Things are starting to get a little hectic. Between the trying to get everything prepared for a cross-country move and the fact that I work in a bar in a city that's about to host the Super Bowl causing me to have one day off in the next two weeks has me more than a [...]
Things are starting to get a little hectic. Between the trying to get everything prepared for a cross-country move and the fact that I work in a bar in a city that's about to host the Super Bowl causing me to have one day off in the next two weeks has me more than a [...]
If you've read a few of my past Laundromatinee posts , you should realize by now I'm not entirely interested in the of-the-moment trends, total reinvention of the popular music scene or coolness for coolness' sake. That's not to say I'm a Luddite or complacent for only what has come before. What I mean to say is everything I've read in the past year about Yuck (plenty of acclaim and "Best of" recognition courtesy of tastemaker giants in the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, Spin, Rolling Stone, The AV Club, Paste, Stereogum, NME, MAGNET, [...]
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Four score and seven years ago... it was 1924. Not a particularly great year. In fact, the United States was doing some pretty shameful stuff with immigration (see Immigration Act of 1924). I suppose this is really neither here nor there. What I wanted to get at is that civil wars have never been very popular. They're divisive, destructive, and extremely violent. People generally try to avoid them whenever possible and rightfully so. Countries tend to have a higher standard of living when their citizens aren't killing each other. MP3 : [...]
Blind Pilot is a band of well-worn shoes, figuratively and literally. Their songs are the stories of seekers and lovers setting off down long, dirt roads, passing under hanging stars, tramping wooded hills and curling up beside welcome campfires or beneath piled blankets. They are songs with an earned grace and lessons as dear to the heart as capillaries funneling hot blood to the brain and limbs. Most Blind Pilot songs start softly – acoustic picking, Israel Nebeker's easy, endearing vocals, a toe-tapping rhythm – and casually build to a gentle chug, like a dependable [...]
Tune in at NOON ET for the airing of My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! You can also stay up late and catch it again at midnight ET. Turn your dial to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM. You can also listen online with a free trial here . Check out this week's playlist below! TV Girl - Baby You Were There Keep [...]
Alex Zhang Hungtai and his band rolled into Big Car Gallery in late on a late September afternoon before Dirty Beaches' performance at White Rabbit Cabaret . Watching and hearing a Dirty Beaches set or listening to Hungtai on album, a frenzy of thoughts and feelings come to mind. One such descriptor that could get overlooked without seeing him in person is "likeable." Between songs and engaged with a crowd, Hungtai is a humble, considerate person on stage and in print. He acknowledged a newfound fondness for Indianapolis in [...]
This session is the second time we've welcomed Deer Tick into a found space in Indianapolis to record. John McCauley's feral, bloodthirsty howl is a truly painful thing of beauty. One minute he inhabits a down-and-out hard case seconds after getting socked in the gut bellying up to the bar one too many times, and the next he's that wounded, rabid beast raging for survival. He's a writer with a knack for prose that could fit between the margins of any Raymond Carver story, and he's smart enough to utilize [...]
As I watch and listen to the footage of this week's session featuring The Coathangers , I can't help but think of Halloween. Maybe it's the oncoming presence of fall as it creeps in undeniably with the wind, a little more every day. Maybe it's my intense craving for candy as of late, and I'm subconsciously fantasizing about the mother of all candy-giving holidays. Most likely, it's the aesthetic of The Coathangers ; a lively clash of dissonance and melody in which every instrument and voice contributes to the overall [...]
I've been oohing and ahhing over Miracle Fortress since he opened for Junior Boys this past summer and recorded a Laundromatinee.com session with us. While on tour, Graham took a bunch of 8mm style footage and created this new video for " Miscalculations ." Miracle Fortress' latest album Was I The Wave is available now and is a must on vinyl . Previous: MP3 [...]
Objectivity be dammed: I love this band. I thought Mountain Man's 2010 album Made the Harbor was one of the year's best, and I've only grown more enamoured with their sound since purchasing it twice. WHAT? Yes. I paid tangible, American dollars for their CD, AND THEN I BOUGHT IT AGAIN ON VINYL. MP3 : Mountain Man - Play It Right (live on Laundromatinee.com ) The trio, made up [...]
Miracle Fortress is the handiwork of Montreal artist/producer Graham Van Pelt, who achieved nothing short of greatness with his critically renowned and beloved 2007 album, Five Roses , and stays right in stride with his new album, Was I the Wave? On Miracle Fortress' recordings, Van Pelt is the sole artist responsible for writing, performing, composing, arranging, producing and engineering. That he undertakes all of these roles in the creation of an album is impressive. Lesser musicians would sacrifice craftsmanship with such a unilateral process. That [...]
Seeing that Miracle Fortress won't be coming to town anytime soon, I have to enjoy their live sessions when I find them and they recently visited with Dodge over at Laundro Matinee for a live session.. Graham is giving away more music away that you can download below and catch them on tour overseas next month. Miracle Fortress-Tropic of Canada [mp3] Miracle Fortress - Miscalculations from LaundroMatinee on [...]
If it's not obvious that we are gearing up for Lollapalooza, then perhaps this video will drive that point home. Experimental rockers Disappears visited Indianapolis' Vibes Music for a little in-store performance for My Kentucky Blog's LaundroMatinee video series. The group performed two tracks from this year's EP Guider including the title track and "New Fast." They closed up shop with "Marigold" from their debut Lux . If you look closely, you might notice that Steve Shelley is not manning the skins. Looks like Graeme Gibson (or a doppelganger) [...]
No shortage of love for The Biters here on MOKB, which is saying something seeing as how the Atlanta foursome elected to premiere their last video on some other blog . Now, we try not to hold a grudge, but this was a slight that a bouquet of convenience store flowers wasn't going to cut. A video premiere of our very own? Now we're talkin'. Now, it was suggested that the last video from these boys was a little misogynistic, but it seems the shoe has switched feet for Hold [...]
Michael J. Epstein descended upon the French Pharmacie in Indianapolis recently with his bevy of babe bandmates, playing a multi-instrumental amalgam of strings, keys, rainsticks, drums, xylophones and MORE for this session with Laundromatinee.com . Epstein has been a part of many bands in the past, (most recently Neutral Uke Hotel ) and decided to find his current line-up through Craigslist ads. He and his wife/bandmate/drummer Sophia Cacciola rounded up a small troupe of insanely talented women, handed each an instrument or two, and told the ladies [...]
Tim Kinsella, the only permanent member of Chicago's Joan of Arc , has been cranking out his own eclectic brand of math pop since the mid-90s. He and his ever-changing back-up band recently joined Laundromatinee.com at Lovebird Recording Studios , delivering a crisp, punctuated session, featuring the songs 'Love Life' and 'What Whorse You Wrote Id On.' 'Love Life' is awash in precise guitar lines, a trademark of Joan of Arc . Melodic layers sweep through, straying the song away from a typical prog-rock jaunt by evening out the sounds of [...]
If Freelance Whales were a coffee, they would undoubtedly be a blend. Their sound tastily combines the aged, nostalgic warmth of folk with the smooth sweetness of pop. It's relaxing, yet it's energetic. It's ethereal, yet it's urban. It's conventional, yet it's cool. South American coffee growers can harvest their crop to it and Starbucks customers can receive their warm espressos to it. In case you didn't already know, Starbucks did in fact use their song, "Generator ^ First Floor" in a television commercial , so there is some truth to that last [...]
When you talk with people who geek out about music (*cough), they can often tell you they've got a favorite Dylan/Bowie/Lou Reed/prolific songwriter period. Don't get me wrong, the body of work is great, but there's a few albums that were released over the course of a few years that really speak to you. These albums are what you immediately think of as defining that artist, despite the decades worth of music they created; do you think about Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited , [...]
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