Good Monday, Whitechapel. I'm up early this morning, may as well turn this one over.
New week's releases are up at http://www.piccadillyrecords.com - just choose a genre from left and click "magic mix" to stream excerpts from the new releases. I usually swing by Largeheated Boy's Try it before you buy it posts on Tuesday mornings, too (mostly because I like to put an album cover to the mp3s, yes).
Dead Low Tide:: former Murder City Devils powerful noise-rock masterpiece
Bali Gamelan and Kecak:: primal, soothing, and intense... does that contradict?
Chromeo: Fancy Footwork:: if you took all of the high points from the Breakin' 2 soundtrack and threw in a little Midnight Star this is what you'd get.
Battles: Mirrored:: futuremusic.... sounds like the music that robots will make... in the future....
Yo La Tengo - ...well, I would say I'm listening to their album "I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass" a lot, except the truth is that out of the 15 songs on it, I really only listen to two--the first one and the last one. Between them, "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" and "The Story Of Yo La Tango" [yes, the misspelling is intentional] are 23 minutes of the album, and they're so far above the rest of the songs on there that I can't stomach playing the rest of the album at the same time as those two songs. So yeah, really just those two songs. A lot.
Also:
Lemuria - Get Better Stereolab - Peng! Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments; Black Hole/Blank Canvas Oasis - Definitely Maybe Suede - Self-titled
more virginia astley whitehouse live dvd some dodgy albbum by cicciolina rather suspect looking ukrainian techno the associates colin newman that new byrne / eno thing and some beigecore from the groovesofdelight blog.
finally got a copy of DRESDEN DOLLS-no virginia. so far im liking it, but the last record i think was more my style. also, dj TRON-resurection mixtape was told of a new "violent...and aggressive" manson album in the works so i am imagining that between now and winter.
The Damned - Thanks for the Night (Rat Mix) The Pogues - Rake at the Gates of Hell The Jam - News of the world The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog The Legendary Shack Shakers - Ichabod! The Dirtbombs - If You Can Want The New York Dolls - Human Being Front 242 - Welcome to Paradise (The live version from Reboot) Mick Harvey - Who is "in", Who is "Out"
dammit, off with their heads is so much more prolific than dear landlord-which wouldnt be a problem except that i looooove DL and am only kinda into OWTH.
(only brought up because i love their split 7", so whenever i think of one band i tend to think of the other as well)
Another eccentric/eclectic Sunday night has passed....
Aug 17, 2008
Ry Cooder/VM Bhatt - Meeting By The River
Aki Peltonen - Accordion, Drums & MW-radio The Books - Fralite Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal Ingrid Karklins - Race The Sky LVDLM - Le Paradis Perdus Roberto Musci/Giovanni Venotsa - Tamatave Pumajaw - The Burning of Auchindoun Varttina - Tuulen Tunto Accordion Tribe - O'O
Janet Feder - Loose Slots Aranis - Vala Marshall/Anger w/Vasen -Skridskolaten Bart Hopkin - Woodkal, String-on-Tine, Dual Slide Whistle Samm Bennett - Blue Jay Way Rinji Kadekaru - Jidai No Nagare Yoshida Bros - Modern Volapuk - Pas de Panic Zelwer - The Bear Tamers Have Gone Away Hoven Droven - Morsepolskan
David Byrne/Brian Eno - Strange Overtones Floratone - Floratone DJ Dolores - Cala Cala Brian Eno/David Byrne - Very, Very Hungry LAN Formatique - Jeye Sun Sun Son (remix) Niyaz - Feraghi - Song of Exile Puppetina - Oo Wa Do Brian Eno - This Fripp & Eno - Sneering Loop Sub Swara - Infiltrate Bajofondo - Borges y Paraguay
The Dylan Group - Towers of Dub Jah Wobble/Evan Parker - Full On Bill Laswell - Moving Target Critters Buggin - Mount Blasta Bill Laswell - Work Song Mylab - Fancy Party Cakes Mats/Morgan Band - Not Us Najma - Aaj Ki Junli Raat Ma
I need to say how fond of DOUBLE HELIX I have grown in a short time. This time I'm going to listen to my friends Steeple Remove They are releasing a new lp. I'm proud of them. They've been playing music like, for ever. (You can also hear scraps of what they did before here
They used to be on SORDIDE SENTIMENTAL the first label who signed Joy Division. Now you know.
would be listening to faun fables live tonight at my favorite dingy hole-in-the-wall club, but i have to fucking work. you've no idea how angry i am with the world.
been mostly listening to damn water fountain because they said they'd kill me if i didn't.
My band (Verbatim) released tonight to the internet a free record called Pool Party.
The whole idea is that we lock ourselves in the studio for the weekend and must release to the Internet whatever we have done by Sunday night. Anything goes. So we threw a party and just sorta made a record while it was going on. Very little rehearsing, very little dubbing. A whole bunch of first takes. Feels to me like a mid-80's Replacements record. And oh yeah, we have a song inspired by the Great Zombie Debate.
We also did another one like this in March called Pizza Party.
I just got Destroyer 666's Cold Steel For An Iron Age and it's jettisoned them to the top of play list rotation. Nevermore's Dreaming Neon Black is coming in around number 2, after that it falls apart, I'm currently listening to some Rollins Band. Some Smashing Pumpkins is extremely possible along with my usual arrangement of Nick Cave, possibly changing to some P.J. Harvey in the wee hours of the morning.