[iPhone photo by acidjack] After I posted my recording of The Sea and Cake at Bowery Ballroom earlier this month, I received an unusual number of requests to also post my recording of the second opener, Brokeback . I can't say I was surprised. This band, a side project of Tortoise bassist Doug McCombs, released several records on Thrill Jockey in the late 90s and early 2000s, but has been in hibernation since 2008. This reconstituted 2011 version of the band is rehearsing new songs for a record, and playing shows [...]
[photo courtesy of Robert Loerzel ] Last week in the underground Pink Floyd live music collector community, a recording surfaced for the first time in over 40 years. A 1967 performance of the original band with Syd Barrett in Stockholm was recorded by a local archivist and at long last reached collectors around the world. The proto-psychedelic music was groundbreaking in the mid-60s, but across four decades even this technologically-challenged recording is still fresh and exciting. The palpable energy of the songs and the ferocious nature of the improvisation is breathtaking. Its no wonder that [...]
Taken from Future Islands' new album 'On the Water' released October 11th on Thrill Jockey Records . If you like what you hear above, head in this direction for a free download, and over here for more on Future Islands.
High Places - Sophia from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo . deepgoa.blogspot.com underground music guide _________ © dg , 2011
High Places' newest release Original Colors is here and there, but when they're on, they're really on.
Sidi Touré, with Tom Moran & Rich Ermlick / Thunderbird Café / 09.10.2011 / 9:00 / $12-$15 Words by Brendan I had never heard of Sidi Touré until a couple of weeks ago when I got an email about this show from a PR agent. I get a lot of those emails, and I can't read them all too carefully, but the following sentence describing the recording style for Sidi 's latest album caught my attention: "On the first day they would meet, play and [...]
September 13th / Thrill Jockey Track list: 1. Pale Star 2. Turiya 3. Devotion I 4. The Darkest Night Since 1683 5. Temple of the Winds 6. Midnight Tide 7. Light Echoes 8. Devotion II
Malian singer & guitarist, Sidi Touré, is receiving rave reviews for his debut Thrill Jockey release, Sahel Folk, including being prominently featured in this past Sunday's New York Times article on independent record labels' embracing and exploring African sounds. Released last week, Sahel Folk features duets between Sidi and one friend chronicled in a live [...]
Thrill Jockey Records is honored to be releasing Sidi Touré's second album, Sahel Folk Sidi Touré, born in 1959 in the ancient town of Gao, Mali, made his first guitar as a child, constructing it from his wooden writing slate. Throughout his time making... Read more..
White Hills White Hills ( Thrill Jockey ) White Hills blast big psychedelic blues-rock that expands and expands and expands and expands, surfing the ever-rippling and rising wake of the silver machine, cresting up over Monster Magnet and rolling up into a tsunami, seven songs, sixty minutes, sprawling guitar riffs and treading bass, drumbeats collecting fill after fill upon fill and fill, one wave of song ebbing only long enough for the next to crash down upon it. Plus, on "Let the Right One [...]
Double Dagger "Pillow Talk" from Masks ( Thrill Jockey Records ) Buy at iTunes Buy at Amazon
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Pit Er Pat "Water" from The Flexible Entertainer ( Thrill Jockey Records ) Release Date: January 26, 2010
Javelin Javelin (Thrill Jockey) Javelin is two cousins and a lot of samples, and it will give some idea of what's happening here if I repeat the part of their press material that notes they've played a gig in the children's branch of the Olneyville Public Library in Rhode Island. If you have children and Javelin perform a show near you, and you don't take them, you will be arrested; it's abuse, dude, not to let your kids get jiggy to this stuff. If you don't [...]
Pontiak Sea Voids (Thrill Jockey) In my review of their album " Maker " earlier this year I pointed out that listening on headphones on an underground train had befuddled me on first listen, but that once I'd thrown it on using real speakers I'd found an earsplitting hunk of wonder. Good news, everybody! They've done it again. This album is less of a sea and more of an ocean, from the big and deep and slow and menacing blues stomp that gives [...]
OOIOO Armonico Hewa (Thrill Jockey) The first twenty seconds of this album will send your dog barking and howling for the point of your home furthest from your stereo. I guess that makes your dog "SOL", as the title and my weak joke would have it. What follows is much more pleasant to the ear: an entire album of lilting percussion, precise, yet sauntering guitar, and hoo-ing, ha-ing, yelping, wailing and alternately soothing vocals, grooving bass, and keyboards doing various things as well. Sometimes [...]
The Fiery Furnaces - Even in the Rain from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo .
High Places - I Was Born from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo .
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