, the second LP by his old band Grandaddy, was the record that - temporarily, at least - pushed Lytle indoors. A sort of concept album about the decreasing importance of the [...]
Jason Lytle, líder activo de los recordados Grandaddy, ha confirmado la próxima reedición de The sopthware slump (V2, 2000), el aclamado segundo álbum de la banda de Modesto, California. Guardado con cariño en cualquier colección de indie rock (Super 45 lo eligió el cuarto mejor disco del año en 2000), The sopthware slump hace once años sorprendió a la crítica por su llamativo uso de sintetizadores, efectos y ruidismos varios, que se mezclaban con guitarras pop creando un brillante resultado en canciones como "He's simple, he's dumb, he's the pilot" o la inolvidable "Crystal [...]
Grandaddy's 2000 sophomore LP, The Sophtware Slump , has held up rather well over the decade-plus since I first heard Jason Lytle & Co. perform these enigmatic, conceptual yet heart-wrenching tunes while opening for Elliott Smith. Lytle's post-split solo material has been consistently inspired, sure, but this record remains the most exemplary of his work. Now we have a good excuse to honor the 11-track collection: Drowned in Sound reports that a double-disc edition, which includes the original album accompanied by B-sides, alternate takes, demos, EP-only cuts, and other recordings from the era, will be [...]
Since Jason Lytle's 2009 album Yours Truly, The Commuter - which was itself underrated - the ex-Grandaddy frontman has put out a bunch of songs on a couple of other releases which have flown completely under the radar. This isn't a very nice way to treat the man who, along with his band, brought us some of the most wonderfully evocative indie music of the last couple of decades. So we're here to tell you that Lytle did a recent acoustic session for Anchortapes , in which he performed a couple of new songs called "Hang Town" [...]
Speaking of Elliott Smith , it's been a while since I checked in on his former tourmate Jason Lytle, whose band Grandaddy opened for and shared the stage with Smith over a decade ago. Having loved Lytle's solo Travelodge performance and thoroughly enjoyed his band with Earlimart members, Admiral Riley , a new tune or two from the Modesto-raised singer-songwriter is always a treat. The recently filmed intimate performance for Anchortapes below brings just that: new songs "Matterhorn" and "Hang Town" sung sweetly with just an acoustic guitar accompaniment. What's more, Lytle [...]
Photo of Saydi by me... Hello again & a happy friday to ya! For today's mixtape, we are going to do something a wee-bit different. Instead of bring you something new, I wanted to bring back something from last year. You see, in a few short tiny little days, my oldest bird is turning 18, a genuine, pasteurized, and certified adult. Nuts. I know it's a cliche to "awww, they grow up so fast!", but let me tell ya, my friends, they do. Seems like just yesterday she was that tiny little [...]
Tweet Does a phenomenal roster of compilation contributors warrant donating to a cause? If so, here's your opportunity. Resume is a tri-volume, internationally curated compilation released to benefit victims of the March earthquake in Japan, and it is available on iTunes for $6.99 per volume. Resume's 43 contributing bands includes a handful of Olympia's noteworthy indie musicians: World Gang (feat. Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse), LAKE, Mount Eerie, and more. For local interest, Jason Lytle [...]
Maybe the best free event you'll attend all year, the annual joint celebration that Good Records throws for both Record Store Day and the store's birthday always makes for quite the happening s... Continue reading "Jason Lytle, Midlake, Sarah Jaffe and True Widow Among Acts Playing Good Records' National Record Store Day Party on April 16" >
Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch of Grandaddy will join together with Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murry of Earlimart to create the wonderfully humorous and intelligent Admiral Radley this Wednesday (February 23rd) at the Bottom of the Hill with our favorite Bay Area indie-pop rockers Social Studies as part of this year's Noise Pop Festival. The band's debut album, I Heart California (The Ship, 2010), utilizes the best of both band's songwriting abilities and lyrical wittiness that is all wrapped up into one big tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Golden State. It was a long time [...]
No Imagination by Sam Forrest ALBUM REVIEW: Please meet Sam Forrest's 3rd solo effort No Imagination which finds him moving away from the straight up acoustic/folksy guy in the back shed to the do-it all himself rockband (including drums). This North Yorkshire creator/guitarist has added some noise on rediscovery of the sonic youth adding some nice layers of feedback to the palette of man vs songs and is at the top of his craft. No Imagination will give purveyors of sounds a couple subtle winterly chills that [...]
And now, drum roll please for the final installment of Song, by Toad's Festive Fifty for 2010. Woo hoo! I am sure Liars, The National and Micah P. Hinson will be breaking out the champagne at the excellent news. Ah well, at least The Japanese War Effort and Li'l Daggers might give a shit. 01. Liars - Scissor When this song breaks it is absolutely fucking fearsome, and it is absolutely all I can do to stop myself leaping around the room and breaking stuff, no matter when or where I am or what time [...]
Welcome to the second installment of the Song, by Toad Festive Fifty for 2010. Yesterday I explained why I am going to have to exclude Song, by Toad Records music from my end of year lists from now on, and today I am going to explain (i.e. make feeble excuses for) some of the inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies you might perceive in this particular list. There are certain albums, for example, which just don't yield edited highlights all that easily. There are no songs by Mount Erie or The Books, for example, because I found it next to impossible [...]
Welcome to the start of this year's Song, by Toad Festive Fifty, where I list, in order, my favourite fifty songs of the year. As with the albums of the year, I have had to exclude Song, by Toad Records bands from this list. Partly this is to stop me inevitably wounding the pride of whichever bands fared less well than their label mates, and partly to stop the label collectively dominating this list too much. I don't think the concept of objectivity is possible, or even all that relevant, when it comes to discussing what music you [...]
Wat betreft albums kom ik dit jaar niet veel verder dan 5 stuks die ik van voor tot achter geslaagd vind. Dat komt waarschijnlijk deels door mijn meer kritisch geworden oor in de loop der jaren als ook door het enigszins povere aanbod van 2010. Om het feest toch nog compleet te maken heb ik een Spotify lijst gemaakt van 12 tracks die me erg blij maakten dit jaar. De 5 uitverkoren albums dan nog: 1. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker Melodieuze, volle psychedelische sound waar ik dit jaar maar geen genoeg van kon [...]
6. Jason Lytle - Music Meant to Accompany the Art of Ron Cameron There are many reasons I love this album, not least of which the fact that I have been waiting for Jason Lytle to give us something weird and challenging for ages now. In the end this isn't an album written for purpose, more a cleaning out of the odder corners of his store cupboard, but nevertheless the result is an album bursting with ideas, be they entirely finished or not, and hence one I find more lively, engaging and enjoyable [...]
The Treecast is so named because we purchased and decorated our Christmas tree this afternoon. It is an incoherent mess of all sorts of shite, stupid garish baubles, a weird peacock thingy and some foolish attempts at being tasteful which have been utterly overwhelmed by the utter cack which surrounds them. My parents always did seriously tasteful trees actually, so I would imagine they will be downright ashamed of the half-arsed mess we have managed to create. Actually, my dad is the world's biggest Grinch, so he won't give a shite, but my mum might be silently disappointed. [...]
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