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The Meadowlands by The Wrens continues to amaze me. There's a movie being made about The Wrens, entitled Almost Famous II, Electric Bugaloo. Check out the 10 minute promo video from the kids at Little Quill. If you think some of the clips in the video would benefit from the use of a wide angle lens, help them out.
Lee over at Summer's Kiss has launched the Summer's Kiss Wiki for the Twilight Singers/Afghan Whigs. I'm curious to see if TS fans take to the wiki concept. I'll contribute what I can. More Info.
Ted Leo dropped an iTunes exclusive EP. You can also still catch his performance on Conan O'Brien from a few weeks ago, thanks to the fine folks at Timorous Me. Finally, you can download some lo-fi mp3s, including Ted rocking an acoustic version of "The Spirit of Radio."
Robert Pollard christens the music portion of his new site with 2 downloadable demos.
I've talked about GBV too much lately. Time to walk the walk. Check out Pimps of Gore for 10 downloadable GBV tracks. Of the 10, I'd recommend starting with Tractor Rape Chain.
via: Largehearted Boy
The Twilight Singers are between albums, so Greg Dulli now presents Uptown Lights. It's basically the Twilight Singers, with Scott Ford back on bass, Mathias Schneeberger back on keys and a new drummer. Jon Skibic remains on guitar. The first show is February 19th in Cali.
Uptown Lights revisits the days of dressing uptown and throwing downtown.
More at Summer's Kiss.
The new album from The Soundtrack of Our Lives doesn't come out until March, but you can get a track free from the iTunes Music Store. They are offering a free mix album. You have to download the whole album to get the track.
Via: The Apple Blog
Cheers to Jack over at the Jiggling Whisker for hooking up some video clips of the New Year's Eve GBV show. The clips are lo-fi, but they rock.
Pictured above is Pollard doing a shot during a guitar solo. They set up a bar on stage, which is probably the coolest stage prop I've seen, and I've seen Kiss with their pyro and Air Supply with their lasers.
If you're lucky enough to have an account at EzTorrent, the October 1, 1994 show, which sounds great, and a DVD of the June 18, 2002 Amoeba Records instore performance. A clip of the DVD, Game of Pricks, can be found at GuidedByRobertPollard.com
Finally, coming soon robertpollard.net.
Nude as the News with a nice salty salute to Guided By Voices.
Over at www.easytree.org the 9.11.04 Guided By Voices show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. has been posted. Registration required. Check the set list.
The Twilight Singers are playing a bunch of shows in Europe this month, and Summer's Kiss has setlists.
While I've been slowly warming up to the new Morrissey album, this quote from the incredibly positive Pitchfork review, put the album in perspective...
...if you're listening to Morrissey albums for riffs and licks you're missing the point. Any instrumental bed under such incandescent personality and booming voice would pale.
Contrast that to the Stephin Merritt, of Magnetic Fields, review from the New York Times...
At this level of lyric artistry, these warmed-over arena rock backdrops are a waste.
Morrissey releases his first album in 7 years, You Are the Quarry, today.
As you know, or now know, Mission of Burma are dropping their first new album in twenty-some years on May 4th. Matador Records has posted a track from the album, so check out Wounded World in all of it's 192kb/s MP3 glory. I was expecting a huge let down, but am pleasantly surprised. MoB sound as urgent and loud as they did 20+ years ago.
np: Apology In Advance from the album 09.18.03 Hamburg, Germany by Guided by Voices
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I'm playing around with Kung-Tunes, which is a neat piece of software for the Mac. It uploads music you're listening to on iTunes to a webpage, as in this webpage. I'm using Movable Type's trackback feature combined with Kung-Tune's HTTP Post functionality to get the song list from my Mac to the web server. It seems to be working well. The unstyled mess of songs is on the left of the page. I need to clean up the formatting a bit. That list represents the last 5 songs I've listened to. Enquiring minds want to know.
In today's edition of, "Where are they now?", I bring you 50ft Monster. 50ft Monster is former Catherine Wheel guitarist Brian Futter and drummer Neil Sims. Brian described 50ft Monster as, "...somewhere to put the songs and ideas we write and record instead of leaving them in the draw in the spare room." There's an MP3 up there now, but it should've been left locked up in the spare room. It sounds like the red-headed step child of "Gasoline", which ranks as one of my least favorite CW songs. Regardless, it's good to see the boys making some noise again.
Jet Row is currently rocking the following like nobody's business...
- Various-- Blue Skied 'an Clear
- Twilight Singers-- 1997 Demo
- Guided By Voices-- Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
Big ups to kerm.net for posting the 11.24.03 show by Texan guitar wizards, Explosions In The Sky.
NME.com is reporting that Suede have split up. No word yet on their American counterparts, The London Suede.
The Twilight Singers just put out a great album, and now they're hitting the road. The tour started in Denver last night. Summer's Kiss, the best (only) TS/Whigs site on the net, is posting a journal from touring bassist, Scott Ford. Summer's Kiss posted the set list from last night's show. Dulli mentioned that they might be playing Whigs' tunes. I won't spoil it here, but click on over to check it out.
From the ashes of Lenola rises Garden State. They just updated their site with a new MP3 and some extensive diary entries.
Mix by Scott
- Afghan Whigs-- Crime Scene Part One
- Throwing Muses-- Hazing
- Enjoy The Silence-- Failure
- Puke + Cry-- Dinosaur Jr.
- Carry The Zero-- Built to Spill
- In Circles-- Sunny Day Real Estate
- Say It Ain't So-- Weezer
- Love Spreads-- The Stone Roses
- Oh Sweet Susanna-- The Mooney Suzuki
- The Ugly Truth-- Matthew Sweet
- Dark Center Of The Universe-- Modest Mouse
- Plastic California-- Stereophonics
- Words-- Doves
- Scientist Studies-- Death Cab For Cutie
Mix by Carl
- Girls Against Boys - Basstation
- Pavement - In the Mouth 0f a Desert
- Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
- Sparta - Echodyne Harmonic
- Jason Lownestein - Codes
- Toadies - Heel
- Television - Friction
- Superdrag - Feeling I Do
- GBV - Everywhere WIth Helicopter
- Hot Hot Heat - Talk To Me, Dance To Me
- Hellacopters - Kid in Denial
- Uncle Tupelo - I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Liars - Mr. You're On Fire Mr.
- X - Los Angeles
- Desapacidos - Man With Wife, the Former (Financial Planning)
- Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day
- The Records - Starry Eyes
- The Feelies - Too Far Gone
- The Cows - My Bob
- The Deathray Davies - The Medication's Gone
- Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song
Mix by Scott
- "Title Track"-- Death Cab For Cutie
- "Obstacle 1"-- Interpol
- "Hello Operator"-- White Stripes
- "Another Morning Stoner"-- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
- "The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret"-- Queens of the Stone Age
- "Oh Sweet Susanna"-- The Mooney Suzuki
- "Rock Post Rock"-- Polvo
- "Animated Aeroplanes Over Germany"-- Superchunk
- "That's When I Reach For My Revolver"-- Mission of Burma
- "Fall Into Line"-- Sahara Hotnights
- "Seconds"-- Crumb
- "Satellite"-- Catherine Wheel
- "Need to Know"-- The Stepford Five
- "I Would Hurt A Fly"-- Built to Spill
- "Closing Time"-- The Dandelion Clocks
- "Get Some Lonesome"-- Tim Easton
- "Vibrato"-- Acetone
- "Pop Life"-- Dump
It's worth noting (or is it?) that it's been 2 years today since the official Catherine Wheel site has been updated. Way to render yourselves absolutely irrelevant. Cue Waydown.
As I write this, it's Tuesday in some parts of the world, so it's not too soon to tell you to go out and buy the following today from your local independent music retailer. The supposed prolific Ryan Adams drops Demolition, a collection of songs and demos from the 14 albums he's recorded in the last year. Forget about your vicadin addicted older brother's Low, Low aren't as slow and sleepy as you've been lead to believe. These Duluth semi-rockers drop Trust today. Beck, surely you remember him, turns introspective on Sea Change. Electro wizards, Underworld, drop a new joint as well, titled A Hundred Days Off.
