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John K Samsons neues Solo-Album «Provincial» ist der Soundtrack für die Rückkehr in die Heimat zwischen Verdruss und Nostalgie. Ein Nachhauseweg, der gut tut, schmerzt und an Vergessenes erinnert. Zuletzt hatte Samson 1993, damals noch Mitglied der Politpunk-Band Propagandhi, ein Solo-Album veröffentlicht. Das rockig jugendliche «Slips And Tangles» vertickte er nach seinen Konzerten in seiner kanadischen Heimat Winnipeg. Danach kamen The Weakerthans und mit ihnen der Erfolg. Vier Langspielalben, unzählige Konzerte, jetzt auch ein Dokumentarfilm. Hauptschlagader der Band sind und waren jedoch schon immer Samsons sensible [...]
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Tweet If there is one man whose songwriting truly embodies the spirit of humanity, it's John K. Samson . He first made his name in the activist punk-rock band Propagandhi, then started his own band, The Weakerthans, one of my personal favorites. He's made a career writing songs that take the mundane and melancholy and turn them into beautiful, truthful statements about society and humanity in general. We've been waiting with bated breath for five years (that seems like such a long [...]
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by teepoo I really wanted to do more album reviews this year because as you noticed, I have not done that many full in depth one. I was thinking who actually reads lengthy paragraphs of reviews? , so I decided to do them in video form. Here's my first video album review on the blog featuring John K. Samson's Provincial which is released today, January 24th, 2012 . It's a little choppy but I hope to be better at this as I continuously learn how to video edit. [...]
Many albums have a biographical feel, but few are imbued with as vivid a sense of both time and place as Provincial , the debut longplayer from John K. Samson (January 24, ANTI-). Best known as the founder, frontman and songsmith for critically lauded indie band The Weakerthans, Samson drifts from rough hewn folk to loose, rough and tumble alt/rock, transforming and fleshing out songs from a pair of earlier EP's while adding a handful of new tracks. Songs such as the prairie anthem "Highway One West" and punk gloried "When I Write [...]
My media micronation expanded today with the launch of pronounced WOO-BIN , a blog created to bring the majesty of the Boston accent to the starving masses. So if your morbidly curious or just want to put a voice behind my words, check it out. Or don't. I'm not pushy. In any case, I'm commemorating the event with this track, in which Boston's neurotic new wave legends do their take on a 1966 Detroit soul classic by The Capitols... Human Sexual Response - Cool Jerk [...]
A couple of Fridays back, the wife and I had to make a trip to scenic North Reading on feral cat business. As we were already in Burlington on another errand, I decided to bypass the forbidden zone that is the I-93/I-95 interchange and take the back way, which involved heading down Cambridge Road (not "Street") towards the Billerica line then turning onto Route 62's serpentine path to glory. It had been a while since I'd been down that way, and I was astonished to find that so little had changed in the past twenty years. The development [...]
My wife and her friend were browsing the stacks at the local chain bookstore when they came across this fine work of high literature... I realize that there is a detailed science behind romance novel cover design. In a genre based on disposability and formula, marketing is everything and the ideal state exists between the comfortable familiarity and enticing difference. Call it the "impulse purchase zone." The intent behind the cover to Midnight Treats is fairly obvious -- the promise of softcore titillation. The couple posed [...]
It's friday night , cats and kittens, which means it's time for a little realpolitik action with Black Canary, Master of International Diplomacy! (from Justice League #3, July 1987; by Giffen, DeMatteis, Maguire & Gordon) Now that's what I call détente .... The Dents - Not Through with You [...]
Cambridge Road, Burlington MA, circa 1949 My maternal grandmother grew up in Woburn's west side, three steps from the Burlington line. Her father and grandfather worked at Cummings Farm, long since bulldozed and obliterated to make room for the shopping centers, condo complexes, and office parks that occupy the crowded stretch of Cambridge Road (and it will always be "road," not "street" for me) from Bedford Road to Route 128. Traces of the Cummings estate still remain, as the bulk of Mrs. Cummings's substantial land holdings were bequeathed to the "children of the City [...]
Look what I got in the mail last Saturday! The 25th anniversary edition of Barbecue, the G.I. Joe team's resident firefighter! Or more accurately, the G.I. Joe team's rezahdint fy-ah-fy-tah and token Bostonian . Lady Jaye's file card states she was born in the Vineyard, but it's safe to assume that she was a high holiday baby with a permanent address in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Gabriel "Bahbahcue" Kelley, on the other hand, was the real fictional deal, a seventh generation Beantown jake presumably [...]
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