April 23rd, 2009 2:01pm
Video: Mixel Pixel – “Monster Manual”
Mixel Pixel – “Monster Manual”
Archive for April, 2009
April 23rd, 2009 1:33pm
PRETTY GIRL, RED STICK, NEW ORLEANS
Professor Longhair - “Go to the Mardi Gras” Headed to Louisiana today. No joke. Imagining bayou, white clouds, tufted cotton fields. I don't think there are cotton fields in Louisiana but I can't help my brain. Women will bring me big plates of food, steaming plates of sea creatures, shells glowing like freshly cut flowers. There are rainswept streets, palm trees leaning over, tramcars painted firetruck-red. In Louisiana they sometimes dance in the streets, I am certain. The picnic tables are frequently dusty. The music is purple, silver, grass-green, scarlet. The trumpets are tarnished. The whistlers are well-practised. And my sneakers are going to come home sparkling with another place's dirt. (previously)
(& please go vote for Said the Gramophone as Best Blog at the Best of Montreal poll!)- Sean Michaels
Said The Gramophone
April 23rd, 2009 10:10am
LHB’s Shorties (The Monks, Chairlift, and More)
The Telegraph's pop CD of the week is the reissue of The Monks' Black Monk Time.
Listening to it now, finally, in full, remastered glory, it's hard to imagine how this primitive and often nightmarish music could have been allowed to be made at that particular time and place. "Why do you kill all those kids over there in Vietnam?" shrieks the singer, Gary Burger, on the opening Monk Time – this, from an ex-GI.
The Quietus reviews the new Sonic Youth album, The Eternal, track by track.
The Chicago Reader and Mobile Press-Register review the new Wilco live DVD, Ashes of American Flags.
Aquarium Drunkard interviews former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle.
Some bargains at Amazon MP3:
the 11-track Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channels album: $2.99
the 12-track Radiohead's The Bends album>: $4.99
Drowned in Sound interviews the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Chairlift visit The Current studio for an interview and live performance.
- David Gutowski
April 23rd, 2009 10:09am
Poster: Aids Wolf by Lonny Hurley
Aids Wolf
Lonny Hurley, 2009
- Ryan Catbird
April 23rd, 2009 9:16am
The Field MP3, “The More That I Do”
The Field – “The More That I Do” From the forthcoming Yesterday and Today, out 5/19 on Anti.
- Ryan Catbird
April 23rd, 2009 8:16am
Doves’ Kingdom Of Rust
doves.netConsistency is no great fault, particularly when the standard that one rarely fails to meet is as high as it is for Britain’s Doves. For nearly a decade, since their 2000 debut Lost Souls, the trio has turned out an album of classic-sounding, widescreen, melancholic space-rock every few years, each of which manages to expand and build on that which came before to some degree, but never coming up with the watershed record, the game-changer, the quantum leap forward. Some might argue that Lost Souls was that record, one so fully-realized right out of the gate that we should be thankful they’ve managed to maintain that level of quality and to an extent, that’s true. Not one of their albums have been a misstep, each rich with equal parts yearning emotion, musical textures and fist-pumping anthemicism, but even so there’s a risk in feeling too familiar.
Their latest, Kingdom Of Rust, perhaps even despite their best efforts, feels just that familiar. To their credit, they do go out of their way to incorporate new influences into their sound - the motorik rhythms of “Jetstream”, the country-western gallop of the title track, the scorching psych-rock of “House Of Mirrors” - but by the time they’re done with it, they’ve been so effectively absorbed by the band’s own personality that the finished pieces still feel Mancunian grey and simply Doves-ish. On the plus side, being Doves-ish means there’s at least a couple of spectacular moments - in this case, the soaring “Winter Hill” is the album standout - and not really any glaring weak spots. But I can’t help feeling I’ve heard this all before.
Video: Doves - “Kingdom Of Rust”
MySpace: Doves
Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan counts down her five favourite albums to Spinner.
Blurt also gets in on the shoegaze action, reporting that Chapterhouse’s 1991 debut Whirlpool is getting reissued next week with a few bonus tracks.
NME is offering a track from The Early Years for download, the band’s contribution to a compilation by UK shoegaze label Sonic Cathedral.
MP3: The Early Years - “Like A Suicide”
You can currently stream The Cure’s recent secret MySpace show in Los Angeles in its entirety over at their MySpace.
Franz Ferdinand will release a dub version of their latest album Tonight entitled Blood on June 1 - details at Billboard.
State has an interview with Carey Lander and The Village Voice with Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura, latest recipient of the Pitchfork “Best New Music” honour for My Maudlin Career.
- Frank Yang
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